Team Dragoon: Turf Wars

Scribble : Alright, here we are. This seems a bit better. For any readers from the Sonic Fanon you can understand how we got here from this cool Link!
Scribble would turn to Team Dragoon.
Scribble : I'm going to make a change in the rules of this game.
Alan: I don't really see the change. So what's this alteration of the rules?
Scribble : Well, I figured that if I let you choose who you wanted it would be a bit easy, so instead were gonna randomize it going by a category! Who would like to go first?
Silence: Me!
Alan, startled by the sheer initiative, stays silent, and both Dria and Srish accept it easily.
Scribble : Great! There will be three cards to draw from depending on what you pick, I'll reveal them based off of the statistics.
Scribble would lay out a deck of cards on two seperate sides.
Scribble : On the left are entities from your dimension and on the right from mine. Pick three cards.
Silence pulls out a card from Scribble's dimensional deck, then two from Team Dragoon's dimensional deck.
Scribble : Alright then, lets see what you got.
Scribble would flip the cards over.
Scribble : You got, Cross (CV), Tails (TD) and Whisper (TD). I'd say that's not too bad.
Whisper, Tails and Cross would then be summoned next to Silence.
Cross : What the?!
Tails: What's going on? Who is this hedgehog? Where are we?
Silence: The simplest explanation i can give you is that you've been drafted into a turf war against my friends because of that guy(points at wherever Scribble's physical form is) over there who happens to be powerful enough to turn the floor into Super Emeralds, AT LEAST.
Tails: Wait, you have to give me a minute to process this! I need to study that guy! It could advance dimensional research by potentially decades!
Cross: Who are all of you?
Silence: I think you took the wrong Cross, this one doesn't seem to recognize us.
Meanwhile, Whisper is aiming at Scribble with Rocket in her Variable Wispon.
Scribble : If you want to use that toy you got there go ahead. As for Cross, I never said It would be the timeline you knew.
Scribble looks back towards Whisper, clearly still skeptical.
Scribble : Good grief...
Alan: So, introductions are needed, Hi, i'm Alan, part of Team Dragoon, the guy next to you is Silence, you're on his team for the coming turf war-
Cross: I ain't fighting for any of you!
While that's going on, Dria heads up to the card table.
Dria: Can i go next?
Scribble : Of course. Pick three.
Dria pulls one card from Scribble's Dimensional Deck, and two from Team Dragoon's.
Scribble : Lets see.
Scribble would flip the cards over.
Scribble : Jeckal (CV), Dr. Starline (TD) and Amy Rose (TD)
The three would be summoned next to Dria, everyone would feel instant regret however as a loud stereo and bass assaulted everyone's ears.
Jeckal : Cuz' I am undefeatable!!!! I'm- huh? Where's my crowd?
Dria: Ok, A: Who are you? B: Why summon him during what i presume was a concert, Scribble, and C-
Everyone from Team Dragoon's Dimension: DR STARLINE DIED!
Starline: Died? That's ridiculous. But just in case...
Scribble : Once again, Just like with Cross, Timelines are quite a cool thing. The dude who was at a concert was for fun, I just thought it would be funny, and yes that's a alternate universe version of Cyne.
Jeckal : %@$# you.
Scribble : Now, Now. No need to use profanity.
Alan: Bro, you must be mistaken. Cyne's not... Wait, you're saying that guy i don't know is another Cyne?
Scribble : Yes, I've nicknamed him "Anti-Cyne". I mean come on, overall he has the same appearance just with slight differences. Also the son of Scourge aka "Anti-Sonic".
Dria: So which Starline are you?
Starline: I'll answer that when you answer how i died.
Amy: He's the one with the Tri-Core, and i wasn't there when you died, so i don't know and neither does she.
Starline: Where even are we anyways? Who are all these people?
Alan: You'll have to wait on that, because we're clearly gonna have to explain to everyone.
Srish: Hey Alan, I challenge you to only choose from one dimensional deck.
Alan: Sure, if you choose from the opposite deck.
Alan then grabs three cards from Team Dragoon's dimensional deck as Srish grabs one card, then flips it to see who's on it, then two more.
Srish: Wait, these cards don't even have anything on them!
Alan: Hey, do none of these cards have a picture?
Scribble : No, they have no pictures. Those cards aren't so much cards as they are devices to gaze upon entities. If you don't use the right amount of power and control you won't be able to see anything. I made them of the same matter that comprises this kaleidoscope we have which can gaze into other dimensions and timelines and whatnot.
Alan: Sounds like a interesting relic.
Both Alan and Srish then pull out their cards and hold them up, wondering about the slower than usual activation.
Scribble : Ah, this might help.
Scribble draws a relic known as "The Kaleid Quartz".
Scribble : Use this, I forgot only divine beings can use anything from the Quartz Kaleidoscope, but with this Gem you should be fine considering the kaleidoscope is just an attempt at making another Kaleid Quartz salvaged into something else.
Alan: Oh just activate them already.
Scribble : I was gonna let you two do the honors, but oh well.
From Alan's card would appear...
Scribble : Blaze (TD), Jet (TD), Hammer (TD)
And from Srish's cards...
Scribble : Erazor Djinn (CV), Mephiles (CV), Merlina (CV).
Hammer: What in the- where's my teammates? Where am I?!
Jet: Wave? Storm? Where'd you go?
Srish: Ok, and i got... Wait, i... think i know all of them. The first one's that genie guy that tried to kill Sonic in a magic storybook, the second is Mephiles, and the third is the enchantress from that other storybook that became evil before being shown the error of her ways! Hoo boy, this is gonna be a toughie.
Erazor Djinn : Hm? I'm no longer sealed? What is the meaning of this?
Erazor Djinn would look back at Scribble.
Erazor Djinn : Are you the cause of this?
Mephiles : Watch your tone, Djinn.
Erazor Djinn : A mere Demi-god lecture me? Your out of your mind!
Mephiles : It is you who is out of line, do you not see. That is the one above all, and as much as I hate having to be part of this game and having to see these dreaded "Team Dragoon" members, I understand when to and when not to get my personal motives involved.
Erazor Djinn : Is that right? Then i take back my words.
Scribble : At least someone knows me.
Merlina : Uhh... What is this place?
Scribble : Ah yes, I'll explain that soon. Srish, seems like they will be compliant for the most part, but Erazor maybe not so much, also this Merlina actually serves as a court magus for Sonic in a different timeline, so don't sweat it.
Srish: Okay good to know.
Alan: Since context is important, here's what's going on. You've all been essentially drafted into a game Scribble up there calls "Turf Wars". Each of you are on a team with one of us. Blaze, Jet, Hammer, you're on a team with me
Blaze: Play games for some being's amusement? I think not.
Jet and Hammer: What she said.
Jeckal : Yeah, I was in the middle of something. Take me back.
Cross : I second that.
Scribble : Well, sadly for you guys its not gonna be that simple. So I'll throw in a little motivation, since I tried to be nice...
Suddenly a deafening aura of death would shroud over the area. Scribble would turn pitch black for a brief minute.
Scribble (Sinister) : Then I guess I'll just erase all of you right now.
Scribble : Or you can just play the game and win a cool prize at the end! Yayyyy!!
Scribble would finish with his arms raised.
Alan: Okay, apparently he can do that too. Anyways, take it away, Team Dragoon!
Silence: Cross, Tails, Whisper, you're with me!
Dria: Jeckal, Amy, Starline, follow me!
Srish: And the rest of you are with me!
The four teams then head into their hexagonal regions.
Scribble then draws floating speakers and a microphone.
Speakers (Scribble) : *Tap tap* Testing. Testing. Welcome to the first ever Dimensional Turf Wars! Before we begin I'll explain the rules for our new participants. The Hexagonal regions your standing on are barren and empty right now, but will create a zone meant to fit for your teams style. Between those are four unclaimed regions, you will have to search through each to find five hex gems and bring all of them into the middle to claim a territory. Upon claiming a territory it will become part of your turf as well as the person who claims the territory receiving a "Sigil Destroyer" which can be used to destroy other turf Hexes, turning them into a unclaimed territory. Beware, whoever has the Sigil Destroyer cannot give it up to there teammates and if they die it will be stolen. In the middle of the map you will find the "Center Zone" it is filled with many monsters, trials and much more which can lead to powerful perks and upgrades to help you. If all of your teams turfs are destroyed you will no longer be able to respawn, resulting in your next death sending you to the viewing box. Who ever claims all the turfs will win, with the prize of a wish. Be careful though, getting hit more than ten times is a death, causing you to respawn at home turf. Now that the game has been set lets conjure your zones.
In Alans corner a Royal Metropolis like city would be summoned, In Silence's a would spawn a Dark Jungle, In Srish's a Mythical landscape filled with flora, grass and trees, as well as a floating castle, Finally in Dria's corner a Punk Mechanized Carnival and Casino zone. Between Alan and Silence's zone would appear a volcanic wasteland. Between Silence and Srish's zone would appear a Underwater zone, filled with a coral reef. Between Srish and Dria's zone would appear an underground zone filled with crystals and ores as well as roots and stalagmites. Between Dria and Alans zone would appear a blazing desert. The center zone would become a black wasteland, apocalyptic in nature.
Speakers (Scribble) : I'll give you all 30 minutes to prepare and adjust to your new surroundings, after the buzzer goes off the games will begin so take your time to converse and set up traps on your turf, once again the barriers to your zones will open on the buzzers ring. If you have any questions you may ask them.
Alan: What inspired the designs of each region?
Dria: Yeah! Why is my location a carnival/casino zone?
Starline: Certainly has the design of one of the Doctor's builds.
Speaker (Scribble) : Simple! Royal Metropolis : Blaze - Royal, and I think the Metropolis part kind of makes sense consider Jet, Hammer and Alan. Punk Mechanized Carnival and Casino : Jeckal - Rockstar, Dr. Starline - connections to eggman and his empire, Amy - Parlor, for tarot card readings and whatnot. Dark Jungle : Silence - Stealthy, Cross and Whisper - Sniper (Perfect for small crowded spaces like this), Tails - Easily set traps in a jungle like environment. Mythical landscape : Erazor Djinn - Magic floating stuff, Merlina - Medieval landscape an magic, Srish and Mephiles - The magic crystal within the landscape can be interacted by the both of them, with sound and mephiles crystals. I think they will benefit each of your teams greatly so that there are no immediate invasions.
Alan: I see. But Dria's location has no real benefit for her.
Speaker (Scribble) : INCORRRRRRRRECTT!!!!!!! I should mention each of these zones for your home turf contain special energies, Alans with sol Energy abundance, Dark Jungle with Chaos Energy, Mystic Landscape with Magic and Punk Mecha-Parlor with Phantom Energy, Each of you can harness those powers easier as team leaders, as well as what we will call "Guardians" who each have a deep connection to them that being Blaze, Jeckal, Cross and Merlina. The zone that Dria has can be used to her advantage via the the illusions casted by the Parlors lights, Dria herself can use the Phantom energy to create physical things. Such as platforms, shields even stronger wings and whatnot, It's called "Materialize". You all as well possess leader abilities. Alan - Burner, Anything your hands touch can be burned or burned through. Srish - Enchant, You can apply boost of any element to your weapons. Silence - Pocket Zone, you use Chaos Energy to make a small room of Chaos Energy, allowing you to hide in it and leave wherever you leave a marker. I was gonna let you guys find that out yourselves, but also there is a catch to these abilities. They can only be used on claimed turfs. Therefore, Dria's leader skill is perfect for her turf, how will you tell whats real and whats not? And so much more!
Dria: Ok, Now that's cool.
Blaze: Wait, how?
Alan: That man can do some crazy stuff, i'm actually not surprised. Now then, Jet, with your Extreme Gear, you should be on collection. When the gates open, grab the gems from a nearby region so we can claim it.
Jet: And why should i listen to you?
Alan: Well first off, don't you love treasure? And second, Hey Scribble, how do we properly lead our team when at least one member of each one doesn't really listen?
Silence: On top of that, how do we properly use "Sigil Destroyers?"
Speakers (Scribble) : Leaders can issue commands to their allies. To use a command you must state the name of the comrade and issue a command. This will send a signal to their mind making them feel encouraged and motivated to do such a task, as for the Sigil Destroyers, you must find the Turf Hex in the middle of a zone, it glows brightly and flashes, you must place the Sigil Destroyer on it, since they are disc shaped they can be placed on the side, the Hex will slowly crack, taking around five minutes total. Naturally this process will be paused if the Sigil Destroyer is removed.
Hammer: Oh that's evil.
Jeckal: You can't control me!
Starline: What? NO!
Erazor Djinn: Grr...
Jeckal: My turn for a question, what if i killed Dria right now?
Dria: You have absolutely zero chance at doing that.
Speakers (Scribble) : First off, wouldn't recommend it. Second, Any infighting between comrades will do equal damage to the attacker as to the victim. Plus, she would just respawn. Haha! If you don't want to be emotionally compelled against your will then just be a team player, like Mephiles there.
Blaze: With that out of the way, what do you want me to do, Alan?
Alan: Before the time limit's up, we need to know exactly what this place's layout is and where the Turf Hex is. By the way, does the Turf Hex glow at all times, only when a Sigil Destroyer's in play, or only to the owner of said Sigil Destroyer?
Speakers (Scribble) : It only glows to the holder, and it will flash periodically every 5 minutes. Make sure yours isn't destroyed, you will have to find the gems that once made it up which can be fatal.
Alan: Alright, Team-... We need a team name.
Blaze: Sol Defenders.
Alan: Team Sol Defenders, Explore the zone, and find everything important.
Team Sol Defenders split off to explore every open room.
Dria: This place is pretty open, Team... hmm.
Jeckal: Team @$#@%
Dria: Uh, no.
Amy: Team Tarot?
Starline: That's a dumb name.
Dria: So clearly you don't have one better. Team Tarot it is! Alright then, team, Split off and find any nook or cranny in this place.
Team Tarot split off to explore their zone.
Srish: We're gonna need to locate everything important. Team... Err.
Mephiles: We don't need a team name.
Merlina: It's easier for communication. How about Team Magic?
Srish: I mean... I like it. Team Magic, let's get a lay of the land and the castle!
Team Magic all head to check out the castle.
Silence: Everyone, go find out how this jungle is layed out.
Tails: Shouldn't we have a team name for communication purposes?
Whisper: Makes sense.
Silence: Sure, but what? Wait, i've got one! Team Stealth Heroes!
Cross: I'll accept it if you shut up now.
Team Stealth Heroes split off to figure out the jungle.
Scribble : Hmm. Well, while they prepare during the intermission I may as well have some people to keep me company and watch.
Scribble would take his pencil and draw out two figures, One would be Sonic from Team Dragoons Dimension and the other Scourge from Cynes Dimension.
Scribble : Yeah, I think I'll get commentary for both sides with these two.
Scourge : What? What's going-
Scourge would look over and see Sonic.
Sonic : Hm? Oh, hey! You kind of look like me... But green?
Scourge : What are you doing here?!
Sonic : Uhh, Have we met?
Scribble : Settle down the two of you, just relax and enjoy the show.
As Team Tarot explore their region, Jeckal notices Scourge in the spectator stands.
Jeckal: Hang on, is that-?
Starline: Jeckal, don't stand around!
Jeckal: I'm done with my exploration!
Amy: Well have another look! Make sure you KNOW your way around our zone.
They return to exploration.
Merlina: Hey, Srish! I believe i found the Turf Hex.
Srish rushes over.
Srish: Pretty out in the open, but wait. These are the crystals that respond to our abilities, aren't they?
Merlina: Yes. With these, defending our Turf Hex will be a cinch!
Mephiles: Step aside.
As Merlina moves back, Mephiles conjures a crystal wall around it.
Srish: Quick thinking.
Mephiles: I have incentive.
They also return to exploration.
Blaze: Alan, i've found our respawn location. It's in the beds at the top floor of the castle. There are three exits, two of which cross over the city, and one that's a staircase to street level.
Alan: Good to know, good to know...
They, as well, return to exploration.
Whisper: Silence, it's 10 minutes till the walls drop.
Silence: How'd you find that out?
Whisper: There's a floating timer at the centre.
Silence: Okay, strategy meeting time, Team Stealth Heroes!
They gather for strategy.
Scribble : What do you think there discussing?
Sonic : No idea, I'm just waiting to see what happens next.
Scribble : Scourge?
Scribble would see a Scourge with a frozen stiff expression on his face.
Scribble : Hello?
Scourge : Huh?! What?!
Scribble : Whats up?
Scourge : None of your concern! I just want to see heads roll!
Scribble : Oh I see. Your feeling weird because you decided to go into space to conquer worlds whilst also leaving Jeckal alone on Mobius to deal with living as an orphan, and the moment you decided to come back to make things right and have him join your crew he rejected because you only came back after seeing his notoriety and power. Now seeing how the members of your team view you as a deadbeat your even more determined to rejoin the bonds you had with your son, however your nervous and don't see how its possible.
Scourge : How-
Scribble : I know lots, but don't worry. Your son still cares about you if even a little, there's still a part of him that has respect for you.
Scourge : ...
Sonic : Wow, talk about awkward.
Scourge : I will kill you if you say another word.
Sonic : Fine, Fine.
Scribble : Almost forgot, give me a minute.
Scribble would then walk towards his speakers.
Speakers (Scribble) : Forgot to mention, Periodically a trophy will drop in the Center Zone. If you claim it you can gain a temporary ally of either a Blue or Green hedgehog. They will help you in your war, however they will only help you for up to 10 Minutes.
Silence: Alright, i'm sick of this. If there are any more rules you forgot to mention, now would be a good time.
With Team Sol Defenders...
Alan: Hey! There's a music system in the underground of the castle!
Alan inputs settings into the machine, turning the music system on and having it play Death Egg Mk 2 Act 1. The music can be heard throughout Alan's entire zone at a reasonable volume.
Speakers (Scribble) : No more rules! 5 Minutes! Get Ready!
Srish fumbles around with his sound system and gets it to play Find Your Flame. His teammates leave it due to time constraints. With Team Tarot, they pull Jeckal away from theirs.
Team Sol Defenders
Alan: Alright, so to establish goals, Jet, you need to get us a territory. Blaze, Hammer, you should gather objects from the central area to help with our defense, but if you have a opportunity, take it. As for me, i'll focus on defense. Once a enemy has a Sigil Destroyer in play, I'll protect the region, but until then, i'll be with you in the central region.
Jet: So what do i do when i have the Sigil Destroyer? I can't just fly on over to a enemy region, they'll be after me in seconds!
Blaze: We'll protect you.
Hammer: Incidentally, where's our Turf Hex?
Blaze: While scouting, i found it. It's just outside the castle on a skyscraper. There's a stairway up to it and two connecting platforms.
Alan: Make that one connecting platform, i destroyed the left one to hamper access
Alan points out the window to indicate.
Jet: We'll need to remember that if we're pushed back.
Alan: Strategy settled?
Hammer: Seems suitable enough.
Alan: To positions!
Team Sol Defenders dash into position.
Team Tarot
Dria: Okay, where's our crucial elements?
Amy: Respawn Point's in the parlor at the back. Three doors, the two side doors lead to the upper levels and the front door leads straight out.
Starline: The Turf Hex is atop a pinball machine. A bit tricky to get up, but once it's up there it's hard to remove. Also it managed to form me into a ball. The scribble's likely behind that.
Jeckal: The Music Machine's in the casino to the side.
Dria: Don't care. I'll take a territory, the rest of you should be in the centre getting items.
Starline: Alright.
Amy: What happens when you get the Sigil Destroyer?
Dria: I'll rush to the nearest opposing territory and place it. With my flight, it should be easy.
Starline: What of those abilities you were granted?
Dria: I planted crystals around the pinball machine's exit to block opponents, as well as some Badniks programmed to alert us of intruders.
Jeckal: Can we get on with this?
Team Tarot gets into position.
Team Magic
Srish: Alright, we should scatter for as many territories as possible.
Merlina: At least one of us should be on defense if the other teams attack!
Mephiles: I can handle that.
Erazor Djinn: Getting the crystals should be simple.
Merlina: What of the central region?
Srish: You can focus on that if you like, but i bet none of the other teams would expect opposition this early.
Mephiles: A risky plan, but potentially one with great rewards.
Merlina: Before we go, the Respawn Room is in the castle lobby. There's three exits, one that arrives at the middle, and two that end at the front. The Turf Hex is surrounded by reactive crystals and Mephiles's dark crystals.
Srish: Right!
Team Magic prepares for their attack.
Team Stealth Heroes.
Silence: Here's the plan. I'll stay back and defend the Turf Hex in the centre. Cross, you should pick off enemies, but avoid the heroes unless necessary, no need to reveal yourself. Tails, you placed the traps, right?
Tails: Yep, rapid dart traps to use the ten hit rule.
Silence: Good. You'll collect whatever Cross opens up for you, and Whisper, you will sneak onto a enemy base, and when you spot a Sigil Destroyer, you should kill the holder and plant it.
Whisper: Got it.
Cross: Respawn Room's in the treehouse at the back. It opens to the treetops or the forest floor.
Team Stealth Heroes get fully prepared.
Speakers (Scribble) : For the first event for the maps center you will have to traverse and do battle against "Knights of the Underworld" , beware however! These Knights have been cybernetically enhanced by the evil Dr. Eggman! You may find there armor to look similar to badniks and even possess similar abilities. With the first center zone event stated, we shall begin in...5...4...3...2...1...Let the Turf Wars, BEGIN!!!!
The barrier around the home turfs would then open up, allowing any who enter to come and go.
Scribble : Who are you guys betting on?
Scourge : Team Tarot, of course!
Sonic : I haven't decided yet. Just happy to see it finally start, I was starting to go to sleep over here.
Scribble : Ha! Good one, I am also happy to see what they will do.
Blaze, Hammer, Alan, Jeckal, Amy, Starline, Merlina and Tails enter the centre, with Cross acting as sniping support. Whisper would run across the volcanic region stealthily, as Srish dives around the underwater region. Erazor Djinn, meanwhile, goes after Jet in the blazing desert. As Blaze destroys a Mecha Knight, it drops a green crystal.
Blaze: What is this... A "Energy Crystal?
Meanwhile, Alan smashes open a chest to find the Lightcutter Claws II.
Alan: Sweet!
On Dria's team, as Amy and Starline destroy enemies and collect Energy Crystals, Jeckal opens a chest which contains a Super Shield.
Jeckel: Looks like a good item. I'll hold onto this.
With Silence's team, Tails collects a bunch of Energy Crystals from the picked off Mecha Knights, and then opens a chest, getting the Team Item, Communicators.
Tails: Good news! I found communicators!
Silence: Good to hear, Tails.
Whisper: Whisper to team, taken position on rooftops in Royal Metropolis.
Cross: Good, now keep a eye out.
Up in the viewing stand.
Scourge : Looks like the lot of them are in the middle fighting it out.
Scribble : Yes, wanna do something cool?
Scourge : Hm? I'm listening.
Scribble : Press that red button.
Scourge without hesitation would press the red button.
Speakers : Challenge event activated. All players who enter the Center Zone will now have a ball and chained attached to them. This Challenge event will end in : 15 Minutes.
Scourge : Ah! Sweet! Ha! This is gonna be hilarious!
Sonic : Talk about dirty.
Alan, frustrated with the sudden movement impediment, cuts off the ball and chain, then slashes two Mecha Knights, getting more Energy Crystals as well as a Chaos Drive. As he wonders about it, he notices Erazor Djinn.
Jet: Team! Erazor's coming at me fast!
Alan: I got this one!
As Alan is defended by his teammates from the Mecha Knights, he charges his Mk II hyper laser. As soon as Erazor reaches Jet, Alan fires the laser, frying the djinn in a second with the rapid hits of the laser, killing him.
Jet: Thanks for that!
Jet then finishes with the gem collection, and dashes for the centre.
Sonic : That laser was brutal!
Scourge : Stuff like this really gets me going.
As Jet makes it to the centre, Hammer cuts off his ball and chain, as does Alan for Blaze. At the same time, Tails unshackled his ball and chain. Just as Jet makes it to the centre and claims a Sigil Destroyer, he gets sniped with Rocket by Whisper.
Alan: What in the- Who?
Alan then hit a button in the centre of the centre region, and time paused for Alan's open upgrade menu.
Alan: So that's what these things do.
Alan swiped down a couple before finding a neat purchase. For 30 energy crystals and one Chaos Drive, he could get turrets on the team's base. As there was 44 energy crystals between the team, he purchased it. After time began again, Whisper was attacked by the sudden turrets. Alan also dashed in, seeing the lights appear near their Turf Hex. Tails, seeing that Whisper needed support, used the shop and summoned two Badniks for Whisper for 12 energy crystals each, which each took enough hits for Whisper to plant the Sigil Destroyer, causing "The Sigil Destroyer is up" to ring out in Team Sol Defender's ears. She then jumped off the tower and Hovered down with her Wispon, getting shoved aside and shot by Alan with Laser claws, but nothing more, as he was preoccupied with disabling the Sigil Destroyer, allowing her to retreat. As he climbs the tower, Erazor Djinn respawns and runs for Alan's city in a bid for revenge. Within about 34 seconds of the Sigil destroyer being placed, Alan manages to take it down. Just as he does so, however, Srish and Dria bring the crystals from their selected regions to the centre, putting two new Sigil Destroyers in play.
Scribble : Looks like its getting pretty intense down there.
Sonic : No kidding!
Dria looks to Srish, who's right across from her, then to Alan, who's still on the roof. The other two follow a similar pattern. Then Jeckal punches Srish in the face, causing Merlina to attempt to hit him with a magic blast, but that fails, and both Srish and Dria go for the other's base, with one of their teammates following them for support against the defending two, except for Srish's team, as Erazor still wants Alan's blood. While unsure of what exactly Erazor is doing, Blaze and Hammer are sure it's not good, and so both kick Erazor back. He responds in kind with a magic blast, taking out Blaze who had been injured from the Mecha Knights, but getting zapped to death again by Alan's hyper laser. Blaze does drop all her energy crystals though, which Hammer grabs. Jet then... well, jets ahead and goes for the as of yet untouched volcanic zone, as Alan finally makes it down, and is almost caught out by Whisper with Cube, but she's shot by Hammer, killing her. Alan then has to dodge a blast from Cross, who retreats into the darkness. He initially debates taking Silence's zone, but immediately reasons out the many reasons why that could fail, with all of them relating to the lack of Silence on the battlefield, and so, he goes for the aquatic region.
Tails: Guys? What's the plan now?
Silence: Let the two fighting teams fight, but get us something to stop Alan and his Sol Defenders!
Cross: Give me a second, I think i've got a good position.
Scribble : Alright, this seems like a good time.
Speakers (Scribble) : Supply Crates have been dropped on each of your home turfs, they can contain anything you can imaginee. From a Chaos Emerald, a Sacred Sword, a Turf upgrade chip, a new battle vehicle, and much more. Lets see how lucky you get!
Jet immediately turns back to base and finds Team Dragoon's supply crate near the stairs to the Turf Hex. He pops it open to find a Team Upgrade Chip. Thinking quickly, he rushes for the centre and hits the upgrade menu button, picking the Team Speed Upgrade almost immediately before returning to collection. Meanwhile, Blaze respawns and rushes back to the centre. With Team Tarot, Starline busts open the supply crate and finds 6 Badnik Summons, using them all on himself before finally pushing back Srish's push, and getting the Sigil Destroyer off of him. Team Magic meanwhile had Mephiles claim a Chaos Emerald from the Supply Crate, which he used to expand his capabilities to kill Dria and claim the Sigil Destroyer, before locking Jeckal in a crystal wall. And finally, Whisper claimed Team Stealth Heroes's crate, which had 10 Chaos Drives in it. Meanwhile, Alan had almost reached the Turf Hex in Srish's auxiliary region, but got sniped by Cross at the last second, losing a couple energy crystals and the Sigil Destroyer.
Hammer: Wuh oh.
Blaze: Don't try to take it back yet, Alan would be back too fast for Silence's team to make a play. They'll be going for something else.
Cross: Where do i take the Sigil Destroyer?
Silence: We should avoid Alan's regions for now, no doubt he'll be on guard. Try Srish's zone.
Tails: I'm low on hits, Whisper, can you come help?
Whisper: On it.
Amy: Team Tarot, regroup!
Starline: Now is no time for this! I'll take the Sigil Destroyer stealthily to Srish's base.
Amy: Alright.
Starline switches his Tricore to Speed mode and runs to Srish's base.
Sonic : This is getting good. When do we get the chance to join?
Scribble : Not yet, it needs to progress a bit more before you two get the chance to be played.
Scourge : Really? Why not now?
Scribble : Right now there is a lot of elements at play that each team has going for them, basically they are all within a stalemate trying there best to grasp and advantages they can find.
Sonic : And?
Scribble : Well, if I gave them the opportunity to summon one of you as a temporary ally the battle within power would shift to that side far too greatly, I say its better to make that play when more teams are weakened and at a lower place, it will make for an interesting situation seeing if the weaker team can make a comeback before the stronger teams can take it for themselves.
Scourge : Hmmm... I like it. I'll really have all eyes on me if that's the case! Then again... I don't really wanna be grouped with the weaklings, I only stick around winners.
Scribble : Well soon the Middle of the map will change.
Sonic : What will it be this time?
Scribble : I was thinking Cyberspace.
Scourge : What's that?
Scribble : Well, its a bit to explain but to put it bluntly anyone who enters it will have to be faced with certain challenges from their past. Usually it would cause some adverse reaction but that's not the case here.
Sonic : So, if I for example went in there. I'd possibly be fighting old enemies and stuff?
Scribble : Possibly, and you also would be put in a familiar area as well.
Scourge : When are you gonna make this happen?
Scribble : Ehh, give them a bit more time to squabble and then I'll make it happen.
As Whisper arrives, Tails takes a hit from a lucky Mecha Knight, reducing him to one. Seeing the delicate situation he's ended up in, he charges for the centre.
Tails: Whisper! Cover me! I've got too many energy crystals to die now!
As Tails charges though, Hammer, seeing a potential opportunity, slashes Tails, killing him. He then takes the dropped energy crystals.
Whisper: Bad news. Tails went down and lost his energy crystals to Alan's team.
Cross: I can take them out from across the map-
Silence: NO! Taking back the crystals would only start a conflict. Alan specializes in direct conflict, we'd be playing into his advantage. We need to gain our own advantage and keep team tempers down. So far, they've been avoiding our region, it's best to keep it that way!
With Team Tarot, Dria respawns, just as a alert comes from a Badnik near the pinball machine. Dria immediately runs to confront. With Team Magic though, Srish respawns, immediately noticing Starline and his Badnik crew coming with a Sigil Destroyer, and charges in. Starline manages to break through Mephiles's crystals, but as he places the Sigil Destroyer, Srish activates a Sound Crystal, stunning the platypus and his Badniks. Srish then beats down Starline and steals back the Sigil Destroyer in 5 seconds after placement, leaving the directionless Badniks behind. Cross uses the opportunity to jump in and place his own Sigil Destroyer broadcasting the alert to Team Magic, which forces Srish to turn back. Using Enchant, he fires freezing projectiles at all his opponents to freeze them, then tries to take the other Sigil Destroyer.
Scribble : Look at that! Seems like the Mythical Landscape is under a brutal invasion.
Scourge : Right? If it was me that would never happen!
Sonic : Heh, that's what you think.
Scourge : What was that?!
Sonic : Hm? What was what?
Scourge : *Snarl*
Scribble : Well, I don't think they have to much to worry about. As long as a Leader is within their turf hex It's almost impossible to successfully destroy it. Still, I'm surprised. They think they can walk up to it and place a sigil without being confronted? But, I'm sure they will develop ways to think around it, they surely are learning as they go.
Srish manages to pull the other Sigil Destroyer, giving him a collection of two. He then destroys the Badniks and Cross, before running back to the centre. With Team Tarot, Dria catches Mephiles as he enters the pinball game, and manages to trap him in a collection of spikes made of Phantom Energy before he does anything, killing him and taking the Sigil Destroyer again. She then runs for the centre to finally spend some energy crystals. As Srish arrives, he grabs a treasure and opens it, getting Hover for his efforts. Dria arrives not long after and hits the upgrade button. As she scans the upgrades, she finds a free item, Voting Event. Curious, she gets it as well as well as a Drive Constructor for home base, which costs 100 energy crystals of the team's 106. As she exits the menu, a floating prompt appears, showing three different images of events and a colored number below each, with colored buttons joining the Upgrade button.
Dria: Hey Scribble, what's all this?
A small interface with Scribble would show up in front of her.
Scribble : Ah-Ah-Ah. No questions until the next intermission. Anything till then is for you to find out. *Giggle*
Everyone: Back up. There are intermissions?
Scribble : Of course. You didn't think I would let you all fight without having time to prepare new strategies. Plus if you were all in the map while i changed the map event it would kill you all. So yes, there will be Intermissions between that.
Alan: Okay, okay. So let's see. The blue option has a picture of... wait, that's one of the Supply Crates! That's the Supply Drop event! The orange option has a picture of me and my friends, but we're... translucent? Oh, wait, there's a name too. It's called the Leaderless event? And the green option has a picture of... a lot of familiar gems, wait are those Chaos Emeralds and is called the Chaos event.
Everyone then dashed for the buttons. Tails, Whisper, Erazor, Amy and the respawned Cross went for the Supply Drop event, Jeckal, Merlina, Starline and Mephiles went for the Leaderless event, but Alan, Hammer, Blaze(with a command from Alan), Srish and Dria voted for the Chaos event.
Blaze: You did not just-.
Alan: We don't have the time for infighting. Jet! How many gems do you have?
Jet: I've got them all!
Alan: Good, there's a vote going on and we need your vote to break the tie.
Jet: Coming! But which tie?
Blaze: Pick the-
Alan: The one with the gem picture, the green button!
Blaze: We are going to have words later.
As Jet boosts in, Whisper and Cross both attempt to snipe him, but are denied by Alan and Hammer's attack, forcing them back into stealth sniping. Jet reaches the terminal, also claiming the volcanic land and a Sigil Destroyer and hits the green button, marking the Chaos event as the frontrunner.
Dria: How long does this voting last?
Dria then looks up to the top of the prompt to see a timer counting down from 15 seconds.
Dria: Ah. Now anyways...
Dria fires at Alan, with Alan firing back, starting a firefight. Before Srish can leave, both Alan and Dria fire at him, making the firefight three-way. Tails runs in and returns to getting crystals while being supported from the woods by Cross and Whisper. Jet jumps behind a rock to protect himself as Hammer, Blaze, and the other teammates ignore the three firefighters and gather crystals, with Erazor even collecting a lightning enhancement for his sword, until the countdown ends.
Alan: Okay, what now?
Each member would be transported back to their Home Turfs, all teleported next to their respective Turf Hex. The barriers from the start would then be set in place.
Speakers (Scribble) : The second intermission has begun, The event voted on is the "Chaos Event", this will spawn the remaining Six Chaos Emeralds within the Center Zone. Beware, The Center has changed from Mechanized Knights of the Underworld to Cyber Space, enter at your own risk, Completing 3 Zones within the Cyber Space and defeating the Boss will enable you to claim a Chaos Emerald. Chaos Emeralds will give you full access to the Chaos Control even without having any former experience, Obtain all of them and you will be able to obtain the "Super Form". Upon entering this form you will be limited, Needing to conserve your Chaos Energy as once the Green meter on your screen (This will only show up for Chaos Emerald Holders) goes out completely your form will run out, causing you to need to wait for it to fully regenerate, Using Chaos Control abilities will also cause the bar to deplete, so use your Chaos Emeralds smartly. With that set in place, take this 15 Minute Intermission to plan the next stages of your war with your new resources and experiences!
Alan: Okay, Chaos Emeralds. That could be good.
Blaze: Before we do that, we need to talk.
Alan: Yes. With one Sigil Destroyer, who do we go for?
Blaze: Not yet. Why didn't you let me choose a event!?
Alan: Chaos admittedly sounded cooler than it turned out, and it's not like you would've chosen it.
Blaze: Of course not! Supply Drop's proven useful!
As Blaze and Alan argue, Hammer looks at the stands.
Hammer: Wonder what they're thinking up there.
In the viewing stands.
Scribble : So, what do you guys think so far? Pretty fun right?
Sonic : Seems pretty neat, I'd gladly do one of these myself.
Scourge : Yeah, And I'd win the whole thing!
Scribble : Good, I'm planning for one of you to go on the field as an Assist Perk at some point after this intermission. I'm also thinking on doing something a bit fun, maybe for one of the teams to gain a small advantage.
Sonic : Like what?
Scribble : Hmmm. I'm gonna go down there and ask them to do a minigame, whoever win i think I'll give... hmmmm... How about a upgrade or perk of choice. As long as its on a specific item or attribute they possess. Alternatively I'll let them gain a new object for offense or defense if they want instead.
Speakers (Scribble) : Hello? Hello! I've decided for a bit more fun! In a moment a painting canvas, paint and brushes will be brought up on your turfs, whoever you choose on your team shall paint a portrait relating to the category given. Whoever can make the most impressive painting will receive upgrades on their teams items, personal abilities or a object of choice. Do note you can only pick one of the three and it can't be too unreasonable. You may opt to not participate in which your team will be given an extra 5 minutes intermission, allowing your team to stay safe for the first 5 minutes after the intermission and plan further, you wont be able to leave until the 5 minutes however.
Team Sol Defenders.
Alan: So, who of us can paint?
Hammer: Paint? Bleh.
Jet: I don't know how to paint.
Blaze: I believe i could make a winning painting. But first, a apology, Alan.
Alan: Fair enough. I'm sorry i ordered you to act against your wishes, it was rude.
Blaze: For now, that will work.
Team Tarot.
Dria: Amy! Can you paint?
Amy: Sorta? It's a hobby of mine, but i don't do it often.
Starline: I paint. I'll take the challenge.
Dria: WHEN?!
Starline: Between making plans to defeat Eggman and Sonic.
Team Magic.
Srish: Err... anyone?
Erazor: I'll do it.
Team Stealth Heroes.
Silence: Do any of you know how to paint?
Whisper and Tails: Nope
Cross:...
Silence: Let's stay out of this then.
Speakers (Scribble) : The topic for the portrait you make will include the tags "Vivid", "Water", "Night". Please do your best to make a painting that has all three of these aspects in mind. Once finished I will come down to inspect, you have 10 Minutes. I suggest whoever is not painting run your maintenance as the intermission countdown will not seize.
Blaze, Starline, and Erazor all begin painting, as their teammates took note of the battlefield's situation, noticing the sudden shift of the centre from a black wasteland to a constantly shifting rift of Cyberspace. Team Stealth Heroes however, put up even more traps, which Tails kept track of with his Miles Electric.
Scribble : What do you guys think of art?
Scourge : Don't care.
Sonic : Well, I usually focus on other things for the most part, But I guess there's always time to appreciate things like that.
Scribble : By the way. After seeing the what they did before this intermission who might you have your bets on Sonic?
Sonic : Hmmm. That's a tough one... I think the Sol Defenders have the best chance. They seem to be really efficient and I haven't seen the members get into as much trouble as the others.
Scribble : That's a good observation. I wonder what they will do when entering Cyber Space though.
Scourge : Heh, Team Tarot or whatever they said will definitely breeze past that!
Scribble : What makes you say that?
Scourge : Isn't it obvious? Jeckal took power from the Phantom Ruby the same way I did the Master Emerald. The powers he was given will let him navigate Cyber Space the easiest considering he can bend reality and create things from it.
Sonic : One problem with that though.
Scourge : What?
Sonic : Jeckal hasn't been doing so much for his team, only the bare minimum. What makes you think he's gonna want to go into the Cyber Space.
Scourge : ...
Scribble : That's true, Jeckal is the best suited to navigate it since he could alter Cyber Space itself to an extent. But I doubt he would do it, and I even more so doubt that his teammates are aware that he would be the best choice. Look at him, he's just standing next to the music box during the intermission. If he doesn't get it together it will be a loss for his team.
Scourge : That brat...
Painting time ends.
Speakers (Scribble) : Alright, I will come down with our guests : Sonic and Scourge, we will rate your portrait's in relation to the topics given. We will start with the "Sol Defenders".
Scribble, Sonic and Scourge would then appear next to the canvas.
Scribble : Hello Blaze. Mind describing this painting?
Blaze: It is a painting of the shores of my kingdom at night.
Scribble : Mmm, this is very nice. I feels very soft yet also pretty elegant. You definitely have captured the moons radiance upon hitting the ripples of water. Very good, how about you two?
Sonic : I don't understand art all that well but it looks nice.
Scourge : It's horrible.
Scribble : Really? Why is that?
Scourge : Its too calm and peaceful, needs more action. If i wanted to look at water I would've grabbed a bottle of it!
Scribble : ... You are an idiot.
Scourge : Fine, its whatever, I still think its too boring.
Scribble : I give it a 8/10.
Sonic : 8/10
Scourge : 3/10
Scribble : Well, you have gotten a final score of 21/30 Not bad.
Team Tarot
Starline: This is a portrait of one of my greatest creations, Kit, and his water powers i gave him fighting Sonic at night in Eggman's beautiful city!
Scribble : This is a very unique usage of what I'd thought "Water" would be used for. I like it, however. I wonder what is vivid abou-
Scourge : 10/10! This is great! Finally someone who knows how to convey action! And what do you mean how is it vivid? Don't you see the intensity of the fight! The way that the Cities lights glare on the focus! This is great! My favorite part is how Sonic is getting humiliated! This is real art!
Sonic : Well... I don't know how I feel about getting beat up on but what else am I to expect from you... It is pretty nice looking, 7/10, point off for the slander.
Scribble : I'll give it a 7/10 also, that adds up to 24/30, very good.
Team Magic
Erazor: This is a portrait of a Oasis i remember, but at night.
Srish: There are Rings too, can't forget that!
Scribble : The detail is very good, its almost like I'm physically there. Are those the World Ring- Never mind. I guess I can count those as vivid because of the emotions they correspond to. But I'd give it a 5/10
Sonic : I like the ring a lot, the oasis kind of gives of a familiar feel. I give a 6/10.
Scourge : I-
Scourge would be interrupted by a Jeckal cranking " The Palace That Was Found " from the Music Box.
Scourge : ... SHUT THAT UP!!!
Jeckal : Hmmm, no thanks.
Scourge : Tch! Whatever, I give it a 8/10 gives me a feeling of danger and adventure.
Scribble : That adds up to 19/30.
Starline promptly shoves Jeckal aside and switches the song to his theme, before getting shoved aside by Dria who chooses Launch Base Zone randomly. The three then push each other around until Amy, fed up with the arguing, smashes the sound system to get them to stop. The sound system of course regenerates, and Amy is dragged into the arguing. From across the battlefield, Alan listens to the argument while laughing.
Hammer: What's so funny over there?
Alan: Oh, Team Tarot sounds like your team in any conversation right now.
Hammer: Hey! I resent that!
Erazor: So who won?
Speakers (Scribble) : Team Tarot has won, Starline has proven to be the greatest artist as of this event and therefore will be allowed a reward. You can either pick a team Equipment upgrade, Team Passive upgrade, Special Object, Mounts or the "Guardian Type Biomon" Who will protect your hex for one life. Please pick one.
Dria:(I don't remember that type.)
Starline: I'll take the Special Object.
Amy: You sure?
Speakers (Scribble) : Your special object is : The Warp Topaz! Make good use of this, once equipped a orange meter should show up on an interface, this shows you the energy the topaz has absorbed, once full it will allow for immediate use. Its abilities have been limited here however, allowing to go as far as one Zone per use.
Starline: I take that to mean this Warp Topaz can only open one portal per charge?
Speakers (Scribble) : Yes.
To test something, Starline attempts to exit the barrier with the Warp Topaz, but it doesn't work.
Speakers (Scribble) : Don't be too hasty now! Rules are Rules. 5 Minutes until the barriers drop, 10 for Team Stealth Heroes.
After getting Jeckal to give up trying to mess with the sound system, Team Tarot gets into position, as do the other teams.
Speakers (Scribble) : Remember, you must navigate Cyber Space if you wish to gain boons from the Center Zone. The Barrier will drop in 3...2...1.. Resume!
Dria immediately dashes for Alan's nearby auxiliary zone, as Jet goes for Srish's auxiliary zone, Srish heads for Dria's, and the rest of the teams scatter to defend territory. Amy, however, jumps into Cyberspace.
Scribble : Looks like someone has there eyes on the prize, lets just hope she comes out the same way she entered.
In Cyberspace, Amy is suddenly jumped by Zero. Having grown since those days, she smacks the E-series terror aside with little effort. A smaller Time Eater copy then attempts a attack, but it's limited power leaves it incredibly vulnerable to Amy's attacks. Giving up on the single terrors, Cyberspace summoned many Badniks to attack her, but as a professional Badnik destroyer, she smashes through them quickly enough. With the three threats beaten, Amy's Boss appeared, Metal Sonic. Amy quickly got to work fighting it.
Sonic : I kinda want to see what's going on in there.
Scourge : I agree.
Scribble : No problem, pull down those levers to your sides and a screen can appear, you will be able to view the inside of Cyber Space. If you press the arrows you can switch perspectives.
Sonic : Neat!
Scourge : Looks like she's fighting Metal Sonic.
Metal Sonic then tries a Spindash against Amy, but she hits it beyond Cyberspace's limits, turning it back into formless Cyber energy. With that, Amy clears her Boss Zone, and collects a Chaos Emerald. A alert also rings out across the battlefield.
Speakers: Amy: Digital Memories Cleared.
Alan: Huh? What's Digital Memories?
Jet: Ignore that, Help!
Alan: Hammer, go help Jet push forwards, I'm better suited on home territory.
Alan then jumps in to help Blaze fight off Dria, the two using their fire powers to burn the underdefended Dria, killing her and leaving Blaze with the Sigil Destroyer. Blaze then makes the choice to jump into Cyberspace, as Alan watches Srish attempt to push through Jeckal and Starline with his Extreme Gear's abilities.
Scribble : This is interesting. There are now two people with Chaos Emeralds, it also seems like the Sol Defenders are on the offensive, quite ironic considering the namesake.
Scourge : That's how it should be. You need to crush worms to show that they are above nothing but the dirt!
Sonic : Hold on, I think Srish there is about to do some tricks on those two, let's see how badly he wants those style points!
Scribble : I don't know. Starline and Jeckal haven't shown all the cards at there hands in this war yet. But we will see what happens.
Srish, being well outnumbered, loops back out of Dria's base, before sending Waves into Hover. He then uses the power of Rhythm to multi-jump over the heads of the two defenders and up towards the top of the pinball machine. Starline, seeing the issue, immediately warps atop the machine, and as Srish reaches the top, Starline uses Power on his Tricore to throw Srish away. Srish lands hard just outside the main base, and seeing the clear problem in his approach, escapes before Jeckal can attack him, returning to base.
Merlina: Srish, may i recommend a new approach?
Srish: If you have a plan, let's hear it.
Merlina: You should go into Cyberspace and get a Chaos Emerald. We could use another one.
Srish: Hmm, good plan.
Scourge : Looks like that exchange ended up in a draw.
Scribble : Speaking of which.
Scribble would then reach towards Scourge.
Scourge : Hey! What are yo-
Scourge would then be turned into a glowing trophy and immediately hit the floor.
Sonic : Hey! What?! What did you do?
Scribble : I turned him into an assist trophy, I did say I planned to have temporary Assists happen. I think I'll have Scourge assist whoever claims this trophy until the next intermission.
Sonic : I would be worried since that guy is a bit... Wild. But I guess they can just command him righ-
Scribble : Nope.
Sonic : ... What?
Scribble : You can't use leader commands on an assist. But its fine, Scourge seems like he has been tired of waiting, I just hope he gets the team he wants.
Sonic : Ahh, I see...
Speakers (Scribble) : There is a Assist Trophy within Cyber Space, You now have a small chance to gain this powerful ally instead of a Chaos Emerald, This Ally will last you until the next intermission! Happy Hunting!
Srish: Eh?
Srish enters Cyberspace.
Alan: Let's hope Blaze gets him.
Jeckal: I don't care.
Amy: Well i do!
Dria and Amy then rush into Cyberspace, with Dria picking up the four Chaos Drives from the Drive Generator before entering.
Sonic : Still, don't you think he's not gonna like the fact he was turned into a statue?
Scribble : Trophy, not statue. He will be mad, but he will have a team to take that out on so I don't care too much.
Scribble would then pull up a interface to Team Stealth Heroes.
Scribble : Your five minutes are up, Your now free to roam.
Whisper: Right.
Whisper charges into Cyberspace. With Srish in Cyberspace, he starts off fighting a couple basic Badniks,which he beats quickly, then fights some Biomon which don't fare much better, then a Powered Biomon, which takes some time, but eventually falls, and finally, a replica of Alas.
Srish: You?!
Cyber Alas opens with a Void blast, which Srish skates around, before attempting to counter one with a Rhythm blast, but it fails and he gets swallowed up, before being spat out of the Void Wispon only damaged a bit.
Srish: Wha?
Srish uses the close proximity to kick Cyber Alas off their feet, before shooting them multiple times in quick succession, killing them quickly enough and finishing his Boss Zone. The trophy of Scourge then emerges and another alert rings out, which is mixed with some other alerts.
Speakers: Srish: Digital Memories Cleared.
Srish: So how do i activate him, do i shake him a little-.
Srish is cut off by the trophy glowing as he exits Cyberspace. The trophy would soon take a larger shape revealing the new ally.
Scourge : Well, Can't say I've ever been turned into a toy before. But I'll take out my anger on some of the scrubs.
Scourge would turn and notice Srish.
Scourge : So your the one who leads that magic team? I guess I could roll with that. Just tell me what's up. Oh, and, I don't take orders from anyone. consider me as sort of... a secondary leader I guess you can say, I've got plenty of experience in the position anyways.
Scourge would let out a wide and smug grin as he finished the statement, awaiting a response.
Srish: Yeah i don't even want to know, you seem like a chaos type of guy though, go interfere with the other teams.
Scourge : Gladly, I was going to anyways.
Scourge would then roll into a spindash, speeding off towards the closest Zone.
Back with the other Cyberspace Challengers, Blaze starts off with a fight against some Robot Pirates. Having fought many, she takes them down in seconds. Badniks arrive next, but they fare no better. A smaller Egg King then jumps in, and though it gives Blaze some trouble, she defeats it handily. For her Boss challenge though, A Cyber Egg Wizard is generated. Blaze hits the machine with a couple fire blasts, then dodges a replica of the lava beasts used by the original, before scaling the machine and removing it's hands by force, causing it to self-destruct as a last attempt. For the effort, a Chaos Emerald is given to Blaze and a alert rings out alongside Srish's
Speakers: Blaze: Digital Memories Clear.
Blaze exits Cyberspace, only to come face to face with Scourge, who had killed Jet, taken his Sigil Destroyer and avoided Hammer in the seconds between Srish's and Blaze's exit.
Scourge : Hey there sweetheart, got something for me?
Scourge would exude confidence towards Blaze, showing he was not in the slightest afraid of what could happen next.
Back in Cyberspace, Dria's first challenge was a fight against Badniks, which was won no sweat. Her second challenge was fighting Biomon, which was slightly harder. The third challenge was defeating a Elite Egg Hammer. It was tough, but Dria won. Dria then entered the Boss Challenge, which was fighting a copy of Infinite. Dria started by flying around and shooting Eagle blasts at Infinite, which the copy dodged initially, but got hit on the return run. As Dria kept firing, Infinite threw around Phantom Energy blasts, which Dria dodged even as they started curving in odd ways. Just as Infinite was actually about to try something bigger, Dria's shots finally killed the weak copy, and she won her Boss Challenge, claiming a Chaos Emerald. Like with the others, a announcement rang out.
Speakers: Dria: Digital Memories Cleared.
Dria exited Cyberspace and flew up to check on her team.
Blaze: Whoever you think you are, you are currently a opponent.
Alan: 'Sides, dude, Chaos Emeralds are gear, you can't steal them, or someone would have taken Mephiles's by now.
Scourge : That what you think? I thought you guy's would've figured it out but I guess being down here you had to much to focus on. See, the big man said there was gonna be a total of seven, and he spoke of "Super Forms" right? Yeah, whoever has the Chaos Emeralds can't give it. But those aren't normal gears, you know? I doubt it's as simple as killing you and taking it, I'm sure your right about that but... What if there was another way to take them so I could get all seven hmm?
Scourge would be standing there with a smug look on his face.
Scourge : Now, I don't know how. That "Scribble" guy doesn't want to share that info, I guess not until all Seven are out here instead of there. But, there's nothing saying I can't take any holders as prisoner and eventually... I don't know. Force the usage of them, right?
Speakers (Scribble) : Sorry, Taking hostages won't work out. Prison event vote is required, otherwise holding another player within your turf purposely will cause an automatic respawn after 15 seconds.
Scourge : ...
Speakers (Scribble) : Yeah sorry, If you want Chaos Emeralds from other people you will have to wait for the Thief event.
Scourge : Well then...
Scourge would scratch his head.
Scourge : I do feel a bit embarrassed right now. So I hope you don't mind if I relieve some of that tension by sending you back packing.
Scourge would take a stance with open arms, almost encouraging his foes to strike, a sharp smile to accompany it.
Scourge : After I'm done with you guys I think I'll use one of those Sigil things and cause some havoc.
Alan: Blaze!
Blaze unleashes fire everywhere to burn Scourge.
Blaze: I can match Sonic in combat, what makes you think you'll fare better?
Scourge would leap out of the way of the fire and perch onto a nearby ledge.
Scourge : Because, I'm Sonic, but better. I've beaten Sonic and Shadow at the same time like it was sport. Even if your anything like those two I'm sure you will meet the same defeat as I made them!
Scourge would then dash towards Blaze, about to launch a kick before feinting it out to get behind Blaze and strike with a back hand from behind. As Blaze reels from the attack, she counters with a kick, which Scourge ducks. As he gets up, he playfully dodges Alan's slices before jumping over both of them and running up a nearby building.
Scourge : What's the matter? More than you can handle?! Hah!
Scourge would initiate a spindash, kicking up dust around him whilst on top of the building, Eventually this would kick up bigger pieces of debris which he would kick towards both of them.
Scourge : Let's see how you deal with ranged attacks, I hope you don't mind the dust screen I made with it.
Scourge is subsequently sniped by Jet ramming into his head with his Extreme Gear. As he dodges Hammer's attempted attack, he's rammed by Blaze's Flame Tornado attack, and stabbed by Alan's Lightcutter Claws II before being thrown aside.
Alan: You're a Sonic, but you're forgetting this game is balanced.
Hammer and Blaze then tag team Scourge with Spindash and Flame Tornado, launching him out of the city.
Scourge : Tch! (They're right. I can't act so carelessly, it's annoying that I feel somewhat threatened but if I take another hit or two I'll have to respawn.) I'll return soon enough!! Don't think you really beat me!!
Sonic : Talk about embarrassing! He was talking a lot of game only to get destroyed by his own ignorance.
Scribble : I know right, I can't say it's not unexpected but he has no one but himself to blame, having the Master Emeralds power boosting him won't help here.
Sonic : Is that why he's green?
Scribble : Yup.
Meanwhile, Whisper was fighting through her challenge, starting with some Badniks, which were easy, then a Tank, which did even worse, then two Shadow Androids, which gave her some trouble with their speed, but eventually were taken out, and for her boss, a cyber Mimic. Whisper struck first with a Laser blast, which Cyber Mimic dodged, and it countered by charging in, but Whisper countered with a Hover-Spikes combo. They went back and forth for some time until Whisper struck down Mimic with a Cube blow, earning her a Chaos Emerald and a announcement.
Speakers: Whisper: Digital Memories Cleared.
Scribble : They seem to have two more to go, after all Seven are on the playing field I think we will do a event vote.
Scourge would soon arrive to the Mythical Landscape Zone.
Scourge : This must be home turf? Looks a lot different up close.
Scourge would notice Mephiles in the distance standing guard of the Turf Hex.
Scourge : Hey! Your Mephiles right? You got any clue on who might be out on the field right now? Or should I ask someone else.
Mephiles: You're the one that's our temporary ally, right? At the moment, Dria's team seem to be preparing something, You just ran from Alan's team, and Silence's team are keeping their cards close to their chest, as usual. Erazor's patrolling, Merlina's also patrolling. Srish seems to be thinking up something, and i'm keeping watch.
Scourge : Running? I don't run from anyone, In fact with that info I think I'll go after those Stealth guys. Only cowards hide, the victor makes himself known, load and clear, for all to see! I think I'll start with the snipers they pride themselves with, and then I'll rangle with the others. After I do that I'll see about destroying one of those Turf Hex, I'll probably target them since they will all be disoriented, I'm sure the snipers will be looking for me after they respawn which will give me the perfect chance to come in since they won't be expecting my progression. Tell that to anyone who swings by, toodles!
Scourge would then zoom off leaving behind a green hue within the air as he sped past.
Mephiles:(Alright, Stealth Heroes, let's see your true game plan.)
Whisper exited Cyberspace, only to see Scourge coming at her. She tried to shoot him with Laser, but he dodged the attacks.
Scourge : Not fast enough!
Scourge would then slide and kick upwards, causing the Wispon at hand to be aimed upwards allowing him to sweep Whisper with his other leg, doing a flip and landing on his feet and looking down towards Whisper. Before Whisper could try anything else he would stomp down on the Wispon to prevent its movement and usage.
Scourge : Before I deal with you, I think it'd be in your best interest to tell me where the other sniper is.
Scourge is then promptly sniped by Cross, killing him.
Cross: That guy's way too cocky.
Whisper: You took his Sigil Destroyer.
Scribble : Did you see that?
Sonic : Yeah, that was hilarious!
Scribble : The fact he asked about the sniper only to get sniped!
The two would begin laughing, tears streaming as they did.
Scourge : ...
Scourge would be doing his best to keep in his anger, passing by Mephiles without saying a word or even a glance.
Mephiles: We have Scourge, Srish, We need to do something, make a big play with his help.
Srish: I've got it! We'll invade Dria's city!
Mephiles: Who's we?
Srish: Me, you, and Scourge.
Mephiles: What will the others do?
Srish: Watch over the base.
Scourge would look back.
Scourge : Dria? That's the team with Jeckal right? What exactly are we trying to do over there?
Srish: Take them down of course. I'll head up to their Turf Hex while you handle everyone else. If you really care that much about Jeckal, you can handle the others. Mephiles can handle a evil Cyne, right?
Mephiles: But of course.
Scourge : Who is Cyne? Actually nevermind. If you guys can't keep up then grab on.
Mephiles grabs on, but Srish skates on ahead with Hover. Seeing this as a challenge, Scourge races right past the water strider and runs into Dria and Amy, who were discussing what to do next.
Scourge : Well, well, well. Look at that! I'm so fast even I couldn't keep up! Now, how about you two stop planning over there... and start acting!!
Scourge would look around the zone, he would see multiple buildings and gain an idea.
Scourge : (She has that ability to create stuff as long as i'm in the zone. But it shouldn't work out as well if she can't even see me coming. The pink one over there shouldn't really be much of a problem as long as I handle the leader.)
Scourge would run up the side of a building, jumping off and onto the other, slowly zig zagging down as to not be predictable before flying towards Dria with a kick. Dria's kicked into Cyberspace, and Amy tries to hit Scourge with her hammer, but is driven back by Mephiles.
Amy: A little help here team!
Starline and Jeckal warp in with the Warp Topaz, with Starline using Power mode on the Tricore to knock Mephiles back with a heavy blow, and Jeckal attacking with a Spindash, which is blocked by Scourge. Amy tries to hit Scourge again, but is dodged, and Starline's knocked back by Mephiles. Meanwhile, Dria tries to leave Cyberspace, but notices the Shop button nearby, and presses it. Looking for something to counter Scourge with, Dria notices the Mech item, which costs 3 Chaos Drives and 110 energy crystals. Dria was a bit short, so she started fighting the Badniks for more.
Scribble : Seems like Team Magic is up to something, could they actually pull off destroying a Turf Hex?
Sonic : Don't count out Team Tarot, I'm sure something surprising will happen, upsets like these happen all the time. Plus, Scourge there has a loss streak.
Scribble : Let's just watch and see.
Back with Team Tarot and Magic.
Scourge : Starline, Jeckal... I forgot you guys possessed the Topaz. Just when I was gonna take out those pests, here come two more roaches to crawl from beneath.
Scourge would lower down into a stance.
Scourge : Mephiles, make some crystal walls around us that I can ricochet off of. I'm gonna try to hit them all at once consecutively. If it doesn't work be ready to counter attack.
Just as Scourge was about to launch, Dria purchases the Mech, and Cyberspace's normal separation aura noticeably dissipates as a machine forms around Dria, quickly revealed to be the Egg Wyvern(Diamond Fighters Model.)
Dria: Now would be a good time to run, cowards!
Amy: What is that thing?
Starline: It looks like a Eggman machine, but i've never seen it.
Dria: Of course you haven't, the Egg Wyvern was crafted long after you... vanished.
Jeckal: I'm not impressed.
Dria has the mech's wing turrets fire at Mephiles and Scourge, who both jump back.
Sonic : See, I told you.
Scribble : Hmmm...
Scourge : That annoying. Mephiles, you got that Chaos Emerald huh? Now ought to be a good time to put it to use.
Mephiles: Right!
Mephiles taps into the power of the Chaos Emerald to entrap the Egg Wyvern in crystal spikes. Dria counters with a windblast, knocking Mephiles aside and causing the crystals to vanish. She then fires at Scourge again, forcing him to dodge.
Dria: Ohohohoh! Would you look at that, NO DAMAGE! I'm starting to understand why Eggman loves these so much.
Amy: Dria, priorities! Drive these guys off first, then attack using the Mech as heavy support
Scourge : You think I forgot about you lot? If I can't prioritize the robo then I'll for sure handle you guys.
Jeckal: Oh shut up.
Jeckal spindashes into Scourge, who blocks, but is promptly hit by Amy's hammer, then kicked with Starline's poison spurs to disable him. Scourge quickly shakes it off though and kicks the two out of the way before counterattacking.
Starline: What? The poison should have kept him down for a couple minutes at least!
Scourge would nail a fist right into Starlines gut, leaving him gasping for air.
Scourge : You'll find i'm not that easy.
Scourge would look to Jeckal.
Scourge : Jeckal, attacking your ol' pops? Where did the times go?
Scribble : Oh boy, here he goes.
Sonic : This is gonna be awkward...
Jeckal: Pops? What? You're not my father, and even if you were, we're currently on opposite sides!
Scourge: Now why does that matter?
Jeckal: Because i am not going to give Dria up there reason to brainwash me into-
As Jeckal tries to explain his reasoning, "The Sigil Destroyer is up!" rings in his and his teammates heads. Dria immediately flies in to see what was up, finding Srish up there. Dria immediately opens fire, forcing Srish to flee, but is unable to grab the Sigil Destroyer.
Scribble : Well, not exactly surprised that the deadbeat got rejected.
Sonic : What is surprising is that the Turf Hex seems to be compromised.
Scourge would follow the location of the team, finding it strange to see them just leave. Upon arriving he see's what's going on.
Scourge : Looks like a chance!
Scourge would land, striking a familiar pose.
Scourge : I believe this is what he called "Figure 8"
Scourge's legs would revv' up and move so fast that it resembled an infinity sign. Scourge would then release his hold, blasting off at his maximum speed to the immense acceleration. Scourge would jump into a spinball before colliding with Dria's mech. The speed and velocity translating into a greater mass, allowing for Scourge to push the mech back a good distance.
Scourge : Mephiles! Don't let that Sigil Destroyer come off! No matter what!
Mephiles: Got it!
Dria: Bah! Starline! Get that thing out of our base!
Starline: Got it!
Mephiles surrounds the Turf Hex with crystals, but Starline opens a portal above and pulls it out approximately 48 seconds after it was placed.
Starline: It appears Mechs cannot take Sigil Destroyers.
Dria: Ah, that makes sense.
Starline gets promptly knocked off the building by Mephiles and lands on the Egg Wyvern. As Scourge gets bothered by the persistence of Dria, Jeckal blindsides him with another Spindash, with Amy following up with a couple hammers to the head. Scourge kills Amy, then faces Jeckal.
Scourge : Brat! Why do you insist on getting in the way!? One more time, and I Will hurt you. Don't make me regret my actions!
Scourge would grip his fit tightly, jacket catching a violent breeze that seemed to be just as annoyed as the green hog was.
Jeckal: If i don't fight you, i'll be forced into it, and you are nothing more than a assist character to me.
Jeckal Spindashes into Scourge, who counters with his own, bouncing the two off each other. Jeckal hits a building and rebounds off of it, while Scourge lands just outside the city. Jeckal hits Scourge head on, before unfurling, and the two get into a brawl. Mephiles and Srish fight beside one another as Amy and Starline attack the two, at least, until Dria shoots them with claw-fired lasers.
With Team Sol Defenders, Alan watches the two teams fight it out with a look of amusement, but boredom. He then notices Cross run into Cyberspace, triggering his Digital Memories. Deciding to copy him, Alan runs into Cyberspace as well, while his teammates remain behind to defend the base.
Scribble : Seems while those two teams fight over the turf the other two will attempt to obtain the last of the emeralds, you know what that means?
Sonic : What?
Scribble : A event will take place soon.
Sonic : Sweet.
With Alan, his first challenge is against some Badniks, which he defeats handily. His next challenge is against some Biomon, which is just as simple. His final enemy challenge is a fight against a Powered Biomon like his teammates, which takes him the least amount of time among his team. Finally, he gets faced with his final challenge, a fight against a Egg Beater. Alan opens by firing at the machine's head, which is dodged as it runs aside and throws a Checkered Ball and Chain at Alan, which he dodges and separates from the rest of the mech. Minus it's weapon, it switches to lasers and missiles, which are all dodged as Alan runs around them, before he severs the machine's legs and shoots it from underneath, destroying the machine and granting him a Chaos Emerald and announcement, which is followed by the announcement for Cross.
Speakers: Alan: Digital Memories Cleared.
Speakers: Cross: Digital Memories Cleared.
With Cyberspace completely open right now thanks to Dria and her Egg Wyvern, Alan isn't forced back out and turns to exit, before noticing the button. Seizing a opportunity, Alan opens the shop and gets the team base a Healing Aura at the Respawn Zone for 4 Chaos Drives and 180 energy crystals. He also gets his team's Voting Event, triggering a popup at a centre platform that generated in, listing the Leaderless Event, a event titled Toybox and showing Team Dragoon messing around with toys of their teammates and some random baddies over a playmap built just like the battlefield, and a event titled Mixup which showed each member of Team Dragoon fighting a member from their team. The timer read 4:57 when Alan looked at it.
Alan: Look at that.
Blaze: Here we go again.
Cross: Team, another Voting Event was triggered.
Whisper: I got it.
Tails: I'm coming.
Silence: I'm not voting.
Sonic : Are you gonna put them in another intermission?
Scribble : No, not yet. The selection does not directly affect the center zone at all, there is no need to. Im eager to see the results though. Too bad Scourge can't pick though.
Scourge: Leaderless?! I'm picking that!
Scourge rushes in and hits the leaderless button, but nothing happens. He hits it several more times, and still nothing.
Scourge: What!?
Dria: You're just a bonus fighter, you lack some of the rules and benefits of being a real fighter, from what I can interpret.
Dria and Srish run in and hit the Toybox button, with Dria's team voting for Toybox as well, except for Jeckal, who goes for Leaderless, and Srish's team also going for Leaderless. Alan's team runs in, and Alan votes for Toybox while his teammates go Leaderless. As everyone returns to position, Silence's team jump in and all hit Leaderless.
Alan: What? Why?
Hammer: Sounds like fun not having to listen to you for a bit.
Srish: Guys, without me, this raid falls apart!
Mephiles: We have Scourge, and me. That hunk of metal Dria's in won't do much without her in it.
Dria: Jeckal...
Jeckal: No you means no commands.
Silence: You voted for Leaderless?
Cross: Just... trust us on this.
Speakers (Scribble) : The next event to affect all players has been decided! The Leaderless event has been chosen with a whopping 10 votes! The comrades summoned for the respective teams are allowed to whatever they want and no longer need to follow the team guidelines for the rest of the game!
Amy: Hold on, what?
Jeckal: But... I thought our team leaders would disappear temporarily!
Cross: Yeah, that's not what we were shown would happen!
Mephiles: The picture shown had Team Dragoon translucent, implying their disappearance.
Alan: Oh my GOSH how boring.
Speakers (Scribble) : Calm down, calm down. Your acting like there isn't an opposite event, of course if I let your remove Leader permissions you could vote to have them back, if you want that is. I do hope you all know, your Leaders will not only lose control over you allies, but will not be able to use their leader skills in or for combat any longer.
Alan: Huff... This is why you people trust me on these things.
Dria: Welp, nothing to it. Anyways.
Dria shoot Scourge with the wing turrets while he's off guard. Starline punches Mephiles with Power simultaneously.
Scribble : And off they go. What do you think is gonna happen?
Sonic : Personally, I think Team Tarot is gonna have the most problems with Jeckal now, maybe the Sol Defenders too. The others will probably be fine.
Tails: Team, i want to test something.
Whisper: Eh? Tails?
Tails jumps into the Cyberspace pit. Instead of being sent out or killed though, he landed in a empty black room. Empty, except for some machines.
Silence: Tails! What(krrz) doing?
Whisper: Ta(krss) did you think that was a(kkrs)
Tails: I don't know where i am, but there's some weird machinery. I don't think i was supposed to stumble upon this place.
Tails's explanation was jumbled by the lack of signal in this zone.
Cross: Tails we cannot(krrs)
Tails: Alright, what are these things?
Tails examines one machine, quickly discovering it's what was providing the air and energies for the zones.
Tails: No, i can't touch this, that would have to be cheating, there's nothing else it can be.
Suddenly, a screen would appear specifically in front of Tails.
Scribble : Welcome, Welcome! You found a secret! I like to call this place the "Core Room". I'm surprised anyone found it, but I guess your the smartest one here aren't you? I see that your hesitant on what to do here. See, this room switches locations every intermission, It's a secret that is meant to be found. Being here is not cheating, after all, The machines have been enchanted to make sure nothing goes wrong, so you might be wondering what's the point? Well, it's an advantage of course, for those who take there time to look beyond the action of the war. Obviously these machines supply all the zones with the necessary needs but that being said, it has much more it's capable of. If you look at some of the other machines you can find things that could help you, some machines are inactive but can be activated with relics like Chaos Emeralds. I won't tell you everything, but take this radar as a reward for being the first, you will always be able to find where the room has moved with this! Bye, bye!! Oh and, there is a debug mode if you can get all the machines in here to function.
The screen would disappear before Tails could even make a response.
Tails: Weird. Anyways, let's see what we... This machine's locked, and needs a Chaos Emerald... dang it. There's this machine though.
Tails presses a button on a machine akin to a claw machine, and a ball pops out, with the glass lowering. Tails takes the ball, and the Core Room fades around him, returning Tails to his Turf Hex.
Silence: Tails, what was that?
Tails: Scribble said it was the Core Room. There's a bunch of machines there, and Scribble said they did things if you had the right artifact on hand. One can manipulate the air of this entire battlefield, but I'd need a Chaos Emerald.
Silence: Take that up with Whisper, or Cross. What's that thing in your hand?
Tails: I dunno, i got it from a random machine that had no seal. Oh! Should probably tell you that Scribble gave me a radar to find the Core Room again.
Tails takes out the radar to check it's position, but the machine's pointer wibble wobbles about with no real direction.
Tails: Hmm, it might be on cooldown.
Tails then shakes the ball he got from the machine, and it starts cracking. Not knowing what it could be or why it was cracking, Tails shook it more, and the ball broke, granting him 30 energy crystals.
Sonic : What'd you do?
Scribble : Oh nothing, your friend found a secret, pretty impressive.
Sonic : Well what did you expect? He's the smartest guy I know.
Tails gets a idea. He runs out of the woods and hits the upgrade button, buying turrets for the base and a Power Upgrade for the team for a combined total of 30 energy crystals and 11 Chaos Drives.
Tails: I got us a Power upgrade! Now our attacks deplete one and a half hits from opponents instead of one.
Cross: Is that it? Doesn't sound all that impressive.
Tails: By my simple calculations though, it means we can defeat our enemies with seven hits instead of ten!
Silence: Could be useful.
Meanwhile, Team Tarot and Team Magic were warring, not accomplishing much.
Scourge : Tch! This is pointless! It's not even like this is a fun fight! I'm out of here!
Jeckal: You're not, actually.
Jeckal spin attacks Scourge. Scourge would then turn and put out both of his hands, catching the spinning orb and throwing into the sky.
Scourge : Sorry, I don't have time to be distracted, I gave you every chance right here to spend time with me. I'm gonna go do my own thing, catch me if you can!
Jeckal: Don't think you can stop me that easily!
As Scourge attempted to flee, Jeckal unleashed a large Phantom Energy beam at Scourge, stopping him in his tracks. This catches the attention of the fighting teams.
Amy: Wow. Looks like Jeckal has some real power if he puts his mind to it.
Mephiles: When did Scourge retreat? Srish, i believe it would be best to leave.
Srish: Agreed. This plan fell apart quickly.
Team Magic return to their base, as Team Tarot watch. Meanwhile, Scourge looks up at the midair Jeckal, mildly impressed.
Scourge : So... Finally deciding to use that power? Your just like me you know, I forced the power of the Master Emerald onto myself and you did the same with that ruby. I might not be able to do things like that, but I'll tell you one thing. I'm beating you out in every other area.
Scourge would steady himself on the ground.
Scourge : Mephiles! Stay with me just incase. If things get messy than I could use that Chaos Emerald you have. They are just like my Anarchy Beryls, I should only need one to transform.
Scourge would then leap into the air and grab Jeckals face, turning into a spinball whilst still holding on and throwing him towards the ground at an accelerant speed.
Sonic : Wait? He can transform with one emerald?
Scribble : Yes, the energy from the Master Emerald amplify the chaos energy and allows for him to transform, while it is a super form, its still weaker without all seven and lasts far too short.
Sonic : What does that mean for this?
Scribble : I'd say with one emerald in his form he could take twice the hits but the form would last for a minute at most. Not to mention Jeckals Phantom Energy can negate some of the Chaos Emeralds abilities, so at most it would just be a quick stat boost, he would still go down in the same amount of hits against Jeckal.
Dria: For Scribble's sake, GET SCOURGE!
Amy: Eh?
Dria: Explanations come later.
Dria fires the Egg Wyvern's mega beam in a attempt to fry Scourge. He dodges it, but Jeckal catches Scourge off guard, and the mega beam catches Mephiles, who came back at Scourge's request.
Scourge : Really?! Alright then Jeckal, I wonder if you will hit me when your little team is in the way, or maybe you don't care. I wonder!
Scourge would run towards the Egg Wyvern, running directly under it and hopping onto its backside.
Scourge : *Knock knock* Hey! Anyone home?
Dria: Here's a trick i remember.
Dria then flaps the Egg Wyvern's wings, creating a Gleeok-class wind barrier that sends Scourge off the machine. In midair, Jeckal snipes Scourge, bringing him down to 1 hit point.
Jeckal: No need to decide who i hit when they can send you away!
Meanwhile, Team Sol Defenders watched the show with mild intrigue. Suddenly, though, all the Sigil Destroyers teleported to their point of origin.
Jet: Hey, Alan, there's Sigil Destroyers at the territories now!
Alan: What? There would've been a event notice if new Sigil Destroyers generated...
Hammer: Hey, you're right! They must have warped back to their base of origin! But why?
Alan: No one's done anything with them in forever. There must be a secret timer or something to return them if they remain unused for a certain period.
Sonic : Hey, what happened there?
Scribble : Oh, that's just to ensure that any vital components to this aren't being wasted. Not a big deal, just a little inactivity check.
Sonic : Hmm.
Scribble : Speaking of events... I think I'm going to do one soon.
Sonic : What do you got in mind?
Scribble : Thief event, I'll let whoever gets the kill the ability to plunder an item from the victim.
Sonic : Hmm, I think the Stealth Heroes could make the best use of that.
Scourge grabbed the Sigil Destroyer from the nearby territory, and placed it on Dria's before leaving. Starline nabbed it in just about 4 seconds.
Dria: I don't think they feel like fighting anymore. Now then, it's attack time! To the dark forest!
Jeckal and Starline boarded Dria's Egg Wyvern and boosted towards Silence's zone. As Cross snatched a Sigil Destroyer from the zone between theirs and Dria's, he saw the incoming Egg Wyvern.
Cross: Team, we're finally under attack!
Whisper: What direction?
Cross: Dria's Team.
Tails: I'll get something ready.
Cross began firing at the Egg Wyvern, but his attacks weren't doing much from down on the ground, and as revenge, Dria fired shots from the claws at him. Cross would dodge these, but would only dodge by a few inches, he would purposefully do this to use his scoping eye to study the mechanical parts and look for a potential weak spot.
Sonic : What's he doing?
Scribble : Probably making a scan on the mech. Cross is supposed to be a super soldier who can carry out flawless operations because of that red eye he has. Chance's are he's gonna share the info he collects back with his team.
Cross's scan reveals that the legs could be detached with enough force, and the location of the shield generator for the cockpit, but not much else.
Cross: Team, I've found some weak points on the mech Dria has. It's legs can be detached without too much hassle, and a shield generator is located up front, near the jaw mechanism.
Silence: I know you're just trying to help, but i could've told you that. Heck, i know that we can detach the jaw.
Whisper: He would know, he's fought that mech before.
Tails: Can you do anything from your position?
Cross: I'm being pinned down by fire from the mech. It seems to be heading to the center of the woods.
Silence: Looking for our Turf Hex no doubt.
Suddenly, a explosive shot disorients the Egg Wyvern. It responds with a wind blast, sending Whisper flying out of the woods.
Scribble : Well, I hope they have something prepared. If not that mech will continue to cause havoc.
Sonic : I think they can handle it. They all understand its weakness, now all they have to do is execute. Plus I wouldn't worry to much about the Hex, I'm sure Tail's already planned for that.
As the Egg Wyvern approaches the Turf Hex, a couple dart traps fire up at it. They do nothing.
Starline: For a genius, he doesn't seem to know that darts do nothing to metal.
Dria: That was a test. His real weapon is- Right there!
As Starline and Jeckal look around, a cannon emerges from the woods. It fires a massive laser, and with Dria not willing to risk the wings or possible critical joints, she faces the attack head on. Thankfully, the laser only destroys the front of the upper and lower jaw and drains half the mech's health, and the cannon subsequently explodes.
Tails: Oh no! The cannon critically overheated!
Dria: With that out of the way, let's try something new.
Dria activates the cloud and wind vents, causing a wind barrier to form directly in front of the approaching Whisper and Cross and surrounding the interior of the woods.
Whisper: That's no good. This wind barrier cannot be entered or escaped.
Cross fires into it, and while the shot goes through, it doesn't even form a hole and completely misses the Egg Wyvern.
Cross : I don't like to be flashy all too much, but I guess I'll have to make an exception.
Cross would reach into his toolbelt pocket an pull out three spiky black balls that fit between his fingers.
Cross : They might look small, but they pack a punch.
Cross would throw the tiny bombs up and take aim waiting for the right time to shoot and set off all three. Inside the wind barrier meanwhile, Tails attempted to reach the machine with flight, but is nonchalantly shot down by the Egg Wyvern.
Dria: Alright, someone draw out Silence so we can do this safely.
Jeckal jumps down, landing near the Turf Hex, and looks around the area for anyone. Up above in the trees, Silence waits to blow up the person who actually has the Sigil Destroyer.
Silence:(How can i destroy that Egg Wyvern in a timely fashion? This attack won't stop until it's stopped.)
Cross would then fire off multiple shots at once from three of his fingers towards his mini bombs, causing a bright flash of blinding light to appear in front of him and Whisper.
Cross : I hope that at least did something to the barrier. Those bombs can each blast through titanium like nothing, and that's the last of them too.
Because it's made of clouds and intense winds, the barrier does not falter.
Whisper: That barrier can't be broken. I tried. Nor can holes be made in it, even temporarily. You managed to shoot through it, but that didn't create a hole, much less one to fit us through.
Cross : Really? If it can constantly generate a barrier like that then we're gonna need something that slips into it rather than disabling it. Do you think a Chaos Emerald could work for that? I've heard they can control time and space. I know you have one, you know how to use it?
Scribble : This is actually really funny.
Sonic : Hm? How come?
Scribble : There's a certain race that exists within a few different timelines. In most of them they go extinct, but some prosper or have a few survivors. I was just thinking because that species would've probably been able to deal with the barrier, well, maybe the royal bloodline at least.
Sonic : What do you mean?
Scribble : The royal bloodline of these things called "Sky Foxes", they are born with the ability to manipulate clouds and weather. Being said, if one had more or equal control over it as the mech they could probably cause that thing to be useless. That's why its so funny, just think of what outcomes would've played out with different allies.
Whisper: You have a Chaos Emerald as well, right? You might be able to use it as well.
Cross : Yeah, problem is I got no clue how to use it, I know he said we would have full access to "Chaos Control" without any former experience but that doesn't mean I know how to command it. I was trying to see if you had any ideas or if we could use the two together.
Tails: I may be able to help. With Chaos Control, you may be able to go through the wind barrier. While I've never used it myself, I've seen that Sonic and Shadow yell "Chaos Control!" and presumably teleport to wherever they wanted to end up.
Meanwhile, inside the wind barrier, Tails is hiding out, ready to trigger a variety of traps surrounding the base. Silence stays in the treetops, hiding below the canopy to hide from Dria's sweeping looks, but above the forest floor in the trees to hide from the ground fighters. Starline jumps down using Flight mode to slow his fall, and then suddenly uses Speed, then punches the tree Silence was on with Power, knocking the stealthy leader down. 
Starline: Clever, really, but ultimately expected in this zone. You intend to strike now, Mr Prower? 
Jeckal: Dria! Fry this coward!
Dria: Fine.
Dria fires at Silence with both wing turrets and claw fired shots, halving his health in a instant before he jumps behind a tree. Tails activates the traps in the area, but Starline and Jeckal comfortably avoided them with knowledge of their locations and reaction time respectively.
Cross : (Tch! I'll just have to try, this thing better work off what I want.)
Cross would lift his arm in the air and yell...
Cross : Chaos Control!!
Nothing would happen...
Cross : Well, it was wor-
Cross would then be transported beyond the wind barrier. The bar on the side of his interface depleting because of this.
Cross : Never mind.
Whisper replicates the move, and also ends up on the other side.
Cross : I don't think we've been noticed yet, we should probably attack from different sides. I'll take the opposite position. We're gonna try to blow away the generator. I'm gonna accumulate energy enough to push it forwards, I want you to be ready to strike and destroy the generator. If you have any other suggestions we could do then say it now.
Whisper: The underside is too armored. Besides, if you can get me up there, i can simply disable the shield by force, should the jaw be broken.
Cross : The blast from Tails destroyed a good part of it, sounds quicker, We'll go for that. I can get you up there.
Cross would hold out the Chaos Emerald to use the Chaos Energy left within his meter. This in turn would charge up a good amount of energy to his hands.
Cross : I'm not one for using the entire palm, but it's good for an explosive force. Grab on, I should be able to boost us up to their with this two handed blast.
Cross would bed down, palms to the floor and glowing radiant with energy. As Whisper grabs on, he boosts straight towards the Egg Wyvern, landing just above it and touching down on the jaw.
Dria: What the?
Dria fires the wing turrets at Cross and Whisper. Meanwhile, Starline places the Sigil Destroyer, before socking Tails in the face when he zooms in in a attempt to take it, sending him back into the woods.
Scribble : Looks like things are really intensifying here. Will the Stealth Heroes defeat the mech and save their hex in time? or will Team Tarot ultimately take the turf and finish off Stealth Heroes?
As Cross and Whisper dodge the wing turrets, Whisper makes it to the front of the machine. Cross, meanwhile, charges a high intensity shot, before shooting it at the jaw, breaking it. Whisper subsequently smashes it aside, which forces Dria to flail in a attempt to throw them off.
Dria: Get off me! I mean, my machine!
Sonic : I don't know. Sure, the mech seems like it's gonna be taken down. But if they don't get that Sigil Destroyer its over.
Scribble : True, Starline is guarding it as well while the others are distracted.
Cross and Whisper are thrown off the mech, and Jeckal begins attacking them with cover fire from the Egg Wyvern.
Cross : We need to try that again, I'll try to see what I can do about Jeckal. We also need to prioritize our Hex, who do we have down there?
Tails: If you can continue to divert attention, me and Silence can handle Starline.
Silence: I just need a opening, and then i can finish this.
Scribble : Hold on, looks like they might very well break through in the end.
Silence fires the Silencer at Starline, blowing up under his feet. Silence then revealed himself and fired again, which Starline dodged. Seeing that Silence just wanted to lure him, he stayed around the Sigil Destroyer. Seeing as that didn't work, Tails bursted out of the woods and spindashed Starline. After the rebound, Starline was shot by Silence in the chest, killing him.
Jeckal: Huh? What the-
Jeckal then witnesses Tails taking the Sigil Destroyer after about 1 minute and 54 seconds of uptime. Cross would take Jeckals moment of distraction to fire three shots, each would ricochet off the mech and onto secondary shots Cross had fired all three hitting Jeckal.
Cross : Don't get distracted now. I'm sure you would be mad if you got sent home early.
Jeckal: I do in fact mind, because i'm starting to have some fun with this!
Jeckal subsequently barreled into Cross, killing him quickly. He tried the same thing with Whisper, but was knocked aside by a Cube blow. Didn't save Whisper from the Egg Wyvern though. Jeckal and the Egg Wyvern then chased down Tails, who was using the cover of the forest to hide from the two of them.
Scribble : Looks like ever since the leaderless event Jeckal's been letting loose a bit more, let's see how long that enthusiasm keeps up.
Scribble would then press a button on his control panel that had a robber icon on it.
Speakers (Scribble) : Initiating new event! The Thief Event is now active, you can now steal an item off of other players and contestants after killing them, you are only allowed to steal one thing per kill. I advise you use this to get powerful resources and artifacts from other players. This event will last until next Intermission.
Dria: Really? Right after we had eliminated Chaos Emerald holders?
Jeckal: Where is Tails?!
Team Magic
Erazor: Srish, i have a new plan.
Srish: Does it have anything to do with attacking the Sol Defenders?
Erazor: How'd you guess?
Srish: I want a Mk II Wispon, let's do it.
Scourge : Sounds good to me, I think I'll try snagging that emerald off of Blaze.
Team Magic charge in to attack Team Sol Defenders, minus Merlina. Meanwhile, Team Sol Defenders, who had snagged three Sigil Destroyers, looks at the attacking Team Magic.
Alan: What are they...! The Thief Event, of course! Team, get ready for a attack!
Hammer: What could they want?
Jet: Our items and Chaos Emeralds of course!
As Scourge runs in, Blaze Flame Boosts into him, with Alan jumping in to help.
Alan: Delay Team Magic as long as you can, team! We need to stay alive!
Scourge would be taken by surprise at first, losing a point of health but he would soon regain his bearings and begin to run forwards, boosting into Blaze, creating a clash of speed.
Scourge : You think your fast? Let's see!
Scribble : OH! This must be one of those cultured references!
Sonic : What?
Scribble : Sonic, quick! Press A and B!
Sonic : What're you talking about man?
Scribble : You wouldn't get it...
As Alan witnesses the Sonic Rush-esque clash, he steps to the side and fires Lightning claws at Scourge, shocking him. Blaze uses the opportunity to beat down on him, before killing him. Alan is subsequently blindsided by Erazor, who knocks him into Blaze.
Erazor: Finally! Shame i can't use the Flame of Judgement here, but i can still take revenge!
Alan: Shut up!
As Alan starts fighting Erazor, Blaze is stopped from assisting him by Mephiles.
Scribble : Look at that, Mephiles against Blaze could be interesting.
Sonic : Why's that?
Scribble : Well, it was always pretty cool how in most timelines Blaze sealed Iblis inside of her, and you know Mephiles and Iblis are two parts of the same equation. But that doesn't really matter at all for this one, It's just both of them have Chaos Emeralds, and I mean. Mephiles kinda, like to make donuts out of people with Chaos lasers when he has an emerald. Though I'm sure Blaze is no stranger to anything like that. It will just be interesting to see, I think Blaze is gonna need a hand if things get serious though, but we will see.
Sonic : By the way, when do I get to jump in? I'm getting antsy.
Scribble : After next Intermission.
Sonic : Sweet. What event?
Scribble : Treasure Hunt event, i'm gonna turn the center into a ocean with island where you can find treasure.
Meanwhile, Blaze was dodging crystal attacks from Mephiles.
Blaze: Give it up!
Mephiles: No! With your Chaos Emerald, I will be so much stronger!
At the same time, Alan was going sword slice for Quake slice with Erazor.
Alan: Oh stop this!
Erazor: No! I will have vengeance for the embarrassment you foisted upon me!
Alan: You were after Jet, it was your own fault!
Erazor: You know, maybe. But that does not matter anymore.
Alan then uses his Mk II Wispon's special function, and Lightning whips Erazor, knocking him down.
Alan: Mk II Wispons are the best!
Srish: Yeah, i know.
Srish fires at Alan, knocking him aside, As Alan fires back with Lightning shots, Erazor gets back up, and stabs Alan in the back, killing him. As his Thief gain, he claims the Mk II Wispon, but it just falls on the ground.
Erazor: What?
Srish: Mk II Wispons are ours and ours alone. Perhaps only us leaders can keep stolen ones.
Srish then attempts to pick up the Mk II upgrade, but Hammer suddenly attacks, slashing both Erazor and Srish aside.
Hammer: Alan was just to soften you up. Now i'm gonna take you two out!
With Scourge
Scourge : I can't believe I got ambushed in the middle of that... Maybe I've been having too much fun, I think it's time I take it all a bit more serious. Now lets see... Yeah! They have Jet and Blaze, probably the fastest ones with her flames boosting her and that... I think he called it an extreme gear? I need one of those... Anyways, I'll take one of them, maybe both. If I do that it's bound to make them follow me and I'll make em' chase me while the team takes care of the others, then after they destroy the sigil! I'll crush them both! That'll show them who the king of this war really is and who's the fastest!
Scourge would then zoom off back towards the confrontation making shortcuts here and their.
Sonic : Seems like he has a plan.
Scribble : I think it's a pretty dumb one, I'm sure Jet might take the bait but Blaze is pretty smart, I doubt she would fall for that, even if she did he would still have to deal with her fireballs, not to mention her Chaos Control.
Sonic : Yeah, good point.
Scribble : Either he's dumb or he really thinks he can pull it off.
Sonic : He did say something about getting serious.
Scribble : Yeah well, his ego is probably gonna take over halfway through.
Back with Hammer, he was fighting on two fronts while defending the Mk II Wispon upgrade. Between blocking Erazor's slashes, he had to deflect Srish's shots, and while he was hitting the two back, he was still struggling. Soon though, he kills Erazor, who doesn't have anything to steal. As he silently celebrates, he's blindsided by a Rhythm blast to the gut, knocking him aside, and allowing Srish to claim the Mk II Wispon. Alan then respawns, and notices Blaze reaching the top of the stairs, now fighting Mephiles on the upper levels.
Scribble : Seems like the Sol Defenders are facing some serious backlash, I've noticed that I haven't seen Jet anywhere in the fight.
As Alan rushed to support Mephiles, Team Magic heard a alert that a Sigil Defender had been placed on their turf. Over at the water turf, Jet jets away, having left a Sigil Destroyer in the region.
Mephiles: Srish?! How do we respond!
Srish: Scourge may be able to handle it.
As Mephiles is discussing the situation, Blaze manages to deal multiple hits by surprise, killing Mephiles and taking his Chaos Emerald. Suddenly though, Scourge jumps in and finishes off Blaze, before knocking Alan down to ground level, dealing a few points of damage. Over at Team Magic Base however, Merlina was being pushed away from their Turf Hex by Jet with his battle fans. Jet then places another Sigil Destroyer, causing a second alert.
Erazor: What now?
Srish: Strategic retreat. You and I both claimed what we wanted.
Erazon and Srish retreat from Team Sol Defender's base, dodging Hammer's blows on the way. Scourge, of course, ignores this.
Scourge : Finally, got one of those Chaos Emeralds! I think you wouldn't mind if I got payback for the sabotage you pulled earlier right? Come on, stand up Alan. Dance for me good and maybe I'll show you how to really use one of these emeralds!
Hammer then runs in and slashes into Scourge, who jumps back in pain and anger.
Hammer: Come on, you know i can't do this alone.
Alan: Right.
Hammer then closed the distance and attacked Scourge again. Scourge wouldn't be as easy to hit this time, ducking and sweeping hammer before using a Chaos Snap to teleport behind Alan and kick him into Hammer dealing points of damage towards both.
Scourge : What's wrong? Aren't you two supposed to be leaders in your dimension?
Scourge would then level himself a little as to try not to get caught off guard again.
Scourge : (If the cat come's out to play it could get messy, I'll probably have to use my Super Form, it'd be risky since I'm vulnerable afterwards. But I doubt these clowns alone could push me to use it, they hate each other to much to work together, I should be good if it keeps going like this.)
Scribble : Scourge is taking a big gamble, for revenge I guess? I mean it's dumb to me but whatever I guess.
Alan, out of mostly hope, uses a Chaos Spear, which Scourge dodges easily, but allows Hammer to slash him again. Scourge responds with a Spin Attack on Hammer, and kicks Alan, which he blocks, but still has to resist the knockback on, before Alan threw Laser claws at him, which he dodged, and Hammer responded with a sword enhanced Spin Attack.
Scourge : Oh?!
Scourge would respond quickly by barely catching the sword between his hands slightly burning them from the intense energy, Scourge would notice the pain as the sword began to slip through before he would ultimately redirect it and roll to the side, avoiding a potentially killing blow. Scourge would then summersault backwards to gain distance.
Scourge : Now, that wasn't too bad! Say, where's your little kitty at anyways?
Scourge then feels the ground under him heat up massively. Just in time, he jumps back, as a flame pillar erupts from where he was standing. Blaze drops in from above, floating down with her fire jets. 
Alan: Now then, every time you attempt to fight beyond your numbers, you're always pushed back. Are you gonna fight once more?
Scourge responded by spindashing, which Blaze counters. The two fight for a moment, until Scourge Chaos Controls aside. Tapping into his internal energy, he teleports behind Hammer, distracting him, before teleporting in front of Alan, and diving forwards. As Alan stands there, unable to react, Hammer shoves him aside and takes the blow. Scourge beats into him for a moment before realizing it's not Alan.
Scourge : Hm? Eh, oh well.
Scourge then finishes of Hammer, causing him to respawn. Scourge would begin to dust himself off.
Scourge : What do you say we finish this up before he returns. Who wants to be next? The cat? The human? Maybe both?
Scourge would gain a devious grin on his face before charging into a spinball.
Alan: Answer 3: Something different!
Alan unleashes a small, localized Chaos Blast on Scourge's location, draining most of his chaos meter. Blaze then fires a fireball at Scourge, who dodges it barely, but with almost no health left, Scourge flees so as to not return his stolen Emerald.
Scourge: (Curses! I had thought Hammer and Alan wouldn't work so well together. Now i have to wait until the Thief Event is over!)
As Scourge runs back to Team Magic's base, Jet flees back in a similar direction, giving Scourge a wide berth, having been driven out by Srish's return.
Scourge : Hm? Weird.
Scourge would arrive at the base.
Scourge : Alright, what's up with chicken little back there? 
Srish: He was giving Merlina the runaround while defending a Sigil Destroyer. Mephiles drove him out, but he was also defending a separate one in the water zone. I had to drive him away. 
The Team Magic Base one was up for a full minute, while the Water Zone one was up for 1 minute and 56 seconds.
Speakers (Scribble) : Limited Event! Limited Event! Bring your teams to the center zone within 10 minutes! A special event will play out involving a incredible item that members of your team can use and an can be swapped between players! King of the Hill will be the selected event! Whichever team has the most time at the top will win the "Nimue's blessed emblem" an item that can manifest or turn a players weapon into a Sacred Weapon much like the Sacred Swords themselves! Possession of the item will also give the user access to the "Soul Gauge"! Beware! Whoevers team holds this legendary item may not have access to Chaos Emeralds! Any players who win and are in possession of a Chaos Emerald will instead be given a Soul Gauge! Remember, 10 Minutes! No killing allowed in the center and don't be late! 
Alan: Eh? What in the name of? 
Merlina: I recommend we obtain it, a Sacred Weapon is incredibly powerful. 
Srish: Well, our previous plan worked to an extent, sounds like a good next step. 
Dria: Ahh great, I'm still being stalled! Forget it, abandon plan, I have a new idea. 
Jeckal reboards the Egg Wyvern, which was admittedly on it's last legs. Dria turns off the wind feed and boosts towards the center, with Silence secretly following them as his team stays behind. Alan also goes for the center, with Srish running towards it using Hover. Soon, all five arrive at the center, and Dria reactivates the wind feed, locking them all in there. 
Alan: Oy, Dria! Why are you using that flying junk pile?! 
Dria: It's no junk pile if you use it right! For instance, no one else can enter because of the windstorm I've stirred up. 
Jeckal : Didn't Cross and Whisper get in with Chaos Emeralds? 
Dria: They... did, yes. But... wait hang on, How do we get people off the hill without killing? 
Speakers (Scribble) : You can try to kill but they won't die. So don't worry. Just a lot of knockback! Seven minutes till we start. 
Alan: Wait shoot hang on. I thought the event had already started. 
Dria: Sooooo... What now? 
Silence fires the Silencer at the Egg Wyvern. Dria, anticipating the path, swerves the Egg Wyvern. 
Dria: Hey! Do that again and i'm gonna stop playing fair! 
Srish: Yeah combat! 
Srish starts firing the Beat Blasters at Alan, who counters with the Lightcutter Claws. Outside, everyone just decided to wait out the timer outside the wind barrier.
Scribble : Well this is interesting.
Sonic : Scourge looks like he's plotting.
Scribble : Yeah well I bet he wants to be king of the hill.
Speakers (Scribble) : Forgot to mention, if by some chance you do die, you will respawn in the center when the event starts. 
Alan: Like, if you die in the region, or if you die anywhere? 
Speakers (Scribble) : In the region. 
Jeckal: Right, right, how much longer until we do this thing, because i'm breaking this uneasy ceasefire if we don't do this quickly! 
Speakers (Scribble) : Fine, starting in 10 seconds. 
Ten seconds later, everyone, and i mean EVERYONE, jumped into the exclusion zone through a warp portal. The fighting began in earnest, with Jeckal jumping onto Alan and kicking him off the "hill" Alan gets up unharmed. 
Alan: Wow, no pain even. So he was correct. 
Srish: Didn't think everyone would cooperate this well. 
Mephiles: I considered tricking everyone, but might as well add some more chaos to this fight. 
Scourge : I get that this is a "Team Event" so all of us count, but let's face it. I'm the most capable here, you guys just protect me and keep me on top and we'll be fine. Even if they get past you I'll have a good time beating on whoever wants to try. After all, I'm a king. Just let me take care of Mr. Prince! 
Scourge would charge a spinball on the slope, causing him to dart upwards, he would the enter a free fall, falling back into a spinball and positioning a homing attack towards Jeckal. Jeckal responds by freezing Scourge in place with as much Phantom Energy as he could muster.
Jeckal: WHO WANTS TO DESTROY SCOURGE?!
Dria; Let's do it!
Cross: Sure
Alan: Yeah!
Jeckal then releases Scourge, who is immediately bombarded midair by three of the four teams.
Scourge : Guh! Brat!! C-Chaos Control!!!!
Amidst the attacks Scourge would deplete most of his Chaos Energy to teleport the attacked teams away from him.
Scourge : You think that stolen energy is gonna save you?! Huh?! No wonder we don't get along, Chaos and Phantom don't mix!
Jeckal would attempt to freeze Scourge but Scourge would pick up a clump of dirt faster than Jeckal could see, throwing it right into his face, momentarily blinding him.
Scourge : And don't you forget who the fastest one here is!
Scourge would then sock Jeckal in the face and pick him up by his neck.
Scourge : How about this time, we put you on the chopping block!
Scourge would proceed to throw Jeckal down the hill towards the teams he teleported away. After which Scourge would kneel and calm down from his frustration.
Scourge : Tch! That used a lot of energy. I need you guys to hurry up here, I need someone to guard me while I recover. 
Dria: No. 
Dria then shoots Scourge and his team off the hill, as Jeckal and Amy run back up it.
Scribble : Yeesh, that's gotta sting.
Sonic : Your tellin' me. 
As Jeckal and Amy almost reach the top, Jet and Srish make it first, and both attack the approaching teammates of Dria.
Scribble : Look at them, fighting over this emblem. Anything to win, you want to see it?
Sonic : Sure.
Sonic would take and put on the emblem, his right hand would be coated in a gauntlet and the sacred sword "Caliburn" would appear.
Sonic : Wow! Look at that.
Scribble : Yeah, I guess you would get that weapon from it, makes you wonder what the wispons would look like as Sacred Weapons or even what someone like Mephiles would hold.
Sonic : Now your just making me want to see it even more, what's so great about these anyways?
Scribble : You'll see. 
Mephiles then gets a idea, and summons some crystals that his teammates ride up. Meanwhile, Blaze was helping Alan and Hammer run up the hill faster.
Scourge : Ah, there's chicken little. Srish! Don't let that green turkey stay up there with you! Make sure you take em' out or I will!
Before Scourge could hop on to a crystal, he would be grabbed on his jacket from behind and thrown over. It would be Cross who would shoot the still airborne Scourge, causing him to fall back further.
Cross : Too easy.
Cross would then grab and hang on to the side of one of the growing crystals. As they near the top however, Srish shoots him off the crystal. He then shoots Blaze, who tosses Hammer and Alan forwards before taking the hit. Hammer slams into Srish, causing him to stumble back, while Alan lands inelegantly at the top. Jet then attempts to attack Srish, but Srish counters using the soundwave blast, which destroys the Type-J and knocks Jet back. As Jet lands however, a new Type-J spawns under his feet.
Jet: Sweet! My Extreme Gear can't be destroyed!
Alan: Not just that, all our items i suspect.
Dria then bombards the battlefield with the Egg Wyvern.
Speakers : The event will end in [10 Minutes] 
As Mephiles reaches the top, Srish calls on him to help reach the Egg Wyvern, which he does gladly. Up there, Srish uses his soundwave blast to throw the Egg Wyvern into chaos. Because of the invincibility, the Egg Wyvern wasn't actually hurt, but the weapon systems were temporarily disabled. From there, Merlina created a barrier in the center to push the opposing teams to the edge, which Team Sol Defenders destroyed quickly. Cross and Whisper then finally reached the top again, Following would be a familiar face.
Scourge : Stop! Shooting me!!
Scourge would then platform himself in front of Cross and Whisper.
Scourge : Alright, no more of your "Stealth Tricks". Not up here! 
Dria and Alan: NO ONE CARES! 
Team Sol Defenders and Team Tarot knock Scourge back off the hill, before Jeckal trips Alan, starting another fight. While that was happening, Blaze made it back up.
Sonic : You gotta feel bad for the guy, this just isn't his game.
Scribble : You gotta admit it is kinda funny though, pretty deserved too.
Scribble would press a button with a water drop on it.
Speakers : It will now begin to rain, the hill has become slippery and muddy. 
As Alan grumbled about the rain, he manages to grab Hammer, who had been knocked aside, and throws him back at Whisper, who had knocked him flying with a Cube blow. Cross, meanwhile, stood to the side, looking for the best person to snipe. At the same time, Starline watched the conflict from onboard the Egg Wyvern.
Scribble : Look at them, not only do they bounce, now they slide. I mean, Jeckal doesn't seem too effected, he's just turning the mud he steps on into normal dirt with his ability. 
Merlina: Form up on me! 
Team Magic join Merlina in the center, and Mephiles raises a crystal shield. 
Srish: So long as we can stay together, Scourge's bad luck won't matter. 
Scourge, somewhere buried in mud... 
Scourge : Mphhh!! Mh!! MPH!!!! 
Scourge would then pop his head from out of the ground. 
Scourge : *Huff* *Huff* Someone's talking about me... 
As Scourge thinks about that, Jeckal is thrown into him by Hammer.
Scourge : Agh! Get off me!!
Scourge would grab Jeckal and throw him off of himself, standing back up on to his feet.
Scourge : I hate this place... 
Things stabilize from there, with the teams only being able to push individual members of teams off the hill, and Scourge being consistently kept off the hill, when a new announcement sounds. 
Speakers: 5 Minutes Left. Team member count has been enabled. 
As the teams look up, Dria noticed that her team was only two members strong on the hill. Starline jumps down, and the count increases to three. 
Amy: Dria, it only counts if you're on ground! 
Dria: I can work with that. 
Scribble : Seems like Dria is gonna try to guard her team so they can keep the hill top. 
Sonic : How do you think they'll get past the mech? 
Scribble : The mech isn't as functional as it as before, I think the Stealth Heroes have the best chance of taking them down. Team Magic could also push them out if they can pair the right spells and make use of Mephiles crystals. The Sol Defenders are probably the worst off against them. Silence is probably planning something as we speak. 
Dria lands the Egg Wyvern, making her team's number equal to the rest. The other teams keep watch, waiting for things to reach fever pitch and constantly knocking Scourge aside. Soon, the challenge reaches one minute, and Team Stealth Heroes make a big play. Silence blows Team Sol Defenders aside, Whisper and Cross break through the crystal shield to push Team Magic out, and Tails starts interfering with Team Tarot.
Sonic : Wow! Your right!
Scribble : Yeah, that group is filled with patient and intelligent people. Give them time and preparation and they can make the most of anything. 
Starline, a fellow genius, manages to outmanuver Tails, and smacks him towards Amy, who knocks Tails away regretfully. Team Sol Defenders, however, is scattered, and makes a break for the top. Team Magic, meanwhile, does well in defending their position, but the attack is enough of a distraction for Dria to charge the Egg Wyvern's giant laser. As Team Sol Defenders and Scourge reach the top, the Egg Wyvern unleashes the laser, knocking everyone off the mountain. With 30 last seconds on the clock, the teams attempt to recover, but the Egg Wyvern's cannons are enough to prevent any other teams from scaling the hill, and Team Tarot wins!
Speakers (Scribble) : Team Tarot has won! All other teams will be ejected from the center, the winners may come down from the hill and collect the emblem. 
The other teams are teleported back to their respawn zones as Amy runs down and collects the emblem first, Jeckal not remembering the value in the little medal until too late.
Jeckal : Hey! Let me see it, you probably don't even know how to use it. 
Amy: Only once you promise to give it back when you've seen how it works. Someone else may use it better. 
Amy then activates the Emblem, causing her Piko Piko Hammer to become more fantasy. She also gains gauntlets.
Scribble : Hmm, that's not too unsurprising, I could see her as a Paladin. 
Starline: Could i hold it for a second. I promise to return it. 
Amy, slowly hands over the Emblem. Starline puts it on, and his scientific gloves become gauntlets, with the Tricore being a part of the gauntlets instead of just attached. His spurs also become more fantasy and a bit glowy. 
Starline: Fascinating... 
Starline then hands the Emblem back.
Jeckal : Let me see.
Jeckal would swoop in and snatch the emblem as Starline returned it. He would put on the emblem and a gauntlet with a sword would appear from his left hand.
Jeckal : I don't even know how to use this.
Jeckal would take off the emblem and give it back to Amy.
Scribble : Was that Clarent? Interesting.
Sonic : Clarent?
Scribble : Ah, yeah. You probably don't even notice it but, that's the old rusty sword you started with in the knight world.
Sonic : Really? How, that looks nothing alike.
Scribble : Well, that's just how it actually looks, yours was just in it's worst possible condition. All of it's power drained and sealed, it's actually the sister sword to Excalibur. It's also called the Sword of Peace. It's demonic in nature.
Sonic : Really? That's insane.
Scribble : Yeah well, we won't be seeing that again seeing Jeckal's ignorance. 
As Amy reactivates the Emblem, the Egg Wyvern is blown up by a powerful energy blast, causing the windstorm to fade and Cyberspace's separation field to reappear. Outside, Cross watches as this happens, having fired the blast.
Jeckal : One of those snipers... We heading back? I'm getting bored and want some music. 
Dria: It's time to evacuate! 
Team Tarot runs out of Cyberspace and back to their base. As they do, the hill falls into the cyberspace void.
Cross : They're gone, no more mech though. I've done enough, better get back to Silence. 
Silence: Yeah, i heard you from here. Hey, hang on a second. We bought turrets for our base, right? Why didn't they work? 
Team Sol Defenders 
Alan: How did i just realize... The turrets weren't working! 
Scribble : Oh, they just noticed. This is hilarious, turrets are just automatic weapons, wonder why they didn't think to look for an ammunition compartment. 
Sonic : I don't get it. I thought they would come with that? 
Scribble : Eh. 
Team Stealth Heroes 
Tails: I've found the issue. The ammo is apparently not infinite. 
Silence: The purchasing info said nothing-gak, SCRIBBLE! 
Scribble : This group is very entertaining. 
Team Magic 
Srish: Where's Scourge? 
Erazor : Last I seen he was propped on a large crystal. 
Srish looks out across the crystalline land to see Scourge sitting near the Turf Hex, atop a crystal. Srish rushes down, and as he arrives, he notices Scourge looked disheartened.
Scourge : Stupid war... Stupid son...
Scourge would rip off a chunk of the crystal he was on an throw it out into the distance in anger.
Scourge : I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU!!!! Why is this happening?! I'm being outclassed by these rats?! I refuse to follow or work under the orders of these chumps!
Scourge would hop off the crystal and run off.
Srish: What’s he doing? He knows that fighting alone never ends well for him, right? He’s still one hit away from death too! 
Erazor : Forget him, he will make his return either by death or to recover. 
Srish: Isn’t the Thief event still up? He stole a Chaos Emerald, right? He should know his current weakness and the risks. Bah. 
Srish then runs into Cyberspace to get items.
Scribble : Seems like Scourge is going rogue.
Sonic : Isn't that kind of dumb though? I mean, I completely agree with what Srish said, it's too reckless.
Scribble : Well, he still has a Chaos Emerald. He can use it to heal, besides that with a full meter he can use a super form for a short time as long as his chaos energy meter is full due to his unique traits. But if he has to fight more than one person its probably game over for him.
Sonic : Yeesh. 
Scourge runs into Team Tarot’s base, finding them workshopping a new plan. He uses the element of surprise to smash into them all, before stopping and going Super.
Scourge (Super) : Did you miss me?!
Scourges hand would start to illuminate with Chaos Energy, almost appearing like blue flames before clasping his hand together and onto the ground, engulfing the area in an explosion and flames. Team Tarot runs from the explosion, but as it ends, they get blindsided by Super Scourge.
Scourge (Super) : You’re gonna pay for humiliating me during that game!
Jeckal: THAT’S IT!
Jeckal snatches the Emblem, assuming that while he didn’t understand it, it would still help, then charged in alone to kill Super Scourge.
Amy: Oh come on!
Dria: We need to help him before he’s taken out! 
Jeckal would summon Clarent to his hand as he went in to strike, Scourge would dodge the mid air strike and go in for a jab, when he did Jeckal would block it with the sword. This created a rippling effect that for a moment destabilized Scourges form. 
Scourge (Super) : What just happened?! Whatever. 
Scourge would reel back in, grabbing Jeckal by his leg and throwing him towards Starline. Starline responds by catching Jeckal with one hand in power mode, taking the Emblem with another, then throwing him back at Scourge, who dodges instead. Amy then runs in and jumps to hit the floating Scourge, but just before she hits and while Scourge dodges, Starline uses his Warp Topaz to warp Amy to just behind where Scourge dodges to, allowing Amy to hit him down to ground level. Starline attempts to capitalize with an electric spur overhead hit, but Scourge dodges at the last moment. Scourge attempts to grab Starline’s leg, but Starline taps into the Soul Gauge and spins around his trapped spur into Scourge, before pulling his spur out. As Scourge attempts to counter, Starline clashes every blow, filling the Soul Gauge, until Jeckal takes the Emblem back and knocks Scourge back.
Scourge (Super) : Man! I actually felt those. I wonder though, that Topaz you got seems pretty sweet! I want it.
Scourge would turn to Jeckal, who would be coming up behind him with the Clarent. Scourge would dodge this with a smug expression.
Scourge (Super) : I'll remember to watch out for that emblem-
Before Scourge could finish his sentence, the sword would begin glowing, being surrounded by Phantom Energy and unleashing a powerful shock wave towards Scourge, flinging him back into a metallic wall and making a hole in it.
Scourge (Super) : Gah... I hate that thing...
Scourge would then pick himself up from the ground, and notice the time limit for his form running out, it was now left on 15 seconds.
Scourge (Super) : Tch! I won't make that mistake I made against Sonic. (Gotta be a good way out of here.) 
As Scourge attempts to flee, Starline uses Speed to get to him and kick him back into the fight. Dria then actually gets to do something, shooting Scourge out of his super form. Midair, Scourge homing attacks Starline, and jumps off of his counter to get clear of the city. As he retreats though, he’s sniped from across the map by Cross.
Scourge : Agh! What?!
Scourge would take out his Chaos Emerald, attempting to heal himself with it. This does not work as his Super Form consumed all of his meter. Leaving Scourge with a hole on his side.
Scourge : (I can't get hit again or I'm finished. Who even shot me?)
Scourge would put his pride aside and hide himself within one of the nearby cyber parlors, communicating to his team in distress.
Scourge: Team! I need some help!
Srish: You just got shot! How are you not dead?!
Scourge: I held on with my Chaos powers ok? Help!
Merlina: I’m coming!
Merlina charged in, flanked by Srish. As they did, Scourge had to dodge Cross’s continuing attacks.
Scourge : Ha! Hn!
Scourge would slide, duck and jump. Heading towards a building doorway, before he could reach it Cross would shoot at it causing it to be blocked by rubble.
Scourge : You serious?!
Scourge would notice another shot due to the slight shimmer in the distance, luckily barely dodging the shot. Scourge's Chaos Meter would slowly be filling throughout this survival game.
Scourge : Tch! Not enough yet. 
With Srish's help, Merlina reaches Scourge, and using a shield spell, Merlina blocked more shots from Cross 
Merlina: Follow me. I'll get you back to base. 
Scourge : Right. 
Scourge would get up and follow Merlina's guidance. He would be taken back to base. Just as he arrived though, Mephiles kills him, suffering light damage, but claiming the Chaos Emerald for himself. 
Merlina: What did you-!?
Mephiles: He was low on health, and the Thief event is still on. Better i take it than another team does.
Erazor: Scourge will not think of it that way. 
Scourge, soon after respawning would dart back over to the group. Eye's filled with anger. 
Scourge : Hey!! What's the big idea, Diamondhead!? what do you think your doing?! Huh?! Want to fight?! 
Scourge would by now be in Mephiles face, gritting his teeth in anger, eye's twitching in fury.
Mephiles: Listen to me. The Thief Event is still up. You were one hit away from death, and it would've taken too long to recover. Better i take the Emerald then another team does. 
Scourge : Huh!? And what is a goth version of Shadow like you gonna do?! What could you possibly need it for?! 
Mephiles: A bit like you, i can use a semi-super form with these two Chaos Emeralds. 
Scourge would gain a shocked expression, going from mad to intrigued. 
Scourge : Really? Explain yourself, this is the first time you've mentioned it. I bet i'm not the only one interested now. 
Mephiles: Before now, it didn't matter, but since you demand it, In my semi-super state, i can use powerful light blasts and clone myself thousands of times over. The clones are weak though. 
Scourge : Hmm. That doesn't sound too bad. I guess it's useful for what we're trying to do. I don't have anymore ideas on my part, so I'll hear you guys out for what you plan to do next. 
Erazor then notices Tails nearby. 
Erazor: Team, the fox is here. 
Srish: Tails alone? 
Merlina: No, Silence is there too. 
Srish: What are they doing? 
Scourge : Does it matter? If they're here then they wanna take our home turf. I'm gonna check it out, stay here and watch just in case something happens. 
Scourge would then sneak around onto a tree, observing Tails. 
Scourge : Wonder where Silence is. What's the fox doing? 
Tails: Alright, the scanner leads here. This crystal is the place. 
Silence: Great. Let's check this place out. 
As Scourge watches, Tails and Silence touch the crystal, entering the Core Room. Blaze, who was watching the curious behavior, also saw it. Alan then walks up to her, bored. 
Alan: What did you see? 
Blaze: Silence and Tails touched a crystal at Team Magic's base and disappeared! 
Alan: Huh, weird. 
Scourge would jump off the tree and head back towards his team. 
Scourge : They went into a crystal and entered some weird place, there might be secrets on the map. Clearly they're using it to try to get an advantage on us. If they come back out from that crystal I say we set up an ambush. Then we can use those things ourselves. Tails, seems to have a device that helped him find it, we could steal it! 
Srish: Wait, incidentally, where is that crystal? 
Scourge brings them there, and Srish touches the crystal as well, also entering the Core Room. Just as Team Magic was about to react, Alan and Jet run in and also touch the crystal, teleporting.
Scribble : Seems like everyone's finding out about the Core Room's existence, I'll have to swap its location soon then. 
In the Core Room itself, Silence and Tails were attempting to discern the purpose of every machine when Srish jumps in, followed by Alan and Jet. 
Srish: What is this place? 
Alan: I was about to say that! 
Jet: But no, seriously, what is all this? 
Tails: Silence? 
Silence: I don't know if we should fight. 
Scourge : Can we even fight? 
Scribble (Core Room Speakers) : Nope, its a safe zone. Wouldn't want you damaging the equipment. 
Scourge : So this is one your little secrets? How come the brat knew about this place? 
Scribble (Core Room Speakers) : Because he found it, obviously. If you want to know what this is for ask the fox. 
Tails: I'm afraid this will have to remain a secret. 
Alan and Srish: Fine then, I'll find out myself! 
Alan and Srish run past Tails and Silence and interact with all the machines, until Srish finds the one activated by a Mk II Wispon. He activates it, and the machine displays a popup. 
Srish: "Respawn Treasure." But of course i'm saying Yes! 
As Srish hits Yes, Alan finds and activates the machine requiring a Chaos Emerald. 
Alan: Wow, look at all these settings. Let's see, this is the atmosphere controls? So i can mess with the elements of the entire region, or singular zones... I know! Let's pump Power Energy into my city! 
Alan adds safe amounts of Power Energy to the City Zone's air supply, before turning off the machine. He and Srish played the claw machine game, both being warped out from the other's perspectives. 
Silence: Ok then. 
Tails: We gotta leave and get some treasure! 
Jet: Not before i do! 
Everyone else grabs a prize and leaves.
Scribble : Alright, time to swap its location.
Scribble would then push a button, causing the secret rooms location to change. As he did that, everyone who was in the room arrived back where they should be and broke open their prize, 30 Energy Crystals.
Alan: It has been too long. Let's buy more items.
Alan heads off to the center zone.
Speakers (Scribble) : You have Fifteen minutes until the third intermission begins! Your hint for the next intermission is: "Nightmare". Until then make sure you finish any tasks you may have left on your agenda. 
Alan arrives at the center zone and with 300 of the team's 321 energy crystals, buys a Energy Armor: Lightning. He then remembers there's treasure to be had, and quickly finds a chest, which holds the Dragoon Sigil. As he dashes for another chest, Srish gets to it right before him, and obtains the Team Item: Rubber Band. In frustration, Alan shows off the power of the Energy Armor, almost zapping Srish. 
Srish: What? What even is that? 
Alan: Energy Armor, allows me access to powers similar to Energy Mode for the Lightning Wisp. What's yours? 
Srish: Rubber Band... Says it makes us faster the farther we are from our base. 
Testing this, Srish runs away from Alan. Alan chases after him.
Sonic : That seems pretty cool. I'm gonna be up next though right?
Scribble : Yes, Scourge will return here soon.
Sonic : What did you mean by "Nightmare" by the way?
Scribble : Dark Gaia. I think this center event will be very fun. I actually plan for this event in particular to have its own special set of events.
Sonic : Yeah? Mind telling me?
Scribble : Of course, Gaia Temple Event, Lycan Event, Fractured Turf Event and a secret Boss Event.
Sonic : Neat, Srish down there is really picking up speed though! 
Alan: I've got a speed upgrade AND my Extreme Gear! How are you outpacing me?! 
Srish: This little item is pretty good! 
Alan: Item... ITEM! 
Alan looks over to see Starline and Dria taking the other two treasures, Dria getting her Mk II Wispon, and Starline getting 5 Electric Bombs. 
Srish: Hah! 
Alan finally catches up, and smashes Srish against one of the buildings in Dria's city. 
Alan: Game's over buddy! 
Srish counters with a shockwave blast, knocking Alan off his feet. As he's about to attack though, Alan strikes him with lightning, and Srish retreats.
Scourge : Hm?
Scourge would notice Srish speeding towards him.
Scourge : When did he get so fast? Hey! Srish! 
Srish: To answer the obvious question, I got us a Team Item, making us faster the farther we are from our base. 
Scourge : Huh. I guess that makes sense. Anyways I'm leaving the team after this intermission. 
Speakers (Scribble) : Ten Minutes. 
Back with Team Sol Defenders, Alan rides back in on the Dragoon Sigil. 
Hammer: I saw that attack! What was that? 
Alan: Energy Armor. Allows the wearer permanent access to the power of a Energy form, in my case, Lightning. 
Jet: I want one! 
Alan: It will take time, these things are expensive. 
With Team Tarot 
Amy: Has anyone checked on that Chaos Drive Generator? 
Starline checks and finds 30 Chaos Drives.
Jeckal : Seem's like we have a good bunch. Anyone got any ideas on what "Nightmare" means? Frankly I'm not afraid of anything so I don't have them. 
Dria: Maybe something about nightmare creatures? 
Starline: Darkness will be part of it, probably. 
Amy: Darkness... Nightmares... 
Amy pulls out her fortune cards and spreads them, before pulling up three. She pales at the result. 
Amy: It's Dark Gaia! 
Dria: Yes, yes that makes sense! How'd you figure it out? 
Amy: Back before Dark Gaia awakened, i pulled the same cards. With how Scribble is, it's unlikely to be a coincidence. 
Starline: Fortune cards are merely suggestions. The answer is logical, but the methods used to find it is flawed. 
Dria: So we'll be facing Dark Gaia monsters... good to know. 
Speakers (Scribble) : Five Minutes! 
Mephiles: Do we do anything, Srish? 
Srish: Not yet. 
Scourge would begin to glow, slowly fading away. 
Scourge : Wha!? Oh, this feels too weird. 
Srish: Well, bye bye Scourge. 
Erazor: We're going to need to restrategize with him gone from our team. 
Mephiles : True, even though he was reckless he acted as a good way to buy us time to do things. Merlina, do you have any magic we could use to trick our enemies? Like illusions? Distractions would allow us to infiltrate that much easier. 
Merlina: I am sorry. I do not specialize in illusion magic. I could summon a army with the scabbard of Excalibur, but i am never touching that cursed relic ever again. 
Srish: Plus, if my memory is correct, it was comparable in power to a Super Form, so not in this balanced game. 
Mephiles : How about you Erazor? I have my clone's but that uses a good amount of energy. 
Erazor: I can feel Scribble has limited my power. I doubt i could summon any minions, and I've never used illusion magic. 
The barriers from the beginning lower again, starting the intermission.
Speakers (Scribble) : The third intermission has begun, A voting prompt entailing three option will appear in front of you, any ongoing events will end as a result and anything earned from them will remain. The center zone will be changing due the the new world event "Nightmare", Dark Gaia will be within the center of the center zone, within the center zone Big Mothers, Titans, Evil Flowers, Dark Eels and Spikes. Nightmares, Deep Nightmares, Little Rex, Frights, Dark Bats, Killer Bees and Masters will spawn everywhere in the map, even on your own turf. There will also be Gaia Temples around the map which contain a piece of Light Gaia's Bracelet, at each of these Temples lie a guardian: Dark Moray, Dark Phoenix, Dark Guardian, Auto-Egg Dragoon, Auto-Egg Beetle, Auto-Egg Devil Ray and finally the elusive Dark Reaper! You all may not know of this one, it exists in a future timeline where Dark Gaia is reborn and stronger than ever. To conclude this announcement there will be a unique set of votes within this round, each having unique effects, who knows? You may even unleash something you never knew! Hehe... With that set in place, take this 15 Minute Intermission to plan the next stages of your war with your new resources and experiences! 
Srish: Quick status update, i lost track, what items do we have again? 
Team Magic Intercom (Scribble) : You have "Rubber Band", "Chaos Emerald", "Chaos Emerald", "Mk II Wispon", "Sigil Destroyer", "Sigil Destroyer". 
Jeckal: Hey team, think i heard something. 
Starline: What? 
Jeckal: Sounded like... i dunno, a item list. 
Dria: Let me test something. Hey Scribble, what Items does Team Tarot have? 
Team Magic Intercom (Scribble) : You have "Rubber Band", "Chaos Emerald", "Chaos Emerald", "Mk II Wispon", "Sigil Destroyer", "Sigil Destroyer". 
Dria: Why didn't it work? 
Amy: I heard the Team Magic intercom repeat itself, HEY SCRIBBLE! YOUR INTERCOMS DON'T WORK! 
Scribble : ... What, I could've sworn that was the button for Team Tarots intercom. 
Scribble would turn around to see Scourge snickering in the corner and bursting into laughter. 
Scourge : HAH! The look on your face!! ITS PRICELESS!!! 
Scribble : ... What did you do? 
Scourge : Nothing... Hehe. 
Scribble would flick Scourge out of the room and all the team would watch as he burst into green fireworks, eventually respawning in the room. 
Scourge : ... 
Scribble would recreate his button desk. 
Scribble : Alright. 
Team Tarot Intercom (Scribble) : You have "Electric Bomb", "Electric Bomb", "Electric Bomb", "Electric Bomb", "Electric Bomb", "Super Shield", "Warp Topaz", "Mk II Wispon", "Nimue's Blessed Emblem", "Drive Constructor". 
Whisper: You hear that? Sounds like a item list. 
Silence: Could be good to keep a eye on things. Scribble, what items do we have? 
Team Stealth Heroes Intercom (Scribble) : You have "Communicator", "Core Room Locater", "Chaos Emerald", "Chaos Emerald", "Damage Upgrade", "Turrets", "Sigil Destroyer". 
Blaze: Alan, the other teams have discovered a way to check their items. 
Alan: Why let that opportunity go? What items do we have, Scribble? 
Team Sol Defenders Intercom (Scribble) : You have "Energy Armor (Lightning)", "Extreme Gear", "Chaos Emerald", "Chaos Emerald", "Speed Upgrade", "Turrets", "Sigil Destroyer". 
Alan: Wait, that's incorrect. We also have that Healing Aura. How'd you forget that? 
Sonic: There's a Chaos Emerald missing too! All seven were collected, where's the seventh? 
Scribble : Mmmm. Yes, the one Amy collected. Usually I don't have to use my own memory for these kinds of things. 
Scourge would walk out of the room before any looks could be given. 
Scribble : Eh, oh well. Seems like everybody has it just about figured out. 
Alan: Anyways, what next? 
Speakers (Scribble) : Due to the uh... Mistake in info, I will give you all a present. In your zone's a nightmare should appear, these nightmares a orange and friendly, they will sell you special items made from dark gaia (Energy). You can buy these now with your current currency, when the round starts however you will need gaia coins from defeating nightmares. Please view their shops and plan out the next stages of the war, Intermission ends in 5 Minutes. 
Alan: Ok, let's see... Dark Dragoon, 150 energy crystals, Dark Hero, 100 energy crystals, Dark Gaia Scent, 50 energy crystals, Dark Minion, 10 energy crystals, Dark Elite, 50 energy crystals, Dark Boss, 100 energy crystals, Pool of Nightmares, 200 Energy Crystals, Dark Walls, 125 Energy Crystals, and Dark Gaia Alliance for free? 
Jet: What does all of that mean? 
Hammer: Dark Dragoon and Dark Hero are likely upgrades for us, Dark Minion, Elite and Boss are probably summons- 
Blaze: Pool of Nightmares and Dark Walls are for our base, and maybe Dark Gaia Scent drives off the enemy spawn. 
Alan: That leaves Dark Gaia Alliance. What is it and why is it free? 
Alan shakes the menu a little and finds descriptions. 
Alan: Ok, all of you are right and Dark Gaia Alliance says "Join Dark Gaia's army and stay safe from his minions, in turn becoming one yourself. You can respawn quickly and anywhere in your territory. Warning, You will be unable to use weapons, items of any kind, or beneficial base objects like Healing Aura, and your form will randomize each respawn." 
Hammer: So become one of those nightmare creatures for fast and mobile respawns, but lose what you have on hand? 
Blaze : I don't think it'd be wise for us to do. Me and Alan both have Chaos Emeralds, I don't think it would benefit us to not be able to use them. 
Alan: Yeah, I think we'll stay as normal. 
Meanwhile, the other teams figure out much of the same. 
Team Tarot 
Dria: What do you think? Should we take it? 
Starline: As the main holder of items, it would be more disadvantageous. 
Amy: I hate to agree with Starline, but he's right. 
Team Magic 
Erazor: Such a power could allow us to break through. 
Srish: I dunno, we still have some good items on hand. What do you think, Mephiles? 
Mephiles : I don't thinks it's wise to do. However, it could prove useful later. I think we should focus on the gaia temple's first. 
Team Stealth Heroes 
Silence: Is anyone actually considering it? 
Whisper: No. 
Tails: I'm not becoming one of those things! 
Team Magic. 
Srish: Do we even have the resources to use? 
Merlina: Actually, I've managed to stockpile energy crystals between all the chaos. Counting the rest of them from all of you, we could buy multiple of these. 
Srish checks, and between them all, they have 333 energy crystals. 
Srish: What are you all thinking? 
Erazor : I've decided upon the scent. It would be annoying to traverse the turfs being stalked by Nightmares. 
Mephiles : That's a good point. If one of the other teams were to attack we could use that to retreat and let them deal with our Nightmares, though personally I'd rather have a Dark Minion, its a good save on resources, and while it may not be powerful I'd use it to scout and gain info. I feel like it would work for info gathering on all of the teams. Maybe not Stealth Heroes... 
Merlina looks away, shivering at the thought at using the darkness at all... again. 
Srish: Well, the Pool of Darkness spawns minions aligned to our side periodically so Pool of Darkness and Dark Gaia Scent it is!
As Srish purchases the Pool of Darkness, it forms underneath the Floating Castle. 
Team Tarot. 
Dria: These items are cool, but all we have are 167 energy crystals. If we get anything, what should it be? 
Amy: I'm not sure we should be messing with this... 
Starline: The power of minions should not be underestimated. We should get enough Dark Gaia Coins first thing to get a Pool of Darkness. 
Jeckal: I don't much care what you're on about. All i know is that we have enough to buy me a Dark Hero upgrade! 
Dria: (Would he even qualify?) "I don't like the idea of putting our faith in someone who's participation fluctuates as wildly as yours." 
Starline: He is the most capable of all of us. As a guardian, his power could be incredible should he tap into it more. I'd trust him this once. 
As they debate, Team Stealth Heroes looks to see what they even still have, the prolonged fights having distracted them.
Cross : What do we have? If we have enough I'd suggest we get something Tail's could possibly make upgrades to. 
Silence: Checking... We have only 12 energy crystals. We could get a Dark Minion, but what is that worth to us? 
Cross : Hmm... In my time as a mercenary I've had to work with what I've had. Let's get it. It might be weak but we can make it stronger. If we can make it strong enough to eliminate Nightmares along with us we can easily get the funds for better things. Here's what I'm thinking, We get it, test out its capabilities with commands, see what it can do. Tails, I don't know if it's possible but maybe we engineer something for it to use. Like armor or something. Also, given our stealth tactics and long ranged fighting styles I think it would be good to have something actively out there, it would probably not be expected of our team either, so it may go unnoticed. 
Silence, acknowledging this, bought it, summoning a simple Nightmare.
Cross : Tails. You got an idea's on any upgrades we could make to this Nightmare? I'm not to sure on how to use anything around here. If not then we'll keep him here until we bring something back, maybe it could grow stronger with more energy as well? 
Tails: With all the metal left in the forest, i could probably make him into a machine! I'll start with making him some armor. 
Cross : Great. Considering were gonna have Nightmares wondering here we should probably set up traps during the intermission, that way we can get the coins easier. Whisper, mind helping me with that? 
Whisper: The dart traps are still functional. We should start there. 
Tails: You just gave me a idea! Hear me out, what if we added dart-firing gauntlets to the Nightmare? 
Whisper: I don't think they're smart enough to work them. 
Tails: Right! I didn't consider that! 
Silence: You could make them automated, like Dria's Wispon. 
Tails: The aiming mechanism in Dria's Wispon is ran by Feathers. It would take time to craft a AI that could handle it. I'll see what i can do. 
Cross : I don't know if it would help, but I know how to naturally create and produce energy from my body due to project "T.A.L.O.N.". When I'm done with these traps I could come back and help you out. I myself am slightly cybernetic, I'm sure we could find a way to let it utilize its "Dark Gaia Energy". 
Tails: Great! That would be a help, cause i never ended up researching the energy myself. 
Speakers (Scribble) : 3 Minutes! 
Tails quickly crafts a chestplate for the Nightmare, then a helmet. With so little time though, he doesn't manage to craft anything else.
Speakers (Scribble) : Let the Third and most intense round, BEGIN!!!!
The barriers around the turfs would lift, Nightmares spawning prowling around the local areas. Some teams could even see Gaia Temples in the distance if they looked hard enough. The most notable thing was the shroud of darkness which surrounded the center zone.
Alan: Team Dragoon! Let's storm the Dark Storm!
Jet: I'll... stay behind.
Blaze: We do need to keep a decent defense in our city.
Alan: We have high speed, and i have a Extreme Gear. We can go back and forth easily. Jet can stay behind, but the rest of us should be fighting Dark Gaia's forces.
Blaze decides that Alan has a point, and so most of Team Sol Defenders punch through the Dark Gaia forces within their city before entering the Dark Vortex.
Scribble : Seems like the Sol Defenders are gonna go straight to fighting the Colossal Nightmares.
Scourge : I don't blame em', who wants to fight the small fry?
Scribble : Well, if you were, per say. To get swarmed by Colossal Nightmares it could be bad. One alone is tough, two can be fatal if you don't have the battle smarts and past that will just be trying to get out alive.
Scourge : Bah! They can't be that bad. Speaking of which, when are you gonna do that voting event you mentioned in the intermission.
Scribble : Let them adjust to this new world event. Then I'll give them the "Dark Vote". 
As Team Sol Defenders enter the Dark Vortex, they adjust to the sudden wind before smashing through the tons of Dark Gaia monsters, quickly racking up the coins. Soon the group would focus their attentions on a peculiar roar. Soon, a thudding and rumbling of the ground would reveal a "Titan" in front of the group. 
Alan: Oh boy.
Alan then remembers he has his superpower. Using it, he blinds the Titan, though oddly, the Titan seems to start "dripping" the longer Alan exposes it to the light. Other Dark Gaia creatures also keep their distance. Using the distraction, Hammer cuts the Titan down, and it drops multiple Dark Gaia coins.
Blaze: The Dark Gaia creatures do not like the light.
Alan: Makes sense. They only appeared during the night. 
With the light being given off from Alan, the fog would become clearer to see through, unveiling a Gaia Temple in the distance.
Alan: Look.
Hammer: Let's check it out.
Team Dragoon run towards the Gaia Temple. Right as they reach it, Alan gets snatched up by the Auto-Egg Beetle.
Blaze: Alan!
Alan, thinking fast, creates some hardlight walls to his sides, getting him out of the Auto-Egg Beetle's grip. It also causes him to fall on his butt. As he gets back up, the Auto-Egg Beetle refocuses.
Scribble : They found a Temple. Great! The Sol Defenders are certainly a hasty bunch.
As Alan is dealing with the Auto-Egg Beetle, Egg Fighters parade from out of the temple.
Hammer: Blaze, deal with the mooks. I'll help Alan finish the fight!
As Blaze rushes off to deal with the Badniks, Hammer rushes in to deal with the Auto-Egg Beetle. Alan notices Hammer's attack and gives him a hardlight Spring while dodging missiles. Hammer uses the spring to jump atop the Egg Beetle and slash into where the Eggmobile usually goes. The Auto-Egg Beetle responds by flailing and falling. Alan uses the opening to fire a Laser shot through it, and not one second after, the Auto-Egg Beetle gets up, damaged, but nowhere near defeated. Trying a new strategy, a chain comes out of nowhere and throws Hammer into the sky, where he and the Auto-Egg Beetle land on a holo-road. Hammer is forced to start chasing the Egg Beetle as the "road" collapses.
Sonic : Heh, been there done that.
Scribble : I'm sure.
Somewhere in the distance...
Cross would finish off a Deep Nightmare, shooting it in the head with a finger gun. Soon, he would look to the center and enter his scoped mode, figuring some one might already be there.
Cross : Oh wow, they've already found a Gaia Temple. One of them is missing. With that robot in bad shape nothing I do now could give us a good advantage... But, if that robot is still a bit intact we could use the parts.
The Auto-Egg Beetle would begin to drop landmines in an attempt to trip up Hammer, while this happened it began to charge it's pincer with energy, planning to drill towards Hammer as a finishing attack. Hammer, seeing the charge, dodges past the mines and shoots the Auto-Egg Lancer, causing it to fall and slide along the path. From there, Hammer regenerates the blade and Spin Attack Slashes the center, before stabbing the center. This destroys the mech, and launched out of it comes a figure Hammer didn't recognize, along with some broken chain. With the machine destroyed, and the Egg Fighters handily handled, the holo-path swirls down until Hammer's back on ground level.
Hammer: That was weird.
Alan: With Scribble at the helm, i can't be surprised.
Team Sol Defenders enter the Gaia Temple. Upon Entering, the group would notice the age of the temple and soon would notice three doors within it, each of the Gaia Gates would have an emblem. Moon, Sun and a Star.
Gaia Temple Speakers : In front of you lie three Gaia Gates. Each one requires you to pass a Trial. The sun will have you travel to a time where the solis is high. The moon taking you to to where the luna reflects upon you. The star allowing you to see from both perspectives. The one who wishes to take the path of stars must guide the Sun and Moon, only when the eclipse has aligned will the hall be revealed. 
Alan: ALL EXPLANATIONS MUST BE IN PLAIN ENGLISH! 
Hammer: YEAH! 
Blaze heads into the Moon Gate. With nothing else to go on, Alan and Hammer enter the Sun and Star gate respectively. Blaze would be met with the the entrance of a maze, a sign in the front would say "Navigate the maze and you will be freed, watchout for what's lurking, something you will never see". On Hammers side, he would walk into a room filled with Nightmares, only being unable to get to him due the barrier placed between the two. Hammer would also have a sign to read "Defeat all your foes, no matter how mighty and mean. Watchout for the gimmicks which cannot be seen". In Alans room he would be welcomed to a desk, microphone and intercom with two buttons, one a moon and one a sun. Alan would find a note on the desk reading "The star is the guide, leading all to what's correct. Protect the sun and the moon, for you see what to expect". Alan would press the sun button, in front of him a screen would appear and show Blazes room, in it he could see the maze, but he could also see Nightmares, little did he know these Nightmares were invisible to Blaze. Next he would press the moon button, he would see Hammers room filled with Nightmares, big and small, even colossal ones. He would also see highlights of the traps that lie within the room, a bit confused as to how the Nightmares weren't activating them. Little did Alan know, this room as well had invisible things, these traps would only activate on non-Nightmares and were meant to tear down Hammer as he fought. Alan would look to the Microphone, he would see a small note on it that read "You can only talk to one room at a time ;P".
Alan: Huh.
Blaze lights flames in her hand to better see the maze, and begins navigating. With the nightmares far across the maze, Alan feels comfortable watching Hammer instead.
Alan(Intercom): Testing, testing, Hammer, can you hear me?
Hammer: Alan? How the heck-?
Alan(Intercom): Yeah it turns out that what they meant by guiding star is i have a bird's eye view of your rooms. There are traps scattered across your battlefield, but currently all of them are in front of you. 
Sonic : When were the Gaia Temples ever like that? 
Scribble : I mean. What was I gonna do? They're a team. This is but a test of teamwork! 
Scourge : Who needs that? If it was me I'd get past the temple alone. 
Scribble : Yes, and then you would be looking like a fool when you realize you need the sun and moon to press the buttons at the end of their rooms at the same time. 
Scourge would raise a finger in rebellion, only to lower it soon after. 
Scourge : Whatever... 
As Hammer fought off the Nightmares, he noticed that they were driving him forwards, which is where Alan said traps were. To counter that, he turned back. Meanwhile, Alan took a look at Blaze's cam, and found she was approaching a Nightmare. 
Alan(Intercom): This is Alan. There's a invisible monster in front of you. 
Blaze, confused but guessing that this was a matter that required immediate attention, fired a fireball forwards, which impacted against... something.
Blaze : So it's true.
Small remnants of flames would be left on the creature, Blaze would take this chance to fire a few more fireballs. Eventually the Deep Nightmare would reveal itself, soon withering away into the darkness.
Alan(Intercom): Good. If i'm reading the maze correctly, the next closest is a Nightmare in a dead end. The correct path is currently clear.
Alan swaps back to Hammer's screen, only to find he's been drawn into the middle of the traps.
Alan(Intercom): Hammer, you're surrounded by traps! If you move left a bit, your path should be clear.
Hammer: Got it.
Hammer shunts a Nightmare he'd been fighting to the left, before charging into said Nightmare, destroying it and getting away from the traps. He would soon turn to his right and see a Big Mother among the crowd of Nightmares.
Hammer: They've got a big one!
Alan(Intercom): There's nothing i can do from here, you'll have to do it yourself. 
Scribble : Hm, they seem to be able to work pretty well when separate like that. Makes you wonder how the other teams will do? 
Sonic : Will the other teams go through the same trials? 
Scribble : No, I designed each to have a different set of trials. The temple their in holds the jewel at the center of Light Gaia's bracelet. While the other Six hold fragmented parts. 
Scourge : I don't get it. If all of the teams can get parts separately then how will anyone assemble the whole thing? 
Scribble : Oh, that's simple. That free item from the Dark Gaia merchant, the one that removes your items. Yeah, that can be used to steal Light Gaia Bracelet parts. 
Sonic : Personally, I wouldn't take that even if that's the case. 
Scribble : Well, there is a chance for the Dark Gaia Guardians and Auto-Boss Badniks to drop a special accessory. 
Sonic : Hm? 
Scribble : Well, they respawn after a while to protect the temples, since they can also be used to recharge or do an item roulette after being completed. The item is "Unleashed Essence". It has a single use, but when used it can restore the downsides to the Dark Gaia pact. 
Sonic : I get it! It applies to the whole team? 
Scribble : Nope, one person per use. If you want to use it on the whole team you would need four. 
Scourge : So, what are the chances? 
Scribble : I'd say about a 1/10 chance for the bosses to drop it. They respawn every Ten Minutes. I'm sure they will catch on at some point though. 
Back with Alan, he swaps over to Blaze, who had a invisible Nightmare right behind her. Acting fast, Alan called out. 
Alan(Intercom): Nightmare right behind you! 
Blaze responds by kicking it, before burning it. Another one, meanwhile, approaches Blaze from behind, and just as Alan notices, it uses it's stretchy arms to grab Blaze, and throw her at the other Nightmare. It then hides. Blaze, of course, recovers and slams into the first Nightmare, killing it. 
Alan(Intercom): Don't bother throwing fire, the other Nightmare's hiding down the corner. 
Scribble : Seem's they've navigated about halfway through their trials. 
As Blaze fought through her maze with Alan’s guidance, Hammer was smashing aside all the Rexes that the Big Mother spawned, while getting potshots on the mother itself, until the monster reached Hammer, and attempted to eat him.
Sonic : Too bad for that nightmare, leaving its mouth open like that isn't a good idea! 
As Hammer dodges around the initial bite, the Big Mother tries again, and Hammer responds by shooting a sword blast into it. The Big Mother chokes on the Frenzy energy interacting with the Dark Gaia energy, and Hammer uses the distraction to cut the Big Mother down. With it dead, one surviving Rex poofs away. 
Hammer: Any more surprises? 
Three dark puddles would appear in front of Hammer, from one puddle a Dark Master would appear, from the next a Cure Master and form the last a Power Master. The three would point their staffs towards Hammer, the Power Master empowering the Dark Master and the Cure Master casting a spell on the Dark Master to increase its regenerative properties. The Dark Master would taunt Hammer, gesturing him to come closer. Hammer, suspecting one of the traps, fires the blade of his Wispon at the Cure Master to “target the healer first”, before dodging the attack from the Dark Master. The Power Master would strengthen the body of the Cure Master, allowing for it to take the impaling blade and stay up. The Dark Master would unleash a energy blast made of Dark Gaia's energy, after which it would sink into a dark puddle, planning to come up to attack Hammer and corner him into a trap. Meanwhile, Blaze had almost reached the end of the maze, but had one final Nightmare to deal with.
Alan(Intercom): And the final foe's waiting at the exit. Once you see it, fire a fireball
Blaze rounded a corner, and immediately upon seeing the exit, followed Alan's advice, burning the Nightmare and killing it. With Blaze's victory secured, Alan swapped to Hammer's room, and found Hammer dealing with the Master Triad.
Alan(Intercom): Hammer, they're driving you towards a trap!
Hammer dodge rolled forwards to get away from the trap, but was smacked straight across the face as he got up by the Dark Master's staff. Unfortunately for it, Hammer is a Melee fighter and cut into it with his Wispon. It pulled back immediately, and got a heal, but was still damaged.
Scribble : Looks like they're about to complete the temple. 
Sonic: Yeah, Hammer was always the best on his team. 
Alan(Intercom): I think you might be able to press your advantage! If you target the attacking Dark Gaia Monster, you could kill it and- 
Hammer: If you're so good why don't you do it? 
Alan(Intercom): Well i'm kinda the guide, and i don't think i even could. 
Hammer: So leave your opinion out of this and let me fight this fight. 
Hammer shoots the Cure Master multiple times, killing the unprepared healer. With the advantage to press, he followed up by killing the wounded Dark Master. With it's allies dead, the Power Master self-dissapates to reform with backup. 
Hammer: Can't say i expected that. 
With the Dark Gaia waves gone, the gates finally open. 
Alan(Intercom): Move about 3 steps to the left and you're through to the exit! 
Hammer does so, and dashes straight through the exit door. With his purpose served, the room Alan was in glows with a intense light, and as soon as Alan covers his eyes, the wall vanishes and the light clears, with Blaze standing right in front of him. 
Alan: We did it! Now let's get that bracelet piece. 
Team Sol Defenders runs into the main room, and find the bracelet piece sitting atop the Chaos Emerald shrine. Alan grabs it, and the three automatically preform a item get animation, Alan throwing it up a few times before tossing it to Hammer, who twirled it on his finger before it slips off towards Blaze, who precisely slaps it to up above Alan, finishing off with all of them jumping up and striking a pose, before landing, bracelet piece in hand. 
Hammer: What was that? 
Alan: Scribble must've enchanted the thing to make us do that. Probably looked cool though. 
Blaze leaves without saying anything, and the other two catch on and leave through the convenient exit. 
Team Tarot(During Team Sol Defender's adventure.) 
Having decided to trust Jeckal just this once, Team Tarot allowed Jeckal a Dark Hero upgrade. With the game on, Dria, Starline and Jeckal were entering the dark vortex. As they entered and adjusted to the wind, Jeckal tested out his upgrade on a unfortunate Cure Master that had just appeared, killing it. 
Jeckal: Woo! This is some high level stuff! 
Starline: Our goal is to find a Gaia Temple. 
Jeckal : Easy! If it's a temple it's gotta have some size to it right? Hardly a challenge. 
Jeckal would then stop to think. 
Jeckal : Hey Dria, can't you just fly up real quick to get a good view? You know... Just find it immediately? 
Jeckal would say this as he stomped on a Litte Rex, hardly paying it any mind. Dria obliges, flying high up, but is unable to see anything that high up, and soon had to fight a Red Killer Bee. Dria destroyed it quickly, and landed.
Dria: No can do. The darkness is too hard to see through up there.
With that option negated, Team Tarot head forward, encountering a pack of Dark Frights and Fright Masters a few seconds after.
Jeckal : Check it out!
Jeckal would put his hands in front of him, positioning his fingers like a square as if he was a photographer analyzing the scene for a picture. After a few seconds Jeckal would smirk, a large distortion would blast into the middle of the pack of Dark Frights, creating a rift between them and a safe path to the Fright Master.
Jeckal : Bingo! 
Starline dashes at the Fright Master, and switches to Power before grabbing the Fright Master's staff and stabbing them with it. He has to shake off the Dark Gaia energies after. Dria, meanwhile, shoots the army of Frights, quickly destroying all of them with the six guns on her Mk II Wispon. 
Dria: Alright! Now let's find that... 
As Dria's celebrating, she spots something in the dark. Focusing on it, she sees it's a Gaia Temple. 
Dria: I see one! A Gaia Temple! 
Jeckal : Well why are we standing around? Lets get a move on! 
The group would move in towards the temple, Jeckal taking the lead by sprinting off towards it, only to slip on the ground. 
Jeckal : What? Why the $%#@ is the ground slippery? 
Jeckal would look down to try to find a answer. He would see the ground frozen in ice, suddenly feeling a slight shiver himself. 
Jeckal : What? Ice? 
The ground would then begin to rumble, causing Team Tarot to become defensive, not knowing what to expect. Jeckal would then notice the ground below him rising. 
Jeckal : Hm?- 
Soon Jeckal would be launched into the air, as the giant Dark Moray would show itself, the guardian of this temple not welcoming it's visitors.
(How in the heck did you predict what i was gonna send?)
As Dria and Starline turned to see the Dark Moray, they both noticed the glowy weak points. The Dark Moray itself also sensed them, so it stirred up a whirling snowstorm before anyone could attack, freezing Jeckal, who hadn't seen the attack coming. When the snowstorm cleared, Team Tarot noticed the Dark Moray and the frozen Jeckal were now atop a platform, with holes along it's sides.
Scribble : Looks like the Dark Moray made its appearance.
Scourge : Are you serious? That kid is an idiot getting frozen like that!
Sonic : From what I've seen he's tough. Besides, Starline and Dria should be fine handling it themselves.
Scribble : Indeed, Their equipment will let them target it more precisely. 
With remnants of the blizzard blowing about on the upper platform, Dria and Starline get to work figuring out a way to cut it off, starting by investigating the holes. As they do, a Moray Jaw emerges and attempts to chomp the two. Dria responds by shooting it in the face, destroying it. With one down, the Dark Moray lashes out at the frozen Jeckal, smacking him with it's giant maw, but also freeing him from his icy cage and the platform.
Jeckal : YOU $#%$#!!
Jeckal would stand up and jump off of the platform he was on. Jeckal would take his fist and start to pull mass into it, collecting snow and ice in the area, using his Phantom Energy to create an artificial gravity. Jeckal would slam a massive fist down on the Dark Moray's head. This would discombobulate the Dark Moray. While he did that, Starline killed the second Moray Jaw, calming the snowstorm. Jeckal immediately beat down on the Dark Moray's head weak point, while Dria shot the one on the back and Starline stabbed the one on the belly with his electro-spurs. The weak point on the Dark Moray's head was destroyed quickly, causing the Dark Moray to make a roar-like noise in pain, which blew Team Tarot to the lower platform, and regenerated the shield.
Dria: Okay, Jeckal, the way to disable the shield is to destroy the mini-maws that appear from these holes along the sides. Do not try to solo it, it will not work. 
Jeckal : Why not? I only go after the big catch, why focus on the small fry? Plus, this shield can't be "all that". 
Dria: You froze because of that blizzard the monster stirred up. Without knocking out it's focus, it will freeze you again. 
Jeckal would cringe and groan. 
Jeckal : Fine, even if it's not very fitting of a rockstar.(He dodges a ice blast) 
With Jeckal focused on the task at hand, they kill the Moray Maws and go up to the Dark Moray. The monster attempts to chomp Starline when he approaches, but is instead fed a electrical grenade, stunning it. With the stun, Team Tarot destroy the other two weak spots, and the Dark Moray roars out one last time before collapsing and returning to pure Dark Gaia energy. With it gone, the ice melts videogame fast, and Team Tarot enter the temple.
Scribble : Now seems like a good time for a Dark Event. No one seems too occupied.
Scribble would press a button, a voting prompt would appear within all players interfaces. Unlike other votes, the Dark Vote didn't give multiple options. Simply a "Yes" or "No". The decided event was the Fractured Turf Event, it gave a description describing the land between turfs becoming disconnected, making it harder for other teams to enter turfs they aren't native to. However, the event would make it harder to go in and out from the center and would increase spawn rates and mob power. The screen would seemingly glitch for people within temples, so only people outside could vote. This would mainly consist of the one person left to guard the base at each team. Meanwhile, Team Tarot enter the temple, finding Sun, Moon and Star doors.
Jeckal : This place ain't too bad.
Jeckal would notice some type of fuzzy screen in his interface, appearing like static before disappearing.
Jeckal : ... I'm just gonna assume that was part of the temple? Anyone else get that fuzzy thing for a few seconds? 
Dria: Yeah, i saw it too. I bet Scourge kicked something and caused a error. 
Starline: I believe each of us has to choose a door. 
Gaia Temple Speakers : In front of you lie three Gaia Gates. Each one requires you to pass a Trial. The sun will have you travel to a time where the solis is high. The moon taking you to to where the luna reflects upon you. The star allowing you to see from both perspectives. The one who wishes to take the path of stars must guide the Sun and Moon, only when the eclipse has aligned will the hall be revealed. 
Jeckal : I'm not too good with riddles, but considering I'm the rockstar here, it's only natural I'd take the star. 
Before anyone could stop Jeckal he would rush into the star door.
Dria: Welp.
Dria takes the Sun Door, and after trying to pry open the Star Door, Starline takes the Moon Door. As Jeckal enters the Star Room, he realizes almost nothing is there.
Jeckal : What gives? I thought this would be coolest one?
Dria would walk into a landscape resembling Spagonia. The sun would be shining bright within the sky. Dria would be greeted by a hologram of Jeckal Appearing in front of her. On the flipside, Starline would enter the same landscape, however it would be night. Jeckal would then see two screen appear on the wall, realizing he could see from the perspective of both of his teammates.
Jeckal : What the? You guys are in the same place but ones night and the others day?
The mini Jeckal hologram would repeat these lines to the both. This hologram would speak to both at the same time, regardless of who he actually meant to talk to.
Dria: Good to know. Can you tell from your Mission Control spot what we're supposed to be doing?
Starline: Interesting. Where's the way through? 
Jeckal would notice a note floating down from above, he would quickly swipe it and begin reading. 
Jeckal : "In the day you often feel safe, allowed to see all that you want. Sun crested emblems are what you need to pull of this stunt. The night often lurks with darkness and fears, protect the light from all the nightmares which dare to near. The star twinkles, present from both day and night, the star will shine in the darkness and light. The sun must collect and build the key, the moon must protect and defeat the thieves." 
Jeckal would scratch his head. 
Jeckal : I think it's saying one of you gotta find stuff and make a... key? Then one of you has to fight nightmares to protect the other? But aren't you two in two seperate rooms? Why would Starline need to protect you? 
Dria looks over and finds a Sun Medal. She grabs it, and when she does, it's ghost vanishes on Starline's field. Dria then puts it in a marked spot, and two Nightmares spawn, which Starline attacks. As he defeats the second, Dria adds three more Sun Medals, summoning six Nightmares. Jeckal would then notice a timer with icons appear in front of him. The timers would be counting down to a mini-boss which would spawn in 45 Seconds. He could also see the total amount of Sun Medals collected and left to collect, that being 4/30.
Jeckal : Looks like if you guys aren't fast bosses are gonna spawn. But if you go too fast the amount of nightmares could be overwhelming. 
Starline: Tell Dria to collect all the items before doing anything else. 
Jeckal: Dria, collect all the items before doing anything else. 
Dria, understanding the plan, collected the remaining medals as Starline dealt with the Nightmares, and the Titan when it spawned. Dria then returned to the marked spot. 
Dria: Is Starline ready? 
Jeckal: Starline, are you ready? 
Starline: Not yet, busy holding off this "Titan" 
Jeckal: He's busy with a Titan. 
Starline then grabs the Titan's mallet with Power, and tosses it aside, before using Fly to reach it's eye, and stabbing it with the electro-spurs, killing it. 
Starline: Now, insert one. 
Jeckal: Insert one of those things. 
Dria inserts a Sun Medal, and two Nightmares spawn, Starline destroys them, then calls for another, which Jeckal relays. They continue this pattern till ten medals are inserted, which causes one Nightmare to be replaced with a Cure Master.
Scribble : Fractured Turf Event... Hmmm. We're missing some votes?
Scribble would then look to where Team Tarot was.
Scribble : Ah, their in the temple.
Sonic : What does that mean?
Scribble : The temple's interior was made like a pocket dimension for the turf wars. They probably won't receive the signals till they exit.
Scourge : Well, lets watch what they're doing.
Scribble would put up a massive displaying from the viewing booth, showing what the members inside the Temple were doing.
Scribble : Ah, that trial.
Sonic : What is it?
Scribble : It's supposed to be a cause and effect type of thing. What happens on one side effects the other and so forth. 
As Starline attempts to deal with the Cure Master, another Titan spawns in. Starline switches to Speed and destroys the two minions, before luring in the Titan's strike, and repeating how he killed the other one. 
Jeckal: Oh hurry up! I would be way faster! 
Starline: Maybe next time you'll wait for a second and listen to us? 
With the Titan dead, Starline relays through Jeckal to send another medal, and restarts the process. Though slowed down by having to fight the Cure Master first, eventually they reach the twenty mark, which swaps the Cure Master for five Little Rexes and ups the Nightmare to a Deep Nightmare. The Deep Nightmare attempts to draw Starline's attention, but Starline sees the trick for what it is and kills the Little Rexes before they get past him, then attacks the Deep Nightmare.
Jeckal : *Yawn* Come on guys! I'm almost being put asleep in here.
Dria: Get down here and do it yourself.
Starline kills the Deep Nightmare, and calls in another Sun Medal. From there, six Sun Medals go by until the next miniboss appears, this time a Big Mother. Not wanting to deal with wave after wave of Little Rexes, Starline feeds the Big Mother a Electric Bomb, stunning it and hurting it. From there, Starline beat up on it with the Speed core and soon killed it, with the Little Rexes dying after. From there, Starline and Dria finished with all the Medal Waves and created a key, which Dria used to unlock a device.
Jeckal : Oh, you guys finished? Bout' time. 
With the device unlocked, Dria hit all the buttons, opening all three doors. As the team entered, they found a Sun and a Moon key on the floor. Dria took the sun, and Starline took the moon, before they merged it together and opened the door to the central chamber. Jeckal then ran in and claimed the bracelet piece, jamming out with it in hand before slipping, where Dria spins around with it in hand before displaying it and tossing it towards Starline, who grabbed it and tossed it back to Jeckal, before all three of them jump up and strike a pose. 
Starline: That was stupid. 
Dria: Must've been Scribble doing something to the item. 
Team Tarot then leave through the convenient exit. 
Team Magic(During both adventures.)
Erazor : This darkness is such a nuisance, I can't see anything.
Mephiles : Really? I barely even notice it.
Erazor : What was your title? "The Dark"?
Srish: I'm sure it is. Since you can apparently see, tell us where the closest temple is.
Mephiles : I can see it's silhouette directly in front of us, I also see another silhouette around it. Perhaps it's a guardian.
Srish: Can you identify it? 
Mephiles: It is unknown to me, but the silhouette is incredibly tall, and there appear to be wings floating beside it... for some reason. 
Srish: Likely that Auto-Egg Dragoon. 
Team Magic dash towards the temple, and as they reached a point where the darkness wasn't as bad, Srish could see the Auto-Egg Dragoon... as it detected them and attacked. The draconic mech would start out firing drills towards each of members of Team Magic, each attempting to home in on the members. Erazor Djinn would decide to be useful, igniting his razor Scimitar and teleporting to each drill. Cutting them in half with the immense heat and sharpness of his blade.
Erazor : Let's make it quick, we have no time for this guardian. It is but a small rock on our path to power.
Mephiles : I can agree with that.
Mephiles would spawn a massive crystal, snapping his fingers and splitting it into smaller dagger like pieces. Mephiles would use a Chaos Emerald to control and empower them before shooting a barrage of them towards the Auto-Egg Dragoon. The mech was heavily damaged by the barrage, and responded by firing a drill at the ground, which Erazor didn't realize until it was too late that it would break the ground. Team Magic fell into the hole, and down a metal shaft as the Auto-Egg Dragoon fired at them with firey blasts. Srish, wondering how they would get out of this one, looked up and saw that he could still easily see the top of the shaft, and they were falling slower than it seemed. As Team Magic landed on a metal platform, Srish noticed that the Auto-Egg Dragoon had a green shield around the cockpit area.
Srish: You don't see that on everyday Egg Dragoons.
The Auto-Egg Dragoon charged up a ice blast, as well as calling Egg Fighters that Srish shoved aside easily, before firing, which caught no one. The three then attacked the core until they were slashed back by the electrically charged drill.
Erazor : Tch! I took damage?
Mephiles : Your kind are usually immortal right? You've died in the game before, try to be more on guard.
Crystal pieces would drop off of Mephiles, revealing he had lessened the sustained damage.
Mephiles : Our best option is to restrain it and have another person attack, if it has other things hiding around here we will need to make sure it can't produce those before we attack. 
On a hunch, Srish shoots the two cylinders on the upper parts of the Auto-Egg Dragoon. The parts, when hit, cause the shield to freak out for a second, and the Auto Egg Dragoon responds by firing a drill at the platform, which Erazor destroys. "Irritated", the Auto Egg Dragoon slams the drill into the metal platform, destroying it. As the three fall again, Srish looks up, and indeed, they're still falling many times slower than it seems. Team Magic easily dodge the fire blasts and as the Auto-Egg Dragoon breaks the bottom of the metal chasm and deploys it's wing units, Team Magic fall onto a rock platform and the Egg Dragoon fires another ice blast, followed by a fire blast stream. 
Srish: Ok, i've got a cool and totally Scribble approved two step plan. Step one, we disable that shield, likely by destroying the green cylinders. Step two, we get atop the machine and smash the cockpit in! 
Scribble would turn his attention from the other temples to the one Team Magic was in front of. 
Scribble : I heard my name and approval. I am now intrigued. Let's see how they execute. 
Willing to go along with such a simple plan even if it was phrased like that, Mephiles and Erazor smashed the cylinders with dark energy, knocking out the shield, then Mephiles used his dark crystals to raise Srish up to atop the Auto-Egg Dragoon, and Erazor followed. Srish and Erazor then did some QTE worthy attacks, Srish opening up by slamming his Beat Blasters against the empty Eggmobile, and firing the shockwaves, dislodging it, before Erazor smashed his scimitar against the glass, shattering it. Mephiles then joined the two and alongside Erazor, punted the Eggmobile into twinkle effect with energy blast and scimitar slash respectively. The three then jumped as the Auto-Egg Dragoon finally collapsed into the skybox of the earth's core, and they were launched out as the hole was fixed, entering the temple. Unlike the other groups, they would find one giant door possessing a Star, Moon and Sun.
Mephiles : One door, before we go in it will be best to make sure we are prepared. Is anyone injured from the previous battle?
Erazor : I've sustained damages.
Srish: Lost count.
With that out of the way, Team Magic entered the door together. A symbol would appear above each of the members, A star above Srish, a Moon above Mephiles and a Sun above Erazor, A note would soon float down, Srish grabbing it and reading out "The moon, sun and stars are in constant motion, each of these things will constantly orbit. Complete the obstacles and challenges of this dungeon, if you each don't play your role then things could get morbid. The path ahead is riddled with traps, go too slow and the walls will collapse. The sun will fight, The moon will discover, so that the Stars prize can be uncovered."
Mephiles : If I'm correct. This is an obstacle course. Right now we're standing on a platform. I'm the moon, so I guess I'm supposed to search for things. Erazor is supposed to protect us? Your role is to actually complete the trial.
Erazor : Perhaps, we must each play a role to progress. Assuming the "Obstacle and Challenges" aren't here yet, maybe your supposed to find a way to let us continue the trial. I'm probably the only one capable of harming any enemies as your are the only one capable of discovery, Srish would also be the key to completing this also.
Mephiles : Seems possible but how do we even start?
A blue button in the shape of a moon would appear in front of Mephiles.
Mephiles : A button?
Erazor : Where do you see a button?
Mephiles : Guess we were right.
A sun button would then appear in front of Erazor, a Star one in front of Srish.
Srish: Welp, nowhere to go but forwards.
The three each hit their respective button, and the wall in front of them opens, revealing a long hallway, filled with Dark Gaia Monsters. A timer appears in Srish's vision.
Srish: Erazor, go destroy those monsters so Mephiles can search the area. We have three minutes. 
Erazor would begin hacking down Dark Gaia Minions, allowing Mephiles the chance to explore and investigate. Mephiles would find tiny blue shards, eventually collecting all of them within the room and creating a key. 
Mephiles : I've got a key. 
Erazor : I'm just about done with all of these monsters as well. 
The room would then shift, changing into an obstacle course, the course would have a tight rope, swinging axes and spike traps. A door would appear on the other side with a sign saying "Stage 1". 
Mephiles : This seems to be your part Srish. 
Mephiles would hand the key over to Srish. As Srish took it a Red Titan would spawn, clearly there to keep Erazor and Mephiles busy while Srish completed the obstacle course. Srish did his absolute best to keep balance, but ultimately gave up trying to do things the legit way and at the right time, Spinjumped across the chasm by using slingshot momentum from jumping on the tightrope. As he opened the door, the Red Titan died and a holo-walkway would form which Mephiles and Erazor crossed.
Srish: I'm not a tightrope expert.
As Team Magic enter the next room, they notice a door past 50 shield walls marked "Stage 2" In front of them were a selection of Dark Gaia Monsters, including rainbow Cure and Power Masters and a rainbow Big Mother. Mephiles noticed a sign that said "Rainbow enemies are invincible, at least to your attacks.
Srish: Does that mean we have to defeat these monsters while avoiding the rainbow ones? 
Mephiles : I think we need to kill all of them, even if we didn't, the rainbow ones would crowd us to much, healing and empowering enemies constantly. 
Erazor : What do you suggest ra- 
Erazor would stop himself from saying rat noticing Mephiles glare. 
Erazor : ... 
Mephiles : I suggest we use them against themselves. We can't hurt them, what's stopping us from just using the monsters themselves? 
Srish: Maybe. 
Regardless of all that, Team Magic attack the monsters, but as they're fighting, Srish notices a couple platforming challenges, and uses them to get the high ground. As Srish shoots from the top platform of one of the challenges, Mephiles notices and also sees a switch next to Srish.
Mephiles : Srish, do you see that switch behind you? 
Srish turns to look, but sees nothing. He then reasons out what's going on. 
Srish: It's a switch for you alone. Likely is tied to one of the Rainbow monster's lives. 
Mephiles : Probably... 
Mephiles would sink into darkness and appear from out of Srish's shadow, running a slight chill down the Water Striders spine. Mephiles would walk towards the switch, pressing down on it. As a result of the switch being pressed, the Cure Master was reduced to Dark Gaia smoke.
Srish: That worked.
As Srish took another look at the battlefield, he first shot some Deep Nightmares that were giving Erazor trouble, before noticing the group had been reduced to about 23 monsters, not counting the concerning amount of Rainbow Rexes around as a result of the Big Mother.
Srish: Best for you to go hit the other switches before there's too many tiny pests. And please refrain from doing that again, it felt like i was missing a piece of me when you did that!
The two then had to jump off the platform as a magic circle formed under them and spewed flames. Mephiles would create a clone of himself to go after the other switch's, meanwhile Erazor was handling the minions below, it was easier for him to dodge them than to attack so he would turn into smoke and evade each and everyone of there attacks.
Erazor : Speed it up a bit! 
Srish: Sorry, sorry! 
Srish gets back atop the platform and kills the Fire Master he knows made the flames, and then assists Erazor in dealing with the other monsters. At the same time, Mephiles and his clone use crystals to get atop the platforms, and then pull the switches, killing the Power Master and Big Mother, including the Rainbow Rexes.
Scribble : Sol Defenders aren't too bad, hmm. Team Magic too. Hey Scour-
Scribble would turn to see Scourge setting up another prank. With the snap of a finger Scourge would vanish, no longer within "The Sheet".
Sonic : Uh? What'd ya do to him?
Scribble : I got a little fed up with his antic's. So I erased him.
Sonic : Like? He's dead?
Scribble : No, not a single part of him remains. In fact, the only reason anyone here would remember him is because of us being in a higher plane of existence currently. Ordinarily all of history across the timelines he's been in would have been rewritten to carry out the same events in the past, just without him existing.
Sonic : ... Isn't that kinda harsh?
Scribble would think for a second.
Scribble : Yeah, your right.
Scribble would draw Scourge again, restoring his existence to all continuities he existed in before sending him back to his main timeline.
Scribble : I'll just kick him out of the game's spectation. Instead we'll get a new guest. I think we'll pick one from Team Dragoons dimension since your dimension seems a bit respectable.
Scribble then summons Tangle for a new commentary partner. 
Tangle: Wha-? What is this place? 
Sonic: Hey Tangle! 
Tangle: Sonic? Where are we? Who's the guy i don't know? 
Sonic: He calls himself Scribble, and he's the strongest being I've ever seen. 
Scribble: Hi. 
Tangle: Well ok. 
Tangle takes a seat next to Sonic. 
Tangle: Why are we here? 
Sonic: We're commentary partners for this game he's made for Team Dragoon. Also, i can be sent down there to assist whichever team claims my trophy. Don't know if that applies to you. 
Tangle: What's the game? 
Scribble: A four team Turf War. The players are Alan, Hammer, Jet and Blaze, who make up Team Sol Defenders, Dria, Amy, Starline and Jeckal, who make up Team Tarot, Srish, Erazor Djinn, Mephiles and Merlina, who make up Team Magic, and Silence, Whisper, Cross and Tails, who make up Team Stealth Heroes. 
Tangle: I have so many questions, and Whisper's here?! 
Meanwhile, back in the temple, Team Magic had finished off the remaining Dark Gaia Monsters, and enter the door, reaching the final stage, Stage 3. The trio would see three statues, each holding a stone bucket with a emblem mirroring their respective roles. Around them they would see doors, Erazor would open one and see Dark Gaia Monsters holding Star Shards, He would open another and see a shovel with Sun Emblem, opening the final door he would see chests and keys, each bearing Moon Crests.
Erazor : I believe our roles may be reversed?
Mephiles : Elaborate.
Erazor : I've checked the doors, I see our crests on jobs we do not hold.
Mephiles : If our roles reverses then the symbol above our heads would have. It's likely to complete this next one we have to somehow have the capabilities to do the task of the other? But how?
A note would then fall, Srish grabbing and reading it. It would say "The sun fights, the moon search's and the star unlocks the truth. This rule persist while you must merge them for each booth. Only one can enter a room at a time, while you require the roles of two to claim your prize."
Srish: Why do people speak in riddles, it's overdone and unfun.
Erazor: Irrelevant. 
Mephiles: Two roles... one person... at a time!
Mephiles enters the room with the Sun Shovel and manages to pick it up, then starts digging. Soon enough, he finds a glowing orb, which the shovel cannot carry. As he attempts to touch it, he recoils from the heat.
Mephiles: Each room requires one person to allow collection of the item, and another to actually obtain it. Erazor, you should defeat the monsters while Srish opens the chests.
Srish: Of course!
Srish enters the chest room and grabs a key, trying it on the first chest he finds, but it doesn't open, and Srish begins testing the rest of them. Erazor, meanwhile, tries to enter the room Mephiles was in, but bounced off a shield, and as such, he went into the room with the Dark Gaia Monsters.
Scribble : So tell me Tangle, how do you think Team Magic will get past this? I meant after all, this stage has two parts. After they complete the puzzle they will have to fight a special monster. One that can only be hit in certain places depending on the star, sun or moon. 
Tangle: Srish is pretty capable, and while i don't know the others, they seem dangerous. I have no doubts. 
Sonic : Same here. 
Erazor would slash towards a Killer Bee, successfully destroying it. The Star shard would fall, Erazor of course could not pick it up. However, after a few minutes the Killer Bee would regenerate from the shard. 
Erazor : What? 
Srish, having finally opened all the chests, goes to leave, when one closes. 
Srish: No no no! We must be on a time limit! 
Erazor, Srish and Mephiles all rush out and enter the rooms with their shards. Srish manages to grab half of the shards before they can respawn their monsters, Mephiles obtains 7 of the 15 crests before the chests close, with the ones emptied being removed, and Erazor grabs three of the four emblems before they re-bury themselves. They then all return to the central room and deposit their items. 
Srish: Ok, so items will self-reseal over time. Mephiles, you should dig back up that Sun Emblem so we can be done with it. Then me and Erazor can take the Star Shards. 
Mephiles: Makes sense. 
Mephiles digs up the Sun Emblem within seconds, and leaves as Erazor recovers it, and puts it in the Sun Bucket. Full of Sun energy, the statue raises the bucket, and the Sun Door closes. Erazor then charges back into the Star room and destroyed the remaining monsters within a minute and a half, before handing off the room to Srish, who claims the shards and puts them into the Star Bucket, raising it and closing the Star Door. Srish then entered the Moon Room and opened the chests, though two closed before Mephiles claimed the Moon Crests and they had to repeat the process once more. With all the Moon Crescents, they filled the Moon Bucket with Moon energy, closing the Moon Door, and as the final door closed, something broke the wall. As the dust cleared, the three noticed a amorphous Dark Gaia blob of some sort. The three quickly went to confront it, and as they did, one of those Dark Gaia Barriers blocked the way back. Srish approached the blob, wondering how long it would take it to react. He gets his answer as the blob reacts with tendrils, forcing Srish to step back, before forming into a Dark Gaia variant of the Egg Beetle, a Dark Beetle if you will. 
Sonic: I sure didn't expect that! 
The Dark Beetle would snap it's jaws, sending a wave of energy towards the group that seemed like fire. The group would jump over before noticing an emblem on the Dark Beetles head swap from a sun to a star. Erazor would go in for a flame fueled slash but it would do absolutely no damage, resulting in him getting whipped back by it's pincers. Mephiles notices a set of Moon symbols marking it's leg joints and shoots crystals at them. As four are destroyed and turned into a wet puddle of Dark Gaia Energy, the Dark Beetle responds by switching the symbols around again, setting Moon for the head, Sun for the legs, and Star symbols on the pincers, as well as firing a storm of dark energy at Mephiles. Srish, seeing the star symbol on the pincers, waves Erazor over, and gets him to attack the head, while Srish hits the pincers. The Dark Beetle attempts to stop their advances by chomping them with it's pincers, but Mephiles jams them, allowing Srish to use his shockwave attack against one pincer, destroying it and swapping around the symbols again, and as Srish had hoped, swapped the head's weakness back to Sun, allowing Erazor to jump up, and flame stab the head, destroying it. As said head turned into dark smoke, the monster returned to it's amorphous form, and the joints destroyed by Mephiles and Srish were reabsorbed into it. It then started forming into a new form.
Srish: Get ready! It's changing phases! 
Sonic : How do you come up with these? 
Scribble : Dunno. 
The amorphous blob forms into a Dark Gaia variant of the Tank Guardian, a Dark Tank. 
Erazor: What is that thing? 
Srish: I don't know. 
Sonic: Wait, is that a Tank? Like, a Starfall Islands Tank? 
The Dark Tank summons sigils of the Moon and Star, Moon on the cannon, and Star on the legs, before opening fire with energy blasts from the sides and main cannon. His job done, Erazor goes to the edges of the battlefield, having taken the brunt of the damage from all the trials, as Srish fires at the legs, and Mephiles attempts to spear the cannon. As soon as Srish destroys one of the legs, the Dark Tank retracts the legs and activates jets, swapping sigils around as it does so. It then flies up and slams into the ground, forcing Srish and Mephiles to flee the impact site. As it recovers, it uses it's control of wind to stir up a whirlwind around itself, and unbeknownst to Team Magic, it reoriented itself to throw them off, which works as Srish tries to shoot where the cannon was, but impacts strengthened energy flesh, similar in strength to most of the Dark Moray's body, instead.
Scribble : *Chewing* Man this would go good with some *Stuffs face with popcorn* Free Bird, that guitar solo would match this perfectly.
Sonic : Where did you get popcorn from?
Scribble : Don't ask. 
After dodging a couple waves of energy blasts, the Dark Tank's whirlwind wears off, and with Srish finally being able to see the cannon again, he charges the Dark Tank, before having to dodge a massive laser that chased him around. Soon though, the Dark Tank had to cool down, and in that second, Srish Spin Attacked onto the cannon, grabbed on, barely held on as it spun, and fired a shockwave blast against the Dark Tank, destroying the cannon, and turning it to dark smoke too. With the cannon gone, the monster becomes amorphous again, and Srish jumps back to prepare for presumably the final phase. As the dark blob was about to change into another boss's form, it got a better idea, and sprayed out it's liquid across the battlefield, soaking Team Magic in it. 
Srish: Ack! The monster soaked us. 
Erazor: And yet, it doesn't hurt. 
Srish: Huh, yeah! Why is that? 
Mephiles: Why does this feel familiar? 
The blob monster then reformed itself, reclaiming the parts of itself sprayed onto Team Magic as well, before using the data it claimed from Srish to turn into a form akin to Srish, Beat Blasters and all, a "Dark Srish". A Moon sigil forms on it's stomach area as well. 
Srish: What? 
Mephiles : A clone of some sort? 
Erazor : Great, it can make clones of us and we still have to destroy it. What a pest! 
As Tangle's watching the battle unfold, a controller appears in her lap. Tangle picks it up, and as Dark Srish runs towards Srish in a QTE scenario, time slows for Tangle and a QTE button appears in front of her. Confused, Tangle doesn't respond in time, and Dark Srish kicks Srish, before turning to the charging Erazor and assuming his form, blade included. Another QTE plays out, but Tangle, a epic gamer, responds properly this time, and Erazor and Dark Erazor clash blades, before the creature assumes Mephiles's form and the two send crystal spikes at each other, the QTE being a button mashing challenge this time, which does nothing to stop Tangle, and the two Mephiles destroy each other's crystals. As Srish and Erazor respond by charging the fake, the real Mephiles shoots his fake with a piercing energy beam, punching a hole into it's side, which happens to be close enough to the Moon sigil to count. Sonic cluches his side as a phantom pain strikes him. 
Sonic: Why does it feel like i've experienced a similar attack before... 
The Dark Mephiles attempts to solve it's issue by swapping it's form, but both Dark Srish and Dark Erazor were experiencing the same fatal issue. It resorts to clutching it's side and running, but it doesn't get far, with all the dark smoke leaking out of the hole, and falls, vanishing like the other Dark Gaia Monsters. 
Srish: Is that it? 
Mephiles : Look at the beast. 
The blob would have became extremely translucent, showing the gaia bracelet piece they needed. 
Erazor : It's not moving, do we take it or does it plan to have one final trump card? 
Srish: I'll grab it and see what happens. 
Srish reaches into the blob to grab the Gaia Bracelet Piece. As she grabs it a question with an answer box pops up, above it the number 30 and words reading out "Question 1/3", changing number and counting down every second. The question read " What is Arabic for "One thousand and one nights."?"
Erazor : Why is he frozen in there?
Mephiles : Perhaps its another gimmick. 
Srish: I think this question was for one of the others, hang on. 
Srish turns to see his team frozen in place. With no help to be had, Srish enters something random, not expecting it to be right, but wanting to get out of time lock and seek help from his allies. The answer box would flash incorrect, time would unfreeze for Srish and a consequence would be determined. A small portion of the blob would detach from the mass, forming into a pair of legs. Mephiles would walk up and inspect the legs, shrugging as it seemingly did nothing.
Mephiles : Srish, what happened? Why are stone legs here? 
Srish: It's a question challenge. We need to answer questions within 30 seconds. I have a idea, come here. You too, Erazor. 
Mephiles and Erazor approach Srish, and Srish gets all three of them to reach in at the same time, bringing Mephiles and Erazor into the challenge alongside Srish.
Mephiles : What is Arabic for one thousand and one nights?
Erazor : Such a simple question, Alf layla wa-layla.
The answer box would light up, now containing the words "Correct" It then displayed a new question "What are the two halves of "Solaris" called?"
Mephiles : Srish... Do not tell me you needed help for this?
Scribble would begin to cry his eyes out in laughter at the clear misunderstanding.
Srish: Just answer the question.
Mephiles: Iblis and Mephiles.
The answer box displayed "Correct" again, and switched to a new question "What is the name of each member of Team Sundown?"
Srish: Hammer, Thistle, Gust, and... Katona.
With all three questions answered correctly, the transparent remains of the boss dissipate, as well as the stone legs, but when Srish touches the Gaia Bracelet Piece, it flies off and lands atop where the Chaos Emeralds are usually placed, as the room reforms into a generic Gaia Temple Central Chamber. Team Magic, of course, run to grab the Gaia Bracelet Piece, and as Srish touches it, like the others, they're forced into a item get animation where Srish tosses it up a couple times, before tossing it behind himself, which Erazor catches and holds up high, before Mephiles telekinetically snatches it and whirls it around himself a couple times before tossing it up, which they all jump for and strike a pose midair, before landing.
Mephiles: What the heck was that?
Erazor: If i had to guess, a "gift" from Scribble. 
Srish: What? Don't like victory dances?
Mephiles and Erazor: NO!
Srish: Sheesh, alright.
The three then exit the temple, coincidentially about 7 seconds after Teams Sol Defenders and Tarot. Now that they had all exited, the prompt finally caught up with them.
Alan, Srish, and Dria: Fractured Turf Event?
Starline: Says here that it separates turfs from one another, making it harder for enemies to enter. At the same time however, while we can enter turfs of our own type from the center easily, entering the center from our turfs is harder, and darkness leaks will strengthen the Dark Gaia Monsters.
Blaze: There's four Yes votes already.
Hammer: Likely Team Stealth Heroes. I don't even think they're down here.
Erazor: Three No votes... Who are they from?
Srish: Doesn't matter, what do you think about this?
Dria: Well anyways, what do you think is a better decision?
Alan: What do you think we should do? I'm voting No.
Hammer: If we're gonna be down here for some time, i'm voting No too.
Blaze: I agree.
Starline: We're already seeking out the temples, it wouldn't be convenient to strengthen the monsters. I'm voting No. 
With Team Stealth Heroes... 
Cross : Others vote's are coming in. So far doesn't seem to be going in our favor. 
Cross would notice the Dark Minion they sent out return. He had grown noticeably, clearly having evolved into a Deep Nightmare, the minion also seemed to be colored red. 
Cross : I knew farming Team Magic's minion from their dark pool would be a good idea. Seem's the armor we gave it grew with it's evolutions. 
The minion would show Silence an orb, it would expand and drop all sorts of loot from Gaia Coins, Dark Essence, Scraps from defeated Dark Gaia minions and more.
Silence: What is half of this stuff? I mean, i can tell what the Gaia Coins are, but what's the gaseous stuff? And this dark liquid... Is it from the monsters? What can we even do with it? 
Tails: I'll check it out. In the meantime, I finished those autocannons!
Tails puts the weapon, shaped like Dria's Eagle Wispon, on the Deep Nightmare's back. With it's heightened intelligence due to it's evolution, it at least understands that it's been given a weapon.
Whisper: I've been thinking, shouldn't we give it a name? At least to tell it apart?
Silence: Makes some sense. How about Silent Night?
No one objects. With the Deep Nightmare now having a name, Silence uses some of the Gaia Coins to purchase a couple more Nightmares.
Silence: Alright, Silent Night, secure us a Gaia Bracelet Piece. Nightmares, assist Silent Night.
The Dark Gaia Monster team immediately run off in search of a Gaia Temple. In the meantime, the Fractured Turf Event has been firmly voted No to. With that done, all three of the teams run off back to base to swap heroes around.
Team Sol Defenders
The Sol Defenders exit the Dark Vortex to see Jet killing a Lightning Master, backed up by a Nightmare and two squads of Little Rexes. After the monster dissapates, Jet turns to see the rest of the Sol Defenders.
Jet: Hey, you're back! As you can see, I've spent some coins to get some support. 
Alan: Yeah yeah, ok. Anyways, you're coming with us.
Jet: What?
Hammer: I need to spend some time to recover. You're going with the others to find more of those bracelet pieces.
Jet: S-surely you don't need me-
Blaze: The temples take three people. You're coming with us whether you like it or not.
Jet: Oh alright...
With that settled, the three turn to head back in when one of the Little Rexes tosses Hammer a orb. In it were a dozen Gaia Coins, as well as some Scraps.
Alan: Eh? What's with the gunk?
Hammer: Not sure. Scribble never told us that kinda stuff could drop from the monsters. I'll keep it on hand.
The three then actually re-enter the Vortex while Hammer goes to heal off his damage in the Healing Aura.
Team Tarot
As Team Tarot exit the Dark Vortex, they notice Amy smash three Nightmares to bits within half a second of each other with Soul Surge. She then turns to see the other three.
Amy: You're back. Did you get what you were searching for?
Dria: One of them. Starline took a beating in the Temple, and would be better served around here. The temples are three person affairs though, so we'll need you.
Amy: Ok, got it.
Starline rushes after a Fright he spots as Amy, Jeckal and Dria re-enter the Dark Vortex.
Team Magic
Held up by a swarm of Red Rexes, Team Magic finally make it back to their base, and notice Merlina holding some sort of liquid. Srish immediately goes to see what's up.
Srish: What's that in your hand?
Merlina: Oh! You're back. I'm sorry, i'm still figuring that out.
Srish: It's fine. Where'd you find it?
Merlina: Our Dark Gaia Monsters seem to collect it from the enemy Dark Gaia Monsters. They'll give it to me if i'm nearby. There was also a armored monster earlier that gave me some.
Mephiles: Dark Gaia Monsters do not have armor... It was someone else's! But why wouldn't it attack?
Erazor: I'll keep a eye out for it. In the meantime, i'll take defense. You go with the others.
Merlina: If that's what you request of me.
Team Magic run past one of their Frights and re-enter the Dark Vortex.
Tangle: That's three of those objects down. But what is that gooey stuff the others have found anyways? 
Scribble : That's the "Essence of Darkness", it can be used to respawn bosses if you have at least 10, it can be used to give you adrenaline, if you get 100 you can create a small dark pool, if you rub it onto a light gaia bracelet piece, a hologram of light gaia will spawn and point to the closest bracelet piece, it can also be used a pheromones to attracts nightmares or used to move stealthily between nightmares. 
Sonic : Seems useful, for a lot of things. 
Scribble : Yes, the thing it's best for is the boss summoning part. If you can farm the bosses for the uncommon "Unleashed Essence" then you can use the "Dark Gaia Pact" to steal bracelet parts and have immunity to the downsides of the pact. Though, it is one use. So they will have to farm it for a bit. 
Tangle: Err, if that's the liquid stuff, what's the gas stuff Silent Night found? 
Scribble : Oh, well that's simple. That meant for more offensive purposes, it can be used as a poison, the poison can have different effects. It can drain your energy, mess up your senses, make you lightheaded, invert your actions, and induce hallucinations. If you have the right technology you can also condense it into the Essence of Darkness and of course convert that into Black Mist. 
Tangle: Let me see if i'm getting this right. The goo is Essence of Darkness, which is more common then the gas, but the gas has more uses and can be converted into something you call Black Mist. 
Scribble : Basically, you got a supportive and offensive item. 
Tangle: Since you didn't answer my question, i'm gonna assume i'm correct. 
Scribble face would appear in front of Tangle, he would stare, and stare and stare. Tangle was of course confused and a bit uncomfortable, the awkward silence would be broke by Scribble clapping and sitting back down. Tangle would look down to see a small medal on her that said "#1 Goober". 
Scribble : Let's continue the viewing. 
Down in the Dark Vortex, Team Sol Defenders were walking, or in Jet's case, hovering around, trying to find a Gaia Temple.
Jet: I can't see two feet in front of me! How are we supposed to find some temple like this?! 
Blaze: Alan, use your light powers. 
Alan: Right, sorry. 
Alan summons a light ball above each of them, allowing them to properly see. With the sight, they notice two Gaia Temples, as well as a couple of Red Rexes heading up a Little Rex swarm. Alan, testing something, summons a light ball in the middle of the swarm. Immediately, the closest Rexes melt, and the rest scatter, running far away from Team Sol Defenders. 
Blaze: That could be useful. 
As Alan picks up some Gaia Coins, he sees a light flying around one of the temples. Directing his team, he runs towards the temple with them, reasoning that it's likely a boss. He's proven correct when the Dark Phoenix takes notice of them and attacks.
Scribble : Sol Defenders found a temple the fastest again, mmm. Jet gets to fight the Phoenix for his first boss? Amusing, I wonder what would happen if he used the Sol Emerald.
A light bulb would appear above Scribble's head. He turns to Sonic.
Scribble : Do you think if Dria used the Sol Emerald's she'd become a phoenix?! 
Sonic: Don't know. Blaze is the only one who's ever used the Sol Emeralds. Not even sure anyone else can. But if Trip can become a dragon by going Super, then maybe. I feel the only way to find out would be for you to give them Sol Emeralds. 
Tangle: It sounds cool though! 
Scribble : How about after the turf wars i give you all the Sol Emeralds so we can see what you all transform into, after all. In this continuity the Sol Emeralds aren't as simple as fire. Rather it brings out the element which your soul aligns with. An example would be Cyne obtaining a water based form he called "Drowning" meanwhile Blaze had her "Burning" form. Maybe Dria will become a lightning eagle? Who knows? 
Back with Team Sol Defenders, the Phoenix would come charging in, leaving fire in it's wake. Everyone would manage to dodge it's lunge and watch as it circled around. 
Blaze : You think we can harm it similar to those others? 
Jet : I think it's a bit of a stretch personally, maybe blind it? 
Alan: Only one way to find out! 
Alan summons a light orb in the Pheonix's face with one hand while shooting it with the other. This stops it, but it responds by creating a firey inferno around them all. It then follows up by unleashing fire pillars in the center and four corners of the arena, which somehow create platforms in the corners and a fountain in the center. The firey inferno then clears. 
Alan: Blaze, can't you calm it's fire? 
Blaze: I tried that! It doesn't seem to burn like normal fire! It must be fueled by Dark Gaia Energy. 
Jet: Then let's put it out manually! 
Jet grabs a water jar and throws it at the Dark Phoenix, putting out the flames. Blaze would propel herself in the air towards the fleeing Dark Phoenix, slamming into the Phoenix with a flame boosted kick, causing it to fall to the ground for the others to attack. Alan uses this time to stab directly into the Dark Pheonix, and cut across it. From there it reaches it's HP threshold, and Blaze enters a QTE, jumping onto the Dark Pheonix. Tangle does it correctly, and so Blaze grabs on and manages to keep it's flame from burning, even as it starts flying again. Next, Alan uses the Energy Armor powers to summon electric rope, and after Tangle does two QTEs, one for each rope, Alan successfully keeps it from flying too high, and from there, Jet dashes in from above in one last QTE. After Tangle does that successfully, Jet blasts the flaming bird back to earth, breaking the HP limiter. From there, Blaze jumps off as the Dark Pheonix fires up again.
Jet: Grab the water! 
Scribble : Seems like they got a pattern down, shouldn't be long until they enter that temple. I hope they have fun with this next one. 
Sonic : What do you mean? 
Scribble : Teamwork isn't as important for this one. You will see why. 
As Jet prepares to throw a water jar at the Dark Pheonix, it fires feather missiles at him, forcing him to dodge around. Meanwhile, Alan and Blaze grab a water jar each, but Alan then gets a idea and charges it with his Lightning power, before throwing it. The two jars smash against the flaming bird just as it was selecting another target, putting it out then shocking it. Alan then runs in, a light orb in hand, and embeds it into the Dark Pheonix. The Dark Pheonix screeches in agony as it burns in a way it's not immune to, until it's beaten down enough and fades into dark smoke, as well as some of the Pheonix's spirit, which flies off. 
Alan: Let's go in. 
The three enter the temple and run for the doors, unknowingly followed by something... Upon entering the group would notice something different from the other temple, this one had a sign before hand. "The Star must traverse the cold, the same cold that inhabitants freezed those of old. The Sun must escape the inferno, a hell of which any have escaped or foretold. The Moon must fight the tides, the ocean which no sailor could control."
Jet : I don't get it.
Blaze : We probably have to go into a different climate each, a frozen one, a burning one and an ocean? 
Blaze, being literally able to walk on lava, enters the Sun door. As Alan's deciding which door he should choose, is ran past by a armored thing, which takes the Star Door. 
Alan: What the- Jet, you take the Moon Door. 
Jet: What? Why me? 
Alan: The "Legendary Wind Master" can't cross the sea? 
Jet: When you put it like that... 
Jet takes the Moon Door. Alan initially tries to take the Star Door, but it doesn't open with someone already in it, so he just goes outside to mess up some monsters. As he looks out over the darkness, two Nightmares watch him, seeing him, but for some reason not engaging.
Scribble : Interesting, looks like we might have a squabble within one of the temples. Team Stealth Heroes are definitely smart, but will the Sol Defenders let this slide so easily? Give me your thoughts Tangle, Sonic. 
Sonic: I... don't actually know. Silent Night's proven rather intelligent for a Dark Gaia Monster, but i don't know if he can solve a Gaia Temple. 
Tangle: They're gonna fight and it's gonna be cool! 
Sonic: Pfft. He'll go down in five seconds. 
Scribble : I don't know. You don't think he would be sent out without the proper preparations right? 
Jet would watch as the ocean around him frollicked, standing on a concrete platform. 
Jet : Hmmm, pretty big... 
Jet would look around, trying to see any possible objectives. Jet would notice a whirlpool up ahead, a crescent moon hovering above it. 
Jet : Guess that's my goal. Let's get this started then! 
Jet would put on his goggles and take off on his Extreme Gear, he would sort of feel good having the ocean breeze blow against him, leaving a trail of mist on the surface of the sea. This comfort would be shortlived as a massive echoing sound came from below. 
Jet : What? What was- 
Jet would see a massive shadow beneath him, growing darker and darker, the tides becoming rougher and rougher until the water around him would burst, luckily Jet would perform a quick maneuver that would propel him high in the air, he would look down to see what happened while he still had air time and see some sort of Dark Gaia Whale. 
Jet : Great! Just my luck... 
Jet immediately turns back towards the crescent moon, and dashes towards it. While he gets near it within seconds, the Dark Whale manages to keep up with him. As Jet snatches the crescent moon out of the air, the Dark Whale attempts to snatch him out of the air. Jet air rolls out of the way, but he notices that there's something glowing through the Dark Whale, something that seems important too. 
Jet: I'll have to enter the whale without getting chomped on... 
As Jet ponders on how to do that, the Dark Whale sprays a fountain of darkness out of it's blowhole, spewing out multiple flying monsters that immediately target Jet. Dark Frights would begin to tail Jet, Jet would come up with an idea to use them as potential platforms.
Jet : Yeah, keep following me! I'll make sure you regret it!
Jet would make a hard turn, using the momentum and waves to go into the air, he would land on a Dark Fright, flipping and doing tricks off it onto another while taking out the previous. Eventually he would be face to face with the Whale, this time the Whale jumping out of the water to get him. Being airborne gave Jet the freedom to move around, allowing for him to just barely get inside of the whale. Upon landing a distance in, Jet would hop off his extreme gear and take of his goggles.
Jet : Alright, what's in here that's so important? 
Jet then notices what the glowing item was. It shared the same color as the Crescent Moon, and with how it was shaped, Jet knew it had to fit with the crescent. Wasting no more time, Jet dashed in and retrieved the item, before attaching it to the other piece, forming a New Moon. As the pieces joined, the insides of the Dark Whale faded away, until Jet found himself standing in a place similar to the temple entrance, but unlike the entrance, there didn't seem to be a way out. Jet was about to look for anything to progress, but before he managed that, Blaze appeared next to him, followed by the monster. Jet wondered what Blaze had to deal with before looking around... 
As the world changed again, Blaze looked out at the environment before her. What she saw shocked her. The area was rocky, yeah. There was a volcano in the distance. But there wasn't much lava in the area. Blaze had expected something like Lava Reef Zone.
Scribble : Now's the fun part. The next part, a fantasy world!
Sonic : Fantasy world?
Tangle : Fantasy world?!
Scribble : Yes, they must defeat the "Dark King" and save the land! Only then will the bracelet piece be revealed. 
Blaze then noticed a castle in the distance. Figuring something important was there, she ran in it's direction immediately. Silent Night would naturally sense the Dark King due to the same energy, Silent Night would opt to explore a nearby village, hoping to find gear or possible upgrades. Jet would just watch the Deep Nightmare advance towards the village a bit confused, but would assume it was just some Scribble shenanigans.
Jet : Hey! Blaze! Wait up!
Jet would hop on his Extreme Gear and follow close by.
Blaze: Jet?
Jet: Where are you going without backup?
Blaze: Off to find the bracelet piece... Random question, but what did you experience in your room?
Jet: It was a big ocean, and there was a monster whale i had to take treasure from. Why? What did you experience?
Blaze: Nothing. It's as if Scribble forgot I was there. I went from the door i entered, to that room from earlier. 
Jet : What? You mean you got a easy pass and I didn't? Also, what's up with that nightmare? 
Blaze looks over at the town behind them. The area was surprisingly small, so they could still see Silent Night, if barely. 
Blaze: Don't know. It's clearly someone's but i don't yet know who's. I almost asked it if it had skipped the challenge too, until remembering it likely can't speak. 
Sonic then realizes, and looks at Scribble. 
Sonic: You really did forget those two, didn't you! 
Scribble : Well, to be fair. Blaze would've had a cake walk and the Nightmare wouldn't really be effected by the cold and its threats. It's better if I just let them pass without the whole trial thing. Plus, Jet needs to do a bit more. 
Deciding that the Dark Gaia Monster might be onto something, Blaze and Jet run off back in it's direction. Hearing the commotion Silent Night would turn back and see the two coming towards him, this would cause the Deep Nightmare to be on guard, while still progressing towards the village. It immediately is less on guard though when the two pass by him and start investigating as well.
Silent Night : ...
Silent Night would arrive to the village, looking around and spotting Blaze and Jet. Silent Night would observe them from a distance, trying to see what they planned.
Jet: No, no and no! There's nothing of any value here!
Blaze: Well it was worth checking.
As Blaze and Jet turn around and prepare to go, they notice something coming towards them from far behind Silent Night. They look closer as Silent Night notices they're looking at something behind him, and he notices some sort of fire monster charging straight at him. Silent Night would jump out of the way, causing the monster to charge by him and towards Blaze and Jet. However, The monster would realize it wasn't moving? It would turn and see Silent Night holding it by it's tail, somehow not burning. Rather, it wasn't that he was invulnerable to flames, but that they couldn't burn him. Silent Night's hands would regenerate, the physical prowess of the Red Deep Nightmare evolution was used to such environments, much like the ones Sonic faced in the past in Eggmanland. Silent Night would extend his arm back like rubber and would slug the monster in the face, sending it sliding towards Blaze and Jet. The monster was still not done yet however.
Jet : That nightmare is pretty tough!
The fire monster would start to pick itself up, before Blaze would summon a pillar of fire, sending the monster far into the sky and out of sight. As the two processed the attack, Silent Night got slugged by a ice golem. As Dark Gaia Monsters could survive in complete Arctic conditions like the ones seen in Holaska, it didn't hurt much more than a normal punch, but when it countered with a punch, it bounced right off the Ice Golem. It stood no chance against Blaze, however, and was melted.
Blaze: I suppose since we skipped our challenges, they would come back in this final one.
The three immediately noticed the charging army of fire and ice creatures, and not willing to get caught up in that, ran around them, though Silent Night had to be more clever about it than the others. Silent Night would extend his arms and manage to grab a tree, however he would steady himself and rip out the tree from its root, hurling the tree towards the army. This wouldn't stop the army but it did give him enough time to dig and tunnel into the ground. As Blaze and Jet made it past the army and approached the bridge to the castle, a dragon thing busted out of the... frozen lava? It then perched atop the castle itself, and Blaze noticed that one head had one eye and was made of ice, while Jet saw the head that was made of lava and had two eyes. Both then saw that the monster's main body was formed of frozen, or at least frosted, volcanic rock, and it had a tail made of ice and filled with lava somehow, with a green orb at the end of it. Seemingly satisfied with it's opening, it sprayed boiling water at the two of them by combining it's breaths.
Sonic : That's what you came up with? How is it gonna be hot and cold?
Scribble : Have you seen that Sonic OVA movie?
Sonic : What?
Scribble : Exactly. Ask them. 
Back at the castle, Blaze and Jet dodged the boiling water blast, while Blaze threw around fireballs to destroy the ice head. Unfortunately, the fire head blocked the attacks. Jet noticed the problem, then had a idea. 
Jet: Blaze, if i throw you at the ice head, you can melt it and cut down on the Double Trouble we're dealing with! 
Blaze: How will you get me up there? 
Jet: Hold on to my Extreme Gear! 
Blaze, lacking a better plan, grabs onto Jet's Extreme Gear. Jet then blasted up towards the Fire and Ice dragon, his Extreme Gear doing the best it could to fly them both up, before Jet charged headlong at the ice head, dodging both it's and the fire head's attacks while hoping Blaze understood what he was doing. As he just about reached the head, he sharply turned back around, and Blaze let go, using the momentum to launch herself at the ice head. It chomped her out of the air, but unfortunately, Blaze had accounted for that, and let off a flame pillar in the middle of it's neck, melting most of it and the back half of the ice head, causing the rest to fall into the frozen lava, and the fire head balking at the sight. Silent Night would pop his head from out of the ground, watching what the pair were doing. Silent Night would quickly sling himself out with his elastic arms and punch and break the part of castle wall the dragon stood on, this caused the still recovering dragon to fall along with Jet and the still mid air Blaze. Jet would quickly and safely reach ground by using his Jet Dive technique. Blaze, meanwhile, took a page from Sonic and jumped along the falling debris, landing safely. Jet gave her a approving nod.
Jet: Didn't think a princess knew those kinds of moves.
Blaze: Sonic has taught me much. That, i learned a couple years back. 
Scribble would turn to Sonic. 
Scribble : That reminds me, I think I'll let your assist trophy be obtainable soon. 
Tangle: Err... 
Sonic: Basically it allows me to join the fight for whichever team grabs the trophy. 
Scribble : Indeed, perhaps you will get the chance as well Tangle. 
As Tangle watched the three challengers fight the army that had caught up with them(as well as the two other temple runs happening simultaneously,) she was reminded of a creature Sonic had told her about, and got a idea. 
Tangle: So, Scribble? Have you heard of the Ifrit? 
Scribble : Of course I have. In this continuity Ifrit was a normal entity, he belonged in the Second True Universe. I suppose if I had to describe his original form it would be like the combination of a bird and a lizard, like a dinosaur. He became an object of worship within his domain, and then the Outer God of Elements, Prime came down to meet him. The god was bored and had heard stories across his True Universe about Ifrit, it was said Ifrit possessed a powerful destructive power and that allowed him to rule a sector of his galaxy. Prime, impressed gave him a gift, a small gift. It was a flame, a chaotic flame, it transformed Ifrit and made his body become lava and fire. the flame was powerful, it allowed him to exist on a higher dimensional plane although, the galaxy he ruled was now gone. The power was to much for him to handle at first, it resulted in the destruction of most of the dimension he resided in. He now travels through dimensions, destroying, subjugating and claiming other dimensions. Ifrit is also a Djinn, much like Erazor Djinn down there. True Universes have similar deities, with slight differences. The True Universe Erazor is from has humanoid Djinn, meanwhile the True Universe Ifrit is from are more like dinosaur. 
Tangle: Wow. And here I just thought the Ifrit was a dragon Eggman Nega wanted to use for destruction. 
Scribble : Perhaps for you, within my realm the history is very different. If you want, I could bring Prime here. 
Sonic and Tangle: Who? 
Scribble : Prime, Outer God of Elements. There are currently Five version of him that exist in five different True Multiverse, of course I'd bring the original. 
Tangle: Nah, anyways, the reason I was asking is that maybe you could summon a Ifrit here, but on the side of a specific team, such as the one Whisper’s on? 
Scribble : Giving a random team a dimension and life wiping companion? I think not, however. I will consider it if someone can assemble the Light Gaia Bracelet, after all, the power of the Gaia Colossus is incredible. 
Sonic: It is destructive, but it wasn’t all that strong. Maybe it’s stronger where you come from. 
Tangle: Eh, either way, let’s get back to what actually matters here! 
Scribble : Indeed, you will see it's power once they assemble it. It's is far more evolved than what you've seen in your dimension, rebirth is powerful. 
The dragon would lift itself up, clearly enraged by the destruction of it's previous footing and would slam it's tail. Wave of Ice and Fire would be released, burning and freezing the the land as it passed.
Blaze: Quick! It’s exposed!
Blaze and Jet charge in, dodging the waves and attack the tail with their strongest attacks, causing the fire head to whimper almost like a puppy, before pulling away the tail and lighting it on fire, giving it a defence against the two. Silent Night, meanwhile, was at the edge of its range, attacking the army.
Scribble : Seems like the fight between them is about to come to an end. 
Sonic: Pfft. After their first hit to the real weak point? I don’t think so. 
As Blaze is about to attack the fire head, she notices an ice sculpture in the shape of the ice head forming where the ice head was. Just as she points it out to Jet, the ice head reforms out of the sculpture. 
Jet: That thing’s head just reformed! 
Blaze: The tail must be the real weak point! 
Silent Night heard that, and reacts by grabbing an ice creature and tossing it at the tail, putting it out. The Fire and Ice creature responds by spinning rapidly with it’s tail across the ground, stirring up a frozen yet firey whirlwind, which tossed out fireballs and ice chunks constantly.
Scribble : Give it five minutes, trust me.
Silent Night would block the attacks, meanwhile Blaze and Jet would weave around them, waiting for the attack to halt. Soon it does, the dual headed dragon dizzy from the spinning and the tail right in front of the group. Before Blaze and Jet could attack it's tails, a massive boulder would fall on it. The Dragon would shriek in pain.
Jet : I guess all that force caused that to happen. 
Having been damaged, the dragon freezes it’s tail for protection, before creating a firey ice bomb, sending a dual element attack at the three. Blaze, realizing the explosion would be to big to odge would attempt to blast back at it. The dragons attack was too powerful, Blaze's attack only slowing it down. Surprisingly, Silent Night would stand behind Blaze and ready his auto-cannons, firing back at the attack with Blaze. Jet would join in with his fans, and they would negate the attack. The huge explosion would exhaust the dragon, and it catches it’s breath.
Jet : Now's our chance!
The group would launch another combined attack towards the Tail, this time completely destroying it. The dragon roars out of pain over its broken tail, before the leaking lava reduces the dragon to soaked igneous rock, which crumbles away. The fire and ice army then crumbles as well, and the area fades into a central chamber, with the door locked. On the floor are a Sun and a Moon key
Jet: I presume we grab these keys to open the door. 
Blaze : Most likely, Let's see who this "Dark King" is. 
Scribble : See, five minutes. 
As they attempt to pick up the key halves, they, and the room as a whole fade away for the second time, revealing a dark room, lit only by glowing yellow eyes. Blaze threw a flame at its feet to see the “Dark King”, but it didn’t catch. Silent Night, feeling the powerful darkness, held position.
Dark King : Who enters my Domain? Perhaps your a Jester? An adventurer? A knight? No, you are fools. Thou must pass one last test. Face your fears, or be conquered by the darkness. Only then, shall I reward you. 
Jet: And what does that mean? 
A snapping of fingers could be heard, a door would appear in front of each of them. 
Dark King : You will know. 
Blaze runs through first, immediately being greeted with a cliff, and looking down as a result of skidding to a stop.
Jet : Blaze? What do you see? 
Blaze: This door put me atop a cliff! 
Jet: What? Is that all? Don't worry, i'll fly down and- 
Jet would be propelled back by some invisible force blocking the door. 
Dark King : You will know patience and for when to wait your turn, child. 
Blaze almost starts hyperventilating, but catches herself. 
Blaze: I will not do this now. Not when my team is counting on me! 
Blaze then jumps down, using her Fire Jet technique to float downwards slowly, dissipating the illusion of the long fall and sending her into a dark room with a button. With no other options, Blaze presses the button.
Scribble : You know, I wonder what your fears are. I mean surely you both have some. 
Tangle: I... don't like to talk about it. 
Sonic: Oh water for me... I hate that stuff... 
Dark King : Proceed, bird. 
Jet zooms in, and immediately falls onto the ground as his Extreme Gear disappears. 
Jet: Ahh! Nonono, where is it?! 
Blaze: Calm yourself, this is a challenge to confront your greatest fear. 
Jet: Sure, but where do i go?! 
Scribble : Sonic, Jet seems quite the prideful fellow. What do you think his fear is? 
Sonic: Considering what i can see, he fears losing his Extreme Gear. 
Scribble : Interesting, how about we have him meet a version of himself that became great without one. 
The environment would change to an open field surrounded by lush trees. 
Jet : Uh... This is nice I guess? What's the challenge? This can't be all. 
??? : Turn around. 
Jet would turn, curious who was speaking. 
Sir Lamorak : Your me? No way! If your really me you should have some great skill right? Perhaps your fast? 
Jet: I'm the best with Extreme Gear! But since i don't have it here, i'm also great with my fans! 
Sir Lamorak : Let me get this straight. The one thing your good with you don't have? Your only other quality is your fans?
Lamorak would let out laughter. 
Sir Lamorak : Fans? I have the whole kingdom!! 
Suddenly, out of no where, A massive group of people would show up cheering and chanting Lamoraks name, Lamorak would of course bathe in the compliments and the praise. 
Sir Lamorak : Tell me, what's your name. Because I haven't heard a single one of them screaming yours. 
Jet: A: Kinda cheating when we're in your land, and B: Oh, you thought i meant those fans? I mean THESE FANS! 
Jet surprise attacks Lamorak with his battle fans, knocking him against a tree. 
Jet: The name's Jet the Hawk! I'm the Legendary Wind Master back home. But i suppose you know nothing of legends here. 
Lamorak would pick himself up. 
Sir Lamorak : You got heart! Alright then "Legendary Wind Master". Let's see what your really made of. 
Lamorak would unsheathe both of his axe like swords, playing and twirling them through his fingers to add flair. 
Sir Lamorak : I'm Sir Lamorak, Fastest Knight of the Round Table. Think you can keep up? 
Jet immediately responds by swinging his battle fans again, blowing wind that Lamorak dodges. Lamorak of course responds by closing the distance and swinging his axe-swords at Jet, who barely ducks under them, and uses his wind attack again. Lamorak blocks just as swift as the wind Jet lets loose, this would send him back a little, but still on his feet. Lamorak's Soul Gauge would be nicely filled and would perform a Wild Meteor, throwing one of his swords towards Jet which Jet dodges, but would be met with a second blade where he dodged. Jet would of course dodge this back to his original position barely but would be cut on his face by the first blade boomeranging back.
Sir Lamorak : Still got it. 
Jet charges at Lamorak, who tries to cut him down, but Jet slides under him and knocks him off his feet, and as Lamorak gets back up, he sees that Jet has one of his blades. 
Jet: I try not to steal weapons if i can help it, but this is a special circumstance. 
Jet immediately charges in, opening with a fan swing, before pulling out the axe-blade at melee range. Lamorak parries the discharge of wind, just in time to parry the sister axe-blade. The momentum of the parry would open up a window for Lamorak to sweep Jet and take back his weapon.
Lamorak : Don't sweat it, I'm fine with or without!
Lamorak would wind back his leg for a kick, Jet would see this arrogance as the perfect opportunity to counter. Jet would take his fans and swing it down, making it connect with the kick. This causes Lamorak to fall flat on his face, and by the time he looks up Jet would be standing above, axe-blade pointed at Lamorak.
Lamorak : Heh, not bad. Guess I am really am that good!
Lamorak would then dissipate into a purple mist, the illusion also disappearing.
Jet: Looks like i'm fine even without my Extreme Gear!
Jet's then warped back into the dark room, and it's Silent Night's turn now.
Sonic: Do Dark Gaia Monsters even fear things? 
Scribble : Maybe no before... But they do not forget. Take a guess at what they fear now. 
Sonic: I dunno, the sun? 
Scribble : No Sonic, they fear You. 
Silent Night would enter next, the area would change to Eggmanland, in front of him would appear Sonic, the Werehog.
Jet: You seeing this too?
Blaze: Yes. But i don't understand it.
Silent Night, meanwhile, understands it, and feels a fear of it that runs as deep as the Dark Gaia Energy that comprises him. The fear of the darkness that fought for the light. Immediately, it runs from the Werehog, knowing he stands no chance. However, the Werehog gets down on all fours and simply chases. Knowing it can't run forever, Silent Night looked for some sort of way out. It noticed a switch just past the Werehog, and as such, made a break for it. Silent Night could hear it, the restless breathing, the ground being crushed as Sonic approached and just before he could reach the switch, it was too late. He was caught. Sonic's arm would have stretched to grab Silent Nights arm, pulling him back. Silent Night would look up to see Sonic, howling into the nothingness, the molten scene of Eggmanland mixed with the cybernetics only making an even more hopeless setting sink in. As he's about to succumb to the unfamiliar feeling of fear, however, flashes of Team Stealth Heroes appear to him, reminding him he's no ordinary monster, but a member of the team, equipped with gear no normal monster has, such as the autofire weapons, which immediately push the Werehog back.
Werehog?: What... kind of gear is this? Did Eggman give this to you? 
Scribble : Interesting, most Dark Gaia Minion have something similar to a hive mind. This one seems more independant, like a real offspring. Hmmm. 
Sonic: He's being treated like a real member of Team Stealth Heroes, i think he's somehow copying what he witnesses, teamwork and stealth most of all. 
Silent Night would steady a fire on the beast with his weapons. Closing in the distance and pushing the Werehog back. However, it wouldn't be that easy. Suddenly the cannons wouldn't push Sonic back, in fact. Sonic now had a deep blue and purple haze over him. The Werehog had entered it's unleashed state. Silent Night was not scared however and push on. The two would then properly duel each other, the perfect unification of Light and Dark facing off against something between. Thanks to the focused power of Silent Night, it was able to block even the Unleashed blows of the Werehog, at least until the Werehog threw it around. As the Werehog was about to beat Silent Night into the ground however, he noticed a marking on the back of Silent Night's armor. Not a Eggman insignia like he expected, nor some sort of Dark Gaia symbol, but a insignia similar to the yin-yang symbol, used by Tails to represent the combination of Stealth Heroes's light with Dark Gaia's darkness. This confuses the Werehog.
Werehog?: You... who are you? 
Silent Night would then open it's mouth to speak for the first time. 
Silent Night : Shhyy...enttt... Nighhh.... 
Werehog?: Silent Nigh? I've never heard a Dark Gaia Monster speak... You have your own identity, don't you? 
Silent Night would nod.
Werehog?: I can respect that. Since you can speak, who gave you that gear? 
Silent Night : Ttayulll... 
Werehog?: Tail...? Tails?! 
Silent Night would nod.
Werehog?: That would explain the armor... Any friend of Tails is a friend of mine.
The Werehog gets out of Silent Night's way, allowing him to actually reach the switch. Upon pressing the switch the room would return to the room they started, the Dark King now visible and the room not so dark.
Dark King : Very well. Claim your prize.
The dark king would hold out the bracelet piece, allowing for any of them to take it. Silent Night immediately stretches his arm to grab it, but is stopped by Blaze, allowing Jet to claim the piece, where he spins around for a bit before displaying it.
Jet: Yes! Victory!
The room then fades away to reveal the entrance room they had entered in the first place. Now that they were no longer bound by being in the same challenge, Silent Night fled, knowing he was outclassed by the two. As he exits, Alan notices him and attempts to attack, before being stopped by Blaze.
Alan: Eh? 
Blaze: He did well working with us. Letting him go is the least we can do.
Alan: Alright. In other news, i've gathered a lot of stuff. The Dark Gaia Monsters can still drop energy crystals and Chaos Drives, so i have a couple on hand.
Jet: Yeah, there's a idea! Let's check out the middle of this place!
Team Sol Defenders run off towards the center.
Team Tarot(during Team Sol Defender's adventure)
Amy: So this is the Dark Vortex?
Dria: Yep. We're looking for a Gaia Temple.
As they think of how to locate one, a pack of Nightmares approaches them.
Jeckal : Looks like we got some small fry! 
Amy and Jeckal, both with a power boosting item, destroy the Nightmares in ten seconds flat. 
Dria: That's one good item! 
Amy: I've figured out how to properly use that Emblem. 
Jeckal: Now if you'll give me a second... 
Jeckal uses his Phantom Power to get a rough estimate of where the next unentered Gaia Temple is. 
Jeckal: Alright, somewhere straight ahead is another Gaia Temple. 
Dria: Good! Now let's get there! 
Team Tarot immediately go full speed ahead, blasting past many monster packs before reaching the temple. 
Dria: Alright, where is it? 
Amy: Is what? 
As if to answer her question, the Auto-Egg Devil Ray attacks the group. It immediatly shoot blasts of energy towards the group, Jeckal jumping up and kicking them back only to have them destroyed by a energy shield.
Jeckal : Always a shield... 
Amy: Hang on, i think i saw Sonic fight this thing! 
Dria: Ok? What do we do? 
Amy: Well, first we wait... 
The Auto-Egg Devil Ray fires it's lasers at Team Tarot's current position, which they dodge, before dropping it's shield.
Amy: And now we attack!
Team Tarot collectively beat down on the Auto-Egg Devil Ray until it reactivates it's shield.
Jeckal : This can't be all? This things practically chump change!
As if to respond to him now, the Auto-Egg Devil Ray summons a hardlight path similar to how the Auto-Egg Beetle did it, and uses a tornado to launch him onto it, where he's forced to run after the Eggman machine.
Jeckal : Heh! Didn't think you could hurt a robots feelings!
The Auto-Egg Devil Ray would align it's laser to the side forcing Jeckal to jump and duck them while also avoiding energy blasts. Eventually the Shield would deactivate and Jeckal, feeling a bit creative would material an axe guitar, using the symphony created from it to damage the Guardian. Unfortunately, this indiscriminate attack would punch a hole into the platform, and the Auto-Egg Devil Ray would exploit this, smashing the path to bits with Jeckal on it and forcing the two of them into a pool of water, where the Auto-Egg Devil Ray would immediately attack with a laser across the arena. Jeckal would dash above it, and proceed forward. The water itself having no effect on Jeckal due to his Phantom Energy.
Jeckal : I'll say it again! This all you got?! 
The Auto-Egg Devil Ray responds by deploying it's laser emitters around the arena, multiple over Jeckal's head, making his position no longer safe. Jeckal would slow down a bit, allowing for the lasers to miss him. Looking ahead he would see walls of lasers with tiny little space he could jump through.
Jeckal : Look's like we're playing hole in the wall!
Jeckal would manage to fit through each gap and eventually the shield would go down, allowing Jeckal to attack it. As he did, the mech started smoking, and the Auto-Egg Devil Ray pulled out it's trump attack, turning some of it's lasers into fans to create a whirlpool, sucking Jeckal towards it, while using the other lasers to attack Jeckal as he attempts to not get sucked in. Jeckal would manage to find balance by using smaller Phantom Blasts to propel himself away while using acrobatics to dodge, eventually the shield would lower again and Jeckal would shove a massive ball of Phantom Energy into it, sending it up and out of the water. The others could see the explosion, launching out holo Mini Fighters and turning into fireworks in the the shape of Jeckals face smirking. Eventually Jeckal would appear next to the group.
Jeckal : Piece of cake!
Amy: Great!
Team Tarot then charge into the temple. Upon entering, this temple would have a door with the Sun, Moon and Star. The group would of course advance into it. Upon entering they would see Dark Gaia Variants of themselves and the room would seem like a large gym.
Jeckal : Huh? This... isn't what I expected.
Speakers : DODGEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE 2 MINUTES TO PREPARE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Team Tarot would look at eachother confused.
Jeckal : Guess it's gonna be a sports temple or somethin'.
Dria: Prepare? With what?
Dria turns to see a ton of blocks to build with.
Dria: Oh. 
Jeckal : Any ideas? I don't usually play sports.
Dria: There's blocks here. If we build cover, we'll have a easier time. As for dodgeball, rules are simple. Hit your opponent with a ball, don't get hit back. Wait what rules are we using?
Speakers : Rules will be explained at match start.
Amy: Ok. 
Team Tarot use the remaining time to build a literal block fortress, with the spare blocks vanishing at match start.
Speakers : To win, eliminate the other team. Each member of a team has Five hitpoints, get hit five times and your out. Catch a ball and your team can come back into the game, however they will only come back with one hitpoint. You regain a hitpoint for every ball caught and catching balls counts as a hit against the thrower. Any Questions? 
Amy: Sounds simple enough. 
Dria: Alright. 3 2 1. 
Team Tarot and their Monster counterparts run out and grab two balls each, before retreating behind the line to not immediately get hit.
Jeckal : Ya' think it'd be cheating if I used some powers on my throw? 
Dria: Dunno. 
Amy pulls out her hammer and blasts one of her balls at her copy from the top of the fortress, hitting them and knocking them to the back. Jeckal then create an illusion ball and throws it, his copy tries catching it. However, it goes through him due to being an illusion, the copy would then get hit by the real ball.
Jeckal : Heh! 
Dria, meanwhile, is taking cover as the nightmare variants throw their own dodgeballs around. 
Dria: If only i had my powers right now... 
Jeckal : Eh? Don't you got that Wispon thingy? 
Dria: I can't attack the enemy with it! 
Jeckal : Win some, Lose some. 
As Dria continues ducking, the Hydra Wispon fired at a dodgeball that one of the Dark fighters threw, knocking it back. The Dark Amy clone would bat it back with her hammer, hitting Jeckal off to the side.
Jeckal : %$@#!!! 
Dria: Uh oh. 
Dria, worrying about any tossed balls being caught, lightly lobs them so they can't be caught. Feathers, however, has a better idea and shoots the balls at the Dark Dria, hitting her twice.
Jeckal : Yeah!! Nice double hit! 
Dria looks up to see Jeckal already back in position. Deciding to avoid questioning it, Dria got up to properly shoot down oncoming balls. Amy and Jeckal would come up with an idea, and would begin targeting the enemy teams walls, breaking down their defenses for clearer hits.
Dria: Wait huh. I didn't notice they had walls too. 
Amy : Jeckal noticed them, I didn't either until he told me. 
Jeckal : Yeah, surprised you guys couldn't see em'? 
Amy : Well, their semi-invisible, it's hard to notice. Not everyone has your powers. 
Amy would catch a ball from the opposing side, and immediately tag the Jeckal Clone.
Amy: Try this!
Amy hammers her dodgeball at Dark Jeckal, but it was parried by Dark Amy. Not to be outdone, Amy parried it again, and struck Dark Amy in the face, knocking her and Dark Jeckal across the field.
Jeckal : Nice! 
Amy: Thanks! 
Scribble : They seem to be dealing with the other team pretty easily, think we should increase the difficulty? 
Sonic: Nah. I'm enjoying the sight of Amy beating down the enemy team. 
Jeckal would drastically increase his balls rotation before throwing it, ricocheting off all the dark clones. This would manage to get one of them out.
Dria: Scratch Dark Jeckal! 
Speakers : BREAK TIME!!!!!! All participants, please take this time to rest and plan for the next round. 
Dria: Eh? We didn't even defeat them all. And i thought this was one round only. 
Jeckal would shrug. 
Jeckal : You know Scribble, always planning something. 
Amy: Hey, look, more blocks. 
Noticing the blocks, Team Tarot spend the rest of the break reinforcing their fortress.
Jeckal : Oh hey, look at this screen. Say's the next round will be... "Laser Balls"? 
Dria: What does that mean? 
Jeckal : Has the picture of a Cyan Wisp next to it. 
Dria: Ahh, i get it now. We're throwing balls that act like Laser! 
Jeckal : What's that like? 
Amy: Sonic showed me once. Laser allows the user to aim, then launch themselves at light speed towards whatever they aimed at, bouncing off walls if needed. There's also these prisms that Cyan Wisps create that they can reflect off of. 
Jeckal : Sounds neat. 
Dria: Scribble! What are the rules for this game? 
Speakers : Same as before! However, you will all be given prism mirror shields to reflect the laser balls! Good luck!! 
As the speakers finished, the mirror shields appeared on everyone's left arm. 
Amy: Let's see how this works. 
Amy ran out to grab a ball, and immediately had to deflect the shots of the dark copies, which the shield thankfully did well, allowing Amy to obtain two laser balls.
Heeh Heeh Heeh Hehmmm...
Sonic : What was that?
Scribble : What?
Sonic : Sounded like a weird giggle.
Scribble shrugs.
Scribble : No idea.
Jeckal would jump over a laser, causing it to ricochet off the wall and return back to where he was. This time he would reflect it, but so would his copy. This would go on for a while like a game of ping pong. Eventually, Feathers would make the mistake of shooting it, and the ball snipes everyone in the room twice before shattering.
Dria: Okay, ow!
Amy: So... who took damage there? 
Jeckal : Watch what your doing!! Tsk! 
The dark clones only now drag themselves up, being imperfect for the sake of the game, and Amy capitalizes by sniping them safely.
Jeckal : Right then, one more hit on all of them and we win I think. 
Amy: I've got this! 
Dark Dria then throws a Laser ball at Jeckal, but Amy Soul Surges into position and deflects it with the shield at Dark Amy, who's caught off guard and taken down.
Jeckal : Can't let you outdo me!
Jeckal would create giant phantom hands, they would throw the ball with extreme precision. Dark Amy had no time to deflect it, causing her to be out of the game.
Amy: Congratulations. You hit someone while they were down.
Dria: Hmm.
Dria throws a Laser ball at her dark self, who reflects it, only for Dria to reflect it at Dark Jeckal, who dodges, only for the ball to hit Dark Dria in the side.
Dria: Dang it! I missed!
Amy: You didn't miss. 
Jeckal : I mean, she sort of missed? 
To finish the game, Amy tossed a Laser ball at Dark Jeckal, properly hitting him this time. 
Amy: And that makes three. 
Speakers : AMAZING JOB!!!!!!! Time for the next game! 
The surroundings would now shift to a giant race track. 
Speakers : It's time, for the 50 kilometer battle marathon!!! Take time to prepare, and remember, first full team to make a full rotation wins. 
Dria: Rules first! 
Speakers : I'll explain once we begin! But do feel free to check out the racing gear lined up in the back. 
Dria and Amy look into the back to see their Riders outfits, as well as their Board-type Extreme Gear. Jeckal looks at them and wonders what this stuff is.
Jeckal : Why do you guys just have stuff like this ready for you? 
Dria: Scribble, of course. 
The two then grab their outfits and run into the convenient changing rooms to... well, change.
Jeckal : Guess I don't get anything... then again. I could just materialize my own. 
Scribble: I haven't reviewed your story, do you have these things? 
Jeckal : I have a motorcycle, custom designed and tuned. It's my treasure, it may not be an Extreme Gear but it may as well be. I can boost it with my own phantom energy, there's no vehicle like it! 
Scribble : Right, I suppose within the "Cyne the Hedgehog" article it does say you like to "listen to Highway Star by Deep Purple while riding down roads on a bike" and you certainly have the biker aesthetic. Doesn't mention extra details on your bike anywhere... 
Jeckal : I don't know what that means, article? If it's something someone wrote about me than that's not my fault, ask the publisher. 
Scribble : It's not a paper... It's a section on a page detailing your existence, I suppose since your the spin-off of another character they didn't go into further detail. Wait, what am I saying, my creator is the one who did that. 
Scribble would bust out in laughter. 
Scribble : Can you believe that guys?! Anyways heres your bike. 
As the two girls exit the changing rooms, they see Jeckal on his bike, looking the most confident he'd been since the Turf War started. 
Dria: O... kay then. 
Amy: Well, we're ready. 
Dark Gaia clones would once again appear, using the same gear as their real counterparts, albeit with a Dark Gaia touch.
Dria: Looks like our "friends" are back!
Dria, Amy and their copies held their Extreme Gear to their left, while the Jeckals were already on their bikes, ready to go.
Speakers : Ready, Set, RACE!!! 
As the speakers were speaking, the Extreme Gear Racers backed up and then ran ahead, with the Jeckals flooring it upon RACE!
Jeckal : Heh! Those slow pokes can't keep up with a real rockstar! Speaking of which, no need for lip syncers!
Jeckal would drive next to his clone, attempting to punch him, the clone would dodge and headbutt Jeckal. Jeckal would reelback from this, and kick his clone, leaving him in the dust and on the ground.
Jeckal : Later loser!! 
Unbeknownst to Jeckal, his clone's bike had exploded, covering his clone vanishing. The two would then respawn a bit behind Jeckal. 
Dria: There are defensive measures to use you know! 
Dria's Wispon fired at Dark Dria, who was soon defeated, falling backwards and exploding, before respawning somewhere behind Dria, which Amy noticed. 
Amy: They respawn! 
Jeckal : Huh? Oof! 
The Jeckal clone would have bumped the back of Jeckals bike, almost tipping him over. 
Jeckal : Aw, you %$## FACE!! NOT THE LICENSE PLATE!! 
Jeckal would do a handstand on his motorcycle and kick the Jeckal in the face, causing it to respawn again. 
Jeckal : This is a nuisance! 
Amy: We just have to keep moving! 
The trio would be about a fifth of the way by now. 
Scribble : So, how do you two think you would do down there in that race? 
Sonic: I would've been done by now. 
Tangle: I wouldn't be a seventh of the way there yet. 
Scribble : Well, the pressure of clones of yourself trying to kill you will probably make it go faster if you aren't Sonic.
Tangle: Maybe. 
Back on the track, Team Tarot were running into some turns. With how sharp the turns were, the Extreme Gear were doing alright, but both Jeckals were having a harder time.
Jeckal : Tch! Can't crank out any wheelies to ease the narrow turns with this faker on my tail.
Jeckal Clone : DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeckal : If that's what you want!
Jeckal would kick his clone off the track, using the force to realign himself.
Dria: Clever.
The team then ran into a sick loop with a Dash Panel. Because Extreme Gear float, the riders couldn't use the speed and had to go around, but Jeckal managed to do the loop.
Jeckal : What other things are on this track?
Scribble : Wait till he see's the Giant Chopper consuming the track! Hah! 
Dria: Dunno- WOAH SPIKE TRAPS! 
Everyone's forced to dodge constantly as spike traps litter the road, with Dria cleverly "jumping" one of them, taking out her copy for a bit. 
Amy: Nice work. 
Dark Amy then smacks the real Amy into a spike trap, taking her out... for two seconds before she respawns like the copies do. 
Amy: I guess we have the respawning too. 
Jeckal : Spikes? 
Jeckal decides to put some of his energy into his bike, using this would boost his motorcycle up into the air, leaping across and leaving his clone to die again.
Dria: Nice one.
Amy: It seems there's another clear section up ahead. 
Jeckal : Good! I've had enough of this! 
As they began riding across the section, however, a rumbling would be heard... A Giant Chopper would burst out from behind them, destroying a large part of the track and quickly consuming the track ahead.
Jeckal : WHAT?! 
Amy: It's that stupid Giant Chopper again! 
Even the Dark Gaia clones seemed worried at the sight of the giant metal fish.
Jeckal : It it getting faster?!
Jeckal would notice one of his clones grab a bomb, he kind of wondered why bombs were on the stage all of a sudden but thinks its just some scribble scheme. The clone would throw a bomb at the Giant Chopper, slowing it down.
Amy : I get it! We need to slow it down with the bombs that spawn! 
Dria immediately starts collecting the scattered bombs while Amy just smacks them with her hammer at the Giant Chopper.
Scribble : Let's activate the hole walls.
Walls would appear on the track, having small holes that they would need to squeeze through, along with the Chopper still giving chase.
Jeckal: More hole in the wall!
While Team Tarot dash through the holes with ease, their copies didn't. As the Giant Chopper busts through the wall, it gets bombarded by Dria.
Jeckal : Gah! This feels like a lot more than just a race! 
Dria: It's a Scribble challenge! Something always gives in them! 
Amy, frustrated, perfectly strikes a bomb into the Giant Chopper's mouth, which finally destroys it. The road doesn't stop collapsing however. 
Dria: What's that up ahead? 
Jeckal: Multiple paths! 
Scribble : Each path has a unique challenge, hope they have fun! 
Dria and her dark copy take the middle path, which locks behind them, and the Amys take the left path, forcing the Jeckals to the right.
Jeckal : So what's on this path?
As Jeckal went ahead, he would soon notice the path change into an acidic wasteland.
Jeckal : God, it reeks here. 
As the Jeckals dodged around all the acid, they ran into ramps that launched them from safezone to safezone, until reaching a path that spiraled. As he rode the spiral, he noticed the Drias racing in a battlefield, which had them bouncing along springs attached to fragile pillars.
Jeckal : What the? What does Amy have to deal with? 
The Amys, in fact, had to deal with a normal looking Sonic stage with rails to grind on everywhere, and some pits, as well as a grinding past water spouts setpiece.
Scribble : This is the halfway mark. Do you guys want to have some input on the challenges they face? 
Tangle: How about a racetrack floating on water? 
Sonic: That sounds so cursed. But anyways, what about a segment where they race on foot? 
Scribble : On foot you say? Hmm... Why not! 
As Scribble generated the new segments on the fly, Team Tarot catch up to each other as the track remerges, with Amy having been overtaken by her copy, for the three seconds it took to shoot it. 
Dria: Bad luck? 
Amy: Sorta. 
Quickly, the team raced into a segment with them racing on a rock racetrack floating in the earth's core.
Jeckal : Now that I think about it, with how chaotic this is it reminds me of the Special Zone. 
Dria: Special Zone? 
Amy: I... don't know what that is. 
Jeckal : What? That's where the Anarchy Beryl 0r, Chaos Emeralds.... regenerate when there destroyed? Your telling you me you don't know about it? It's like a dimension made of pure chaos. Then again... You guys aren't from around where I'm from...
Amy: Yeah, no, that's not a thing where we're from. Chaos Emeralds can be reformed from their shards if destroyed though.
Jeckal : Forget it! Let's just focus on the track! It's getting a bit hot! 
The reason it was getting hot was because of lava spurts, cause of course. Team Tarot quickly navigated around them.
Dria: Jeez! I've lived with lava, but this is ridiculous! 
Scribble : The clones aren't affected by the heat either, they better hope sweat doesn't get in their eyes.
Amy: I think i see a way out!
Scribble : 66% Completion. I hope they are ready to go on foot! 
As they're about to reach the exit, they're launched off a skydive ramp, which drops them in the next segment of the course.
Speakers : Attention Racers! Your mobility devices will now slowly vanish! Do not be alarmed!
Jeckal : Huh? 
Team Tarot then notice that, as he said, their vehicles were turning transparent. The Dark Gaia Clones attempt to ignore this and get ahead, but soon fall flat on their faces, as Team Tarot run past them. Immediately the team notices upper and lower paths. Dria and Amy take a spring up to the higher path, while Jeckal goes on the lower path.
Scribble : One of water, one of Storms! I wonder how they will get past that and more. 
As Amy and Dria ran along the upper path, they grabbed a pair of gliders and were sent flying straight into a storm, with their gliders getting fried by a lightning strike, leaving them on a running path. Jeckal, meanwhile, smashed through some breakable blocks, and jumped into a lake rather than up a platforming challenge. Their clones followed the same route as them. In front of Amy and Dria small twisters would appear, in front of Jeckal small underwater whirlpools.
Amy: Let's keep away from these, i don't wanna know what will happen.
Dria: Agreed.
The two platform over and around the twisters, then off a spring setpiece with lightning striking the springs as they go. Meanwhile, in the depths, Jeckal was running around the whirlpools, before taking a grind rail that sent him to ground level, which made him take a launcher that sent him through a wall into a underground segment. The clones, not as effective as the originals, were failing badly at keeping up.
Jeckal : Pah! You guys can't keep up! I bet I'm first place. 
He was in fact, first place, but only by a bit, and soon the upper team finds a cannon, launching them out of the storm and past Jeckal, though they couldn't tell, and onto above the underground segment.
Scribble : 70%.
Speakers : You have 30% left to go, as a result your clones will now mutate into bosses. Have fun! 
Dria: And what does that mean? 
Dria and Amy then ran down the mountain, and just as they reach the ground, Jeckal bursts out of the mountain. As he pushes himself to catch, the team notice grind rails up ahead. 
Dria: Grind rails? 
Jeckal : Gotta grind with style! Lemme show ya'! 
Jeckal would run up to the grind doing a flip, and he would soon land and leave a blazing trail of wax in his wake, the others follow behind. A few more rails would appear, each of them jumping to a different rail.
Dria: Neeeh! I don't like switching grind rails!
Amy: Don't worry Dria, i've got you!
The two would share a rail, Amy helping Dria every time they needed to switch rails.
Jeckal : You better start liking it fast!
Jeckal would point upwards, the dark clone of Amy flying in the air, Tarot Cards of Dark Gaia energy circling her.
Amy: What?
Dark Dria soon joined her, with Dark Jeckal holding onto her. Dria's immediate response was to shoot them down.
Jeckal : Hold on! Let's see their gimmicks first. I doubt it will be that easy.
The two respawned, and Dark Amy started grinding the rails, throwing cards at Team Tarot. 
Dria: There! You got to see! Can i shoot them now?
Jeckal : Yeah, you try that. I'll just-
Jeckal would do flip on the rails and kick one of the cards back. It smacks into Dark Amy, causing her to slip up. Dria capitalizes and shoots her off, before shooting the other two. Dark Dria falls again, but Dark Jeckal boards the rails.
Dria: Look! Up ahead, a spring! 
The three would jump off the spring, a Helicopter swooping in. Each of them would hold onto the legs and climb up it.
Jeckal : Think we lost em? Also why is this helicopter here? 
Amy: I think i remember Sonic using these to traverse Radical Highway. He would hold onto them until they passed somewhere he could jump off to. 
Jeckal : Guess that makes sense. 
As Team Tarot rode the helicopter, they suddenly heard Sonic Unleashed's Day Boss music kick in. As they looked to figure out the source, the dark clones appear, with a healthbar for the three reading Dark Team Tarot appearing at the top of their vision.
Jeckal : On a helicopter? Sounds fun! Your all going down! 
Amy jumps up and manages to get into the helicopter, which didn't have a pilot, rather, it was acting automatically. She took the controls and managed to figure out how to work them. Meanwhile, Dria fires at the dark trio, but her shots are blocked by cards, and Dark Dria responds by shooting back, forcing Dria and Jeckal to dodge. After dodging Jeckal Propels himself towards Dark Amy, getting hit by the hammer but hanging onto and forcing through the pain. He would then kick her and jump off her face. Dark Amy fell, but recovered with her flight power, responding with a card storm the real Amy flew the helicopter away from. After the storm ran out, Dria shot all three members of Dark Team Tarot, knocking them out of the sky for a second.
Scribble : 80%, let's see if they make it to the end. 
As the three fly back up, Jeckal smacks Dark Amy, and Dria jumps off and kicks Dark Dria, causing her and Dark Jeckal to fall, reducing the team to half health. Because of this, a card destroys the tail propellor and causes the helicopter to fall. 
Sonic: Is that supposed to happen? 
Scribble: No, the Dark Team Tarot are more clever than i thought, hang on. 
As the helicopter falls, the theme switches to Boss Battle: Night, and Amy abandons it. The three then land on a concrete platform in the sea, Amy landing gracefully, but hard enough to crack the concrete, Dria using her flight to land softly, and Jeckal faceplanting, then rolling out of it like a champ. Their copies, meanwhile, landed in a Flight formation, with Dark Dria of course as the flight character. 
Amy: They're in formation now! 
Dria: What? 
The copies then switch to a Power formation, headed by Dark Amy, with the other two in Spinballs as a extension to the hammer.
Jeckal : Got a plan? 
Amy: Dodge! 
Team Tarot are forced to jump Dark Amy's swing, except Jeckal, who dodges backwards and counters with a Homing Attack. As the dark team swap to a Speed formation headed by Dark Jeckal, Amy Chain Homing Attacks them. 
Dria: Haha! 
Scribble : There having fun? We can't have that, let me just... 
Dark Dria would then receive the Time Break skill. 
Sonic : Why would you do that? 
Scribble : Uh... I don't know, was feeling a bit diabolical. 
Tangle: What's Time Break? 
Scribble : It's an ability that slows down one's perception of time by up to ten times. It allows it's user to think, plan and act, picking up on the smallest details and movements to gain an advantage in a fight. 
Tangle: Hoo boy. 
Dark Dria would immediately use the skill to shoot Team Tarot before they could respond. 
Amy: My turn! 
Amy grabbed Jeckal and Croquet Bombered him at Dark Dria, which she would dodge. Dria, however, would hit the dark copy. Jeckal, rebounding from a Phantom Platform he made would jump back and slam the dark copy down.
Jeckal : Never though I'd do a team attack, but sure. 
Amy: That's a idea! Dria! Fire towards me! I'll amplify the shot's force! 
Dria: Okay, if you're sure... 
Dria fires in Amy's general direction, and Amy deflected the shots at the dark copies, enhancing their strength, before ending by deflecting a missile shot at Dark Dria. 
Dria: Let's call that Hammer Smack! 
Amy: Sure! 
Jeckal: Dria! Shoot me at the dark copies! I can take it! 
Dria: If you're sure... 
Jeckal homing attacks his copy, who blocks it, but Dria fires at Jeckal, who blocks with phantom cubes and takes the force to rebound, over and over. Jeckal would then use the momentum to go up in the air and strike an SA2 type of pose.
Jeckal : How ya' like them apples? 
Dria: That's the ticket! 
Dark Team Tarot, at low health, jump back, gathering together, before charging their light selves, causing a QTE. First, Dark Dria attempts to flying kick Dria, but gets her leg grabbed and thrown against the floor, then Dark Amy attempts to hammer Amy, but the hero dodges and hammers her dark copy, and finally Dark Jeckal attempts to kick his counterpart, but gets backflip kicked himself and knocked behind Jeckal, all thanks to Tangle's skill. The three copies disappear, defeated. 
Dria: Where's the exit?! 
Jeckal : I think that's it up ahead! Still seem really far though... 
Scribble turns to Tangle and Sonic. 
Scribble : Have you ever heard of this Rom hack called "Sonic Boom"? 
Sonic: No. I've played a couple Sonic games, but never Sonic Boom, unless you mean that game where i'm slow and wear bandages.
Scribble : Well, in this game your in a Death Egg Power Plant. Near the end the whole thing explodes, and the entire thing explodes, in it your running from the flames and just manage to escape. How about we make a massive explosion they have to outrun down there for the final stretch towards the exit.
Tangle: You can't just summon a explosion! Give them warning first!
Scribble : The heat and speed monitors I spawn will be a warning. They're intuitive.
In front of the trio speed monitors would spawn as well as the sound of a loud ear ringing explosion in the distance behind them. 
Jeckal : Gah! What?- 
Jeckal would turn and see a massive wall of fire approaching as well as the area around them turning a deep red. 
Jeckal : $%@#%!!!!!!!!! RUN!!! FASTER!!!! 
Each of them would destroy a speed monitor, gaining the speed boost.
Dria: What the heck caused that explosion?!
Amy: Scribble is vindictive!
Dria: Of course. That makes sense.
All three of them outrun the explosion, and run through the exit door, with the explosion vaporizing the inner chamber door, allowing Team Tarot easy access to the Bracelet Piece. This time, Dria grabs it, and Dria and Jeckal repeat their Bracelet Get animation, with Amy's being grabbing it and smacking it back to Dria, before they all jump up and pose.
Amy: That was...
Jeckal: Annoying?
Dria: Neat?
Amy:... Unusual. 
Scribble : Think the next temple should have an assist trophy? 
Sonic: You do mean the last temple, right? Team Sol Defenders and Team Magic finished theirs as well. 
Scribble : Last Temple? You are mistaken, normally there'd be seven however. There is a secret eighth one, I just hadn't decided what I wanted to do with it... It is guarded by Dark Gaia Tendril. As for the one with the final bracelet piece, that one is guarded by the "Dark Reaper". I'm sure none of you know it, it appears during the third awakening of Dark Gaia. It is also the strongest, it will probably be the only boss that will be in the temple as well as outside. 
Sonic: I thought i saw the Dark Reaper fight Team Magic? 
Scribble : That was a fake, they fought the Dark Guardian. The Dark Reaper they fought was not the real one, only an imitation. Speaking of which, you think Silent Night could become like the Dark Guardian at some point? 
Sonic: Maybe. I think it'd have to pick up traits from Team Tarot though, cause hammer and all. 
Team Magic(during both adventures) 
Merlina: I don't like this place. I can feel the darkness flowing from it. 
Mephiles: Get over it. I see a temple boss. This way. 
Mephiles leads the team to a temple, and as they arrive, they spot the Dark Reaper, but it seems to be glitching.
Mephiles : That's unusual, I'd expect the boss to be a bit more intimidating. 
Suddenly, the boss switches to the Dark Guardian, but then reverts to the Dark Reaper. While Sonic notices Scribble trying to do something with the system, he thought Scribble was trying to fix a bug that was glitching the Dark Reaper. Instead, Scribble was trying to swap the places of the Dark Reaper and Dark Guardian so he could reserve the Dark Reaper for later and the system was bugging out because of it. On the ground, however, the bugged Dark Reaper morphs into a combined form, wielding a scythe and resembling what Death is described as, but with the Dark Guardian's horn. 
Srish: I think it's stabilized, we attack now! 
Team Magic attack the Dark Reaper, causing it to respond by teleporting away. 
Srish: Where'd it go? 
Merlina: Behind you! 
The Dark Reaper then reappears behind Srish and slashes it's scythe, which Srish jumps over, but as a side effect of the glitched merge, lightning strikes along the slash and hits Srish. 
Srish: Ow ow ow! 
Srish responds by firing the Beat Blasters at the monster, hurting it, and causing it to switch targets to Merlina.
Scribble : Hmmm... Yeah that's not good.
Sonic : What's wrong?
Scribble : See... It's gonna be invincible without the moon alter being present...
Sonic : What?
Sonic would turn and see the moon alter in the room with them, he would look at Scribble dumbfounded.
Scribble : Gimme a bit of time to tinker with this, I set up a lot of security in it so I gotta undo all of that and then it will all be fixed. 
Sonic knows the Moon Alter is a Dark Guardian thing, but chooses to ignore it, as he knows absolutely nothing about the Dark Reaper, for all he knows, it could be a evolved Dark Guardian. Down on the battlefield, the three notice the change, but unlike all other bosses, the Dark Reaper itself is confused as well, having not been made to work with this place, but the Dark Guardian in it reacting and calling down a boost from the alter. As the boost enters it, it's temporarily paralyzed by the electrical component, but healed by the dark component. Team Magic react, and Mephiles uses dark crystals to hold it in place as Merlina boosts Srish's fire, causing the hybrid to sustain immense damage right after the boost.
Scribble : Ah! I got it, should be good to go now.
The Moon Alter would disappear and show up at the boss fight location. The amalgam of Reaper and Guardian now changing to purely Guardian.
Mephiles : Is this a second phase? 
Srish: I dunno? 
Unfortunately for Scribble, instead of summoning a hammer, getting big, or doing any Guardian things, it summons a scythe and continues doing Reaper Guardian things, like teleporting behind Mephiles and attacking him with a scythe slash, followed by a electric storm. Mephiles responds with crystal spikes that impale the Dark Guardian, forcing it into knockdown. Meanwhile, the light cubes finally spawn in. 
Srish: Look, light cubes! 
Merlina: I sense these are crystallized light magic. If we get them to the structure at the back, they should shatter it, preventing this monster from regaining strength. If they're pushed past us, however, i fear the magic could be turned against us. 
Sonic: Woah. I never really thought too hard about what those light cubes were, but yeah, that makes sense! 
Srish: One problem, we're not that strong. Do you think you can utilize it? 
Merlina: With time, yes. 
Merlina touches her head to the biggest light cube, before muttering a spell. The Reaper Guardian takes note, and breaks free from the crystals, for all of five seconds before Srish takes him out again.
Scribble : You know, I would fix the Ai but this is too entertaining. 
As Scribble decided to accept the flawed swap, Merlina finishes her spell, and unleashes all the energy on the structure at the back, destroying all it's composite pieces. As the Dark Guardian/Reaper dies, Scribble gets to fixing things so that such a merge doesn't happen unintentionally again, but saves backups for potential future experimentation. 
Srish: So, i guess that's it? The Dark Reaper's dead. Let's get inside the temple. 
Merlina: Agreed. 
Team Magic enter the Gaia Temple.
Speakers : Before you is three doors, the Sun, the Moon and the Star. Each is a different escape room. Collect the key pieces and claim your prize. 
With no distinction as to any differences, Srish takes Sun, Merlina takes Star, and Mephiles takes Moon. Srish's room would have a grate like floor with water at the bottom that bubbled strangely, almost appearing to be a sewer, Merlinas room would have a more dungeon like appearance, appearing to be locked in some sort of prison cell, Mephiles room would have a painting on the wall depicting a crazed killer, the room appearing to be some sort of large wood cabin.
Srish: Okay, water, that i can handle. What am i supposed to do here?
Mephiles, in his room, observes the crazed killer painting. 
Mephiles: Am i supposed to be scared of this? How funny, that Scribble would put such a painting in my escape room. Let's just remove this.
Mephiles takes the painting down gently, then nonchalantly shoots 50 crystal shots through it, obliterating it.
Scribble : They don't even realize the situations their in. Each escape rooms are things they would normally have no issues handling, however that is the twist. They will know how it feels for the average person without their powers. The sewer has highly acidic water, the dungeon restrains all magic through it's special materials, and the killer is immortal, invincible and best of all! It's an amalgamated version of Iblis! It's gonna be funny to see Mephiles getting hunted by his other half like that.
Words would appear on each of their interfaces : "Flood Escape, Dungeon Escape, Killer Escape" for each of them respectively, it would then also say "You have 30 seconds as a headstart before it starts."
Srish looks around to see what's there, and finds a button. He presses it, and sees a platform extend. Seeing the challenge, he climbs aboard and hits another button, extending another platform to repeat the cycle. In Merlina's room, she attempts to cast a spell to open the door, but it fails. Seeing the challenge, Merlina looks around and finds a hidden key, but has to hide it from the guards for a second.
Merlina: This could've been my life, had Sonic not been so merciful. I've made many mistakes on my quest for peace, but summoning Sonic was not one of them. Now i just need to come up with a plan.
In Mephiles's room, he checks for the key to open the door, not yet afraid of the killer, but wise enough to sense Scribble had a trick in mind, As he finds the key, he silently curses Scribble for the intense light rendering his shadow based abilities useless.
Scribble : Ah yes, there was this timeline where you became the king of Camelot. I'm not gonna lie it was kind of weird but you become a king in a lot of timelines, still weird to me. 
Sonic: Oh i became the king in my Camelot too, i just couldn't stay. 
Scribble : Really? Well in that one some evil enchantress takes your dna and makes your artificial son who later becomes your greatest threat and actually killed you one time. Wild stuff honestly. 
Sonic: I'd love to know more after this game. 
Sooner than later, the headstart would be over. The acidic water rising slowly, guards now taking their position to watch Merlina's cell full time (Except for between their breaks) and the Iblis Killer now let loose.
Mephiles: Iblis... Scribble has twisted you against me. I will get revenge for both of us in time, but for now...
Mephiles surrounds the Iblis Killer with crystals. In Srish's room, he continues the platforming, not stressed at the odd looking water, but not willing to risk it. A guard would walk up to Merlina's Cell and give her the daily rations : Bread and Water.
Guard 1 : Eat up, filthy witch. 
Merlina just silently acknowledges them, before looking over the food they gave her. She then notices something off about the bread, a jagged piece of metal seemed to be lodged inside the bread. She would then hear something the guard said as he walked off.
Guard 1 : Let's hope that kills her...
Merlina : I might be able to use this. 
Merlina removes the metal piece from the bread and notices it's well suited to stab someone with. Hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, she puts it into a pocket. Meanwhile, Srish was having a easy enough time platforming up towards his exit, and as such, Scribble increased the water rise speed. Over with Mephiles, he managed to find his way into another room, and as he looked over it for things he could use, he sees a red key, and grabs it. At the same time, the Iblis Killer actually attacks the crystals, vaporizing them.
Scribble : Let me go over with you guys how each escape room is set up. Let's start with the sewer. The sewer has three levels. The first level only has parkour and rising water, Level two requires them to parkour to side obstacle and flip switches, if they don't flip the switch then the next parkour objects wont spawn, meaning they will be trapped and melted. The third level has the same gimmicks as level 2 with more buttons and levers and traps on the parkour course. Look's like Srish is handling the first level well. For Merlina she must first escape the dungeon, then she must escape the castle while the guards actively look for her. After that it's the homestretch and she must find a way to open the kingdom gates and escape the kingdom. Mephiles is simple, he must find keys, tools and other objects to open up escape routes while also completing puzzles and avoiding the killer. The main thing he must do is deactivate each Iblis Monolith which he must get to using these keys and tools. There are 5 Iblis Monoliths and every Monolith that is destroyed will make Iblis faster, and more alert. Sounds fun right? 
Sonic: Sounds pretty long. 
Scribble : Indeed it is. 
With Srish, he manages to pass his first challenge, and pulls two switches to activate the platforms to climb. With Mephiles, he finds something known as a "Sealing Hammer" 
Mephiles: I wonder what this does? 
Mephiles runs around, evading the Iblis Killer, sometimes by hiding, and soon finds a Iblis Monolith, a volcanic stone structure. Mephiles, not knowing what it is, leaves it be.
Scribble : He doesn't even realize the importance of what he just passed. He will learn though. 
With Merlina, the guards finally went on break, allowing her to finally escape her cell. When she goes looking for the dungeon key, unfortunately she runs into a guard who had fallen asleep and missed the break memo. Merlina would then noticed the guard had a key ring attached to his pocket.
Guard 2 : *Snore* 
Merlina carefully attempts to remove the key ring from the guard's pocket. The guard would look at Merlina half asleep.
Guard 2 : Richard... zthat chyou..? 
Merlina, not knowing what to do, freezes up, and the guard falls back asleep. Using this, Merlina retrieves the dungeon key, before using it to leave the dungeon. As she explores the castle, she's forced to dive into a back room as the break ends and all the guards return to their posts. From there, the alert is sounded as the guards notice Merlina's missing.
King Arthur : Find that witch! Behead her for such insolence!! 
Merlina:(This just went from bad to worse.) 
Merlina exits the back room and begins sneaking through the castle towards it's exit. With Srish, he's climbing the second platforming challenge, when the button to bring out the next platform doesn't work. Looking around, he notices some raised platforms with switches to pull, and that the water's entered this room too. 
Srish: Gotta get those switches! 
Srish jumps to the two platforms, pulls their switches, and then jumps back across and up to the next platforms. Srish would notice spinning platforms and vanishing platforms as well.
Srish: Scribble, if you're watching, this is a stupid challenge.
Srish jumps across the spinning platforms when they calm down, and up the vanishing platforms when they aren't vanished. Near the top though, he runs into another switch challenge, this time with four. He jumps across the pillars, pulling the switches, and soon all four are pulled. Just as he's about to get back to the platforms though, the water catches up with him, and instead of walking atop it, he feels like he's standing in boiling water.
Srish: Ow! What the-!
Srish quickly climbs to the third climb, now understanding the danger.
Scribble : Just for that "Stupid Challenge" comment I'm gonna add fake levers that increase the water flood speed. 
Sonic: Doesn't that seem kinda mean? 
Tangle: Yeah... 
Scribble : Well, apparently it's a stupid challenge. So I'll make it so you have to think a bit more! Besides, I'll just remove some of the traps already planned to compensate. 
Either way, Srish activated the platforms, and jumped up them, before running into a switch puzzle. He noticed the normal switches, of which there were three, were joined by rusted variants, 
Srish: Odd. 
Scribble : Let's see what he does. 
Srish pulls on the three normal switches, but as he's about to leave, he pulls a rusted switch to see what happened. Immediately, a hatch opened up, pouring more water in. 
Srish: O-kay, so that's what the rusted switches do. 
Srish then continues his climb. Mephiles however wasn't as lucky. Collecting tools but not knowing what to use them for.
Mephiles: Okay, so i've used the red, blue, and yellow keys, found five Sealing weapons, and i'm still being chased by Iblis. What am i missing? 
Mephiles would then think a bit more, remembering back to the strange molten stone structure he saw. 
Mephiles : Perhaps that has something to do with it. 
Mephiles heads to one of the stone structures, and pulls out a Sealing Knife. 
Mephiles: Here goes nothing. 
Mephiles stabs the stone structure with the Sealing Knife, causing both to shatter. In another room, he heard the Iblis Killer screech out in rage. 
Mephiles: That did something! 
Scribble : They seem to be getting the hang of things. Team Tarot looks like they're gonna pass the dodgeball portion. Let's check up on how Merlina is doing on Team Magic though. 
In the castle, Merlina had just about snuck her way through to the exit, when she saw it was guarded. 
Merlina:(Shoot.) 
Seeing she couldn't get through this exit she had to think fast, especially since she could here a patrol squad coming down the hallway next to her. Hoping to avoid violence, Merlina went in search of another exit. Unlucky for her, a single knight would be roaming one of the halls she turned.
Knight: It's here! The Witch is over here!
As Merlina turns back around, the Patrol Squad charges in. Merlina's forced to dodge for her life as they attempt to jump her. She thankfully makes it past, but is pretty much backed into a corner. Merlina would feel up on the wall behind her, and notice one of the bricks were loose. The wall was unstable, perhaps she could break through it. With as much strength as she could muster, she slams into it, causing the wall to fall and exposing a exit. With Mephiles meanwhile, he had just about finished breaking the Iblis Monoliths, but was currently hiding from the Iblis Killer.
Mephiles : (Seems to have gotten more aggressive, the patrol route is becoming less manageable.) 
Thankfully, the Iblis Killer left quickly, allowing Mephiles to reach the room with the final Iblis Monolith.
Scribble : Looks like he found the final Monolith, now all he has to do is escape. 
Mephiles pulled out a Sealing Sword, the final Sealing weapon, and slashed the Iblis Monolith to pieces, hearing that infuriated screech one last time. Over the search for the monoliths, he had found the place the Iblis Monoliths were keeping blocked, and as such, ran for it, assuming it to be the exit. Behind him he would hear the Iblis Killer, screaming at him and running towards him faster than he could run. Who would make it first? Mephiles or the Iblis Killer? Mephiles wasn’t willing to find out, and so set up a trap. Using crystals, he created a tripping wall, that tripped the Iblis Killer, forcing it to pull itself back up. With this Mephiles would be the first to escape his room. In Srish’s room meanwhile, Srish was dealing with the last major switch challenge. The water was jetting up, traps lingering everywhere, but Srish could see the exit.
Srish: One last push!
Srish pulled the last switch and activated the last platform set, before jumping across the trapped platforms and up to the exit door.
Srish: Yes!
Scribble : There's another one, that leaves Merlina.
Merlina, meanwhile, was following a long line of chain to it’s source, in hopes of opening the drawbridge.
Knight 2 : Hey! Get back here! 
Merlina: (Shoot!) 
Merlina immediately ducked into a hedge maze.
Knight 2 : She went into the maze! After her! 
The majority of the knights head into the Hedge Maze, seeking Merlina. Merlina, meanwhile, crawls through the hedges of the hedge maze, successfully dodging the knights. Unfortunately, the chain leads into the hedge maze, so she has to leave it for now.
Scribble : Looks like shes struggling without that magic. 
Thankfully, with most of the knights tied up looking in the hedge maze, Merlina managed to lower the other half of the chain, which was a start.
??? : What do we have here?
Merlina would look to her left and see Sir Gawain.
Sir Gawain : Trying to escape? Return with me and I can promise you won't die. Otherwise I'll have to execute you now. 
Merlina: (Not good, a Knight of the Round is here!) 
Sonic: As far as I know, Merlina was incapable of defeating any of the Knights of the Round. Why’d you send one after her?
Scribble : In a setting like that, it only makes sense for a Knight of the Round to be alerted. Especially for Merlins granddaughter. 
Even more unfortunately, the knights Merlina led into the hedge maze are finally back. Luckily, they’re too overzealous and try to jump Merlina, which she dodges, and they crash into Gawain. Merlina immediately uses the opportunity to run off towards the hedge maze.
Scribble : Smart. 
Sir Gawain quickly pulls the knights off of him and dashes after Merlina. Unfortunately, for once Merlina was faster than him, and she ran through the hedge maze quickly enough to finally drop the drawbridge.
Scribble : Looks like she's about to escape. 
As Sir Gawain rounded the corner, Merlina had already ducked through the bushes. She quickly used the opening to dash for the exit. Luckily, she would escape before he could catch up.
Mephiles : Ah, Merlina. Your here. Do you have a key as well? 
Srish: I have a Sun Key. 
Mephiles: And I have a Moon Key. 
Merlina: Lemme check… I have this little key- 
As Merlina pulls out the cell key, it morphs into the Star Key. Srish immediately pulls the team together, and they make the three keys into one, and open the door in front of them. They would be greeted with another Bracelet piece.
Srish: Yeah!
Mephiles: I’m gonna stay over here.
Unfortunately for Mephiles, the victory dance extended farther than expected, and he was still caught up in it. As well, Merlina also got her own animation, grabbing the bracelet piece with her magic before tossing it back to Srish, for all of them to jump up with the bracelet piece.
Mephiles : Lets... go back to base for now...
As Team Magic exited the temple, Mephiles notices Teams Sol Defenders and Tarot heading for the center at the same time.
Mephiles: I see Team Sol Defenders and Team Tarot heading for the center.
Srish: Really? Let’s go too!
Mephiles: I’d rather we didn’t. 
Srish: Going anyways. 
Scribble : Let's see who finds it first. Get ready Sonic, you’re about to get claimed as a assist. 
Sonic: Oh yeah? Then why ain’t I down there? Oh, and one final question. What does the Dark Reaper actually look like? 
Scribble : Imagine a skeleton with a dry husk of skin, torn and jagged. Holding a scythe and a cloak of pure black, fading into black mist. Don't worry, you will automatically assist whoever gets to your secret temple. 
Sonic: What? 
Scribble : Whoever enters the temple will automatically have a holographic version of you assist them, you will control it with this controller. If they pass, then the real you will join their team temporarily. 
Sonic: So where is this Secret Temple? 
Scribble : There's a floating Island that orbits the map, it's hard to notice with all the darkness. 
Sonic: Okay then. 
Meanwhile, the three adventuring teams all arrived at the center. 
Alan: Hey guys! How’s the temples been treating you? 
Jeckal : Like an Olympian. But with a team like ours it's hard to lose. 
Merlina: Our temple was hard fought challenges. 
Alan: Cool, cool. What bosses have you faced so far? I’ve fought-ahem, we’ve fought the Egg Beetle and Dark Pheonix. 
Dria: Dark Moray and Egg Devil Ray for us. 
Srish: We dealt with the Egg Dragoon and Dark Reaper. Though the Dark Reaper was acting off. 
Amy: So the last one is the Dark Guardian? Let me at it! Sonic said it used a hammer as well, and i want to make it fear me!
Alan: Yeah, sure sure… We’re not just gonna sit idly though…
Mephiles: Neither are we…
As tensions rise, Merlina and Dria have a solution. 
Merlina and Dria: Why don’t we work together?
Blaze: We could reasonably fight the boss as a combined unit…
Jeckal: But how would we decide who takes the temple without killing each other?
Alan: The temples can be tackled with cross-team units. We could send a team composed of one member from each team.
Mephiles: It would save on time…
The teams unanimously agree to work together on this one(after convincing Jet.) Elsewhere, Team Stealth Heroes see Silent Night come back, worse for wear.
Silence: What happened to him? 
Cross : It seems he entered a temple, he returned rather fine. 
Silent Night : Shyy..Ince... 
The group would look on surprised. 
Cross : He can speak now? He's gaining intelligence. 
Silent Night would point up in the sky for his team, clearly seeing something they did not. 
Silent Night : Themp..pooll... 
Silence: Cross, you can see in there, what’s he getting at? 
Cross: Hang on… I think I see a floating temple! 
Whisper: Floating temple? 
Silence: Hmm… Whatever’s there must be important, and I already had a idea… Team, we’re going in! Except for you, Cross, you can do just as much good out here. 
Cross : Right, Good luck to you guys. 
Team Stealth Heroes run into the Dark Vortex, with Cross watching their backs. Upon arriving the group would immediately see a giant Dark Gaia tendril guarding this strange looking temple.
Silence: Look at that dragon headed thing!
Sonic: Those look just like those shield things from when I fought Dark Gaia!
Meanwhile, the other three have just made it to the temple, when they see the Dark Reaper’s guarding it.
Amy: You said the Dark Guardian was left!
Srish: I thought it was!
Mephiles: Wait, then that could mean… Scribble switched them on us!
Jeckal: Wait, are you serious?
Blaze: That is new. I didn’t think Scribble would ever do something like that.
Alan: Forget this! The others can have this temple, I’m not fighting this.
Srish: Yeah!
The three teams turn back, and the Dark Reaper looks on, with the slightest hint of confusion.
Sonic: Seems everyone else doesn’t like that trick of yours. 
Scribble : Too bad, that just means they will be missing out on a bracelet piece. Besides, the Dark Reaper would be stronger than the strange glitch between it and the guardian. The reaper is speed and offense base, the guardian not so much, see how that does'nt blend to well. 
Back on the battlefield, Mephiles noticed the floating temple. 
Mephiles: Teams! There’s a floating temple! 
Srish: What? 
Amy: You’re kidding. 
Srish: He can see through this darkness, he’s most definitely not! 
Alan: Let me check! 
Alan throws a bigger light ball in the direction of the temple. It collides with the Dark Gaia Tendril, causing it to screech in pain. 
Jet: Yeah, no, there’s something out there alright. 
Merlina: How do we get up to it? 
Mephiles: I see crystals that lead up to it. 
Alan: Then let’s go! 
The teams head off to the secret temple. Cross would have been watching however and immediately noticed the coming towards this direction.
Cross : So they noticed to? Too bad I won't let them get there before my team handles the boss. 
Cross opens fire on the combined teams, forcing them to slow as Mephiles and Alan put up defensive barriers. 
Alan: Team Stealth Heroes is trying to snipe us! 
Cross : (Good, they're going to the more congested part of the woods, where all the traps were set up. Time to change locations so I can take advantage of it.) 
Srish: Wait, we just exited the Dark Vortex, why are we heading after Cross? 
Jeckal: He’s not getting away with this! 
Amy: Seek revenge later! We have a temple to reach! 
Amy grabs Jeckal and Croquet Bombers him halfway up the crystal tower. The three teams then run up the tower, with Alan and Mephiles defending their back. At the top of the tower, meanwhile, Team Stealth Heroes were dealing with a onslaught of minions that the Dark Gaia Tendril had created, to force it to poke out of it’s shield again.
Scribble : Didn't really expect a race to the temple, that's funny.
Titans would stomp out and swing down at the different members.
Silence: Woah!
Silence jumped away from the Titans, and Whisper’s eyeshot killed a Titan. Tails, meanwhile, got fur in the other’s eye, impeding it’s vision.
Cross: The other teams are after you! 
Silence: Wait what?
Before anyone can respond, the remaining Titan swings at Whisper, but instead of hitting her, it’s club is knocked away.
Amy: For a monster, you really don’t have that tight of a grip on your weapons.
Team Stealth Heroes turn to see the other teams around them, punching through the other Dark Gaia Monsters. 
Dria: Let’s have some fun, why don’t we? 
Tails : Only three of us can enter. After we take out the tendril we'll have to be quick. First comes first. 
Alan: That’s normal temples. This is a Secret Temple. The rules could be wildly different. 
With all the smaller monsters torn to pieces, the Dark Gaia Tendril stuck it’s head out to spit out more. It’s fired on the second its head exits the shield. With most of it’s health torn away, it uses it’s ultimate move, spitting out three massive globs of darkness, which form the three bosses from earlier.
Scribble : This is getting good, they don't know what they're fighting for but they're still going at it. 
Amy: Now we’re talking! Tails, Blaze! 
Tails: What? 
Blaze: Yes? 
Amy: Now, just trust me on this… 
Amy gets Tails and Blaze to hold onto her hammer in the same way as Dark Team Tarot, and immediately goes for the Dark Guardian, starting a QTE. Amy slams her hammer into the Dark Guardian’s, knocking it away, then embeds Tails and Blaze into the monster, before Merlina stuns it, and Amy kills it. The QTE continues with the Dark Pheonix, with Jeckal putting out the fire by creating water and soaking the monster in it, before Jet uses his battle fans to knock it to the ground, where Mephiles stabs it’s wings with dark crystals, followed up by Whisper using Cube to knock it’s head up, allowing Jeckal to cut off it’s neck with a Spindash. Finally, Team Dragoon fight the Dark Moray with a final QTE, with Silence firing a rocket into it’s mouth, stunning it, before Alan jumps atop it’s head, and Dria shoots the weak spot on the upper section of it’s neck, destroying it and causing the Dark Moray to attempt to knock everyone away, but Alan holds onto it’s head, and stabs it’s head weak spot, distracting it for long enough that Srish could fire into the lowest weak point, destroying it and killing the monster.
Tangle: Whoo! Yeah! Jeez that was a hard one.
Scribble : It's not over yet, they need to finish off the tendril.
With it’s minions dead, the Dark Gaia Tendril spat out one final massive ball of darkness, which forms into the Dark Reaper.
Dark Reaper : Judgement...
The Dark Reaper would wind its scythe back and unleash a massive slash wave along the ground. The teams would jump it easily.
Jet: That thing can speak?!
Blaze: Apparently so. 
The Reaper appears behind Amy, winding its hand back and going in for a grab. Before he can though, Silent Night punches it.
Tails: Nice shot, Silent Night!
Alan uses the distraction to summon a light copy of the Red Scythe, and locks his scythe with the Dark Reaper’s.
Alan: You’re not the only one who uses a scythe. I don’t use this all that often, but sometimes I do!
As the hardlight Red Scythe and Dark Reaper’s scythe clash, the hardlight starts burning the Dark Gaia Essence that makes up the Dark Reaper’s scythe.
Dark Reaper : Blasphemy...!
The Dark Reaper would warp away in black mist to retreat from the light.
Alan: Coward… Where’d he go?
The Dark Reaper appears behind Silent Night.
Dark Reaper: Traitor…
Before the Dark Reaper can attack, Whisper snipes it, and as it recovers, Alan clashes scythes again.
Alan: Get him!
Jeckal takes up the challenge, jumping over Alan and Spin Attacking the Dark Reaper. This would hurt and knockback the Reaper. 
Dark Reaper : Fall... 
Suddenly everyone would fall to their knees by an invisible pressure, starting a QTE. Alan pushes himself back up, causing the Dark Reaper to teleport behind him, but Alan manages to react in time, catching the monster's scythe with his own, and cutting off the blade. With his weapon destroyed, the Dark Reaper grabbed Alan by the neck, but Amy and Silent Night manage to push themselves up in time to attack it, and force it to release everyone.
Jeckal: Punishment time! 
The Dark Reaper would take it's hood off. Entering Phase 2, a barrier would form around it and dark skeletons would rise from the ground. 
Alan: How much you willing to bet the skeletons keep the barrier up?
Instead of answering, everyone destroyed the skeletons, breaking the barrier. The Dark Reaper then got charged by multiple people, then passed to Blaze, who in turn passed him to Whisper, who in turn passed him to Mephiles, who stabbed him through the chest with a dark crystal. The Dark Reaper fell, and the Tendril now had to fend for itself. The tendril would lash out against the crowd.
Hehehe... No, This is what will happen instead...
The tendril suddenly explodes at the surprise of everyone near the temple.
Hehehehe...
Jeckal : What just happened?
Amy : And what was that creepy laugh?
Scribble : Oh, don't tell me... He decided to join in... 
Sonic: Who's... HE? 
Scribble : Uh... It's a bit hard to explain, see... There's a timeline where you are defeated and killed by "The End" after it possessed Mecha Sonic MK.lll, it then proceeded to possess your body, deeming it the ultimate vessel. It's nickname is "Sonic.Exe", it's way of mocking the Ancients and you. Eventually it destroyed the entire timeline, attaching it's spirit to all life and making more .Exe's. After that, it went to conquer other dimensions, overthrowing deities, anomalies and monsters until it eventually reached here, "The Sheet". He knew he couldn't do anything to me so it challenged me to a game. A game of Chess, naturally I accepted, it gets boring here. Sonic.Exe couldn't find a way to win, and I purposely prolonged the game. There was a rule added however "Whoever leaves the table has forfeited the match.". Sadly, a new Team Dragoon adventure was published and he egged me on to look at it, I gave in to temptation. As a result, he now lives in "The Sheet" and has a similar existence to me, albeit not as powerful. After becoming an Improbable with the "Creator's" permission, he evolved. His earlier namesake meant's "Executable" he now calls himself Sonic.Os "Operating System". You probably can't see it or don't understand, but he can even overwrite the narrator. He's kind of funky but he still has to play by my rules, I'm just wondering what he's trying to do...
??? : Hello, Sonic. 
Sonic would have a chill run down his spine at the sound of the voice.
Sonic: Exes... This kind is certainly new. Fital has told me that EXE is a term used to describe high ranged demons in his universe. The kind that can control a universe. This... End is certainly far greater than that. 
Scribble : Yeah, if I had to say. He is probably the third most powerful being to exist here. The second being the pure form of "Reborn" and then of course me. If he had it his way, if I wasn't here. The entire cosmos might be desolated. 
Sonic.Os : Don't be like that Scribble. I'm just here to play a game. 
Scribble : Oh yeah, your body gave The End a personality change, he has the same mindset but more of your demeanor. It makes him sort of twisted. 
Tangle: Uhh, Sonic.Os? We're kinda already playing a game. If you want to watch that's fine, but you need to tone down the creepiness. 
Sonic.Os turns its head 180 degrees towards Tangle and lets out a wide menacing smile. 
Sonic.Os : Had the situation been different, we would be playing a MUCH different game about now. 
Sonic.Os points at the temple. 
Sonic.Os : Sonic will not be the guide, I will. 
Scribble : Uh... But you don't even know the temple layout? 
Sonic.Os : Hehehe, I'll make my own layout.
Tangle: You weren't even there a second ago...
Alan: Are... we going to play the demon's game? 
The dark mist around the temple would turn a deep shade of blood red, the howling of lost souls could be heard and deep sense of paranoia upon looking into it, knowing you were being watched. Until words would appear in front of the temple. 
"Let's Play A Game. Enter To Start." 
This would be accompanied by a grizzly looking version of Sonic wagging his finger above the text, glitching out repeatedly. Alan fires at the Sonic mockery. 
The four teams enter the game.
Alan: Ok, Now what?
The teams arrive in Green Hill.
Tails: We're in Green Hill? Wait what?
Silence: What is it? What's the demon done now?
Tails: He's censored saying Green and Hill together!
Jeckal: He has not. Green Hill... Oh my gosh he has! 
The team could see a timer, score, rings and lives counter in the corners of their screen. Each of them having One Life.
Cross : Whatever the case, we can't seem to go backwards. There's a barrier. So, only one way to go... 
As the combined teams walk forwards, they quickly notice devastation all around them, wilted flowers, and destroyed trees to start.
Amy : What is all this?
Tails : It's definitely not my idea of a "Game".
As they continue, they would see the mutilated bodies of the various animal inhabitants of the Green Hill.
Jeckal : *Gag* The smell is unbearable! 
The teams then found themselves in front of... Sonic, who was turned away from them his arms crossed. Not buying it for a second, all the people with weapons ready them, and Tails calls out to the Sonic. 
Tails: Sonic, turn around. 
Sonic doesn't respond, so Jeckal decides to force him to look at them. 
Jeckal: Hey faker, you're not fooling anyone, so why don't you show your face to the crowd! 
Jeckal turns the Sonic around to reveal that it was SonicOs. Everything would be covered in thick red static.
Srish: Shoot!
When the static clears, it reveals Angel Island, but on fire.
Alan: Ok, my pattern recognition is starting to flare, we're going to have to run right, then we get chased, right?
Srish: That is how it works in the legends Fital told us.
Hello, Do You Want To Play With Me?
Sonic.OS would appear in front of them.
Hide and Seek.
From Sonic.OS a strange looking version of Tails.Exe would appear.
Tails.Exe : You have 60 seconds.
Tails.Exe would then close his eyes.
Tails: Everyone else saw the logo, right?
Mephiles: Yeah. Everyone find a place to hide.
Everyone scattered across the field and found rocks to hide behind.
The first four will be eliminated.
Tails.Exe would begin searching, doing so in a manner that raised tension and made an atmosphere as thick as the smoke from the fire around them, The first one found was Srish, who threw off Tails.Exe's balance in a attempt to escape, but was cut in half by Sonic.Os's Spindash from above, his body remaining while he returned to the proper battlefield. The next victim was Jeckal, who foolishly attempted to eliminate Tails.Exe, believing it could be killed, ending the game by proxy. Tails.Exe responded by grinding his face with a Spindash, soaking the grayed fox's fur with blood, while returning Jeckal to the actual game. Third on the list was Blaze, who set the fox on fire, but was quickly taught that you couldn't kill a victim twice, and lost most of her chest to Tails.Exe's Spinjump, before waking up back in the castle made for them. The final victim ended up being Whisper, who managed to fight off Tails.Exe, but was faced with illusions of her fallen teammates before getting her mask stabbed through her throat, and respawning in the forest on Scribble's land.(Her wisps went with the gun, which vanished upon death.)
So many souls, so little time. Wouldn't you agree?
Back on the proper battlefield...
Blaze ran out of the castle bedrooms to see Hammer fighting alongside a squad of Dark Gaia Monsters. Hammer noticed her and turned around.
Hammer: Blaze! What happened?
Blaze: A psycho hijacked one of the temples and killed me.
Hammer: Oh, so that's what the voice was on about...
Jeckal reawakened in the parlor. He immediately rushes out, hoping to reach the temple again, but getting cut off by Starline.
Starline: What happened?
Jeckal: Did you hear the evil voice earlier?
Starline: I'd be more surprised if someone didn't. They killed you?
Jeckal: Y-yeah.
Srish got up in the castle. He then looked out the front window to see Erazor doing something, so he rushed down to see.
Srish: Erazor?
Erazor: I see you died.
Srish: Yeah, demon didn't play around. What are you up to?
Erazor: So the invader is a type of demon?
Srish: No, Sonic combined with The End, if you know him.
Erazor: I do not know of "The End". As for what i am doing, i am teaching some of the Nightmares swordsmanship. It appears they have a incredible ability to learn.
Whisper reappears in the forest. Not wanting to interact at the moment, she sits down to process the situation.
Near the floating temple, A thick red static would appear once again.
Cross : (What is this stuff? I can't see through any of this?!)
Out of the static, a strange monster would appear. Scribble quickly deletes it.
Scribble: Nice try, but there's already enough monsters in play.
Back in the corrupted temple, the survivors are teleported to You Can't Run.
Jet: W-what is this place?
Tails: It kinda looks like Scrap Brain Zone, but i don't remember all this gas.
Amy: My bet is the monster thinks it's more fitting.
The teams would tread down the eerie environment , eventually stumbling upon... Knuckles, with his back turned and chuckling. However... He looked different...
Alan: Let me guess... you're the monster- no, demon- no, the psycho's next challenge?
Knuckles?: Maybe.
Mephiles : What game are you playing?
Knuckles?: How.
Knuckles would turn revealing his true features.
Knuckles.Exe : About...
Tag.
Knuckles.Exe then disappears. The teams then run down the path, but then there's static, and four disappear.
Alan: What was that?
Jet: Dunno.
Tails: Wait, the others have vanished! 
Silence: That's just great!
They didn't die, however, rather were pushed onto different "planes" On the second plane, the others notice as well.
Mephiles: That must have been one of Sonic.Os's tricks!
Merlina: Where could they have all gone?
Dria: I doubt even Sonic.Os would kill half the group arbitrarily, especially since Scribble ensures we'll just revive.
Amy: Well, i don't wanna find out.
The two separated combined teams run off again, soon running into more static that coats the ground in blood, and separates the rest by team. The four teams continue onward, before static separates the remainder, leaving the eight alone. Knuckles.Exe then appears right in front of all eight of them.
Alan: Where's the tag?
Merlina: What have you done with the rest?
Amy: You'd better tell me where my friends went!
Tails: Why did you separate us all?!
Dria: You actually think we'll be lost for long? We'll find our way back together!
Knuckles.Exe : Tag someone, Or I tag you.
I wonder, which one of you are it?
Alan: Yeah, well, you count as someone!
Alan punches Knuckles.Exe, but he teleports behind him, Alan tries again, but the echidna teleports behind him again. Alan keeps trying, but Knuckles.Exe keeps teleporting. Though, even when he splits into three, Alan still tries to hit him, slicing at the groups. Eventually, Alan would just tire himself out. This would make Knuckles.Exe chuckle at him.
You're too slow. Want to try again?
Alan: Now i remember! That line was in the legend! Leave it to The End to rip off old legends.
Alan gets back up. Knuckles.Exe was not in front of him any longer. Instead he had punched a hole through Merlina. Blood spraying everywhere until she would eventually respawn, turns out Merlina was it.
I wonder, which one of you are it?
Alan: What in the name of-.
Elsewhere in the small room, Tails was trying to construct a dimensional communicator out of pieces of Scrap Brain.
Tails: Come on, come on! If i can get this running, we can communicate!
Above Tails, the shadow of a familiar hedgehog would loom. Watching over him we eye's that fell deeper and blacker than the void. Tails could feel the evil flowing from them, and turned to see Sonic.Os. Tails was immediately apprehensive.
Tails: Isn't that mockery of Knuckles running this "game"? What do you want?
One of Sonic.OS eye's would turn red.
Sonic.Os : Do you not like my game?
Tails carefully decides which should be said, the truth or a lie. The truth had like a 88.76% chance of getting him killed, but he should just respawn. Meanwhile, a lie could backfire, but could also help him survive till the end, for whatever prize awaits the winner. He ultimately chose to lie.
Tails: No, no, it's a good game, it's just that, with all of us separated, we can't figure out what being It means, or who is/isn't.
Tails half made contraption would then glitch and vanish, Tails of course would have despair on his face.
Only those who are it, shall touch the "Friend"
Tails: Wait! Who is the- ah dangit. I guess i'll see if i can find anything else here.
As Tails glides off deeper into You Can't Run, Dria also happened to be dealing with a Knuckles.Exe.
Dria: Why are you here?! Where are my friends?!
Knuckles.Exe : ...
Dria would notice a Tails Doll behind Knuckles.Exe.
Dria: What the heck? A stupid doll? Are you that Eggman creation that Fital told us about, the Tails Doll? And are you normal or did the resident maniac implant a demon in you?
Knuckles.Exe: Odd. You're not supposed to be here.
My "Friend".
Dria: What the?
Dria looks around for the voice, but can't seem to find it.
Dria: Is it the bloody, oh wait, the doll is literally bloodied.
The doll would stare back at Dria blankly, she would just now notice that inside it's gem was a countdown to something, now on the number "6".
Dria: Yeah, no, i'm done.
Dria fires at the doll, tearing it to stuffing on the floor. The gem was fine though. However, after time, blood would come together and reform the doll, the countdown now on "3".
Dria: What the heck is up with this doll?
Dria grabs it and strikes the gem with a laser, before ripping the doll again. Dria would be met with red static before appearing in a black space.
Sonic.Os : Congratulations on tagging him. You will be held in this waiting room 'till the other participants have fallen or passed.
The doll then heads to Alan's section. As soon as he notices, he attempts to grab the thing, but it flies beyond his reach. Frustrated, he shoots it, causing the gem to fall, and grabs the gem as it reforms the doll.
Scribble : While he's playing his game over there. I think I should elaborate on "The Sheet". The Creator typed it down somewhere... Let me see...
Scribble would pull out a laptop and head to the Sonic Fanon Wiki.
Scribble : "The Sheet" can be thought of as the rawest form of the "Cyneverse", everything within the cosmos is within this. "The Sheet" Is also something that is borderline between fiction and non-fiction as "The Sheet" is the very thing "The Creator" uses to create the everything on the continuity, "The Sheet" however is not just one thing, but anything in the real world (Earth IRL) that "The Creator" (Me IRL) can use to create that everything in the continuity. This makes "The Sheet" A non-physical physical place (IRL) and a existent and non-existent place (IRL). The true limits to this continuity's cosmology and the only way for being within it to interact with their creator.
Sonic and Tangle look at him confused.
Scribble : Sounds confusing right, I'll dumb it down. The Sheet is where everything within the cosmos is laid out on and made. The cosmos itself isn't called "The Sheet" rather the "Cyneverse" which operates as its own separate continuity, similar to your continuity. When your unstable universe is jumping into other dimensions, some of the time your actually jumping into an entirely separate continuity. The reason why your able to go outside of your own Continuity is due to a Continuities creator forming ties, allowances or bonds in their own Continuity, which we will call "Real Life". "Real Life" is a special continuity, as it's able to create and domesticate other Continuities. Now, all Continuities are not equal in size, some Continuities even have there creations bleed out into others permanently, including "Real Life". The Cyneverse for examples technically does this with "The Sheet". However, there is a place all Continuities including "Real Life" must exist, it goes by many names as it has no true one, but I like to call it "The Cornerstone", see. Many entities are not even aware of this place, Creators of Continuities are more aware of it, but they to may not know of it. The Cornerstone is where all continuities are contained. Yours, Mine, Real Life, Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Pokemon, Mario, ETC. It's all here, and while I bet you don't know about essentially any of the Continuities I mentioned, you should still be amazed. In "The Cornerstone" it's nothing but pure Continuity, no shape and no form. However, if an entity were to reach this place, even I don't know what would happen. Without staying within the confines of a continuity or continuital travel, its hard to say. But considering only Continuities exist, maybe they would become a Living Continuity, with form and shape, or just become a art of "The Cornerstone" itself. Don't know, even if I wanted to go out there, which I don't, I can't.
Sonic: Well, that sounds interesting.
Tangle: But wait! If our continuity is unstable, doesn't that mean if we don't fix it, it will be destroyed?
Scribble : No, luckily your Continuity was meant to be that way, it is an odd existence. But one that fixes itself with it's own unique properties. Though, if it was stable. It's likely that your Continuity would grow massively, due to any leaking and outrooted energy beings perfectly contained and maintained. In fact, if it were to be stable, a lot of things may or may not change within your continuity. I doubt it will be anything that will change your current lives too much, but you would notice.
Sonic: Impressive.
Alan would appear in the same black room as Dria.
Dria: Good to see you.
Alan: Yeah.
The Tails Doll, meanwhile, would find itself facing Jet next, and was caught in half a second.
Jet: Hah! Got ya! I bet Sonic couldn't catch this doll faster than me!
Jet would soon follow, being surprised to see the sudden location swap. In the meantime, Knuckles.Exe had ripped off Mephiles's head, causing him to respawn elsewhere. The doll, however, went to Tails's location.
Tails: That doll looks vaguely familiar... It's the doll copy of me Eggman made! But what is it doing here?
Looking up, Tails would see Knuckles.Exe. Knowing there's no way to outfight it, he chases after the doll instead. Behind him he would hear the sound of gliding.
Tails: (Is this what the demon meant by tag?)
Tails would have no time to think as he had to duck underneath the gliding Knuckles.Exe. Assuming the doll, which had begun projecting the time limit, was important, he landed, then jumped through Knuckles.Exe, and just nabbing the doll.
Sonic.Os : Welcome.
Tails: What is it...
Sonic.Os would scream and ear-piercing howl towards Tails, his face morphing into what could only be described as eldritch horror. Tails would be forced to close his eyes in fear, once he opened them, he would be in the same black room as the others.
Scribble : Sonic.Os is technically a Fallen God. In this universe The End is more than a powerful entity, The End had attained divinity, becoming a scholar of Void. After The End took Sonic's body it enabled him to attain the Mask of Svarntau, which Dr. Bagon had possessed at the time. Of course, he ripped the mask from the flesh of Dr. Bagon and used it for himself. Upon using it, he could now re-animate corpses, and mess with the dead, even souls. The End knew there was more however, the Mask had many seals placed on it and for every one of it's past users its real power sank deeper and farther from the users grasp. However, as a scholar of Void, and a god, he had more resources than any user before him. Eventually, he found the Infernal Realm, the realm of demons. Upon taking the throne and killing the Seven Archangels, he achieved the state of seven sins. After mastering these sins, he could manipulate the very sins of his victim and use them, he would even manage to undo the Eldraion seals and obtain the state of "666". At this point, The End was still a god, but his vessel, Sonic, was now a demon. However, Sonic's body still fought back, so The End decided to prioritize the vessel now instead of the mask. After being given Led's blessing, the Destruction Essence was able to destroy the indomitable will Sonic's body linger on to. He had now truly mastered his vessel and went on to further the mask. Eventually, The End, Sonic.Exe would have finally found the Masks creator, the secret Outer God, Aetoum. The mask would be shattered and unleash the true power of the mask which was contained inside. The "Lich-Force", a powerful concept made by the Primordial Void and contained in a relic by the Outer God Aetoum, A force that was the perfect accumulation of Unholy, Demonic and Destruction Energies/Essence. He had now become what Aetoum Dubbed "The Svartnau Vessel" someone who now operated on the same level as the Outer God's. The End was now fully a God, Demon, Destroyer and Lich. His official title was "Fallen God of Necro-Termination". In most of the branching timelines, this is his peak. However, there was one timeline that broke free of its bonds, you know the rest.
Sonic: Oh geez, good thing we killed him in our world.
Cross :... I haven't seen one of those demons for a while now? What's going on?
Whisper: They're mostly concentrated in the temple, thankfully. Since we're out here, things are fine. Those monsters Sonic.OS keeps trying to send our way get deleted before they can do anything.
The two then look over to see Silent Night atop a tree.
Whisper: And Silent Night never entered the temple either.
Cross: Yeah, i remember that. Silent Night came running after you and the others entered the temple.
Meanwhile, the room which was once black would illuminate with the light of candles...
. . .
Jet : Where are we now?
Alan: Dunno. Looks like some sort of temple or something.
Tails: All we have are stairs.
Dria: Guys, are you hearing that?
Alan: What? The music? Sonic.OS... Sonic. probably added it to creep us out.
Jet: I'm going down.
Jet immediately jets down the stairs, and when he reaches the second layer, the candles change from orange to blue, darkening the room.
Jet : That's Eerie... Not gonna let some Sonic clone's tricks scare me though! Though, the blood is a bit gross, but overdone.
HeHeHeHee...
As the other three chase after Jet, Jet reaches the bottom floor, and the candles go from blue to black. darkening the room almost to pitch black.
Alan: What? Did Sonic. turn off the candles?
Tails: No, he turned them black.
Dria: That's arguably worse.
Jet would keep speeding until eventually his Extreme Gear would stop working, losing all motion and causing Jet to fall over face first into a puddle of blood. The others hear this and call down.
Alan: Jet? You ok?
Jet: Yeah, the demon's just broken my Extreme Gear.
Alan: Wait up!
The others finally catch up, before walking forwards through the blacklit zone. In the darkness they would hear footsteps.
Doctor, Doctor...
Alan: Hey that reminds me. Did you end up destroying Eggman’s soul, Mr demon?
Just as he asks this, Robotnik.Exe would step out from the darkness.
Alan: Nope, of course not. What game do you have in mind, dead doctor?
Robotnik.Exe : Red light, Green light. Simple?
Dria: Simple.
Before everyone's eyes the pitch black corridor would extend further and further in an almost surreal effect. Everyone would be positioned side by side by an unseen force and the candles would burn an intense red.
Robotnik.Exe : Red light.
Jet:Wait, I’ve never played this game, how does it work?
Dria: Red means stop, green means go.
Jet would look behind himself and see a pool of black hands grasping at the air slowly moving closer.
Jet : Is that... Also normal for a game like this? I have a feeling it's not.
Alan: The demon's added a time limit, no doubt.
Robotnik.Exe: Green light.
The four dash away from the hands, Dria flying, and the others running.
Robotnik.Exe: Red light.
The four all stop, but Dria's momentum prevents her from stopping in time. Immediately, a hand greatly resembling Sonic.Os's hand would reach out from the mass of black hands, clasping Dria in his grasp before pulling her into the mass of darkness. Everyone would look on, shocked at the abrupt consequence for losing, before seeing Dria show up in a save file behind Robotnik.Exe. They couldn't hear Dria, but Dria was indeed in this Save File, not technically dying.
Dria: Guys? What the heck is going on?
They couldn't exactly hear her, but the heroes could see her mouth was moving, so they knew Dria was fine. Meanwhile, the arms creeping closer meant the others were very much not fine, as Robotnik.Exe was taking his time giving them their next green light.
Jet: Blast it! Is that hedgehog just trying to kill us all instead of narrowing us down to one?
Tails: He knows the lack of consequences for dying in this place. He's doing something else.
Alan: Unless he's just trying to make us despair like that black and white bear-bot from that videogame. Or was it the brown bear-bot that did that? Blast it, i'm getting my Badnik candidates mixed up again.
Jet: If that's it, he's doing a terrible job of it.
Scribble : Save files? Don't tell me he's-
Sonic.Os : Yes Scribble, I'm going to force the losers of this game to become my Executables.
Scribble : You know I can't allow that? It would ruin the Turf Wars.
Sonic.Os : I am aware, that's why it shall only last till this Temple is cleared. It will be a crucial part of the final game.
Robotnik.Exe: Green light.
The three run through a couple cycles, almost getting to the end. With how close they were, Tails made a break for it, dashing with his tails boosting him. Unfortunately, Robotnik.Exe turned earlier than usual. Tails, seeing he was caught, attempted to juke the hand by flying away, but it failed, and Tails was placed in another "Save File".
Robotnik.Exe: Two left. Who will win, and who will lose? Green light.
The two slowly walk forwards, discussing the situation.
Jet: Alan, do you think the demon's planning something?
Alan: What are you talking about?
Jet: You saw how the demon deals with those who lose. He kills them, with blood and everything. Imprisonment isn't his style.
Alan: Now that you say it-
Robotnik.Exe: Red light.
Alan: -It does seem off. 
The two remaining players, both of the same team, got ready to make a break for it as the demon hands approached. As Robotnik.Exe turned around, the two dashed for the finish line, only for Jet to slip on a pebble and fall backwards. As Alan crossed the line, Jet was enveloped in the demon hands.
Jet: Fowl! Interference!
Jet was dropped in a "Save File" like the others.
Alan: Alright, game's over, I win, you had your bloody fun, now i'd like whatever the prize is supposed to be. Or to leave with the others, at this point, that's good too.
Text would appear above each of the save files "I." above Dria's, "Am." above Tails and "God." above Jet's.
I. AM. GOD.
Sonic.Os would then appear in front of Alan. A sadistic, and cheeky grin that stretched across his entire face.
Sonic.OS : Ready for round 2?
Alan: We've had three rounds by now, when does it end?! Who's the host this time? You?
Sonic.Os : The souls...
Sonic.Os would point to the save files, now having been converted to there Executable counterparts.
Sonic.Os : You will beat each of them at their own game. Only then will you be free to leave. Pick a save file to play through and join as Player 2.
Alan immediately goes for the Dria file. He arrives in Hill Top Zone, except something's wrong. The lava's cooled, but the grass has all burnt. Right away, he notices Dria, who seemed to be fighting the shadow hands from earlier, flying around and firing her Wispon.
Alan: Dria! 
Dria: Alan!
Dria's then finally grabbed by one of the demon hands, and dragged away.
Alan: No... I was too slow to save Dria from this awful game!
The shadow hands would then slam into the ground and wisp way revealing...
Dria.Exe : ...
Alan: Ok, this is just rude.
Alan shoots Dria.Exe, punching a hole in her chest as her wisp flees, not willing to power the undead puppet's weapon.
Alan: Game, set, and match. I'll see you back on the battlefield, Dria.
Leaving so soon?
The wisp would be contained in a capsule, and Dria.Exe would smile, even with a gaping hole in her chest. Even wagging her finger.
Dria.Exe : It'll take more than that.
Alan would watch as one of the hands would morph into a staticky red looking wisp, similar to Drias original wisp. Aiming, and firing towards Alan in her wispon.
Alan: Cheap shot, demon! You couldn't have Dria's wisp, so you made a cheap copy!
Alan dodged, as best he could with the homing on Dria's wispon. While suffering some hits, he managed to retrieve Feathers, freeing him from the capsule. After that, he ducked behind some rocks, switching to Lightning in hopes of rendering the body too scorched to be puppeteered. Dria.Exe knew that flying to get over his cover would render the attacks stronger, so she/it avoided doing so. Instead, deciding a more unconventional approach, pointing at the rocks and shooting a black substance that seem to be alive. As the strange substance covered the rock, Alan evacuated for higher ground, shooting Dria.Exe with the height advantage.
Alan: Seems kinda unfair to throw demon goop at me in the body of my friend, demon!
Sonic.Os : I here in their dimension, something called "Power Energy" exists from a lesser version of myself. How about we create that for Little Dria here? After all, I am God.
Dria.Exe would hit the ground after taking hits, however, soon she would get back up, launching shards of Metal and rock that were lying around as Debris. Each of the debris being coated by the same black substance, appearing like black tendrils wriggling of each object.
Alan: That's not Power Energy, you stupid demon! That's just more demon goop!
Alan puts up a hardlight wall and fires at Dria.Exe.
Sonic.Os : Yes, Of course it's not Power Energy. It's better! I've seen your last bout in this Cyneverse, I know it's composition. I merely made my own compound of it. I gave it a bit of a... Demonic flair.
Dria.Exe would roll away from the oncoming fire and levitate the ground underneath Alan, the black substance slowly overtaking the platform.
Sonic.Os : Not only can Dria now use those powers, but they have been enhanced, no longer needing to make contact. An undying body and whatever she use's her powers on will be coated in "Error".
I wonder? Can you win?
Alan jumps away from the platform, before climbing higher.
Alan: Of course, because even now-
Alan summons another Red Scythe out of hardlight.
Alan: I outrange you.
Alan fires down on Dria.Exe, alternating between Lightning claws and shots from the Red Scythe's sniper mode, slowly building up damage on the demon's puppet. Dria.Exe was limping at this point, just moving forward with a wide smile, Bloody teeth and red eyes. At this point however, not even the wispon could be worn.
Alan: Just let Dria die and respawn already, you’ve failed.
The act will not be cleared, until the boss is.
Alan: Fine!
Alan throws Lightning claws at Dria.Exe, one set after another, reducing the puppet to a scorched corpse. With the body finally unusable, Sonic.OS releases it, and Dria weakly gives Alan a thumbs up before dying and respawning.
Alan: One hero freed.
Sonic.Os : Select the next save file.
Alan goes for the Tails file, and arrived in Hide and Seek Act 2 (Spirits of Hell variant). As he looks around, he runs into Tails.
Tails : Alan! What's going on?! I've been here running from a black figure, I don't know where it's at right now though.
Alan: Oh thank goodness you’re still alive!
Alan stays where he is, however.
Tails: Alan? Why are you just standing there?
Alan: Oh, you know how the demon is. I don’t know if that’s truly you, so I’ll shoot the demon if he comes close, but please stay over there.
Tails : Got it.
Make it to the end without getting caught. If the fox lives, he will be your aid for the next Act.
Alan: Welp, looks like we're repeating Hide and Seek, Tails.
Tails : Well let's keep moving, this place is like a maze. I don't have any equipment either, so I've been navigating it by memory of the turns I make. Though... The creature here throws me off when I have to run.
Alan: Well, i just got here, so do you have any idea where the exit could be?
Tails : Well this is the start. I've already gone left and forward. So let's try right.
Alan: Okay.
The two take the right path. Soon, Alan notices a shadow figure patrolling on a upper platform.
Alan: That jump's too high for me. You think you could fly me up there?
Tails: Probably, but let's look at the lower section as well.
The two look at the lower platform, and see another shadow figure patrolling.
Tails : After it passes by, let's-
??? : RRAAHHHH!!!!!
The two hadn't noticed, one of them were also patrolling this platform, the two ran and eventually turned into a rocky corridor, hiding behind a rock as the figure passed by, still screeching like a mad man. One of the others then grabbed it and dragged it back to where it belonged. As they both left, the two heroes snuck through the corridor.
Tails : Up ahead there's a trail of blood. Do we want to keep going or open this gate?
Alan: Blood, now doesn't that sound suspicious. What opens the gate anyways?
Tails : It has a rusty lock on it, We can probably bust it open.
Alan: If we open it partway, we could see what's on the other side, and if it's dangerous, keep them there.
Tails would kick the lock, the lock shattering into dozens of tiny brown pieces on impact. Tails would creak open the gate and take a few steps in. Inside he would see a room filled with spikes, springs and gray colored rings.
Tails : Looks like an obstacle course, the type Eggman might set up.
Alan: What do you think those gray rings are?
Tails: I don't know, but considering Sonic.OS made this place, they're likely unsafe.
Alan: I can see some safe platforms from here, can you fly us up there?
Tails : Yeah, grab on.
Tails takes flight, and Alan grabs hold of his hands. Tails then flies them both upwards, and they safely land on a safe platform. Tails stretches for a second, and they repeat the process. As he got ready to go again, Alan noticed a new threat.
Alan: Tails, i see turrets. They seem to fire randomly. All bets are likely off if we get shot by one of those.
Tails : Maybe we could shoot it down. If not, we'll just have navigate it.
Alan fires at the turrets, but unfortunately, his shots just bounce off.
Tails : Figures, let's just stay here and observe. The turret has to have a predictable fire rate, and a minimum cooldown between it's firing rounds, I doubt it has finite ammo so that's out of the picture.
Alan considers this, they both observe the turret, noticing it shot 5 bullet's everytime it became active, and found it had a minimum 1 Second to 10 Seconds between firing randomly. Tail's picked up on something Alan did not however, on the side of the Turret was a small hard to see number that changed between 1 and 10, Tails soon deduced this was telling them the cooldown rolled for the next bullets to be fired.
Tails : Let's go now, it should have a 8 second cooldown. But stay to the left side so the others can't hit us if they fire.
Alan: You have control of the flight path.
The two fly up past the initial turret before it turns back on again, As the two look up, they see a bunch of gray rings floating midair, instead of along the platforming challenge like usual.
Alan: Well, looks like the demon's trying now.
A static would appear over the two making it harder to see.
Alan: Would you look at that. The demon heard me.
Even with the static, Tails would weave through the rings and would get the two to a safe spot before any turrets could tag them with a stray bullet. 
Alan: I think i can make something out. It's... glowing.
Tails: That's probably our exit!
Tails and Alan move past all the turrets and up to the final platform. They could see the glow was emitting from a route just past the final challenge. There were no more platforms or springs to maneuver around. The gray rings had taken their place.
Watch out for fire.
Tails : Speaking of, I was thinking it was getting a bit hot-
Tails would look down the previous platforms and see a scorching inferno slowly rising.
Tails : Looks like were being timed.
Alan: Then we've gotta go!
Tails grabs Alan, and flies the both of them past all the gray rings and turrets, though there was a close call when one of the turrets scratched Alan's right arm. They thankfully land in the glowing tunnel, which was lit by a giant Ring.
Tails: A Warp Ring!
The two jump in, now returning to the file select.
Sonic.Os : The fox lives, good job. You have one last Save File, The fox will aid you.
Tails: What's the demon on about?
Alan: We have to free everyone from these "Save Files". It's possible we're too late to save Jet, so we'd have to kill him so he respawns.
Tails: Ah, got it.
The two jump into Jet's Save File. Immediately, they would appear in a destroyed and eerie looking Metal City. In front of them, sitting on his extreme gear was none other than...
Jet.Exe : We race and fight. You will be crushed.
Race to win, Anything goes.
Alan and Tails Extreme Gear would then spawn for them, specifically the Badnik's Tomb for Alan.
Alan: Well, only one thing to do.
The two heroes grab their Extreme Gear and go to face off with the demon racer. The two would notice instead of wielding fans, the demon instead had black feathers circling him.
Tails : Those can't be good news.
The race light flashes green, and the race is on. Jet.Exe immediately gets ahead of the group, and Alan responds by firing the Lightcutter Claws at him. Jet counters by sending the feathers at the two, with one cutting Alan's arm.
Alan: Those feathers are glorified daggers!
Tails would manage to flip over the daggers sent by him, and continue onwards with Alan.
Tails : Even if that's the case. Let's stick behind him for now, it'll be harder to dodge when were in front.
Alan: Fair enough.
The three racers then launched off a ramp, and did some tricks midair, before landing.
Alan: At least Jet.Exe isn't dull.
Jet.Exe : Too afraid to come up here?
Jet.Exe would grab one of the black feathers and would extend it, effectively making a feather blade. He would slow down a little until he was at the same place and pace as Alan and Tails and immediately would swing the blade at Alan. Alan would cut the blade with the Lightcutter Claws, just barely not getting cut by the separated piece. Alan then responded by firing Quake claws at Jet.Exe's Extreme Gear, damaging it. However, Alan wouldn't notice the separated piece fly back towards himself.
Tails : Alan! Look out!
Alan dodges around the piece barely. Jet.Exe would slow down a bit to repair his Extreme Gear with the black substance before speeding back on towards the two.
Alan: Maybe a different element is in order.
Alan changes the Lightcutter Claws to Lightning, and fires at Jet.Exe. Jet.Exe blocks the lightning with a black feather, working as an instantaneous insulator.
Alan: Back to basics then.
Alan fires Laser claws at the demon. Jet.Exe of course dodging, but still effectively slowing him.
Alan: I've got him, i've got him!
Tails: Alan, hard turn left!
The three racers turn around a sharp corner. Jet.Exe would speed up and soar over the two, now being back in the lead. He would also leave Feather Spikes behind him to trip up Tails and Alan. Tails would use his tails to jump the spikes, while Alan would have to dodge around. The three riders then had to turn to the right around a corner, before turning along a U turn and going back left. Alan and Jet.Exe than took to rails on both sides of the track, firing at and missing one another, while Tails weaved around the pillars supporting the rails.
Jet.Exe : You're too slow. Victory will be mine.
Alan: None of that.
As the two reach the end of their rail, Alan gets past Jet.Exe while Tails ends up behind him.
Jet.Exe : What do you plan on doing exactly? I'm feeling nice, so I'll let your little plan fail, before I leave you both in the dust.
Alan: First things first.
The three racers launch off springs, sending them into a skydive. While in midair, Alan and Jet.Exe trade attacks, while Tails gets ready to help Alan land safely. Jet.Exe would form his feathers into a black version of his fans, and swing them. Blasting back Alan and Tails with winds that could cut. As the two heroes recover from the cutting winds, Alan dives down and punches Jet.Exe, throwing off his game, while Tails dives past the two. Jet.Exe would recall his Extreme Gear from the shadow and speed up, grabbing Alan off of his Extreme Gear and holding him up by his neck.
Jet.Exe : Pest!
Alan: Demon!
Alan cuts off Jet.Exe's arm that had grabbed him, and jumps off him, getting saved by Tails, with the Badnik's Tomb respawning under Alan's feet. Jet.Exe, meanwhile, fell off his Extreme Gear and faceplanted on the track, before getting up, frustrated.
Tails : We should be close to the end!
The two would have a good feeling, knowing all the madness was about to end. Well, that was until a giant black hawk flew over the two.
Jet.Exe (Monster) : You will not win this!
Jet.Exe would rain down a hail of black feathers that Tails and Alan would have to dodge, a couple of them exploding from time to time.
Alan: Didn't know the great Jet the Hawk needed to cheat in order to win. Unless you aren't the real Jet.
Tails manages to pick up and throw one of the feathers back at the monster bird, cutting it's wing. Jet.Exe would then swoop down and try to peck at the two, running on the ground at a similar speed to the Extreme Gears. Tails uses the opportunity, and jumps atop the monstrous Jet.Exe, spindashing in such a way that he embeds himself into Jet.Exe's back, nearly disabling the monster bird. Alan passing by and cutting off Jet.Exe's left leg makes it total, and Alan jets off towards a setpiece that acts as a turn. Jet.Exe would burst into a flock of black birds, creating a wave of demonic hawks that would chase Alan and Tails.
Tails : He's quite persistent isn't he?
Alan: Yeah. The demon probably didn't even have to change that.
Tails: You're telling me that?
The two launched off a spring, which bounced them along collapsing pillars, as the Jet.Exe flock chased them. As the two landed, they jetted off towards the start/finish line. The demon birds caught up, but it didn't stop Alan from taking the win completing Lap 1 the race.
Sonic.OS: What?! You dare interfere with me, Scribble?!
Scribble : Look. Your games are nice and all, but this is a turf war at the end of the day. I'm the host, not you.
Sonic.OS : Your lucky I don't have authority above yours, such a buzzkill. Fine, you can continue on with your "Turf War".
Scribble : Good.
Jet would respawn, his Executable version being instantly obliterated by Scribble with a thought. Alan and Tails would be left in the Temple, the assist trophy lying in front of them both.
Speakers : Since I suppose two of you are still left and we had... an uninvited guest sabotage. I'll let each of you have an assist trophy, you will either get Tangle or Sonic. Good job!
Tails: I suppose since you were the winner, and me second place, you get first choice.
Alan: Thank you. Now, for the reason Team Sol Defenders was here.
Alan grabs the Sonic trophy, and is returned to the Royal Metropolis. Tails, meanwhile, grabs Tangle's trophy and is returned to the Iron Forest.
Alan: I'm back!
Sonic: With a friend this time!
Scribble : I think after all the hijinx I'll do another voting event.
Scribble would bring up an interface with and select three options for the participants to vote on. The first would be the "Lycan Event" with a picture of a Werehog, the next would be the "Secret Boss Event" with a picture of Dark Gaia, the last would be the "Day Event" With an image of the sun shining. He would then initiate the vote. Mephiles and Cross both take notice.
Mephiles: Team, a vote has been initiated.
Erazor: Training the Nightmares takes precedence, I’m abstaining this time.
Srish: Suit yourself, I’m looking into this.
Merlina: As am I.
Mephiles: We should at least figure out the choices first.
Team Magic heads back into the Dark Vortex, without Erazor.
Cross: I see a new Vote Event has been initiated.
Silence: Really? What are the options?
Cross: Lycan event, which has a picture of some beast, Secret Boss event, which pictures Dark Gaia, and Day Event, which pictures the sun.
Whisper: I have no doubt Day Event would hurt all Dark Gaia Monsters.
Suddenly, Whisper is tackled from behind off her treetop and smothered in a hug while hanging in the air. She almost fires on the assailant until she sees who it is.
Whisper: Tangle?
Tangle: Whisper! Oh, it’s good to be on the field, and on your team, too!
Whisper: Can you pull me back up?
Tangle: Oh, right, sorry!
Tangle pulls Whisper back to her treetop.
Jeckal : Event vote?! Let's do the boss one!
Amy : Hold on! Let's think about this some more! Do we even have the means to take on Dark Gaia?
Starline : Probably not, the only one that we know will benefit us is the Day Event. It will probably weaken nightmares, but the darkness will also probably clear up. I can only see benefits.
Dria: Yeah, let’s do the Day Event.
Sonic: If we could get up to him, we should be able to beat Dark Gaia.
Alan: Yeah, if we could. Jet’s Extreme Gear could probably do so, but he won’t just let us.
Blaze: Indeed, tackling Dark Gaia is unwise at this moment.
Hammer: Personally, I want to see what this Lycan event’s about.
Sonic: I think it transforms you into Werehogs.
Scribble : I wonder what they will pick, how about you?
Sonic.Os : I do not care either way. The audacity to have me as your guest speaker after you spoiled my fun.
Scribble : No need to be such a baby about it. Just answer the question.
Sonic.Os : Dark Gaia, so I can seen them die constantly. It's the only thing that could bring me joy currently.
Scribble : Harsh.
Inside the Dark Vortex, Team Magic was dealing with some Titans.
Mephiles : So, what do you think our next steps should be?
Mephiles would dodge the Titans club, piercing it's head with a sharp crystal.
Mephiles : So far no one has been able to destroy the others Turf, though, almost.
Srish: That’s less a concern for now. With all the other stuff to do, it’s likely they’re preparing that. After all, Erazor’s training seems to be working, so surely the others are attempting something similar.
Srish jumps a shockwave from another Titan, and shoots it, damaging it.
Mephiles : I still have two Chaos Emeralds. Do you think there might be secret gimmick to the Gaia Temples, similar to that secret room in the Cyberspace?
Srish: It’s possible, with what little we know. You thinking we should test our theory?
Mephiles would entangle a Titans legs in crystals and kick it over, slamming a larger crystal down on it.
Mephiles : But of course.
Srish: Before we do that though.
Srish kills the Titan he was fighting as it attempts to hit him with a backhand.
Srish: Let’s cast our votes.
Mephiles : I'd rather keep the darkness, it's my specialty so no Day Event. Hmm... I think I'll go for the boss.
Srish: You do you, I’m going for Lycan event, sounds cool.
As the three on Team Magic arrive, they notice the other teams were there too.
Srish: And what are you going for?
Alan: Most on my team are going for the Day event, I’m picking the Lycan event.
Dria: Me and my team are going for the Day event too.
Tangle: I wanna do the Lycan event!
As Tangle attempts to select her choice, she bounces off it.
Sonic: Oh yeah, us summons can’t vote.
Cross : I don't mind what's picked. Besides the Day event... Actually I'll pick Lycan specifically for that.
Silence: Fair point. With Silent Night with us, it wouldn’t do to weaken him.
Silent Night was, in fact, not with them at the moment, rather, he was back at base, patrolling and practicing his aim, for reasons Team Stealth Heroes hadn’t yet figured out.
Scribble : Seems most of the votes are starting to flood in. Let's see...
Scribble noticed that for all the votes for the Day Event, others were voting for the Lycan Event, and there weren’t any votes for Secret Boss Event, much to Sonic.Os’s chagrin.
Scribble : Hmm... a Tie. This is unexpected. Therefore, This will be a special occasion!
Speakers : Due to a tie in votes, I'm happy to announce our first fused event! We will call this the "Unleashed Event"! The time will rotate between day and night. At day Nightmares won't spawn and remaining ones will be weakened, as well as the darkness. At night you will all become a "Were" version of yourself. Your traits will be similar to a nightmares, some of your abilities might be restricted while using this however. On an additional note, when in this form, you also gain the same effects of the "Dark Gaia Alliance/Pact" without any of the downsides. This does mean you can steal Light Gaia Bracelet pieces while in the form. Have fun!
Mephiles: Wait, what?!
The time immediately shifts to Day, which Silent Night feels back in the forest, and across the battlefield, the more wild Dark Gaia creatures seek shelter, as the Dark Vortex clears up.
Alan: Looks like we all get what we want.
Team Stealth Heroes immediately go to check on Silent Night. They would find him, seemingly fine.
Cross : Right, I forgot we have this congested forest as a turf. Not much light shines down here.
Silent Night gingerly sticks his hand out, and immediately pulls it back as the sun burns it.
Tails: What now?
Silence: Time for my real plan. First step’s climb that final temple.
Cross : Right, only three can go in. Who're we bringing and who's staying? So far we may have the biggest team.
Silence: That’s the thing though, if my plan works, we won’t have to even enter the temple.
Cross : Really? Interesting.
Silence: Cross, you should stay here anyways, you’re just as effective here as you would be there.
Cross : Sure.
Silence, Whisper, Tails, and Tangle run into the Center Zone, with Cross and Silent Night keeping watch.
Tails : I won't lie, it's a real refresher being able to see clearly again.
Silence: Yeah. Last time we could see this place clearly was when the Egg Wyvern was in play!
As they ran across the field, they noticed the Dark Gaia monsters seemed to be dripping, if they weren’t outright melting.
Tangle : Wow, if these guy's can barely stand the sun then what about the Temple Boss?
Tails : Knowing Scribble, somethings probably planned for that.
Silence: It’s irrelevant anyways.
Team Stealth Heroes reaches the temple, and climbs up it, with Tangle having a grand old time traversing the ruins.
Scribble : Hmm... What are they planning?
The team reaches the top of the temple, where Silence finally reveals his plan.
Silence: The plan is simple. We blow open the temple, entering the central chamber the easy way.
Cross: And… you think that will work?
Silence: Maybe. Scribble might not have thought of that.
Cross switches to his Hawkeye sight, and notices a power source under the temple, about where Silence’s group is.
Cross: Well, you’re in the right place.
Silence: Alright.
Silence and Whisper back up and fire a couple times. When the dust clears, the central chamber was revealed.
Silence: It actually worked!
Scribble : Ah... Clever...
Sonic.Os : I don't understand you at all. You're omnipotent, if you're not satisfied with the results then why not overwrite them?
Scribble would laugh at Sonic.Os.
Scribble : See, unlike you. I don't need things a certain way. If I had everything my way, i'd be bored and grumpy. Allowing margins for error and mistakes produce interesting results and allows me to watch a spectrum of scenarios unfold. You new to being an Improbable, so I suppose you wouldn't get it. But when you have indefinite power over everything, the only thing that becomes interesting are those without it. Now, let's continue to watch how this goes.
Silence jumped into the temple, and grabbed the Bracelet Piece, and since the others were out of range, only Silence danced around with it, before jumping out of the temple.
Silence: Got it!
Tails: Yeah!
As the team left, the empty space became a item roulette, which Whisper noticed.
Tangle : Whisper? What's the matter?
Tails : You okay? You look like you saw something?
Whisper: There's a glow coming from our hole.
Silence: That's odd, we already took the bracelet piece.
Tangle flings herself back up and notices the item roulette. Seeing items within, she sticks her tail in and grabs one, causing the roulette to dissipate.
Tangle: It was a item.
Whisper: What is it?
Tangle would then hold the item up into the air, revealing it to be a Lightning Shield Monitor. Small enough to fit in ones hand.
Silence: Reminds me of one of those shields Hammer can generate.
Tangle: Quick check.
Tangle stuck her tail back into the room to check if the roulette had respawned, but it hadn't.(Scribble had modified the temple's roulette respawn timer for balance reasons.)
Tangle: Ok, let's go.
Scribble : Smart bunch... let's see what the others are up to.
Team Magic, meanwhile, had reached Temple 1, the one Alan's group explored first. At the same time, Amy was at the upgrade button.
Amy: We've been putting this off for too long!
Amy pressed the upgrade button, and immediately grabbed the Damage, Speed, and Health upgrades for 30 Chaos Drives. She knew they could do more, but that was a later thing. As she exited, Team Tarot sensed their speed boost, new 1.5 damage, and a extra 3 health points.
Jeckal : Well wouldja' look at that, I completely forgot about those things. Guess those temples really had us occupied.
Finally, Team Sol Defenders were at the Dark Gaia Merchant, armed with their many Dark Gaia Coins.
Sonic: Quick fun fact, I was supposed to be part of a event, Treasure Isle if i'm remembering correctly. Until Scribble changed their mind, of course.
Alan: Neat. Now then.
Alan uses the Dark Gaia Coins to buy the Pool of Darkness, Dark Walls and Dark Gaia Scent, fully kitting out their base. They quickly noticed the Pool of Darkness wasn't active during the day. Even the Dark Walls were very faint.
Blaze: What can you expect? These items feed off of Dark Gaia's power. It's expected the day would interfere.
Alan: Well, i've done what i wanted. What's your suggestions?
Jet : I want to take down one of those turfs! Think about it, this is the perfect time! The other teams are probably grabbing and collecting stuff or are busy with upgrades. Being in those temples probably made them forget about protecting their turf properly. And me, I take advantage of stuff like that! A real pro!
Sonic : You think they're gonna let you go up and take their turf? Sorry to break it to you but you won't be able to do it alone.
Jet : Then come with me. Your the perfect distraction, leave the main act to me. I'm especially thinking about hitting Team Magic.
Hammer and Alan look to each other, and shrug.
Alan: We're in.
Blaze: I'll stay and defend the base.
Jet : Alright then, Let's go!
With Team Magic.
Mephiles : Merlina, is it possible for you to give us some sort of boost with your magic? Even only if temporary.
Merlina: I do know a spell that guards against damage. Hold on.
Merlina plants her staff into the temple floor as she starts chanting magic words.
Mephiles : (It's been a bit quiet, I would've expected a team to attack by now. I think I'll scout it out.)
As Mephiles attempts to leave, Srish notices him.
Srish: Where are you going? This thing was your idea. You think we need to do something before entering the temple, proper?
Mephiles : Yeah, I'm a bit suspicious. So I'm going to check out our turf.
Mephiles would generate a ark crystal in his hand and give it to Srish.
Mephiles : Keep this, when I'm done I can teleport from it. I shouldn't be too long, I could just be paranoid.
Srish:(Wow, he can just do that.)
Mephiles : Is something wrong? Your making a strange face.
Srish: Just... if this could be done the whole time, why not earlier?
Mephiles : Why would I have a reason to? Plus, I'm splitting a part of my soul into those which hurts. I don't want to do it if I don't have to. I can also communicate with them in your mind. I also don't know if the crystal getting hit will also damage me, since some of my soul is in it. But since you guys aren't on the frontlines and I'm briefly scouting, it felt like a good time.
Srish: Mmm... I get it. Be quick.
Mephiles immediately starting heading towards the turf base, hoping his suspicions were just suspicions. Unfortunately, it wasn't as he noticed Team Sol Defenders dash across the turf.
Teams and Items
 	Items 	Team Items 	Special Items 	Base and Team Upgrades 	Sigil Destroyers
Sol Defenders 	Energy Armor Lightning(Alan) 	 	Chaos Emeralds(Alan and Blaze), Extreme Gear(Alan), Chip's Bracelet Piece x2, Sonic(Sonic) 	Turrets, Speed, Healing Aura, Pool of Darkness, Dark Walls, Dark Gaia Scent.	1(Jet)
Tarot 	Electric Bombs x 3(Starline), Super Shield(Jeckal), Dark Hero Upgrade(Jeckal)	 	Warp Topaz(Starline), Magic Emblem(Amy), Mk II Wispon(Dria), Chaos Emerald(Amy), Chip's Bracelet Piece x 2	Drive Constructor, Speed, Damage, Health 	0
Magic 	 	Rubber Band 	Mk II Wispon(Srish), Chaos Emeralds(Mephiles x 2), Extreme Gear(Srish), Chip's Bracelet Piece x 2 	Pool of Darkness, Dark Gaia Scent 	2(Mephiles and Srish)
Stealth Heroes	Lightning Shield(Tangle) 	Communicator	Core Room Locator(Tails), Chaos Emeralds(Whisper and Cross), Chip's Bracelet Piece, Tangle(Tangle) 	Turrets, Damage 	1(Tails)
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