Marshall Rooke: King of the Frogs

Marshall slowly finished the glass of juice. His eyes darted to Richard Smith, the assistant at his side.

"More juice," he demanded.

As quickly as he hurried out, Richard reentered balancing two platters of orange juice.

Chad entered Marshall's cavernous fiefdom with a line of blue-belly toads hopping behind. They were an amphibian race native to Euclid, commonly preyed upon by both demons and angels.

"Wise King Marshall," Chad pleaded. "These poor creatures were rescued from a Holy See outpost. I know they aren't exactly frogs, but I'm sure they'd love it here."

"Time to pay the piper, Chad. It's not enough. I'll take it for now. Be grateful you escape with your life — for now. Bring me what I seek or else. Go," Marshall ordered, annoyed at the pest that cowered at his feet.

"What?" Chad asked. "You're not my landlord, asshole. I don't gotta pay you shit."

"Time to die," Marshall sniggered, pulling out a pistol and aiming it at Chad. Richard, at the side of the throne, pulled out a spear, as well as Marshall's butler Warren doing the same with a claymore on the other side.

Chad took a magnum out of his pocket and aimed it at Marshall's head. "You think those little swords scare me?"

Warren whistled, and behind Chad a hundred men in green and purple robes appeared, as well as Da Chang, Marshall's Master-at-Arms, armed with a large bazooka.

"Shoot me. It'll only make me stronger," Marshall screamed.

Manny Pardo opened the door, "This is what happens to thugs like you." He pulled out a magnum and fired at Marshall.

The bullet narrowly missing Marshall's head, he ducked behind the throne, quivering.

"Mommy, come get me! I'm scared! Da, Warren, Richard, do something!" Marshall wimpered.

At his orders, the troops now faced Manny at the door.

"Oh no you don't," Chad tossed his magnum aside and retrieved his minigun. The troops around Pardo keeled over and died as Chad laughed maniacally.

Warren gasped at the horrendous sight.

"What the fuck, man. That's uncool."

Marshall, from behind the throne, called out "You'll never get the Juicemaker! You'll never overthrow me!"

"The fucks a Juicemaker? I'm here to find the Miami Mutilator!"

Peeking out from behind the throne, Marshall spoke.

"You're in the wrong place!"

Hundreds of men suddenly stormed the room, all dressed in soldiers' garb and with circular lights held on their shoulders. Performing a short dance, they finished their march and screamed in unison.

"THELSH SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD."

At the head of the brigade was Atticus Anoethite, an eye-patch over one eye, and he started to make an announcement.

"OH YEAH. We're coming for that Juicemaker."

"No! It can't be . . . . Atticus? How . . . ?" Marshall said, getting back on his throne.

"Damn," Chad commented. "I didn't expect the Third Reich to show up."

"Hand it over, Rooke!" Atticus shouted. "We will take it by force if needed."

"No! You will never take Yu! I mean, the Juicemaker! FUCK! The juice is what supplies me with all this power!" Marshall lifted his arm up and raised a man of Atticus' legion and and threw him out.

"ATTACK!" Atticus shouted.

Instantly, all the soldiers grabbed the lights off their shoulders and threw them in unison at Marshall, causing a loud crash as they on landed on their target.

The men then stormed towards the throne, quickly surrounding it.

"..." Marshall said.

"So," Chad said. "It appears we have you surrounded. Give up the Juicemaker, Marshall."

"..." Marshall said.

"Argh! He won't surrender, I should've known!" Atticus yelled.

"Fuck yeah and fuck you! You may be able to defeat me but--" Marshall said.

Right then, the soldiers grabbed Marshall and pulled him off the throne.

"FUCK!" he screeched.

Sitting down on his new throne, Atticus smiled. "Give it over now, Rooke."

"No! You can defeat me - but you cannot defeat HIM!" he yelled, sobbing.

"Him? What are you talking about?"

Suddenly, a large, golden glowing figure floated above Atticus. It revealed itself to be a superpowered Wen Li.

"W-Wen?!" Atticus cried out in shock, falling from the throne and landing on the floor.

"I am your grandfather!" he said, his eyes glowing, hovering over them.

"NO! IT CAN'T BE TRUE!"

Chad aimed his minigun at the Beyond-empowered Li and started blasting.

Li dodged with lightning speed, and shot fire down upon Chad.

Chad dodged the fire with lightning speed, and shot bullets up at Li.

The bullets clinked as they bounced off of Li, him smiling. "Those eyes. Only a Li has those eyes."

"Damn," The Chad commented, annoyed. "Looks like this little pea-shooter ain't gonna cut it." He tossed the minigun aside and got out his rocket-propelled grenade launcher and started launching rocket-propelled grenades at Li.

"YEAH, DESTROY HIM!" Atticus yelled.

"Rat bastards! Don't make me do it!" Li shouted, dodging.

Diving into the crowd of his soldiers, Atticus disappeared from view.

"Your final chance! Do not make me unleash my Halanity upon this mortal world! Run! Hurry! Go! NOW!" he screeched.

Jumping out of the crowd, Atticus unrevealed a large scythe and aimed it at Li.

"You truly are the lowest scum in history. And that is why I will use Xeren's GOD-SLAYING SCYTHE."

With that, Atticus threw the weapon at Li.

"SECOND WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed, spinning into a massive, olden tornado, lifting troops and throwing them everywhere.

"Damn," Chad commented, admiring his biceps. "Looks like that's not gonna work either. I'll have to rely on raw physical strength to defeat 「Wen Li Beyond Ultimate Requiem」's Second Wind."

Chad proceeded to double-jump off the ground and begin throwing dozens of simultaneous punches at Li.

Li ducked.

Suddenly, a person known as Claude entered.

Who?

Claude, the apprentice of Wen, entered.

Holy shit.

"Damn, **Claude, the Apprentice of Wen** has entered the battle," Chad remarked. "Looks like this will be a little more difficult to defeat **Wen Li, the Master of Claude** now."

**Gus, the Enemy of Claude** appears. He has followed Claude across time and space, trailing him to the source of all evil, Wen Li.

"Die, monster! You don't belong in this world!"

"Claude! What are you doing! No, no, no! Get out! LEAVE! SHOO! PLEASE!" Li begged.

"You're too late, Wen!" Gus says, doing a sick trick on his motorcycle. "Accept your fate, there's more honour in it!"

Claude, the apprentice of Wen, left.

"Oh, good, they left. Let's GET back to BATTLE, rat BASTARDS!" Wen Li howled.

Gus, the enemy of Wen and Claude, followed him and left.

Chad uses his **8129-SIDED DICE OF CHANCE**. He scores a **6177**. This allows him to make one **change** to the **past**. Where will Chad go?

"What the fuck is happening?" Atticus screamed.

"Atticus, we only have one chance," Chad explained. "We need to go back to the past. What will we change?"

"You will change **NOTHING. I AM WEN LI OF PORT CITY AND THIS WILL STAND NO MORE,"** Li screamed.

Chad goes back to the past and undeletes the Gabriel Reply.

*GABRIEL one hit kill Richard and beocme king of euclid :))))*

"All in all, it was a solid pick," Atticus told Chad.

And then, the ground began to shake. The massive claws of a great beast broke through the soil near the two men.

Chad recognized what was going on from **The Scrolls Buried Beneath the Ancient City of the Proto-Men**. Long before life had emerged on Euclid, **The Celestial Men of Shen Born Beneath the Fetid Valleys of Rotting Stars** warned the gods that **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid** would one day awaken should **The Alchemist King of Man** take his place upon **The Cursed Throne Atop the Tallest Tower at the Heart of the Silver City**.

"Of course," Chad cursed. "**The Celestial Men of Shen Born Beneath the Fetid Valleys of Rotting Stars** warned the gods that **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid** would one day awaken should **The Alchemist King of Man** take his place upon **The Cursed Throne Atop the Tallest Tower at the Heart of the Silver City**.

"That is why **The Great Gods of the Realm of the Centaur** struck down that reply, Atticus. We need to act quickly before **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid** emerges from within **The Great Slumber Chamber Which Holds the Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid**!"

**The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid** awakens from **The Unending Slumber Deep Within the Caverns**.

Li read the thread to understand what was going on. "But what *is* **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid**?" he asked.

Li, however, was oblivious to notice that **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid** was standing directly behind him.

"Weird," Atticus exclaimed.

"Alright, it's time to end this crap," Chad said, Pulling out a bazooka he had, he set his focus on **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid** and began to shoot his weapon at **The Great Beast Which Slumbers Beneath the Euclid**, destroying it.

"Worked like a charm."

**HORRENDOUS BEAST** DEFEATED!

YOU HAVE GAINED: 1 FrogPoint

"Oh cool, we got a FrogPoint. Should we spent it now or save up?" Chad wondered. "Chris, what do you think?"

Chris gets bigger.

A hazy green figure appeared, floating before them all — Atticus, Chad, Gabriel, and Wen Li. As it spoke, the words visualized mid-air.

"The Kinged Frog…" Marshall replied, getting up and rejoining the group.

"𝔜𝔒𝔘 ℌ𝔄𝔙𝔈 𝔒𝔑𝔈 𝔉ℜ𝔒𝔊𝔓𝔒ℑ𝔑𝔗 𝔗𝔒 𝔖𝔓𝔈𝔑𝔇 𝔒𝔑 𝔄𝔑𝔜𝔗ℌℑ𝔑𝔊 𝔒𝔉 𝔜𝔒𝔘ℜ ℭℌ𝔒𝔒𝔖ℑ𝔑𝔊. ℭℌ𝔒𝔒𝔖𝔈 𝔚ℑ𝔖𝔈𝔏𝔜."

"Sorry, I don't speak Italian," Chad explained calmly.

The Kinged Frog glowed red, as if embarrassed.

"□︎♒︎ ♓︎❍︎ ⬧︎□︎❒︎❒︎⍓︎ ♓︎●︎●︎ ♍︎□︎■︎⧫︎♓︎■︎◆︎♏︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ♒︎♋︎❖︎♏︎ □︎■︎♏︎ ♐︎❒︎□︎♑︎◻︎□︎♓︎■︎⧫︎ ⧫︎□︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎■︎♎︎ □︎■︎ ♋︎■︎⍓︎⧫︎♒︎♓︎■︎♑︎ □︎♐︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎❒︎ ♍︎♒︎□︎□︎⬧︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ♍︎♒︎□︎□︎⬧︎♏︎ ⬥︎♓︎⬧︎♏︎●︎⍓︎"

"I think what Chris is trying to tell us," Gabriel said, "is that you should spend your FrogPoint on a new home for the Blue-Belly Toads!"

"No!" Wen Li shouted as he simultaneously hit Chad, Atticus, and Gabriel with his one cane. "You're all menaces! It's too dangerous to accept this gift. Forget this happened and go home. Or else."

"Or else what?" Chad asked.

The Blue-Belly Toads sit in front of Chad, making very sad eyes at him. Chris grows to astronomical sizes.

"Oh, uh, I don't know. I thought you'd just take my word for it and go home," Wen Li shrugged.

"The Kinged Frog…" Marshall said.

"I just want the Blue-Belly Toads to be happy. Maybe this is for the best." Chad [word].

Chad [word] and his FrogPoint is consumed. The Blue-Belly Toads are transported to a lush field of flowers and wetlands.

Chad and his cohorts, meanwhile, are transported to a dark pit at the bottom of the Euclid. Chris eclipses the sun.

## ACT 3

Atticus logs out.

Atticus blips out of existence. You're all alone now.

"FUCK," Chad exclaims. "I guess I'm all alone now." He walks around a little bit. "This place. That I am in?" he asks. "What the heck is it!"

The jagged stone formations in the hole belied its nature: Chad and his cohorts had found themselves in **The Deepest Chasm Beneath the Fetid Valleys of Rotting Stars, Final Resting Place of the Celestial Men of Shen**. It was here that they communed with **The Elder Gods of the Fathomless Depths**.

"I'm sure you guys have all read about this place," Chad said. "I'm not in the mood for exposition at the moment."

*Atticus logs back in.*

"Chad! Chad!! What did I miss? I went to eat a *delicious* chicken sandwich."

"How did you blip in and out of existence?" Chad asked.

"I dunno."

"Ah, yes," Wen Li. "The Chasm... I've been here only once before."

"Why are we here?" Marshall asked.

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