The Dimension Crusade

Sinless checked his Hell barriers and everything as he was worried. "I can't let anyone else take my Place as ruler" He said.

Darkness Back kicked Knightra into the ground and then unlished Shadow slamer on him sendinf Knightra futher into the ground, Knightra then spinning kicked Darkness in the face sending him flying into another wall and making Darkness cough up more blood and his eyes turning into ther bloodlust of Blackade Shadow beast.

As soon as Ace entered the library, he snapped his fingers and the door behind him closed. But that's not all that did, should someone follow him, he made sure they get a nasty surprise waiting them once they went through the door. "...Normally I wouldn't interfere, but technically I'm not fighting...nor killing." He said with a smirk. He then followed the Child. "This place looks alot like Noah's library." Ace thought looking around as he walked. He then looked at the Child. "I'm sure you know about us Origins." He said to him.

Jack then noticed the Nightmare and the Visionary as he tried to enter the temple. "....Tai, you go on ahead." He said to him. Tai didn't get it at fist, until he saw the Nightmare and the Visionary fighting. He then nodded and tried to enter the temple along with his niece and nephews. Jack slowly walked towards the Nightmare and the Visionary. Blue streams of particles came out of the back of his neck, then came into his hands in the form of two scythes.

"No, not now!" Blackade said, noticing Darkness' Bloodlust. Plage was right, this wasn't the time for this, it's clear this world is already dead, but it'll take his son/sons with it, along with any help to stop this madness. He teleported right between Darkness and Knightra. "That is ENOUGH!" He yelled, showing the true darkness within him, dark enough to make the area around him darker then even the storm. This was the most truthful sign that he was the shadow king. "Are you two going to prattle on and die with this world, or are you going to help me stop this!?" He asked them both.

"Damn, ....This is getting worse and worse, at this rate, Mobius won't last much longer. Darkflamer, We're leaving!" Red said.

"Atleast someone possesses the ears to listen." Plage remarked before exiting through the large portal. He entered the Child's dimension to the Nightmare's glee.

"Now Visionary, this battle is finished!" The Nightmare announced. He motioned towards the freshly arrived Super Weapon, Plage. Immediately the storm's haze spread to engulf the area. The Visionary was undaunted and simply stood, awaiting Plage's arrival to the temple.

The diseased Super Weapon advanced slowly, apparently inflicted with an inhibiting injury that prevented it from showing its true potential. It was quite clear that something was immediately wrong with Plage's composure as well. The Nightmare was quite aware of this, but Plage's presence on the field would be more than enough to claim his own terms. The crusaders immediately warped out again, apparently confused and unsure as to where they were supposed to go after being forcefully pushed back from the seemingly empty temple. They weren't about to get crushed by the Visionary and the Super Weapon Plage for no reason.

"The Child, visionary, I would very much like to see him." The Nightmare demanded. Combat was about to recommence until the two legion leaders noticed Jack. Both, confused by Jack's approach, halted their thirst for combat to confront him instead.

"And what is this?" The Visionary questioned. Curious as to why Jack approached at all.
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Supergoji in the meantime had made it up the stairs to the second floor of the temple first. He was confused by the empty room and its darkened ceiling. His confusion would be changed to terror as a large machine, apparently attached to the temple itself, came down to meet him. It was a large hanging pillar of machinery. It wasn't powered by electricity, but by some other means, which made its existence all the more curious. The machine revealed its concealed weaponry, ranging from melee to ranged to explosive, before withdrawing to a height that it presumed would be hard to reach.

"I think I'll need a little backup." Supergoji muttered, dissuaded from investigating the room in favor of dealing with a new obstacle.
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Meanwhile in the next room.

"I've seen enough of your kind to keep the guardian back. It would be disappointing to dissuade you from finding that door." The Child remarked to Ace. He opened a seemingly blank book and studied it for a moment. Complicated schematics appeared in a sort of hologram in front of the pages, describing things in an unknown language in great detail. The text in the book itself was absurdly small in order to compensate for the equally small, but numerous, drawings. The Child had little issue in absorbing all that was on the page to memory.

"My memory continues to fail me. Things I have wrote I cannot recall unless read again. I can no longer recall all the names of the heroic legions I've cast into the void. Regardless, a Super Weapon. I presume you've seen one before? They are blessed artifacts, gifts of my construction to my legions. I am missing a majority of them. Some are lost to the depths of dimensional space, some inactive on planets, others are at rest in the root of the corruption. They await a call." The Child was suddenly interested in that topic alone. Admittedly the schematics he was browsing were more than likely components of a larger assembly, possibly the reason for the sudden discussion.

Darkness eyes still flashed with Bloodlust as his blindfold which had been used for so long to contral his powers disspered and Darkness became a true Shadow beast. "Blackade, I would but that Fucking Asshole Sealed me away for over 900 years" Knightra said as although he was the evil of Darkness he could not use Bloodlust like Darkness could. "Contral him, and I might work with you" Knightra said before Darkness fought his own Darkness back to go back to normal but he was badly weaken by it and Shard took over so Darkness could rest.

This post has been edited by Dreams of Darkness on Oct 17 2009, 04:59 PM

Oh. my. God.

(Something wrong or are you just impressed by Darkness, Anyway I changed the post just incause)

"Yeah, could you from now on send them to the abyssal for us? My brothers are really starting to lose patience sending them from our home to the Abyssal. .....They're kinda picky that way, They don't like "guests". ...And yeah I've seen them, like Cronus and Plage. ...In fact I do believe one of them is here right now in this dimension, and like everything else, literally, it's after you." Ace said, laid-back despite the designs he could clearly see from the book that the child opened up.

"Just thought you could use a little help." Jack replied, he then looked at Plage, then back at the two. "...But I guess not." He said. You'd think after seeing such a monster like Plage, Jack would betray and try to destroy The Nightmare, but oddly, despite looking at this, for a soul like his, he didn't even think about attacking The Nightmare, even though it's clear right about now what side he's on. He then walked back, and slowly turned it to a run, heading back towards the the place everyone else is now.

Tai and the others made it towards Goji. "Any problems" He asked him.

"Now that that's settled, We have to leave, now!" Blackade said.

"No way dude, Darkness does not trust you and nether do I" SHard said to Blackade. "you were evil once before Shard, why the sudden change?" Knightra said.

Darkflamer looked around, "Can't you sence that Red" Darkflamer asked him as Darkflamer could feel the bloodlust that Darkness just had.

This post has been edited by Dreams of Darkness on Oct 19 2009, 08:09 PM

"I use the term void to reference the wide expanse of dimensions I had tasked them with defending or on a more unfortunate note, 'purifying'. I am very much aware of Plage's plight. He has fallen to his own pestilence as had his legion. They are now a malevolent storm of hatred. But they remain loyal. Fiercly so. They push forward for the child of a Stargazer. Meanwhile the Fists of Cronus are possessed by an unreasonable zeal. I will let the Nightmare and his legion continue their conflict with the Fists of Cronus. It will resolve itself." The Child dismissed the issue as it seemingly had no severe consequences to himself.

"The corrupt disease of machinery pushes onwards to consume the dimension Mobius resides. I pity such a prime pick for a legion to be already beset by this foul plague. But I have observed others come along behind you. They are strong and able. I might not need a legion to suppress Mobius's affliction if I could have them in my service." The Child spoke with obvious pride. Pride in the degeneration of the storm's legion making the legion stronger. And pride that Mobius might have a chance to fight what now besieged it with death and decay." He closed the book and placed it besides its kin on the table.

"Regarding Super Weapons. I require the completion of another. I have drawn the plans. I have dreamt its being. But I cannot create it myself. This temple has grown old and it can no longer serve me as it had. I require the craftsman who gave me this glorious temple of construction." The Child explained.

"Rilyn is the name I recall. He is lost in the heart of this infection. It spans many dimensions already. But I have not sensed his downfall. His handbuilt legion is dead but he fights on. I require his retrieval. Could you persuade your allies to do this task?" The Child proposed. Again he wished to have Mobius's combatants to aid him. He was being sincere as to his need of the Super Weapon creating craftsman and hoped that his need appealed well to Ace.

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"THAT!" Supergoji cast a barrier to deflect a salvo of rockets from the guardian machine. It observed the lack of effect of its attack and changed accordingly. It fired a powerful concentration of radiation in the form of searing lasers on its newcoming opposition. Though clearly these had a warmup time, as the machine started the lasers on the other side of the room before quickly sweeping them across the floor towards its percieved foes.

"An excellent choice. For this would have been quite unpleasant to be caught in." The Nightmare remarked as Jack left. He vanished, to the Visionary's surprise. The Visionary looked up to the sky as a shadow descended-

Plage had exceeded expectations. What seemed to be a diseased and crippled Super Weapon was in fact fully mobile. The massive flesh constructed machine had a powerful trait of levitation. It was flung itself to the sky in order to clear the distance between it and the Visionary with horrifying speed and effectiveness. The ground exploded under the Super Weapon, and the Visionary's fate was unknown besides a presumably violent end. The Nightmare appeared to the top of the temple, pleased with his Super Weapon's work, and took the time to observed the landscape with actual awe but pride for what he had accomplished. His legion had got further than the rest... without the unfortunate fate of being slaughtered.

But the Fists of Cronus were still out there, waiting for their chance to take back what the Nightmare had laid claim to.

".....Don't worry, I'll help you out. ...for 3 reasons. One, it's technically not getting involved. Two, If I don't stop these crazies then existence itself will be in danger. Three........I just like ya, kid." Ace said, patting gently on the child's head during his pause. He then walked out. But before he did, he turned around to look at the Child. "I don't know about Goji, but the others are...distant relatives of mine. I'm sure they can help you out." He said then left.

"Great, where's Jauque and Serena when you need them." Sitherus said as the shield was up. ".....HIT THE DECK!" Serious said, they then ducked under the laser, then looked up. "This guy isn't powered by electricity, an overload of the circuits won't help." Sithrus said. "....What about the EMP?" Tai asked. "Can't, he's too far away to magnetize, he isn't firing anything I could fire back, and he's not powered by electricity, guaranteeing his survival if I try to use it to shut him down." Sitherus said. "Then we'll just have to fight back!" Jehero said as she then fired a fireball at the robot.

"Understand you won't be able to live much longer in this storm. If you value your lives, then you're gonna have to trust me." Blackade said to Shard.

"I'm not interested, We have to go now, Darkflamer. ...You're father's right, you stay here any longer and none of your powers will be able to save you, not one." Red said as he opened a portal and went in, while keeping it open for Darkflamer.

Shard closed his eyes as He spoke to Darkness that way when he open them His Eyes were Darkness colour and Darkness voice came. "I don't trust you and I never will but I will help you this Once as you promised someday we will settle this" Darkness said. "I guess we will settle our Rivalry as well someday" Knightra thought.

"I don't like leaving my brother but I know he can Defend himself" Darkflamer thought before he walked into the portal.

"They all might find this obnoxiously abrupt. And I apologize." The Child pointed out, despite being sure that Ace was no longer in earshot. In a thundering roar a teleporting device activated in the temple. It was clearly not used in a while as ancient mechanisms grinded into sudden action. The party that had gathered to battle the mechanized temple guardian was teleported, as well as Ace, to another location.

The heart of the 'disease of machinery', the core of the continent. The landmass was both the center of the Child's dimension and part of the main corruption that engulfed Mobius. Apparently this section of the continent was built to be a mighty forge. Everything was wrought of iron and metal and fire. Metal armored buildings towered and held up the cavern ceiling that housed the mighty forges. Smoke and ashes choked the nonexistent skyline. The flames eternally consumed the rampant growth of the storm's disease. The corpses of mutants were already torn asunder, bludgeoned by a powerful tool. Though apparently the portal that lead to the forge had already become overrun with the storm's horrific plague and the Child was no longer able to access it.

Wasn't it great that he had these new allies?

"What?" Supergoji was immediately disoriented by the terrifying impersonal appearance of the forges. He noticed Ace had suddenly appeared among the group, and expected a sort of answer.
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The diseased and crippled Plage stood at the temple entrance. Like an overjoyed child the Super Weapon remained motionless, unsure what was required of it at this point. The Child was close, and it could feel his presence. The Super Weapons were possibly the most loyal units of all his serving legions. The long moments of silence eventually confused the Super Weapon, and then filled it with betrayal.

The Child had opted to simply ignore the Super Weapon's plight and let it be consumed by the disease.

Trembling with shock as the thoughts ate away at its still functioning mind, Plage quickly came to a new conclusion. If its creator, the Child, would not cure it of its ailment...then it would have to make him care. The large fleshed warrior cried out in pain and vicious zeal. Tearing into his chest the monstrosity tore out a wretched diseased blade and attacked the temple.

The Nightmare was horrified himself by the Child's choice and did nothing to halt Plage's rage. The Child already knew what would happen once Plage struck the sacred artifact.

The Fists of Cronus leaped on the opportunity. The storm had made what the Fists of Cronus thought was a mistake. The legion teleported back onto the battle field and opened fire on the wounded Super Weapon. A large portal ripped open in the sky and brought down what the Fists of Cronus had been preparing for this very moment,

The Super Weapon Cronus.

Cronus landed within arms reach of the bitter Plage and immediately took advantage of the situation. But Plage wasn't made stupid in his rage. The large Super Weapon again took to the sky and landed among the Fists of Cronus forces, viciously slashing them with his blade.

Battle between two Super Weapons had broken out, an unlikely event spawned from religious frustration and newfound hatred for the Child.

"Now, let's go." Blackade said as he prompted the two to follow him into a portal into the child's dimension.

Red entered the dimension to notice that it was almost no different, as people were about to fight again. "...Are we too late?" He asked himself.

Jack noticed Plage attacking the temple, then looked at Nightmare. "Any idea why he's going berserk?" He asked him, he then noticed Cronus appearing. "......Didn't we kill him already?" He asked. And then the two when the super-weapons fought each other, Jack stared at it. "....Huh, Now what?" He asked the Nightmare.

Tai and others were also warped to, let's face it, hell. They looked around until they found Ace in front of them. "So this is what the kid had in mind." He said. "Ace!?" Everyone said confused. "What are you doing here?" Tai asked. "Helping out the Child you guys are after." he replied. "You've seen him?" Tai asked. "Of course I've seen him." Ace then said.

Darkflamer sniffed the air. "I don't think so" Darkflamer said.

Shard followed, still not trusting Blackade at all. Knightra thought to himself "Perfect" as he followed them.

Cronus was at first surprised as to the effect Plage had on the infantry. Plage's blade didn't allow the teleporting mercy that most injuries caused on the struck infantry. Instead anyone that got cut down by the diseased blade were dismissed in a violent bloody explosion. The Fists of Cronus were now actually taking losses.

Cronus was devoid of his shoulder mounted weaponry, having to abandon such an intimidating arsenal in favor of strengthening his armor. The mistake at Mobius wouldn't be repeated again. As such the mighty Super Weapon charged forward, unarmed, to meet Plage in close combat. Plage raised his sickly sword in hopes to intercept the shining Super Weapon, but had it knocked aside and found his arms in Cronus's grip. Cronus used his expected deity strength to begin tearing Plage's arms from their sockets.

"YOUR FLESH IS YOUR WEAKNESS!" Cronus roared over Plage's pained howls. Though he didn't notice the storm's fog changing. In a mirror to the Nightmare's own vanishing warriors, a second Plage began to assemble itself behind Cronus. The undead Super Weapon Plage had a means of compensating for vulnerable flesh, by introducing more.
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"Then what does he want of us?" Supergoji was fasinated that Ace had seen the Child and furthermore by the fact that he was helping him. Supergoji fully intended to lend his assistance in some way, sure that was how he suddenly appeared here.

Jack whistled at the site of a second Plage. "Self-multiplication, that's quite the advantage." He said as he watched.

"We need to find a guy by the name of Rilyn, ....Anyone heard of him?" Ace asked. Tai and the others nodded their head in a no fashion. "I see, Well, I would assume he must be around here somewhere." He then said.

Cronus found his throat being tightly gripped by the second, hastily completed, Plage. The effect of being strangled was curious, due to the mechanical nature Cronus had displayed on Mobius. Cronus poured his power into tearing off the first Plage's left arm completely and breaking the second Plage's ribs with a vicious elbowing. The two stumbled about in horrific pain but recollected themselves before Cronus could resume his battle with the storm warrior.

Plage replaced his missing arm with a large, bone spiked, whip while the second Plage grew thick bone plates over his caved in ribs. The flesh could adapt quickly to horrific injury. Plage and the storm were resilient with their rotted effects. Cronus however, didn't hesitate to resume combat.

Meanwhile out on the dark horizon another set of ancient ruins rose from the ground. They were portal devices that one could recall being used on Mobius for ferrying the Super Weapon Plage to the dimension. Though what came out was hardly a Super Weapon. Powerful weaponry, adorned with yellow and blue banners and painted metals were brought to the battlefield. The design had a great deal of engineering thought put into them, for such graceful design in a war machine would simply be ineffectual with the wrong materials. They were the 'holy' weapons of another legion loyal to the Child. Levitating off the ground they lingered in eerie silence.

Which legion? And who led them? There were no infantry units to be found among the war machines. And no Super Weapon appeared to back them up. This was surely what remained of a forgotten legion and one could presume the war machines were autonomous. A blinding salvo of laser weaponry collided with both the two Plage warriors, Cronus, the Fists of Cronus infantry, and the temple to horrific effect. The temple had a hole blown clear through it where several beams were purposely focused on the structure. Meanwhile a majority of the Fists of Cronus were viciously removed from the battlefield. Though they immediately retaliated by warping in among the war machines. Fighting among the Fists of Cronus and the holy weapons engaged with little apparent progress.

A detachment broke off from the main body of war machines, commanded by one individual who stood atop of one of the more ornamentally adorned war machines. It wasn't a legion leader like the Dreamer, Visionary, and Nightmare obviously, the armor had no religious grace. It was warlike and adorned with rare gems and heavy armor plating. This new warrior, leading a legion of vicious battle tanks, was a new contender for the Child's dimension. The group of tanks advanced on the temple, continuing to rain fire on the still preoccupied Cronus and Plage.

But why did they fire on the temple?
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The Fists of Cronus had noticed the teleportation of Ace and his allies. They fully intended to find out what was down there. Heavy infantry, bulky and heavily armed, appeared in contrast to the Fists of Cronus's preferred tactic of light infantry. Their appearance seemed to had triggered something in the nearby corrupt landscape. Mutants swarmed out from the flesh overgrowth with bloodthirsty intent on mauling the newly appeared Fist of Cronus forces and Ace's allies. Supergoji immediately opted out by launching himself up to higher ground atop a nearby metal building. The sudden onslaught of mutants made it every man for himself apparently.

Jack just stood there, watching them do battle with each other. Even though there was more action then what he was thinking, he thought of it as nothing more then Rock 'em Sock 'em robots with an extra robot in the side. Then he noticed the machines coming from the portal. "....Who the heck are these guys?" He asked. When they made a blast that headed for the temple he raised a shield using the dreamers. "INCOMING!" He yelled. It took some energy from him, but he was safe from the blast thanks to the dreamers. He then noticed the guy heading towards them, but also noticed more fire heading his way. "I don't get it, Why is this guy attacking the Child's base?"he thought to himself.

Everyone else looked around themselves. "...I think Goji has the right idea." Ace said. "Ace, these guys can't touch you, you're gonna have to find Rilyn yourself. We'll take care of these guys." Tai said. They all then took out their weapons, and a huge surge of power happened when they did, as all of the elements were together, ready for battle. They all ran towards different directions, each going for a few mutants and fists of Cronus. Ace, however, went through a random path to begin his search for Rilyn.

Sorry godj but I'm droping out as there is nothing for my characters to do as Red keeps forgeting about Blackade and I don't seem to follow the Storyline here sop Sorry but I quit.

Meanwhile, down in the Forge World.


"We will join you in seeking the forge master!" A member of the Fists of Cronus roared, recognizing the name, as the heavy infantry moved into combat with the mutants, suddenly tolerant of Ace's group. These Fists of Cronus were violently zealous towards the mutants. Their weaponry was equally violent, composed of chainsaw-like melee weaponry and a sort of psychic power that allowed them to tear apart any mutant not in range of their furious weapons. They could be useful allies, if their association to the zealous Fists of Cronus wasn't so questionable.

Ace's luck seemed to be in his favor. The heat of the forges gradually grew more intense until they themselves were in sight. The forge and its ancient machinery were fired up and ready for production. It simply needed its master to command it. But where was its master? The large building overlooking the molten metal seemed significant enough to warrant a search. Mutants continued to spawn from Ace's surroundings and rushed off to join the battle that he had left behind.

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"The scourned Plage, enraged at the betrayal of the Child, now battles his foes in blind rage. Like a child himself, Plage seeks love from his father in the form of a cure for his disease. Denied. And therefor denies his father." The Nightmare was distraught with grief.

"I had come to defend the Child from the zeal of the Fists of Cronus, they themselves were abandoned to endless warfare with the Disease of Machinery. They had become another traitor legion, like the dead legions that cover this landscape. When I learned of this I followed with all the men in my command to defend the Child, but I was foolish. They lead us into a trap. My legion lost their bodies and Plage was infected with the very disease we had fought for so long. With the Child leaving us to rot...the legion cries for vengeance! We ourselves are now traitors." The Nightmare visibly trembled as he admitted as he understood the horrific turn of events that was taking place.

"Daughters of the Dreamer, a legion that had gone traitor long ago. The Dreamer himself was cut down for awakening from his slumber and coming here to defend the Child as I had. He was ignorant of his legion's betrayal. And I now regret my horrible crime. I have injured a brother and gained nothing!" The Nightmare turned to face Jack. "Revive him. The Dreamer's armor, which lays atop the temple, cries to be rejoined for battle. For which side I do not know. But his legion requires guidance. Fighting against brothers of same purpose will not do. I will try to communicate with Cronus. Rage has brought the Daughters of the Dreamer to this dimension, so we should take advantage of the oppurtunity to be allies."

With that said the Nightmare vanished. He had spilled a great deal of explainations to Jack that seemed to describe all but how the Disease of Machinery had come about or who the Child actually was. Regardless, the mystery surrounding the fighting legions had been explained.