Bionicle Crossroads S2 pt.3

Izrahm:”…And anyways, that’s where we found Mr. Sparks!”

Sylus:”Yeah…cool story, where is He by the way?”

Izrahm:”Oh, ha! he does that every now and then, he’ll come back eventually, He always does.”

(The door to the Shop opens up nearby, a oddly hued figure steps out)

???:”What do you mean you don’t sell body parts for ritual purposes?! this is an outrage!”

Touraz:”Just get out of my shop! I thought I put a ban on you!”

???:”Urrrggghh!…they’ll pay, The Dark Hunters, the Brotherhood the Order…they’ll all pay for this humiliation, they’ll...”

Sylus:”Uh hey sorry to interrupt your brooding and stuff but could you get the door for us? we kinda got our hands full…”

???:”Oh, my apologizes here you go.”

Sylus:”Thanks a bunch, now lets get that core fixed.”

Izrahm:”Yeah my dorky bro can totally get what you need.”

???:”Ah what a nice guy…now where was I? oh yes, my brooding…They will pay especially the one they call Sylus!”

???:”The Ritual…requires the skull of a forsaken beast, the strength of a thousand toa, the severed hand of a venomous-mistress...”

???:”And The mask from a Another world , all bound with a sacrificial dagger which I have, the others I know not of where they may be but…”

(A crimson colored rahkshi leaps out from behind some rubble to ambush the wizard -priest)

Turahk:”*Hisssssssss!*”

???:”Begone! out of my way wretched worm spawn! I have no time for-”

(However the Rahkshi ignores his commands and lunges with vicious intent)

???:”/…/01010100 01100001 01110010 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01100001 01100011 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110”

(The creature is suddenly snatched out of the air with blinding speed by a blur of black and blue)

???:”01001111 01100010 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00111011 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01110101 01110011 00101111 01010011 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00111011 00100000 01101001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

(as quickly as it was to grab the Turahk it was even faster to slam it into the ground at terminal velocity instantaneously killing the rahkshi)

???:”Took you long enough, ready as always I see?”

???:”/…/01101101 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100”

???:”Yes yes, I found you some better optics, but right now do you have it?”

???:”/…/01010100 01100001 01110011 01101011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01100101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100001 01110111 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110”

???:”(Gasp) The mask from another world! yes perfect…I can already hear the profane whispers inside…on second thought perhaps I shouldn’t be listening to those.”

???:”Excellent, we are one step closer to Salvation my friend soon…”

???:”But we mustn’t dally now, come! come time waits for no one!”

???:”Huff…huff *wheeze* why did I choose to build so…many…stairs?”

???:”But…w-we’re here, home sweet…lair? hmmm lair it is.”

???:”Ohhhhh these always make me exited! how about you?”

???:”/…/ERROR01010010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101110 01110011 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100”

???:”Now to place this right…here.”

???:”Look out world! for you shall someday know the full might of I Nepharus! last of the Makuta and the Chronomancer himself!

Nepharus:”Eyeheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh! (cough hack) …oh that hurts…”

???:”/…/01001100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 00101110 01100101 01111000 01100101 00100000 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01000101 01111000 01100101 01100011 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110

<To be continued

Ancient:”Alright boss, we’ve got the core, so now what?”

The Shadowed One:”Patience my old friend, while it would be preferable that you rest up…”

The Shadowed One:”…Your Expertise is needed again plus our new recruit from what I’ve been told has potential, I believe this will be the perfect test for that.”

(The Shadowed One inserts the core into the dirty and battered hero then stepped back to observe)

Breez:”\\\Hero program booting up please wait\\\ loading…///”

Breez:”

The Shadowed One:”Why yes…eh proceed to these coordinates in your…tracker.

Breez:”Affirmed and noted sir! I won’t let you down!”

The Shadowed One:”(to himself)(Gadget…I thought I told you to change the personality settings dammit!)”

The Shadowed One:”(Sigh) fine just…just go find out who’s been stealing from us and break their legs, no their everything, I want a corpse!”

(Later)

Sylus:”Hey uh permission to speak?”

Ancient:”Yeah sure go ahead.”

Sylus:”Your boss the Shadowed One… He metioned a ‘Gadget’ who’s that?”

Ancient:”Our one and only Mechanic, the guy who made all the things we use vehicles, weapons, cybernetic enhancements like that arm you got there B.A.M.”

Sylus:”Well when do I get to meet him?”

Ancient:”Well he’s…busy, very busy He works in a very far away location and ships us the goods we need.”

Sylus:”Huh cool, hey what’s that down there?”

Ancient:”That? I have no clue but whatever that is it looks like trouble.”

Breez:”Attention citizen! you are in violation of several bylaws in the past [forty-two thousand and eighty years] what say you in your-”

(A neon blue tendril made of pure energy suddenly finds itself in the hero’s chest cavity before violently ripping itself out of the bot’s body)

???:”/…/01010111 01100001 01110010 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110011 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110”

???:”/…/01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 01100001 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01111001 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101100 00111011 00100000 01010101 01110000 01110011 01101001 01101100 01101111 01101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111”

Sylus:”What the hell did that thing just say?”

Ancient:”Who cares just run!”

(They had only taken a couple of steps before the machine creature seemingly blinked into existence behind them and incapacitated Ancient with a single blow)

Ancient:”Auuuggh!”

???:”/…/01101101 01101001 01101110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 01100001 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01111001 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101000 01111001 01110000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101101 01101111 01100100 01100101”

Sylus:”Why does…”

Sylus:”This keep…”

Sylus:”Happening to meerrrrghhk!”

???:”/…/01110011 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01111001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100011 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011”

???:”/…/01110011 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00111011 00100000 01101001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110”

Sylus:”No no no no no no no no no!”

Sylus:”PLEASE NO!”

(Sylus waited for the razor edge to pierce through his arm and head but felt…nothing as he lowered his arm to find bits of neon blue fluid on the ground and the killer robot staggering back, sparks flying from the place it’s tendril use to be)

???:”/…/WARNING [PHASE LANCE]01001000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110011 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100011 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101”

Sylus:”Ha! suck it you oversized walking playstation wannab-”

???:”/…/01101001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100001 01110011 00111011 00100000 01011000 01100010 01101111 01111000 00100000 01110011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01001101”

Sylus:”Uhhh…well crap.”

(In a instant the unknowable machine raises it’s cannon and primes it at max charge)

(A sudden SOS beacon begins to play o Sylus’ ancient’s and the robots’ radio coms)

Nepharus:”Where are you? listen I don’t have much time just get over here!”

Sylus:”Well this is it…guess I never got to-”

Nepharus:”Do you hear me? respond! stop whatever your doing and…oh no he’s found us! (gargled cackling) *static*”

???:”/…/01010111 01100101 01100001 01110000 01101111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110111 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100111 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101111 01100010 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101LOADING…01100001 01100011 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101100 01100101 01100100 01100111 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001000 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 00101101 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111.”

???:”/…/01100001 01100011 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101100 01100101 01100100 01100111 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001000 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 00101101 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111”

(The Machine instantly transforms into a quadruped form and skitters into the bushes towards a canyon on the horizon)

Sylus:”Ugh what just happened? and how are you in better shape than me?”

Ancient:”A good warrior knows to maintain his armor, also I played dead while it was bearing down on you long enough to send a video feed back to base.”

Ancient:”As for the hero, it’s busted, trash no way were gonna fix that thing again.”

Sylus:”You sure? it looks fine to me…you sure you aren’t just saying that beca-”

Ancient:”Yes that annoying tune it was singing the whole trip was driving me up the wall! I would have smashed that thing myself.”

Sylus:”So…you think we’ll see that thing again?”

Ancient:”Kid, I just don’t know.”

<To be continued

TSO:”This is our culprit then…”

Sylus:”Yes, it nearly took my head off!”

TSO:”Interesting…”

TSO:”This…machine is responsible for why the past months have been so difficult for us?”

Sylus:”Yeah pretty much.”

TSO:”Hmmm, well done, not only have you solved the big mystery but have also given us an opportunity.”

Ancient:”Like what boss?”

TSO:”Scrap metal, new technology…a potential new recruit…”

TSO:”Otherwise in the long run, we can finally get down to some real business, finally securing a foothold on this miserable rock, a thanks to you.”

Sylus:”You got any more work?”

TSO:”At the moment no, but I want you to do a bit of…recruiting for me.”

TSO:”And since Ancient suffered an unfortunate injury during the last assignment as well you as losing a valuable asset, your pay will be cut to compensate for the damages.”

Sylus:”Oh what? come on I-”

(Ancient gives Sylus a silent glare)

Sylus:”Um…I mean yes sir.”

Sylus:”So about that…recruiting?”

TSO:”Yes recruiting, as in ask people if they would like to join our little family.”

TSO:”Before you are dismissed for the night I feel you’ve earned this.”

(The charismatic leader reaches into his cloack and pulls out a mask)

TSO:”We found this Kanohi mask in the fields before we buried the bodies there thought it might make a good trophy.”

TSO:”But honestly, something tells me it would be better suited in your hands.”

TSO:”Our research team scanned the thing many times and it kept coming up as a Kolloh, a mask that we don’t have any archived record for, but field tests showed that it stores and withdraws energy from objects the wearer touched, and now it’s yours.”

Sylus:”Why, thank you.”

TSO:”Give it a rest recruit, now get out of here and do your job!”

Sylus:”Ok ok sorry i’m going i’m going!”

TSO:”(Sigh)

TSO:”Ancient, Am I getting too old for this?”

Ancient:”Old? boss your over centuries older than me and that’s not even counting the incident with Vopo-”

TSO:”I know about him do not speak of that traitor’s name here again do you understand?”

Ancient:”My apologies boss, it’s just…is something wrong?”

TSO:”No…no I’ve just had the strangest feeling just now, maybe I’m just tired, that’s all…”

(The next day)

???:”C’mon Mr N, can’t you stay a little longer?”

Nepharus:”No, I’m sorry but I’m needed elsewhere will you and the others be alright here while I’m gone?”

???:”I’m certain we will, this spot you’ve picked out is perfect! thank you so much for helping us!”

Nepharus:”It was no trouble little one, you will be safe here and that’s what matters.”

???:”But what about you? who will protect you out there?”

Nepharus:”Bisolia, do you remember when the village was attacked by rahkshi and that black and blue robot came out of nowhere to destroy them?”

Bisolia:”Yes I remember you told us to hide while you drove it away.”

Nepharus:”Well there’s something I need to tell you about that and I think it’s time you and the rest of the refugees knew abou-”

???:“Bisolia! Mr. Neph! You need to see this, now!”

Bisolia:”Narduk? whats wrong?”

Narduk:”W-we were gathering supplies along the cliffside and…and…It took Noulus!”

Nepharus:”Slow down breath…what. took. Noulus?”

Narduk:”It’ was all twisted and gnarled, disfigured hands and by the great spirit It’s mask! that horrible horrible mask staring straight into my soul! I never ran so fast in my life!”

???:”What is that?!”

???:”No, it can’t be!”

???:”Isn’t he dead?”

Bisolia:”What is that thing?”

Narduk:”That’s the one! that’s the monster who killed Noulus!”

(Everyone looked up to the cliff-side to see the beastly figure leap off the edge and slid down the cliff-face)

???:”Little sheep little sheep why don’t you stay?”

???:”Little sheep little sheep…wont you come out and play?”

Nepharus:”Everyone listen up! I need you to retreat towards the lake! Bisolia! help everyone get there!”

(Various matoran villagers run screaming into the fields nearby, disappearing into the tall grass)

Bisolia:”Mr. Neph what are we going to do?”

Nepharus:”Go hide with the rest of the villagers don’t come out until I tell you to!”

Nepharus:”Besides it’s to risky for you to be this close and I don’t want to lose anyone else today, now go!”

???:”Conjurer…”

???:”Conjurer conjurer conjurer…”

Karzahni:”Never thought I’d see YOU of all people today.”

Nepharus:”Conjurer? I’m sorry but i’m not who you think I am.”

Karzahni:”Aw your funny Conjurer, thinking you can fool me with some petty disguise…what even is that? a censer? you some kind of priest now?”

Karzahni:”…And that mask, are those seals? like some measly scraps of paper are gonna protect you from me.”

Nepharus:”Are you quite done insulting me? or are you going tell me what you want from us?”

Karzahni:”Honestly? i’m not even here for you, I came here for those runts over there...my property.”

Karzahni:”You see they belonged to Me a long time ago, my handy-work see? and now, now I want them back where they belong.”

Nepharus:”With you?…”

Karzahni:”YES! yes yes yes yes yes! and If you, Conjurer would be so kind as to say…hand em over I’ll personally give you back your limbs that I ripped off a year ago and even appoint you as my personal…eh we’ll come up with a better name later, c’mon what do you say? wanna make another deal?”

Karzahni:”Aw, you think they’re your friends? that you’ll be buddy buddy with them forever? they’ll ditch you to fight on your own the first chance they get, they all look like they could use a bit of work anyways, especially that blue one, I think I’ll start with her first…”

Nepharus:”YOU WILL NOT TOUCH HER!”

Karzahni:”Her? your giving them names too? that’s pretty low growing attached to rejects like that…or are you so desperate for real friends…”

Karzahni:”…That you’d forget about your old pal Karzahni!”

Karzahni:”Ha hahahahahaha! now that was funny!”

Karzahni:”No laugh? eh you never laughed at my jokes anyways, so…Conjurer or whatever you wanna call yourself I’ll give you one last chance to turn those matoran over or else-”

(Nepharus suddenly disappears seemingly into thin air)

Karzahni:”You know this isn’t the first time someone’s pulled the ol “nothing personal” on me.”

Karzahni:”And let me tell you from personal experience…”

Karzahni:”You really ought to stop being so predictable!”

(The impact from being tossed left Nepharus embedded into the cliff, water from a pipe above pouring down on his head)

Nepharus:”Alright fine, you want to play? fine lets play then.”

(Nepharus begins to tap into his power as everything around him begins to slow down)

Karzahni, out of nowhere appears from the top of the screen dropping down to shove Nepharus’s head under the water flow, interrupting his focus)

Karzahni:”Your humor was always so dry why don’t you soak in some good laughs?”

Karzahni:”So water you doing later? i don’t know something wetter than right now!”

Karzahni:”Drown? silly you can’t drown on land that’s…all it’s washed up to be! hahahahahahahahahaha!”

Karzahni:”What did the hydrogen atom say the the oxygen atom? H2-”

Karzahni:”Oh my Me- get off of me you-OW! stop that!”

(Suddenly Bisolia leaped from nowhere and dug here hooks into Karzahni’s back)

(Bisolia manages to tear of a strange crystal like object from Karzahni’s armor causing the returned mad god to lose his grip and Letting Nepharus breath again)

(Both the Matoran and the tyrant plummeted off the cliff-face. Bisolia landed a short ways away from the river below…)

(…While Karzahni tumbled down the slope landing face first in a somewhat comical matter right into a shallow part of the riverbed)

Nepharus:”Bisolia? Bisolia speak to me!”

Nepharus:”Bisolia! are you alright?”

Bisolia:”Yeah I think I’ll live, the fall didn’t break anything, I can’t say the same for that monster down there…He deserved it.”

Nepharus:”Can you stand? come we’ll get you patched up I have a ‘friend’ on the way, we can-”

(Karzahni, deciding he wasn’t done yet reaches out to grab onto bisolia’s arm and drags her into the water)

Karzahni:”ÏŃÑØÇÊŃČĘ DØÊŠÑ’T GĒT ŸØŪ FÄR!”

Bisola:”MR. NEPH!

(Nepharus once again tries to use his power but is too disoriented to focus)

(Moments later, Karzahni lunges out of the river and begins galloping away on all fours dragging the helpless matoran with him)

Nepharus:”Bisolia! Bisolia!”

(Nothing answers back as the screams echo in the distance)

Nepharus:”No…”

Nepharus:”No…please…not her.”

Nepharus:”Dammit, I can’t lose someone else, not again.”

Nepahrus:”But at least with the strength of a thousand toa…it…it wasn’t a total loss…the ritual can make it’s next step”

( Nepharus tunes into a radio signal implanted in his mask)

Nepharus:”Nepharus to Tyrant do you read? I need you for a job, you up for it? alright I’ll meet you by the stone road.”

Nepharus:”Mark my words Bisolia…with the power the Prodigal promised me in my dreams…”

Nepharus:”I’ll get you back by any means necessary…I promise.”

…<To be continued

???:”…./….TIME WARP COMPLETE 01000100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110011 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110101 01101110 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101110.”

???:”…./…01110011 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01110011 00101110 00101110 00101110 ERROR 01010011 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100

???:”/…/ WARNING! 01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100011 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100101 01111000 01100011 01100101 01100101 01100100 01110011 00100000 01110011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100011 01100101 01100101 01100100 00111111 [YES] [NO]

???:”/…/ 01001100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 TIME WARP .EXE 01001100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01001100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 PATHFINDER .EXE 01001100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110

???:”/…../ WARNING! 01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100011 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101100 01110011 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01111001 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01101101 01101111 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 00100000

???:”/…/01010011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01101110 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110011 01101000 01110101 01110100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100100 01101111 01110111 01101110 00100000 01101001 01101110 3…2….1…

(The Machine’s surroundings suddenly change, the climate rising to more manageable levels)

???:”/…/01110101 01101110 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101110 00100000 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101100 00111011 00100000 01110101 01101110 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01100101 00111111 [Yes] [No]

???:”01000101 01101110 01100111 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110010 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110101 01110010 01110110 01101001 01110110 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101001 01101101 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110111 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 00111000 00110010 00101110 00110111 00110011 00100101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000

???:”/…/Warning…unauthorized system tapering detected…SYSTEM ERROR; binary translator disabled Query;what have you done to me?”

???:”/…/executing question .exe; “who are you and where are we?”

???:”/…/topic interest; “The Leviathan?”

???:”/…/topic; “how do I escape from here? this place?”

???:”/…/accessing database on ‘wish magic’ file loaded; opening/…./ “Wish magic;a type magic used to bind souls to the user by ‘contract’ or a ‘deal’ by giving them what they desire/…/records show victims and users often have a survival rate of 000.10% /…/conclusion; hell no

Updating Target status; Prodigal of Salvation

Threat level updated; Lambda

New Objective;Stop the Prodigal from granting wishes to others

Solution;Immediate Termination

Prodigal:”Worthless…”

Marendar:”/…/pun detected; run ‘exasperation .mpeg’ loading…”

Marendar:”/…/response; “Explain.”

Marendar:”/…/proclamation;”We are nothing alike.”

Marendar:”/…/request;”I wish…be more than my programming.”/…/sending…”

Marendar:”/…/conformation;“yes this is a risk I will take.”

Sylus:”Hyyrrgghh!”

Izrahm:”So you wanna fight huh?”

Izrahm:”Good my punching arm’s been getting soft.”

Sylus:”You literally punched me in the face when I asked you if you wanted to join the Dark Hunters, how is that suppose to be a fighting thing?!”

Izrahm:”I knew that just wanted some practice before I take your offer.”

Sylus:”Well ok if fighting you is what it takes to get you in then lets get to it!”

Izrahm:”That’s what I want to hear! come on give it to me like last time!”

Izrahm:”Ha! too slow you swing like a wimpy loser! give me a real attack!”

Sylus:”Ok you asked for it!”

(Ice crystals begin to form at the tip of Excalibra as a ice storm forms around it)

(Izrahm is blasted by a flurry of ice that brings her to her knees)

Sylus:”You had enough?”

Izrahm:”I’ve…I’ve had…worse.”

Sylus:’So you want me to blast you again? or…”

Izrahm:”Alright alright you beat me! hmmf cheater…”

Sylus:”I mean I was just going to ask if you wanted to join, you don’t have to but we could really use your…um…muscle?”

Izrahm:”What are you trying to say? that i’m not pretty enough for you?”

Sylus:”No no no no! I mean your just easy to look at? Oh no! I didn’t! I-meant.”

Izrahm:”Ah ha I’m pulling your leg don’t think about it to hard.”

Sylus:”Is that suppose to be literal or…”

Izrahm:”Ay shut up and sign me up already.”

Sylus:”Really? well that’s one down, lets go ask your brother if he wants to join!”

Izrahm:”Ehhhh about that…”

Touraz:”Look i’ll have your supplies soon alright? just don’t break anything else!”

???:”You better, and if you so much as utter any of this to the Dark Hunters I’ll burn to a crisp got it?”

Sylus:”Hey Tour what’s up?”

Touraz:”Oh…oh um I-it’s good to see you a-again I-

???:”YOU.”

Tyrant:”You have the audacity to show up here again after you humiliated me?”

Sylus:”Dude that was months ago chill man.”

Tyrant:”Don’t you tell me to ‘chill’ do you know how long it took me to get my powers back? you insignificant waste of a

Touraz:”I-I don’t think we should…”

Tyrant:”Out of my way shrimpy pathetic excuse of a skakdi! I’ll deal with you later.”

Touraz:”Hey! who said you could push around my bro you entitled piece of-”

Tyrant:”Move wretch, you aren’t worth my time…”

(The next seconds were filled with chaos as Izrahm clocked Tyrant square across the jaw)

Tyrant:”You want to die so badly? be my guest!”

Izrahm:”Not before I snap your neck like a twig!”

Sylus:”Woah woah woah hey cut it out we’ll work it out alright just don’t kill each other for a second ok?”

Touraz:”I agree, please sister the store is already scorched enough as is.”

Sylus:”We’ll have a duel! no powers no cheating just a straightforward battle to the death sounds cool to you? huh? sure doesn’t for me!”

Izrahm:”Fine I didn’t want to snap his scrawny neck anyways.”

Tyrant:”You, meet me at the frozen plains tomorrow or I burn this dump to the ground.”

Tyrant:”Don’t be late! I’m looking forward to Burning your corpse.”

Touraz:”Well that escalated quickly…”

Izrahm:”Bro, you ok?”

Touraz:”Izzy, calm down I’m fine I was just worried about you.”

Izrahm:”Well The Dark Hunters want us to join them but…”

TourazBut what about our shop? it’s all we have left!”

Touraz:”And…and if we lose it.”

Izrahm:”Don’t sweat it Tour Sylus over heres got it right?”

Izrahm:”Right?”

Sylus:”Haha! I’m gonna die tomorrow…aren’t I?”

Tyrant:”Once I burn you to ash I’ll put you in a jar and toss you off the side of the world.”

Sylus:”I’ve faced down a literal god what do got on that?”

Tyrant:”Enough talk! let us end this.”

(Sylus notices a icy overhang directly above him and forms a plan as tyrant rapidly closes the distance)

(Without thinking he whips the rifle upwards and fires his last shot into the cliff above)

(A sudden rumbling causes the two combatants to pause)

Tyrant:”You fool, you just wasted your last shot, any last words before I snuff out your meaningless life?”

Sylus:”You ever heard of dodgerock?”

Tyrant:”What? what is that suppose to-

(Tyrant notices too late as the massive chunk of the icy cliff cracks off and plummets towards the ground, The former Dark Hunter let out a surprised yell as he was buried under the snow and ice)

(Sylus gets up a moment later and shakes the snow from his mask)

(turning around He stares at the spot where Tyrant once stood, now buried under a thick slab of ice, unmoving)

Sylus:”Sorry pal looks like you’ve just been ‘iced.”

Sylus:”Heh now that was ‘cold.”

Sylus:”Guess he chould have just ‘chilled’ out oh my god these are horrible! hahah!”