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Chapter 25 - Chapter 25 *Surprise guests*

(Kage was sitting in his chair watching the tv. They ran off from the arena so nothing was happening. It was boring. Kage looked back at everyone. They were still standing around pacing. Kage was bored himself.)

Kage: "Well it's earlier than I'd like, but hey why not."

Cho: "Is it time?"

Kage: "Of course. Let's go, psychopaths."

(They all cheered. Kage made a portal with his shadow demon and they all ran through. On the other side they were right outside the stadium. Kage was the last to walk out.)

Kage; "Demon, Destroyer. Blow it open."

(They both nodded and broke right through. As soon as it broke open people started to run. Kage looked around. Two heroes ran right at them right off the bat. Mr.Clone and Protector, pretty popular ones. At least Mr.Clone is. Destroyer held them both off. He was very strong. Kage saw exactly what he was looking for. A microphone, he could have a little fun with this. He picked it up and started to talk. )

Kage: "Hey everyone. Great show. I thought I'd come see it live. I heard it was full, but luckily, I can make room."

(Kage saw Reo as soon as he finished this sentence. Perfect.)

Kage: "Hey there buddy. Remember me? Nice place you guys got here. I can already tell you built it. It sure does suck that all this hard work will be ruined so quickly."

(Reo was grinding his teeth. He was furious. Without thinking he charged right at him.)

Kazu: "Reo!"

(Kazu tried to yell for him to stop, but he was determined.)

Kage: "Uh oh, is Reo upset."

Reo: "Shut up and die you bastard!"

(Reo went for a punch, but Kage dodged and gave him a quick punch to the gut. The air flew out of Reo's mouth. He fell to the ground.)

Kage: "Wow, that was quick, Reo. I thought you got stronger, but hey even the smart one's are wrong once in a while. So, where's the sword? That seemed to be the only real problem for me in our last battle. Now it's gone, so this should be simple."

(Reo tried to get up, but Kage used his shadow demon to throw him back to Kazu and them.)

Kage: "Hahaha, you don't know how fun that is. With one thought this demon sends you flying. Hey, that's my core for you haha."

(Reo tried to charge again, but Kazu stopped him this time.)

Kazu: "Wait."

(Kazu made a portal and took his sword and gloves out.)

Kazu: "Just in case I put them in a spot I knew."

Reo: "You went in my room?!"

Kazu: "Now's not the time. Now hurry and go get him. I'm right by your side."

(Kazu looked back at Kiriena, Taku, and Kai. They all nodded back.Reo put the gloves on and the sword around his back. He was ready.)

Kage: "Wow, five against one. This is totally unfair guys."

(Kage looked at Kai, who then looked down. Kai started to run off.)

Kiriena: "Where are you going?"

Kai: "I have to make sure the kids are ok. You guys got this."

(He ran off.)

Kage: "Now that's more like it. One v.s four, which is still unfair, but I can make it work."

(Reo looked right at Kage, and Kage looked right back. Ruri and Selene were with each other, making sure everyone was ok, and that's when they got a surprise.)

Cho: "Hi there, wanna have some fun?"

Zazz: "We came up with a little game, and thought you might wanna play. Aren't we just the nicest?"

Selene: "We don't wanna play your stupid game!"

Ruri: "Yeah, get out of here!"

Cho: "Aww that hurts my feelings."

Zazz: "Yeah, and there's one key rule in the game too. It's mandatory."

(Zazz threw his hand onto the ground and made electricity go everywhere. Selene and Ruri used their wind to fly up in the air and flew a few citizens up there too who were in the line of fire. Ruri looked down to see Cho with a hand full of pebbles.)

Cho: "Hey guys. Catch."

(She threw the pebbles at them, but they were no longer pebbles. They were boulders. Ruri and Selene had to dodge them and have the citizens dodge them too. Zazz stopped the electricity so they could go to the ground. They let the citizens run off, so it was just Them four.)

Cho: "hehehe, just us four now."

Zazz: "Time for some real fun."

(Zazz took out his bazooka and placed it on the ground. Cho touched it and it got bigger. It was a giant bazooka. Zazz made electricity go on his hand, then he touched his bazooka.)

Zazz: "Look out, here comes fun!"

(He shot a giant beam of electricity at them which they had to dodge quickly. One shot from that could maybe kill them. Zazz was starting to twitch.)

Cho: "You ok?"

Zazz: "Y-yeah, that took a l-lot of energy, but I still c-can do it."

(He looked kind of worn out from that one shot, but he still was gonna do more, this would be exhausting. Z walked over to an unconscious body. He made a needle come out of his robot hand and he stabbed it into the body. He started to suck some of the blood out. He then made three people made out of blood stand in front of him. He looked over at Destroyer who was holding down Protector and Mr. Clone.)

Z: "Hey Destroyer, Throw the clone guy over here. I wanna mess with him."

(Destroy nodded and threw over Mr. Clone.)

Mr. Clone: "You wanna fight me. I am trained to hand to hand combat bud."

Z: "Oh I'm not fighting you."

(He looked at the blood people and pointed at Mr. Clone. They all charged at him. Mr. Clone punched the first one making it splatter, but it re-made it's form and punched him. Then the second punched him, but he punched it back. The other two held him down and started to beat on him, but he pushed them off of him. He was already kind of tired from this fight. He knew him beating on them did nothing, but if he didn't fight back they'd just kill him. He had to fight until Z has to stop using his core, but who knows how long that will take.)

Z: "You tired already, old man."

(Mr. Clone didn't answer he had to think.)

Z: "Fine, I'll just end this quicker."

(Z made three more blood people. Now it was six v.s 1. This will be hard. Dai was with Yui. They

were leading people to where the exit was, then they started to breath in a black smoke.)

Dai: *cough* "what is this stuff?" *cough cough*

Yui: "I don't" *cough* "know."

(Dai looked over to see someone in a black trench coat.)

Dai: "Who are-"

Smoke: "Shut up with the nonsense. You've breathed my black smoke. Your cores are now disability for 10 minutes. The timer will start as soon as you stop breathing in the smoke. Every time you breathe it the timer resets back to 10 minutes. Now that you know what you're up against, fight me with the combat skills you have."

(It was a lot at once, but Dai thought he understood what he was saying. He looked to Yui and she looked like she knew too. Dai tried to make a drill, but it wasn't happening. He was right, their cores are disabled.)

Smoke: "The smoke affects your breathing, not your hearing. I said fight me."

(Yui looked at him with determination.)

Yui: "Come on, Dai."

Dai: "Wait Yui."

(Yui charged at him ready to throw a punch, but he caught it, then punched her right in the face. Her super strength was gone, so her punches could be caught. She was kicked back, then he pulled out a sword. Dai couldn't see it before with all the smoke, but it was on his back. Now in his hands.)

Smoke: "What a stupid attack, I will have fun killing you."

(Dai tackled him to the ground, making his sword get lost in the smoke. Dai got up and Smoke kicked him in the knee. Smoke got up fast and punched Dai in the stomach knocking the wind out of him. It was already hard to breathe with all the smoke around anyway, so the gut punch didn't help. Smoke kicked him over making him fall to the ground. Yui ran over and kicked smoke in the face. He didn't dodge that, but he did counter it. When he fell to the ground he leg swept Yui making her fall onto Dai. She was pretty heavy. Smoke walked away for a single second and was back with his sword. He found it fast. He stood over them with his sword in hand. This didn't look good.)

Kazu: "Taku, go make sure everyone else is ok!"

Taku: "But I can help."

Kazu: "Now Taku!"

(Taku hesitated for a moment, but then he ran off to make sure everyone was ok. He didn't know if that's what they really wanted or if they didn't think he could help. He was too busy thinking about it when he ran right into someone. He looked up to see the news lady there)

News Lady: "Ow, ugh I better no have gotten dirt on this outfit."

Taku: "Oh sorry, uh are you alright ma'am? Do you know where to go?"

News Lady: "If I knew where to go I wouldn't be here, would I?"

Taku: "N-no."

(She was nicer on tv.)

Lust Lady: "Well well well."

(Taku turned to see a tall lady with bat wings.)

Lust Lady: "Hehehe, you're cute boy. Wanna play?"

Taku: "Oh boy do I?"

(Taku started to walk over to her, but the news lady dragged him back.)

News Lady: "That's a villian you dope."

Taku: "Oh."

News Lady: "I don't know exactly her core, but it has to do with seducing men."

Taku; "Trust me she doesn't need a core for that."

Lust Lady: "hehe."

News Lady; "Get your head out of the clouds. She's killed all the men she seduced. You gotta defeat her without getting tricked, damn it."

Taku; "Oh ok, well that's gonna be hard."

News Lady: "yeah I can tell."

Taku: "Ok, let's do this. Uh hey lady. So you're gonna have to go to jail."

Lust Lady: "Aw, little ol' me, but I didn't do anything too bad, hehe."

Taku; "Uh, well you've killed people, so that's bad."

Lust Lady: "Oh you're right, I guess you're gonna have to punish me."

Taku: *gulps* "Uh, yeah."

Lust Lady: "Why don't you come over here and do it then? Pretty please."

Taku: "Uh oh. "

(Taku knew this would be tough. Demon and Card master were destroying lots of stuff left and right. Sara was with Shurui and they knew they had to stop them.)

Shurui: "Ok, so since the red haired one has fire you wanna take the one with the fanny pack."

Sara: "Yeah, I guess that's the best option."

Shurui: "Ok, let's do this."

(Sara was a little out of it still. She just woke up from being knocked out so this might be tough. They both ran to the villains.)

Sara: "Stop what you're doing."

(They both stopped and looked at Sara and Shurui.)

Demon: "Hmm, this will be easy. Card, take the blue hair girl."

Card Master: "Hahaha, I see what you did there. Though I appreciate the nickname, I do not want it. You see if the master is not in my name they will not know I am the master, which I am. Hence the name Card Master."

Demon; "Yeah yeah, just get her".

(Demon used fire to propel himself at Shurui, tackling him to the ground.)

Sara: "Shurui!"

Card Master: "hahaha, your first mistake was underestimating the Card Master. Your second mistake was looking away. "

(Card master pulled out a card and threw it at Sara. It had a picture of fire on it, and while it was in mid air, it turned in a fireball. Sara dodged it.)

Card Master: "Haha, my core is picture creation. I make anything on a picture come to life, hahaha. I bet you didn't know that."

Sara: "I do now."

(Sara started to run at him.)

Card Master: "Yes true, but you will never be able to stop me. For I am the Card Master and I am powerful and you got very close-ugh."

(Sara punched Card Master right in the stomach. Then she made her other hand covered in ice and punched him in the face with it. He was out cold. She looked over at Shurui with

Demon still on him. She threw him off and helped up Shurui.)

Shurui: "Thanks."

Sara: "No problem."

(Shurui was burned pretty bad. She didn't know how much he could help in the fight.)

Demon: "Hehehe"

(Demon was quietly laughing to himself.)

Sara: "What's so funny?"

Demon: "Just thinking, how fast you'll die."

(It was Kiriena, Kazu and Reo v.s. Kage. They outnumbered him, but they were still scared.)

Kage: "Come on, Reo. You wanna fight or sit around and catch up."

(Reo pulled out his sword.)

Kage: "There we go."

Reo: "Die!"

(Reo charged with his sword. Kage pulled out his silver blade from his sleeve. His shadow demon spun around it. Reo slowed down to a stop. He watched as his tiny blade turned into a long sword. It had a black blade with red particles floating around it.)

Reo: "What the-"

Kage: "Now we can have a nice and even fight, huh Reo. Won't this be fun?"

(Reo got angry. He charged again. He clanged his sword against Kage's. They were slashing swords together left and right. This reminded him of the fight with Cloak. Kage must've practiced with this sword.)

Kage: "Haha, I'm good right?"

Reo: "Shut up!"

Kage: "Wow so mean, Reo. You think you should be a little nicer to your guests. I just got here."

Reo; "I said shut up!"

(Reo knocked the sword right out of Kage's hand. Kage had no weapons.)

Kage: "Uh oh, you got me, or did you?"

(His shadow demon swooped in and knocked Reo's sword out of his hand.)

Kage: "Man, sucks to be you. Now we gotta fight with our fists."

Reo: "This will be too easy."

(Reo threw a punch, but Kage quickly dodged. He then kicked Reo in the head and then did a second kick to his chest pushing him back. He fell right at Kazu's feet. He helped him up.)

Kazu: "Come on Reo, let's do this toge-"

Reo: "Piss off! I can handle this!"

Kazu: "Wait, but-"

Reo: "I said piss off!"

(Reo pushed him back and then headed back at Kage. He keeps wanting to fight on his own, but Kage isn't a fight you can take head on by yourself. If Reo keeps fighting like this he'll get badly hurt, or worse. He'll die.)

Kazu: "Kiriena, I need you to make sure that everyone else is ok. Go fight any other villains that need to be taken care of."

Kiriena: "But Reo."

Kazu: "I'll take care of Reo, just go help the others."

(Kiriena hesitated for a moment, but then she nodded and ran off looking to help. Kazu knew he'd have to help even if Reo didn't want it, and he only had one thing to say before this fight)

Kazu: "this is gonna suck."