runouw.com

R'S ARMY ARC

Chapter 2: Runouw

Author's Comments: Alrighty, the big wait is over, CHAPTER 2 IS HERE!! I've integrated two lucky characters, victor12 and alucard!! Congrats! For the rest of you, don't worry, you'll get in as well. I've decided to use all of you at least in one chapter each. Also, there will be lines interrupting the story, because we will be seeing the story in another place. The lines are to indicate the change from the story following brandobrawl around, to the story following fourinone around. Also, for those who are confused:

Runouw's Forum = City
Forums = Buildings
Topics = Rooms
Accounts = Bodies

Now that that's cleared up, here we go!

"Ow! Not so tight!"

Ridder winced as brandobrawl finished tying the cloth around his injured leg. The other guys were resting, sitting inside the News forum. Looking outside the window, they could see that the mods were having trouble dealing with so many attackers.

"Our only hope," Niklaw had said, before they had taken refuge inside the forum, "is if Runouw arrives before it's too late."

Nero stood up from his chair, and wobbled slightly. "You have to help them and close the gates, Brando," he said, with a wheezy voice. "You can just leave us here. We'll be fine."

Brandobrawl shook his head. "Tell that to TheOne," he replied, pointing to the figure resting on the bed. On it was TheBetterGamer, unconscious. He had been there for an hour already, but hadn't moved an inch. "I wonder if he's alright...." brandobrawl turned to Nero and Ridder. "You guys look tired too. You should rest."

At that moment, the sleeping figure of TheBetterGamer started moving. "Oh, you naughty girl," he said, murmuring in his sleep. "The President might see us. I don't think he'd like his supermodel wife seeing someone else!" Then he turned around, and started kissing the pillow next to him.

Nero and Ridder just stared. Brandobrawl started chuckling.

"I think...I'll pass," Ridder said.

Nero walked over to the bed, a strange expression forming in his face. He grabbed the bed from the sides, and in one fast, sudden movement, he flipped it over. TheBetterGamer fell off and woke instantly, rubbing his eyes.

“H-hey!” TheBetterGamer mumbled. “What the hell was that for?”

Nero turned around, with a very angry expression in his eyes. “Maybe if you woke the F*CK UP, we’d be able to get on with this.”

Ridder, TheBetterGamer, and brandobrawl stared at Nero. Brandobrawl slowly strode towards Nero, not taking his eyes off him. Then, suddenly, he lifted an arm and used it to aggressively force Nero against the wall.

“Who are you, and what are you doing with Nero’s account?” brandobrawl asked, snarling at Nero, or what was supposed to be him.

“Heh,” the fake Nero snickered. “Looks like I’ve been discovered.” And then he vanished.

“HOLY CRAP!” exclaimed TheBetterGamer. “Look out Ridder, he’s behind you!”

Ridder turned around, and grabbed the fake Nero’s shirt. “Looks like we’ve got a hacker,” he said, holding the hacker’s shirt to keep him from escaping. “But he’s mostly a noob. After using that vanishing technique, he’s all out.”

The hacker smirked. “Good thing there’s not only one person behind this user.” With the flick of his wrist, he sent out an energy pulse and sent Ridder flying towards the wall. He crashed into it and slumped over, dead.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"KYAHH!!" Four screamed as he rammed the shotguns backside into a troll's chin. "That'll teach you for calling me Japanese."

Niklaw swerved left and right, slitting the sides of every enemy he came in contact with. "Crikey! This knife is mighty effective." It's super effective! Niklaw looked around confused. "Who said that?"

"No matter!" Suyo said, spinning his bat in the air to hit all those around him. "We still have to hold them off while Runouw arrives!!"

"You know what I think?" Four asked, swerving to dodge a spammer's kick. "I think we should build a MOAT! YESH, STRONG MOAT MAKE STRONG FORT!"

"A moat?" Suyo bashed a troll in the face and jumped towards Four. "Are you nuts?? A CATAPULT is what we need. We could take out all of these attackers with one. And we could get one cheap on eBay!"

"A catapult?" Niklaw jumped, slicing a spammer in half on his way up and landing near Suyo and Four. "Are you blokes nut? What we need is a bigger KNIFE!"

"What you need," said a voice, interrupting them, "is this."

Niklaw, Suyo and Four turned around, gasped and said once again, the word everyone was anticipating for so long. "Runouw!!!"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"RIDDER!!" TheBetterGamer yelled, looking at the lifeless body next to him in panic. Brandobrawl looked down towards Ridder, and clenched his hands.

"Y-you..." he said, his voice trembling. "You...killed...RIDDER!!" And after yelling his fallen friend's name, charged with full force at the impostor.

"Heh, chumps," the fake Nero said, sneering. "Your incompetence will be your downfall." And with that, he flicked his wrist once again, emitting one more energy pulse from his hand. Brandobrawl was thrusted into the air, spinning, and he fell, also dead, at TheBetterGamer's feet.

TheBetterGamer was on the verge of fainting. "W-who are you?"

"That's right," the fake Nero said. "We haven't introduced ourselves to the kid." He strode over to Ridder's body.

"It's the least I could do before destorying you," he said, smiling.

Meanwhile, hiding in the bushes behind the News forum...

"Um...maybe we should help him..." Alucard said. He shifted a bit, trying to get a better look at what was going on through the window.

"Help them?!?!" Victor asked, bewildered. "He just killed Ridder and brandobrawl! If we try to help him, we'll get killed as well!!!"

"Come on!" Alucard said. "If we don't help TheBetterGamer, he'll get killed as well!!"

"I maintain my position! I don't wanna go!"

"We have to help him!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Negative!"

"Affirmative!"

"Indeed!"

"Whatnot!"

"Rollerblades!"

"Lollipop!"

"Blasphemy!"

"Madness!"

"Will you guys shut up!!" came a voice from inside the News forum. "We can hear everything!"

"Oh snap!" Victor exclaimed, rushing to get up from his hiding place within the bushes.

"Change of plan!" Alucard yelled to Victor, getting up as well. "RUN!!" But before they could run away, an invisible force pulled them towards the forum, and they were sent crashing through the window.

"Ughh," Victor groaned, writhing in pain from the glass shards that were now stuck to his and Alucard's body. "We...should've run...while we could..."

"Very well then," the impostor continued. "Where was I? Ah, yes. My name is ReyalsNomed Eht Oren. Or you can call me Oren, for short."

"ReyalsNomed Eht Oren?" TheBetterGamer repeated. "That's just Nero The Demonslayer backwards."

"Silence!!" Oren bellowed. "You are in no postion to make fun of my name!"

TheBetterGamer took a step back, for precaution.

"'TheBetterGamer'!" he said in a mocking tone. "What kind of a name is that? Also, I had to make my name slightly resemble the user we were taking over."

TheBetterGamer made a mental note to proceed slowly when adressing Oren from then on. "So..." he started, "why are there two of you controlling Nero's account?"

"Heh, haven't you heard the saying, 'two heads are better than one'?" Oren said. "Besides, our hacking skills increase greatly when we're together."

TheBetterGamer lifted an eyebrow. "So you guys are..."

"NO!" Oren yelled. "O-of course not!!!! What are you implying?" He looked around nervously. "You know what? I think it's time you left...forever..."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Niklaw ran over to Runouw first. "Thank heavens you arrived!"

"Yeah," Suyo said. He smiled at Runouw and gave him a thumbs up. "I'm glad you came after all."

Four followed. "So, I'm guessing you have...the things?"

"The weapons? Of course," Runouw said, smiling widely. He looked over at the attacking army before them. "Don't you think it's time you guys used the Legendary Mod Weapons??"

CHAPTER 3: CONFRONTATION
Pt. 1 - In The Dark

Author's Comments: Here's Chapter 3!! This chapter will be all about defeating Oren, so once again, we won't be seeing much of the mods, except a bit at the middle. But Chapter 4 will be almost all about the mods, so don't worry. There are some confusing concepts here, like alchemy and some weird weapon names, but you can always look them up. So, here we go....again!

"Whoa," Ridder said, his arm straight out in front of him, trying to find his way around. "This is the darkest darkness I've ever seen in my entire life!"

"Shut it, Ridder....you have....no idea....how hard this is," brandobrawl said. "Just follow me....and we can move on."

"Yeah.....what's all that about again?" Ridder asked, still waving his arms around.

"Just hold on to my hand.....and I'll guide you. You're practically....blind here any...way."

"Is this your hand?"

"Nho, thaht's muh fahce."

"How about this?"

"That's my foot, you idiot."

"And this?"

"Thaht's muh fahce aghain."

"...."

"Just give me your friggin' hand already!"

"Fine, but how come you can see, but I can't?"

"I said I'd....ugh...explain later," brandobrawl gasped, losing the ability to talk with each passing second. "Yes....that's it! The door..."

"Wait..."Ridder said, looking ahead, and finally seeing something within the darkness. "That looks like TBG!"

Brandobrawl grinned, glad that his plan had succeeded. "Yes, it is." He turned around to face Ridder. "I said I'd explain later, and I will, but you have to trust me right now. Once we go into this door, we'll both be fused into TheOne's body.

"What?" Ridder exclaimed, baffled. "That's the craziest thing I've ever heard!!"

"Come on! "You know, it's just like Oren. we'll be way more powerful this way," brandobrawl said.

"You know," Ridder said, "if you think about it it's kinda gay."

"........"

"I'll shut up now"

"Good, now let's go."

They approached the door slowly, and through it, they could see what was happening inside the room.

"Uh, victor, alucard, what are you guys doing here?" TheBetterGamer asked, backing away from Oren as he closed in on him dangerously, with a malicious grin on his face.

"It was all...his fault," victor groaned, still hurting from being hurtled through the window.

"Heheh, it doesn't matter who did what now, you idiots!" Oren said. "You'll all be crushed by me anyway, right here, right now."

"Um, Ridder," brandobrawl said, still glaring at the strange stone door that showed what was going on inside the News forum, "now would be the perfect time to make an entrance, don't you think?"

"I'd say YES," Ridder replied. "LET'S GO!!!"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Wow, Four said, stroking the giant Moderator Weapon in the from of a hammer with loving
admiration. "Now my life - is complete."

Suyo swung his giant glaive around his back to get the feel of it. "This is pretty heavy, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty awesome to wield."

"A BOW?!?!?" Niklaw asked, bewildered. "Why do I get a bow, Runouw??"

Runouw sighed, placing his own weapon, a staff, on the floor. "I knew you'd be little upset by this, so I made a few....modifications." Then he reached out, pushed a button right over the curve of the bow, and Niklaw gasped in delight as an extra sharp blade protruded from within the bow.

"A....bow blade?!?! AWRIGHT MATES!" Niklaw yelled. He waved the bow around in excitement, and not seeing Four standing right next to him, nearly cut him in half, but missed him by an inch and only grazed his shirt cutting him.

"HEY!"

"Sorry..."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pt. 2- The First Battle: Oren vs. brandobrawl

"Gak!" TheBetterGamer screamed, doubling over in pain. "What's happening to mee??"

"Just a little more...." brandobrawl said in a strained voice. He and Ridder were forcing open TheBetterGamer's Door of Truth, and the process was making TBG feel terrible. and with their last effort, the door opened, and brandobrawl was sucked inside.

"Ridder, come on!" he yelled out, grabbing Ridder's hand.

"Whoa!" Ridder screamed. There was a flash of light, and they were gone.




Silence. The flash of light had also been seen inside the News forum, and it had nearly blinded victor, alucard and Oren.

"Ugh...what...." Oren mumbled, removing his hands from his face and looking around.

In front of him, was TheBetterGamer, with his head down and a great shadow over his face, covering all his features. He shifted his right leg slightly, as if he were testing it out. Then he moved his arms, and shook his shoulders in a circular motion. "Heh," he said, finally. "It worked, Ridder." He looked up, and Oren saw that he now had gleaming yellow eyes. And before Oren could react, TheBetterGamer yelled out, "VENTEX STORM.exe!!!"

Without even moving a muscle, his body released a gigantic gust of wind that sent Oren backwards.

"What the...GAH!!" he cried out in dismay, as the strong winds sent him flying into a nearby table.

"Whoa..." said alucard, astounded by the sudden turn of events.

"H-how in the world did you do that?" TheBetterGamer asked

"Wha-what the heck are you talking about, you're the one who did it!" Oren said, very confused. he grunted as he lifted himself from the table, which had split in two upon impact, and brushed the dirt off his clothes.

"Guys," TheBetterGamer said, "I can explain. Using hacks, i made a fusion of all three of us into theOne's body. Right now, Ridder, TheBetterGamer, and me, brandobrawl, are in the same body."

Victor12 and alucard looked at each other, snickering. "GAY," they said in unison.

"Will you guys stop it with the gay jokes?!?!? TheBetterGamer exclaimed, angrily. At that moment, victor, Oren and alucard noticed something. TheBetterGamer's voice was different. It sounded strangely like....brandobrawl's. (From this point on when brandobrawl is in command of the body and is speaking, I'll refer to him as brandoGamer. With Ridder, it'll be ridderGamer. ThebetterGamer will be used to refer to the original one.) Maybe what he was saying wasn't a lie.

"Hacking is like a combination between alchemy and magic(in real world terms)," said brandobrawl. "After Ridder was killed, I had to save him, so I transmuted his spirit into my body. And to trick Oren, I charged at him so he would attack me. At that very moment, I transmuted us both out of my body with my remaining energy."

"SO that's why you were all tired," RidderGamer said. "But what was that weird dark place we were in?"

You know," TheBetterGaner said, looking thoughtful, "it's kinda weird talking to ourselves, or myselves, or me, or-"

"Shush,"brandoGamer said, cutting TBG off. "Let me continue. That strange dark place we were in was the Hallway of Spirits. It's were you go when you die. There, we opened theOne's Door of Truth, the passage that let us into his body."

"One last question," said TheBetterGamer, "what do you need all of us in this body for?"

Victor an alucard smiled. "That's easy, you're all ga-"

"SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME AND I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU SUFFER FOR THE REST OF YOUR MISERABLE EXISTENCE!!!" yelled brandoGamer.

"......"

"We'll shut up now"

"Good. Now Oren, I've let you off the hook long enough. It's time for the real battle."

"Heheh," Oren said smirking. "This is just what i was waiting for."

"Um..brandobrawl,"TheBetterGamer said, "you never answered my question. What the heck do you need all of our spirits and my body for?"

"Well," brandoGamer said, cracking his knuckles. "your body is to trick Oren into thinking that he'd won. Our spirits combined are a perfect source of energy for my hacking." his mouth was slowly curling into a wide grin. "Together, we'll easily defeat this wanna-be troll."

Oren glared at him, getting angrier by the second. "You'll see who's the wannabe.....GYAHHH!!" He pushed away from the floor at incredible speed, turning into a blur. In just a few moments, he reappeared in front of brandoGamer, winding up a punched aimed directly a his face.

"ESHIELD.exe!!!!" A giant silver shield formed in front of brandoGamer as soon as he clapped his hands and touched the floor. He had used the materials in the floor by rearranging their chemical composition and crated the shield.

"HA!" Oren exclaimed, blue lighting bolts forming in his hand. "If you think that's gonna stop me, THINK AGAIN!!" He released the energy from the lighting and punched the shield, shattering it instantly.

"What?!?!?" exclaimed Oren after punshing the shield. There was no one behind the shield. Then he gasped as someone tapped his shoulder.

"Behind you."

Oren turned around, but it was already too late. brandoGamer jumped, slamming his knee into Oren's face, causing him to fall backwards into a full 360 spin, before crashing violently into the wall behind him. BrandoGamer smiled.

"Give it up Oren. This fight is over."

Pt. 3 - Full Power

"You know, alucard, maybe we should really get outta here." victor12 slowly got on his feet, and slowly massaged his shoulders. Their wounds were healing, but they were still pretty damaged.

"Alright then," alucard said, leaning against the wall. He slowly dragged his feet towards a door. "I'll just go in here."

"Wait! That's the-"

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! THE PAIN!"

"-Electric Death Shock Topic."

On the other side of the room, Oren was breathing hard. Blood was flowing from his nose, and his face was all bruised from brandobrawl's knee to the face. "Huff....you're all...getting...wheze...on my nerves..."

"So, Oren, ready to give up?" brandoGamer said, with his arms crossed. "It looks like you're put of steam."

"Grrrr...." Oren snarled. His eyes were locked onto brandoGamer's with a menacing death glare."I think it's time for you idiots to see my....true form...."

"Um, Brandon, this is starting to sound dangerous," TheBetterGamer said, with a worried tone. "Maybe you shouldn't underestimate him...."

"Yeah," RidderGamer said. "He did kill me with that energy ball..."

"Heh," brandoGamer said, smiling. "That's cause you're a wuss!"

"....we're sharing the same body, you know."

"......I'll shut up now."

"Good."

"You.....it's time to SUFFER!" Oren yelled angrily.

"victor....we need to help them," alucard said, stretching his leg, checking for injuries. "I didn't want to do this after my accident with the...um...*coucgh*ElectricDeathShockTopic*cough*...but we'll have to go into the the dangerous-looking Weapon Topic."

"Very well..."victor said, "but I'm warning you, there's definitely weapons in there, but there's also....someone else..."

Victor and alucard headed towards the door labeled "Weapon Topic" and opened the door. At once, they heard, "I've got a good selection of things on sale, strangaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-"

Alucard's eye started twitching in disbelief. "Oh dear God no."

"-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-"

"Quick, grab something and let's get outta here!" victor exclaimed. They both quickly grabbed something that looked decent, and closed the door.

"What're ya buyiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnn-"

SLAM!

"Stupid merchant."

"Hey guys! What's up?"

Victor and alucard turned around and saw a familiar face. "Hey! Mic! What're you doing here??"

"Well, I was in the Gaming forum, when I heard all about the commotion. I came here to hide, but I didn't know it was already occupied."

"Well, then you've missed a lot," alucard explained, holding up the sakabato(sword with reversed blade) he picked up. "brandobrawl is fighting against some attacker, fused inside TheBetterGamer along with Ridder."

Mic smiled. "That sounds really ga-"

"Yeah, we know." victor said, interrupting. "But now, we have to help him."

"All right then," Mic said. "I think my hacking could be of assistance."

Alucard raised his eyebrows. "You know hacking??? Alright! This fight is in the bag."

"Well..." said Mic, hesitating. "I don't really know that much hacking. I only know Coordinate Hacking. You know, like teleporting."

Victor12 grinned. He twirled around the red fighting stick he found inside the Weapons Topic. "I bet you spend lots of time in the girls locker room, eh?"

"....."

"I'll shut up now!"

"Good. We should stop talking and go fight. Come on then."

Pt. 4 - The Seven

"You.....it's time to SUFFER!" Oren yelled angrily. He lunged at brandoGamer, and grabbed on to his legs when he tried to jump away.

"Whoa!" he cried, as he slammed into the ground. He clapped his hands and touched the floor. By transmuting some of the cement in the floor, he trapped Oren's legs.

"Hey!" Oren struggled, but brandoGamer had covered him in cement up to his knees. "You know what? We don't need this stinkin' body anymore!" As soon as they said that, there was a quick flash of light. When it disappeared, brandoGamer saw that Oren has left Nero's body, and it fell to the floor.

Next to the body, were two people.

"Time we introduced you to our TRUE form."

"I'm Ki11ah! The world's greatest hacker," said one of them, pointing at himself.

"And I'm Stran61ah! The other world's greatest hacker!" the other one said, striking a pose.

"Oh, no," brandoGamer said, backing away. "We'll never be able to defeat TWO of them in ONE body. I'll have to un-transmute us."

"No, please," said Ki11ah, his already wide smile growing wider, "ALLOW US!"

They both activated the lightning bolts in their hands and quickly slashed TBG's body. At once, all three of them fell to the floor, already separated.

"Ow..." TheBetterGamer winced. "You'll pay for that!" He jumped into the air, sticking out his leg to kick Ki11ah in the face, but he was too fast. He grabbed his leg, spun it around once, and slammed TBG into the wall, cracking it.

"Darn them...you'll pay for killing me!" Ridder screamed, finally in his own body again. "FIST FLURRY!" He ran towards Stran61ah, punching with incredible speed. But Stran61ah was easily dodging every blow.

"Is that all you got?!?!" he yelled, taunting Ridder. He grabbed one of Ridder's fists, and forcefully punched him with his free hand.

"UGH!" Ridder cried, as the air was blown out of him. He fell onto his knees, clutching his stomach.

"Don't worry guys, we're here!"

Brandobrawl turned around. "Mic, victor, alucard, quick! You gotta help!"

"No talking while we're beating the crap outta you!" Ki11ah exclaimed, closing in on brandobrawl.

"FUGIO.exe!" Ki11ah held out his hands, and fire started forming on them. "Take this!" He threw the fireballs at brandobrawl.

"Whoa!" brandobrawl dodged to the side, avoiding one, and the second one hit the wall next to his head.

Stran61ah threw a kick at the other three that had come into the room.

Alucard went low and slashed Stran61ah's other leg, and Mic transported behind him, striking his back. Stran61ah fell over, and victor12 used the stick to catapult onto him.

"GAH!" Stran61ah yelled, only nearly dodging victor. "Looks like I have to take care of 3 pests at o-"

CRASH!

SLAM!

THUMP!

"Hey guys," said another familiar face, standing over the knocked out Stran61ah.

"AZN!" Mic exclaimed. But his happiness didn't last for long, as Stran61ah pushed Azn onto him.

"KI11AH! REGROUP!" screamed Stran61ah as he ran towards the other side of the room. The two hackers stood back to back, guarding against the team of seven.

"It's time to finish this!" exclaimed brandobrawl, "FINAL GROUP ATTACK!"

"ELER.exe!"

"FIST FLURRY!"

"DOUBLE SPIN KICK!"

"DRAGON SLASH!"

"HELI-ATTACK!"

"TRANSPORT SECRET STRIKE!"

"FORCE OF THE HEAVENS!"

"HYAHHHHH!!!"

The two hackers dropped on the floor unconscious, finally defeated.

CHAPTER 4: RESISTANCE

For being such a patient and reasonable audience, I have something very special for you guys today. Instead of just one chapter, you get TWO. I’m also doing this because I want the story to advance quicker, and I want it to be done by February at the latest. ENJOY!

Okay, Chapter 4 is first, and as good as ever. It’s pretty long, too, but this time I was too lazy to divide it into parts, heh. FOUR user characters will be introduced today, for this chapter is a very important one in the plot. So congrats to Avolerators, GalaxyMario, 24murph and a ??? character for their integration to the story. There will be many plot points that many people from the old forum will recognize, so this story is not entirely fictional. (But mostly, yeah.) Finally, two other mysterious characters will be revealed, and the mods and Runouw will get their chance to shine. Ready?

“It’s finally…over.”

Brandobrawl dropped into a sitting position onto the ground. Aznchau was treating the rest of the team’s starting with the most injured person, TBG, as his body had been used by brandobrawl in the first part of the battle against Oren.

“You know Azn, you shouldn’t have used your strongest attack against them. It was enough with all of our attacks. If you hadn’t held back, you could’ve killed them.”

Azn turned around, glaring at brandobrawl. “Look who’s talking, you almost fried them with your little magic spell.” He touched the ground, and little green waves of energy could be seen gathering at the tips of his fingers, which he then used to treat TBG’s wounds. “I didn’t know you knew magic (hacks) as well as alchemy, anyway.”

“Yeah….I’ve been very secretive on that, haven’t I?”

“You’re strangely good on keeping us hanging with the little details.”

“Heh, just like the time I deep fried Nero’s underwear.”

“ Yeah, that was a classic.” Azn chuckled, knuckle-touching brandobrawl. He looked at his shirt, which was torn apart to be used for treating the team’s injuries. “Maybe you should give me some of your shirt’s cloth. I tore up my entire sleeves.”

Brandobrawl ripped off the bottom part of his jeans, and handed them to Azn. “I like my shirt.”

“How do you know so much about Azn’s attack? It was so quick I didn’t even see it,” Mic said, looking curiously at brandobrawl.

“We used to spar together,” brandobrawl said, waving around an imaginary sword. “I was stupid enough to take the attack head on the first time. I was unconscious for days!”

“But….what does it do?” Ridder asked, cutting the cloth he tied around the wounds on his leg with his teeth.

“Well,” brandobrawl said, scratching his head, “it pretty much increases his power, speed, and magic abilities ten-fold for a couple seconds.”

Ridder raised his eyebrows, nodding slowly. “Nice.”

Azn grinned. “It’s also the only known attack with power greater than the moderators’ signature moves.”

“Whoa…” Mic said with admiration. Suddenly, he stood up and looked out the window behind him.

“What’s wrong, Mic?” asked brandobrawl, looking up at Mic.

“I thought I heard some sort of explosion...” Mic replied. “And, speaking of the mods, where are they?”

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20 minutes earlier

SLASH!

“Stupid troll,” Suyo grumbled, placing his glaive on the ground with excessive force, cracking it. “I’m not Russian! I’m German. Although I think my mom once mentioned that my grandpa’s neighbor was the three-times removed cousin of Hitler.”

The team was now fighting against what seemed one of the last waves of attackers coming through the gates. The attackers were now very weak, and it was getting incredibly easy to defeat them, to the point of one-hit kills. The mods and Runouw were starting to suspect something.

“Y’ know,” Niklaw yelled out, so his companions could listen, “I’m startin’ to suspect somethin’.”

That’s what I just said.

“SHUT UP YA STUPID NARRATOR, DON’T THINK THAT JUST CAUSE YOU TELL THE STORY YOU CAN BLAB ON ABOUT BLABLA….BLA!”

Four, Suyo and Runouw stared dumbfounded at Niklaw. “Heheh, sorry mates,” Niklaw said, scratching his head. “The story is gonna get bloody serious after this, and the comic relief character has to break the fourth wall every once in a while.”

“….wait, what is- LOOK OUT!” Runouw cried out, but it was too late. A shadowy figure rose up from the rest of the crowd of intruders and fell to the ground with great force, its fist held out. The impact created a humongous shockwave, toppling the walls that provided support in the smaller buildings, and shattering every single window in the taller, stronger ones. The mods were sent stumbling backwards, but Runouw placed his staff on the ground and casted an invisible wall of energy to counteract the shockwave thus protecting them from the debris.

“What…the heck was that?!?!” Four asked, standing up and shaking the dust off his clothes.

“Oh, come on. ‘That’? You have to work on those manners.”

The figure stood up as well, lifting his fist from the street. The mods stared in awe at the gigantic crater that the fist’s impact had caused.

“You surely don’t know how to treat the person who’s about to obliterate you.” The mysterious figure said, smirking. “But I guess I should introduce myself first. My name is Rgadarg. You chumps can call me “R”. And I am the leader of this squad of invaders. As you may have already noticed, we all come from 4ch-“

“DON’T SAY IT!!”

“…whatever. The sad thing is, I used to come to this forum.” Rgadarg glared at Suyo, who felt a chill run down his spine. “Remember me, Superyoshi?”

Superyoshi’s eyes widened, and some memories from the old forum raced through his mind.

“This is so unfair, Suyo!”

Brandobrawl was holding open the door to one of the many topics created by Rgadarg, all in the Easy Levels forum. He was pointing to the level inside the topic, which looked very badly designed.

“He copied tons of ideas from my Freezeflame level!” he argued. He pointed to some of the parts of the level, and sure enough, they looked very much like some of the parts brandobrawl had included in his.

Suyo crossed his arms, and looked at brandobrawl’s troubled face. “Come on, you’re not the only one to have used some of these concepts in your levels,” he said.

Brandobrawl frowned, striding over towards another topic’s door, with another label signaling that it had also been created by Rgadarg. “LOOK! ANOTHER SIGN OF HIM COPYING MY LEVELS! Not only that, but his levels are just random tiles and items thrown together!”

Suyo looked at the levels thoughtfully. “True….they are pretty crappy…”

“Hey! My levels are not crappy!”

Suyo and brandobrawl turned around, and saw someone very angry coming towards them. “What are you doing with my levels?!?!”

Suyo took out a golden lock from inside his jacket, and placed it on the door of the first topic brandobrawl had shown him. “Sorry, but I gotta lock these topics. Brandobrawl here told me that you copied some ideas from his level.”

“Yeah!” brandobrawl exclaimed, with an irritated expression. “I worked hard on these ideas, not so you-“

“I didn’t copy anything!!” Rgadarg yelled at brandobrawl, sticking out his tongue. “I just liked some of your ideas!”

“Still,” said Suyo, continuing to place the locks on the rest of Rgadarg’s topics, “you have to put some effort into these levels, they’re all pretty bad.”

“And,” added brandobrawl, “it’s better to make one good level than ten crappy ones.”

“How could you do this to me, Brando?” Rgadarg was looking at the floor, clearly upset. “I reviewed your level, and said it was totally great.”

“Um…” brandobrawl was feeling uncomfortable now, as he hadn’t expected Rgadarg to react like that. Before he could finish, Rgadarg was already walking away.

Suyo snapped back to reality. Rgadarg smiled, realizing that Suyo had now remembered everything.

“Good, now there’s no need for me to explain any further,” he said. His expression quickly changed to a furious one. “You may not have given me The Ultimate Shame, but I felt as if you had. And since I don’t see that Brando-brat anywhere around here, I think I’ll begin my vengeance with you.”

The dust had cleared, and now that it was easier to see, the staff could see that Rgadarg’s fist had a strange shimmer to it. Rgadarg noticed them looking at it, and shook his hand to get rid of the dust that had piled on it after punching the ground so hard.

“I see you like my weapon,” he said, lifting his fist high in the air. “I call it the Falcon Gauntlet.”

Sure enough, the gauntlet had a bird-like form, with a beak on top, and two blades on each side shaped like wings.
“If you want, you can see just how much it hurts. I’LL BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BOD- AUGH!”

He was cut short after getting run over by a car, which broke every bone in his body.

Niklaw gave out a long whistle. “Now that’s irony!”

“O…w….” Rgadarg groaned, standing up slowly. “Stupid narrator! I’m not that weak!” He rubbed the spot where the car had hit him. “Who dares run me over?!?!”

Both he and the staff members looked over at the Mustang that had stopped just barely before hitting the wall adjacent to where Rgadarg had been standing. One of the two figures inside it moved slightly, and then the door opened. The guy in the driver’s seat had pushed open the door, but apparently that was all he could do with his remaining strength, as he fell out of the car.

“Help…” he wheezed, and it was clear at once that he was badly injured. He had large scratches and open wounds across his face, his shirt was ripped and bloody, and it looked like he couldn’t move his left leg.

“24murph!” exclaimed Four, finally realizing who it was. “Runouw, you gotta help him!” He ran over to murph, and helped him sit up against the side of the car.

“You are the insect that hit me with that freakin’ car??” Rgadarg growled, walking towards Four and 24murph. He started to raise his fist menacingly, but stopped as Suyo ran over to stand between him and Murph.

“Your grudge is against me, remember?” he said. He turned around and nodded at Runouw, who nodded back and strode over to 24murph. He casted a healing spell, and 24murph’s wounds instantly disappeared.

“Avo….he’s hurt too…in the passenger’s seat…” 24murph was still weak, but managed to lift himself up by supporting himself on the car, and pointed towards Avolerator’s who was unconscious in the passenger’s seat.

“Alright then, chump,” Rgardarg snarled. “Come on, if you think you can fight me and survive.”

Suyo took a step forward, but was stopped shortly by Niklaw. “Let me fight him,” he said.

“Niklaw, this guy wants me, not-” Suyo protested, but was once again interrupted by Niklaw.

“Look at the destruction he caused with a single blow,” insisted Niklaw. “We both know mah strength would be the only one of us mods that’d match his.”

Suyo still looked disappointed, but said nothing more.

“So, you’re going up against me, then?”

Rgadarg crouched, just as Niklaw did, ready to dash into action as soon as the fight started.

“You’ll be sorry you did.”

WHOOSH.

CLANG!

Niklaw had already extracted his bow’s blade, and when he charged, he immediately went towards Rgadarg’s throat. Rgadarg was way quicker, and quickly countered with his gauntlet’s right blade (Rgadarg is left-handed). Niklaw cursed under his breath after having missed the opportunity, but flipped around to use the momentum from the blow and try once again. Rgadarg’s sideways blow had left an opening on his right side, so Niklaw crouched, dodging the reach of Rgadarg’s gauntlet, and went straight towards right arm.

Still, Rgadarg’s super-human speed was just too much for Niklaw. Rgadarg quickly raised his right arm and strutted slightly to the left, completely avoiding Niklaw’s attack, then flipped around, hitting Niklaw’s face full on with a back-hand strike.
Rgadarg’s super-human strength kicked in then. Niklaw was sent flying backwards with full force, and he slammed straight into the Showcase Forum, toppling one of the walls.

“Ow….” Niklaw groaned, rubbing his head. He turned around to look at the damage to the building. The building was almost completely destroyed. “Maybe this bloke is tougher than he looks….this explosion looks like it could be seen for blocks!”

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Hey Mic, you’re right. That explosion looks like it could be seen for blocks!”

After Mic had looked out the window, it had caught the attention of Ridder and brandobrawl. The streets outside were filled with dust and debris, and it looked like something serious was happening somewhere around the Flash Showcase Forum.
“I’d say we should go check it out,” suggested Azn, “but most of us are pretty beat up. Nero hasn’t even gained consciousness yet.”

“Yeah…we should wait for a while,” brandobrawl agreed. He wiped his hand against his already dirty shirt, and reached into his pocket, withdrawing a necklace from it. “Good, nothing happened to it.”

He put it around his neck, and Ridder, Azn, and Mic looked inquiringly at it. It was very simply designed, made entirely of some sort of silvery metal, and it only had a spiral at its center. It looked as if it wasn’t for decoration, as it had no jewel or color of any kind.

“Um, Brando,” asked Mic, giving in to the curiosity, “what’s that?” He pointed at brandobrawl’s chest.

Brandobrawl glanced down and saw that he was referring to the necklace. “Oh, this?”

He held it in his palm, looking at it with distant eyes. “This is a memory of something horrible I did.” He looked over at Ridder, Mic and Azn, who were looking back at him with eyes comparable to toddlers seeing something for the first time.
“It’s my burden to bear,” he said to them, finally. “I don’t think you’d want to know about it anyway.”

“Oh, ok,” said Ridder, clearly disappointed. At that moment, a thought raced through his mind. What could he have done that was so awful, he couldn’t tell them about it?

“Hey guys, someone is coming!”

The group of four that was sitting next to the window looked towards the hallway leading into the forum, and saw alucard pointing at something. And then, they saw him.

“GalaxyMario!” all four of them shouted, happy and relieved to see that more people seemed to have survived. Their happiness only lasted for a moment, and turned into surprise when they saw the expression of pure anguish on GM’s face.

“…that thing….the thing that….destroyed the…..rest of the….forums…”

Brandobrawl quickly stood up and ran over to GalaxyMario. Mic teleported over in a flash, and both of them looked at GalaxyMario worriedly. “What?? What are you trying to say???”

“…it’s….coming…….”

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Avo!!! Come on Avo, we can’t lose you!!” Four was shaking Avo desperately, trying to make him react. Runouw had also used a healing spell on him, but Avolerators’ damage was much greater than what 24murph had suffered.

“What happened to you guys, Murph??” Four asked, now resorting to slapping Avo repeatedly to try to wake him.

“…it…it was too much. Everything was getting destroyed….Avo wanted to help me….he tried to fly us both to safety….he only ended up hurting himself even more…” Murph stopped there and went into a fit of coughs.

Four patted him on the back, and said, “Don’t strain yourself.”

“Fourinone,” came a voice from the other side of the car. “There’s nothing more I can do for Avolerators. Still, they’ll most probably be fine. Right now, we have to take care of this threat.”

Runouw grabbed his staff, and both he and Four walked into the battle that was developing between Niklaw, Suyo and Rgadarg.

Meanwhile…

“GYAHHHHH!!!”
Suyo swung his glaive as Rgadarg dodged one of Niklaw’s flaming arrows. His attack was as ineffective as all of the ones they had attempted before. As soon as Rgadarg avoided the arrow, he flipped around, caught the glaive’s base between his forearm and upper arm, and continued into a full turn, making Suyo hit himself with his own weapon.

He was completely torturing them. He let go of the glaive, making it flip around and hit Superyoshi even more times, then he caught it and swung it at another arrow that Niklaw had shot at him, splitting it in half. Suyo dropped onto the floor, breathing hard.

FWOOSH.

Rgadarg threw the glaive at Niklaw, aiming right over his shoulder. It caught his clothes and pulled him back as the glaive flew straight into the wall behind him, trapping him.

“Is that all you got???” Rgadarg asked, teasing the fallen mods, as if their defeat wasn’t enough humiliation already. “I guess I couldn’t expect much more from you forumers.” He raised his left fist over Suyo’s worn out body. “I might as well put you out of misery now.”

“I don’t think so, Rgadarg.”

Niklaw turned around, hoping to see that Four and Runouw had come to their rescue, but he saw no one, and realized that they must’ve still been fixing Avo and Murph up. But the person he saw right behind Rgadarg was there to help, and Niklaw gasped as soon as he saw him.

“IcyStone!! You’re back!!!” (Explanation: When I was planning how this story would continue after Chapter 1, I decided to include Icy as a ‘???’ character, and have him return to the forum at the chapter’s climax. Why? Because when I wrote this story for the first time, Icy hadn’t come back. I never expected something that would happen in my story to come true before I actually wrote it down!!!)

Glay smiled as soon as he heard Niklaw call his name. “My name is GlayWare now, so please, call me Glay. Also, no gay jokes.”

Niklaw snickered.

“What is the meaning of this?? You won’t stop me, just as these worms couldn’t!” He swung his fist at Suyo to strike him in the face. “MWAHAHAHA!!” At that moment, Rgadarg realized something strange. He couldn’t move his fist. He also noticed that he had not heard any noise at all when he had hit Superyoshi. Then he looked down.

His fist was frozen solid, inches above Suyo’s head. “GAH!” he exclaimed, shaking his fist desperately.

Glay smirked. “They didn’t used to call me Icy for nothing!” He clapped his hands together, and touched the floor, making spikes pop out of it all the way towards Rgadarg. Rgadarg jumped back in panic, and continued his attempts to unfreeze his hand.

“Whoa, Glay, you’re back!”

Glay turned around, and saw Four and Runouw coming towards them. Four had a look of awe on his face, and it increased when he saw the ice he had created after clapping his hands.

“Just like Brandon….” Four said, “Glay, does that mean you’re…?”

“Yeah,” Glay replied. “They call me the Sub-Zero Alchemist.”

Four looked at Rgadarg, and saw his hand covered in ice, which he still could not remove. “Wow, now that’s what I call giving you the cold shoulder!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!”

Everyone stared dumbfounded at Four. “Umm, Four,” Glay said, “I froze his hand.”

“-HAHAHahaha..ha……I knew that.”

Rgadarg was stepping back slowly. “Grrr…I might even need the boss’ help at this point….” He pressed a red button on the watch he wore on his right hand.

“…but enough fooling around!” Four exclaimed. “We still need to defeat the enemy!” He looked over at Niklaw and Suyo, who were both standing up, and they nodded at him.

“BATTLE FORMATION NUMBER 3!”

All of the mods sprung into action immediately, and Runouw smiled. It was time for them to show of the efforts of their training.

Four flipped his giant hammer in the air, then slammed it into the ground, keeping it vertical. “MOD WEAPON NUMBER 3! BAN HAMMER!”

Suyo twirled the glaive on his right side, then his left, and did the same as Four, placing it upright on the ground. He stood a couple of feet next to Four, and yelled out, “MOD WEAPON NUMBER 2! LOCK GLAIVE!”

Finally, Niklaw jumped into the air, spinning a couple of times before landing right between Four and Suyo. He raised his bow into the air horizontally, and screamed, “MOD WEAPON NUMBER 1! STICKY BOW!”

Icy and 24murph stared open-mouthed at the mods’ battle formation. With the hammer and the glaive being the two sticks, and the bow being the curve at the bottom, their weapons had formed a giant “M”.

Rgadarg just tilted his head to the side, puzzled. “Uh…does the ‘M’ stand for ‘moderator’?”

“No,” answered Niklaw, “it stands for ‘moron’ –what Rgadarg is.”

“Oh, I thought it stood for-“

“YES, IT STANDS FOR MODERATOR!!! Now, CHARGE!!!!!”

Four and Suyo each jumped onto one of Niklaw’s shoulders, then Niklaw himself jumped into the air, advancing straight towards Rgadarg. He tried to take a defensive position, but they had already gotten ready to strike, and their formation was a three-way attack. There was no way he would be able to completely avoid damage. They had him.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

THUMP.

GalaxyMario fell to the floor after uttering those words, before brandobrawl or Mic had a chance to catch him.

“GM! What’s wrong?? What is ‘that thing’?!?!” brandobrawl asked desperately, but to no prevail.
GalaxyMario had fainted from exhaustion. He was the third person he saw faint, but had no idea what was going on outside of the News Forum. And he was tired of waiting. “Right then.”

Mic was holding GalaxyMario upright to try and wake him, but his attention drifted to brandobrawl. “What are you doing??”

Brandobrawl pushed open the main door to the News Forum. “I’m going to check out the situation,” he said, stepping out of the building, “all of you wait for me here.”

Azn, Ridder and victor12 instantly stood up. “What?!?” “Are you nuts?!?” “Niklaw said to wait here!!”
Mic also stood up, accidentally dropping GalaxyMario. “You can’t go!” He realized he had dropped GM and was now stepping on him, and quickly got off. “Whoops.”

“Then let me go with you,” Azn said, “you’re better off not being alone, and the rest of you guys are pretty beat up.”

Mic started protesting, stepping on GM once more. “What about me?? I’m not hurt!”

“We need someone to stay and take care of the other guys,” said Azn, “but I’m starting to have second thoughts….” He pointed at GM, who was now choking under Mic’s foot.

“Whoa crap!! Sorry GalaxyMario!”

The only reply that came was: “GUHH.”

“….”

“Yeah, you should be more careful.” Azn stepped out with brandobrawl, and gave him a look of reassurance.

“Fine then,” brandobrawl said, giving up, “but I’ll close off all the entrances with alchemy so you don’t get attacked again.”

Azn poked his head in before closing the door. “Please be careful.”

Clap!

Brandobrawl touched the wall, and all the components that made it up instantly started moving. The cement started gathering at the doors and windows, until the building was completely blocked off.

Azn gazed at the building, which now resembled a giant cardboard box. “Are you sure this is such a good idea?” he asked.

“Of course,” brandobrawl said, rubbing his hands against his pants to clean them off. “I even reinforced the building by taking some extra cement from the ground, and packing the carbon molecules tightly together. If any baddie comes around, he’ll have a hard time getting into the building.”

“Okay. I just hope that GM and the others get better,” Azn said, and then he turned around, walking away from the News Forum with brandobrawl.

Pretty soon, they reached the site where the conflict between the mods and Rgadarg was developing.

“Rgadarg?!?!” brandobrawl asked, not believing his eyes. At that moment, he had the same flashback as Suyo, and felt the guilt of the past once again as Rgadarg gave him a killer glare.

“You….” Rgadarg said, not taking his eyes off brandobrawl. He was in pretty bad shape by now. The mods definitely overpowered him as a team.

Azn was explaining what had happened in the News Forum to the mods and Runouw.

“Whoa,” Suyo said, “brandobrawl fused three spirits into TBG’s body? That must be the strangest thing ever.”

“No,” Niklaw said, “I think the strangest thing ever was when that Japanese hobo ran into the Programming Forum, slapped me across the face with a rubber chicken, then jumped out the window screaming ‘VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!’.”

“Hm, true,” Suyo agreed. He looked over at Rgadarg, who was just standing there. Then he noticed something, and his eyes widened in realization.

“Um, Niklaw,” Suyo said, tapping him on the shoulder, “what’s that beeping red thing on Rgadarg’s wrist?”

Niklaw saw it as well, and the same realization came through him. “It’s a…MINIATURE COMMUNICATOR!” He ran over to Rgadarg, who just gave Niklaw an evil smile.

“Too late.”

It was not Rgadarg who had spoken those words. There was an even greater level of malice in that tone.

Another shadowy figure landed slowly next to Rgadarg, wrapped in a cape. Everyone but Avo realized who it was, and froze to the spot in fear.

“It’s-a me, MEGAZARIO.”

Runouw was wearing a deep frown, and at that very instant, the last, deadliest realization of the day came to him.

“Megazario,” Runouw said slowly, “why haven’t the mods or myself encountered any spambots???”

Megazario grinned. “Nice realization. Too bad you didn’t notice earlier…”

Brandobrawl and Azn turned around in horror, and they saw a single spambot slashing through the walls of the News Forum with its gigantic robotic arm easily, like a knife through butter.

The last sound of this chapter, I’m afraid, is not a nice one. It was a blood-curling scream, that came from the very person that had blocked off the only way to escape for the people inside the News Forum.

“NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”

Sweet! Totally awesome!!!

I so want to be in this…

OMFG All I gotta say is


Lol this is ARMAZING!!! XD I think I laughed most at the part where the hacker came in, haha thats creative, “Who are you, and what are you doing with Nero’s account?” XD CLASSIC

this just gets better and better! wow I REALLY WANNA BE IN THIS !! THIS IS EPIC!

This is even better than Chapter 1! Keep up the epic-sauce, Brndn!
I wonder what will happen with "brandobrawl", now that he's dead... (Something tells me, though, that it will end up as a "I got better" situation. : P)

Crikey! This is one bloomin' good story, no bloody doubt.

Hahaha! That was funny as... umm... something that's really funny! I just read my favourite scene of all time in that one chapter:

brandobrawl wrote:"A catapult?" Niklaw jumped, slicing a spammer in half on his way up and landing near Suyo and Four. "Are you blokes nuts? What we need is a bigger KNIFE!"

I love how I'm some sort of bad-ass Aussie bloke. Sheesh, it cracks me up!

Keep up the excellent work!

Respect++

Seriously, the stories you write are just pure awesomeness. If Runouw implements the medal mod, I'll give you some medal for this.

Good story, with nice plot twist and stuff, and for my completely (Un)heroic efforts, If I every come back Alive in the story, can you make it so I obtain a stuffed animal in the story?

'Cause you know, real people use Stuffed animals in the face of danger.