Noah "Neo" Ashfield
Corporeal: AMS Deathwing Mirage Island, Hoenn
Spiritual: The Black Lodge
Affected RPers: @Lord Celebi @bronislav84

Diablos.

This was nothing compared to what Diabora was really capable of. The Dragonbreath attack on Saxiv was only enough to stun it for a few moments. Finch and Reg Lando were trying to fight them off, but nothing seemed to make sense when fighting these asshats. Tiantus, however, couldn't fight for the life of him from the looks of it. The guy was a researcher, not a warrior.

And yet somehow, Raidon managed to give him a handgun, and then somehow he transformed that into a massive gatling gun through... nothing. How the hell was he doing that? Regardless, he opened fire and tried gunning down the Diablos that Diabora had summoned. He easily made my attempts look like a Magikarp Splash attack.

"Not so fucking frightening now, are you, Diabora?" Tiantus mocked the destroyer.

<It's going to take more than that to end me,> Diabora declared, launching a torrent of hellfire at Raidon.

He managed to dodge most of it, but the fire burned the hell out of his arm. Relentless, I saw something I just couldn't believe was possible. Across all dimensions and universes, alternate versions of the boss suddenly joined as one fighting force. One was a purple-skinned Starmie hybrid, another was some kind of cyborg, and many others, all baring some resemblance to the boss, but yet were different, all alterations simply based on what would have been and what could have been. Damn, it was quite the mind-rape to see something like that.

They all swooped in to strike Diabora in all different patterns, one becoming a three-headed dragon, another a four-winged bird, another a giant rusted robotic sentinel of armor. It was the bird, however, that struck Diabora's body with a talon of pure flames, crushing him with hot, fiery death.

"INFINITE ZEPHYR GALE!" They all shouted in unison.

Diabora was reduced to only bits upon being destroyed in the chaotic frenzy of fire, explosions, and spine-ripping, thunderous strikes. He was rapidly ripped to shreds like a twisted jigsaw puzzle from the depths of Hell, falling and rolling upon the floor like the trash pieces from a spilled trash can. However, despite Raidon's confidence, Diabora simply reformed without a scratch. When his body was fully reassembled, he simply looked fondly at Raidon as if to mock him.

<I adore how you try and try,> Diabora sneered at Raidon with his hideous fugly face again. <All part of the equation to just break you, and watch you squirm and squeal like a hopeless swine. You will either struggle forever, or you lose and die.>

"Try me, you prick," I spat at Diabora. "You think of yourself as some mighty god, but you're just a pain in the ass. Struggle? Try again, I wouldn't mind blowing up your daft, little carcass up again and again."

I wasn't sure what the boss's strategy was going to be for handling this dipshit. So far, it seemed like this place could be manipulated, but something about it made it feel like a trap. Like we were just wasting time here.

I wasn't sure what Karai and Blonde Zombie were planning, but they had manipulated the astral realm to try and attack again. Diabora was... transformed into what looked like an oversized plush rabbit while Xoven and Saxiv were turned into a stuffed ape and a stuffed gecko. As for Diabora's horde, they also looked like a bunch of stuffed animals taken out of some kid's bedroom.

"What in the hell...?" I asked, wondering how that came about.

It only got weirder. Karai went all out against the army of plush toys before trying to use an Ancient Burst Heart to burst with her Blaziken. The result was just... freaky. Mega Blaziken with chest hair, skimpy clothing, and other weirdness. I knew Mega Blazikens should not at all look like that. It made me happy I was just a Dragonite.

"This is YOUR doing, isn't it!?" Karai screamed at Diabora the plush bunny. "Giving me this skimpy bikini!?"

She then incinerated the army of plushy toys with a Fire Spin.

<Why, yes.> Diabora laughed hysterically. <While I can't control when or how the Ancient Burst Hearts are used, I can control the form somewhat. I made it so it brings out your inner image, and apparently yours is a porn star!>

My mind was just blown away.

"I will END you for this, fluffy bunny or no fluffy bunny!" Karai shouted, attacking Diabora with a Flame Charge as she latched onto Diabora's fluffy bunny back. "I'd like to say burn in hell, but that's too good for you! Burn in your nightmares!"

She set herself on fire and then struck him in the back with a massive explosion. I had a feeling the only thing this was going to result in was just Diabora reforming, and I was totally right. The stuffed bunny that used to be Diabora was incinerated to a black pulp, but seconds later, Diabora in his original form simply recreated himself, laughing maniacally.

<That's right, embrace the violence! Lose your mind in your anger! See how useless your attempts are!> Diabora laughed. <I'm coming to kill you, Karai! And all your squealing, pathetic friends!>

Damn, it was making me think... was there something we needed to do to kill him the "right" way?

<... Listen...>

Who are you? Qinglong?

<...That's right. There is... more to him than you think. More to you as well.>

Where the hell are you?

I didn't get much of a response, and already Diabora was summoning additional Diablos. In fact, it looked like he was summoning a whole god-damned army of them. This time, it wasn't just zombies. It was something that looked a whole lot worse.

<Rise, Fallen,> Diabora laughed with darkness before looking back at us. <How can you fight an army made of pure sin? Gaze upon this horde, all of them comprised of each person's sins, vices, and crimes. They are the entourage of Hell, all to pull you into its depths, screaming for all eternity!!>

Billions... there were billions of these deranged, shadowy figures with blood-colored flames gushing from their hollow eye sockets and grizzly-toothed mouths. Their arms and elongated tongues were their weapons, made of jagged knives and bladed tentacles. I couldn't believe what the hell I was seeing.

"Damn it, that's a whole hell of a lot of soldiers he's got there!" Reg Lando remarked bitterly.

Lando imagined a futuristic tank, made of chrome armor and capable of technology that wouldn't exist for likely another few hundred years. He climbed inside, and immediately the dual gauss-cannons fired blazing razor-fire ammo upon the army of Fallen with power and fury that would have easily toppled over today's cities in a heartbeat, but no bullet or tank shell could even faze these Fallen. Meanwhile, the Fallen all chanted together in some dark, gibberish language that just sounded to be pure evil. Somehow, even just the words were painful to listen to.

Tiantus's gatling gun, while ferocious against the other Diablos, was useless against the Fallen.

"What the hell is this!?" Tiantus spat, tossing aside the firearm in frustration.

Damn it, there was no way in hell we could take out an army of billions of renditions of sin without usable weapons. The Fallen army was drawing closer and we were rapidly running out of options.

<...Listen, this isn't what you think it is. It's... a trap. Diabora is... buying time. If you continue staying here... he will weaken your minds and you will not be prepared to fight him in reality.>

It was making sense. This whole... simulation... I could see it frying our brains about how things really worked. The level of mind-raping Diabora was putting us through would screw with our real perception and what we knew was real and what wasn't. If this crap went on for too long, by the time we woke up, everything could be a wreck and we'd actually think the Diabora we were fighting and manipulating here was the way the real one would fight. It was like... taking drugs.

There's got to be some way out of this...

<...Focus. Focus on your body, and direct your soul to it. The more you wake up... the more your soul will be pulled back into your real body, and you'll wake up from this. Don't be alarmed... I have sensed your soul and I now know where you are.>

I did as he told me, and I shut my eyes and focused my concentration. By shutting out this astral plane, it was easier to focus on the Deathwing War Room. I knew what it looked like and I told myself that's where I wanted to be right now. I knew my unconscious body was there, most likely still in that black bunny Chimera form, but I could use that as a home point.

Wake up!

It was as if a giant set of hands pulled me far, far away, and with my eyes still shut, I had no idea where I was going...

* * *

I woke up with a bit of grogginess, right back in the Deathwing War Room with all of its monitors, display screens, and computers. As I had suspected, I was still in the black rabbit Chimera form I had on before, but as I looked around, I saw Reg Lando, Finch, Tiantus, and the boss were still totally out cold, lying on the floor. I didn't know where Karai was but I figured she was in the same situation.

"Boss!" I shouted to Raidon, shoving him to get him to wake up. "Boss, it's a trap, you've got to wake up! Get your ass up!"

No luck. Trying it on Tiantus and Lando was not any more successful either. This wasn't just a nap, it was something way deeper. The only way they'd be able to get out is if someone... or something told them how to wake up.

And in the meantime, I needed to figure out how to reach Qinglong... wherever the hell he was.


Janine "Angel" Price
Offset Island, Hoenn
Affected RPers: N/A

"Gotcha!" Kaede shouted with glee.

Holy crap, I had fallen asleep!? I suddenly found myself lying in the soft grass, and wow, after blinking twice, I really did doze off for who knows how long. It had to have been for at least an hour or so considering how I felt and how much the sun had gone down. I looked to where Kaede's voice was coming from and she was looking over me, smiling, looking proud of herself...

...and then I looked at the syringe she had stuck in my arm.

"Whoa, you sneak!" I laughed. "What did you... is that a Chimera mutagen?"

"Sure is!" Kaede laughed. "Payback time!"

Ha, ha, okay, I'll totally admit I should have seen this coming! I couldn't blame her, it was silly and careless of me to forget the reversal agent and to leave her as a big blue Dragonite for two whole hours. I quickly got off the ground and saw Kaede was just smirking, and she for some reason had been wearing an advanced, high-tech chemical hazmat suit. In fact, she had started to put the helmet on, casually, just smiling.

"Hey, what's all that for?" I asked, curiously wondering why it looked like she needed to prep for some pretty intense chemical warfare.

Ho boy, definitely should have known. That's when I started to transform into a Chimera, and definitely not a very good one. I felt like I had the breath sacked out of me when I saw I was having purple and white fur grow out of my skin and suddenly I had gained an awful amount of weight. A massive skunk tail suddenly grew out of my butt and suddenly I felt like a gigantic ball of stink!

"Ohh... what did you do!?" I asked, feeling so messed up.

"Oh, just a Skuntank/Snorlax/Weezing/Muk Chimera mutagen," Kaede winked.

Eww, was she serious!? How totally gross! But she was right, I was a really fat Skuntank with... oh man, extra gas and skunk juice! In fact, I was having trouble holding in the gas. Oh man, how embarrassing! I really tried not to fart but after a while, it just couldn't be held in anymore! And how gross, I was so obese, as if I raided a pastry bakery and ate everything in sight!

"Hey, this isn't fair!" I complained to her. "Your Chimera form wasn't nearly this bad!"

But she really didn't care! And then... oh no, she had actually brought FES syringes with her as well! She was just casually playing with them, caressing them like pet Pokémon!

"Kaede... Kaede, we can talk this over, you know!" I shouted at her, trying to back away. "We can be reasonable, right!?" Right!?"

And yuck, the whole time, I just couldn't hold it in anymore. It felt so gross to fart, and it felt like it couldn't stop once it started! Meanwhile, trying to move around like this was just awful. I swore, I tried my best never to get this pudgy!

"Let's see, how did you say it before?" Kaede asked with a sinister smile. "'Oh please, you're a big girl?' 'We only just started?'"

"But... Kaede, you...!" I cried out.

Oh man, she just walked up to me and just jabbed me with the first FES syringe like there was nothing to it. Holy freaking cow, this was just going to be awful. She stepped back with a casual strut, leaving me there all fat and stinky and helpless to do anything!

And then, I started evolving. I suddenly became an even bigger, fuzzier, bloated ball of stink. Yeah, no kidding, forget about actually trying to find some way to enjoy this! I felt so heavy and oh so gross. I was fat and my insides were chugging away to be a total stink factory! And yeah, there was no holding back the gas anymore. It was loud, stinky, and sounded like a motor coming out of my butt! Meanwhile, the giant skunk tail I had on my butt was huge. I was now fifteen feet tall, and I was quickly turning this poor, little island into a toxic waste dump!

So totally not fair, she got to choose her Chimera form! I wouldn't have done this kind of thing to her! This was just... cruel!

"Hey, this is so unfair, you know!" I shouted back at her, my voice sounding all stuffed now as my fat arms just laid on my bloated skunk gut. "Kaede, you and I both know a Ultra Chimera of... this... is just definitely going to be awful! Please, let's not go there, okay! You've proven your point!"

"Guess what?" Kaede shrugged and giggled, preparing the giant Ultra Chimera FES syringe. "Not my problem."

Oh man, I was not going to want to remember this when it was over with. I tried to waddle away as my pudgy feet could carry this gigantic body, all while my butt just couldn't stop it with the stinky, slimy pollution. And I didn't get very far. Kaede was enjoying this thoroughly and I couldn't do very much but just play along with it. And she was so totally taunting me with that Ultra Chimera syringe.

"Aww, but didn't you tell me payback is fun?" Kaede asked me. "You were right! So you should totally be enjoying this too!"

And then she got me with the giant FES syringe. I just watched in dismay as the auto-injector just pushed all of that FES juice into my already giant skunk body. Yeah, I knew this was going to be pretty bad. She quickly jumped back. While her high-tech hazmat suit kept her safe from the smell, she could still easily get flattened if she didn't get out of the way.

"Oh crap," I muttered as I suddenly felt a heavy rumbling inside me.

I then grew and grew and totally felt like I'd never stop growing! I got even fuzzier, fatter, and my innards were turned into even more of a chemical weapons factory! She had totally turned me into a giant, fuzzy stink blob that I swore could have easily be classified as a chemical weapon of mass destruction. The evolution didn't stop until I was standing there, thirty feet tall as one gigantic pile of pure grossness. The skunk spray and gas was just relentless now. I couldn't exactly see considering my puffed up Skuntank face could barely even turn, never mind look behind my colossal skunk tail to see exactly what and how much was coming out of my behind. It felt like massive bucketloads of skunk slime were dumping out and I was able to see the darkened, black-green cloud of stink and noxious fumes coming up from behind me. Man, I didn't know what was worse, letting all that stinky sludge out or trying to keep all that grossness stuck inside me!

Well, certainly was a little too late to say I was sorry.

"Hey, why the long face, Janine, I thought you'd be enjoying this!" Kaede laughed. "Why not try to make the best of it, you've got a whole two hours to kill."

Two hours of...! Oh geez, this was terrible! She was definitely not letting this go for anything, was she!?

"Urf..." I muttered and spat, barely able to even talk with my cheeks and chin so stuffed with fat. "Kaheed, youff... ovadone et wid dhis."

Yeah, so much for talking! It was like trying to speak with my hands pressed against my cheeks and face and with a mouth full of mashed potatoes!

I tried walking, but it was so, so slow and I felt like I was glued inside some kind of giant sack of... eww, something really gross, thick, and gooey. It was hard to believe that when I looked down the tiny bit I was allowed to, that giant, protruding belly of white and purple fuzz that was sticking out over everything... that was all me. Meanwhile, Kaede was just sitting there, looking at her watch, and twirling my much desired reversal agent in her gloved hands.

"Ha, hasn't even been six minutes yet!" Kaede taunted me. "Having fun, Janine? Please, let me know how much you think your Ultra Chimera project is a whopping success! Was it as big as you thought it would be!?"

Oh, so not cool or funny. But she did that the entire time, taunting all two hours while I just sighed, stunk up the place relentlessly with more poison gas and goo than what should have ever been possible. I couldn't even move my bloated arms, and walking was like a chore just to move a few steps. Bleh, by the time this was over, all of Hoenn would probably have to be quarantined.

It went on so, so slowly. Minutes felt like days practically. And all I could really do was just sit there, my puffed up head just glued to a giant pile of stinky, fuzzy goo that was actually the rest of my body. Meanwhile, I couldn't stop just grossing up the whole place! Yeah, well, I certainly wasn't going to do much dancing, skipping, or prancing like this. I didn't even want to try rolling, because that would just be... ugh, totally goofy, gross, and I'd probably get stinky goop all over myself.

By the time two hours was up, I gave up all hope for hygiene and I think a part of me died inside. Kaede finally got up, and not a moment too soon.

"Well congratulations, Janine!" Kaede sarcastically cheered. "You survived as an Ultra Chimera as long as I did! I have the reversal agent right here, but if you'd rather stay like that...!"

"Nuuu...!" I moaned, trying to get her to not even think like that!

"Oh, ok..." Kaede muttered with sarcastic sympathy before laughing hysterically. "Hopefully this reversal agent syringe doesn't make you POP!"

Oh, sweet mother of mercy, could you possibly get any grosser thinking like that!? Eww, I didn't even want to imagine what that would look like! Well, she injected me with the reversal agent, and thankfully I didn't... well... you know. The few seconds it took to get working felt like forever, but then slowly, painfully slowly... the disgusting, massive Skuntank blob of stink, misery, and total disgust was undone. I slowly shrunk down, down, down, with all of the grotesque mutations reversed and whipped back into my body until all the purple and white fur was gone and I was finally back to being human.

And oh man, turning around to see how much gunk and ungodly stink I had created was a sight out of a horror movie! It was over, but man, I felt like I needed to take a really, REALLY long shower.

"Well, glad you had fun," Kaede told me, giving me a clue not to ever mess with her again. "Now let's get out of here."

Yeah... no kidding. Definitely done with this place!