Raidon Makoto
AMS Deathwing, Mirage Island
Hoenn
Affected RPers: @bronislav84

"Mister leader, sir, I require your ABH for my research. You have no use for it I think." A voice squeaked through the metal door. "Please let me have it and then the five of you can get going to wherever you need to go." Makoto looked down at his trenchoat breast pocket and noticed that he indeed did still have the Ancient Burst Heart he had used to merge with Celebi moments ago. Cracking the door open only slightly, Makoto rolled the relic out of the opening and quickly shut the door again. Feeling self-conscious, he reopened the door open again and looked at the group: "I'm so sorry. I promise I'm not normally a dick. I'm just really busy right now."

He closed the door again and looked at Celebi, "Lay it on me. Let's go dine in hell." Celebi nodded at the world around Makoto faded. The fabric of reality rippled into darkness and a new world surrounded Makoto like a womb. The first thing the dictator noticed was that it had become very hot very quickly. "What the..."

<...hell?> Celebi finished and laughed at the joke. <Yessir, this is hell.>

Makoto took in the sights and sounds (sights being horrific torture by demons and sounds being their screams) with a sobering silence. It was decidedly not the most horrifying thing he had seen that day. "Jesus Christ, Celebi, you're going to make my therapist rich." The pair traveled down the shores of the fiery River Styx until they couldn't travel any more. A skeleton in a robe piloting a raft pulled up to meet the dread lord of the Deathwing moments later.

The skeleton let its mouth hang ajar as words came out: "Raidon Makoto. My master has been expecting you. I am called Phelgyas. Please join me on my raft and I will take you to him." The demon spoke with a very comfortable slowness, as if it knew it had all the time in the world to speak. Makoto, on the other hand, was incredibly impatient and already on the raft by the time Phlegyas had extended the invitation to join him. Celebi floated above Makoto's shoulder as the ferryman rode its raft down a lavafall, navigating the River Styx and the Nine Circles of Hell.

After a few hours on the raft, Makoto noticed that the temperature of Hell was dropping. Much to his surprise, he felt comfortable. "What the...? Who turned up the AC?"

"This is the borderline between the Eighth and Ninth Circles of Hell," Phlegyas explained. He slowly extended a bony to call attention to the damned that were lying on this border. "Many who escape their personal torment take refuge here, for the temperatures are much more tolerable for humans."

<It's also called the Goldilocks Zone,> Celebi said, addressing the area with a colloquialism. The metaphor was lost on Phlegyas. The trio moved past the Goldilocks Zone and into the frozen tundras of the Ninth Circle of Hell. Once the fiery River Acheron froze over, Phlegyas pulled the raft over to the Ninth Circle's icy shores. Pointing upwards, Makoto noticed a gigantic castle resting in the middle of the Judecca.

"That is Pandemonium, the Capital City of Hell. Inside the castle lies my master, Lord Lucifer," Phlegyas said. The dread lord bolted off towards the castle, completely unabated by the cold, tailed by the Eternal Chronarch. "I hate when they do that," the ferryman lamented.

The Interloper
Yggdrasil Tree
Maridia
Affected RPers: All

Nicodemus Chess continued his trek up the mountain until he finally reached its peak. At the top sat the Yggdrasill Tree, a very large tree whose branches tickled the clouds. At the base of the tree, a anthropomorphic figure lay dormant, bound in all directions by the tree's overgrowth. As Chess approached the tree, the eyes of the figure let up a piercing red. A rumbling laugh could be heard in the distance, as the creature said, <And who are you?>

Nicodemus Chess touched the tree trunk, transforming the Yggdrasill Tree's bark into sand. Color began to return to the gaunt figure. "Let's say I'm your savior." Diabora's fingers were the first to move, as sand ran down his body. More and more of the destroyer's body become moveable as the Yggdrasill Tree turned into sand. Feeling an earthquake, Chess turned around. He was face to face with Arceus, the Universe's creator, and three mechanical beasts. The beasts were TransTechs, natives to the multidimensional hub city of Axiom Nexus. More specifically, they were Enforcers, sent out to scour the multiverse for time criminals that even Celebi couldn't handle. Chess had to laugh, "Only three Enforcers? Clearly, you aren't taking me seriously." Removing his hat and coat, Chess revealed his true visage to the group. Chess was a Saurian, a bipedal lizardman from the planet Ramdyne.

<Statement: Xuanwu should have destroyed the paradox dimension from which you were born eons ago,> One of the TransTechs, a robotic lion, told him.

Another, a robotic she-wolf piped in: <Threat: We will correct his mistake.>

Arceus launched a burst of divine energy at Chess. Chess caught it in his right hand and threw it back at the Lion TransTech. The robotic lion exploded. Chess loosened his tie and activated his final trump card: his transformation. The Alvaj-Xoc from his universe blessed several, select individuals with the power to become Legendaries. Nicodemus Chess was granted the power to become Daedalus, the sea serpent of destruction. Using its massive tail, Chess swatted away the other two TransTechs and fired a hyper-powered water cannon at the Creator. All the while, the Yggdrasill Tree continued to transform into sand.

<No...> Arceus said, realizing what had happened. From the pile of sand behind Nicodemus Chess, Diabora emerged. It popped several of its joints and slowly approached Arceus.

<I'm... BACK!>