Sword of Darkness Part 18: The Sword of the Whole

by: I.M. Pikallo

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If you thought I was going to write a disclamer, or any means of dissing the concept in general, at the begining of this fic, your wrong. If you want to see what I have to say about it, scroll all the way to the bottom of the fic to see what I have to say to you.

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Armewgeddon held out the 4 parts of the Whole in front of him, The Sword of Darkness, The Sword of Light, The Ultimate Force, and Lucifer's Key. To my horror, the four began to circle around Armewgeddon. As he thrust his hands into the air, he screamed out, "FOUR BECOME ONE!" Suddenly Lucifer's Key appeared in his hand, on top of that fell the Ultimate Force sword forming a central blade, on the outer edges appeared the Swords of Darkness and Light piviting at a 45 degree angle from Lucifer's Key. The end result was what looked like a huge version of my own sword. To finish it off, Armewgeddon swung his new weapon around a few times to test it.

"Uh, maybe we should just run away, maybe even reach a new level of our species, you know an Ultra-Human state or something, JUST NOT STAY HERE!" Shane was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown when I slapped him in the back of the head, "Snap out of it. If we stay, yeah chances are, we'll die. If we run, he will find us and kill us anyway, he knows we are the ones destined to beat him." Needless to say, both Mac and Shane looked at me real weird. "Okay, I found a thing that said something to the effect of 'Four heros will emerge, at the eve of destruction. On one side, four parts of a greater whole, on the other, four warriors who are the only hope of humanity's survival.' Well, there are four swords in that weapon our friend has over there, and...there were four of us. It just led me to believe we were the ones to beat him." Mac looked up at the sky, "Fragraham's deat makes you think otherwise?" Before any of us could answer, Armewgeddon attacked, throwing us each to different corners of what was left of the arena.

Shane was the one most noticably weapon-less, so of course he was the first to get attacked full on. As I watched, I knew I had to help in some way. I reached behind my back and grabbed my saber, I went to Ultimate Chosen One and threw it as fast as I could to Shane screaming, "CATCH!" Reaching out with the Force, Shane snatched the saber out of the air and blocked the Sword as best he could. Getting an idea, Shane used the command com for a saber transformation, "DIMENSIONAL SABER: FOLDING CHAIR!" After a few seconds, the single handle became a full folding chair, ultimate wrestling weapon. Shane then appeared behind Armegeddon, drew back the chair above his head, and brought it down as hard as he could screaming, "FOR THE ROYALTY!" I rolled my eyes thinking, "Okay, Inferno. Sheesh, I'd kill Frag for starting this Beast Wars theme if he was still alive." But suddenly Armewgeddon faltered, the chair was actually doing damage! Shane took a cue and became Mega-Fighter. With his increased fighting prowess, he inflicted even more damage. Unfortunatly he did a little victory dance and got creamed by only the power radiating from the Sword. Mac was as stunned as I was, but I decided to continue with the theme we were on. Clearing my throat, I did a perfect Megatron impersonation, "Waspinator, salvage Inferno." Mac looked confused for a moment, but understood. He flew off mumbling, "Oh sure, Inferno get smashed, Waspinator salvage. Waspinator get smashed, nobody salvage. Why universe hate Waspinator?"

After Mac got to Shane and did his best to help Shane, I was getting pissed off royaly. I was about to charge, but then realized I had no sword, and GUN had allready proven useless. Mac noticed my predicament, but I shook my head "no" to him throwing my saber back, no sense yo-yoing that one weapon all day. "Okay, gotta concentrate. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" After concentrating my energy for a few seconds, I clenched my right fist and slowly a blade grew out of it. After a few minutes, I had another Blade of the Chosen One. Lunging at Armewgeddon, I actually got a hit in on him, apparently he lost his psychic powers when he evolved. Unfortunalty, a second attempt proved useless, he must has have gotten ticked and used his rage the launch me across the room. Mac procedded to attack Armewgeddon while I suddenly got an idea, "Kouesi, is it true that Jurian trees can merge with other ships?" I instantly heard her voice in my head, "Well, yes, it is possible. What are you thinking Sir Ray?" A smile creeped on my face as I explained, "I am going to command Roam to form into a Jurian ship, then you need to fly your ship form up to him and merge with him while in that form. Now I warn you, Roam is powered by the Vortex." She seemed confused, "What diference does that make?" "Well, you may not be used to that much power, so I just didn't want you to get scarred if that power was too much for you at first." Kouesi seemed to understand, at least that is what feeling I was getting from her. "Okay, ROAM: DIMENSIONAL SHIFT TO JURIAN TREE!" Up in space, Roam went through his molecular change into what I specified. At that same time, Kouesi flew up to him. After Roam finished his change, Kouesi merged with him, forming a new ship entirly. This ship had all the powers of a Vortex-based vehicle, but had the sybiatic realtionship with me that Kouesi did. "Is this satisfactory Sir Ray," the voice said in my head. "Sure is Kouesi, this is just what I want."

Mac was getting wasted by Armewgeddon, so I intervened by grabbing Mac and running like mad. "Mac, why don't you have a weapon?" "I don't need a weapon, it would lower my attack abilities." I rolled my eyes but didn't say anything, "Stay here I have a plan." I stood up and held out my blaster, "Dimensional Blaster: Wing 0's Buster Cannon!" Suddenly my pistol sized gun became Wing 0's double beam cannon. I then looked up into the sky, exactly where Kouesi/Roam was positioned. "Dimensional Symbiance: WING 0!" I felt my body change as my ship's sybiatic relationship with me caused me to change with it. I was now Wing 0.

Armewgeddon looked at my new form, and his mouth dropped, "What the...?" The only answer was the sound of my cannon's blast. However, instead of dodging, or knocking it back at me, Armewgeddon actually took the blast head on, and plowed right through it. I was more able to dodge his attacks thanks to the Zero system, but I was still unable to do any harm to him, "Well, you can't blame a guy for trying, can you?" Mac and Shane still appeared to be in a state of shock as to what I just done, but they seemed to agree with the idea that we needed to try every trick in our, and everybody elses, books.

"RAY! WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO?" That was the first thing I heard from Shane in a good long while. I didn't answer for a few seconds, because the Sword of the Whole had cut through my gun. After a few more attacks, I was unable to keep my conciouse thoughts on maintaining my form and I reverted back. As Armewgeddon swung the finishing blow on me, I quickly brought my own sword to bear. Swing after swing, attack after attack, the battle raged on for hours between the two of us. Finally Armewgeddon got sick of it and powered up both himself and the Sword to their max. I blocked with my sword, redirected the auxillary blades to help intercept the attack, but no matter what I did, I was still being pushed back. I felt a slight tingle in my arm, that is when I noticed that my sword was cracking under the pressure, if I didn't do something fast, I was a goner.

Shane saw it coming first, he transformed into Fighter again, but he wasn't fast enough. Just as I was about to try something, my sword shattered and the Sword of the Whole sliced clean through me. But instead of dieing, I was cut into two beings, Human Ray and Vortex Ray. Vortex Ray flew off into the Vortex into regions unknown. I let loose all of my rage and screamed, "I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!" But nothing happened. I screamed out, "ULTIMATE CHOSEN ONE!" But again, nothing happened. I was a normal human again, the thing I had been waiting for from the time I first became the Chosen One. But this was not how I wanted it to happen. Armewgeddon didn't strike a final blow, no, he was too evil for that. He opened a portal behind me and pushed me in, sending me to places unkown to even him.

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Okay, for all of you who wanted my dislcamer, here it is:

Nah, never mind. send all flames, viruses, comments, and what-not to deez@nutz.com

And yes, I know I too, have for all intentional purposes killed my character.