Ulamog was in the ocean recovering at a fast pace. But the abrupt time it left would cost it. The lack of guards that were abandoned, would cost it.
"Bwwwooom!" A large Rift tore open from Azul ripping the plane open. The side was black and red from Chaos feeding into it. His form of Obelisk slowly burning away. Mileuda, Tietra, Candace, Dark Samus, Mega Man X, Samus, Axel, and Colonel shot pass him. Lettie tried to come through when he sent her back.
"No, help stabilize there. You are to injured and need to finish taking the power of Kozilek apart." Azul voice was stern as he spoke. "They need you."
"Brother stop! You are way more injured than me." Lettie screamed. She could feel the pain from the bond. The others may not be paying attention to it, but she was. Azul's body was burning a part from the spell backlash. "At least take Skarlet back into you!"
"No. I refuse to let her leave you. Right now, you need it more. I will get this done and finish up to get back. We are almost done." A look of pain flashed across his face. Azul couldnt keep the Rift open longer for any more troops. "That is all I can do!"
"Fwish!" Lettie had threw an item forward. It was the Millenium Spellbook. She did a little whisper to Azul telling him to place a Pull inside it for help.
Azul drooped his Obelisk form and slipped in. The others all ready fighting. He did as she said and used a High Pull on it. The Millenium Spellbok started to glow and took the form of a person. It was immediately swallowed by Azul's Millenium Eye.
System: Conditions met.. reuires additional Pulls for power... User has offered Medium Pull x3. Target locked.. Yu-Gi-Oh Gx Tag Force.. Abidos the Third.. Tania The Amazon... Camula The Vampire.
As the three appeared, Azul had no time for pleasantries. He thought what he needed from them. And the obeyed in an instant. Cards floated around as they summoned creatures to go and Attack Ulamog.
"Ughh!" Azul felt his hearts seize up for a second. He couldn't take another step as he was forced to recover. 'Damn it! Dman it! I am going to kill them!' As rage started to cloud his thoughts, Onyx lifted from his body.
"Stop! Not your fault!" She yelled sternly. She held Azul's face trying to pull him from the brink. "Wait and recover. Then go in and fight! Pushing to hard!" Seeing her words sink in, she looked back at the forces fighting. It would have to be enough.
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Confrontation-
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Lettie stared in anger. But not at Azul. At those nearby. She was ready to rip apart the members of Gatewatch. From the looks of the Thessia Sisters minus Onyx, Torbin, Ashley, and Bishop, they wanted to do the same.
Alita and Nicol Bolas stood forward stopping them. Work needed to be done to stabilize the Plane. Ulamog had done a number before they caught up with him. Jaina also arrived but stood to the side in wait. She rather find out everything first before doing anything else.
"Move, now!" Aurora said. Her biotics firing on all cylinders. Each of her sisters at the ready to fight with her. The other Ardat Yakshi getting ready as well for a bitter fight. "If they would not have interfered, this would have gone smoother!"
"You do not know that." Alita shook her head in disapproval. She rather they did not kill so many Pillars. 'Who whispered these lies to them?'
"Then, I guess we are going have to get rid of you then." Ruby sneered. Behind her, a Rift forcefully opened summoning her Howling Banshees.
"I think you are right sister." Amethyst and Sapphire summoning Swooping Hawks to there side. Not wanting to get left out, Emerald summoned a ton of Warp Spiders. Her entire point stash was spent on them.
"We can not allow this to happen." Nicol Bolas said. His forces suffered the backlash as well from the spell. Most of them laid on the ground out cold.
"I believe we can help." A voice came from the surroundings. Ice started to form and created a Nether Realm Portal. Bai Han walked out first. Followed by a 1,000,000 Lin Kuei. "By order of the Khan, you are to stand down."
"Easy there Hotshot. We will deal with them later." Azul that dealt with Emrakul came out. Unlike his forces, he was stopped before entering the Mass Effect Relay. A powerful temporal distortion that made him stay in place. "We need to put down the riots and head back to help the others. Some one is trying to undo what we have done already." Azul washed his forces that were hostile in his Pather Power to give them a general feel of how major it was.
Reluctantly they agreed. He also found out what happened. But it would have to wait till later. To much time and resources, and effort went into this. Sindel took command of the forces and spread out. Aurora just stood by in case anything else happened. Her eyes drifted to Jaina, she would not forget that she stood by and did nothing.
"The fighting has been long here. To long. Lasted longer than the other one." Aurora moved up to cup Azul's face. "You look tired. More than normal. Fun later to make up for it yes?"
"Heh, you sound a little like Mileuda." His gloves retracted as he cupped her face back. The Ardat Yakshi behind felt an enormous amount of pleasure from watching this. Knowing that his affections didnt diminish because of the others eased fears. They were still getting use to the way Rifts worked. "When this is over.. hope you're ready?"
"Ready for what?" Ruby asked. Emerald had a twinkle in her eye. She was hoping it was what she thought.
"A Dark Party. Emerald can share the details with you."
"Yesss!" Emerald jumped up in a cheer. "Get ready for a pleasure coma! Let's get this done at once. The faster we can go!" She shot off with her troops. Her sisters running after to find out what was going on.
"Did I miss something?" Aurora asked still confused by Azul.
"It is something I only will do with the Ardat Yakshi. Something that alleviates one of the restrictions I have for you all and myself. It is not mandatory of course. The idea came from something the Turians do before missions. In this case, after missions."
"Give me a hint." Aurora asked before she got ready to leave.
"Hotshot, think of the fact I am a Everchosen of chaos. That should help. If not, think of what Slaanesh represents." Aurora froze for a second before a smile formed up. "Glad you understand." She left leaving the Lin Kuei Honorguard lead by Bai Han with Azul. They walked over to the Gate Watch side togethor.
"It was not meant to go like this." Jace said staring. Something about the Azul before him, unnerved him greatly. 'He seems Sinister, but carefree.'
"So tell me, why the betrayal. Answer me that then."
"The plan was to much. Sacrificing a plane to help extract the power to seal them could not be done again. It did not work last time that well." Teferi said. "And we heard about how you planned to devour the Eldrazi to strengthen yourself. Despite the PLane following apart."
"We were not doing that here. As we said before. We were using the Plane's energy to seal it in place while the power of the Eldrazi was extracted." Gideon said.
"You destroying them as you planned would just get rid of the physical body. The essences or the soul as you would call it would just disperse out." Liliana said. "We were doing a different approach."
"Giving them more power than before each time they came back." Azul shook his head saying to them. "They have no problem waiting as you have seen before. The reverse would feed all the mana back into the Plane itself. Making it for the place would be stronger and more vibrant than before. Much harder for something like this to happen again."
"We did not know that. From what we could see, you were amassing an army to conquer." Nahiri said. She was not so sure of the information she received now."
"Nope. Besides stabilizing the few places we have operated in, we plan on leaving. And I mean leaving." Azul's eyes lit up with raw power. "What ever happens hereafter our mission is done, no longer concerns me."
"Wait Azul!" Alita wanted to plead to him.
"No. People only get so much from me. The trillions of lives that exist in this sustain multiplane know longer hold any sway to me personally." Azul shook his head made sure they understood. "What my people do after, is on them. I am taking the a few Planes with me. Good luck with your future threats. There will be many."
"Does our agreement still stand?" Liliana asked. Gideon had the same look on his face. "We did not assist and even tried to convince them. Twice for that matter!"
"Of course. I am of my word." Azul circled the power of his Nether World. A few balls of light formed as he purchased the souls from the System Shop a long time ago. The body of her brother was put into a Cleric. Gideon's friends were put into that of Fighter's and Valkyrie's. All forces from his Senate in his Nether World. "As you remember and know them. Run your spell or whatever you need to make sure."
"They are not undead but return in every way." Nicol Bolas said from up high. He gave them a second and third check and found nothing different. Beside's the concentrated Rune mark Azul placed on them of course. "I am sorry for my part I played in everything."
"Move out for we can get out of here." Bai Han said after some time. He then turned to Azul. "Do you want to take a break or go and help your other half?"
"Neither. We have work to do. I will have to trust in the others to do their part." Azul looked over to Jaina. "Hey head back to your base after checking the seals. Make sure everything is stable. Can you do that?"
"Yes of course." Jaina gripped her hands tightly. She didn't want to ask what happen to the souls of the other people he resurrected. Azul could feel her unease. "Dammit."
"I sent them on their way. They are in the afterlife Jaina." Azul looked at her curious. Did she really think he would keep them as animated dead. "Do you want the sword back to confirm?"
"No. I believe you. That was a lot of power you gave up."
"Yeah.. but I received something for it." Azul grinned at her. "Nothing for free. Yah know. Here, see for yourself." Stretching his Pather Pather power along with his biotics, Jaina experienced the events that happen.
"I.. am quite proud of you. Knowing you can resist the power after all this." She gave a full tooth smile at him. "I will have to show you just how much later." She teleported away with her Honor Guard.
"Hmmm, such problems." Azul mumbled. He touched the ground and pulled at the actual LeyLine. Sending small pulses through it. To say members of Gatewatch were shocked, they were gobsmacked frozen in fear. "The Plane is actually sick.. what an interesting thing that happened."
Tzeentch: This is so lovely. Ohh, thank you for checking this. I have so much to study now. Given time, I believe I can install Magical Leylines in none magical Places.
Nurgle: This is a lovely sickness of the magical type. I could not have done better myself. And that is saying something.
Azul was more suprised at what the two just said. After a few minutes, Azul put it down on the ground. It settled back in place unnoticeable by the untrained eye. The Plane of Iquatana would fall apart at this rate. Azul rocked his head side to side in thought. His decision was easy. Not his problem.
"Can you.. fix it?" Alita asked.
"Not can I fix it, but will I fix it." Azul smiled at her. "I will fix it, if Jace, Chandra, Nihiri, and.. Teferi kill themselves. Sound good?" He looked out amongst the people present.
"What the hell!?" Chandra roared. "You sick bastard!"
"What.. no really." Azul blinked at her innocently pointing at himself. "It needs a lot of.. sacrifices. yeah, that is a very appropriate word for it. Just kill yourself and let you blood drip on to the ground and..."
"This is not a game!" Gideon roared. Seeing Azul not changing his stance, he felt a sinking feeling in his stomach. "You are not kidding. This is an actual spell." Azul nodded.
"I say we carve them up." Ob Nixlus said. "For the good of the Plane and all."
"Sounds good to me." Kasumi said. She still felt pain from the spell interruption and just regain control again. She was next to Azul how helping soothe the pain. 'I wish I had some more Medi-Gel as well.' She was tapped out like several others.
"Who else can it be?" Jaya asked. She watched Azul had used a spell on several people. So did know the others available for this ritual. "You are not gonna say are you?"
"Nope." Azul smiled.
"We can find another way!" A few people walked up. It was Swift and Jane. Azul felt Tifa moving out already in the other Plane attacking Ulamog. "I am sure enough of us can use magic to keep any sacrifices from occurring."
"I wonder." Azul felt things turn a little hectic some where. "I am going to do something.. have fun here. Any of my people that are injured, feel free to go somewhere else. Gatewatch can handle this."
"Come with." Zelda said. She ran up to catch up. She then vanished into him. 'Whatis going on?'
'I have know idea. But it is weird as hell. I already sent a message to others to watch themselves.'
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-Battle against Ulamog-
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The new Companions fought well. The creatures they summoned put in work but things were not easy. Turri Island was terrible place to fight currently. Eldrazi Giants had to come around to get in the way. Camula Vampires made short work of some of them. Abidos mummified several of them to keep them from still fighting. Tania had her amazons keep anything from getting back up.
Ashley and Bishop took a bad hit from Ulamog and collapsed. Torbin and his squad kept watch over them. Mega Man X, Samus, Axel, and Colonel were bogged down. They couldn't get back to any real damage. So they had to settle for supporting fire.
Candace did her best to keep Ashley and Bishop in the hear and now. Dark Samus, Tietra, and Mileuda kept Ulamog worn down. But only half his health remaining. However, a large tidal wave was summoned and about to take out the castle.
"Shit!" Dark Samus knew she couldn't take at that wave. Neither could the others. "What the hell is he doing!?" She yelled as Azul, flew over. "Dammit!"
"Keep attacking Ulamog!" Mileuda ordered. "He knows what he is doing!" Gritting their teeth they did so. 'I swear if he dies..'
"Ha.. ha.. I am still so tired.." Azul pulled on his magic available and attacked. But not to really destoy. But to guide. "Rain of Kindness!" the Tidal wave broke apart a little. He used it to help heal his forces down below. "Biotic Shielding! Misty Fist!" Activating them both, the barrier formed out of water. Azul spread it out to push against the tidal wave. It was a desperate move that he knew wouldn't work.
"Chink!" The Biotic shield shattered. The energy was sent into his forces as well as himself. However, the Tidal Wave was still coming. The power was enough however.
"Teleport!" Azul target them and sent them away. Ariel was in the water and picked them up. Before Azul could concentrate enough to move, he was swept away. "Guuk!" The wave carried him across and slammed him into the castle.
Health - 431
Health - 324
System: Constitution Check Auto Fail
The force battered his body knocking him down to 0. The Dragoon ability triggered but Azul was still out of luck. For in the Tidal Wave were a few Eldrazi. They flung him out of the water into the air. Ulamog was waiting for him.
"Bam!" Azul was smashed back into the castle. Hitting the castle a second time beaten and mangled.
Health -323
Health -221
Health -421
"Kuff!" Azul coughed up blood and felt this would be the end soon.
System: Biotic Armored Body II triggered. D.G. cells have found sacrifices. Reaper Node activated in conjunction.
Biomechanical arms shot from Azul's body along with arms made of Biotic energy. The Giant's all over the place were grabbed and dragged towards Azul. They pierced the hard magic stone of the castle and grabbed the bones within.
Ulamog sent a few tentacles his way. Azul's Overlord arms appeared and ripped them out of the air. With a pull, they were ripped off. They withered as the Biotic arms drained them to dust.
"Raaaaaahhhhh!" Ulamog let loose a sickening howl. But Azul was not done reviving. His body lifted up like a spider with the arms moving out. Not even under his control, the Dark Andromeda Chains appeared and dug into Ulamog. "Raaaah!" It s claws swung down attacking the chains trying to rench them free.
"Holy .... shit.." Ashley mumbled. Ariel had pulled them far away. Tietra, Mieluda, and Dark Samus had pulled over to them. They all felt the screaming from Azul in their minds to get away at all costs. "He.. is eating .. it.. I think i am going to be sick."
"I wonder if it is tasty?" Camula mumbled. Tania gave her a weird look. "What? I am a vampire."
"Still..." Tania couldn;t tear her eyes away.
"It is afrais.. of Azul. It.. doesn't want to be eaten." Tifa hugged herself. She couldn't feel Azul. Only the Biotic strands from Ulamog could be felt. "Do.. do we stop him..?"
"No." Dark Samus answered. "We let him do this. Azul has been ready to leave here for awhile. This is the way to do it."
Minus most of it's arms and tentacles, Ulamog landed in the water on its back. Azul's body finally restored itself. He was back in a way. Anger like he never felt before course through him.
"I am going to enjoy this.. in a very deep and perverted way.." Azul turned into Bahamut. Wings beating powerfully as he hovered. "I hate.. Eldrazi.. so fucking much... Now.. you made me part Eldrazi.. you have know idea how sick I feel from this.."
Azul started swinging down at Ulamog. His Flame Fist burning away the water of the vast ocean with each swing. The power of Chaos infused in each blow. With each strike, a wave of biotic anger flowed throughout the Plane.
It continued to build up creating a vast Maelstrom. The area started to turn as his blows started to break apart the Plane. The Eldrazi wanted Azul lead them. Feeling that he was a kindred spirit. On a small scale.. it was right. But he declined and continued to attack.
The body long since broken was still hit. Azul's Flame fist imbued by the Chaos Gods also ripped apart the psyche of Ulamog. They feast on it in fervor, for it was a delicious treat a creature that caused so much suffering to a World, as well as so much suffering to Azul. The Eldrazi were to embedded in the place.
"Woosh!" Azul waved his hand and sent the others through the Relay. His body returned to normal before switching to Obelisk the Tormentor. Hands digging deep into the core of the Plane. With a grab, he tore out the Leyline, as well as suck in the World Shard from the Plane. It couldn't resist him in its current state.
"Sching!" Azul destroyed the Plane after destroying the core. In a flash, it burned away. Floating in the Void, as his Pather power went to work. Azul resisted the pull to keep the World Shard and the Leyline for himself, but he resisted.
The Plane reformed. It was different, and no longer had rushing waters. The ocean was calm with a fair amount of land mass. Azul released the World Shard and the Leyline back in place. A few giants were created after Azul provided mana to the World Shard, it created a few to inhabit the place. Less aggression of course.
Azul returned back and looked at his forces and Gatewatch. The clean up was finished as far as he could tell. They looked at him oddly though. Azul was not for beating around the bush.
"Haaa, what is it?"
"Are you ok?" Lettie asked outright. She felt the anger through the link and worried if Azul would come back different. He looked visibly the same. "Ready to go?"
"I am.. ok. Just have to process everything." Azul said straight. Hilda was running checks to make sure things didn't change. From what she could tell, they wouldn't know till they left. Once his System Functions were all back and he fused with his other self. "Gather the forces that are leaving. The moment my other half comes back, I am leaving. Anyone that wants to stay cane do so obviously."
"Defintely you there." Lettie pulled him a hug and felt the Bond pulse. 'Just need a hug, big softie.'
"Azul.. this Plane is sick. We are trying to figure out a way to heal it." Tifa said. She couldn't really look him in the eye after watching him eat an Eldrazi. She was scared. The anger she felt was extremely volatile. "Care to help?"
"Hmmm?" Azul looked down and could tell it was pretty bad. Receiving the information from the others that were, here he shook his head. "Sacrifice a few idiots and things will be fine. or give it pieces of other Planes to patch it. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't."
When he said pieces, he was meaning World Shards.
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-Other Azul-
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Azul had found the signature of the other Pather. It was because of her usuing her power. As well as the Skull throne used. She may be a master of the Demon Khorne, but she didn't master the other Chaos Gods or even acquire them. She failed at trying to be the Everchosen of Chaos.
"She is gone already.. ah well." Azul didn't touch anything in the room but left an envelope with a message. "Such a terrible thing she is doing. Almost makes me look like a saint."
"Ding!" Azul planeswalked away. The moment his traces was gone, a part of the wall turned into a person. The User was there but made no move against Azul. Wanting to try and see him but getting nothing as he was shrouded somehow. Zelda did good work.
"Haaa, difficult. It seems my use, using Gatewatch didn't work. Things are getting to difficult here." She tapped her screen sending a message to her forces to Pull out. They were to head to the next World to harvest World Shards. She grabbed the envelope and read it. "That.. bastard!"
She ripped the letter up and vanished in anger. Only some of it was readable now. One part red for her to run. Whether a warning or helping, remained to be seen.
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Depature-
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Azul fused back with himself and felt better for it. All of the Mass effect Relays opened as his forces left in mass exodus. The ones who were not staying of course. Which was a lot. Jaina left a part of herself as well as the Thessia sisters. They joined her Alliance with a majority of the Ardat Yakshi that enjoyed the more primal aspect of the place.
Ashley, Tifa, Torbin, Bishop, Emma, Psylocke, Candace, Cassandra, Chari, Shalla, D'Vorah, Antiqua, Lettie left a part of themselves to remain as well. The Plane Valla was chosen by them to take over and keep an eye on things in conjuction with Jaina. The Followers gained from the World, would also reside their.
"Azul..." Swift called him with Chandra walking up. "I wanted to apologize about what happened." He just stared at her waiting. "Things just.. turned so bad and.."
"No need. What happened, happened." Azul shrugged. "You love this place, so it is something to consider. Good luck with everything."
"Wait!" Chandra reached to grab him. Azul deflected it with a small thought. "Jeez, a little rough aren't you?" She didn't think he smack her away so hard. "About Kaladesh.. can you not punish my Plane for what I did?"
"Ok." Azul blinked and started to walk.
"So you will help us still?"
"No. I just won't punish them. I will not get involved." Azul said over his shoulder. "That way nothing bad happens. Duh."
"Oh come on!?" Chandra heated up.
"Humph!" Azul snorted and hit her the members of Gatewatch with his Pather Rewrite power. Forcing them to collapse. "Disgusting sloppy work." He removed the Path to cause him problems. Finding it odd it looked like someone tampered with them already.
"Why you bastard!" Jace charged Azul feeling a mind crushing headache. He figured he did some kind of hypnosis on them. "You will pay for that!"
"Stop!" Ajani felt the clearest and tried to warn the young man. But it was to late. "Oh no."
"Schlick!" Black blades left Azul's body as Onyx attacked with a vengeance. She scratched Jace's body up and pierced the majority of his organs. She was about to clamp down on him with Chandra fired a Fireblast at her.
"Concussive Shot." Azul said calmly. His hand pointed up as a biotic missile smashed into her. Disfiguring her face as Azul, slid on the ground placing his foot on her chest. "Killing you... is not a problem currently.."
"Crack!" Azul's foot stomped down hard but missed. The ground caved in and spider web out. he didn't hold back.
"Shit man!" Swift had pulled her away. She looked up at Azul seeing the dark look in his eyes. But stars were inside as well. "Oh fuck me sideways!"
"Ok, just everyone chill." Jane said getting between them. She sent her thoughts to Azul's trying to get him to focus on her. He blinked his eyes returning to normal. "Ok, bad idea with tensions running high. Just let's all go our separate ways."
"My face..." Chandra couldn't feel the pain as someone injected her with something. "He mangled me!"
"You mangled yourself." Jaya said. "You were helped by him, just didn't know it. Would you mind doing me a favor and taking care of her face, if it is not to much trouble."
"Brrrrp!" Azul you heal spell as well an antitoxin to remove whatever was keeping her from feeling pain. He step through the Relay leaving Magic the Gathering at last. The screams of Chandra echoing in his ears. He know Alita would heal Jace, which was unfortunate. If he got through the pain, he would become a very powerful mental mage.
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Back in the Nether World-
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As everyone was glad to be back home, they moved out to various areas reflecting on what happened. Some had good memories. Some not so much with what happened last. Quite a few were heading to the Nether World Hospital for treatment.
"What the ever living fuck..." Azul stared at the screen at what was happening.
System: Title unlocked Human Eldrazi. Due to physical features, bone structure increased, blood quality increased, Indoctrination increase, overall magic increase.
System: Lunatic Quest completed. Rewards pending...
"Mutha... I am ..." Azul couldn't even form sentences. He took a minute and just sat down. He started meditating as he felt he would loose his mind if not. 'It will be ok, it will be ok.'
The Thessia sisters were to exhausted and could wait for the Party for later. Hearing from eh others what happened, they didn't really care about him eating an Eldrazi. Well, Sapphire did, but she was the odd one out anyway. Lettie stood by Azul with a few others.
The Biotic strands from them help Azul calm down quickly. They were glad to be back. Maldova was already talking with Hilda about what was going on. Nothing to bad but they did find out what happen to Cerebrus that were taken.