The Reality Vortex: Shadow Games

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"Sounds Perfect!" Coella agreed. She had no use for a wish, but seeing everyone get so amped up for the competition was all she needed to be excited about the new prize! Coella could only wonder what wishes the others had running through their minds! Once her cards were taken up by Lilith and shuffled around gracefully, the witch applauded happily. This was starting to look way more interesting than she hoped.

The rabbit listened on as Lilith explained the rest of the game, gasping as Kaiba revealed he had a backup plan for if she were to win the game. "Foreshame, Kaiba kid! And here I thought you wanted to have a good honest battle. I'm hurt." Coella's ears drooped down in disappointment, which was nothing but a dramatic display of fake sadness. "You'll have to pay for that by losing this game, I'm afraid!"

Coella looked down at her deck, eyeing her options. Everyone else seemed to be throwing out multiple cards at once so maybe that was a good strategy. But she didn't want to waste too many cards, so she scanned them carefully, looking for the ones that seemed strong. And it looked like Turles had made his way back to her! And what was this...? It seemed there was a card with two fighters in one card. How odd. Coella drew four cards and played them on the field. The lightning struck the field revealing the summoned cards to be Turles, Spider Chaos, Brachi, and finally, Spina and Bernkastel.

"Turtle Boy!! You've got a second chance on my team! Let's make it count this time, shall we?" Coella waved to Turles excited to see him again. "It's wonderful to meet the rest of you, of course. I'm counting on you all to win this for me~!"
 
As Asher was summoned to the battlefield, he gasped slightly and looked around. The last thing he remembered was defending himself against Malugia, with the help of Spina and Bernkastel. He looked around, confused.

“Huh? What happened? Did I die?” Asher asked no one in particular. He was surrounded by people he did not recognize, such as Kirito, Dielec, and Victor.

However, as his eyes scanned the arena, he noticed Turles, Spina, and Bernkastel.

“Hey! Did you guys get caught in that mess too? What’s going on—”

As Asher tried to ask a question, the rules of the brawl flooded his mind, and he quickly shook his head.

“Okay, scratch that! It seems we’re in an all-out brawl! Man, things keep getting weirder…”
 
As the lightning subsided from the arrival of the combatants, Cayde glanced around in confusion and shock like the other spawned fighters appearing the arena. He reached up, his metal eyebrows twitching at the struggle to comprehend and process all of the information flooding into his mind about the rules and situation of the duel.

He shook his head abruptly, widening his eyes with a loud and audible sigh while he looked around.

"Sheesh...what a day."

Cayde lifted his eyes towards Lilith's team, lifting his arm and waving one of his hand cannons towards Superman.

"Clark!! How about you kill me real quick so I can end up on your team?!"

The android paused, glancing around at the others briefly.

"Kindly and respectfully, of course."
 
"Huh?" Mooli kept her smile as she looked back at Lucifer with a curiously confused expression. "Well, you did make this a lot more fun for me... might be even more fun than the tournament. Sure, why not! It'd be cool to see what you can do too! Maybe I'll get double lucky and someone summons you?" she stated cheerfully, seemingly cavalier about the angel even though anyone who was aware of Lucifer's abilities knew he very clearly would outclass just about anyone.

"So that's the lineup for you three... alright, my turn!" Berserk giddily drew her five cards, sliding them across her disk's slots without bothering to first check her hand. On her side of the field appeared Vegetto, Avalon, Daiman, Michael Myers, and Malugia.

"Interesting combo here... even if I got stuck with Chicken Little over there," she remarked, eyeing Daiman. "You know what's up now, right? I wanna win a wish so you better not get yourselves killed in the next 5 minutes. Or else. I'll give you seven atomic wedgies in a row... and worse. You nerds better play nice if you don't want to get wrecked!" Berserk pointed between Avalon and Vegetto specifically.

I know Avalon's skills fairly well from the last couple of fights so this ought to be in the bag for me. I was hoping I'd pull Zenny earlier though... if I get him and Veg to work well enough I could probably take out Bowlcut Guy's team quick enough. If nothing else, Berserk still had a clear goal to make Kaiba fold first. Lucifer's reward was just icing on the cake after that.

The first thing Bernkastel did being summoned was breathe in deeply and pat herself down, seemingly not understanding what happened between her capture and being summoned. Then she locked her eyes on Spina. "You're still here. So we didn't die... but what's going on?" Glancing around as she processed the information, she noticed Coella standing behind them. Her expression was hard to read, glancing at her suspiciously for a moment. "So you're our player, is it? I don't know what your business with this man is, but if winning means we'll be free another day, I guess it's better not to be on the side of the one who captured me." She seemed ambivalent about the wishing proposition but it certainly was in the back of her mind. "Hm. Actually, this might not be so bad... Spina," Bernkastel dead-eyed Spina with a sly tilt of her head. "I was just thinking-- this is a perfect chance. We're on the same team right now, but if we're the last ones standing nobody will be in the way. We might get to have our fight after all. How about it?" It was a friendly invitation, but even with the serene, placid look on her face there was still a devious undertone of temptation.

"Wow, I feel pretty spry! I don't usually start out at this level," Mooli bounced on the heels of her feet excitedly though she didn't look very different despite being summoned at full power. Overhearing Cayde, she pointed towards Kirito heading toward their side of the field. "You don't even wanna try and fight on our team? But that's what makes it fun... well, if you want to, can you let that guy kill you first? I'm not really a fan of friendly fire. Oh! Almost forgot-- don't wanna trip, that would be embarrassing." Mooli casually grasped her tail and promptly stuffed it down the back of her baggy pants before giving her group two thumbs up. "Okay, now I'm ready!"
 
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Cayde raised his right mechanical eyebrow, eyeing Mooli once she spoke.

"Fight on the team? What do you me-"

The android immediately yelped; Kirito's blades having narrowly slashed past his body as he deftly summersaulted to the left to avoid the strikes. Drawing both of his hand cannons, Cayde rapidly fired shot after shot, a barrage of bullets flying at Kirito from the close proximity in an effort to provide some cover fire for his team with the aggressor already upon them.

"Crap! Ok I changed my mind! Guys, a little help here?!"

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Vegetto blinked as he rematerialized onto the battlefield, still powered up and maintaining his Ultra Instinct state. Yet despite the momentary brief time spent off the battlefield, his entire power that he had spent meticulously trying to waste earlier had completely returned. He grunted in annoyance, but his head lifted, noticing the new player he was summoned and fighting for was no longer Kaiba. A brief sigh of relief escaped the Potara fusion's lips, seeing as that he now fought for another Breaker in Beserk, and he scoffed lightly in amusement at her speech. His silver eyes turned first to his team, briefly acknowledging Avalon with a small nod before eyeing Malugia with a strong sense of concern.

He shook it off, opting to avoid speaking to the dark powerhouse that threatened to take over his body moments ago and glancing around towards the opposing team. Vegetto paused very briefly, watching Mooli stuff her tail into her baggy pants. His eyebrow twitched slightly in annoyance, but his silver eyes turned towards the sight of Cayde dodging the swings of Kirito and pulling out his guns. A small smirk rose on Vegetto's face, before shaking his head and looking over to Coella's team. His silver eyes narrowed with concern, spotting Spina, Bernkastel, Brachi and Turles all together.

"Ok...I don't really care much for a wish from Lucifer...but the last thing we want are the other players winning this game. That arrogant punk...this weird lady...and Lilith who serves Lucifer. So we need to beat out and kill the Breakers so they can materialize in Berserk's deck."

Vegetto paused.

"Coella's team is too powerful; we can't take on Spina and Bernkastel together...let alone Brachi and Turles backing them up."

His silver eyes turned towards Superman, the smirk rising at the thought of taking on his friend in glorious combat once again.

"But if we can beat Clark...we'll stand a much better chance against the others. Let's focus on taking him out first, and getting him on our team."

The silver fire flourished as Vegetto powered up, preparing to dash forward in anticipation of the climatic battle about to unfold.
 
Lilith’s Team – Clark, Asher, Dielec, Victor and Kirito

“Nice to meet you, Victor—hey wait! Don’t just rush in! They haven’t even started the countdown yet!” Clark saw Kirito instantly dash to Kaiba’s side with intention to attack. He couldn’t even respond to Cayde since he was preoccupied with dodging, despite his initial plea of being killed to switch teams.

“Oy vey…” He looks to his remaining teammates; Victor, Asher and Dielec. “Alright, um, look alive folks. Let’s try to stick together and work as a team. There’s a lot of tough opponents here, but if we play it smart, we can win this.” He turned to Vegetto and gave him a nod.

“Miss Lilith. Pleasure to working with you. Um, I don’t know much about Lucifer but … is there anything else we should know about? Like, what’s the player’s role?”

“Players can intervene in the battle by using status affiliations. Paralyzing, burn, freeze, sleep, and poison, to slow down other player’s monsters but only one monster at a time though. I forgot to mention that.” Lilith said.

"Oh, that's interesting!" Clark said. He noticed Asher, who was significantly younger than everyone else here. “Aren’t you a little young to be fighting, son?”

Kaiba’s Team – Vortex-Man, Mooli, Cayde, Bara and Omegamon

“That’s something you definitely should’ve mentioned?!” Kaiba was increasingly becoming annoyed. “One monster at a time… I can use it at critical moments.”

“So now you want to stay with our team?” Vortex-Man’s eyes glowed as energy around just few meters away from his pipuls. He fired the eye beams immediately to follow along with Cayde’s barrage of cannon fire to force the Kirito to back off. “Slow down, kid. We haven’t even started yet.”

“You’re a Saiyan too? You guys are way too common around here.” Omegamon asked Mooli. “I don’t mind… gives me experience for the future.” Omegamon turns to Kaiba. “Don’t know how I feel about winning for this guy… if I can get that wish.” The Digimon drew his sword in preparation for a battle.

Berserk’s Team – Vegetto, Avalon, Daiman, Michael Myers, and Malugia.

“Wha…” Daiman appeared on the filed for less than a second and he’s already distraught. His body shivered when Berserk spoke to him aggressively and threatened him to not get killed within the next five minutes. His anxiety building up fast due to Berserk’s high expectations, he tried to calm down by seeing any familiar faces. Sure, Mooli, the first person who was ever nice to him, was on the opposite team, but at least she’s there. He was more relaxed to see that neither Lucifer nor Zenta were present at all. “At least those creepy guys aren’t around.” He thought to himself. “C’mon, don’t be afraid. You’re in a team now—” Daiman looks to his teammates. Instantly, his anxiety spiked up even further. From his own eyes, he imagined each of his teammates more monstrous than they appeared to be. He feels so small compared to the other four that his voice was barely audible when he spoke. Worsen when he struggles to string his words together without mumbling.

“um hi, my name is Daiman—”

“We don’t need anyone else. Have you forgotten that I am a Creator God!? I can easily flatten everyone where with a mere snap with my fingers.” Malugia boasted. “I, alone, is enough.” He took notice of Coella’s team and scoffed at Vegetto’s confidence in their skills.

Coella’s Team – Turles, Spider Chaos, Brachi, Spina and Bernkastel.

“Tch…” Turles felt embarrassed for getting killed so fast from the first bout. “Uh, yeah. Thanks for the reminder.” He turns to the rest of his teammates. “Guess we’re working together.”

“Heck Yeah!!! WHOOOOOOO!!! LETS GOOOOOOO!” Spider-Chaos bounced around everyone. “I don’t know what the heck just happened. After I won my fight, I dashed off to beat any ugly mug I could find and bam. Lights out… and now I’m here.” Clenching his fists together. “Don’t worry Rabbit Witch! I’ll punch anyone that even looks at us funny!” Spider-Chaos noticed Turles looked at him and suddenly punched him.

Turles fell to the ground and cringed in pain. “The hell are you doing?!”

“Sorry, you looked at me funny!” Spider-Chaos chuckled.

In the meanwhile, as Bernkastel talked to Spina about the chance for them to finally battle, the old Saiyan stood there. It was like he froze in place. His eyes narrowed, but there was slight, panic-like movement. He started to sweat profusely, and his body wouldn’t stop twitching. “Y-yeah…” He finally answered. “Y-yeah…” His eyes locked onto Bernkastel as his fist clenched tightly because he felt that he was being ordered to do something. “Yeah.” He repeated the same word thrice.

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A hologram of one of Kaiba’s humanoid beasts appeared on the field. “It seems that all players have summoned all their monsters. Now that the rules have been properly explained. We will officially start this battle. May the best win!” He raised his hand in the air. “Ready for battle! 3. 2. 1. GO!” The hologram disappeared.

“Hmph! Go forth my team! If you want that stupid wish, you better fight with everything you got!” Kaiba shouted, trying to give them some morale. Even if everyone currently dislikes him.

Omegamon wasted no time and aimed the cannon from his right arm towards the ground. “Garuru Cannon!” He unleashed a powerful ice attack, covering the entire ground into ice reaching absolute zero temperatures in attempt to freeze anyone standing or forced them to jump away from the ground.

"Whoa!" Clark grabbed onto Asher before the young one and leaped into the air. "That was a close one!" A very brief noise riddled his ears, he turns to see Spider-Chaos already taking advantage of the situation.

"Here's come a Spidey...Punch!" Spider-Chaos shouted as he cocked his hand to unleashed a barrage of punches towards Clark and Asher.
 
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Victor says as he summons a group of ice elemental to absorb the effects of the Garuru Cannon near his team "One sadly can't keep the young form the battlefield and the fact we cot up in some kind of event does not help that. For now, all we can do is to win and hope that the ones wishing will free all of us."


Victor gets ready to summon once more.
 
As Kirito is barred from fighting, he leaps back to where he started, narrowly avoiding the ice blast.

"Damn, just give me back Asuna"

As the battle starts, he charges back in unleashing a rapid series of combos. fighting as he never fought before.

" Asuna, I will get you back" he swears as he attacks.
 
Berserk remained silent with Malugia's declaration, staring at him with a serious glare.... before it changed to a confused expression. "Who are you again? Whatever; if you're that powerful, then you can go up against Coella's team first. At least you'll make a good distraction for a bit." She listened intently to Vegetto's idea, squinting across the field to see who Clark was with. "Hm... not a bad idea. Alright, then I'll use my status effect turn and paralyze Clark! I'd normally go for sleep, but with how hard you guys can pack punches, it might be a waste on him. Now, what's your skill, little dude? You seem... honestly, you seem normal. Do you have something special up your sleeve?" She asked Daiman, leaning forward with a hand cupped around her ear even though she perfectly could hear him. "Don't be shy now-- I'm all ears."
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"That's wonderful. I feel more motivated now that Lucifer went and made a more palatable game of this." Bernkastel seemed in a more cheerful mood after switching gears and stifling such an unpleasant kneejerk reaction she had been stuck in. "Let's see... while we have the Spider on the offensive who should we go after next?"
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Mooli gave Cayde an easygoing grin. "See? It's better to stick together! At least so long as we don't accidentally give Kaiba a chance to summon someone so strong they may as well auto-win the match. That angel guy could be in anybody's deck right about now. Better not take a chance on that, yeah?" Hearing the cheers from Spider-chaos, Mooli waved her arms around and joined in with her own. "WOOOOOOOO, YEAH BUDDY! THAT'S WHAT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! Here I go!" Striking a silly pose with an outstretched leg before doing a small spin on her foot, Mooli near-instantly was engulfed in a red aura tinged with glittering specks of gold. Her fluffy mop of hair glowed with golden energy, the layers stiffening up into a spiky sideswept faux hawk. Her hair was now mostly crimson with the front layers sporting the golden color, and her expression was much more focused than before, although it still gave a playful attitude. To assist Victor, Mooli went on the defensive and delivered an array of small energy blasts from her fingertips to narrow Kirito's range of movement as he approached once more.
 
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