Oh yeah I DESPISE bad Crossovers, I thought I heard it all until I drew this job. Sailor Moon in DC Comics Epic ‘Kingdom Come’…that took the cake. My job is to sever this crossover from the canon universe, something the friggin author should have done WAY earlier! But NO…they had to try and change canon…oh by the way that’s me over there in the silver armor getting my ass handed to me by the Scouts. Ouch… don’t let the frilly costumes fool you those girls can HIT >_<

Those chicks were ALL over me, I could handle them one at a time, but damn they rushed me all at once. Ugh the damn author must have seen me coming and decided to really bend the rules by having her characters attack me. I’m guessing she self inserted herself as Sailor Moon, damn I gotta get to her before it’s too late! Well thank goodness I’m prepped…. This character of mine has a few surprises in store…

Okay they are down for now…if I understand this right the author here wants to have her character do the big sacrifice for the world instead of Captain Marvel. If she succeeds in changing canon it’s gonna have a huge ripple effect in any and all Kingdom Come Realms. So I have to sever the author’s plans from the canon. Normally not too tough, but I know this Realm like the back of my hand, in less than three minutes this area is toast, that gives me three minutes to fix this and get the hell out before it all goes boom in a big way. No pressure e_e…

It takes me about a minute to locate ‘ground zero’, yup there’s Superman giving his speech to Marvel asking him to choose if the humans or the super powered humans live to see tomorrow. There he goes to stop the nuke that the United Nations sent to kill all the super powered humans killing each other out here. Okay she should be around here…. BINGO there she is, tricked out like the Moon Princess of all things, okay time for my next hat trick.

I pull out what is known as a Splitter Bomb. This is the last resort for a mission like this. When this puppy goes off anything that is non-canon is ripped out of the canon realm and shunted into it’s own realm, copies are made of any canon characters needed to keep the new realm alive. The draw back is that if something goes wrong anything non-canon is destroyed, that includes yours truly. But with the two-minute warning bell screaming in my ear I have no choice. Marvel has already taken off making a beeline for Superman while I’m racing for Sailor Gal over there.

What a fricking time for a call from HQ! I ignore it for now, Marvel has just knocked Superman to earth and is racing for the rapidly falling nuke…Sailor Chick is moving to intercept… it’s now or never…

The bolt hits me right in the chest and knocks the wind out of me, but it’s too late my gear is telling me that the Splitter is hot and about to blow! A second later the most god awful tearing sound fills the air as this one realm is forced to become two. There is no way I’m joining the Sailor Scouts in their realm so I lock onto the nearest canon character and ride the split out. Lordy I hate this, it’s like being turned inside out and back…several times. When I get my senses back I note three things in rapid order.

One, my com is still buzzing in my ear.

Two I’m still in free fall and my character’s armor is NOT responding.

Three…I hear Marvel…

I know what that means, that nuke is gonna get set off really quick, which translates into less than like two nanoseconds I have get the hell out or else I’m eradicated atomic ash. I hit my com on and use my Slide Jump system to lock onto the signal and get my ass back to HQ… Just as I can feel the atomic fire licking at my toes I hear who was trying to call me >_<

It’s my boss… >_< Gods when I land it’s gonna suck.

I get the distinct impression that I made a rather grand entrance, I can tell by the carpet that I am face first on that I just landed in Winter’s office. Winter is one of the big guns here in the Literary Guardians Corps, and what are they you may ask? Well in simple terms, consider us the Writers Cops, specifically Fan Fiction Writers, there’s more to what we do…but that should do for now at least. Our job is to keep everything straight and somewhat consistent between the realms, that includes comics, books, novels, and fan-fiction. If it’s been written down...it has a realm and we have to keep an eye on it >_<. Trust me when I say it’s not easy, Guardians are usually culled from various Fan Fiction Writers, ones that have a good respect for the canon realms and good understanding of said realms… Me? I’m Guardian Second Class ShadowWing…or SW for short and I’ve had a really bad day that’s about to get worse I just know it.

I slowly get to my feet and decided that though this character’s armor is way cool, it’s a little too cumbersome for in here (Winter’s office isn’t THAT big). A quick moment of focus and the implant kicks in a BAM, I’m back to normal. Normal for me is a 5’ 3", 120-pound chick with brown hair, brown eyes, glasses and all black clothing…except for the pair of red driving gloves. Do yourself a favor and don’t ask okay?

Oh hell, remember what I said about a bad day getting worse? Well the ONLY Realm that could possibly warrant trying to contact me in the middle of a hairy crossover mission is the Chaos Comics Realm. For some bizarre reason I can understand that joint and move around it as if I was born there. Some Guardians come out twitching and drooling after a mission in that place. Hell many writers don’t touch the place with a 10-foot pole, uberpowerful characters characters that seem evil on the surface, but are actually the good guys and visa versa. Underneath all the mayhem and the destruction on the surface lies an eerie order to it all. One small event can have a domino effect and result into something huge. Man it’s…well…Chaos!

Winter sighed and motioned to where two others were standing in the room, one was a robot of some type the other was an 18-year-old kid with red hair and glasses I gave them a nod as Winter continued on.

Okay time to SERIOUSLY pass out here. It’s not a common occurrence to see a GG in a LG Realm, but it happens. It’s mostly to return little lost characters back to the Realms after some whacked out GM decides to have a little fun and shunts them to a Game System. Then the GG’s fish them out and send them home…end of story. But now we have a GG doing the nabbing and the dumping, since a GG shunting characters isn’t too unusual, no alarms were being raised. Until a Chaos Character runs amuck in like Middle Earth >_<.

Winter got really uncomfortable here. The GG’s and the LG’s didn’t work together for political reasons; okay we seriously disliked each other. Anyway a rogue GG wasn’t our problem, unless said GG made it our business; even then they have free reign in the realms. So why are they calling in the one LG that is the number one expert on the Chaos Realms?

Okay it was serious freak out time, the picture was of a Chaos Realm vampire called Chastity Marks, a killer yes, but she’s subtler than say Purgatori or Evil Ernie. This couldn’t be the Canon Chastity…I PRAYED it wasn’t the canon version…

No need for Winter to go any further! If canon character or realm shifts it can cause a chain reaction, realms could vanish overnight and no way to stop it. Chaos Realm wasn’t too bad, not too many off shoots there. But if this guy headed for some of the larger Realms, DC, Marvel, Tolkien, shit this was huge…

The red head…Ethan that was standing next to EDG looked like he was about to blow up when I said that.

Well I’m not gonna go into too many details but I found out that Ethan had a similar implant to the one that allows me to physically shift from character to character. How did I come to this conclusion? Something about a Shadowrun Street Samurai and a Psionic Super Heroine suddenly squaring off in the middle of Winter’s office might have had something to do with it >_<…

He was ready to gut me I was ready to TK him through a wall then Winter tackled me and EDG dragged Ethan out of the room. Once they were out of the room Winter let me go and I was bracing myself for a ROYAL ass chewing. Shifting like that is a HUGE no-no. Especially given the very good chance that the guy I just threatened was going to be tagging along with me for this sojourn into the Chaos Realm.

I take the file and made a rapid exit out of there, as I left I noted that EDG and Ethan were outside the door still. I didn’t look directly at them but I did take note that Ethan was no longer a Street Samurai and appeared to have the wind taken out of his sails. I didn’t have time for any kind of chat so I hauled my tail toward the barracks.

Once back in my quarters I throw my jacket and gear into a chair and crashed into my bed. Oh I was STILL pissed. It was a close race to see what was pissing me off more, Ethan’s little outburst or myself for over reacting the way I did back there. I’m usually quite calm, but piss me off and man I could be a real bitch. I lean back and forced myself to relax; I did set my alarm to wake me up in two hours so I could get ready for this little mission. Evidently I’m more tired than angry because the next thing I know the damn alarm is going off.

I haul my ass out of the bed and take a quick shower. As soon as I am nicely awake I read the files that Winter gave me, good old Winter he gave me data not only on the Rogue GG but on my soon to be partner Ethan Rice. One little detail jumps out at me like a sore thumb, it’s listed in the file that his sister is ‘Chastity Marks’ an offshoot of the Canon Chastity that was running amuck in the Shadowrun System.

I finally got to the weapons department I move past most of the area and make my way to the back. Since I have a Character Implant I can physically become any character that I created, complete with powers, skills and weapons. The one I shifted into back at Winter’s office was my primary character, ShadowWing…what can I say? I was having a Mary Sue moment when I made her. She is mostly based in the DC Comics universe, a high-level psionic heroine with lots of detective skills. She comes in handy in lots of places. Anyway there’s a steel door in the bark of the Weapons Department with a data pad and a palm scanner next to it. I tap in a pass code number and lay my hand on the scanner when prompted. Seconds later my ID is verified and the door slides open. Inside in a small factory set up, on one side behind a huge bullet proof clear shield is several techs in white coats assembling and running scans on Splitter Bombs. Splitters are very, very dangerous, so much so that only Literary Guardians of Second Class and up are permitted to carry and use them. And that’s only after about a month of training, screening and testing. Even then there’s a ton of paper work to use and fill out concerning them.

As I said Splitters are used to sever a non-canon characters and events from canon and into its own realm, they have to detonate at the right point and the right time for a clean split. Wrong point at the wrong time? Well the canon will survive, but everything else won’t, including any Guardians that happen to be in the area, even if done correctly, there’s a chance that you could get yourself killed if you don’t know how to react.

So I head for a counter on the other side of the room where there is one female android with about six arms, working paper work with two, a computer console with another two and handing me a clipboard and a pen with the last two.

Uh…as you can tell Trinidad is a real big talker. I pull out the Splitter Bomb I still have with me and placed it on the counter. Trinidad picks it up and scans it’s serial number while fill out the paper work on how and when I used the other bomb in the KC Realm, state the results of that bomb and the request to get a second Splitter. All goes well and soon I’m walking out with two Splitter Bombs and I’m about to head for the main jump pad when I’m waylaid by a rather determined tech… e_e Or to be more specific my JS System is waylaid by a rather determined tech.

Jack was a Guardian who gave up his fieldwork to work in our weapons and tech department. Rumored to be able to fix a JS or anything else in practically no time. He also had another talent e_e…

Ahem e_e… After a quick detour I got myself back to the Main Pad in time. Thankfully only Ethan is there, I won’t have to play all goody two shoes with him since Winter is not breathing down my neck. I can clear the air with him and get going. I hope at least.

Riiight, I think that having Chastity Marks for a sister has made this guy a little on the pro-bloodsucker side. Not that I can blame him, Chastity is a cool character, and having her for a sister would be kick ass, I’m almost envious. But any way I call up a standard Chaos Realm vampire from my Implants and though I look pretty much the same I have no pulse and paler skin. Soon Ethan is also sporting a skin tone a few shades lighter than healthy and we prep to jump. EDG and Winter are late and frankly I am so not in the mood for the lecture about our behavior. Nether is Ethan it seems since he is fiddling with his Jaunt System, the GG equivalent to our Jump Slide Systems.

In less than a second we are no longer in LGHQ. We are smack dab in the middle of Manhattan Island. Or what’s left of it, Evil Ernie didn’t leave that much behind, hell even the undead have troubles living in the Big Apple these days. Quite frankly it looks like an A-Bomb hit the island, but it really was a satellite. It was remote controlling a suit that was to destroy Evil…kinda backfired and Evil caused the satellite to crash. Ouch, very few of the skyscrapers are left, you can see what is left of the Statue of Liberty in the harbor. Like I said nothing, living or undead, sticks around here. It’s a good spot to land and get your bearings though…

Smart kid…he’s wants a Chaos Realm 101…too bad this realm is not conductive to quick recaps and the such…but I’ll give it a shot.

Okay THAT I have to disagree with in relation to this realm! The minds behind Chaos built this world for the sole purpose to destroy it…strange I know…but hey their creations their rules. In my opinion things got wackier AFTER the reboot…but that’s a whole other story >_<

While he was working to track down the rogue Guardian, I kept an eye out. Though the city was practically deserted…it would just be our luck to run into a pack of Dead Onez. I kinda hoped he wasn’t in this city at least…New York these days was rather depressing to say the least >_< After about five minutes Ethan finally got a lock on the players in this madness.

One quick jump later and we are no longer in the ruins of New York City, but the White Chapel District of London England. We are both back to normal mode and keeping an eye out…the coordinates that Ethan relayed to me should have placed us close to where that strange signal was located. I was seriously considering going into my psion mode. Being a mind reader would be very helpful in picking up anybody who might be sneaking around here.

No sooner were the words out of his mouth then a figure emerged out of the shadows where he indicated. A petite red head came out, I knew her on sight…that was Chastity Marks. But what the hell was she doing here? If that was Canon Chastity, she SHOULD be in Paris filming a movie…not here in London. Ethan however was overjoyed to see her. I presumed that this was his sister…

Okay this reeked…this really, really reeked. If the Rogue GG brought her here chances are she was not herself…there was a good chance that Chastity had been altered…she seemed okay right now. But I started to think about how to pry Ethan away from her long enough to talk to sense into him about this…

The next thing that Ethan and I knew was that Chastity had gone to full feeding mode and sunk her fangs into Ethan’s neck. Well that was a dead giveaway that she was screwed in the head. I shifted into psion mode and TK’ed her ass across the street…Ethan stumbled around in shock and I don’t blame him at all,

Yeah…shock was really starting to set in now. I quickly put myself between Ethan and now quite mentally imbalanced sister >_< At last he had enough wits about him to shift back in vampire mode, I stayed in psion mode for now…no way was she gonna sink her fangs into me…e_e

Okay…cue evil villain entrance here. Out of the shadows came a large figure, he was dressed in blood red clothing, that I can see under a brown cloak over that, had a pasty white face and a red and black jesters cap. His face was twisted into a huge grin normally sported by the criminally insane. Oh yeah…this whole mission just got deep quick. He got directly behind Chastity and placed a pasty hand on her shoulder before addressing me.

Memo to self... Chew out Brian's ass for the uberpowerful chars here. Okay time to pull out all the stops and yank a Mary Sue out of the mothballs for this asshole. A little creation I created ages ago for the Chaos Realm. She’s called Lady Hellfire and can give some of the chars here a run for their money >=)

I shift…Hellfire is your typical Chaos female, killer body, minimal outfit, armor on the chest, elbow length gloves, thigh high boots, loin cloth, all in a color scheme of black and orange. I’m still a Brunette, but the hair is about three times as long and pulled into a high pony tail and my eyes are glowing orange coals. I’m holding the standard Chaos Issue Big Ass Sword, that’s flaming… Oh yeah I was ready to roast this jerk alive! However I made one tiny error in my choice of character…

I forgot I was with a gamer >_<

I form a huge fireball in my palm and hurl it toward the Jester; he just glares at my attempt and crushes it out of existence. This was going to be tougher than I originally thought…

Oh damn it…we were so focused on the Jester that we forgot about his pet vampire…somehow she snuck around behind us and was busy nibbling on her brother again. I swear he’s gonna need some serious therapy when this is through. I know I would >_< So I spin around and do a few sword slashes at her. She should back off after all vampires and fire so do not mix!

We turn back to the Scarlet Jester after our little disagreement. Chastity scampered away somewhere… So I decide to give laughing boy there a hot foot by setting the ground under his feet on fire. Well that was about as effective as the fire ball >_< He retaliated by firing a black bolt at me. I duck the sucker and see Chastity about to sneak up on Ethan AGAIN… So I throw up a firewall between her and us so Ethan can join the party

Well looks like I’m not the only one with a temper here…now we have a HUGE ass Dragon about to put the chomp on the Jester…give points to the GG for this gag!

To keep the Jester from getting any closer to us I threw up a firewall after he knocked the Jester into a wall… After he was stunned for a few seconds I checked on Chastity, that little vamp had a really bad habit of popping out of nowhere and pulling off the unexpected. Sure enough she was gone from behind the firewall, I turn to yell out a warning to Ethan, but it was too late, Chastity popped out of the shadows and hacked one of Ethan’s arms off… damn it…

Okay I’m really pissed, Ethan shifted back to normal…and the Scarlet Jester pulled himself out of the wall and calmly dusted himself off. In the blink of an eye the firewall around Chastity was gone and both Ethan and myself were flying into another wall and held there. Ouch… I have a bit more sympathy for anyone whose ever been hit with my TK tricks >_<…

Ask as stupid question, you’ll get a stupid answer. In the blink of an eye the Laughing Manic is right in front of me and casually plucks the two Splitter Bombs that I have on me. Saying that I keep those well hidden ESPECIALLY if I’m character mode that was a trick to pull off. If I wasn’t in full panic mode before I really was now! If Winter finds out that I lost two Splitters, my ass is grass and my job is good bye!

Thinking fast and running on pure desperation I shift to my psion mode and I TK myself off the wall and smack dab into a bitch slap courtesy of the Scarlet Jester. I shake it off fast and get right back up to my feet ready to do whatever it takes to get those bombs back.

I try a TK grab on the bombs out of his hands only to see them jerk right back into his hands with is own TK abilities, so I try again…my efforts are rewarded by a black bolt of energy point blank to my chest. That sends me back into the wall and the impact is so hard it forces me back to normal mode. Evidently his focus on Ethan had weakened and he too tried to attack the Scarlet jester. Like myself his efforts were rewarded with a black bolt to the chest and he crashed into me. NOW I was out like a light bulb… When I finally shake the cobwebs out of my brain, I note that the Jester and Chastity are gone and Ethan is groggy as well. This was NOT good…

Now that’s the understatement of the century. There was the tiny little detail that nobody outside the Literary Guardians knew they even existed…alone what they could do and how dangerous they could be in the wrong or untrained hands. Boy oh boy I had to do some fast-talking to keep Ethan from contacting the GG Big wigs. I was in enough hot water at the moment thank you very much!

Well for the next five minutes I learn some new curses…trust me when I say that’s a feat. I haven’t even told him the WORST part of it yet. >_< Oh man was I gonna get in back at HQ…

I click on my com and get a direct line to the weapons department…as if this couldn’t get worse I HAD to get Jack. UGH…I’m gonna need a month’s vacation after this mess. That is if I still had a job after this.

Since most of the Classic Dungeons and Dragons RPG’s are based off of Lord of the Rings, that shut him up. Changing canon THERE could not only effect realms…but also affect Gaming Systems as well. Not fun at all.

Okay we ended our debate and jumped BACK in NYC...things look the same as we left them a few hours ago... Naturally…this place is pardon the pun…dead >_< We are back in Vamp mode and Ethan is checking his gear to get a lock on the Jester and his two sidekicks.

We get walking, just to be on the safe side I shift into Lady Hellfire…I was not going to be caught off guard this time, no way in hell. After a bit we reach one of the few skyscrapers that is still standing on the island. It’s about as safe as putting your unprotected hand into the mouth of a hungry lion >_< Oh boy… Ethan and I have a quick discussion on how to enter the place and decided that chances are the Scarlet Jester is expecting us so we opt for the Glorious Charge through the front door. I’m raring to go…but Ethan chooses to shift into something more dramatic. He’s now wearing a billowing set of black robes, a hood formed over his head as his hands become encased in spiked gauntlets. A sword appears at his side, and his face melts into a single sheet of black… Whoot…this kids got style!

Once the flames died down a bit Ethan and I charge in, he’s got his Morgal Blade drawn and ready, I have Brimstone (My BAS ^_^) in one hand and another fireball ready to be tossed in the other hand. We are ready for anything except the lack of an enemy. Come on here! We are anything but subtle…surely we got SOMEBODY’S attention in this joint!

Ask and ye shall receive! Chastity dropped in and tapped us on our shoulders before nailing Ethan in the chest with a powerful double kick. I mean she jumped up landed a kick then did a freaking 180 in mid air and nailed him with another kick that sent him staggering back. Whoa…

The next thing the little vamp knows is that her landing point has erupted into white-hot flames, she’s able to alter her landing point, but she’s now really unsteady on her feet and off balance. Perfect right where I want her…I gotta take her out of the picture if I ever want Ethan to focus on this mission. When she’s still distracted I let my sword vanish and I nail Chastity with a flying tackle to her midsection.

Oh yeah gotta get her out of here, that distraction cost be big time! Chaz got an arm free and pulled out one of her swords, now I’m sporting a huge gash in my shoulder. It’s not too bad for this character…but it stings like hell. I grab her neck in one hand and her sword blade in the other… that hand happens to be white hot with flames that is >=). That blade is now slag. NOW Chastity is starting to get really nervous now…

Before I could put words into action I get an energy blast to the center of my back. It knocks me off my feet and I have to let Chastity go… But not before I slipped something on that choker of hers. I look over my shoulder and spot the Rogue Guardian coming down the stairs he looks a little shocked to see me still standing. Evidently he underestimated how tough this body is…

Hee hee hee! Got her! I slipped a JS Tracer on her, now she’s on a one way trip back to LGHQ. There she’ll be deprogrammed and sent to her home system. Well that’s one headache out of the way…now for the Rogue. I turn around to see Ethan charging toward him and the Rogue shooting a ray at him. It connects and Ethan shifts back to normal, and he is convulsing with the pains of the damned. I fire a shot at the Rogue before I run to check on Ethan.

Before I get there Ethan is trying to get to his knees, but the pain must be too much and he collapses again, I take note that the Rogue has now made a hole in the wall thanks to the impact of my fireball.

Okay! Whatever that asshole hit Ethan with is screwing up his Conversion Matrix, so I have to undo the damage before whatever shifting that is going on is complete. The only way to do that is to get my hands on the weapon that did this and undo it. Not gonna be easy since the Rogue is doing a good job of impersonating the Scarlet Jester in the hole when I find him! Meanwhile Ethan's nails lengthening into claws as his skin goes totally black, his eyes go totally red and his teeth grow into fangs.

Of course I don’t notice this right away because I’m too busy hauling the Rogue up by his neck and fighting the urge to roast him alive. It is really tough TRUST me. e_e Not Roasting him alive that is…

Oh great I look over my shoulder to see Ethan, sporting his new demon look a few seconds before he snatches me up by the back of my neck fully intending to snap it. Okay time to turn up the heat… I can raise my skin temperature to a few degrees hotter than lava…and give new meaning to the phrase ‘Too Hot to Handle’

All the asshole does is hold up a pack of those collectable role playing cards. >_< Damn it I never got into those things, I’m a writer not a gamer. They are black and red with the phrase ‘Game Overkill’ on them…cute really cute this has stupid and foolish written all over it! Does he really think I’m insane enough to take those cards?

Well THAT pissed him off he tossed the cards in my face and vanishes, I look around and see no Rogue and no cards that easily state how to change Ethan back to normal. I hate these things :P

I give the cards another look and I spot one called ‘Mind Shield’ Hum sounds interesting. Maybe it’ll get Ethan’s mind back to normal if not his body. I carefully pick up the card and slap it on Ethan before he gets his wits together after the shock of my heat trick wears off

Using the Rogue shaped hole as a guide we get going. After searching a few floors we find nothing, no clues no traps nothing >_< Finally Ethan decides to check his gear and see where the heck the Jester is hiding now, his instruments say that’s he’s on the top floor of the building and we are barely five floors up. Oy…

We take off and start heading for the roof, this is MUCH faster, we were ready for about anything that the Rogue and the Jester will toss at us. I’m seriously considering summoning Brimstone back when a pair of buzz saw like energy blasts shoots off the roof and head for Ethan and I. Instantly the sword is in my hand. Ethan goes after one with his claws and I slash at the other one with my sword.

Well that was effective, I split the blast in two and now I have TWO buzz saws gunning for me.

Switching tacts I make a beeline for the building and turn at the last second hoping that several feet of mortar and stone will stop the buzz saws. Meanwhile I spot Ethan grabbing his saw with his claws and hurls it back where it came from, only to have it boomerang back at him. Now he’s flying like a mad man to avoid the sucker.

Good news! They can’t turn as fast as I can and those suckers smacked through the wall. Bad news, they survived the impact cut through several feet of building turned and are STILL after me. Attempt number three! Lead these suckers back to the source let those two yahoos deal with them.

As I make a beeline for the roofs edge I see that Rogue Guardian peak out at me with an evil grin. Well the joke is on him I turn away at the last second and look over my shoulder to see the mayhem. Make that the joke is back on me! The buzz saws are on gone and he’s got some pink colored energy growing in his hands, tendrils start emerging and heading RIGHT for me…Ooops…

I fly like hell(fire) but damn it he poured some extra juice into this stuff and I’m caught like a fly in a spider web and it’s got me good, I can move but I can’t get loose. While that was happening the buzz saw that had been chasing Ethan had caught up and nailed him. He was on a one way trip straight down. I didn’t see this since I was too busy trying to figure out what the hell this pink stuff is. As I fought to get free one REALLY big pink tendril loomed before me.

That big gob of pink energy hits me dead on…after a few minutes of shock to the system I get an odd tingling feeling in my feet. I don’t wanna do it, but I look down at my feet and I see that they are being transformed into jade!

I was able to move my arms still so I quickly grabbed my JS System and jump my ass out of there. I didn’t leave the realm; after all Scarlet Jester still had my Splitters. So I locked onto Ethan’s signal and land right next to him. He’s out like a light after what I assume is a crash landing. My landing is none too graceful either with feet made out of jade.

This is when I finally notice that Ethan is out like a light bulb next to me. Joy…

He’s not moving…okay…time to get a wee bit worried here… So I shake him a bit. STILL no response, I keep my cool as I check for his pulse and breathing.

When I shook Ethan he didn’t react, he's not breathing and his pulse is almost non existent though It's barely there. Having no other choice I shift back to normal, thankfully my feet return to flesh and blood not jade, and begin to do mouth to mouth on Ethan. Hell I don’t know if this’ll work on him while he’s in demon mode. But I have no choice but to try. Finally after a few very long minutes He starts to breathe on his own again. Whew… Thank goodness for small miracles…

I give Ethan another look, then I note the rather large pool of blood that’s around him, didn’t notice it before because of the carnage and destruction that is already in this area. I have no choice and get a good grip on Ethan and hit my JS System to take us both back to LGHQ…this will NOT be pretty to say the least…

We land on the main pad and thankfully there’s a small group of medical techs there on standby as part of standard procedure. Given the injuries that we can receive in action, it’s become a more a necessity than a luxury these days. They hear me land a barely get the word ‘Medic!’ out before they are swarming over the pair of us ants at a picnic!

About all of us came close to completely freaking out here. Ethan’s body from the waist down in hanging on by a thread…Gods that buzz saw did a real number on him. It’ll take some doing to keep him alive let alone get him back up to par to finish this job.

As I’m handing the shocked Techs the scans I took from Ethan earlier I notice that EDG and Winter enter the area. Somebody must have sent them a message that Ethan and I have crash-landed. Things are absolute chaos as the medical techs are loading Ethan onto a gurney and getting his ass over toward the Medical Bays…I’m about to follow when EDG gets his first good look at Ethan’s condition…

Oh yeah…this was gonna suck big time as he spun on me like I was the devil incarnate.

Did I say this was going to suck? No that was an understatement…the pissed off robot had decided to try and beat me into a pulp first and ask questions later…or beat to a pulp while screaming questions at me…what ever. Hell I have had a really bad day. My new partner is almost on his deathbed and this guy just had to try and attack me. Instantly I switch to psion mode and wrap a TK Field around EDG. The shocked look on his face was worth whatever ass chewing I was going to get from Winter over this. It was priceless…

That stopped him from struggling but he still had a look that stated that he would attack me if I were crazy enough to drop the field. Finally Winter found his voice…though I personally think he was happy to see EDG just floating in mid air helpless as can be.

He stopped fighting me and I let him go before shifting back to normal mode, though EDG was still glaring daggers at everybody around. I decide to launch into a quick recap before anything else happens.

Oh hell, I should have guessed that this would happen, with Ethan on the injured list for now I’m gonna be grounded here in the Prime System! Damn it I could just picture that Jester making dozens of Splitters and beginning a reign of terror on the realms. But my lips had to stay sealed on that matter because of a certain robot in the area.

I leave the bay before I say or do something really stupid; I pause just out their sight to catch a bit of Winter and EDG’s conversation…

They walk off somewhere and I continue back to the medical bays…damn it! EDG was hip to me right off the bat. I’m gonna have to be careful, it was bad enough that Ethan knew about the Splitters, but EDG was a GG big wig…he’d squish us like a bug if he thought we were bending to the point of breaking certain rules. Anyway I finally get to the Medical Bays and I grab the nearest tech.

A short walk down the hall and I finally come to room 523, I carefully poke my head into the room and spot somebody on the bed. Then I get my ears blistered with a flurry of curses that can take the paint of a battleship at 500 yards. Ouch…>_<

It doesn't take me too long to reach Winter's office and pound on the door nearly shaking it off it's hinges. Did I say I was pissed?

I make my calm entrance by ripping the door open, stalking into the office and slamming the door behind me. Winter was to the point…

His eyes got really wide as he figured out EXACTLY what I was telling him. He really didn't want to believe it…hell I knew it happened and I STILL didn't believe it >_<. Damn that Joker Rip Off.

Just when Winter and I had established that no matter what we did all hell was going to break loose then there was a knock at the door, when Winter bellowed for whoever was there to come in. To our surprise it was Ethan with a huge gun strapped to his back, and a look that promised to inflict much pain on the Jester.

I nodded to Winter and motioned to the door, Ethan and I exited the office and made our way to the Jump Pad. We are about to jump to the Chaos Realms when Ethan spoke up.

He holds up an envelope…I figure it's a personal matter and I agree I'll go ahead to the Chaos Realms and keep an eye out for the Jester, and he'll meet me there as soon as he can. I jump back to New York City, I quickly shift into a vampire mode and kept myself on full alert…in my short association with the Scarlet Jester is that he can come out of nowhere.

Little did I know is that he knew the second I landed and already had me in his sights…so much for keeping a low profile till Ethan could get here. I finally figured out the Jester was around when I had to dive out of the way of a pair of fireballs.

He…as usual…pops out of thin air and is hovering above me I shift back in Hellfire mode and get airborne to confront him, I am wasting no time this round…I already have Brimstone in my hand. All he is doing is smirking at me…the annoying SOB…e_e

I charge at him and in retrospect that was NOT the brightest move I have ever made. Why you ask? Well at that moment he pulled his other hand around that he had hidden behind his back, SMASHING me in the face with a black energy blast. I go flying backwards through a building or two before stopping. Ow…I’d like to take this moment to state that I’m really glad I made this body tough >_<

By this stage I’m pulling myself out of the rubble and though I’m battered I’m far from beaten… Once again a get Brimstone in my hand and I get airborne.

Like I can pull my sword from thin air…the Jester pulls out a pair of big ass and nasty looking scythes…looks like a good old fashioned blade battle. At least we have the proper setting for it.

We charge at each other and I aim my blow at the handle of one of the scythes in hopes of reducing him to only one weapon. He quickly blocks the blow and Brimstone is stopped cold. Damn the suckers were tougher than I thought, before I can react he quickly brought up the other scythe and tagged my side, I quickly back off to check the damage.

It’s not too bad…however I can’t do any kind of first aid because the Jester is trying to take my head off with those things! I quickly dive down under him and nail him across the back as I come up behind him. He takes the hit and it doesn’t even slow him down. Shit… He whirls around and nails me with a pair of eye beams clipping me and shredding parts of my costume. Let’s face it folks I’m getting my ass handed to me by this guy X_X.

I pause and fire a few flame bombs at him in order to buy me some breathing room at least and all he does is destroy them in a matter of seconds, I’m getting tired and he’s barely breaking a sweat. What is it gonna take to bring him down? I am given no time to think about it since he decided to teleport right above me and is about to cut me down with those scythes, in a desperation move I rush at him to run him through with Brimstone. He catches the sword with ease and wrenches it away, before I can focus enough to call it back to my hand he’s seconds away from cutting me in half…I’m screwed…

Suddenly I’m knocked out of the way and somebody just took that hit for me…I have a sick feeling I know who it is…

Sure enough it’s Ethan, he’s clutching at the massive wounds in his chest…he shifted into who knows what just before he took that hit...I’m not sure what…it’s kinda hard to tell now with the injuries

I help Ethan to his feet as the Jester is still above us I hear something behind and I look to see the Rogue GG that started this mayhem running up ready to join the fray.

The little SOB caught Ethan flat footed and spins around just in time to catch a knife kick to the chest, burying the gamer 6 feet into the ground.

The Rogue GG is about to reach the crater to finish Ethan off, I quickly summon up Brimstone again and hurl it at his back, at the exact moment that Brimstone hit his back another sword pops up from the crater and nails him in the chest. When the Rogue is reduced to ash Ethan crawls out of the hole well at least I THINK it’s him O_o..

It’s a female elf with white skin, silver hair, and black eyes with red pupils. She's wearing armor on every part of her body except the head…

Since I’m rather distracted at this odd turn of events the Scarlet Jest takes advantage and swoops down to nail me with a drop kick, I grab onto his foot and hang on…

Finally the Jester sees Ethan and figures out that the cute female elf IS Ethan and had a good yuk at his expense, with me still holding onto his foot about twenty to thirty feet off the ground. Can we say Insane Asylum?

So now it’s my turn to take advantage of the Jester’s distraction as I shift into a were cat and use my newly acquired claws to climb UP the Jester.

I proceed to reduce his cloak to tatters until I finally find one of the Splitters and grab it! He finally got his wits together and grabbed me by the neck and pries my claws off of him.

I do a few slashes at his face with my free hand, but they only succeed in pissing him off and he begins to power up a blast in the hand around my neck. Eeep…

Okay power blasts and big ass weapons have had no effect on this guy…so I decide to opt for the most tried and true method of hurting the male of the humanoid species. The good old-fashioned Nut shot…especially helpful if you happen to be wearing boots with big thick wooden heels. Like I was >=) And it worked! However it also had the rather nasty side effect of the Jester dropping me to tend to his … uh … injuries. >_< Anyway I quickly shift into psion mode and wrap a TK field around myself to keep from going splat.

The Jester is still up there nursing his wounds, so look around to see where Ethan has gone off to…

Ethan had FINALLY snapped out of his stupor about having a chest and shifted into a Saiyan, male thankfully and had powered up to join me in the air with the Jester.

In quick action Ethan had teleported above Scarlet Jester and gave him a jack knife kick that sent him almost six feet into the ground, I used that time to jump the Splitter I had back to HQ… I didn’t want to give Laughing Boy down there a chance to snag it away from me again.

I arch down to the edge of the hole he’s now pulling himself out of, time to show Mr. Jester how pissed he has made me over the past day or so… I cock my fist back and start powering up, this little number is called a psi blade, it’s a nasty mix of telepathic and telekinetic powers, and I have yet to find the defense against it. Mental or physical…time to see how good the Jester really is…

Well… He asked for it…

I deliver the fist with the psi blade into a punch that lands right between his eyes on his pasty white face

At first I couldn't believe it, it actually worked, he was staggering in pain as I poured on the power. Once the Psi Blade cuts through somebody's mental defenses it leaves a door wide open to pour many other mental attacks inside. I was…in plain terms, slapping him around on the astral plane and teaching him a lesson on why you do NOT mess with this little psionic bitch.

While that was going on…Ethan was floating in midair, stunned at how pissed I was and how much pain the Jester was in…

I was not letting up anytime soon, there was only three options open to the Jester, Jaunt out of the Realm, passing out, or giving up. My money was on option number two, I didn't see this guy giving up anytime soon… He was still staggering around holding the sides of his pain as a reflex reaction against my powers. It didn't really help…but it told me that I was really hurting him. Somehow he got enough wits about him to look at me with a mixture horror, admiration and obsession…

Me? I'm clueless about this statement…what the hell did I have that amazed him so? In my shock I let a small gap form in my assault and lucky me…the Jester took advantage of it…

Before I could form another attack he got his mental defenses back up and decked me in face to keep me from forging another Psi Blade, I stagger back a few feet and he looks really bad now. A psionic attack can do that to a person, anyway before Ethan and I can get another attack in the works he pulls the second splitter from his robes before taking to the air again.

I have a bad feeling that this will not have an happy ending, I try and TK the Splitter out of his hands, but he countered with a blast of black energy breaking my focus. The next thing I was aware of was the Splitter heading right for me. I clearly saw the red light on it and grabbed it in a TK field, there was only 5 seconds on the timer and it would take me 10 to defuse it. If the Jester hadn't altered it in any way… Couldn't take that chance...I had ONE shot at this…

He went for it, but the Jester fried it with a well placed shot, damn he was stuck here too…okay had to think in under 4 seconds how to stay alive and keep Ethan alive as well… Okay I hurl a Jump Tracer on Ethan and take off trying to get to a weaker spot in the Realm so that Death wouldn't be a result when this sucker blew…

Damn it he fried that too and tossed up a force shield to keep me in the area… Three seconds to go…

There was ONE shot to keep us alive. If I tried to Jump I bet the Jester would fry my Jump System like he did with Ethan's Jaunt System and the tracer. If I wrapped a TK shield around the Splitter and myself I could make it strong it enough to weaken the blast so that Ethan would live from the blast. Though the drawback was that it I may not live through it myself...x_x…

Two Seconds...there is no other choice.

One second…Zero…and all hell breaks loose…the Splitter blows and I brace myself for pain. I have felt a bad Splitter blast before, but nothing prepared me for this. The sensation of being turned inside out and back is magnified to a factor of at least ten, but thousands of razor sharp blades have been added to it as well…

I fight to remain conscience, I need to in order to keep the TK field up and Ethan alive…above my own screams I hear the Scarlet Jester's diabolical laughter as he Jaunts away and Ethan's yells…then I can hold on no longer and I finally black out…

It had been at least a week since the Splitter Blast. It had come damn close to killing me, if Ethan hadn't gotten me back to HQ as fast as he did I would be dead. Anyway I woke up in the Medical Bays and Winter brought me up to date on what had happened since then.

How Ethan had escaped with only Stage 2 exposure, was treated and sent home. Looks like that TK trick worked to contain the majority of the blast, I told Winter to never expect that again. He told me that if I even considered pulling that stunt again he'd kill me if I lived though it again. I assured him that I wouldn't. Well because of my injuries I was put on inactive duty for the next month.

In a matter of days I was going stir crazy in LGHQ and needed to get out of there before I broke something. So I decided to make a quick call to GGHQ and ask if Ethan was around, I was told that he was in his home system. That was weird, I always thought that Gaming Guardians were required to live in the Prime System…oh well I get the location of where his home was and warmed up the old Jump to pay him a visit…

I get soaked is what happens. e_e It's raining cats and dogs and there is a nice lighting storm for the proper gloomy effect to the whole scene.

UGH…well I note that I'm across the street from a small coffeehouse called "Java for the Soul". Sitting in one of the front windows looking rather depressed is Ethan…good I don't have to go hunting him… Anyway I enter the place looking like a picture example of 'suspicious character' I'm in a big black trench coat and black fedora hat over my normal all black attire and bed gloves, hey it's raining out there…umbrellas take up space okay?

I spot Ethan at his table sipping his tea while a pair of giant rats is perched on the table nibbling on some muffins. O_o…okay that was a new one even by my standards. Anyway I head to the counter and get myself a cup of strong Darjeeling Tea, Hey I'm in one piece, but I still feel like hell x_x…

Evidently Ethan finally figures out that I'm here, he really must be lost in thought to have missed my entrance, anyway I begin to walk toward his table and he's giving me the look that he knows me but he just can't place where he has seen before. I don't quibble over the fact that he doesn’t know me on sight. The hat is low over my face, he can't see it clearly…

Okay I'm confused, I'm a little Guardian…how could I do the same thing that a Designer did? Match the Scarlet Jester in power enough to hurt him? Time to do a bit more digging here…

Okay time to give my partner here a good kick in the butt for that remark…blaming himself for what happened? How was he to know that? Seeing into the future is a skill neither of us possesses, pity it would have helped a lot on that last mess we called a mission.

Sounds good actually, this System is based around a fighting federation called the UCTF, I might catch a fight or two…but not right away…I would rather have some peace and quiet, something this system is famous for not having much of.

So I finish my tea and prepare to go back into the nasty ass weather. Over all not a bad mission, we saved the Chaos Realms from the Jester, made sure Ethan's sister was back to normal and both lived to see the next mission. Over all it was a good ending. I walk some distance away from the café and prepare to jump back home…yet I had a nagging feeling that it wasn't over yet…

I shook my head and decided that I was just imagining things… What else could happen?