Abby sat in a chair in a fresh built house, there were no other decorations yet, the bed was being crafted. Funk walked in, “Hello Abby, thank you for your patience.”
Abby crossed her arms, “You made me wait an hour. Square is starving!” They both looked at Square, just imitating a turtle on the ground.
Funk blinked a couple of times, “He looks fine.”
Abby scoffed, “Throw him some food then, look how he reacts!”
“But, he always goes insane when food is nearby.”
Abby sighed, “Just get to the point, what kind of power were you using, and why were you trying to kick the crap out of Alice and her twin?”
Funk sat down on the ground. “You cannot tell Steve any of this.”
Abby shook her head, “Why?”
“Steve thinks he is the hero, right?” Abby nodded.
Funk sighed, “How would he respond, if he found out, he is not?”
Abby sighed, “He would totally lose his cool and whatever he is afraid of, might happen.”
Funk nodded, “I have been chosen by a cosmic power to be the chosen one, I guess, from your perspective, I am the chosen one next door. Alice and Freya are capable of wielding the void, they live in the same body.”
Abby shook her hands, “Wait, Alice is the wizard we are looking for?”
“No, I am still trying to understand what is going on. I think this cloud of the void might just be a wild cloud and neither Alice, Freya nor the mystery woman can control it. Which means, we need to stop it somehow. It is probably after Steve.”
Abby put her hand on her chin, “of course, that makes sense.”
Funk shook his head, “What, it does?”
“Yes, think about it, what have the monsters been doing since Steve showed up here?”
Funk looked at her for a few moments while his brain worked to try to figure out what she meant,“They tried to kill him?”
Abby grinned as Funk understood her, “Yes, And even when we were together, they always target him.” Abby made a bow, “There you go.”
Funk put his hand on his chin, “That, makes sense. It is like a force is trying to get rid of him for some reason.”
Funk started pacing back and forth, “Then why did the void take him? And where?”
Abby sighed, “Maybe the void took Steve because he is somehow enabling it to keep going wild? In which case, it is trying to protect Steve and Lorraine joined him accidentally, if we find Steve, we find Lorraine. We need to find them, no matter the cost. Perhaps he is getting tortured somewhere.”
Alice stormed in, “Funk!?”
“Yes?”
“I know we are not exactly seeing eye to eye at this moment, but we have a problem.”
Funk grunted, “What is the problem?”
“A horde of monsters has shown up, and they are marching towards Brickton.”
Funk drew his dark blades, “I guess it is time to show them the exit. Can we work together for now, Alice, or should I call you Freya?”
“Alice is fine, and yes, we can work together.”
Abby got up, “It seems like a fight has come looking for us.” Square also got up, intending to join the fray.
They walked outside and saw Paul leading people into the bunker. Funk walked to the edge of Brickton and looked at an army. “Where did they come from?”
Bella walked over, “Out of nowhere.”
Funk reviewed the monsters, there were all kinds of dinosaurs, scorpions, even a few of those giant plants. “Alice?”
“Yes?”
“There are too many of them.”
“No shit Sherlock.”
Funk looked at her with a grimace, I love that saying, Sherlock, “Do you have a plan? Some kind of bomb, a special spell? Something?”
Alice sighed. “If you give me enough time, I think I can make a void warping reality bending super bomb.”
Funk stared at her, “Look, I love to throw names around, like many beings do. We don’t need them for using our energy, but it does make you look spectacular when you do something. That name, however, needs work. How much time do you need?”
Alice shrugged, “Ten minutes?”
“Goddammit, Alice, do you remember when you said five minutes the last time? It took a lot longer!”
Alice grunted, “Well, I apologize for not having my full power yet, it takes a while. I am old and rusty. Just go out there and kick those monsters dead.”
Bella drew her green sword, “I am in.”
Abby looked at the oncoming storm of monsters. “We just need to survive, so you can do, whatever the fuck you are going to do?” Alice nodded and raised her hands into the sky, and life force got extracted from her being.
Bella looked at her, “Alice, do you remember your past?”
“No.”
Bella shrugged, “That is a short answer.” She ran towards the monsters.
Funk looked at Abby, “Here we go, oh, and don’t tell Lorraine either.” Abby nodded and ran forward. They were met by goblins first, they stood in the front. Abby spawned a dark blade with silver energy in it. She stepped aside from the first sword coming her way. Then she stabbed the goblin right through his brain. Abby felt a sharp pain in her left leg, a goblin had pierced a fork through her leg.
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Square jumped onto the goblin and used his beak to rip his eyes out. Abby blinked a couple of times, “Holy shit Square! Go get them goblins!”
Funk had sprouted his ethereal wings and dodged around the goblins while slicing them in half, finally not having to hold back now that Steve was not around.
Abby started dealing with the goblins, it went better with the idea that Square has her back. Then a purple scorpion with two swingers jumped in front of Abby. In the distance, Abby saw Bella slice a flower bud in half. It did not even look as brutal or deadly as the flower bud she had seen lay dead after Steve unleashed his, whatever was inside of him. Abby jumped aside from the two stingers, and they landed on the ground. Abby chopped one of the stingers off by jumping into the air and slamming her sword down.
The other stinger got free and came at Abby, she swayed aside, she could feel the wind of the stinger in front of her. She grabbed it and infused the scorpion with enough energy to overload and explode him. A small dinosaur, she had no clue what kind, most likely a compy, came her way. Square jumped on it and started devouring the small dinosaur. Abby looked at him, “Good boy.” Abby prepared herself for the coming enemies. There were so many of them, it almost looked infinite.
Funk jumped aside from the fist of a giant green golem covered in moss. He shot a dark beam with ethereal force in it at the golem. It crossed its arms and deflected the magic strike. Funk ran towards the golem, dodging other monsters, or striking them down. He jumped and amassed even more energy, using his ethereal wings to get more airtime. Then he slashed down with an insane amount of energy, creating a wave that rippled through the monsters. Taking the ones out behind the golem as well.
Funk suddenly got rammed aside and he flew through the air. Abby looked at Funk laying on the ground, he was already trying to scrounge up. She quickly ran over, “Funk, I’ve got your back.” Abby then looked at an enormous tarbosaurus coming her way.
Funk slowly got up, “It attacked me just as power backlash hit.” They both looked at Bella, she was too far away to immediately help, and Alice still seemed to be charging her attack.
Abby looked at the tarbosaurus coming closer. It opened its jaws, Abby walked backwards slowly. She crossed her arms to block as the open mouth came for her. She screamed while closing her eyes, “Not again!”
After a few seconds, nothing happened. Abby looked at where the tarbosaurus used to be. It is now a dead husk, and she felt, revitalized. Funk looked at Abby, “What did you do?”
She looked at the tarbosaurus, “Did I do that?”
Funk chopped down a small raptor that came his way. “Yes, Abby, you did that. How did you do that? Where did those black tentacles come from?”
Abby jumped aside from a stinger, “I don’t even know what I did.”
Funk jumped on top of the scorpion while it focused on Abby, and then Funk jammed his sword’s down into the scorpion’s brain. “It doesn’t mind Abby, we can talk later, fight.”
Abby kept on trading blows with many of the enemies. A raptor jumped on top of her, she raised her sword to block the incoming bite. Abby looked at her wrist. She felt this, urge. Something inside of her told her what to do. Abby let out a deep sigh and a black tentacle shot out of her wrist into the raptor, it got drained and turned into a husk.
Bella ran over, “Are you alright, Abby?”
“Yes, I am.”
Bella helped her up. “What kind of energy was that?”
“I am not certain. I barely know how to use it.”
Bella shouted, “Alice, we are not going to hold much longer.” They saw Funk getting launched across the field, rolling, he did not stop. After he did stop, he got up, blood dripping to the ground.
Alice strained her muscles, “I just need a bit more time.”
Abby looked at Alice and a huge purple ball had gathered in her hands. Bella gasped, “Holy shit.”
Red energy started to enter the giant ball, indicating it will be most likely soon with charging soon.
Bella and Abby started slowly retreating as more portals opened up and monsters fell out of the portals. Funk soon joined them, and they saw square crawl into the ear of a tarbosaurus, it soon fell dead on the ground. Square came out with a giant chunk of his brain. Funk looked at Abby, “That dodo is insane.”
Alice called out, “Come back, it is ready!” Square jumped on Abby’s shoulder.
They ran back and stood behind Alice, She slowly threw the giant ball of energy at the army. Paul walked over, “If this does not work, everyone is safe.”
They all looked at the giant ball land in the middle of the army. The ground shook massively, it even cracked and a wall of energy protected them. Funk felt the force of the wind crash over them, dust and sand flew everywhere. A gigantic cloud appeared above the impact. The ground did not stop shaking. The energy eventually imploded, taking all the dust, sand, and wind with it. Abby looked at Alice, “What Bella said, Holy Shit, what did you do?”
She smiled, “I blew ’em up.”
Funk nodded, “Yes, we can see that.” The dust finally settled, and not even corpses remained, only a gigantic fucking crater was left.