Sell you a Bridge chapter 349

July 4th 2016 Castle Bat, 9:00 PM EDT

I  held up a hand after about five minutes of walking down the steps to  the dungeons. Honestly, who needed a fucking prison this deep under a  castle? This was just fucking superfluous. Still, the one good thing was  that it gave me plenty of time to scout as we went, and my aura sight  had just caught a series of powerful fluctuations coming from deeper  into the dungeons.

"Hold up." Everyone froze as I glared  down at the dark pit still yawning into the earth beneath us. "There's  enemies ahead. Four of them. One is a god, one is some kind of cyborg,  one of them seems to be some version of whatever the hell cosmic force  Wally is connected to and the last one...I got nothing. I've seen a ton  of auras, but that one is weird. The best way I can describe it  is...willful maybe?"

Whatever it was, it was strong. They  were all strong. Because of fucking course they'd keep the really strong  ones here. I was also almost positive they were all some version of  Batman, because Barbatos just had to use his stupid gimmick. I didn't  know why the hell this guy was so nuts about Batman, but it was getting  real fucking tiring.

Still, we were almost to the bottom,  and according to Namine, Kairi should be close. I assumed she and Riku  were being kept together, because otherwise we'd have to search the  whole damn castle for him and I refused to entertain the idea of being  put through that level of irritation unless it actually happened.

I  was trying to figure out how to approach the problem when a streak of  dark red blurred up the steps so fast even I didn't catch it until it  was too late. The form solidified into a man in a bat costume with a red  lightning bolt on his chest as he smashed his hand forward to try to  pulp the head of my girlfriend.

There was an intense  fluctuation as his fist landed, and an image of a crude doll  superimposed itself over top of my sorceress, shattering almost  immediately. The voo-dont doll activating saved Zee, and at the same  time dissipated the force of the blow. Fast or not, he was caught off  guard, and I called my keyblade as I pumped demonic energy into my armor  to increase my speed to the maximum. As I did, Zee calmly sent a haste  spell through the bond as I unleashed a lunging thrust at the stunned  bat imitator with every ounce of skill and muscle control I had in me.

He  dove out of the way, the teeth of my keyblade opening the line of his  shoulder just below the throat as he plummeted into the spiral abyss. I  saw his feet find purchase on the wall and he ran along the wall in a  spiral, following the descent to escape. Sadly for him, I wasn't willing  to let that happen. I spread my wings, diving into the shaft and  accelerating with every ounce of power at my disposal, combining the  speed of a ghost, a devil, the haste, spell, and my armor along with a  powerful gravity spell I slapped on to increase my momentum.

I  came down like the fist of an angry God, my keyblade leading like the  lance of an avenging angel, and with my reflexes calculating the  trajectory of that moving blur was more than feasible, but I was stopped  from hitting him at the last second by a heavy metallic form smashing  into me at high speed.

It wasn't enough to actually harm  me, but the cyborg was strong enough to move my line of impact JUST  enough for me to miss the speedster. There was a catastrophic boom as I  hit the ground, though I left less of a crater than expected. This place  was sturdier than I thought. I crawled out of the small crater in  annoyance, glaring over at the cyborg. Who looked like  Batman...obviously.

That was all I had time to do before  the blade of a massive sword swung at my head from what would have been a  dead angle for anyone but me. I reacted with the instinctive practice  of long drilled swordsmanship and slammed my own blade into it with a  pivot, deflecting the sword and following up with a blurring storm of  dark metal slashes, the teeth of my keyblade saw already whirring to  life before they reached the enemy.

The god that had  attacked me, because he was a god, looked less like Batman than a  warrior with a Bat theme, though he had the same aura as the others at  the core. Still, he was a brilliant swordsman, and his huge dark blade  flicked out to pick apart every opening in the flurry of blows I'd sent  out.

A good blade master knows when to commit though, and  the ability to turn reality into Deception and vice verse makes for a  powerful combat style as I literally altered reality with my powers to  unmake gaps in my defenses. His eyes widened behind the bat eyed helmet  and I pressed the attack gleefully. I was more more careful this time,  though I used more than a few feints to leave openings he could exploit,  not that he ever did.

Above my head green light flashed  and noise rained down, but I trusted my team to handle themselves while I  took this guy down. The cyborg and speedster had both gone, presumably  up to attack with whatever was causing the glow, and the war god wasnt  my match in raw combat, especially not in my current state. It was  shocking he could even keep up with my speed, given that I was almost as  fast as the speedster, but the thick rippling of the space around us  told me he was warping the flow of time to compensate and STILL wasnt  fast enough to match me.

I wasn't stupid enough to let  myself get distracted fully though, so when the speedster doubled back I  made my move. I'd been holding back against the Organization idiots,  but I was officially in a hurry and with both the wielders here I didn't  need to conserve anything much. Plus I was concealed, so opening my  Domain was an easy call.

In reality, I'd been planning to  do this since I entered the dungeon, but I'd been waiting for the right  time, and as I felt the speedster rush back into my field of perception,  I slammed my Domain down around me. Conjuring an illusion right where  he was going to be, I deflected the war gods latest blow and then, in  the heartbeat after the speedster passed through the illusion and  confirmed it was false, and the war god stumbled back, I switched places  with it.

I spun on my heel, using every ounce of Myrina's  instant strike technique combined with the principles of the Doom Fist  to drive my fucking keyblade right through the back of that speedy fuck  and out his chest. I spun around with the bastard still spitted on my  blade, hurling his body at the war god as I phased through the dying  speedster, and using my enhanced speed swept down and around like a  striking cobra as the war god batted the body aside.

The  opening from the surprise attack wouldn't have been enough, except I  swapped back into my original place, now behind his back and dropped a  fucking supercharged Gravity spell right on the two of their heads  grinding them both into the much denser than usual flooring. Just to  make sure they were dead I drew my Mortal Gun and double tapped them  both in the head, then I kicked them into a shadow portal that would  drop them into that random office we'd camped in last time.

Sora  and the others were good kids, and I doubted they would have been ok  seeing the corpses, but that speedster had tried to fucking splatter my  girl. Some things I didn't tolerate, and trying to kill my loved ones  topped the list. The war gods aura had been drenched in blood too, so he  wasn't some goody-goody, and I had no compunctions about finishing off  what were basically walking avatars of hate and destruction. It still  took a minute for me to center myself though, that had been colder than I  usually liked to be.

I would have taken longer, but the  noise from up the steps was getting louder, and I didn't want my friends  getting hurt. I shot up the shaft at top speed, wings and speed  enhancements carrying me absurdly quickly. I reoriented myself as I flew  to attack the green glow as I came up over the side, and smashed  headfirst into a fucking hard light shield, though to be fair, the thing  cracked pretty bad under my assault, and the weird, snorkel hear  wearing green lantern batman turned on me with anger, letting up the  pressure on Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Drea, and Namine.

Roxas  was dual wielding against the cyborg batman, with Sora and Rana both  pincering to keep him off balance, but even with Zee providing magic  support the asshole was a big problem. He was WAY stronger than Corbin,  as evidenced by his ability to stop that crazy gravity bomb attack I'd  done earlier. I decided the robot was a secondary threat though, and  brought my chainsaw spinning keyblade down on the cracked green shield,  beginning to tear into the light construct.

Through  the cracks, I manifested an illusion behind the bat lantern, swapping  places with it and donkey punching him in the back of the skull with my  off hand. The force field around his body was much weaker than the one I  hit and my fist tore through it, but I'd focused on speed and not  power, so it mitigated enough of the force that his head didn't explode.

Even so, he  staggered forward, feet hitting the ground lightly as he stumbled  toward the edge of the steps. I considered killing him, but the others  were watching, so I just ripped off his power ring, even if I might have  taken a finger with it. Then I created a set of restraints from abyssal  alloy and threw him into the wall.

Turning  to deal with the cyborg, I found him already subdued. The full might of  my entire team was too much for the batman themed machine to handle,  and he was currently bound up in a prison of light magic, with brightly  glowing sigila around his hands and neck like stockades, all set into  one larger glowing ritual circle. "You guys good?" I asked casually.

Several  of them nodded and I grinned. "Lets get going then." My power had  prevented anyone from noticing the fight, but it had redoubled the pain  in my head. Even with my now much stronger resilience using my ability  in such a crazy way wasn't fun. We bolted down the steps, only taking a  minute or two to finally reach the bottom. The place was so dim and the  stone so dark that the bloodstains in the crater I left weren't easily  visible.

When  we finally made it to the cells, I saw a pair of teens slumped against  the metal. Sora's eyes went wide with joy and worry. The kid flicked his  keyblade and managed to pop both doors open with the power in a move I  would need years to be able to replicate, then bolted to the redhead  while Mickey went to get the silver haired boy. They looked a lot like  the two kids they'd been in the picture, but older. As we began casting  healing spells on them I was glad to see the injuries were superficial.  Now all we needed to do was get the hell out of dodge, and it would  finally be time to finish this.