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Chapter 427 - The Winning Hand

Calliope stumbled back, the metal of her constructed right fist began to fall apart. Luckily, there was no flesh and blood within it to be damaged, though it'd be a pain in the ass to get the right parts to put it back together as it was 

Calli thrust her arm to the side, commanding the metal to shoot away and begin reaching into the bag on her hip to form a new Radical Rocker. 

"Huh, lasers? Pretty sweet if you ask me! But let's see just how strong they really are!" She dashed forward again, the Queen of Spades bringing the wand up to her bust and bringing it out to aim at Cali. 

There was no charge time as it suddenly fired a deep violet blue shot out in a beam that was cylindrical! Calliope hopped out of the way! Dodging it as it exploded in a small blast that looked almost like Spades. Shimmering in dark violet light 

Another one came for her that she leapt up and out of the way from! "Let's see about this!" Calliope manipulated a large panel of iron that was beginning to oxidize, and forced its surface to be rid of it to make it pristine and reflected! 

"Hya!" He raised both hands while she was up in the air, the Spade Queen turning and getting rid of the Wand's power to shoot a beam from her chest! 

It shot through the air! It was thin like a small pipe, and zipped towards the shiny surface where it slammed into it and exploded! That vague Spade shaped blast coming from it! 

"Damn…That didn't work." She grimaced and gazed to the mirror, where a scorch mark in the shape of a spade was left. The craters around her were the same. With her jaw set, she crumpled the metal in her hand!

"How about you take this back!" The Shipwright dashed forward and slammed her metal fist into the core! She then manipulated it to uncrush and wrap around the card and crush it! 

Leaping backwards, she landed right as the Construct exploded in a blast of Deep Blue and Purple Spades! 

"Man…I shouldn't have screwed around…" She rolled her eyes "But I wanted to have fun!" 

 

Slam! One of the Tentecles from the mane of Kraken slammed into its own forearm! Far long enough to reach. They seemed to be as wide as buildings, and as long as entire roads! 

"Ah!" Kirk screamed as he scuttled back from the tentacle, its slime slicking across the scales, the suction cups at the bottom of the length released bubbling and popping noises from the air beneath. 

"Ah god! That's so gross!" He grimaced and winced, holding his staff near his chest. He was grossed out very easily. Even parts of the everyday body could gross him out! So seeing all these Zombies, Demons, Creatures from the Depths of the Sea! It was too much 

'Why couldn't these things be cute! Like normal fish!' He thought to himself "We better go to a nice island after this!" 

He pointed the tip of his staff and released a lightning bolt at the hydrostat, causing it to become paralyzed and slink away in pain. 

"Grow up will ya-" Kale rudely said. "Issen-Ho!" He released a flying slash that sliced straight through three of the tentacles 

The muscles split and sprayed blood across the arm of Kraken. 

"We gotta clear these things out of the way, we can't have them catching one of us!" Dezzi said confidently as they slammed a shock paw into another tentacle that was blocking the way. 

"If we jump recklessly, it may not be so pretty." Eddie commented. Shooting a blast of freezing air towards a limb, freezing it solid from the tip to a fifth the way down 

"Okay!" Jeanne shouted to the others. "I think we're good! Let's get our asses moving!" 

Kale quickly scooped The Doctor, Navigator and Markwoman over his shoulder "Oi, skeleton man, you can make it over there right?" 

"Yes. Of Course." 

The Jack of Hearts, King of Clubs and The Queen of Hearts Remain 

Noir was going up against the King of Clubs. Its sword of flame was raised to aim straight towards the chef! Leaping to the side, the pillar of blaze scorching into the Sea Kings scales 

He leapt through the air, dodging a swipe from the sword and slamming his heel into the top of the Cards head, only to then land and slam a side kick into its chest! Sending it flying through the air dozens of meters away and passed deckard! Noirs eyes locked on to Deckard, who instinctively covered himself in card walls! But this was just a feint on the chefs part, the second he was out of sight, Noir zoomed passed him and to the King of Clubs! 

Robotically, the King rose to its feet, Deckard revealing himself again. "Kraken, get that one!" 

Kraken shifted over to where noir was and rose one of its tentacles to slam down into him! 

With a swipe of his heel, Noir knocked the Spade King down once more, and then shifted his attention up! Leaping into the air, he met the limb and dispatched it with one blow! 

"Calamari Tortellini!" Its peak exploded from the crescent kick, shifting Noir midair to then break off the air and slam his leg through the Club! Exploding into fire visages of clubs! "Carne Cruda!" 

The Jack of Hearts and The Queen of Hearts were in the middle of fight the Captain. Who was effortlessly dodging out of their attacks, random objects being from the tip of the wand, and the Jacks Coins that it threw doing the same 

"Gum Gum! Slug!" Leroy appeared next to the Queen, slamming his fist into her and sending her flying into the jack! The moment they collided, they seemed to transform! Morphing into one monstrous four armed two headed thing, a perfect melding of the two! 

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But Leroy was going to handle this swiftly… "Volley!" He threw dozens and dozens of punches in the span of mere seconds, each of the punches going at extreme speeds! He could've done all of them in quick succession, but he liked to keep the time between its the same, but the speed of the punches was what changed! 

Regardless, the monster exploded into cards as Leroy aimed two precise punches to the card cores! 

"Haff…Haff…Haff. Hrnh!" Deckards face slowly began to form into a scowl, breaking the stoic face that he had held throughout the bout. "Damn it!" 

"I'm ending this!" He declared. Summoning two cards and slamming them to each of his sides. Two jokers that looked like stereotypical skintight jesters with three pointed hats formed. 

Unlike the other cards, these two were utterly autonomous. "Go!" 

Slam! The Rest of the Crew appeared! Eddie slicing straight through both of them with his scythe and guitar. 

"Tsk Tsk Tsk." The Rocker wagged his finger mockingly. "You're out of options." 

"Heh…Heh….RAH! Not Yet!" Deckard began to be raised up into the air, Cards pushing into his pack in a giant pillar of origami'd cards as glowing cards began to float around him! 

"You three. Gimme a hand yeah?" Leroy looked to Noir, Kale and Cali. "Aye Aye…" 

"Fifty Two!" Deckard raised his hand, all of the cards, and numerous other normal cards that were not enhanced and empowered by Card Count began to float in front of his palm! 

"Pick Up!" With his teeth bared like a wild animal, he fired off his ultimate attack! All of the cards, hundreds of enlarged cards, dozens of card knights and all of the possible combinations of his Card Count ability Fired off! One of every Suit! And one of every face card! 

In a mob like wave, they all rushed forward! Fire, Kinetic Energy, Diamond, and Transformed Cards in a multitude of sharp edges went forward! 

But at the same moment it was fired, Calliope had the Monster Trio in her lange magnetic empowered hands, and right when the attack went off! She sent them flying! "Super…Rad!" 

"Gum Gum…! Basto…! Nitoryu Ogi…!" 

In the Blink of an eye Deckards attack collided with each of them! The first to go was the left half of the cards! All of them exploding in a flurry of kicks from noir! "Cini!" 

"Takemikazauchi!" With blades rotating and slicing through the air, Kale diced through all the cards! 

"Javelin!" The rotating fist launched forward! Smashing through the cards in front and the wind from the highly tensed muscle began to damage and destroy the rest cutting through them like butter! 

The rotating drill like fist then slammed into Deckards face! Cracking the side of his skull! Sending him flying as the domino effect of all the destruction errutpted in a massive explosion of purple kinetic diamond fire! 

Blood trailed as his face was finally revealed to be nothing but an ordinary man… 

Deckard. Has Folded…

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