Father Paco raises his arms and smiles. "Riven, have your brother take the boy to Roko's chamber, he needs a friend."
"Leviathan? But my Lord-" Requiem sheathes the blade in his arm and grabs Owen by the collar.
"Don't worry, I still want you here, doing what you do best."
Requiem smirks as the hand holding Owen detaches from his wrist and floats the boy away. "Of course, my Lord." He says, dropping into a squat and ejecting a blade from his free hand.
"DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME?" Coming from Chad as his minigun whirrs. "I SAID, LAY-"
He didn't even see him move.
"RETRIBUTIONNN!!!" Requiem screams as a flurry of slashes turn the Cat Pack into red paint. Dozens of slices and cuts sore through Chad, tearing his gun apart and taking an arm off.
"...Down…" Chad finishes, coughing up blood and falling face first in it.
"NOW MY CHILDREN! THE TIME HAS COME! SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF MY NAME! GUIDE EVERY LOST SOUL TO OUR SALVATION." Father Paco preaches as everyone herds out the door, trampling over Chad and the remains of his crew.
"-. --- - / ... --- / ..-. .- ... -" Shocks into the brains of everyone present.
"What now?!" Selene says, wincing in pain.
High above the arena, above the basement, above the ground floor, above the church itself was none other than Roy.
"Alayna, are your barriers set?" Roy asks.
"Ready to go. Anyone who steps foot outside the church grounds without my permission will be petrified." Alayna reports, floating alongside Roy and Skai who's holding Leo. "And yours?"
"The same. Anyone with a brain frequency under 0.5 Hz will be blown up or at least flagged if they get too far. Skai, I trust you to get the stragglers."
"Come onnnnn! I want to do the thingy already!" Leo says kicking like a baby.
"Hey! Stop it before I drop you!" Skai banters.
Roy sighs. "You're lucky I'm allowing you to do this. Don't break a leg….again."
"Hey! Can you blow the lid off this bitch already?! We just pulled up." Coming from BP into their earpieces.
Roy sighs again and holds out his arm; dust, wind, and bricks from neighboring buildings swirl into a ball. Water vapor is pulled in and it spins faster as Roy condenses it into steam. The elemental ball is imbued with electricity and grows to considerable size. "Alayna."
"Multiplicare." Alayna says as Roy's energy ball is orbited by five more. "Crescere." The energy balls grow in size and combine into a massive orb of elemental destruction.
"Now let's begin. GAIA!" Roy barks and launches his massive attack at the cathedral.
Father Paco looks up at the ceiling as the ground and the walls shake. Suddenly, multiple levels of cement, stone, and wood are eradicated, exposing the arena to the open world. "My…my Church…" Paco says, twirling around in the natural daylight. "MICHAEL! CLEAR THE SKIES OF SINNERS!"
A roar emerges from tunnels connected to the main arena. Hundreds of bird creatures shoot out from the pathways and into the skies, followed by a huge man holding a greatsword. Six sets of angelic wings cover his back, a wing on each foot, four on each arm and two sets where his eyes should be. "IT SHALL BE DONE!" He screeches as he heads up to meet Roy.
Roy smirks as the horde of flying creatures. "Looks like we really kicked a nest, huh? Skai! Leo! Your turn!"
VVVVRRRRRROOOOOO
The Platicyle flies up the remains of the Church's staircase. BP lunges over the sidecar and fires a missile from a rocket launcher at Father Paco. With pinpoint accuracy, a spear meets the rocket head on and blows up mid-flight. God's Beauty steps next to the Father and takes her robe off. "It seems our lure worked successfully." She kick flips a lance into her hand and she speaks in tandem with mouths across her body. "Now let's show them God's Glory!"
"QUINTIN!" Selene screams as BP mows down a horde of monsters with an assault rifle.
"LENA!" BP ducks under a cultist's scythe arm and shoots him with the underbarrel grenade launcher. He drops two more before he's uppercut out of nowhere by God's Beauty.
"YOU STILL SEEK OUT THE HARLOT WHEN GOD STANDS BEFORE YOU?!"
"All I see is a dead man! Now tell me what you see!" BP says as he drops two flash grenades that blind her. BP drops to the ground and sprints over to Selene.
"There! Behind you!" A voice on Beauty's leg commands. She hurls her body around and punches BP in the gut, sending him flying across the room. God's Beauty launches her lance at him, impaling him to the wall. He fires his dual pistols at her as she runs to follow up.
"Rex!" BP coughs out blood as she removes the lance and falls to the ground. "Get Selene out of here!" He yells, rolling to the left, narrowly avoiding a head kick by Beauty.
"On it!" Rex says as he drifts the platicycle around, shaking cultists off and transforming back into the mech.
"Rex?! What are you doing here?!" Selene cries out.
"Saving you, silly!" Comes through the robotic voice of the Platinum Guardian. Requiem dashes over and cuts clean through the midsection Rex's robot. The boy quickly smacks a few buttons and the upper half of the mech transforms into a smaller exosuit around Rex and the lower half transforms into a robotic dog that pounces on Requiem. Rex's hud scanned the perimeter and red X's appeared over almost all of the hidden tunnels, all but one. Rex scoops Selene up by the ropes that bind her and flies into the hole that was greenlit on his overlay.
Above in the air, Skai flew around in circles gaining speed. "You're not getting dizzy are you?"
"IIIIII'MMMM REAAAAADDDDYYYYY! SHOOT ME! SHOOT ME! SHOOT ME!" Leo eagerly screams, holding on to dear life as Skai turns him into a living tornado.
"Here goes." Skai says with a smirk as she spins around one last time and hurls Leo at the incoming swarm.
"PIIIINNNNNBAAALLLLL EEEEEEEXXXX!!!!!" Leo yells as he beams down and bounce kicks between a hundred different creatures before gaining even more momentum and flying towards Father Paco, fist cocked.
Paco watches without a care in the world. A golden eye opens next to the Father. "Ah, Horus. How pleasant for you to join us. Have you come to watch me finally become your equal?" The eye focuses on Leo. "I take your silence as a yes. ADAM!"
Leo meets the fist of another with the force that sends everyone flying back except Paco. Leo lands on his feet and reels back. "Yes, my Lord." Comes from the man who matched Leo's blow, a man with a perfect physique like he was created by roman sculptors. The man, Adam, wore nothing but a leaf as he squatted down into a fighting stance.
Leo shakes his fist and guards his eyes. "Dude, what the fuck? Where are you-" Leo is cut off by being kicked in the face. The boy ragdolls across the arena and into one of the dozens of pathways, bouncing off the walls further into the tunnel. Adam leaps into the darkness after him.
"Woah! These guys are crazy." Coming from Juno, watching the battle below while hiding behind debris. "No wonder the Frat Cats got packed up so quickly."
"F-Fuck…you…" Said by a weak Chad, slumped against the wall as Xavier does his best to stop his bleeding.
"Shut it! You're opening your wounds. Just hold still for a bit longer." Xavier explains as tendrils from his body absorb blood from the surrounding area, purifies and injects it into Chad's body. The pros of having someone who can manipulate blood on your team.
"My…I lost my guys…It happened so fast." Chad cries into his remaining hand.
Eon's eyes shift to that of a hawk's and he zooms in on the battlefield, he watches the guy from A.R.E.S with white hair get tossed around by a large freak with a lance, then to the sky where three people were flying around and dispatching the bird creatures. Eon takes note of the guy Leo called Roy. The sky flashed in hues of blue as Roy conjured electrical charges back to back, frying the aerial cultists out the sky a dozen at a time.
The God's eye looks upwards to Eon's position and hardens its gaze. "Horus? What is it?" Father Paco asks.
"Exercitus Caeli!" Alayna commands as several blue knights emerge from her magic and begin slaying beasts in the air.
"ROOOOOAAAARRRR!" Screams from Michael bringing his massive weapon down onto Alayna who merely smirks and teleports away. Roy meets the blade with both of his own and uses the wind to match the creature's strength. Like a speeding bullet, Skai flies fist first into the creature's side. As it switches targets and tries to attack Skai, Roy chucks a katana into its face. It screams in pain and swings blindly while Skai tags him from all over like a relentless mosquito. Every time the blade nears Skai, Roy shocks the blade embedded in Michael's skull.
Michael swats at Roy, but being the strategist that he is, he turns into electricity and zips to his katana. Ripping it out of the "angel's" head and spinning like a top down its back, taking two wings with him. "LEGION! TO MEEEE!" Michael screams as the hundred or so flying creatures cease their fights with Alayna's soldiers and B-line to Michael.
"Not happening!" Roy says as he crosses his swords in front of him. "X-ecutor!" The winds violently swirl around Roy as he begins to spin. A vortex pulls in the cultists like a vacuum and dices them up like a blender.
"ROY LOOK OUT!" Skai yells as Michael's greatsword comes down on Roy from behind.
"CONSISTE!" Alayna commands as a blue energy holds Michael's weapon in place. The creatures grunts and groans trying to lift the sword. Roy sheathes his blades and cracks his knuckles.
"Everyone back up." Roy commands as electricity courses through his veins and his eyes turn blue. Thunder cracks and a bright light envelops the clouds causing Eon to look away.
Sniff, Sniff.
"You guys smell that?" Eon asks as his eyes lock onto Father Paco. "Smells like someone is frying some chicken." He says as charred winged creatures start dropping out the sky, when he returns his gaze to Father Paco, the priest was staring back at him. "Tsubasa! We ready yet?"
"One…sec…" Tsubasa replies with his eyes closed and veins popping out his forehead. The "Mastermind" was scanning the recent memories of everyone in the area to make a mental map in order to avoid any pitfalls or obstacles as well as locate any civilians who weren't fully converted. Similar to Roy's electromagnetic MRI, although Tsubasa's was a direct feed from the individual. It was as if Tsubasa was channel surfing through the eyes of everyone in a three-mile radius. Eventually his point of view shifts to a boy's, after a brief memory scan, he knows the boy's name is Owen.
The room was dimly lit by old tvs, arcade machines, and dusty computers. Nearly another hundred or so people drift aimlessly with some form of headset attached to them. One is strapped to Owen's head and the room breaks apart, revealing a bright and lush land all around him. Owen sees hundreds of people laughing, dancing, singing and frolicking around in the grass. "Wha-at?" The boy says.
A boy with light blue hair and eyes to match appears before him. "Hey, there! My name's Roko!"
"Uhh…Hi? Roko? I'm O-"
"Owen Murphy! I've read all your code! I think you'll fit in here! It took me a while but I think you'll be alright!" Roko explains.
"My code? Here? What is this? Where am I?" Owen stammers, confused as to why he can feel the sun and the winds on his skin.
"Heaven. Of course. Where else would you be?"
"H-h-eaven. B-but, I didn't die. Right?" Owen says as his chest tightens.
"Don't you wish that Heaven was a place you can come and go from. Well here it is. Soak it all in. Hey! I know what will make this easier for you. Let's play a game!" Roko says excitedly.
"A game?" Owen questions, shaking his head. "No! This isn't real! You're all fake! If this was actually Heaven then my-"
"Hey there, Champ." Craig Murphy says, appearing behind Owen. He was devoid of all injuries, both eyes intact, he was there. "I'm the real deal bud. Right between Go and Free Parking like she said."
"Dad?" Owen says, wiping tears out his eyes before jumping into his father's arms. They were so warm and full of care. He didn't want to leave them again. Roko simply smiled and waved.
"Kid. Don't believe it." A mental note appears in Owen's mind.
"What?" Owen asks.
"I didn't say anything. Come on, let's go see your mother!" Murphy says to his son.
A vision appears in Owen's third eye of a purple haired man coughing up blood.
BLEEEEUGHHH
Tsubasa throws up in front of the rest of the crew. Eon rushes over and places a hand on his shoulder. "Tsubasa! Are you alright?"
"I'm…fine…just over exerted myself, that's all." Tsubasa answers, not revealing what he just saw in the boy's mind. "I'm ready, let's begin."
BP's body crashes through a wall and into a chamber full of trees and flowers. He gets up slowly and shakes his head. God's Beauty steps into the room and saunters in a circle around our tired hitman. He cracks his neck and eyes the woman pacing around him. This is their second time meeting, but the first time he's seen her in full grotesque glory. BP counted roughly 13 eyes in different locations across her body, alongside 6 mouths and various ear and nose vents. These were the only gaps in her steel plated armor that BP couldn't discern whether it was worn or fused to her skin.
"You ready for round two, bitch?" BP says in labored breaths, rolling a revolver down his arm.
"I suppose you spoke to your mother like this as well, before you-"
FAHH
BP fires a shot aimed for her head but she drops low, impossibly low and scurries towards him. "Keep her name out your-" She scoops him up and chokeslams him into a tree. "...mouth…ths…"
"Drop your weapon and repent! The Father saw beauty in me, and I still see it in you too! In the Father's-"
"Nahhh, I'm taken already. Plus…you're too tall for me." BP responds while being choked out, using his free hand to rifle through his pockets. An eye on her outer thigh notices this and strains at the comment.
"You bastard!" She screams from all mouths as she knees him in the stomach and throws him to the floor. "I'll kill you!" She screams again while pouncing on him. "You fool, don't!" A mouth on her stomach warns, but it's too late as BP pulls a grenade from his pocket and pulls the pin.
As she lands on him, he smiles. "Gotcha!" BP laughs as the grenade explodes between them sending her flying back and rolling across the ground. BP cackles like a hyena as the smoke clears and his wounds stitch themselves up. "BOY, IT IS GREAT TO BE HEALING AGAIN! WHEW!" He gloats and hops onto his feet. As the dust clears off God's Beauty, she's left kneeling, her upper armor has been blown smooth off. The lips on her stomach were mangled and burned, as her bare breasts fell BP noticed two more eyes where her nipples should be. "Jesus Christ. This guy is really into some freaky shit, huh?"
"Don't you dare insult my God!" She manages to utter out before dropping her head low and using her lance to get up, wiping shards of her armor off her skin. "Time for bout number three, I presume?"
"I was waiting on you, Titty Monster." BP jests flipping a karambit into his hand, a gift from Selene.
In a dark tunnel dimly lit by torches, Leo gets up and cracks his neck. "Owwaaa. That hurt. Bitch ass motherfucker. Fuck." He says as he rubs his jaw. "Shit!" It stings as he gets near his neck. Leo begins to feel a burning in his chest again and rubs it with his hand. "There goes this shit again? Do I have high cholesterol or some shit?"
"Such a disrespectful tongue in such Holy Grounds. You truly are despicable enough to attack the Father." Adam says, approaching slowly.
"Dude, give me like thirty seconds. I think I'm having a heart attack, or a stroke or something." Leo says as he breathed in and out rapidly.
"Such a reaction is expected in the presence of his greatness!" Adam says as he extends his right leg to the ceiling for an axe kick. Leo guards his eyes as Adam's leaf lifts up and rolls out of the way.
"Dude, what the fuck! Put some fucking clothes on! I'm not fighting a naked nigga! You guys are freaked the fuck out!" Leo stammers while looking away.
"You've been brainwashed by sin. This is true freedom!" Adam says as he swings on Leo. Despite being unaware, Leo feels a subtle shift in the air, sidesteps and rocks Adam's jaw with an uppercut.
Leo opens his eyes to see Adam reeling back and pushing his jaw back into place. "Hell yeah! Just wait until I tell Dogman about this." Leo says with a smile before putting his fists up.
"You can tell everyone in Hell when I send you there." Adam says as he puts his fists up as well.
"You better hope Eve isn't around. I might fuck around and take your bitch! Run it, pussy!" Leo says as the two charge at one another.
In another tunnel, Rex and Selene flew through the maze-like structure. "Omg, Leenie! This is just like you and Birdie's chase scene in episode 236 of Trevor's show! He's going to be so excited to see you're alive and well."
"Wouldn't bet on it. It's probably better off if he thinks I'm dead!" Selene spat.
"Don't say that! Trevor acts like he doesn't care, but deep down-"
"Deep down he's a sociopath! He just happens to be a sociopath that pays very well." Selene says while rolling her eyes.
"Well he cares about me! When I arrived back at my school's auditorium six months ago, nobody remembered me, my family assumed I was either lost or dead and moved on. The school wasn't even there anymore, I found out that it was torn down for a parking lot after the incident. But Trevor found me, took me in, gave me a home, and friends…" Rex reveals.
"Rex….we aren't your friends…" Selene says bluntly with a ball in her throat.
RAHHHHHHH
A deafening screech echoes through the tunnel, breaking Rex's exosuit apart and causing them to roll across the floor. The fall causes Selene's binds to finally rip. "What was that?!" Rex silently looks at his hands.
"What can I say, Cerabhim? You were right." A voice echoes through the tunnels followed by the sound of heels clicking. "Seems some sinners found your exit. How foolish of them indeed."
"Who's there!" Selene questions as she flicks out her karambit. "Come on, Rex! Let's g-" She grabs the boy's arm but he pushes her off and sits down in the scraps of his creation.
"No. Go without me." Rex says as he picks up spare parts to salvage.
"C'mon, Rexxx. I didn't mean it like that!"
"Well, what did you mean, Selene? Trevor was right, you are a meanie!"
"A meanie?! What the f- Are you serious right now?! Look, we can talk about this later, but first we need to get out of here." Selene says bewildered.
"Looks like the new convert that the Father was making an example out of and a non-converted pup…Yes…To Leviathan's chamber, you say? Yes, of course. What about the woman?...Yes, understood." The disembodied voice converses as the heels click closer. Selene shivers down her spine as she can't see anyone approaching from either end and with all the echoes it's difficult to hear where it's coming from. "Up here!" The voice says as Selene and Rex look towards the ceiling where the silhouette of a figure draped in darkness can be seen.
"Leviathan? I think that's where Owen is! We have to go-"
"Come with me, child." The figure says, now kneeling beside Rex. Selene didn't even see them move. They were draped in some sort of black cloth, face covered all but chin and lips.
"When did you?" Selene doesn't finish her question as she's blown backwards by the figure standing up and expanding their cloak. It wasn't cloth, but bat-like wings, revealing a curvy physique underneath. She extends her slender arms around Rex and picks him up. "I can be your friend, my name is Chiro. Let me save you from this wicked woman."
"Not so fast!" Selene says as she gets up and runs to the bat-woman. "Don't you lay a fi-"
RAHHHHHHH
The bat lady screams as Selene is blown away by a sonic blast. "As I was saying, these tunnels are no place for a child. Hold on tight, will you?" Chiro says politely as she flies through the tunnels with Rex in tow.
THOOOOOMMMM
In the center chamber, the last of Father Paco's angels have fallen to the ground followed by a brief shower of bloodied rain. Requiem slices through Rex's robotic mutt and gets off the ground.
ZIIIIIIIIIP
Requiem's detached hand returns to him like it was fished back to him after dropping Owen off. Father Paco saunters over to Michael's corpse who lays with his remaining arm stretched out. The assault from Roy left the angel charred, fried, and cut down to a single wing and arm. Paco brushes his hand across the creature and pats him. "Requiem! To the skies!"
"Yes, my lord!" Requiem responds and wastes no time scaling the ruins of the church and leaping into the sky.
"Skai! Alayna! Help whoever's on the ground so we can wrap this up! This guy is all me." Roy commands as he sees a glint of blades piercing through the air in his direction.
"BEGONE DEFILER!" Requiem screams as a flurry of slashes spread across the sky. Roy smirks as he freezes the air in front of them, giving them enough time to fly away. Requiem crashes through the ice shield and meets Roy's blade.
"ICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" Roy jests as he can fully flex his strength. A dark storm swirls above him as his eyes glow blue once more. "LET'S HAVE A MORE GROUNDED CONVERSATION!" Roy commands as lightning strikes them both to the ground floor and creating an even bigger crater.
Father Paco holds onto Michael's corpse as the ground shakes again. Regaining his posture and taking off his bloodstained cloak to reveal a pristine white and yellow suit. He steps around the debris and looks into the hole for a moment.
"Father?" Michael says weakly. The Father turns around and raises a brow. "Father…please…save me."