"You're too arrogant, Mo Wang!" another Masked Fool yelled. "Who do you think you are?! A mere newcomer, talking to Lord Aha like that?!"
"Newcomer?" Mo Wang sneered. "Is that all you people know how to do? Pull rank? Let me tell you, true power isn't measured by seniority. If you don't believe me, come and try me. We'll see who the real 'garbage' is."
The man flinched, unwilling to take the bait.
"Alright, everyone, calm down," Aha said, stepping in. "Mo Wang is my new Emanator. We're all on the same team now."
"But Lord Aha, he's out of control!"
"Is he?" Aha smiled slyly. "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Make him apologize!"
"Yeah! He has to apologize!"
"And he has to be punished!"
"Apologize?" Mo Wang laughed. "You think I'm going to apologize to a bunch of garbage?"
"Alright, alright," Aha said again. "Let's all just calm down. You've all seen what Mo Wang can do. He's earned the right to say what he wants. We're all about results here, after all."
They were a little too happy about all this. This is exactly what I was hoping for, Aha thought. This kid is a natural!
"Heh, you still don't believe me," Mo Wang said, shaking his head. "Let's take the two best among you as an example. First, Miss Sparkle. In my opinion, you're not a purveyor of Elation; you're just a madwoman."
"Why are you dragging me into this again?" Sparkle muttered.
"You're a clown who thinks the whole galaxy is your personal circus. You package malice as humor and call it art. You're constantly playing with bombs and puppets. Do you really think that's funny? It's old, it's boring, and it's pathetic. And you call yourself an artist of chaos? You're just a self-absorbed, overgrown child."
Vita couldn't help but laugh. Even after all this time, Mo Wang's tongue was as sharp as ever. Sparkle just smiled, but the doll in her hand was starting to grow...
"And you, Miss Vita, you're not much better!" Mo Wang was on a roll now. "You're not a purveyor of Elation, you're a purveyor of riddles! Your planet was destroyed, and you just laugh it off, dragging everyone else into your messed-up games? You're even crazier than she is!"
"And these two are supposed to be the best of you? I'm about to die of laughter! No wonder Preservation and the Mourning Actors look down on you. You're all useless!" He looked at them with an expression of utter disappointment.
Hey, that sounds like he's insulting me too, Aha thought.
"That's it! I've had enough of this guy!" A Masked Fool grabbed a chair and charged the stage.
The rest of the crowd followed suit, grabbing whatever they could find.
"Hahaha! Yes! This is it! Chaos is the purest form of Elation!" Mo Wang met the first attacker with a punch to the face. The others fell in a heap, a chaotic mess of flailing limbs and groans of pain.
"Is that all you've got?!" Mo Wang laughed. "You call yourselves heralds of Elation? You can't even handle a little chaos?"
The crowd, which had little experience with actual brawling, was no match for him. They tripped over each other, creating a stampede of their own making.
"Hey! Who's touching my butt?! You pervert!"
"Get off me! I'm down here!"
"Who pushed me?! I'll kill you!"
"You bumped into me!" one of them roared.
"So what? You were in my way!" another roared back, and a punch was thrown.
The scene descended into a full-blown brawl. It was every fool for themself, a chaotic symphony of fists, chairs, and bottles.
"Hahaha! Yes! This is it!" Mo Wang stood in the center of it all, laughing maniacally. "This is true Elation! Abandon all rules, all reason! Let chaos reign!"
The fighting grew more and more frenzied, a whirlwind of violence and absurdity.
"Hahaha! Pathetic! You can't even coordinate your attacks! You're a bunch of amateurs!"
Who would have thought that the Masked Fools, the masters of chaos, would be reduced to a bunch of street thugs, beating each other up?
"Get down here!" another one tried to climb the stage, only to be pulled down by his ankle.
Even Aha was in tears of joy.
"You scoundrel! Take this!" They joined the fray, throwing punches like a common brawler, all semblance of an Aeon gone.
The other Fools, completely lost in the madness, didn't care who They were. They just hit back.
"They're all insane!" Vita muttered, knocking out a Fool who had lunged at her. She was starting to regret coming here.
"Isn't this fun?" Sparkle said, a genuine smile on her face. "It's been a while since we've had a party like this."
"Alright, everyone! And now, for my final performance!" Mo Wang declared, a strange light emanating from his body.
"Killer Queen's first bomb! Blow it all away!"
The entire auditorium was engulfed in a blinding white light, and in that light, there was silence.