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Chapter 79 - The Cube: Cold Engagement

(General POV)

Location the New Earth, North Pole: Within the Cube

Deep inside the Cube, in a jointure of paths, stairs, and platforms of ice and frozen crystals, Invincible and Atom Eve were soaring across the area, attacking the infamous Laughing Destroyer, Kefka, who was making fun at the young Guardians, by dodging all the attacks of the two lovers and superheroes in a ridiculous manner, that involves wild evasions, blowing raspberries, and smacking his butt at the two, occasionally firing back a spell, ranging from blizzara, thundara, and fira spells at them.

Only for Aqualad to join the fight again, using blasts of water to protect his comrades, as the half-viltrimite swung fists and smash through everything to hit the mismatched clown, but again Kefka just acted as a fool, teleporting behind of Aqualad, floating upside down with his right hand surging with fire magic, as he spoke in a teasing tone, "Let's cook some fish, shall we?" as a full-powered firaga was charging through Kefka's hand.

Kalder reacted from the danger, he spun around, swing a water made scimitar-like blade, but he was too slow, as a massive red, orange, scarlet, and magenta fireball was just floating in between these two, seeing this great danger, Kalder...Aqualad instead of attacking either Kefka or the magical fireball, he struck the ice bridge, shattering it and falling through the ice.

He barely avoided the massive, and powerful fiery explosion, but the shockwave still managed to touch him, knocking him faster in his freefall, Kefka landed and stomped his foot, breaking what remains of the icy surface that he stood, saying over and over, "No fair!!" then saying, "You were suppose to die in the explosion!!! Why ruin the fun!!?" speaking the rest in a whining tone, as the Infernal Lord was about to chase after the falling fish boy, a blue and yellow costume wearing hero, blurred over with his right fist pulled back, and about to swing.

Kefka frown as the punch came flying towards his face, he said, "You know..." being punched so hard that a expanding shockwave occurred, and Kefka went flying, still talking as he was blasted through the air, "...you're really starting to bug me, kid." thus Kefka crashed through a icy wall off the way, Invincible smirking, before he flew down to catch Aqualad.

Meanwhile Eve, flew over her pink matter energy shining brightly, ready to fire at any sign of the freak of a clown, when she started listening to wicked giggling, as the frost and "dust" clouds, were clearly away, a pale hand swiped out the cloud, as Kefka started laughing, fully revealing himself.

Showing little if not any sign of damage from Invincible's last punch, Kefka floated lightly out the crater that he made with Invincible's help, Kefka was fighting to control his laughter, as Invincible flew back up, with Aqualad in his hand, helping the Atlantean to a stand on nearby frozen surface, they watched as Kefka made a unhitched performance, Aqualad he flinched, as he thought that Kefka reminded him of a super-powered Joker, a thought that greatly disturbed Kalder, then he and the other heroes watched as Kefka slowly controlled his laughter, as he said, "Sorry, sorry, sorry. Despite the little punk, annoying me... I'll admit that this soo much fun!! So..." snapping his finger on his right hand, several Trine manifested and were closing in on the heroes, as he finished what he was saying. "...let's keep the fun going. Shall we!!?" as the chaotic crystal shard spell, closed in on his playmate, forcing them to move...

Another part of the Cube, another fight is soon gonna start...Wonder Girl, Dupli-Kate, Blue Beetle, and Spoiler they finally arrived at a large chamber as a platform with several ice bridges connected to it, was right in front the five young superheroes.

Spoiler, she looked around with her metallic pole in her purple gloved hands, she commented, "Are we sure that Freeze didn't design this place?" this made both Blue Beetle and Wonder Girl laugh a bit, especially the amazon princess, as she was forced to land, as flying while laughing is mistake...something that all young fliers learn the hardway.

While Kate...not being from their world, she is completely clueless on who Mr. Freeze is, so she just shrugged and started walking a bit further into the chamber, walking over a ice bridge, heading towards the large platform in the center, her many years of training have gave Dupli-Kate a six sense of sort...she immediately created a clone, leaping away from her duplicate as a stream of various frost and blue hit the clone, freezing the clone into a solid ice sculpture, another death that she'd experienced and barely was able to escape.

As a man wearing a blue heavy coat with a furred hooded-edge, a blue goggles on his eye, and holding a large sleek gun, with electric blue lighting on this weapon, Dupli-Kate, as she got into a martial art stance, with Spoiler rushing beside her with Blue Beetle and Wonder Girl floating behind the two heroines, Kate watched as this man.

Snart raised his cold-gun, looking at the kids in front of him, cursing his luck, as he'd thought of everything that he could come across in this frozen maze, he'd never expected to take on metahumans, he has enough of this from the Scarlet Speedster, and all the other heroes of Central City, reaching up with his black gloved hand up to his hood, removing it, showing himself fully, Dupli-Kate was surprised how handsome this guy is, groaning, as she thought to herself, "How come good looking guys, are always assholes?" Capt. Cold tapped his cold-gun onto his shoulder.

He spoke in a clear complaining tone, "Why must my fortune, always be so poor? Wondering around this place, and instead of goods, I get heroes... Lucky me." Spoiler was tired already, she has to deal with a lot of whining psychos back home, she draws the line in other place, in a swift motion she reached and threw one of her own batarangs, only her's being a deep purple, as three of these rangs flew straight at Capt. Cold.

Seeing the upcoming rangs at him, his years fighting against the Flash, has granted Capt. Cold with some heightened reflexes, quickly firing a cold-stream at the throwing weapons, as this happened, Stephanie yelled at the group to rush in, and bring the beatdown to Capt. Cold.

Blue Blue immediately flew forwards, mentally commanding his scarab to turn his hands into blasters, as a surge of sapphire energy both armored platted arms became a pair of blue oval-shaped cannons, as Jaime fired his cannons, as light electric blue blasts started firing from these cannon, all energy projectiles flying towards Capt. Cold, who just destroyed Spoiler's previous bat-shaped projectiles.

Snart saw the attacks of the blue insect armored punk, and also the purple themed, blondie, grappling over to him with a pole ready to strike, plus two other little heroines, also rushing over to him, so in response he aimed his cold-gun down firing a cold stream onto the floor, forming a ice-wall to cover behind, as the Jaime's blasts impacted and burst against the surface of the ice structure, Stephanie, readjusted herself placing her feet against the ice-wall and leaping off of it, as Wonder Girl in her golden haired glory, flew straight at the ice-wall with a smirk spread on her face, with a powerful punch she'd destroyed Snart's makeshift barricade.

But while they were focused on the ice-wall, Capt. Cold used that cover to gain some distance and run to another part of the chamber with a smile on his face, he'd aimed his cold-gun firing a cold stream at Wonder Girl who quickly crossed her arms, with her silver braces directly in the line of fire of the cold-stream, hitting these enchanted braces, shielding the young amazon princess from fully freezing, as Dupli-Kate made her move, creating several clones of herself and they helped three of her, leap off a allie-up.

Then two of the duplicates grabbed onto the main Kate, throwing her straight at Capt. Cold, performing a diving punch at the infamous Rogue, as their battle is just starting...someone was barely containing himself, as he watched through the shadows, his eager excitement, causing a feedback throughout all the comms in the chamber, causing Spoiler, Capt. Cold, and the others wince in discomforting pain, Wonder Girl even pulled out her comm, as she crushed the tiny comm in her hand.

Alastor he chuckled, waiting for the right moment to show himself, as the star always has a big presentation for an appearance, as he continue to watch, inching closer through the subtle shadows around the chamber...

Location the Void of the Forsaken, Castle Nightscream; Throne Chamber

Back in the throne chamber of Castle Nightscream, Cyn, Jinx, and the minions were cheering, as the fights happening allover the Cube was soo entertaining to watch, Arakune was causing utterly chaos and havoc on the archers, kunoichi-assassin, and robot-arm punk, Golem is still looking for his own opponents, Kefka was being his usual crazy self, playing and toying against his opponents as the Viltrimite, Atlantean, and lastly matter and physic bending woman, that leaves the other flamboyant, and highly performing sadistic cannibal, the Radio Demon, waiting for the perfect moment to show himself, and enjoy his own fight.

Mao was sterilely entertained as the Chaos Points keep pouring in, a new prompt appeared before the Lord of the Forsaken, right at the corner of his vision, as the system said [Congratulations you've just earned 100000 CP.] then another prompt, [Congratulations you've just earned 121500 CP.] and still more prompts were pilling on.

There are still more DC and Marvel character yet to join the party, turning to he's wives, as a sharp jagged smile was spreading on his pale face, calling for his wives, gaining Morrigan, Lilithmon, Shego, Vector, Looma, Jinx, and Cyn's attention...with Cyn having a bloody chunk of meat, hanging out her mouth, and covering her face is gore...making her both creepy and adorable, as she spoke, "Munch. Swallow. Yes babe? What do you need, want some man-meat? It's very tasty." Mao chuckled, reaching over and not caring about the gore, he kissed his eldritch drone wife on the lips, making Cyn very happy and embarrassed as her sister-wives giggle.

A happy blush spread across Cyn's face, speaking, "Shily covers face. Flustered. Honey...babe, please not in front of my drone minions." as she said that, all the maid uniformed murder drones, weren't as subtle as they believed, as they watched with glee at the show, hearing their lady say those words, they snapped back to attention and went back to work, a red minion saying, "Shinnie girls, no so good at acting." a green in a devilish sounding tone spoke next, "Yeah, yeah. They make Quaver, actually good." after saying that all the minions started laughing hysterically, as this surprised Mao.

He didn't expect his rumbustious little gremlins to anything about the iconic Overlord Jester...mentally shrugging as it was not as important as what is going to happen, licking up the remnants of blood from his lips, Mao addressed his wives telling them that their still Rick Flag, Katana, Luthor, Shiva, Sin, Attuma, and couple more heroes, villains...and anti-villains, yet to face off against one of them, so he thought that this gave them a opportunity to have a fun, Mao asking his wives that "which of them wants to have some fun?" immediately Looma, Morrigan, Shego, and Jinx's gazes were filled with excited bloodlust...but before any of those three could voice their wish to go and join the mayhem, the most calmest and graceful among them spoke.

It was Lilithmon speaking clearly and elegantly that she wants to join the fun, stating it's been a while since she'd tormented anyone, saying this as her claws extended, menacing around the glass cup of wine she'd held, Mao laughed a bit more, before asking the others if they were okay with Lilithmon taking this show, Looma while a bit disappointed, she stated that her senior sister has seniority and the rite to take these battle, Shego shrugged already over it, Morrigan giggled lovely, asking her sister-wife to make the victims scream for her, Lilithmon laugh and promised to do so for her fellow demoness sister, and lastly Jinx, she whined and pouted, stating next time she'll wreck and blow shit up...also telling Lilithmon to enjoy herself, with that the purple kimono wearing, geisha-styled demon lord digimon is about to join the chaos on the North Pole, before sending her to the New Earth, Mao telepathically told his Infernal Lords that Lilithmon is on her way, as well as the last guests for the next clue to the Nature's Heart.

Location the New Earth, North Pole: Within the Cube

After a while...Sin leading the remaining HYDRA troops have made it inside the Cube, the lost of Electro didn't deter the granddaughter of the Red Skull, instead it ignited her anger and fanatical reverence to Skull, immediately upon entering and looking over the massive, vast labyrinth of ice and frost, she tugged on the sleeve of her black heavy coat, scoffing loudly, turning to the troop commanding them to scouring the whole structure, dividing all the HYDRA soldiers, mech operators, and some even on smaller snow vehicles throughout the paths, stairways, and doorways on their view.

Sin, she stood next to massive men beside her, a light blue-skinned and yellow armored, Atlantean warlord, Attuma on one side and a huge behemoth, wearing a power suit, modeled after a rhinoceros, Rhino.

Telling Attuma and Rhino their free to do as they wished, just killed everyone and anyone that they encounter, this made both behemoths smile, Rhino jumped across the vast chasm, aiming to go the more "scenic" route, Attuma lead his Atlantean brethren and subordinates across a ice bridge, Sin reached into her coat, unzipping it, revealing a heavy machine gun, cocking the gun, as she went on her own path, with some HYDRA soldiers saluting and following behind the red haired, red themed, femme-fatale and granddaughter of their exulted leader.

As everyone has made it to the Cube, all either in or about to engage in brutal combats, as Rhino landed on a far off entrance, walking through the doorway, making Alastor smile, seems that his massive companion, was about to get his wish to face off against one of the people that made him angry, as the Radio Demon watched his targets, still showing a great performance, and now one of the Ladies of the Forsaken is about to join this little game, he could hardly contain himself, making some small magical manipulations to the Cube's infrastructure to make sure Golem and Rhino get their next bout between them, as his smile never faltered, as he watched Capt. Cold jump off the edge of the platform, avoiding a attack from the blonde amazonian princess, he thought that he'll truly enjoy himself... 

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