Of Sin & Virtue

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Ratchet and Clank were zooming through space in their ship, heading towards Disney Castle. The group needed travel amongst the worlds so they needed to bring their ship to transport their team. It was only a one seater but there was room in the back for the others to jump in.
"I am detecting clashing of blades in the world below us, Ratchet and the planet does involve a castle."
Ratchet nodded.
"Hold on Clank. This may be a bumpy ride"
The ship screamed through the atmosphere of Disney Castle and soared in high speeds towards the gardens. As soon as the lombax found a safe point to free jump, he climbed out of the vehicle and free glided in the skies. As his vision improved, he noticed Willheim about to attack a fellow member of their team; their leader, Zuko. With his long ears slapping his cheeks, he managed to slow down and slam down Joshua with his metal wrench and flipped over to the platform, joining alongside the Fire Prince (I don't know which Zuko it is? Is it Fire Lord or Fire Prince?) The lombax grabbed a rocket launcher out of his right pocket, which was small but carried many weapons. It was larger than it actually was. This rocket launcher was funnily called the Arbiter. His gun was at the ready to impound a 3 rocket barrage at his enemy.
"Bring it on, dirtbag" he said with a grin.
Clank landed the ship and immediately ran out to help Ratchet but he only managed to reach the stairs. The others meanwhile were at the main hallways. It would take him a long time to reach there.

 

Joshua started to control it's maneuvering abilities and started to focus it's attack back on Zuko. Joshua raised its hand in the air, storing energy until a ball of energy was formed. it then threw it at Ratchet and Zuko and then flew right by Sasuke's side. "Joshua. That young boy with the power over fire. Capture him and copy his data. not only that, I need you to find either the king or queen of that castle and copy their powers. This will further our plans."

Wilheim spoke those words to Joshua and it agreed, going back into battle mode to start supporting Sasuke.

 

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Ratchet aimed his gun at Sasuke and Joshua. Clank was still running towards him.
"Wait, Ratchet!" he yelled.
Ratchet shot the three barrages of rockets towards the two enemies, seeking onto them like homing missiles.
Clank sighed, after stating, "Too late"
Clank jumped out of the way, as the rockets homed in. Ratchet, afterwards unveiled dual bladed lazers that were formed into swords.
"I'm ready to fight" the small lombax told Zuko. He only reached to Zuko's ankles but the positive about that was he was very agile.

 

(OOC: @Ventus: technically he's Fire Lord now, but Prince just sounds more natural since he was called that throughout the series)

Zuko was both startled and injured by the interference of some robotic creature and then more shocked by his own ally coming in to attack it. As he gathered his swords and got back into his stance he figured a quick mention of the enemy would be good. "Thanks for the help. I managed to to find out a bit about that guy before you and the other thing arrived. His name is Sasuke; he's working for Sin just for power. He's pretty fast and can use fire and lightning techniques, but that doesn't seem to be all. He just did something with his eyes, so we'd better be careful." Zuko warned.

Sasuke on the other hand was pissed off. When the robot came over by him Sasuke angrily kicked it back. "Stay the hell outta my way. I can handle this myself."

 

Joshua didn't heed to his intentions at all. Joshua started to raise its left arm and its wings started to change, turning it into a sword and went into its hand. Joshua started to raise its other hand and stored some more energy. Joshua then flew the energy at it, small beams started to fly around to try and hit Zuko, Ratchet and Clank. it then started to fly straight at Zuko and was ready to swing its sword.

 

"I said STAY THE HELL OUTTA MY WAY!" Sasuke yelled as he rushed in. As Sasuke neared the robot he kicked it away again before continuing at Zuko.

"You take care of the machine!" Zuko ordered before dodging the energy attack and then blocking a flurry of slashes from Sasuke. As the two exchanged blows, Zuko started to notice more and more that Sasuke's movements began to mimic his own. To the point that Zuko might've thought Sasuke studied under the same teacher. He locked blades with Sasuke and glared at him. "How are you copying me?"
"What? Don't like your own style? This is just one power of my Sharingan!" Sasuke yelled as he jumped back and launched a new fireball jutsu at the firebender. Zuko easily countered the flame with his own before he covered his swords in fire and began to attack Sasuke. The shinobi grinned and charged his blade with lightning before rushing back into the fray.

 

Tsukuyomi was briefly surprised at the sudden change in gravity,this moment allowing some of the Vulcan shots to hit her.Narrowing her eyes she jumped into the air,using her blades to deflect the Vulcan rounds that she would not be able to dodge.Flipping and landing on the ceiling she quickly dashed towards Jak,but then found herself falling as gravity returned to normal.Landing fave first on the floor,she quickly got to her knees and rubbed her head.

"Oww...that really hurt you know?Playing with gravity like that..."She said to Jak before standing up."It is rather interesting though.However,I think it is time to find the King.Hopefully we can play longer next time!" She said before putting the sword in he right hand diagnol to the ground,the tip touching the floor."Shin Raikōken" she said,lightning dancing along the sword before concetrating at the point of the sword,blasting out in an explosion.Using the smoke and debris from the blast as cover she quickly escaped,going down the hallway that the King and Queen had used to escape her.

 

" Leave immediately. We have better things to attend to." Joshua nodded as it stood right back up from Sasuke's attack. Joshua then turned back around and headed for the sky to try and find the Queen. "Start scanning the whole place. "She's around there somewhere."

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"LADY VIRTUE!!! LADY VIRTUE!!! WHERE IS SHE?!!" The maidens started to rush the android into a room where the researchers were conducting their tests on weapons. "THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!! A BRIGHT LIGHT FROM THE HEAVENS!! SHE'S BEEN HURT! WE CAN'T FIND HER MAJESTY!" One of the director of the lab started to run by the android's side and panicked. "This is not good! This is not good at all! MACHINA A!!! You go and gather the compartments! DELTA C! You go and gather the external parts for her! WE NEED TO FIX HER NERVOUS SYSTEM!!

The other maidens then started to run out of the laboratory, deciding to go to Virtue's throne room...

 

Ratchet pulled out a weapon with an artificial pig's head sticking out of it. He stepped in front of Zuko and suddenly the creature belched at a high frequency, causing Joshua to be thrown backwards. Clank thrown a bomb, which delayed Joshua from getting up and he was much slower than he was before to the point of being only 1/8 of the speed he was. As long as Joshua was in the blue dome like area, he would be slower.
"Get him, Ratchet" Clank told Ratchet.
Ratchet grinned. "Gladly."
Ratchet grabbed the Arbiter again, fully loaded with his three rockets. He aimed it at his head and fired them. They entered into the slip stream, slowed down and Clank hoped that Joshua did not see the rockets in time.

 

Jak managed to seek cover behind a pillar in the castle to avoid the blast. He got back up and saw that she had rounded a corner, running away from him. "Wait!" he shouted, running after her. He was starting to catch up to her when he was thrown off balance by a high-frequency sound. (Rachet's gun obviously) Getting up, he walked threw the hole in the wall previously made by him to find his comrades. He cupped his hands to make his voice louder, "Guys! Where's Tsukuyomi?"

 

Sora started to look around the garden of the Hyrule castle, wondering where the rest of his team members were at. "LET ME GO!!! HEELP!" Sora started to hear a lady started to scream and headed towards the echoing. As he kept on running, he saw some dust settled in and saw a woman held captive. "Who... who are you?" Said the woman being set in a shield created by a young man who were relaxing. "You... you must be the princess! And you... you must be one of Sin's cronies that Virtue was talking about." Sora summoned his Kingdom Key and took his battle stance into action. "How about you let her go and we can just pretend that none of this has ever happened."

 

"Aww, that's a cute toy dear, but it won't help you here," Joshua said looking at Sora. Looking more closely at him, Joshua took a step back, "You look just like him......." Joshua smirked and trapped Zelda in a shield and moved her to the side and began moving towards Sora, the light around him getting brighter, "Heh heh.....let's see if you can fight him."

 

"Fight him? Fight who? And what do you mean that I look just like him? You must be mental. I guess I have to teach you a lesson." Sora started to run towards Joshua at a fast pace and jumped into the air at a great elevation. Sora started to come straight down and try to use his Finishing Leap ability. "POWER!!!"
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The A.M.W.S started to scan the whole castle, trying to find and intercept the rulers of Disney Castle. Joshua started to look around and started to pick up a small signal in energy. It started to fly straight for the resource and several seconds later, it saw that a young man (Will) and two mouses were fighting off a few heartless in the process. "You can try to capture and copy all three of their abilities Joshua but our main concern is to have the Queen." Wilheim stopped speaking to his A.M.W.S and it agreed. It landed onto the ground floor and started to stare at the young man (Will)

 

As Will finished the last demon he saw the newcomer. He twirled his sword and readied it in front of himself. "Who are you?" He asked, readying himself because he had a feeling this was not a friendly being. As he readied he realized that he felt Gaia's presence, which meant that he had some of his powers back. As he charged his dash ability he readied for the impact of when he hit the creature.

 

Joshua started to go into his offensive stance; it was preparing itself for Will to come closer to start attacking. The machine started to glide in the air with elegance; it's shoulders started to flip over and started to shoot out several energy missiles at the young boy and then started to raise it's hand, preparing a spell. Wilheim started to connect with Joshua's communication and Wilheim changed his voice; His voice was bold with arrogance. "I AM HEINLEIN! YOU SHALL GIVE YOURSELF TO US FULLY!"

 

Will used the remaining energy from Gaia to create a shield to block the balls, but it was barely enough as he soared forward, shoving his sword into Joshua's shoulder. He tore it to the side and jumped back. He started to draw on the weak power left in the air yet realized it wasn't Gaia, yet magic from the demons in the area. He was using polluted magic! But as long as he survived he would use it to get out of here.

 

"WILL!" Minnie started to shout for him as Joshua staggered but still was attempting to use it's spell. "That is not enough to stop my own temple!" the machine started to charge a pink ball created out of it's energy and it was large enough that Wilheim shot it towards Minnie. Minnie tried to use a pearl spell to stop it; the attack wasn't enough to delay it and it engulfed Minnie. "HEEELP!" "Now copying data." Joshua then started to switch into his defensive mode. The A.M.W.S then started to look straight at the young boy and raised both of its hands. Purple lasers started to come forth and headed straight for him. "You should stay your sword and back down! Your will to even fight in this war is inevitable. Your actions will only enhance the destruction of the universe!"

Wilheim started to smile as he saw that everything is according to plan. He turned back around and saw that Sin still didn't respond to his questions. "I guess I can give him a little bit more to think upon my words."

 

Will charged, jumping and kicking Joshua in the chest to knock him back.As he caught himself and landed on his feet he felt a spike in magic, meaning more of the demons were in the area. Will grinned at this and charged magic, engulfing himself in a fireball. As the fireball faded Will landed on the floor, feet first. He was now in a suit of black armor with two gold swords around the same shape as his previous ones yet longer. As he lifted both the swords he shot a fireball from the tip of one of them, hitting Joshua in the chest. He swung the other one at the pink sphere that held Minnie, stopping the copying process.

 

Joshua was starting to take a lot of damage, scanning himself to see that he ahd taken twenty percent of damage to his core. "I guess that I shouldn't have taken it easy on you! I, HEINLEIN, SHALL NOT LET YOU COME OUT VICTORIOUS!!" Joshua then started to raise its hands as Wilheim was pouring a little bit of his powers within the machine. "ANIMA!!" Joshua started to stand back up; a dark aura started to surround it. Joshua then raised both of its hands into the air and was slowly gliding towards the roof. "CHERUBIM'S CATARACT!!!" A powerful, booming wave was created in the process as Wilheim made Joshua bring out its sword and swing it, heading straight at the young boy and hitting him; the force send him straight into a wall and Minnie along with him. Mickey raised up his own keyblade and created a light to try and protect himself but he was still blown away.

"NOW YOU KNOW ONLY BUT A SMALL FRACTION OF HEINLEIN! SIN SHALL SWALLOW YOU!" Joshua started to fly quickly at Will, aiming to end the fight quickly and to annihilate him...

 

Will kicked off the wall, , stibbing at Joshua with one sword while slicing at his arm with the other, aiming to remove it. He couldn't lose with this much magic in the air. He had never tasted this much power coursing through his veins. As he felt his feet hit the floor he surrounded his swords with fire. He wanted to finish this here and now.