Beuce groaned as he was slammed into the ground, followed by a massive boot driving him further down. The wind left his lungs, and he gasped, struggling to fill them with oxygen once again. He reached up, pushing against the man with a growl of exertion. His eyes slid over to Kaida and Aux. AJ was quickly dealt with. Kaida stepped forward to No Heart and Beuce gritted his teeth in frustration. "KAIDA!" Beuce shouted out in rage. "You think we fought all this way just so you could go and sacrifice yourself?! Give us a little more respect than that! We're not going to lose you or anyone else! If you want to go and get yourself killed so easily, then why did we fight tooth and nail through this whole time?! We're going to win. We're going to win..." The second one was muttered, more to himself. He looked up at the No Heart clone above him. They'd done nothing but hit wall after wall this entire time. They'd always managed to climb over it, but this one was so dauntingly high it seemed to stretch into forever. He gritted his teeth. They'd never given up before, and he didn't intend to start now. The tasks before them had always looked impossible, but every single time, they'd gotten through it together. "Well, I've never had glass ribs before..." He slammed his fist against the ground, channeling magic through it. A bright light appeared beneath Beuce, and exploded against his back. The enhanced physical force from his strength pushed him upward violently, giving him the shove he needed to break away from the clone. However, he heard a loud crack as No Heart was shoved off him. Pain radiated radiated through his chest. "Don't you dare give up on us. We won't give up on you..." The man called to Kaida.
Beuce struggled with everything he had against the stop spell, but it was far too powerful for him to break. No Heart walked up and spoke to Aux, the only one who remained unfrozen. It seemed like Kaida had all but told the future. Aux turned against No Heart, refusing to follow his orders to murder his friend, but his true intentions mattered very little. No Heart ignited the darkness inside Aux and took control of him. Beuce's eyes went wide as the hulking man walked ominously towards Kaida. He ordered every muscle in his body to tear through the magic. He pleaded with the Shedim Lords to give him the power to do something. Anything. They were finally on the right track. They were masters. They couldn't possibly be this powerless. Beuce would've screamed in frustration if he could move his mouth. He was helpless. But they weren't all helpless. Steel awakened a power from within himself and broke free of the stop spell, delivering a kick to No Heart, breaking his concentration and freeing them. Wasting no time, Beuce spun on his heels to face No Heart. A.J. and Hikaru had gone to protect Kaida. "Beat some sense into him, will you?!" Beuce called out to the three. There was a time when they wouldn't have stood a chance, but not anymore. They had the power to fight back. "We'll deal with this." He said, glaring at No Heart and his clones. He held his keyblade forward, parallel to the ground, and its power was awakened. The two gems that acted as the keychains began to shine and transfer their energy into the other, becoming one force. "Dichromatic Resonance!" A red and blue aura surrounded him, and his mixed powers attuned to one another. He charged at No Heart, but the clones barred his path. The man gave a swipe of the now red-coated magical end of his keyblade. a pillar of light with a pale rose tint roared through the sky, as though it battered aside the air that stood in its path. It crashed to the ground with incredible force, attempting to remove the duplicate in his way. "Steel! Don't let him cast, and we might be able to do this!"
Beuce smiled as the black coats left, then turned to face forward. They had a task ahead of them as well. He looked at the boats and Hikaru, who called dibs on the left boat only to be frozen in time. At first he made the same assumption Aux did in that it was simply a harmless prank, but the moment Kaida was frozen, he realized something was dangerously wrong. He instinctively summoned his keyblade, but that was all he managed to do before everything stopped.
I'm gonna make my own status. Without any blackjack or hookers.
Beuce smiled as the other masters in the SOS joined in the gesture to show that they felt the same way he did. Although, he didn't look at them he only looked Karina head on. As each person said their part, she looked to each one of them. Likely she thought about them and her relationship with them. How she didn't really want to leave, and what them offering her a way back in meant exactly. Tears began to run down the girl's face. Eventually, thea last one to join in wasn't offering a keyblade. He was offering the SOS ring that he'd given to all of them. A symbol that she always was, and always would be, one of them. "Welcome home." The girl cried and hugged him, saying that she was sorry. He just smiled and hugged her back, putting his still flesh hand in her hair and patting it gently. "Ah it's alright. Now I have a neat story to tell." When she back up, she summoned what appeared to be her own keyblade, reflective of her. Beuce eyed it up and down and gave an approving face. "Well, it's not quite as nifty as mine, but it'll get the job done." He teased and gave a wink. He wondered what power it held within it, but decided he didn't need to ask. He'd find out. They all would, when the girl fought alongside them in battles to come.
After Ignis said her piece, he continued. "You think we don't want you around? You want proof you're not a lost cause?" He held out the double ended weapon to her, it practically called out empathically for her to grab hold of it in response to its users will. "Prove it to yourself." He took a deep breath. "In your hand, take this key."
Beuce looked to the girl standing before him as she threw away her keychains in the ground. The mementos of what she'd gathered during her time with them. She was essentially throwing away her past and her life with them. Beuce looked down at them, and resolved himself to not let her do this. He'd be damned if he was just going to let her walk away again like that. "Hey, Karina." He called out to her, before she left. "That's Master Beuce." He corrected. At first it seemed a bit out of place to demand to be called by his title in this particular scenario. "I just remembered, we're masters now. And as such, we've got a few rights that only we have." He summoned his keyblade into his glass arm and walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, practically turning her around.
Beuce gave Aux a puzzled look as he referred to him as "Bruce". He assumed that it must just be that he wasn't used to his name yet. After the interaction between him and Karina, she seemed to be starting to calm down finally. Beuce gave a sigh of relief and began to let her go.Then Ananta walked up and opened her mouth. He immediately tightened his grip on her as he simply stared at Ananta dumbfounded. Why? Why would she do that? For what purpose? There was no reason at all to anantagonize her, but she decided "oh hey what's the best thing to do the first thing you see her? Tell her she's worthless and hasn't made any progress whatsoever". In what way, under any circumstance, would that be helpful to the situation. Especially given that the whole situation with Aux was still going on. Beuce struggled to keep her in place and from going to turn Ananta's face into the next dimension. "Alright, look. I know you're mad. Hell that ticked me off a bit," He shot a glare at Ananta. That had been really unnecessary. "but I really, reaaally need you to calm down. You want to show her? Prove her wrong and calm do- Ohh that was my wrist." He said, as she hadn't stopped squirming yet and twisted his arm a bit. He managed to remain strong but it was getting more difficult. "Listen, I just got this arm, and I know I have five gods living inside me and all but i don't know if they keep these things in stock, so I'd prefer to keep the ones I've got intact. Please, calm down." She, at this point, seemed to calm down a bit. He let her go, and walked in front of her, so as to have more of an actual conversation with her. "I'm not really sure why she said that, but she doesn't speak for everyone. I don't know what you've been up to on your end, we're in a moment of respite finally. We might have a chance to catch up." He said, hoping to keep her stable. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the blonde kid who'd joined them recently collapse on the ground. Walking over, he knelt down and shook him a bit. "You alright bud?" Beuce remembered his first large scale battle back at Central Haven. He felt like passing out too, so he couldn't blame him. Grabbing him off the ground, he threw the kid over his shoulder and went to go put him somewhere more comfortable than face down in the sand. He turned back to Karina. "We can chat if you like."
Beuce sighed, dismissing his keyblade. Stratos was right. This was no time to break out into another fight. They were all exhausted. Beuce glared at Ignis as she berated them for even considering the possibility that Aux was still a danger, and immediately freed him. "Well, It's not like I'm saying 'I hate him and can't forgive him'. I'm just trying to be on the cautious side. What if he turns on us in the middle of our fight with No Heart and we end up having to face both of them at once? I know we've gotten a lot stronger, but that means we can fight back. It doesn't mean we can throw caution to the wind." Beuce said, obviously a little upset with her. Nevertheless, regardless of what they did, it wasn't worth fighting each other over. That was when Kaida said something about him having a remnant of darkness within him, which honestly seemed to further both sides. He most likely did actually want to help them, but he was dangerous to keep around. "I see. So he-" And then some guy walked up, wiped his sword against Kaida's jacket, and immediately he and Karina ran to attack Aux. Beuce was a little dumbfounded to see this unfold so...Randomly. It seemed a little out of place with what they were talking about. Kaida managed to stop both of them before the attacked him any further. "Nice thinking." He noted to Kaida, then turned to Aux. "You uh...Might want to take a few steps back. Like when you think you're far enough away back up a little further." He rolled his shoulders and stretched a little bit, before walking behind Karina and locking his arms under hers and over her shoulders. He whistled and braced himself. When the stop spell eventually wore off, he groaned at the effort of keeping the girl in check. "Oh hey Karina, nice to see you too." He said, waiting for her to realize what happened and stop struggling. "Good to see you're doing well, even made some new buddies, but we need to catch you up on a few things. We're deciding what to do with him now, and you're more than welcome to your opinion. If you could tone down your temper for a while until we're done, that'd be great."
Beuce watched in awe as Shiro brought forth the third tier of his Aura. They'd only managed to achieve the first layer of what appeared to be an incredible gap in power. Honestly, it seemed like an unreachable height that was infinitely far off. Then again, he thought back to the way he'd been on his homeworld, and where he stood now would've looked just as imposing. He'd come so far from where he started it was unbelievable. He was confident that all of them would be able to reach their third tier of their auras in time. He ran over to where Mizu and Shiro where as the bulky man collapsed onto the ground, changing back to his regular attire and dropping out of his light aura. He couldn't imagine that forcing that kind of power out of your body all at once was easy. There was a reason their bodies put natural inhibitions on their powers and gave them time to "cool down". Overdoing it was dangerous. He gave a slight sigh of relief as Shiro rose from his apparently death-like sleep. "You had us worried for a second there. Can't go kicking the bucket before you teach us how to do that." Beuce chided sarcastically. He listened to Mizu. The last time he'd seen her, Nequa had captured her after defeating them in Camelot. "We could use a little bit of a catching up. We've been in the realm of darkness for who knows how long." It was then that Aux walked up and, by simply stating his name, seemed to start a confrontation. Beuce summoned Lofty Grasp almost instinctually at the impending signs of combat. He wasn't even sure who he was ready to fight at first, though that seemed an obvious conclusion. He pointed the red end of his keyblade at Aux in Sprinkles' grip. He might have helped them in this fight, but he was the reason that they went through all this in the first place. "Ananta, I don't think we should be quite so hasty to trust him. He's still the same guy who threw us into darkness in the first place, and he may have only been helping us at all because he lost his memories. If he's turned over a new leaf and wants to help us fight against No Heart and Krowley, great. But I'm not convinced yet. Until we can be sure of anything, we should keep our guard up. We're finally getting somewhere, and I don't particularly feel like throwing it away because we got stabbed in the back." Beuce said, thinking back on Hughes' words. He'd said something about a traitor. While that was certainly ominous, it was nothing to tear themselves apart over.
"This is it! The last blow!" Beuce said, channeling both the dark power from his job and the aura of light into his strikes as he flew toward the storm bringer's face and delivered one final strike with Synchronous Gale, splitting the head in half. Beuce used a combo
Beuce activated the light aura and used a combo
I got straight spooked
Honestly same.
Beuce used regular Blizzaga
Beuce used Dark Blizzaga
"Thanks Kaida. You the homie!" Beuce called out to Kaida as she healed him. He'd been planning on draining, but now it seemed like he didn't quite need to. Instead, he took up a stance with his keyblade and cherry blossoms began to fall. With one quick slash, he cut across the darkside's face. Beuce used Zantetsuken
Beuce stepped forward, still in his Dark Knight form, and looked up at Hughes, the one who had summoned this massive horde. It seemed like they'd finally fought their way through the thousands of heartless and made their way to him. This was the last step, and they were ready to end it and win their way back to the realm of light. Hughes called out and summoned forth one of the biggest heartless he'd ever seen. A darkside with glowing runes around it, crackling with a white lightning all around its body. At first, it seemed so dauntingly enormous that it came into question how you'd even go about attacking something like that. Beuce however, looked to both sides. The three next to him were Kaida, Stratos, and Hikaru. If they couldn't stop it...Well, there wasn't much point in thinking about something that wouldn't come to pass. He chuckled at Stratos. "Arma would probably eat this thing for breakfast. And I don't mean that in a figurative sense either." He said with a laugh. With that, he returned the fistbump Stratos offered him. It was a simple gesture, but there was a lot of meaning behind it. Beuce had realized it a bit ago, but Stratos wasn't someone trying to catch up with him anymore. They were neck and neck, and it was the beginning of a friendly rivalry. Beuce smiled, not reacting to the black and green energy that seemed to collapse inward on itself, leaving Synchronous Gale in his hand. The moment he took hold of it, a world of possibilities opened up in his mind. Links he'd never thought of before began to connect and form. Grinning, he readied himself for Stratos' plan. "Let's do this!" He said, propping his foot against the keyblade and kicking off it. As he flew through the air to The Stormbringer, he spread wings of solid light, and called forth its power. Normally, he would fire it out as something of an energy projectile, but this time he gathered it around the keyblade, coalescing it into a massive blade of light that he slashed across the heartless' face. Thunder couldn't beat faith either, and you can certainly bet he was going to preach it. Beuce used Faith
Swapping out Oblivion for Synchronous Gale Changed Stats 6 (+1) MP 51 Strength 11 Speed Swapping out Drain for Seeker Mine Final Command Loadout Dark aura Splattercombo Seeker Mine Zantetsuken Faith Blizzaga
Beuce attacked with a combo
