Post by ZELDA on Feb 29, 2024 16:32:55 GMT -5
{There is a huge temple in the distance. It’s built upon what appears to be a large rock floating inside a giant void of nothingness. Large golden spires rise from the ground as a crackling sound is heard almost as if the temple itself is humming with unimaginable power. We pan around some and this is where we finally see her walking towards the giant structure with her “ship” (What appears to be a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle with big wings on top of it) behind her. She walks into view and we see our amazing, beautiful, incredibly athletic and all around great person with a vagabond spirit but a heart of gold…. Good lord who wrote this shit?}
Zelda: Just read the damn lines.
{*Cough* Fine. Whatever. Our, all that stuff, the heroine of the story, Zelda Knite.}
Zelda: Awesome.
{*face palm* Oh my god, Zelda Awesome.}
Zelda: Did you really just say asterisks facepalm out loud? That’s a little weird.
{Look, do you want me to narrate this adventure or what? We’re already going to have two disembodied voices in this tale so it’s going to get a bit confusing if we keep having this back and forth.}
Zelda: Spoiler alert my guy!
{Anyway… here’s the scene, we gotta get moving because we’re wasting time: Zelda is looking like a cyperpunk adventurer and she’s inside a dank ass looking cave. She has her trusty blaster by her side and her “Plasma Katana”... good lord…}
Zelda: Look you wanna get sued by fucking Disney?
{She has her trusty plasma katana strapped to her waist as she stares into a device that looks suspiciously like a gameboy color. As she ventures forward, she hears a voice that is gently talking to her as she treads along. It’s faint, but it does sound awfully familiar and she seems to know exactly who this mysterious voice is as she ventures forward.}
..:: Are you sure you want to do this? ::..
Zelda: I have to try. I’ve seen it. You and Spike have traveled through hell to bring him back before. Hell. How many times as he died and come back? 15? There has to be a way and I’m going to find it.
..:: What does he look like this week by the way? Still tatted up and muscular or did he go back to the skinny dude who likes Pepsi a little too much? ::..
Zelda: You know I don’t know, nor do I care all that much. I just want you back.
..:: We gotta have a talk about this… you can’t be green. I’M GREEN. You do something else ::..
Zelda: I’m always green in my stuff! What are you talking about?!
..:: SYDNEY! ::..
Zelda: Fine! How do I keep getting bullied in my own story?! Happy!?
..:: Much Better ::..
{Zelda… after whatever the hell that was, continues on while dodging cliche ass traps all along the way. After what feels like an eternity she finally finds the central chamber that she’s been looking for. In the middle of the large open area is a golden pedestal with a force field like bubble that is possibly a force field on top, protecting what appears to be an elaborate bracer… not a glove… not a gauntlet. Bracer. You can’t sue us.}
Zelda: The Spirit Bracer… I finally found it.
..:: You’re so cute when you’re being nerdy ::..
Zelda: Shut up.
{She approaches the pedestal and begins to wonder just how she’s going to get the bracer from the pedestal, She tries to reach into the force field but it sizzles and cracks and burns before she pulls her hand back in pain. That surely wasn’t the brightest of ideas but she regroups after her blunder to think some more when suddenly the back wall of the temple blows open. Zelda jumps back in disbelief as Spike Kane and Rob Diamond along with a group of their nameless nobody troopers piling into the room. Zelda quickly dives behind cover, but it’s too late they have seen her.}
Rob Diamond (678): Ahhh, Zelda Knite. Our little pixelated princess trying to beat us to the punch again?
..:: Those guys look nothing like Spike and Rob… ::..
Zelda: Yeah, but I feel like they are… somehow.
..:: Must be one of those wacky Multiverse adventure things ::..
Zelda: You really spent way too much time with me didn’t you?
Rob Diamond (678): Who the fuck are you talking to?
Zelda: Not you. Assface.
Spike Kane (678): Why don’t you just go home little girl. Maybe if you stay out of our way we’ll let your little universe survive. We won’t allow you to possess the spirit of Steve Awesome. We’re going to use it, the most powerful spirit of all, to power this bracer and finally make all the multiverse into one perfect singularity ruled by Us, the Senor Xtremeo and Lord Dominicus Consortium.
Zelda: I don’t care what you’re trying to do with that bracer, but I need it. So if you could kindly fuck off that would be great.
Rob Diamond (678): Sorry my sexy exxy, we just can’t let that happen.
..:: Wow. You slept with him in different multiverses too? ::..
Zelda: Enough! I’m not letting you take that bracer. SMOKE BOMB!
..:: I can’t believe you really yelled smoke bomb ::..
{Zelda throws down a small round object and the room begins to fill with smoke as she pulls out our plasma katana. She slashes through the nameless armored minions that came in with Spike and Rob (678). They pull out their weapons as well as they spin around looking for her. As the smoke clears she spring seemingly out of nowhere and engages the two. She quickly slashes Rob away and as Spike approaches she pulls out her blaster and shoots him in the gut sending him staggering backwards into a wall and falling down.}
Zelda: Now if you two will excuse me… how the hell do I get this thing out of here.
{Suddenly Zelda is blasted back against the same wall she shot Spike (678) into. She slides down dropping both her weapons in complete pain and that’s when she sees him walk through the rubble. A larger, masked Spike…. Senor Xtremeo and a Lord Dominicus right beside him. Zelda feels like her whole body is on fire as Spike holsters his shockwave rifle.}
..:: Wow. Look at how impressive these new Rob and Spike look. So handsome and swashbuckling, like a mixture of Johnny Depp and Hercules ::..
Zelda: Stop swooning over the villains I’m in pain here!
Lord Dominicus (1): Good shot. Now if you’re done playing hero. We have a multiverse to conquer.
{Senor Extreme (1) walks over to the pedestal and flips a switch behind it and the force field turns off. He grabs the Spirit Bracer and puts it on his arm. He walks over to where he blasted Zelda, who is sitting next to the Spike Kane (678). He leans down an inch in front of her face and begins to say something but is interrupted.}
Zelda: There was a freaking switch on the pedestal that was guarding it?! Who designed this place Joe Everyman?
Senor Xtremeo (1): Funny. But your wisecracks aren’t going to bring Steve back.
Zelda: Fuck you Spike.
Spike Kane (678): I told you this was bigger than you, you dumb bitch. Now just watch as we….
{Senor Xtremeo (1) takes his arm with the bracer on it and points it towards Spike Kane (678), suddenly a red glow emits from it and Spike (678) screams out in pain as he is slowly pulled apart atom by atom and absorbed into the bracer. SE (1) turns to Rob Diamond (678) and does the same to him as he is trying to stand up from the ground. Zelda looks at him confused as he Lord Dominicus turn around and begin to leave the Temple.}
Senor Xtremeo (1): I am sorry about your loss… all of you.
{They speed away as Zelda begins to push herself back to her feet.}
..:: That was so fucking cool. Did you see how they just blasted those other two of themselves out of existence… I think I’m a little hard ::..
Zelda: What the hell was that? Dammit. I swear I’m going to bring you back if it kills me.
..:: We should probably get back to Helms, let him know what happened ::..
Zelda: We? You’re a disembodied voice that I’m pretty sure I’m hallucinating.
..:: Either way, we should get some What-a-burger on the way back ::..
Zelda: We’re in the middle of an interdimensional void that transcends space and time….
..:: So… Wendy’s? ::..
{We come back seeing Zelda’s “ship” flying towards another larger ship, but not too large… like not obnoxiously large. However it does have a giant bobomb painted on the side of it with an obnoxious winking face… so a little obnoxious. Anyway that’s not what is important here, the important thing is that it’s the time traveling, interdimensional, multiverse adventuring ship of Zelda’s self proclaimed uncle, Trent Helms, the “Rick Astley”.}
Trent Helms: Ah you’re back, good. I thought those two giant flaccid dicks had got you.
Zelda: Why do you say things that way?
Trent Helms: My vocabulary is erect with concern for my niece.
Zelda: *facepalm* How did you even know that I was attacked down there?
Trent Helms: The Multidimensional radio is going all crazy with reports of Spike Kanes and Rob Diamonds attacking, pillaging, and being overall dickheads all over the place.
Zelda: Spike and Rob being dickheads…. I’m glad things don’t change. Yeah… they did a number on me and took the damn Bracer. Now what are we supposed to do?
Trent Helms: You know what we could do…
Zelda: No.
Trent Helms: Ok. You didn’t even let me say it.
Zelda: It’s not happening. We’re not turning the Intergalactic Time Temple into a casino.
Trent Helms: With hookers.
Zelda: I’m aware you said with hookers. It’s still not going to be a thing. Since when did I have to play the straight man in these things?
Trent Helms: When you decided to bring me along on this adventure my little honey bee.
{Trent reaches out and tussles Zelda’s hair who takes a step back and slaps his hand away giving one of those “WTF” looks, you know the ones that women do all the time for some reason. Anyway just as she does, the ships alarms start to blare. Trent runs to a nearby console and looks confused.}
Trent Helms: We’re under attack! There is a ship trying to dock with us.
{Zelda turns around and looks at the most evil looking ship you’ve ever seen already clearly docked with the Rick Astley. She turns back and looks at Helms.}
Trent Helms: Or he’s already here….
Zelda: Is your ship running Windows 95?! What kind of reaction time was that!?
Trent Helms: Oh no, nothing like that: I have my own personal security officer who is supposed to be on things like this.
{Helms points over to a chair in the corner which obviously takes Zelda’s attention with it.}
Zelda: That’s. That’s a jar of jelly beans.
Trent Helms: How dare you make fun of Mindy Kaling like that.
{Trent reaches into the jar of Jelly Beans and takes out a big handful and begins chewing while Zelda just looks at him in disbelief.}
Lord Dominicus (Real): IF you two are done being idiots for a minute the most evil man in the multiverse has just boarded your ship!
Trent Helms: I had more… but you can go on.
Zelda: If it isn’t my old evil master… Jeffery.
Lord Dominicus Jeffery: That’s right! I have… wait… Jeffery?
Zelda: I don’t have time for this Matt. What do you want? Why are you here?
Lord Dominicus Matt: Wha…? I’m here for you! Have you not seen all the Spike Kanes and Lord Dominici that are running rampant around out there.
{Zelda whips out her plasma katana and puts it an inch from Lord Dominicus’s neck}
Zelda: Yeah Terry. That’s why I’m wondering why you’re here. Trying to finish what your master started back in the temple?
Lord Dominicus Terry: You realize Rob and I aren’t multiversal variants of each other right? We just both call ourselves Lord Dominicus? Like we have both dated you. We both belong to your universe. You know this.
Zelda: First: Stop breaking the fourth wall. Second: This is my story, I can tell it however I want Richard. Third: Suck it!
Lord Dominicus Richard: Ok. You know damn well these aren’t my names. Why do you keep calling me these weird names?
Zelda: Because you told me not to reveal who you were on Discord.
Lord Dominicus Richard: Now look who’s breaking the fourth wall…
Trent Helms: That’s like damn near fifth wall breaking there.
Zelda: Can we stop this already? Look LD. Can you tap into your Lord Dominicus dimensional telepathic homing sense or whatever and figure out where those jackasses went with my bracer or are you completely useless?
Lord Domincus (Real): Again. I’m not him, he’s not me, we are two different people …but… I do have an idea where they might be though. You realize… right… that there is a second Bracer?
Zelda and Trent: What?!
Lord Dominicus (Real): Precisely. The Spirit Bracer and the Soul Bracer. Two.
Zelda: You beautiful sonova bitch! I could kiss you.
{Zelda gives Lord Dominicus a huge hug as she throws her arms around him. His evil gaze begins to soften as she pulls away, maybe she stirred up some feelings of not so evilness in him.}
Zelda: You’re coming with us. Let's go!
Lord Dominicus (Real): Wait what… no. I came here to take you, you’re not supposed to be kidnapping me!
Zelda: Get in the damn seat and shut up.
Lord Dominicus (Real): I am the dark lord of high evil you can’t just boss me around like I’m some kind of…
{Zelda gives him another hug, this time around his neck as she kisses him on the cheek, stopping Lord Dominicus in his tracks, mid thought, mid speech. She pulls away and he’s standing there with a blank expression and his pointer finger in the air, mid tantrum. Almost frozen in time.}
Zelda: Thank you SO MUCH!
{We are back again now with Zelda and her crew standing outside the other Temple, this time on the opposite side of the interdimensional timeless void that transcends space and time where the other bracer is housed. We see several of the nameless armored goons that work for Senor Xtremeo (1) and Lord Dominicus (Fake) (1) guarding the place.}
..:: When did Spike and Rob get so many nameless pawns? ::..
Zelda: Stop being impressed with their jackassery.
{Zelda pulls a pair of binoculars away from her eyes as she looks towards her two friends who have accompanied her on this mission this time to make sure she doesn’t get ambushed again.}
Zelda: Of course they are here, why would this be easy?
Lord Dominicus (Real): There are hundreds of them, and three of us. I like our odds here. THIS is a good plan.
Trent Helms: Well there is no use sitting around wasting air like a Kardashian. We might as well go for it.
{Zelda and Helms pull out their blasters and get a determined look as they prepare to rush in. Lord Dominicus looks at them curiously with no weapon in his hands.}
Lord Dominicus (Real): We were supposed to bring weapons?
Zelda and Trent: *Facepalm*
{Zelda tosses Lord Dominicus a plasma katana and the trio rush around and try to sneak around the majority of the group before they burst into the main chamber of the Temple and engage in the big group of peons that are inside. With several quick blows, blaster shots, and take them down before they focus on the Soul Bracer on it’s pedestal. This however is when two two sets of masked people attack them, knocking them away. One with a clearly bionic commando style cyborg left arm that we can sense is a Spike Kane, one is much older wearing a top hat along with his mask. Then we have two pricks in Lord Dominicus attire…. We can’t really tell them apart from each other other than one clearly is of African American descent now.}
Lord Dominicus (740): God you people are fucking twits?
Senior Extreme (740): This is just sad. Zelda, why don’t you just give up on this idea of claiming the bracers for your own selfish desires?
Lord Dominicus (94): This might be the dumbest plan I’ve ever seen.
Zelda: Shut up black Rob Diamond. What is your guys problem?!
Trent Helms: I don’t know but I’m digging this Spike Kane in a top hat vibe.
..:: 10 bucks says he has a monocle on under that mask ::..
Senior Extreme (740): Thank you sir, but sadly this is where your story comes to an end.
Senor Xtremeo (94): Alright boys. We have our orders. Take them alive and bring the group to the original us.
Lord Dominicus (Real): We’re not going without a fight are we?
Zelda: Of course not.
Trent Helms: Ok. You go get that bracer, while we take on these jerkoffs.
{Zelda, Trent, and the real Lord Dominicus take on the group. Zelda splits off as Helms begins fighting the two fake Lord Dominici and Lord Dominicus of the real nature takes on the Spike Kanes. Zelda grabs the bracer after remembering to hit the switch and goes back to help her friends but they wave her away and scream for her to get the bracer to the ship first. The clash plasma katanas in a spinning, flipping light show as Zelda bursts out of the temple from where they entered. She turns to look back when suddenly she is ambushed from behind and thrown against a large rock in the distance. She winces in pain as a women with long flowing fiery red hair walks towards her.}
Spikee: Sorry love, but I’m going to need that bracer.
Zelda: Dammit. There’s a female Spike now?
Spikee: Name’s Spikee. The pleasure is all yours obviously.
Zelda: What kind of stupid female version of “Spike” is that? Spikey? All you did was add a “Y” to the end of Spike.
Spikee: It’s two e’s actually. Spikee.
{Blank stare from Zelda.}
Zelda: What? I don’t care…. Lets get this fight over with.
{Zelda leaps forward off the ground and her and Spikee exchange in some hand to hand combat. Spikee gets the upper after spin kicking Zelda in the stomach and goes to grab the bracer. Zelda however spins herself around and sweeps the legs of Spikee, knocking her to the ground. Zelda jumps to her feet and pulls out her plasma katana and goes to threaten Spikee with it but Spikee kips up, spins her plasma katana around and knocks Zelda’s out of her hands.}
Spikee: I told you. I will be taking that bracer.
Zelda: You will be taking this bracer over my dead body. I need it to save Steve.
{Zelda cartwheels and dives away as Spikee swings at her, she grabs her katana but Spikee has stopped attacking and instead looks furious.}
Spikee: Steve? Why would you say that name? WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT NAME!?
Zelda: He was… was… my everything.
Spikee: Steve Awesome?
Zelda: You know the name?
Spikee: He was my husband… in my universe…
Zelda: Then you know why I need this bracer. Why are you working with those two fishsticks?
Spikee: The mes and the Robs have been traveling the Multiverse to establish a higher order. We are going to form a sort of multiversal police force to stop all the wrongs that happen… Make one big interconnected multiverse where everybody can live in peace with their other selves… travel freely.
Zelda: But that’s stupid.
Spikee: Well it’s better than some spoiled brat trying to bring back her boyfriend.
Zelda: You take that back right fucking now!
Spikee: Look. Just get the hell out of here ok? I know what you’re feeling and I’ll let the number ones handle you if it comes to that.
Zelda: You know they are just using you right? I saw it with my own eyes. They used the bracer to wipe out the you guys from a different universe.
Spikee: What are you talking about?
Zelda: He pointed the bracer at two variants and kind of just “absorbed” them.
Spikee: No. The Spike 1 I met wanted us to all be equals.
{Helms and Lord Dominicus the real dealio come rushing out of the temple and see Spikee and Zelda at their stalemate. They pull their weapons and prepare to attack but Zelda raises her hand and stops them.}
Zelda: Come with us instead.
..:: Look at you taking command. That’s kind of hot ::..
Zelda: Shut up.
Spikee: I didn’t say anything.
Trent Helms: I don’t know what’s going on here but that big Spike with the bracer showed up and we bailed. So we should probably bounce like titties out of here.
Zelda: Hmm… Why don’t you give Spikee and I here a minute.
{Spikee follows Zelda as they sneak back into temple and look in on Spike Kane (1) and Lord Dominicus (1) standing over their two pairs of variants from above in the rafters.}
Senor Xtremeo (1): You let them get away….
Lord Dominicus (1): The other other me… the fake Dominicus. Was here? And you just let him prance away… wow I don’t know if I’ve ever been more disappointed in myself.
Senor Xtremeo (1): And that probably means that Spikee has been neutralized as well… shame. The only female me we could find in the entire multiverse.
Lord Dominicus (1): I told you we should have absorbed her essence when we had the chance.
Senior Extreme (740): Excuse me sirs, but what do you mean by…
{Spike one points the bracer at the four and just like before they are absorbed into the bracer’s power beam. All four in an instant are gone and Spikee covers her mouth in shock.}
Senor Xtremeo (1): Lets get out of here… We should have all the power we need for the Pool now.
{Spikee and Zelda sneak back out and run to the Rick Astley as it’s starting to left off and jump aboard. The gang speeds away in a flash as Spikee just leans against the wall of the cargo bay in disbelief.}
Spikee: No.
Trent Helms: What is going on here, who is Jean Grey here?
Zelda: Spikee. She is one of us now.
Trent Helms: So you’re just bringing crazy hot female Spikes aboard my ship now?
Zelda: Yea.
Trent Helms: Why didn’t you tell me!? I’m going to go break out the good plasticware and pop open a bottle of toilet sangria. Celebrate this the true Spike Kane way.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Sounds like my type of party.
Trent Helms: I’m sorry White Damon Wayan’s Blankman. But you aren’t invited.
Spikee: We have got to focus here people. I don’t know what you have been up to but now things are just gotten serious.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Did you find out something about what they are planning?
Spikee: Spike and Lord Dominicus are using the bracer and absorbing every variant of themselves they can find across the Multiverse… It’s making them more and more powerful beyond belief…
Trent Helms: Like that movie The One starring Jet Li?
Spikee: I… I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. In fact I actually haven’t understood a damn thing you’ve been saying since I met you.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Welcome to the club. Potluck is on Wednesdays.
{Zelda lays in her room inside the Rick Astley. She stares up at the ceiling while holding the bracer that is wrapped around her right arm with her left hand. She rolls over onto her stomach and lets out a big long exhausted sounding sigh as they speed through space and time. Suddenly there is a knock on her door and in walks Spikee and Trent.}
Trent Helms: So Spikee here was telling us the evil plan of Spike and Rob.
Zelda: I don’t care. We need to focus on our plan.
Spikee: Have you ever heard the legends of the Pool of Never Ending Stories?
Trent Helms: I named it that.
Spikee: Anyway. It’s the origin point. Essentially. It’s the place where EVERYTHING began. The river of time flows from the spring, the multiverses are the waves that spawn from it’s waters. It’s the single point where every bit of life has grown from throughout all time… They are going to take the Spirit Bracer and the all of me’s and Robs they absorbed and take total control of time itself. The power of becoming a near singular being mixed with the power of origins of time… They would control everything. Every being in existence would have to bow to them or be completely wiped from history. This is huge. We have to stop them.
Zelda: You guys have fun with that.
..:: You really going to let them get away with controlling time? ::..
Zelda: I’ve got more important concerns.
..:: There is something more important than the fabric of existence? ::..
Trent Helms: She’s been so concerned with bringing back Steve that I don’t know if she even has the capabilities of thinking of saving the universe.
Spikee: This is why she is acting so mopey and like nothing else exists? Because she misses him?
Trent Helms: You’d better slow your roll on that one padawan…
Spikee: Zelda. Why don’t you just travel to a universe where Steve doesn’t die and there isn’t a you and take him from there?
{Zelda punches the floor in pain… and is now in even more pain as her fucking fist hurts, and begins to hold back tears. Spikee realizes that she might have made a mistake and begins to step toward Zelda with her arm outstretched in an attempt to comfort her but Zelda abruptly stands up from the bed and spins around with her face red and her eyes thinned to slits in anger.}
Zelda: You think I haven’t tried that?! I’ve tried everything! Universe (556): not there.
Trent Helms: Ahh the universe of the cannibal space hamsters.
Zelda: Universe (8): not there. Universe (18): not there. Universe (88): not there. Universe (818): NOT THERE!
Trent Helms: What is up with you and the the 8’s right now? You know those were usually a bust right off the jump… but for some reason did have good chocolate milk.
Zelda: Universe (67098): NOT!!!! FUCKING!!!! THERE!!!!
Spikee: Zelda. I’m sorry, trust me.. I understand but... How long have you been doing this?
Trent Helms: She hasn’t rested since it happened. She’s been going like this through timelines and universes for… a very long time.
Spikee: Wait… what? How… I mean… How old is she right now?
Trent Helms: Millennias. Time flows differently when you’re timeline and multiverse hopping. Finding Steve has been the only thing keeping her going and I have just been trying to help her the best I can.
Spikee: My God. She has to go on living her life.. She can’t do this forever.
{Zelda wipes her eyes in frustration. She begins to calm down as she remembers the task at hand. She turns back to Spikee and begins to explain.}
Zelda: I didn’t understand at first. Why isn’t he anywhere… unless… That’s just it, his being isn’t anywhere. We just have to pull him out and then he would be somewhere.
{Zelda continues on towards the co-pilot seat of the Rick Astley and leaves Spikee standing there with Trent and Lord Dominicus, she looks incredibly confused at what just happened here.}
Spikee: I don’t understand what she’s doing here… Is this another one of your bits?
Trent Helms: She has this idea that Steve is lost in time. Like… all of him, every Steve that has ever existed is somehow lost in the river of time, for whatever reason that might be.
Spikee: She’s talking about trying to find Steve’s lost essence… not just the individual that she loved… Like trying to find his matter in the Multiverse.
Trent Helms: Exactly. You know how she seems to be talking to herself on occasion? She believes that there is a part of Steve still lingering inside… take that bit of essence and take it to where it all began and find him in the time stream…
Spikee: So she’s planning on using the Pool of Never Ending Stories too…
Trent Helms: That’s exactly her plan.
Spikee: The place where time began, the Pool of Never Ending Stories, where all time lines flow from it….. She couldn’t possibly be thinking of toying with such a force, she could destroy everything she could bend time to where it doesn’t ever bend back! Why are you going along with this, this plan is madness.
Trent Helms: Until now both of these bracers were a myth to us. But here we are. Her brother and I are the bestest friends in the world, I know he just wants to see her happy again. She needed my ship to travel the Multiverse and I would do anything to see her smiling again too. I really do consider her my niece, I watched her grow up with Adam. We just want her… to live again.
Spikee: That is by far the deepest thing I’ve heard you say yet.
Trent Helms: I also wanna take a shower… it’s been like a thousand years.
{So it has all come to this, Zelda and her crew have chased Senor Xtremeo (1) and Lord Dominicus (1) to the Pools of Neverending Stories and are prepared for the final battle ahead. Zelda sitting upfront next to Trent, who is piloting the ship, stares at the Soul Bracer attached to her right arm thinking about what has to be done. Thinking about finally being able to bring her love back.}
Spikee: So we’re really doing this? You daft bastards know this is precisely what the other me and Lord Domincus want right? The Soul Bracer and Spirit Bracer in the same place… not to mention the place that controls the entire timeline?
Trent Helms: Are you trying to say it?
Spikee: It?
Trent Helms: Come on, say the line Akbar. It’s a trap.
Spikee: Could you take anything seriously!?
..:: She really doesn’t know Trent well yet does she? ::..
Lord Dominicus (Real): You really need to get a better grasp on Trent’s whole personality… this is just a Tuesday for him.
..:: See I told you so! ::..
..:: Zelda? ::..
Spikee: Zelda? Could you corral these two please? Hello? Are you there Zelda, doll?
{Zelda suddenly looks up, lost in her thoughts she’s barely heard a word her motley crew of adventurers has been discussing. She blinks and looks at them confusedly.}
Spikee: For the love of… Zelda are you ok?
Zelda: I’m fine. Just thinking.
Spikee: About Steve?
Zelda: Yea… we could really bring him back…
Spikee: Zelda, love. I know how you feel, I lost my Steve in my universe too, but… you have to believe me here this goes so far beyond any of that. They are trying to take down the multiverse. This means goodbye for everybody.
Zelda: Is it really a place worth saving without Steve?
Lord Dominicus (Real): Hey! Don’t you have a child with him?
..:: He’s got a point ::..
Zelda: Shut up.
Lord Dominicus (Real): No. I think you need to hear what I’m saying here.
Zelda: Not you.
Spikee: She dated him too?!
Trent Helms: You have a lot of learning to do young female Spike Kane.
{The real Lord Dominicus puts his hands on Zelda’s shoulder even as she tries to pull away a bit. She stares blankly forward as he tries to get through to her about what is going on here. He snaps his fingers in front of her face and finally gets her to look him in the eyes.}
Lord Dominicus (Real): You and Steve had something special. However number two is… he wouldn’t want this from you. We can joke around, we can play games, we can go on harrowing adventures to save the entire universe… just like Steve always wanted. He went on more wacky adventures than we could count. He wouldn’t want you to just stop those things because he wasn’t there. He wouldn’t want you to stop living your life like you have because he’s gone. He cared about you, you had a child together he would want you out here showing your son just how amazing this life could be. Steve lived fast and we all had some of the best times of our lives with him. That's his legacy… that’s what he gave us all. We need you right now, the universe needs you right now, and when this is all done Ben is going to need you. So please. Lady Dominicus… lets stop these dicks?
..:: Seriously though. You know he has a point right? ::..
Zelda: Yeah. I know.
{Zelda looks around at her friends and lowers her head slightly nodding her head in agreement briefly before taking a deep breath and exhaling.}
Zelda: Alright… but I’m not giving up on this thing being able to pull Steve’s essence from the pool.
Trent Helms: Deal. Universe first. Steve second.
Spikee: Coincidentally that’s something I don’t think Steve ever actually said.
{The ship finally lands at the Pool of Never Ending Stories. The palace is almost unimaginable in it’s beauty. A swirling vortex of cosmic ethereal water spins in the center of the great lake as an endless number of timelines spew from the waves there. Some fade out as others are born and there standing besides the rocks is Spike and Lord Dominicus. The crew rushes out to stop them armed and ready for a fight.}
Zelda: That’s enough of you two!
Lord Dominicus (Real): It’s finally time we settled this fake me!
Lord Dominicus (1): Pfft. You’re nothing but **CENSORED** in a mask. You think we’re afraid of you?
Senor Xtremeo (1): Ahh Spikee. I’m glad you’re alive. Lets put an end to this tom foolery and you can join us.
Spikee: How could you!? I trusted you. You were supposed to be about saving the Multiverse… not controlling the existence of everything.
Senor Xtremeo (1): Don’t you get it? Under our control the existence of life can all be one brilliant singularity that we can control as one singular God. Give us the other bracer from Zelda’s arm and you can be a part of a perfect being.
Spikee: More like one big perfect Asshole.
Lord Dominicus (1): Cute. But it doesn’t matter what you think because we’ve already won. You’re not close to being powerful enough to stop us.
Zelda: A you once told me you wet the bed until you were 15… you think we’re afraid of you? Please.
Trent Helms: It’s time for an epic battle montage!
{The epicness of the right the follows is incredible. Helms comes flying in with a rubber chicken and slaps the shit out of Spike Kane. The two evil jerks, fight off the four well as everybody begins to tire. Lord Dominicus and Lord Dominicus are at a stalemate until the real Lord Dominicus manages to take the fake on to his knee. Spike Kane (1) grabs him by the arm and helps him to his feet as all six men and women stare at each other. Breathing heavily, bloodied, tired but still ready to fight.}
Senor Extremeo (1): I’ve had enough of this.
Lord Dominicus (1): I think it’s time we stopped playing around. It’s time we put an end to these fuckers and just ruled this damn multiverse already.
Senor Extremeo (1): Eloquently put.
Trent Helms: What the hell are you two…
{Spike and Rob grab each other around the wrists and suddenly a blinding flash of light springs from the Bracer on Spike's hand. They begin to meld and mold into each other. They fuse into one being, a monster hulking man with lasers for eyes and destructive power seemingly ready to burst from his person.}
Lord Spike Prime: *Laughs* We have become one… we have become a god… now with the power of the pool… we shall erase you from existence itself… just like Steve.
Zelda: *furious yell* I’m so fucking sick of you! Why can’t you two just stop being dickheads for five minutes!?
Spikee: Lets end this!
Trent Helms: Lets kick Gotenk here's ass.
{All four rush toward the perfect asshole that is Lord Spike Prime. But they are easily outmatched. LSP blasts Trent back and sends him flying. Lord Dominicus is backhanded across the arena. Spikee and Zelda are no match for their raw power. The four get up and try again and the results are much the same as the perfect being easily dominates the four. LSP grabs Zelda by her bracer arm and hold her into the air.}
Lord Spike Prime: Give us the second bracer.. Or we’re taking it.
Zelda: You’ll have to kill me before I gave you this bracer.
Lord Spike Prime: Oh… there are things worse than killing you right away to get it…
{LSP shoves Zelda’s body into the ground as he pushes his foot into her stomach still holding her arm. Zelda screams out in pain as LSP begins pulling at her arm like a child ripping the wings off a fly. Just as Zelda screams out in horrifying pain again the sounds of a plasma katana striking the shoulder blade LSP rings out and Spikee is standing there for a second before LSP laser blasts her into a nearby piller. Spikee hits the ground hard and lies there nearly lifeless. Helms is clinging to life against a rock. Lord Dominicus propped against a wall looking at the carnage trying to stand up as LSP begins to laugh.}
Lord Spike Prime: This is your best? The best you could muster up for Steve?
{Zelda pushes herself up off the ground and looks around her. Spikee can barely move as she desperately tries to get herself to her feet. Zelda grabs the Soul Bracer with her off hand and looks into the Pool of Never Ending Stories and something inside her begins to tell her what she needs to do as Lord Spike Prime begins to celebrate his victory… he points his Spirit Bracer at Spikee and prepares to end this once and for all.}
Lord Spike Prime: It’s finally time… stop fighting, it’s time for you to become one with the singularity of Spikes. With your essence I… no we, will be the one and only Spike. The God of Xtreme Destruction. The most powerful being in the multiverse with the ability to shape everything in our image. Don’t you want to see a perfect multiverse? Everything will be perfect.
{Spikee with all the power she can muster rolls over to look at Lord Spike Prime in the the face}
Spikee: *cough* fuck you *flips the bird*
{Lord Spike Prime smiles as he prepares to use the Spirit Bracer to absorb Spikee.}
Zelda: Hey dick head… I got two words for ya!
{The supreme being Lord Spike Prime turns to see Zelda standing in the middle of the pool of never ending stories with her left arm raised into the air and a determined look on her face. LSP looks shocked, he can’t believe his eyes as the waters of the pool begin swirling around Zelda, every particle begins to shift and churn and spin around her into a vortex of unimaginable beauty. Zelda speaks softly.}
Zelda: suck it.
{Inside the tornado of water the individual particles of water begin to form an even larger barrier around her as suddenly in each drop we can see the the images of a Steve Awesome from every possible reality and time. Zelda begins to look around and seeing all the faces of Steve she starts to cry tears of joy at seeing so many of Steve’s multiversal essences coming to her aid from the Pool of Never Ending Stories. The stream of tears begins to flow down from her eyes and into the water that’s already surrounding her. The sounds of a billion uncountable Steve’s telling Lord Spike Prime to “Suck it” begin to fill the air and Zelda raises her left arm higher building the torrent of water around her even more until it must be hundreds of feet into the air. Zelda feels a gentle touch on her shoulders as we see a pair of hands resting there from the swirling vortex that surrounds her. She lowers her head for a second and her tears of joy turn to ones of sadness.}
Zelda: So this was your plan?
..:: We are all here now. You know what to do ::..
Zelda: This was never going to bring you back was it?
..:: Some things just… “are”, Z ::..
Zelda: It’s not fair. Why did it have to be you?
..:: Is there a better way to go out than as the hero of the entire Timeline of Multiverses? ::..
Zelda: You already were a hero to me.
{The vortex engulfs her now as Zelda lets out a loud scream that pierces the ears of everyone around her. They cover their ears as Lord Spike Prime’s eyes become large with fear. He attempts to swing his arm around and block what’s about to happen but there is no stopping it.}
Zelda: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
{The vortex of Steve’s multiversal energy combines into Zelda as she throws her arm with the graces forward to point at Lord Spike Prime. A pure blast of energy flies through her and the Soul Bracer directly towards Lord Spike Prime. In an instant he’s gone and the Spirit Bracer falls to the earth and Zelda falls out of the sky into the waters of the pool. Overwhelmed by the pure energy of the entire multiverse flowing through her.}
Spikee: Holy shit…. Is it over?
Lord Dominicus (Real): Zelda?
Trent Helms: Oh no…
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{Zelda lays in the waves of the Pool of Neverending Stories with her arms spread to her sides as her eyes begin to slowly close, the power and energy of what just happened has stripped her of most of her life force and she begins to realize her fate is to fade away here with the Multiverse saved. She begins to smile as everything begins to fade to black for the final time….}
..:: Sacrificing yourself to save the universe… a bit cliche don’t you think? ::..
Zelda: Shut up. Also: Couldn’t you say the same about me talking to your disembodied spirit ghost voice that whole journey?
..:: Point taken Sydney ::..
Zelda: You know…
..:: I know ::..
Zelda: Stop that… You know, you and Adam are the only ones who were ever allowed to call me that right?
..:: What about Ben? ::..
Zelda: Why would my own child call me by my first name?
..:: I don’t know. When he’s at school or applying for a job, or needs a bank loan… Maybe when he’s applying for a job at Applebee’s and they ask him “So who are your parents?” It could come up in plenty of places ::..
Zelda: Stop trying to make me laugh you ass.
..:: Feels like it’s been a long time since you told me that, so… you’ve been on a trip this whole time? ::..
Zelda: Nope. Perfectly clean. You know you got me off all the hard stuff.
..:: Yeah. Now I’m not there though ::..
{A tear begins to roll down Zelda’s cheek into the waves that are crashing against her as she lays staring up at the darkened sky. The scene around her begins to fade around her as she turns over onto her side, revealing her laying in her bed.}
Zelda: Don’t remind me.
..:: I’m just saying that you could, might help you through the pain ::..
Zelda: Feels like I would be letting you down at this point. I can’t do that… Not now. Not after everything we’ve been through. I have to stay strong… for you. For Ben. For me. I know it’s what you would want.
{More tears begin to form in her eyes as she bites down her bottom lip, disparate in her attempt to not break down again. She tries to fight back the feelings that are currently starting to overwhelm her. Her eyes closed, her mouth tight, her hands gripping the side of the bed… trying to do anything to stop the pain until she feels a warmth pressure on her shoulder. Surely she’s just imagining him there, but it makes her feel a tiny bit better thinking of him laying beside her one more time.}
Zelda: I’m going to miss you.
..:: I know ::..
Zelda: I love you.
..:: Ditto ::..
{The entire scene fades away. Zelda takes a deep breath and pulls herself up and sits on the edge of the bed for a moment, the entire time composing herself by breathing heavily. She closes her eyes one last time for a deep inhale and lets it out before turning her head slightly to the right and looking at table positioned next to the bed her and Steve and shared. There staring back her, push pinned into the lamp shade of the lamp that was positioned there is the old Lady Dominicus mask. Zelda stands up, pulls the pin out, and takes the mask into her hand… She looks into the camera as a mischievous smile begins to curl onto her face.}
Zelda: Spike. Rob.
{She slides the mask onto her face.}
Lady Dominicus: Game on. Bitches.
{Fade to black}
Zelda: Just read the damn lines.
{*Cough* Fine. Whatever. Our, all that stuff, the heroine of the story, Zelda Knite.}
Zelda: Awesome.
{*face palm* Oh my god, Zelda Awesome.}
Zelda: Did you really just say asterisks facepalm out loud? That’s a little weird.
{Look, do you want me to narrate this adventure or what? We’re already going to have two disembodied voices in this tale so it’s going to get a bit confusing if we keep having this back and forth.}
Zelda: Spoiler alert my guy!
{Anyway… here’s the scene, we gotta get moving because we’re wasting time: Zelda is looking like a cyperpunk adventurer and she’s inside a dank ass looking cave. She has her trusty blaster by her side and her “Plasma Katana”... good lord…}
Zelda: Look you wanna get sued by fucking Disney?
{She has her trusty plasma katana strapped to her waist as she stares into a device that looks suspiciously like a gameboy color. As she ventures forward, she hears a voice that is gently talking to her as she treads along. It’s faint, but it does sound awfully familiar and she seems to know exactly who this mysterious voice is as she ventures forward.}
..:: Are you sure you want to do this? ::..
Zelda: I have to try. I’ve seen it. You and Spike have traveled through hell to bring him back before. Hell. How many times as he died and come back? 15? There has to be a way and I’m going to find it.
..:: What does he look like this week by the way? Still tatted up and muscular or did he go back to the skinny dude who likes Pepsi a little too much? ::..
Zelda: You know I don’t know, nor do I care all that much. I just want you back.
..:: We gotta have a talk about this… you can’t be green. I’M GREEN. You do something else ::..
Zelda: I’m always green in my stuff! What are you talking about?!
..:: SYDNEY! ::..
Zelda: Fine! How do I keep getting bullied in my own story?! Happy!?
..:: Much Better ::..
{Zelda… after whatever the hell that was, continues on while dodging cliche ass traps all along the way. After what feels like an eternity she finally finds the central chamber that she’s been looking for. In the middle of the large open area is a golden pedestal with a force field like bubble that is possibly a force field on top, protecting what appears to be an elaborate bracer… not a glove… not a gauntlet. Bracer. You can’t sue us.}
Zelda: The Spirit Bracer… I finally found it.
..:: You’re so cute when you’re being nerdy ::..
Zelda: Shut up.
{She approaches the pedestal and begins to wonder just how she’s going to get the bracer from the pedestal, She tries to reach into the force field but it sizzles and cracks and burns before she pulls her hand back in pain. That surely wasn’t the brightest of ideas but she regroups after her blunder to think some more when suddenly the back wall of the temple blows open. Zelda jumps back in disbelief as Spike Kane and Rob Diamond along with a group of their nameless nobody troopers piling into the room. Zelda quickly dives behind cover, but it’s too late they have seen her.}
Rob Diamond (678): Ahhh, Zelda Knite. Our little pixelated princess trying to beat us to the punch again?
..:: Those guys look nothing like Spike and Rob… ::..
Zelda: Yeah, but I feel like they are… somehow.
..:: Must be one of those wacky Multiverse adventure things ::..
Zelda: You really spent way too much time with me didn’t you?
Rob Diamond (678): Who the fuck are you talking to?
Zelda: Not you. Assface.
Spike Kane (678): Why don’t you just go home little girl. Maybe if you stay out of our way we’ll let your little universe survive. We won’t allow you to possess the spirit of Steve Awesome. We’re going to use it, the most powerful spirit of all, to power this bracer and finally make all the multiverse into one perfect singularity ruled by Us, the Senor Xtremeo and Lord Dominicus Consortium.
Zelda: I don’t care what you’re trying to do with that bracer, but I need it. So if you could kindly fuck off that would be great.
Rob Diamond (678): Sorry my sexy exxy, we just can’t let that happen.
..:: Wow. You slept with him in different multiverses too? ::..
Zelda: Enough! I’m not letting you take that bracer. SMOKE BOMB!
..:: I can’t believe you really yelled smoke bomb ::..
{Zelda throws down a small round object and the room begins to fill with smoke as she pulls out our plasma katana. She slashes through the nameless armored minions that came in with Spike and Rob (678). They pull out their weapons as well as they spin around looking for her. As the smoke clears she spring seemingly out of nowhere and engages the two. She quickly slashes Rob away and as Spike approaches she pulls out her blaster and shoots him in the gut sending him staggering backwards into a wall and falling down.}
Zelda: Now if you two will excuse me… how the hell do I get this thing out of here.
{Suddenly Zelda is blasted back against the same wall she shot Spike (678) into. She slides down dropping both her weapons in complete pain and that’s when she sees him walk through the rubble. A larger, masked Spike…. Senor Xtremeo and a Lord Dominicus right beside him. Zelda feels like her whole body is on fire as Spike holsters his shockwave rifle.}
..:: Wow. Look at how impressive these new Rob and Spike look. So handsome and swashbuckling, like a mixture of Johnny Depp and Hercules ::..
Zelda: Stop swooning over the villains I’m in pain here!
Lord Dominicus (1): Good shot. Now if you’re done playing hero. We have a multiverse to conquer.
{Senor Extreme (1) walks over to the pedestal and flips a switch behind it and the force field turns off. He grabs the Spirit Bracer and puts it on his arm. He walks over to where he blasted Zelda, who is sitting next to the Spike Kane (678). He leans down an inch in front of her face and begins to say something but is interrupted.}
Zelda: There was a freaking switch on the pedestal that was guarding it?! Who designed this place Joe Everyman?
Senor Xtremeo (1): Funny. But your wisecracks aren’t going to bring Steve back.
Zelda: Fuck you Spike.
Spike Kane (678): I told you this was bigger than you, you dumb bitch. Now just watch as we….
{Senor Xtremeo (1) takes his arm with the bracer on it and points it towards Spike Kane (678), suddenly a red glow emits from it and Spike (678) screams out in pain as he is slowly pulled apart atom by atom and absorbed into the bracer. SE (1) turns to Rob Diamond (678) and does the same to him as he is trying to stand up from the ground. Zelda looks at him confused as he Lord Dominicus turn around and begin to leave the Temple.}
Senor Xtremeo (1): I am sorry about your loss… all of you.
{They speed away as Zelda begins to push herself back to her feet.}
..:: That was so fucking cool. Did you see how they just blasted those other two of themselves out of existence… I think I’m a little hard ::..
Zelda: What the hell was that? Dammit. I swear I’m going to bring you back if it kills me.
..:: We should probably get back to Helms, let him know what happened ::..
Zelda: We? You’re a disembodied voice that I’m pretty sure I’m hallucinating.
..:: Either way, we should get some What-a-burger on the way back ::..
Zelda: We’re in the middle of an interdimensional void that transcends space and time….
..:: So… Wendy’s? ::..
***** TRANSITION *****
{We come back seeing Zelda’s “ship” flying towards another larger ship, but not too large… like not obnoxiously large. However it does have a giant bobomb painted on the side of it with an obnoxious winking face… so a little obnoxious. Anyway that’s not what is important here, the important thing is that it’s the time traveling, interdimensional, multiverse adventuring ship of Zelda’s self proclaimed uncle, Trent Helms, the “Rick Astley”.}
Trent Helms: Ah you’re back, good. I thought those two giant flaccid dicks had got you.
Zelda: Why do you say things that way?
Trent Helms: My vocabulary is erect with concern for my niece.
Zelda: *facepalm* How did you even know that I was attacked down there?
Trent Helms: The Multidimensional radio is going all crazy with reports of Spike Kanes and Rob Diamonds attacking, pillaging, and being overall dickheads all over the place.
Zelda: Spike and Rob being dickheads…. I’m glad things don’t change. Yeah… they did a number on me and took the damn Bracer. Now what are we supposed to do?
Trent Helms: You know what we could do…
Zelda: No.
Trent Helms: Ok. You didn’t even let me say it.
Zelda: It’s not happening. We’re not turning the Intergalactic Time Temple into a casino.
Trent Helms: With hookers.
Zelda: I’m aware you said with hookers. It’s still not going to be a thing. Since when did I have to play the straight man in these things?
Trent Helms: When you decided to bring me along on this adventure my little honey bee.
{Trent reaches out and tussles Zelda’s hair who takes a step back and slaps his hand away giving one of those “WTF” looks, you know the ones that women do all the time for some reason. Anyway just as she does, the ships alarms start to blare. Trent runs to a nearby console and looks confused.}
Trent Helms: We’re under attack! There is a ship trying to dock with us.
{Zelda turns around and looks at the most evil looking ship you’ve ever seen already clearly docked with the Rick Astley. She turns back and looks at Helms.}
Trent Helms: Or he’s already here….
Zelda: Is your ship running Windows 95?! What kind of reaction time was that!?
Trent Helms: Oh no, nothing like that: I have my own personal security officer who is supposed to be on things like this.
{Helms points over to a chair in the corner which obviously takes Zelda’s attention with it.}
Zelda: That’s. That’s a jar of jelly beans.
Trent Helms: How dare you make fun of Mindy Kaling like that.
{Trent reaches into the jar of Jelly Beans and takes out a big handful and begins chewing while Zelda just looks at him in disbelief.}
Lord Dominicus (Real): IF you two are done being idiots for a minute the most evil man in the multiverse has just boarded your ship!
Trent Helms: I had more… but you can go on.
Zelda: If it isn’t my old evil master… Jeffery.
Lord Dominicus Jeffery: That’s right! I have… wait… Jeffery?
Zelda: I don’t have time for this Matt. What do you want? Why are you here?
Lord Dominicus Matt: Wha…? I’m here for you! Have you not seen all the Spike Kanes and Lord Dominici that are running rampant around out there.
{Zelda whips out her plasma katana and puts it an inch from Lord Dominicus’s neck}
Zelda: Yeah Terry. That’s why I’m wondering why you’re here. Trying to finish what your master started back in the temple?
Lord Dominicus Terry: You realize Rob and I aren’t multiversal variants of each other right? We just both call ourselves Lord Dominicus? Like we have both dated you. We both belong to your universe. You know this.
Zelda: First: Stop breaking the fourth wall. Second: This is my story, I can tell it however I want Richard. Third: Suck it!
Lord Dominicus Richard: Ok. You know damn well these aren’t my names. Why do you keep calling me these weird names?
Zelda: Because you told me not to reveal who you were on Discord.
Lord Dominicus Richard: Now look who’s breaking the fourth wall…
Trent Helms: That’s like damn near fifth wall breaking there.
Zelda: Can we stop this already? Look LD. Can you tap into your Lord Dominicus dimensional telepathic homing sense or whatever and figure out where those jackasses went with my bracer or are you completely useless?
Lord Domincus (Real): Again. I’m not him, he’s not me, we are two different people …but… I do have an idea where they might be though. You realize… right… that there is a second Bracer?
Zelda and Trent: What?!
Lord Dominicus (Real): Precisely. The Spirit Bracer and the Soul Bracer. Two.
Zelda: You beautiful sonova bitch! I could kiss you.
{Zelda gives Lord Dominicus a huge hug as she throws her arms around him. His evil gaze begins to soften as she pulls away, maybe she stirred up some feelings of not so evilness in him.}
Zelda: You’re coming with us. Let's go!
Lord Dominicus (Real): Wait what… no. I came here to take you, you’re not supposed to be kidnapping me!
Zelda: Get in the damn seat and shut up.
Lord Dominicus (Real): I am the dark lord of high evil you can’t just boss me around like I’m some kind of…
{Zelda gives him another hug, this time around his neck as she kisses him on the cheek, stopping Lord Dominicus in his tracks, mid thought, mid speech. She pulls away and he’s standing there with a blank expression and his pointer finger in the air, mid tantrum. Almost frozen in time.}
Zelda: Thank you SO MUCH!
Lord Dominicus (Real): Ye… yes ma’am…
***** TRANSITION *****
{We are back again now with Zelda and her crew standing outside the other Temple, this time on the opposite side of the interdimensional timeless void that transcends space and time where the other bracer is housed. We see several of the nameless armored goons that work for Senor Xtremeo (1) and Lord Dominicus (Fake) (1) guarding the place.}
..:: When did Spike and Rob get so many nameless pawns? ::..
Zelda: Stop being impressed with their jackassery.
{Zelda pulls a pair of binoculars away from her eyes as she looks towards her two friends who have accompanied her on this mission this time to make sure she doesn’t get ambushed again.}
Zelda: Of course they are here, why would this be easy?
Lord Dominicus (Real): There are hundreds of them, and three of us. I like our odds here. THIS is a good plan.
Trent Helms: Well there is no use sitting around wasting air like a Kardashian. We might as well go for it.
{Zelda and Helms pull out their blasters and get a determined look as they prepare to rush in. Lord Dominicus looks at them curiously with no weapon in his hands.}
Lord Dominicus (Real): We were supposed to bring weapons?
Zelda and Trent: *Facepalm*
{Zelda tosses Lord Dominicus a plasma katana and the trio rush around and try to sneak around the majority of the group before they burst into the main chamber of the Temple and engage in the big group of peons that are inside. With several quick blows, blaster shots, and take them down before they focus on the Soul Bracer on it’s pedestal. This however is when two two sets of masked people attack them, knocking them away. One with a clearly bionic commando style cyborg left arm that we can sense is a Spike Kane, one is much older wearing a top hat along with his mask. Then we have two pricks in Lord Dominicus attire…. We can’t really tell them apart from each other other than one clearly is of African American descent now.}
Lord Dominicus (740): God you people are fucking twits?
Senior Extreme (740): This is just sad. Zelda, why don’t you just give up on this idea of claiming the bracers for your own selfish desires?
Lord Dominicus (94): This might be the dumbest plan I’ve ever seen.
Zelda: Shut up black Rob Diamond. What is your guys problem?!
Trent Helms: I don’t know but I’m digging this Spike Kane in a top hat vibe.
..:: 10 bucks says he has a monocle on under that mask ::..
Senior Extreme (740): Thank you sir, but sadly this is where your story comes to an end.
Senor Xtremeo (94): Alright boys. We have our orders. Take them alive and bring the group to the original us.
Lord Dominicus (Real): We’re not going without a fight are we?
Zelda: Of course not.
Trent Helms: Ok. You go get that bracer, while we take on these jerkoffs.
{Zelda, Trent, and the real Lord Dominicus take on the group. Zelda splits off as Helms begins fighting the two fake Lord Dominici and Lord Dominicus of the real nature takes on the Spike Kanes. Zelda grabs the bracer after remembering to hit the switch and goes back to help her friends but they wave her away and scream for her to get the bracer to the ship first. The clash plasma katanas in a spinning, flipping light show as Zelda bursts out of the temple from where they entered. She turns to look back when suddenly she is ambushed from behind and thrown against a large rock in the distance. She winces in pain as a women with long flowing fiery red hair walks towards her.}
Spikee: Sorry love, but I’m going to need that bracer.
Zelda: Dammit. There’s a female Spike now?
Spikee: Name’s Spikee. The pleasure is all yours obviously.
Zelda: What kind of stupid female version of “Spike” is that? Spikey? All you did was add a “Y” to the end of Spike.
Spikee: It’s two e’s actually. Spikee.
{Blank stare from Zelda.}
Zelda: What? I don’t care…. Lets get this fight over with.
{Zelda leaps forward off the ground and her and Spikee exchange in some hand to hand combat. Spikee gets the upper after spin kicking Zelda in the stomach and goes to grab the bracer. Zelda however spins herself around and sweeps the legs of Spikee, knocking her to the ground. Zelda jumps to her feet and pulls out her plasma katana and goes to threaten Spikee with it but Spikee kips up, spins her plasma katana around and knocks Zelda’s out of her hands.}
Spikee: I told you. I will be taking that bracer.
Zelda: You will be taking this bracer over my dead body. I need it to save Steve.
{Zelda cartwheels and dives away as Spikee swings at her, she grabs her katana but Spikee has stopped attacking and instead looks furious.}
Spikee: Steve? Why would you say that name? WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT NAME!?
Zelda: He was… was… my everything.
Spikee: Steve Awesome?
Zelda: You know the name?
Spikee: He was my husband… in my universe…
Zelda: Then you know why I need this bracer. Why are you working with those two fishsticks?
Spikee: The mes and the Robs have been traveling the Multiverse to establish a higher order. We are going to form a sort of multiversal police force to stop all the wrongs that happen… Make one big interconnected multiverse where everybody can live in peace with their other selves… travel freely.
Zelda: But that’s stupid.
Spikee: Well it’s better than some spoiled brat trying to bring back her boyfriend.
Zelda: You take that back right fucking now!
Spikee: Look. Just get the hell out of here ok? I know what you’re feeling and I’ll let the number ones handle you if it comes to that.
Zelda: You know they are just using you right? I saw it with my own eyes. They used the bracer to wipe out the you guys from a different universe.
Spikee: What are you talking about?
Zelda: He pointed the bracer at two variants and kind of just “absorbed” them.
Spikee: No. The Spike 1 I met wanted us to all be equals.
{Helms and Lord Dominicus the real dealio come rushing out of the temple and see Spikee and Zelda at their stalemate. They pull their weapons and prepare to attack but Zelda raises her hand and stops them.}
Zelda: Come with us instead.
..:: Look at you taking command. That’s kind of hot ::..
Zelda: Shut up.
Spikee: I didn’t say anything.
Trent Helms: I don’t know what’s going on here but that big Spike with the bracer showed up and we bailed. So we should probably bounce like titties out of here.
Zelda: Hmm… Why don’t you give Spikee and I here a minute.
{Spikee follows Zelda as they sneak back into temple and look in on Spike Kane (1) and Lord Dominicus (1) standing over their two pairs of variants from above in the rafters.}
Senor Xtremeo (1): You let them get away….
Lord Dominicus (1): The other other me… the fake Dominicus. Was here? And you just let him prance away… wow I don’t know if I’ve ever been more disappointed in myself.
Senor Xtremeo (1): And that probably means that Spikee has been neutralized as well… shame. The only female me we could find in the entire multiverse.
Lord Dominicus (1): I told you we should have absorbed her essence when we had the chance.
Senior Extreme (740): Excuse me sirs, but what do you mean by…
{Spike one points the bracer at the four and just like before they are absorbed into the bracer’s power beam. All four in an instant are gone and Spikee covers her mouth in shock.}
Senor Xtremeo (1): Lets get out of here… We should have all the power we need for the Pool now.
{Spikee and Zelda sneak back out and run to the Rick Astley as it’s starting to left off and jump aboard. The gang speeds away in a flash as Spikee just leans against the wall of the cargo bay in disbelief.}
Spikee: No.
Trent Helms: What is going on here, who is Jean Grey here?
Zelda: Spikee. She is one of us now.
Trent Helms: So you’re just bringing crazy hot female Spikes aboard my ship now?
Zelda: Yea.
Trent Helms: Why didn’t you tell me!? I’m going to go break out the good plasticware and pop open a bottle of toilet sangria. Celebrate this the true Spike Kane way.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Sounds like my type of party.
Trent Helms: I’m sorry White Damon Wayan’s Blankman. But you aren’t invited.
Spikee: We have got to focus here people. I don’t know what you have been up to but now things are just gotten serious.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Did you find out something about what they are planning?
Spikee: Spike and Lord Dominicus are using the bracer and absorbing every variant of themselves they can find across the Multiverse… It’s making them more and more powerful beyond belief…
Trent Helms: Like that movie The One starring Jet Li?
Spikee: I… I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. In fact I actually haven’t understood a damn thing you’ve been saying since I met you.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Welcome to the club. Potluck is on Wednesdays.
***** TRANSITION *****
{Zelda lays in her room inside the Rick Astley. She stares up at the ceiling while holding the bracer that is wrapped around her right arm with her left hand. She rolls over onto her stomach and lets out a big long exhausted sounding sigh as they speed through space and time. Suddenly there is a knock on her door and in walks Spikee and Trent.}
Trent Helms: So Spikee here was telling us the evil plan of Spike and Rob.
Zelda: I don’t care. We need to focus on our plan.
Spikee: Have you ever heard the legends of the Pool of Never Ending Stories?
Trent Helms: I named it that.
Spikee: Anyway. It’s the origin point. Essentially. It’s the place where EVERYTHING began. The river of time flows from the spring, the multiverses are the waves that spawn from it’s waters. It’s the single point where every bit of life has grown from throughout all time… They are going to take the Spirit Bracer and the all of me’s and Robs they absorbed and take total control of time itself. The power of becoming a near singular being mixed with the power of origins of time… They would control everything. Every being in existence would have to bow to them or be completely wiped from history. This is huge. We have to stop them.
Zelda: You guys have fun with that.
..:: You really going to let them get away with controlling time? ::..
Zelda: I’ve got more important concerns.
..:: There is something more important than the fabric of existence? ::..
Trent Helms: She’s been so concerned with bringing back Steve that I don’t know if she even has the capabilities of thinking of saving the universe.
Spikee: This is why she is acting so mopey and like nothing else exists? Because she misses him?
Trent Helms: You’d better slow your roll on that one padawan…
Spikee: Zelda. Why don’t you just travel to a universe where Steve doesn’t die and there isn’t a you and take him from there?
{Zelda punches the floor in pain… and is now in even more pain as her fucking fist hurts, and begins to hold back tears. Spikee realizes that she might have made a mistake and begins to step toward Zelda with her arm outstretched in an attempt to comfort her but Zelda abruptly stands up from the bed and spins around with her face red and her eyes thinned to slits in anger.}
Zelda: You think I haven’t tried that?! I’ve tried everything! Universe (556): not there.
Trent Helms: Ahh the universe of the cannibal space hamsters.
Zelda: Universe (8): not there. Universe (18): not there. Universe (88): not there. Universe (818): NOT THERE!
Trent Helms: What is up with you and the the 8’s right now? You know those were usually a bust right off the jump… but for some reason did have good chocolate milk.
Zelda: Universe (67098): NOT!!!! FUCKING!!!! THERE!!!!
Spikee: Zelda. I’m sorry, trust me.. I understand but... How long have you been doing this?
Trent Helms: She hasn’t rested since it happened. She’s been going like this through timelines and universes for… a very long time.
Spikee: Wait… what? How… I mean… How old is she right now?
Trent Helms: Millennias. Time flows differently when you’re timeline and multiverse hopping. Finding Steve has been the only thing keeping her going and I have just been trying to help her the best I can.
Spikee: My God. She has to go on living her life.. She can’t do this forever.
{Zelda wipes her eyes in frustration. She begins to calm down as she remembers the task at hand. She turns back to Spikee and begins to explain.}
Zelda: I didn’t understand at first. Why isn’t he anywhere… unless… That’s just it, his being isn’t anywhere. We just have to pull him out and then he would be somewhere.
{Zelda continues on towards the co-pilot seat of the Rick Astley and leaves Spikee standing there with Trent and Lord Dominicus, she looks incredibly confused at what just happened here.}
Spikee: I don’t understand what she’s doing here… Is this another one of your bits?
Trent Helms: She has this idea that Steve is lost in time. Like… all of him, every Steve that has ever existed is somehow lost in the river of time, for whatever reason that might be.
Spikee: She’s talking about trying to find Steve’s lost essence… not just the individual that she loved… Like trying to find his matter in the Multiverse.
Trent Helms: Exactly. You know how she seems to be talking to herself on occasion? She believes that there is a part of Steve still lingering inside… take that bit of essence and take it to where it all began and find him in the time stream…
Spikee: So she’s planning on using the Pool of Never Ending Stories too…
Trent Helms: That’s exactly her plan.
Spikee: The place where time began, the Pool of Never Ending Stories, where all time lines flow from it….. She couldn’t possibly be thinking of toying with such a force, she could destroy everything she could bend time to where it doesn’t ever bend back! Why are you going along with this, this plan is madness.
Trent Helms: Until now both of these bracers were a myth to us. But here we are. Her brother and I are the bestest friends in the world, I know he just wants to see her happy again. She needed my ship to travel the Multiverse and I would do anything to see her smiling again too. I really do consider her my niece, I watched her grow up with Adam. We just want her… to live again.
Spikee: That is by far the deepest thing I’ve heard you say yet.
Trent Helms: I also wanna take a shower… it’s been like a thousand years.
***** TRANSITION *****
{So it has all come to this, Zelda and her crew have chased Senor Xtremeo (1) and Lord Dominicus (1) to the Pools of Neverending Stories and are prepared for the final battle ahead. Zelda sitting upfront next to Trent, who is piloting the ship, stares at the Soul Bracer attached to her right arm thinking about what has to be done. Thinking about finally being able to bring her love back.}
Spikee: So we’re really doing this? You daft bastards know this is precisely what the other me and Lord Domincus want right? The Soul Bracer and Spirit Bracer in the same place… not to mention the place that controls the entire timeline?
Trent Helms: Are you trying to say it?
Spikee: It?
Trent Helms: Come on, say the line Akbar. It’s a trap.
Spikee: Could you take anything seriously!?
..:: She really doesn’t know Trent well yet does she? ::..
Lord Dominicus (Real): You really need to get a better grasp on Trent’s whole personality… this is just a Tuesday for him.
..:: See I told you so! ::..
..:: Zelda? ::..
Spikee: Zelda? Could you corral these two please? Hello? Are you there Zelda, doll?
{Zelda suddenly looks up, lost in her thoughts she’s barely heard a word her motley crew of adventurers has been discussing. She blinks and looks at them confusedly.}
Spikee: For the love of… Zelda are you ok?
Zelda: I’m fine. Just thinking.
Spikee: About Steve?
Zelda: Yea… we could really bring him back…
Spikee: Zelda, love. I know how you feel, I lost my Steve in my universe too, but… you have to believe me here this goes so far beyond any of that. They are trying to take down the multiverse. This means goodbye for everybody.
Zelda: Is it really a place worth saving without Steve?
Lord Dominicus (Real): Hey! Don’t you have a child with him?
..:: He’s got a point ::..
Zelda: Shut up.
Lord Dominicus (Real): No. I think you need to hear what I’m saying here.
Zelda: Not you.
Lord Dominicus (Real): Look. I know it hurts… and it’s been hurting you for a very long time now. Maybe none of us can understand what he meant to you, but I can promise you only two things in this world. One is that you and I were a super kick ass couple…
Spikee: She dated him too?!
Trent Helms: You have a lot of learning to do young female Spike Kane.
{The real Lord Dominicus puts his hands on Zelda’s shoulder even as she tries to pull away a bit. She stares blankly forward as he tries to get through to her about what is going on here. He snaps his fingers in front of her face and finally gets her to look him in the eyes.}
Lord Dominicus (Real): You and Steve had something special. However number two is… he wouldn’t want this from you. We can joke around, we can play games, we can go on harrowing adventures to save the entire universe… just like Steve always wanted. He went on more wacky adventures than we could count. He wouldn’t want you to just stop those things because he wasn’t there. He wouldn’t want you to stop living your life like you have because he’s gone. He cared about you, you had a child together he would want you out here showing your son just how amazing this life could be. Steve lived fast and we all had some of the best times of our lives with him. That's his legacy… that’s what he gave us all. We need you right now, the universe needs you right now, and when this is all done Ben is going to need you. So please. Lady Dominicus… lets stop these dicks?
..:: Seriously though. You know he has a point right? ::..
Zelda: Yeah. I know.
{Zelda looks around at her friends and lowers her head slightly nodding her head in agreement briefly before taking a deep breath and exhaling.}
Zelda: Alright… but I’m not giving up on this thing being able to pull Steve’s essence from the pool.
Trent Helms: Deal. Universe first. Steve second.
Spikee: Coincidentally that’s something I don’t think Steve ever actually said.
{The ship finally lands at the Pool of Never Ending Stories. The palace is almost unimaginable in it’s beauty. A swirling vortex of cosmic ethereal water spins in the center of the great lake as an endless number of timelines spew from the waves there. Some fade out as others are born and there standing besides the rocks is Spike and Lord Dominicus. The crew rushes out to stop them armed and ready for a fight.}
Zelda: That’s enough of you two!
Lord Dominicus (Real): It’s finally time we settled this fake me!
Lord Dominicus (1): Pfft. You’re nothing but **CENSORED** in a mask. You think we’re afraid of you?
Senor Xtremeo (1): Ahh Spikee. I’m glad you’re alive. Lets put an end to this tom foolery and you can join us.
Spikee: How could you!? I trusted you. You were supposed to be about saving the Multiverse… not controlling the existence of everything.
Senor Xtremeo (1): Don’t you get it? Under our control the existence of life can all be one brilliant singularity that we can control as one singular God. Give us the other bracer from Zelda’s arm and you can be a part of a perfect being.
Spikee: More like one big perfect Asshole.
Lord Dominicus (1): Cute. But it doesn’t matter what you think because we’ve already won. You’re not close to being powerful enough to stop us.
Zelda: A you once told me you wet the bed until you were 15… you think we’re afraid of you? Please.
Trent Helms: It’s time for an epic battle montage!
{The epicness of the right the follows is incredible. Helms comes flying in with a rubber chicken and slaps the shit out of Spike Kane. The two evil jerks, fight off the four well as everybody begins to tire. Lord Dominicus and Lord Dominicus are at a stalemate until the real Lord Dominicus manages to take the fake on to his knee. Spike Kane (1) grabs him by the arm and helps him to his feet as all six men and women stare at each other. Breathing heavily, bloodied, tired but still ready to fight.}
Senor Extremeo (1): I’ve had enough of this.
Lord Dominicus (1): I think it’s time we stopped playing around. It’s time we put an end to these fuckers and just ruled this damn multiverse already.
Senor Extremeo (1): Eloquently put.
Trent Helms: What the hell are you two…
{Spike and Rob grab each other around the wrists and suddenly a blinding flash of light springs from the Bracer on Spike's hand. They begin to meld and mold into each other. They fuse into one being, a monster hulking man with lasers for eyes and destructive power seemingly ready to burst from his person.}
Lord Spike Prime: *Laughs* We have become one… we have become a god… now with the power of the pool… we shall erase you from existence itself… just like Steve.
Zelda: *furious yell* I’m so fucking sick of you! Why can’t you two just stop being dickheads for five minutes!?
Spikee: Lets end this!
Trent Helms: Lets kick Gotenk here's ass.
{All four rush toward the perfect asshole that is Lord Spike Prime. But they are easily outmatched. LSP blasts Trent back and sends him flying. Lord Dominicus is backhanded across the arena. Spikee and Zelda are no match for their raw power. The four get up and try again and the results are much the same as the perfect being easily dominates the four. LSP grabs Zelda by her bracer arm and hold her into the air.}
Lord Spike Prime: Give us the second bracer.. Or we’re taking it.
Zelda: You’ll have to kill me before I gave you this bracer.
Lord Spike Prime: Oh… there are things worse than killing you right away to get it…
{LSP shoves Zelda’s body into the ground as he pushes his foot into her stomach still holding her arm. Zelda screams out in pain as LSP begins pulling at her arm like a child ripping the wings off a fly. Just as Zelda screams out in horrifying pain again the sounds of a plasma katana striking the shoulder blade LSP rings out and Spikee is standing there for a second before LSP laser blasts her into a nearby piller. Spikee hits the ground hard and lies there nearly lifeless. Helms is clinging to life against a rock. Lord Dominicus propped against a wall looking at the carnage trying to stand up as LSP begins to laugh.}
Lord Spike Prime: This is your best? The best you could muster up for Steve?
{Zelda pushes herself up off the ground and looks around her. Spikee can barely move as she desperately tries to get herself to her feet. Zelda grabs the Soul Bracer with her off hand and looks into the Pool of Never Ending Stories and something inside her begins to tell her what she needs to do as Lord Spike Prime begins to celebrate his victory… he points his Spirit Bracer at Spikee and prepares to end this once and for all.}
Lord Spike Prime: It’s finally time… stop fighting, it’s time for you to become one with the singularity of Spikes. With your essence I… no we, will be the one and only Spike. The God of Xtreme Destruction. The most powerful being in the multiverse with the ability to shape everything in our image. Don’t you want to see a perfect multiverse? Everything will be perfect.
{Spikee with all the power she can muster rolls over to look at Lord Spike Prime in the the face}
Spikee: *cough* fuck you *flips the bird*
{Lord Spike Prime smiles as he prepares to use the Spirit Bracer to absorb Spikee.}
Zelda: Hey dick head… I got two words for ya!
{The supreme being Lord Spike Prime turns to see Zelda standing in the middle of the pool of never ending stories with her left arm raised into the air and a determined look on her face. LSP looks shocked, he can’t believe his eyes as the waters of the pool begin swirling around Zelda, every particle begins to shift and churn and spin around her into a vortex of unimaginable beauty. Zelda speaks softly.}
Zelda: suck it.
{Inside the tornado of water the individual particles of water begin to form an even larger barrier around her as suddenly in each drop we can see the the images of a Steve Awesome from every possible reality and time. Zelda begins to look around and seeing all the faces of Steve she starts to cry tears of joy at seeing so many of Steve’s multiversal essences coming to her aid from the Pool of Never Ending Stories. The stream of tears begins to flow down from her eyes and into the water that’s already surrounding her. The sounds of a billion uncountable Steve’s telling Lord Spike Prime to “Suck it” begin to fill the air and Zelda raises her left arm higher building the torrent of water around her even more until it must be hundreds of feet into the air. Zelda feels a gentle touch on her shoulders as we see a pair of hands resting there from the swirling vortex that surrounds her. She lowers her head for a second and her tears of joy turn to ones of sadness.}
Zelda: So this was your plan?
..:: We are all here now. You know what to do ::..
Zelda: This was never going to bring you back was it?
..:: Some things just… “are”, Z ::..
Zelda: It’s not fair. Why did it have to be you?
..:: Is there a better way to go out than as the hero of the entire Timeline of Multiverses? ::..
Zelda: You already were a hero to me.
{The vortex engulfs her now as Zelda lets out a loud scream that pierces the ears of everyone around her. They cover their ears as Lord Spike Prime’s eyes become large with fear. He attempts to swing his arm around and block what’s about to happen but there is no stopping it.}
Zelda: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
{The vortex of Steve’s multiversal energy combines into Zelda as she throws her arm with the graces forward to point at Lord Spike Prime. A pure blast of energy flies through her and the Soul Bracer directly towards Lord Spike Prime. In an instant he’s gone and the Spirit Bracer falls to the earth and Zelda falls out of the sky into the waters of the pool. Overwhelmed by the pure energy of the entire multiverse flowing through her.}
Spikee: Holy shit…. Is it over?
Lord Dominicus (Real): Zelda?
Trent Helms: Oh no…
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{Zelda lays in the waves of the Pool of Neverending Stories with her arms spread to her sides as her eyes begin to slowly close, the power and energy of what just happened has stripped her of most of her life force and she begins to realize her fate is to fade away here with the Multiverse saved. She begins to smile as everything begins to fade to black for the final time….}
..:: Sacrificing yourself to save the universe… a bit cliche don’t you think? ::..
Zelda: Shut up. Also: Couldn’t you say the same about me talking to your disembodied spirit ghost voice that whole journey?
..:: Point taken Sydney ::..
Zelda: You know…
..:: I know ::..
Zelda: Stop that… You know, you and Adam are the only ones who were ever allowed to call me that right?
..:: What about Ben? ::..
Zelda: Why would my own child call me by my first name?
..:: I don’t know. When he’s at school or applying for a job, or needs a bank loan… Maybe when he’s applying for a job at Applebee’s and they ask him “So who are your parents?” It could come up in plenty of places ::..
Zelda: Stop trying to make me laugh you ass.
..:: Feels like it’s been a long time since you told me that, so… you’ve been on a trip this whole time? ::..
Zelda: Nope. Perfectly clean. You know you got me off all the hard stuff.
..:: Yeah. Now I’m not there though ::..
{A tear begins to roll down Zelda’s cheek into the waves that are crashing against her as she lays staring up at the darkened sky. The scene around her begins to fade around her as she turns over onto her side, revealing her laying in her bed.}
Zelda: Don’t remind me.
..:: I’m just saying that you could, might help you through the pain ::..
Zelda: Feels like I would be letting you down at this point. I can’t do that… Not now. Not after everything we’ve been through. I have to stay strong… for you. For Ben. For me. I know it’s what you would want.
{More tears begin to form in her eyes as she bites down her bottom lip, disparate in her attempt to not break down again. She tries to fight back the feelings that are currently starting to overwhelm her. Her eyes closed, her mouth tight, her hands gripping the side of the bed… trying to do anything to stop the pain until she feels a warmth pressure on her shoulder. Surely she’s just imagining him there, but it makes her feel a tiny bit better thinking of him laying beside her one more time.}
Zelda: I’m going to miss you.
..:: I know ::..
Zelda: I love you.
..:: Ditto ::..
{The entire scene fades away. Zelda takes a deep breath and pulls herself up and sits on the edge of the bed for a moment, the entire time composing herself by breathing heavily. She closes her eyes one last time for a deep inhale and lets it out before turning her head slightly to the right and looking at table positioned next to the bed her and Steve and shared. There staring back her, push pinned into the lamp shade of the lamp that was positioned there is the old Lady Dominicus mask. Zelda stands up, pulls the pin out, and takes the mask into her hand… She looks into the camera as a mischievous smile begins to curl onto her face.}
Zelda: Spike. Rob.
{She slides the mask onto her face.}
Lady Dominicus: Game on. Bitches.
{Fade to black}