A Carnival in Darkness: Part 69

Hamtaro didn't need any weapons to fight, all he needed were his sharp teeth. Hamtaro watches Axl spin his baton but then begins hissing loudly as he sees an evil Shadowlaw Raven clone hiding behind a tree with a radio transmitter spying on them for Bison.

Uria comes over to That Man with the surviving duel monsters. The winged dragon of Ra being the strongest duel monster was carrying their Raven because Raven was their king and they had to give him the best protection. The duel monsters gathered and bowed around That Man telling That Man that Shadowlaw destroyed their home and killed many of their kind leaving them homeless. Only a small handful survived.

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Axl could only stare in amazement at all the hamsters that were assembled to help in this war. A smirk on his face as he let out a hearty and happy laugh as he looked right to That Man, "Hey, That Man-dude...Looks like we've got tons of help now." Axl said as he points back to all the hamsters.

Axl was very confident in all the hamsters and could only chuckle as he saw how Oxnard had himself a sharp fork. Though small, it was something for the hamster to arm himself with atleast.

That Man was amazed as all the Duel Monsters that remained came over to him, nodding his head as he looks to...The literal army that was all around him and the others.

"Do not worry, Duel Monsters, please, simply join us all and we can overthrow Shadowlaw, the Ravens and Bison himself!" That Man spoke loudly to all of his allies. Now taking notice of the little hamster hissing loudly toward a Raven clone.

"A spy..."

"Tch...That little *****!? Boss, let me handle him..." I-no said with a cackle to herself as she held her guitar up and jumped into the air, strumming a note on her guitar as she then flew in the direction of the Raven clone. Chasing him out of hiding as the clone put up a fight but wouldn't last long.

"Come here you stupid piece of ****! No one ***** with my boss!" I-no was loudly screaming as she smashed her guitar onto the clone's head. Using the guitar strings to choke him as it was a massacre on her part to get rid of the clone, until finally, she'd let the clone die and be free from all the pain as she starts to clean all the blood off of her body.

"Hey! That Man...Atleast you didn't make these clones as durable as the real Raven or else we'd be in a lot of trouble, yeah?" She then burst out into laughter.

"Tch...What a loud mouth." Sol said to himself as he kept his brown eyes fixated right on That Man, like he could strike at any moment. But he had self control and would wait until after the war to fight That Man again.

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Hamtaro sniffs and searches the entire area making sure that there weren't any more Raven clones. Hamtaro went to the dead Raven clone and bit out the radio transmitter, carrying the transmitter to Axl to see if Axl could learn what was taken or sent over to Bison.

The senshis finally arrive to the meeting with That Man and they ask to join That Man in helping save the Earth as soon as possible so they can go back to their Raven clones and listening to them sing.

Sephiroth clenches both fists and he twitched in anger at Sol's continued attitude to That Man. With the collar removed, Sephiroth was able to use the rest of his abilities and scanned Sol's mind only to confirm and angry him even more. Sephiroth paid no attention to the Shadowlaw Raven clone spy being destroyed as he bowed politely to That Man speaking again in an angry tone. "Sol can not be trusted! He wants to have you killed! He does not know of what kind of hero you have become and the respect you deserve. How can you put up with him? Everyone is alive because of your heroic efforts."

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In the Shadowlaw base, Bison is having even more Raven clones being produced. He smiles as he was able to process the information the spy was able to sent over with the transmitter before it was destroyed. Bison is almost ready to face That Man with his army and he is pleased to learn that many more dimensions have been invaded and destroyed. Now Bison has managed to wipe out over 20% of the world's population with his Shadowlaw Raven clone army.

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When Axl was given the radio transmitter, he just held it up to his mouth and held down the button to send a transmission.

"'ello...Who's this? Oh...I'm Axl Low...And I'm just the guy who found yer friends walkie-talkie...What happened to him? Oooh...Well...I dunno...He's in a lot of pieces..." Axl'd say before he tossed the transmitter over to That Man so he could hold onto it.

That Man would only smile to Sephiroth after That Man caught the radio transmitter from Axl. Holding it to his side as he walked a little closer to Sephiroth and placed his remaining hand on his shoulder. "You must not worry about me, Sephiroth. If I am to die...Then I am to die, and if it is to be by the hands of Sol, then I would be at peace with it, because I am at fault for making Sol what he is today. A Gear and as many a scientist in the past has suffered...I too believe that divine retribution on my part, would be to die by the hands of one of my own creations."

That Man said all of that, without even the slightest hint of fear in his voice about dying. His long life having been one that only recently changed for the better, but he couldn't be angry about it...He had brought this life upon himself for spitting in the eyes of higher beings with the creation of the Gears.

Now as That Man looked to the senshi, he would more than welcome them into the fray as additional allies in this war against Shadowlaw and Bison.

In his mind, he had been planning so many things, even through all of this talking and excitement. "I believe first, we must find the Shadowlaw base and then once we know it's whereabouts, we can formulate a plan as to what side of it would be the best to approach."

Sol's thoughts were so full of anger right now with how long That Man was taking, because to Sol, the faster this war was over...The sooner he'd get to try and kill That Man.

"Jeez! We can't just keep planning, you know?! We gotta rush these f*ckers and make a dent in them. By the time you're done with all of these plans, so many innocent people will be dead! So much for calling yourself a hero when you can't even come up with a plan fast enough!" Sol yelled at That Man furiously.

Stabbing his Fireseal into the dirt and causing the dirt and rock around it to melt just a bit, forming a small pit of lava that would cool in a few minutes.

"Sol...We cannot rush That Man...If we do, then we'll only succeed in getting more of our forces killed, and with how small our forces are against the many clones of myself, every loss on our side, can tip the scale in their favor." Raven said graciously as he was attempting to keep Sol's temper down, as he thought it might be bothering his boss.

"Seriously, Sol...You could be a little more patient...Or maybe you're just gonna bust off a little premature?" I-no burst out into laughter at the innuendo she slipped in, in order to mock Sol as usual.

She had to jump back and guard herself with her guitar and a green shield of magic after her comment as Sol sent a blaze of fire her way with one of his powerful Gunflame attacks.

"Geez...So rough, so rough...You're exciting me just a little, you know that?" She cackled after speaking as she strums a few riffs on her guitar from the song "Breaking the Law" by Judas Priest as she loved to mock and anger others. It made her feel better about the wreck that was her life.

After much careful deliberation and planning, That Man finally used his powers to see the location of Bison's whereabouts and saw that things were much worse than he thought. The army that Bison had was still growing and by the looks of it, the base was heavily defended with the amount of Raven clones.

"I believe...Sol's idea may be right...We will have to charge them and hope to catch them off guard...There seem to be far too many for us to handle in a tactical manner..." That Man said softly as he began to open a rift in the dimensions that would allow them to transport as close as possible to the Shadowlaw base.

Close enough to make some observations about their foes but not be too close as to be caught. The fight seemed to just be over the horizon at this point...