Megastory 9.2 (Usagi, Merrick & Spiral vs. Zeltrax &Ratar-O)

Previously: Behind the scenes of the Battle Nexus tournament, The Jade Warlord ordered Zeltrax and Ratar-O to kidnap the Damiyo’s son.

The Damiyo was furious. His son had been kidnapped. The guards that were appointed to him had been killed.

No demands had been made yet but he wasn’t going to sit around and wait.

There was no benefit in cancelling the rest of the tournament. This competition meant a lot to many warriors. It was not fair to crush their hard

work because of some scheming villain’s ambitions.

So instead, he assembled a team of contestants who had already been eliminated. These fighters were honorable and regularly competed in the

tournament.

Mojo also offered his help. That was acceptable because the spineless one had a lot to loose. Should the first Battle Nexus Tournament be

canceled he would loose all of his new viewers and have to go back to his own dimension.

The spineless one submitted Spiral for the investigation. She was a strong warrior and had magic abilities as a bonus.

Having lost to Longshot, Miyamoto Usagi accepted the Damiyo’s request for help.

The high contender Merrick also joined in. He had been in a match when Zen-Aku was killed. The two had shared a strong bond and Merrick felt

it when the other perished. The disturbance caused him to loose his match and be eliminated from the tournament earlier than he normally

would. Added to the fact that he had nothing better to do, Merrick took up the investigation to find out what happened to Zen-Aku.

Recovering the Damiyo’s son was a heroic addition to his quest.

A spell beyond Spiral’s ability called replay was cast. It allowed the practitioner a vision of what happened in a certain area in the past. The

Damiyo himself activated the spell and they saw Ratar-O and Zeltrax battling and killing Tri-Klops and Zen-Aku.

The Plundarian mutant and the cyborg became the Battle Nexus’ most wanted.

With the tournament going on, the Battle Nexus was a madhouse. Not to mention that the culprits could easily flee to almost any dimension

being that this was a universal nexus.



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The immortal Jade Warlord gazed upon the Damiyo prince as Ratar-O and Zeltrax brought him in. The prince seemed calmer than he should have

been. As they let him go the Ultimate Ninja snarled,

“What do you want immortal?”

“You know me then?” said the Jade Warlord.

“Of course I do! Why have you brought me here?”

“You are my ransom hostage.” Said the Jade Warlord coldly. “You will be tortured and killed and…”

“You think I submitted to this captivity?” Ultimate Ninja interrupted. “You think that I could not defend myself against your lackeys?

“I knew that someone was after my father’s War Staff! I wanted to be taken to find out who!”

Curious, The Jade Warlord asked… “Why?”

“Because there may be an opportunity for both of us.”

“What would the son of the Damiyo have to gain if I possessed the War Staff?”

“You want the War Staff. I want the Battle Nexus.”

At first the Jade Warlord was going to say what he was thinking, but he kept his mouth closed. The young fool clearly wanted his father’s

throne. Nothing strange about that. But he didn’t want to wait. The foolishness surfaced as the prince didn’t understand that the War Staff

made the Battle Nexus. Powerful sorcerer the Damiyo was, but his War Staff is what made him unchallenged ruler.

The area of the Battle Nexus was a chaotic realm of random opening dimensional rifts. Travelers and unwitting victims of circumstance from all

over the Universe found their way here along with creatures and entities unpleasant atmospheres.

Ancient masters of magic coupled their powers and tamed the land. They brought in warriors to slay the demons and monsters that were able

to thrive in the region. After centuries, the realm became safe.

Seeing an opportunity for interdimensional contact on a scale beyond anything ever known, a sorcerer named Damiyo set up trade posts. The

realm held onto its reputation of chaos so he established tournament of champions which finally enticed the beings to come. A war nearly broke

out as cultures who never even knew the other existed began clashing.

Damiyo knew that this sort of thing would not only be a regular occurrence but it would escalate to heaven knew what levels. Someone had to

bring down an authoritive hammer and establish law and order. Gather all the magic he could, from vanquished enemies, volunteers and sources

only he knew about, Damiyo compressed them all into a single relic, the War Staff.

With this mighty weapon, he thrashed all takers and placed the name of Damiyo as lord of what would eventually be known as the Battle Nexus.

The Ultimate Ninja pushed his case. “I can get you the War Staff if you can remove my father.”



They had an agreement.

But now they needed to rid themselves of the Damiyo’s followers who would surely be pursuing the Ultimate Ninja’s kidnappers.

The Jade Warlord was already prepared for that incident. This was the reason he recruited Zeltrax and Ratar-O. With his agreement with the

prince Damiyo, his further plans were simply made easier.

The Damiyo’s warrirors followed the trail that the Jade Warlord had established for them and right into the trap that awaited.

An empty hall far, far away from the excitement for the tournament.

The young ronin- Miyamoto Usagi entered first. It wasn’t dark, but there wasn’t much light coming in from the sunny outside.

“There is no one here.” Usagi reported.

Quickly, the other two entered. Spiral and Merrick. Spiral commented.

“This place is bigger than this room. Let’s check around.”

They split up and began searching the building.

Watching everything through a viewing globe, from a remote location, The Jade Warlord and the Ultimate Ninja signaled their henchmen to

spring the trap.

The building wasn’t that big and the three heroes met back in the main hall after a minute.

“There’s something we missed.” Spiral complained. “All the evidence lead to here.”

“This doesn’t feel right.” Usagi looked around suspiciously.

“I think we should retrace our steps.” Merrick advised. “Spiral is right and we must have missed something.”

“You’ve missed nothing fools!”

The shout came from the front entrance. Zeltrax stood there, his sword in his hand. Sprial and Merrick braced themselves to battle him but

Usagi wisely checked behind them.

He was satisfied to see Ratar-O at the back entrance. Now they had both the kidnappers. All they needed to do was defeat them.



Fight Parameters:

Three on two battle.

The Merrick, Usagi and Spiral are out to capture their enemies (but you only need one captive)

Zeltrax and Ratar-O intend to kill.



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