Falling Blade.

Doc Elite feels the flame pass his cheek, and sees the hydrakins get smoked.

Doc Elite: Short lived reunion, huh?

Amber glares at him while she cracks

Topaz is actually seemingly happy

Topaz: I'm gonna be a REAL Hydrakin now!

Crack

Crack

Boom.

Both turn into dust.

Now there are none of them!

Doc Elite: Y- WHAT?

Spectrum man lifts his prism, the dust seems to merge with it.

Spectrum: Don't worry. They're just back to the mindspace, or...whatever it may be. I suppose it's Topaz's first time there but I digress.

Doc Elite is extremely confused

Doc Elite: ...How...?

Spectrum: I'll explain later.

Doc Elite shrugs, and releases a Doc Essence attack boost

Welp, switch to Punch Man and Trip Wave.

Before anything could take place, a ominous red aura appears in the distance. Glass tries to see what it is before it teleports in front of him.
...
...Crud.
…Glass was defeated!
The Red Boss Fan has reappeared, amped by the multiplier! All hope is lost!

(This section was made by Beta with a few edits from me. Thank you)
Gagaku rushes in at high speed to pounce on top of Burning Desire, crushing him for 4 Damage and using all of his strength and weight in a desperate attempt to slow him down.
Laughing at the unfortunate position BD is in, Eidolon unleashes the full extent of his aquatic wrath. BD attempts to squirm out of the way, but Gagaku will not let him have it, pushing his weight down further while also making sure he doesn’t get in the way of the blast himself, causing Burning Desire to take the full force of Eidolon's Water Overdrive for a grand total of 601 damage.

Eidolon cannot help but continue to laugh at Burning Desire's sorry state, finding great humor in seeing such a mighty fiend stoop so low... But it is a laugh soon joined by BD himself, causing Eidolon’s demeanor to shift to one of fear as it grows more and more insane. Gagaku grows worried, but still chooses to hang on as to try and stop BD from whatever the pyromaniac may be planning.

Burn…BURN…BURNNNNN!

(End Section here)

Managing to get a hand unpinned, he fires a small wave of flame, which as it loops back around it’s revealed to be a Domino Flare as it slams into Gagaku for 2620 Damage!

Finally, Gagaku’s claws give out as he’s knocked away. Getting to his feet, he jumps on Gagaku, stomping him into the blades while the Domino Flare continues its rampage, ramming into Eidlon for 2674 Damage and down he goes!
Still going, the Domino Flare disintegrates the Weed Cracker and hits Ralsei for [3821 Damage]{flame! Against all luck and odds, the flare still goes and explodes on Dord for 596 Damage!

Rising up, the flames surrounding him vanish…before coming back with great intensity! Reignite was used!

A massive cloud of steam overtakes Burning Desire…before it’s revealed that all debuffs were removed along with 300 stat points.

Valk activates a Inner Valor! Doc Elite, Punch, Limstella gained +1 in Defense (not a typo). Valk’s WE maxed out!

Synth tears into Burning Desire with a Slash Claw for 1 damage, resulting in Phlogiston to pour from the wound!(Bleed)

Though able to move, Burning Desire finds it harder to move thanks to the Bind effect of the Trip Wave, also doing 1 Damage!

Every unit, both on and off the field, gained +1 in attack from the Doc Essence!

Xemnas hits Burning Desire with a Burst for 2 damage!
…
BURN BURN BURN!
Burning Desire beats on his chest like a wild animal as the flames have backed everyone into a corner. From behind him comes a familiar yet more deep tone

BEHOLD! RED DISK SPECIAL!

The Raid Boss Fan’s red aura rises above his head before shooting into Burning Desire. …Nothing seems to happen until
RAZE…IGNITE…ENGULF…DEVASTATE INCINERATE
BURN!!!
Burning Desire flies high in the air…
TRBF:...Huh. You all better look out! Cause now you're dealing with two-whoa woah woah WOAH!
TRBF is suddenly swept away by a large wave of water!

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There!
Smacking a wooden beam, water starts to gush out from the large construct.

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As the waters flood the terrain, the fires are quickly put out.
Certain effects of the Temperature Gauge were canceled out! (Only AP remained, Support moves 2x Xp/zenny!)
All stat points were removed from speed and all reserves were converted into defense and attack!

Click me! (Probably not gonna be my final choice in song...who knows?)

This is no time to be slacking around! All men to combat stations! Do what you can to survive! All party members are now active and thus can all perform actions! (Hold on for players with a few characters, please!)
(This post is WIP)

As Gagaku is knocked back by BD- horrifying Ninja Man greatly- he is caught by another passing figure. Gagaku is broken, but not completely beyond repair.

...Huh. Seems I've come at a good time.
Urgh... H-hey. How was that training with the mercenaries?
...
...Yes.

The Wily AI manages to spark itself back online... albeit barely.

...Huh. Still alive-ive-ive. I'll give him cre-re-redit, I didn't really expe-pe-pect it.

Meanwhile, Ninja Man stares at the scene in anguish, falling to his knees.

(...What... Am I doing...?)
(That pretentious, stubborn clown was right. This is unfitting for my nature. I wasn't built to cower like a fool!)
(I'm supposed to be a warrior! A fighter! I... I...)

Ninja Man looks back over to Gagaku.

(...I am extremely P***ED OFF!)

Suddenly, red energy erupts from Ninja Man, who then looks to the rest of the group.

We're ending this NOW.



Hmm... It's desperate, but it could just work... Assuming the other groups do the exact same.
...I'm sorry, but I can't. I'm too injured from earlier...

Ninja Man just glares at Disarge before tearing off his shoulder cannon.

OW!!! HEY! Urgh, I don't know what you plan to do with that, but I doubt it'll-

Ninja Man proceeds to force the detached rocket launcher to fire a Sergeant Rocket at Burning Desire. (This will count as Disarge's action, by the way.)

...Fine, I'll let you have that. But one of you are going to weld that back on me when this is over.

Ninja Man follows this up by charging at BD with his katana to strike at full force. This is joined with Banetem, who uses his Fusion Move skill to combine his Water Shuriken and his Night Slash into one move, striking with an aquatic katana.

Meanwhile, FEHta Shadow changes the form of his Breidablik, aiming a blue handgun-shaped weapon at Burning Desire and blasting him with it. (Azure Breidablik) Beta Maximus then unleashes a Golden Storm on Burning Desire.

(OOC: Wait, so is this an auto-revive for all people who didn't have their corpse burned, or is every chracter that wasn't active now active at the same time as the chracter that was already active?)

(By the way, here's another idea for new theme music in case you get bored of the one Gamma posted.)

@RotomSlashBlast : All combatants not inflicted by Burn the Corspe are able to perform actions.

Xemnas, now seeing that Big Swing (which he used via a pair of armored sleeves on his coat, magic, and an Axe-Sword via said magic) failed to do its thing, he starts feeling a certain negative emotion, an emotion we all can feel when one person has tendencies that can make one view another as... "insufferable".
(So this is annoyance... figures this would be an emotion I would feel soon enough.)
He then makes the Axe-Sword he used for Big Swing away via a white light, and starts smiling.
(Though I can make up for this lapse in judgement.)
He then brings out a pair of bat wing-heart combo shaped... things* out of the palms of his hands, raises them into the air, causing the things to fly out of his hands, forming into an orb of darkness above him!
Brace yourself for Impact.
He then uses Impact!
Then, from out of nowhere... Ma'am comes out, bringing out her signature technique... Tora Hasai Ken!
Followed by Curse-Head, doing a Critical Hit with his hammer!
*These "things" being called Ethereal Blades. Though there are quite a few pairs Xemnas has, the pair he's using right now, is dubbed "Absolute"

Magnet Bomber: ATTACK!

Magnet Bomber uses Tidal Fire

Magolor uses Ultra Cutter

(I don't if I can use Sarah)

Sarah uses Mystic Fog

Daisy uses Vegetable Throw

(Just gonna keep doing what i'm doing)

Riding atop the giant wave of water, brickells ship charges towards BD,scooping up the delta trio as they begin getting up

FIRE EVERYTHING!

Brickell launches the mega mine!
Bloom and doom throws a cabbage lob!
Cloud T releases a clashing thunderers
Susie casts rude buster!
Kris used x-slash!
Ralsei smokes out a weed cracker
Limstella drains their own energy by 15% and casts eldritch cannon

(Everyone else is here, but where is Warp?)

Impact Drive!

Spectrum prepares refraction...


Tiny jumps out of the ship

Tiny: Come on! Just like we planned!

Doc Elite: W- What plan?

Tiny: Just, give Trio a bunch of defense!

Trio: ...Hmmm?

Tiny uses brass knuckles on desire!

Doc Elite uses Doc Seize to give a defense boost to Trio!

Trio uses Death Grapple!

If allowed, Eidolon gets back up.

(Eidolon:) ...Weak.
(Eidolon:) You're too weak to pose a threat on your own, so you rely on scare tactics. That doesn't make you strong at all, it's just a massive BLUFF.

Suddenly, a Scrap Coffin comes flying at Burning Desire!

Agreed. Any real power it has was merely the result of the multipliers it's accumulated.

Then, Hellion Lady fires a Malwrath Bolt at Burning Desire!

Pretty cool how I zapped that guy from the side, right?

Soon after, Ensemble attacks with a Neapolitan Bomb!

Wasn't just cool; it was freakin' SWEET!
...By the way, I can't find the place with the mercs; turns out I can't read maps.
can't be that hard; it's just a drawing on a sheet of paper.

shi-Rou then points his remnant repeater at Burning Desire and lets loose a storm of weaponized Remnant bullets!

...y'know, calx, you might've said that multipliers are this guy's only power source, but it feels like he knows speed ain't gonna do him any good anymore, so he switched to some sort of low-mobility, high-power mode.
That... does NOT seem false whatsoever. If I were in your shoes, ocean deity, I'd go with something that inflicts a weakness to certain elements.
(Eidolon:) You know, I think I have one of those!

Eidolon faces Burning Desire once more.

(Eidolon:) I don't know if I've introduced you two to each other yet...

Eidolon prepares an ability that seems to be based on upgraded weapon data for Bubble Lead.

(Eidolon:) ...But just in case, I'd like you to say hello to my little friend!

Eidolon then, if allowed, fires all six shots of his Foam Machinegun at the sentient flame!

Valkyrie Woman's glare sharpens. The zeptosecond it does, BD feels a Speed Star smash into it from behind! Silmultaneously, Valkyrie gathers the energy for Who Fights Monsters into her right fist, and slams against BD!

Slepnir begins the battle by rushing over and over into Burning Desire for 78 Damage! With a RATATATATA, 11 Damage is dealt from the rapid water gun fire! Following up is question by Valk dealing 189 Damage! and finishing this up is Calx finishing the opening strike with a Scrap Coffin for 1 Damage

With a mix of red and orange flames, a veil of smoke and cinders surrounds Burning Desire! Red Hot-Smokescreen was deployed!.

Burning Desire tapped into his Inner Flame, adding 100 to attack and decreasing defense by 50!

A short-zap from Hellion hits BD for 3 damage and hindered its attack and speed even more! The smokescreen whirls around Hellion…burning her alive! 1166 Damage was dealt to Helion. As it returns to BD, Helion is seen unconscious. With an ice-cream explosion that would make Kirby cry in happiness, it does 2 Damage! As the smoke comes back from Hellion, all too late Ensemble realizes the effects before the smokescreen suffocates her for 875 Damage! Shot after shot of laced bullets strike Burning Desire, equaling up to 6 damage! Magic spell after magic spell, it all roles into one uber-charged attack for 4475 Damage!
Bouncing off of Ensemble, embers from the smokescreen cling to shi-Rou for 4191 Damage!

The smokescreen wears off as three massive pillars of flame erupt, smouldering Hellion, Loot, and shi-Rou into nothing but ash.

Burning Desire tapped into his Inner Flame, adding 100 to attack and decreasing defense by 50!

With one slash powered by raw force and fury, Ninja cuts Burning Desire, managing to get it lodged within his torso. Much to his horror though, Burning Desire is seemingly unaffected, only dealing 2 damage, and pushes him away, blade still stuck within.

With both hands, Dord slashes with two Abysmal Claws in an X pattern for 34 damage! Not even looking at him, he punches an oncoming cabbage, dealing only 6 damage due to his resistance. What he does look at though is the sky as 3 massive lightning beams crash from opposing sides for 18 Damage!

Burning Desire holds his chest in response to the damage before pulling out the ninja katana blade . As his other hand turns into a blade, he drives the katana into Ninja Man for 1534 Damage.. Not even bothering to finish him off, he simply uses his other blade to hack away at the Bloom and Doom for 3196 Damage while Ninja is helpless to watch.

Burning Desire tapped into his Inner Flame, adding 100 to attack and decreasing defense by 50!

Next up is Beta Max who raises an arm. From the smoke comes thousands of rays of a flashy golden light upon Burning Desire, dealing 16 Damage!

From a nearby cliff, Stache surveys the battlefield silently. However, the conservation within his mind resonates louder than a baseball game as a massive number of purple streaks fly into the place below.

Just a little more…

The sounds of shining gems echo from Spectrum as the Refraction continues to protect.
Leapfrogging over Spectrum, Baneten combines two different memories to rapidly throw and catch a shadowy blade for 3 Damage! In sync due to his new training FEHta Shadow braces for the recoil and blasts BD for 2 Damage!
Despite not doing a whole lot of damage, Burning Desire roars out loud, rushing through a powered up Eldritch Cannon totalling in 30 Damage to pierce her with a black blade made of soot and screams for 1777 Damage. Doubling back round, smoke expels from his mouth as with a glass-shattering cry he crazily slashes Dord apart for 1280 Damage! Valk dosen’t even feel it at first before suddenly realizing that the two beams of black have pierced past her defenses and her. A vibrant blue aura erupts from Valk, causing Burning Desire to instinctually cover his eyes.

With the fiend distracted, Synth gets the perfect opportunity to strike for 12 Damage, striking the same spot as before! Instead of a mighty roar, nothing but heavy breathing can be heard as Burning Desire kneels. Seeing so many warriors on the field combating the infernal beast, Kris is filled with a certain power. Standing up, they proceed to channel that power from their SOUL into their comrades. Kris channels power into their blade, x-slashing at Burning Desire four times over, dealing 16 damage.
One, two, three veggies strike Burning Desire for a total of 3 damage, instantly getting roasted. Accompanying them is a lone rocket fired a while ago by Ninja Man dealing 6 Damage. A wave of water erupts under Burning Desire for 3 Damage

With his flames dimmed, Burning Desire struggles to get his footing. What remained of his demented laughter has now been replaced by something possibly even more eerie: silence. Holding a hand to the sky, a small ball can be seen hovering above.As he does this, Mass Cremation’s ability kicked in, and an equally small sphere appears on his waist. Apollo’s Lantern was activated!
There it is.

With Kris’ SOUL still shining through, Susie focuses the power through her axe, unleashing a Red Buster* to deal 8 damage to BD.
As Glass comes to, he sees a behemoth of a blade hovering above Magalor swinging down 4 times for 4 Damage!
*Mechanic-wise, this is still treated the same as the regular Rude Buster. This just felt contextually fitting.

Keeping up the cutting assault is Tiny who goes for a one-two-uppercut, dealing 1 Damage! The Apollo’s Lantern continues to shine! A mystic fog pours onto the scene by the wishmaker, dealing 1 Damage and through it comes Xemnas with a Impact for 1 Damage!

Despite the numbers, there’s no denying that every little bit of damage seems to be having an effect!

The Lantern shatters…but not by damage but by the pyromaniac himself! As the pieces fall to the ground, they suddenly fly back up…along with the dust, dirt, and ashes on the ground!
BURN…*shiver*...BURN…burn…
Focusing back on the survivors, unceremoniously a massive wave of flame erupts from him.

BURN IT DOWN!

Sparing everyone from the flames, the entirety of the firepower the move carried transferred directly into Spectrum. Struggling past his limits, he manages to contain it all within…and fails.
From the mindspace of the Crystal Gems, a massive rumble can be felt.

Doc Bot’s blinks before buffing Trio’s defense while Punch slams Burning Desire hard into the ground for 56 Damage! As Burning Desire throws him off, Ma’am strikes hard and true for 6 damage. Following suit is Trio who unleashes a Death Grapple, suplexing him into the ground for 4 Damage!

Though still in the death clutch, he manages to unleash another Burn it Down!

Trio, FEHtaBeta, Synth, Kris, Daisy, Xemnas, Tiny, Betamax, Cloud Man T; they all get knocked away while the rest survive against the odds! Despite already being KOed, Ninja too is heavily burned in what seems to be a deliberate attack! From the skies, the seemingly small signal flare has become a raging sun with, oddly enough, a transparent center.

Freeing himself, cold hard steel cuts almost all the way through his shoulder as Curse-Head completes a BIG SWING for 780! A loud kaboom echoes across the wasteland as a Mega Mine goes off for 35 Damage!
Guard…

Finishing off the team-wide assault is a Weed Cracker, confusing Burning Desire for 1 damage twice!

Tripped, bleeding, high, heavily damaged, and other things, Burning Desire still stands as the newly formed sun glows behind. Within the middle lies a frankly strange sight; green meadows, blue skies, and even children of an alien species playing by a tree. As Burning Desire jumps high the air, he makes a stance similar to the Harudoken…no wait, I think it is it. What a ripoff…er, I mean, the air suddenly becomes dry as a ball of fire forms within. Pillars upon pillars of fire appear under the casualties below, burning them all away, including TRBF. From them, their ashes weave and rush into Burning Desire, increasing his size and power.

BURN…UNTO CINDERS, UNTO BLACK. BURN BURN BURN BURN BURN BURN-

From out of left field and from the left, a massive pirate ship crashes into him, knocking him back a bit. A purple aura surrounds the ship as it slams into him again. From the hatches come Alice, Ricter, Duke Nukem, Reficul, Black WarGreyMon, and more! With their most powerful moves, they launch him through the portal. Still screaming, he readjusts his aim slowly outside. Just as a massive orange beam rockets forth, the portal is slammed shut by a purple aura.
Click me
With this…this act draws to an end but not the show. All that’s left…is the silence.

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(Thanks to Beta for helping to complete this and to all of you for still playing despite the waiting)

...Quiet. Nothing more echoes through the field.

Though the flooding waters have washed away the flames, all it did was revealed nothing but ashes where a beautiful garden once stood.

Banetem sits on the ground next to Disarge. Nobody else joins them...

...There's nobody left of their group who CAN.



...Your silence says it all. And I agree... This victory was nothing but hollow.

Silence fills the room even further...

...The silence is then interrupted by a rainbow glow.

...Things seem rather bleak around here. Fitting for this time of year... though, perhaps TOO fitting.
I-it's you...!

Disarge struggles to stand, but manages to anyways.

...If you're here, then... Then, surely, we must've done it, right? You'll restore this world, right?
You'll... You'll restore our friends' lives... right...?

Beta Supremo overlooks the scenario, seeming to be in deep thought. After several long minutes of contemplating, he responds...

...What you fought wasn't a villain. What you fought was more akin to an ANIMAL. A mindless creature with no sense of right or wrong, following nothing more than its primal desires... NOT a true villain, as I have tasked you with.

Supremo's words thoroughly shocks Disarge. An intense, albeit silent rage grows within him.

...What...? After EVERYTHING we've done... Everything we've BEEN through...! Every trial, every strife, every battle... every SACRIFICE... And yet you DENY us the life we've earned...!?
It is not for you to decide what you have earned-

Suddenly, Disarge snaps.

AND WHO THE HELL ALLOWED YOU TO DECIDE!?!? So many people... So many good men have DIED- SACRIFICED- in this inferno. And yet here you are now, continuing to play GOD-
I AM a god. You are not the ONLY one who sacrificed. The difference between us is that I've sacrificed FAR MORE than my life to be in the position I am now.
More than a- What MORE could there be left to sacrifice!?
...That's something you'll have to learn on your own.

Disarge falls silent and sits down, if only because further expressing his anger will simply drain what little battery life he had left.

Silence falls for a few minutes more, albeit more tense than dreadful, until Supremo decides to break it once more.

...That being said... I suppose I can give you a reward for your bravery during these harsh times.

Figuratively raising an eyebrow, Disarge watches as Beta Supremo focuses an energy on the field around him... And suddenly, swarms of ash begin to surround themselves in light, coming together to form several different figures...

!!!

Indeed, as FEHta Shadow looks around confused, the ashes begin to reform into what they once were... The charred victims of Burning Desire are absolutely restored and revitalized, as if they were never turned to ash to begin with. The garden, too, is restored, perhaps arguably in a better state than it has been before.

They're... They're all back...

Disarge immediately notices something amiss...

Wait, what about me and Gagaku? We weren't quite burned to ash, but we're not exactly in our best shape, either.
My intent was to raise the dead, not play nurse. I'm sure you, Gagaku, and Ninja Man will recover fine.
Wait, you mean to say-
Indeed. Contrary to his earlier condition... Ninja Man Psi is still alive. Though, much like Darkened Chord before him, he WILL need some serious repairs.
And with that, I bid you adieu.

Beta Supremo disappears.