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[center][u]And[/u][/center]
[center][b]VOYAGER[/b][/center]
[center][u]In[/u][/center]
[center][b][color=ed1c24]AMERICA PREVAILS!![/color][/b][/center]

Riley, now known as Voyager, stepped out into the open air for the first time in what was probably weeks of hiding away inside the lab. She didn’t really have time to enjoy the sensation before she bumped into the back of Shovel Knight’s head.

[color=MediumOrchid]“Yeouch!”[/color] Voyager squawked, rubbing her chest where the Knight’s horns poked her.

“Another knight stands before us,” Shovel Knight announced, not seeming to notice what his horns were up to. “Whether of good or ill intent, I know not.”

Voyager looked at the girl in the hoodie who forced them to stop with a confused expression. Whether she was actually a knight or not she couldn’t tell, but judging by the gleaming sword gripped in her hand, she wasn’t here on accident.

[color=00aeef]”Stop!”[/color] the girl proclaimed. [color=00aeef]“Are you the ones who caused that destruction behind you?!”[/color]  Voyager and Shovel Knight both looked over their shoulders at the lab building, looking thoroughly ravaged by the video game army’s invasion, the worst damage being the hole that the pair of them just happened to emerge from.

[color=MediumOrchid]“Wait, this isn’t what it looks like!”[/color] Voyager tried to explain. [color=MediumOrchid]“I got attacked by-”[/color] But what Voyager got attacked by, the girl with the sword never found out. 

“YOU STAND ON U.S SOIL MUTIE! BY THE ORDER OF PRESIDENT RICHARDSON YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!! FOR YOU HAVE CROSSED. FRANK HORRIGAN!” 

[color=00aeef]”I’ll get back to you two later, first I got a bloody nasty Boss, over there that’s endangering Civvies. One who won’t back down until killed.”[/color] Eva said as she drew her sword and pulled a strange bird sized creature from her hoodie pocket, drawing more curious looks from the shovel-wielding knight and his strange-looking companion. Who looked around confused while yawning. His pale white skin looking slimy as Eva held him close and spoke. [color=00aeef]”Time to get big, kinda need the muscle here.”[/color]

Dickens leaped out of her hands, his legs growing in girth as he grew taller, thicker and more violent looking, until. He paused to lick Eva. She tried to force him to stop, as his his stupid happy mug was pushed back, although he more reacted to her pushing him than her own strength having any effect. [color=00aeef]”HIM! He’s the Bloody danger! Not my face.”[/color] Eva yelled out to a dim witted Dickens who rose up his massively beaked head and began stopping towards Frank Horrigan. Shovel Knight was shocked by this turn of events, and Voyager was utterly ecstatic. The former an offhand, awed comment about sorcery before he was drowned out entirely by the latter.

[color=MediumOrchid]“THAT! WAS! AMAZING!”[/color] Voyager shrieked, her eyes practically (and literally) glowing as she jumped up and down on the spot. [color=MediumOrchid]“HOW MANY OF THOSE DO YOU HAVE?” [/color]
Eva looked back towards the odd girl frantically beside herself at seeing Dickens do his thing. 
[color=00aeef]”I. You’re an excitable one yeah, just the one. Just the one, still not really the time for this, gonna get busy here.”[/color]

“The Sword Maiden is correct, let us save pleasantries for when the Order is vanquished, Lady Voyager,” Shovel Knight interjected. “To arms!”

Dickens charged in first as he grabbed Frank by the arm, the Monster himself, easily threw him aside crashing into another building as another creature was watching the God of Decay himself, Chaos. His furred form leaped into battle as stone protrusions crashed into Dickens from the Apes’ arms. Frank turned to see the two beast fighting. “ABOMINATIONS, THE LOT OF THEM. THEY WILL BE DESTRO---” As Eva’s sword slashed at his back interrupting him and forcing him to acknowledge her presence. 

“ANOTHER MUTIE, FINE YOU SHALL BE THE FIRST!” As laser claws popped from his wrist device and clanged against her sword. 

Frank slashed not one but thrice as he stopped and spoke. “INTERESTING. YOU SHOULD BE DEAD BY NOW, THAT SWORD WILL NOT SAVE YOU FOR LONG.” The power-armored behemoth drew back his laser claw for a deadly blow, but recoiled slightly as bursts of purple energy pelted him like explosive snowballs. He turned to look at Voyager, furiously charging and firing Psiblasts at his hulking form. 

His breathing was heavy, his voice echoed as he laughed. “A PUNY PSYKER THINKS IT CAN TAKE FRANK HORRIGAN. MUTIE! AMUSING AS YOU ARE, I HAVE FELLED YOUR KIND BEFORE.” His mini gun roared as he blasted the ground by Voyager with bolts of plasma melting the pavement into a goo scalding hot. Voyager’s eyes widened under her helmet as the searing wall of death arced toward her, leaping into the air with a well-timed Psicharge seconds before it hit her, trailing energy and firing a charged Psiblast right at the armored hulk’s face right before landing roughly on her rear a few meters away.

[color=MediumOrchid]“Betcha haven’t faced anything like me though,”[/color] Voyager retorted, rubbing her backside tenderly as she scrambled to her feet.

Another fight raged on, Dickens had tumbled into various buildings as Chaos continued to pummel away at his torso, trying to pierce his hide with rebar, Dickens reached up and grabbed his arm with his maws, chomping through the flesh as it digitized away Chaos bit into Dickens thick neck as he thrashed about, knocking the giant Ape off his back and tail whipping him into the street. Eva saw Dickens mildly struggling but he didn’t seem to have that much trouble. As Frank sneered at the beasts fighting in the background. The Civilians took their time to leave but had all scattered, Eva stood her ground fighting toe to toe with The Enclave Bodyguard, drawing his attention long enough for the knight with the shovel to make an attack. Swinging his odd weapon around, he leapt into the air with surprising grace and swung the shovel into Horrigan’s helmet, producing a mighty clang not unlike a church bell being rung that made everyone’s ears ring.

“You adorn yourself in armor you don’t have the honor of wearing, you cur!” Shovel Knight degraded as he swung around for another shovel-backhand. 

“CUR! MY ARMOR IS MADE FOR DEFENDING MY COUNTRY FROM MUTANTS LIKE YOURSELF! ALL WHO ARE NOT OF, THE ENCLAVE! ARE IMPURE AND MUST BE EXTERMINATED FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY! YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT.” Frank stumbled back due to the force of the Shovel as then an Ape then flew into him, knocking him over. Chaos forced himself to stand as Frank angrily tossed the Ape aside while a T-Rex jumped into the weird fray attacking Chaos and pushing the two back towards Dickens the Rex’s Rocketpack jetted off further as Dickens sank it’s maw into the Rex’s tail and yanked it to the ground, cracking the earth and sending shockwaves radiating outwards

[color=00aeef]”OI. What the Bloody hell is all this, Rex’s and Apes, and Frank Horrigan, god, what the hell. I can’t even enjoy all the other characters running around and you had to show your mug, you massive douche. Richardson is already dead, you should be too.”[/color] 

“AS LONG AS I STILL STAND AMERICA PREVAILS!” Horrigan yelled as his minigun raged through the trio causing them to scatter, and taking the chance to lunge in, Frank brought his claws down upon Eva who had not yet had the chance to block, but Voyager leapt in front of her just in time, conjuring the Psionic energy around her arms and blocking the strike. With a blow that would have otherwise cleaved through Voyager’s outstretched arms, Horrigan smashed his claws against the barrier, knocking a winded Voyager to the ground and producing a sharp cracking noise from her helmet. Eva quickly lashes out against the vicious attack slicing at his neck, causing the behemoth to recoil back. 

[color=00aeef]”Much thanks, you alright?”[/color] Eva asked as Frank began to strike against the pair, with Shovel Knight leaping in to parry the massive claw alongside Eva as Riley stumbled with her helmet.

[color=MediumOrchid]“I’m f-fine, just...need a moment,”[/color] Riley said breathlessly, attempting to get to her feet.

“Stand firm!” Shovel Knight cried out in encouragement, only for Horrigan to knock the shovel out of his way and move in for another killing blow. With a slight scoffing noise from the knight, the shovel vanished with a pop as Shovel Knight took out a pair of oversized, sand-colored gauntlets from hammerspace, punching aside the claw and pummeling Horrigan in the chest until he backed off. “You’re not the only one with a few tricks up his armored sleeve!” Shovel Knight retorted, clanking the gauntlets together before stowing them and pulling his trusty Shovel out again, seemingly out of nowhere. Frank Horrigan’s armored plating took each blow but received heavy damage he shrugged of the damage, striking at Shovel Knight’s weapon repeatedly in his attempt to overpower the armored defender, Eva held her hand out towards Voyager to help the girl to her feet who she couldn’t help but notice the odd shape of her legs, but considering she had an Alien pet and knew Ghosts it wasn’t something that shocked her all that much. [color=00aeef]”Need a hand?”[/color]

[color=MediumOrchid]“Yeah, th-thanks,”[/color] Riley stuttered as she was helped into a standing position again, readjusting the helmet so she could see again. [color=MediumOrchid]“Ghay'cha, this guy’s tough….”[/color]

[color=00aeef]”We’ll need to end this soon though got any more blasts in you, I’ll go low and try to cripple his legs.”[/color]

[color=MediumOrchid]“Oh I have plenty of Psi left to go around,”[/color] Voyager said, her eyes glowing ominously. [color=MediumOrchid]“Let’s beat this chump!”[/color] 

[color=00aeef]”Frank Horrigan was never a chump, I remember him from Fallout 2, he has nearly a thousand hit points. It’s no wonder he’s shrugging off our hits, he can probably do this all day, but I’d rather not spend that long. Ready yourself, I’m going in.”[/color] Eva charged, sliding into position on Frank’s left side as she took a swing at his legs, trying to distract him long enough for that other girl to blast him. 

“Wait, where do I shoot?!?” Voyager shouted, charging Psienergy in her hands as she readied her attack. 

[color=00aeef]”Just shoot! There’s no weakness in his armor!”[/color] Eva yelled as her blade slashed at his legs. Horrigan stumbled and nearly fell over as Voyager unleashed a beam of crackling PsiEnergy, kicking up the dust on the ground and searing the exposed armor plating covering his chest. 

“YOU MUTANT SCUM, JUST LIKE YOU TO TRY A TRICK LIKE THAT.” He said as he swiftly grabbed Eva by her hoodie holding her by his gun arm as he readied his laser blade, Eva kicked and struggled as Frank continued to prattle on. “NOTHING CAN HELP YOU NOW, NOTHING WILL.” As he pulled back his arm for a thrust Dickens, who until now had been fighting off both Giant Monsters, charged in head first plowing into both Frank Horrigan and Eva sending Frank into a nearby building and running off with a T-Rex hanging on his neck as Chaos clung to his back. 

[color=MediumOrchid]“Uh...is that how you’re supposed to beat him?”[/color]  Riley asked, staring as the unstoppable juggernaut of a man got carried off by a gang of kaiju. 

As Eva stood clutching her sore ribs. [color=00aeef]”Not really, but it’ll do. Although we better hit him while he’s down, otherwise he’ll just keep coming.”[/color] Eva walked over towards the unconscious Frank Horrigan, plunging Excalibur deep into Frank’s skull. And with a final gasp of air he called out. 

“Duty.. Honor. Semper Fiiiii........” As his pixelated body began to fade out of existence, Eva looked towards Dickens who was still fighting off the Monsters.

[color=00aeef]”We should probably give Dickens a hand, before he brings down the entire block. So. I’m gonna guess you aren’t the bad guys, name’s Pendragon, you’ve met Dickens, and this. Is Excalibur.”[/color]

“A sword truly worthy of its wielder,” the horned knight in blue announced. “I am Shovel Knight, and this is my compatriot, the lady known as Voyager.”

[color=MediumOrchid]“Uh, hi,” Voyager responded, sheepishly waving one hand and grinning slightly. “And yeah, the sword’s kinda neat, but...what’s a Dickens?”[/color]