Part 107: Mission 42 (Union Route) - Resurrection - Part 2
: Looks like that’s all of them.
: But what about Winfield and the others…?!
: Secret technique… Fortissimo!
: Your head is mine!*Flash!*
: …: …: Hrrgh…!*Faint.*
: Winfield…!: You cannot bring yourself to forsake all for strength, whereas I have done so long ago…: That difference between us made this outcome… inevita…ble…*Faint.*
: I-It’s a draw…?!: Call the medical team! Have them see to Winfield right—
: Oohoohoo, I don’t think you’ve time to worry about him!: …?!: Aaaaaaaaaah!!: M-Madam Ruri…!
: All communication with the Hadou Command Center has stopped! They’re not answering us!
: What?!: Back to the base, guys! Quick!
: Hmhmhmhm… Please, you don’t have to do that.: Have a look at this!: Gch… Mr. Daijuuji…: Princess…?! He’s taken her?!
: Tiberius, you sonuva…!: Heeheheheh, and I trust you know what’ll happen to her if you try anything funny, yes?
: Hrm… You coward!: Oohohoho! I appreciate the compliment, prettyboy!
: Gwaaaaaargh!: Mr. Daijuuji, everyone…!: Ohohohoho! Come on, now, give me some better screams than that!: Wallow in despair, in fear, in your weakness! Abandon all hope and cry for mercy!
: Hrm… N-No one here’s abandoning any hope…!: Oh, dear, you’d think big ol’ CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE would be more graceful in their defeat!
: We don’t give a damn about being graceful… We’re just not giving up on our lives while there’s a chance to pull through…!
: W-We’re carrying the hopes and wishes of so many who died defending this world… and so long as we have that, we’ll never…!: Demonbane, do something!: If you can’t because there’s no blood flowing in your veins, then you can take all of mine!: Give me a sword to smite this evil! Give me a steel that no one could ever break!!
*Tzeeeep.*
: I hear… a voice…
: The man who completed you is fighting. He’s lost you, lost his powers, and now finds himself in a hopeless situation, but he’s still withstanding that hardship with every fiber of his being.: Yet he would have naught to fear were the two of us together…: …! How could I have forgotten…?: You took an oath, did you not? That you would share the burden of your pain, suffering and regret with one another?: …: Aye, I remember it now… I remember everything…: Then draw forth the innocent blade that lies within your heart one more!: Cross time and space, and fulfill your oath to him…!: The name of the man I ought to fight alongside with… His name is…!
: …: Your will has reached my ears…: Y-You…!: Is… Is this a miracle…?!: Nay, ‘tis not. In fact, you said it before. : I did…?: You fought. Even after losing your powers as Magius, and having the Demonbane stripped of its might…: You fought through it all. You endured until now, never giving any quarter to the enemy. ‘Twas thanks to your efforts that I made it in time. 
SRW UX - Deus Machina: I, Al Azif, mightiest of all grimoires…!: Al…!: Aye, this was no miracle. This was the inevitable result of your actions!
: It’s Al…!
: She’s been reborn?!: Hmph, I don’t know how you managed to come back, but what do you think that bootleg Deus Machina of yours could do against me?!
: Have you forgotten, sinner? If so, we shall remind you!: From the hate-scorched sky! : With righteous anger in our hearts!
: We draw forth the sword that smites Evil!: Thou art the innocent blade… DEMONBANE!
: The Demonbane’s grown wings…?!: ‘Tis the flight unit of Aeon, my former Deus Machina: Shantak!: I could finally summon them now that my powers have returned in full!: Wh-What the hell is going on…? This power’s just like a proper Deus Machina’s…: But I still have my pretty little hostage, so—
: ROBO!*Dash!*
: Wah!: Darling, I’ve saved Ruri-robo!: Whuh?! When did this girl get here?!
: Carelessness is the greatest enemy of all. Maybe your head’s rotted so much that your brainpower took a hit?: Hrm… Fine, then we’ll do this the usual way! Rise, my pretties!*Flash!*
: What?! But we’d taken those things out!
: Guys, be careful! That’s the power of his grimoire!: Mr. Daijuuji, stay your hand no more! Show this man that the sword that smites evil is far from broken!: Aye, aye!: I have regained the power of all my fragments. Let him bear witness to mine and Demonbane’s might!
Oooh, baby, we are back in business.
Not only does Kurou have all his old tricks again, the Demonbane’s also gained +200 HP, +100 Armor, +5 Evasion and Accuracy, +1 movement and, of course, flight. Plus, Al’s Grimoire skill has been bumped all the way to L9, meaning the bot now has 350 MP and regens 30% of it every turn (and you can still bring in a partner with resupply module to add another 10%).
It’s beautiful.
Secret Alert! Demonbane secret – 9th step: also kill Tiberius with Kurou.
Even easier. We’ll trounce the Chimeras and get rid of him lickety-split.
SRW UX - LEGEND OF KAISER
SRW UX - Deus Machina
Jesus! Suffice to say it doesn’t take long at all to make these zombies extra-dead.
SRW UX - Roulette
: Ooh, you’re so cute, I want to just eat you whole…: You’ve blue-balled me for long enough. Time to make an adorable little doll out of you… after I’ve killed you, of course!
: I-I’ll pass! If you wanna play with dolls, do it in your own time!
SRW UX - My Fate: Ooh, a half-jap, eh? Give me a sec and I’ll have your body and soul split in half to match!: I’m not letting go of either the American or the Japanese parts of my soul! It’s because of them that I am who I am!
SRW UX - LOVE 14 ver. HD: Hmm, now who is this girlie…? There’s something so curious about you. I’m dying to get a closer look at your soul and figure out what’s up with it!
: The problem here is that you’ve got a chunk of stone for a heart! If you just listened to our song, you’d figure it out right away!
SRW UX - Deus Machina: Why, it’s been ages, Doctor. You’ve pleeeenty to answer for after your betrayal and I’m here to do the collecting!
: Washing your hands on a worthless cause is no betrayal. : Besides, a genius of my stupendous, extraordinary, superlative intellect isn’t the type to be used by a gaggle of titanic buffoons!
SRW UX - LEGEND OF KAISER
: It’s that zombie again. You must be tired of spending so much time in Hell, hm?: But don’t worry, we’ll re-kill you properly this time. There’ll be no more returns from the grave for you!
: You better be ready, ‘cause you’re about to become the world’s biggest pile of confetti! : I’d like to see you try. You’ll have to outrun my lovely ghosts first, though!
SRW UX - The Eternal Soldiers: Hmm, now that’s a delicious-looking bot you have there. Let’s be friends, you and I…: I’ve a perfect spot for you in my army of ghosts…!
: Yeah, that’s not going to happen! Plus, I already have more than enough eccentric friends!
SRW UX - The Will of Man Awakens: Let’s get down to business. It’s time for you to pay the piper for all the times you messed with our plans!: I’ll lock you away in a prison of unending agony! Your carcass and soul’ll be suffering eons after your heart’s stopped!: You monster of a sorcerer… How can anyone show this little respect for life? But you won’t be having this your way!: Open your rotted eyes and I’ll show you the true light of life!
Arnie attacking Anticross: “Your tricks won’t work on me!”
SRW UX - A Bird’s Song: What do we have here…? I can see the spirits of a lot of animals hiding inside your mech.: I might as well turn them all into ghosts, then. Oh, and I’ll be taking you pilots as well, naturally.: I’m getting a real sense of déjà vu hearing you ramble on… but at least you’re way easier to understand. Mind, that doesn’t mean we’re gonna agree to that idea of yours!: But feel free to try and turn us into ghosts. You’ll have to douse the fire in our souls first, though!
SRW UX - Deus Machina: Where in the hell is your bootleg Deus Machina getting all this power from…?: Do you remember now? Indeed, ‘tis the power of the sword that smites evil!: Get over here, zombie! You’re gonna make like a proper corpse and get back six feet under!
: Hmhmhm… Show me, Kurou, Al Azif… : The sorcerer who has been forged in the dark flow of Time, and the ultimate grimoire in the fullness of its might! Show me your power!: This time…! This time, you will please me!
: Grgh… I am immortal… Maggots like you…
: Maggots like you could never kill me!
: He isn’t dead even after all that punishment?!: With the power of my grimoire, De Vermis Mysteriis, I am immortal… Try whatever you’d like… you will not kill me!
: Hrm… How can we put an end to this mountain of hate?!: Drop the mulling, pal! If he ain’t dying, then we just gotta mess him up ‘til he warms up to the idea!: We’ll hammer the terror of Hell into his bones – literally!: Hah, now that’s my kind of plan!: Come on, Al! We—*Tzeeeeep.*
: ?!
: What is it, Kurou?! SRW UX - Sublimation of a Destroyer: The Demonbane’s energy is…: ‘Tis rising… nonstop, even!
: …! Ensign, the Odyssite’s responding to it…!: Is something happening…?!
: Some… Something flows into my mind. ‘Tis…
: A trapezohedron…? 
: Rrgh… Grwaaaaaaaaagh! I… I can’t control it…!*The Demonbane sets off after Tiberius.*
: What the hell are you?! S-Stay away! : Don’t… DON’T TOUCH ME!!: Yaaaaaaaaah!
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: AAARRAAAAAAAARGG!!
: The signal of the enemy Deus Machina has vanished completely…
: I don’t know if “vanished” is the right word…
: It looked more like it was sent to another dimension?: Al, just what was that…?: I know not… Power such as that should not exist within me… or within the Demonbane, for that matter.
: But it doesn’t look like we’ve other enemies incoming, so we should head back to base.
: I bet you two have plenty to say to each other, right?: Yeah… And the first thing on that list is…: Welcome back, Al…: I apologize for the delay, my master… Kurou Daijuuji. 
: I knew it, Kurou! I knew you would do it this time!: Grand Master! The world has finally produced your equal!: Finally, it comes! Through all those countless eternities, all the thousand, million, trillion times this has been repeated, it is finally, finally, finally time! The curtain rises on the final movement of Earth’s Rhapsody!
: Ooh, woe is me…: For all their huffing and buffing, the Black Lodge are just a bunch of worthless tools!
: I told you nothing good was gonna come out of teaming up with those freaks!
: Forget about your revenge, doctor. Why can we just do regular science stuff, like the good old days?
: Dr. Minami, if I may ask, why are you so obsessed with Dr. West?
: …: He snubbed me…: Huh?: He snubbed me! Me! Dr. Minami, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics!: He had the gall of telling me “Oh, some randos gave you a prize? That’s cute, but come back when you’ve something actually important to show!”: Th-That’s it…?: What do you mean ‘that’s it’?! It’s very important to me!: D-Doctor… that’s a really stupid reason…: Hmph, call it whatever you want. The G Cells have been energized more than enough thanks to Cthulhu’s power. : And once these are ready to go, West and the UX’ll all…!: How about you hand those over instead…?: Y-You’re…!*Craaaaash!*
: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!*BOOOM!*
: …?! They’re…! (Minami): O…oooww….: I was too late…! Who took the G Cells…?!
: Oh, dear, it looks like Tiberius was killed too.
: Nero… why are you here…?: The Illusory Heart Mother is the perfect toy for playing with him, don’t you think? And it’s really, really wasted on you losers, so I’m taking it.
: A toy? I suppose it’d be that in your eyes…: I’ll give you one chance to run along, so take it while you still can. You don’t want to end up like Claudius, hm?: …: I’m afraid that is not possible.: You haven’t forgotten that you’re no match for me, did you? I could just as easily kill you and be done with it.: It’s you who’s forgotten something, Nero…: That we’re inside the body of the Great Cthulhu!*Flash! And tzeeeeeeeep!*
: M-My powers… they’re disappearing…!: I must say, it was quite the pleasant surprise that you, the C Priestess, and the Nameless One, the central unit, would simply jump into our hands.: And with you in our grasp, we’ve no reason to rely on Dr. Minami’s G!: Now we may finally take full control of Cthulhu!: Go, R’lyeh Text. Join Nero’s mind to our God’s!
: R’lyeeeh… Cthulhuuu… Ra… Ra…: A-Aah…: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!*Flash! And faint.*
: Sleep well, Nero. I doubt you will ever awaken again.: Your mind shall forever remain in the grasp of our God, wandering eternally through dreams beyond death.: …: (Hmhmhm… We’ll see about that.): Um… My master, I…
: …: Al…!: Wh-What in blazes…! Cease hugging me this instant, fool!: You stupid book… You’ve no idea how worried I was… *sob*: Kurou…
: Cut him some slack, alright, Al?
: Yeah, Kurou was really heartbroken when you died. We’d never seen him like that before or after.
: There’s nothing as painful as losing someone that’s so dear to you…: …: Fool…
: (I’m sad, but… I’m also kind of happy-robo…)
: You’ve nothing to be bummed about, Elsa!: Doctor?: Oh, Elsa, Elsa. Of course, healing one's heart is no simple feat…: But you only need to look at what you already have. As Mytyl and Tyltyl taught us, there’s happiness to be found, and it's always been close to you! (Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird reference.): Why, yes! You still have ME, and the Destroyer Robo DX!
: And, as usual, I’ve no idea what you’re on about…: I understand, Doctor-robo! I’ll carry on fighting by your side-robo!: Ooh! You’ve finally opened your eyes to my love, Elsa?!: Even if my darling’s heart doesn’t belong to me right now, I’m sure he’ll return to my arms in time-robo.: Huh…?: Thank you so much for helping me see that, Doctor-robo! I won’t stop believing in my darling-robo!: Um… Elsa, that’s not what I meant…: … Why are these fools here with us?
: Ahahah… A lot of stuff’s happened, you know how it is. Right, Lina?
: Huh? Did you say something?: Is something wrong, Lina? Are you tired?: No, no, I’m fine...: (Lina...?)
: And, Canaria, how’s Winfield doing?
: He’s being treated in the Quarter’s sick bay. His wounds are rather grave, but, given enough rest, he should make it.: The escaped Anticross is probably recovering as well.
: Yeah. The guy might try attacking the manor again before long.
: But the whole place is already falling apart! Another attack like this and we’ll be done for… SRW UX - Rebellion Against Fate: Then, we ought to attack them preemptively.
: Wait, are you serious, Al?!: While Cthulhu remains, the entire world shall continue its steady march towards destruction.: But now I and the Demonbane have been fully restored. We must mount an offensive on the Illusory Heart Mother!: Raiding a fortress that huge? Sounds like a real blast!: Do we know Cthulhu’s current location?
: It’s headed for the Pacific Ocean, destroying all cities in its path.
: Where could they be going…?: …: 47’9’’ South, 126’43’’ West…
: What’re those coordinates? There’s nothing but water there…
: …! The Al-Lāt Incident…!
: Do you have something in mind, Madam Ruri?: It was an event that my grandfather studied with great interest.: The crew of the frigate Al-Lāt reported seeing something rising from beneath the waves right around that region.
: And what was that something?: R’lyeh, Cthulhu’s underwater metropolis.: He seeks to summon his castle to the surface!: And, probably, use it as a staging ground from which to conquer the rest of the world!: ‘Tis hardly that simple. R’lyeh is an unearthly city, and roughly the size of a continent. Were it to reach the surface…: It may well reduce human civilization to ash.
: Wh-What…?!: Then our only option is clear…!: We’re going out there and we’ll bring down Cthulhu ourselves!
And three new tacticians have unlocked their final bonuses:
- Burn: Accuracy Rate +5%
- Ruri: +30000 money earned when a mission’s concluded
- Eida: +1 movement
Finally, Will had words for Minami:
: Using the Skrugg’s tech for your own gains… So long as people like you are around, I…!: Hmm…? Now that I take a closer look, is your body…?: Mwahahahahah… How fascinating! Yes, you’ll make for a valuable specimen to pry open!