Late January 20th Challenge Results

So I'm seven days late with posting the results...

but I did it.

over 100,000 words.

Though the final product is probably not going to have that many words. Chapters and characters and a lot of stuff are going to get cut. Other characters need a little more development. Fight scenes need redoing or complete nixing... it's a very rough draft.

But it's done.

I've been taking a break with the writing thing, but I'm a get back on it, likely in April, where Camp NaNoWriMo will challenge me to write 50,000 words in the month of April. By then, the plans should be laid for the next book.

In fact, I'm working on those plans sometime in the next three days.

Of course, I have other goals in mind as well... poetry book, among other things...

I can't be distracted... at least not for too long.

Well, that is all. Just wanted to post an update regarding the January 20th Challenge. It was a great success. :D

The January 20th Challenge

As of this moment, I have *something along the lines of* 20 chapters left to write for the first Marko Man book. Today is January 6th. Regardless, I want to be done with this book by January 20th. Why?

Because of the Challenge.

I didn't really get much writing done in December due to the chaos that month brought me, so now, I'm looking to more than make it up. I actually have some form of a writing schedule that I want to follow as closely as possible for the year, but that's another story in itself that I'll get into at a later date.

But as for right now? This day? This moment?

It's all about the Challenge. The January 20th Challenge.

What's Next

With NaNoWriMo a success, what's next?

A few things...

I'll try to resume writing my book by December 9th. Try. I will definitely continue to write the book as it is a part of the series and it has a good running start, but there are some things I need to take care of at home.

Also, I briefly reactivated my FaceBook (only to deactivate it again) so that I could download all of my data and search for poems. From that search, I will be compiling what I personally feel are my very best poems, and I will try to get them self-published sometime next year in multiple formats.

The poetry book will essentially be the testing grounds for "Marko Man: The Untitled Internet Finale Deluxe," which is supposed to be the 17 chapters of the UIF plus a few extra stories that I've written for the Internet as bonus content. This, I also would like to publish in multiple formats.

Also, I have a few friends that seem to have a few writing projects that are just small nagging ideas in their minds that I would love to help them unlock. Basically, my book of poetry will the experiment to see what I can and can not do with self-publishing, and from there, I'll do UIFDX, help people with what they may want to do if they so choose to invest time in their works, and if the Marko Man series never gets picked up when it's all done and finished and sculpted to what I could call its optimum form, I can self-publish that.

For this blog, I have a smartphone with a Blogger App (amongst other apps) and a slide out keyboard (so I don't have to type with a touch screen. YES!). This means that between trips to work and back, I should be able to publish many a draft that I haven't gotten around to publish. I haven't seen my drafts in a while, so exactly what's there isn't exactly known off the top of my head right now. What I do know is that there could be a minor resurgence in this blog, especially since I can even do blogs about what I'm feeling at the moment on my phone.

And of course, I need to leave my current job at OTG Management. Or get something better within those walls. I'm exploring options right now, indeed.

Lots of things going on somewhat. This is why I needed to deactivate my FaceBook. Otherwise, I'd just be on FaceBook... it does that to me for some reason... but at least I'm not experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

Marko Man and NaNoWriMo

Marko Man practically writes itself.

I'm doing NaNoWriMo (50,000 words for the month of November), and as it stands, I'm at about 20,000 words right now, which is relatively on par with where I should be. Given the proper time, I should be able to crush that, as I'm finally off and running with the first book.

I have to admit that I did, in fact, begin again on November 1st, making this the third time I started writing, but I'm on it, I'm writing it, and I'm cruising. I'm doing things a little differently though, the biggest of which is writing every chapter as an Episode (at least for the time being). For whatever reason, it's tricking my mind into being much more interesting in the writing, probably because I've been writing on the Internet for so long and I've called them Episodes. Whatever the case may be, doing it this way also allows me to create the entire Marko Man universe. I don't have any showing of it yet, but eventually, I'll be writing episodes that will fill plot holes between books and be able to introduce new characters and new teams and new villains and new worlds and such. And then, when it's all said and done, I'll have a complete Marko Man universe, and I'll be able to deal with the stories how I want to deal with them.

Most of all, I'm definitely having fun writing these stories, and in the end, that's what matters. I just wrote a finished off a fight that I had imagined in my head for quite a while, and damn it, it felt good to finally get that story off, as well the build up.

However, only one quarter of the first book is done. There's plenty more action and mayhem to be written for this first book alone.

And then, of course, there's the future. Who knows what the future has in store for Marko Man. Sure, I may know the general path of where the series is going and when it will end up, but by writing things in the form of episodes, I can fit things in and remove things and move things in what I psychologically feel is much easier. So if I come up with an idea mid-write, I can just throw in an episode and I'll figure out what to do with it when I'm done with the drafts.

As far as NaNoWriMo is concerned, I wouldn't be surprised if I hit the 50,000 word mark way before Novermber 30th, unlike last year where I believe I hit it at the last hour. As long as I allocate the time to writing (which is much easier to do since I've deactivated my FaceBook), the word flow freely... at least now. I'm pretty sure that I'll get to 50,000, and unlike last year's book, I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to keep going until I'm done and/or good and ready to stop.

Thing is, I have to face the fact, Marko Man is my calling. Any story idea that I come up with should simply be Marko Man-ified, for lack of a better word. And with the concept of episodes, there are plenty of story ideas that I had that I can just throw into the Marko Man universe seemingly at will... well, at least it can be at will after I finish establishing Marko Man basics, which is what the first book is kinda sorta supposed to do.

Even ideas from the book I started last year will probably end up in the Marko Man series somewhere. Actually, I can assure you that it will.

So yeah. Marko Man is my calling.

And poetry. I think I've gotten pretty good at that, but that's not the point.

Marko Man shall live, and you shall live to read about it. :D

I Noticed that This Blog has Changed...

You have to understand... when I started this blog, I was in a totally different mindset then compared to what I am now. Still the same person, in general, but my mind and how it works and what it's focused on is way different.

And like, I find myself with not much time to do the detailed writings about things that I kinda sorta care about. Like, I remember last year, I was doing posts on E3, the NBA, and a whole bunch of other shit that caught my mind. I had song of the day, video of the day, The Adventures of Mark Wins, and maybe even other blog features that I hardly even remember anymore. It's all because my mind is in a different place these days...

Like, a lot of the things that media talks about these days simply doesn't interest me. I've also lost interest in many things that I used to care for in place of giving more focus to more important things. Like, for example, most of my personal opinions on shit has disappeared, and a whole lot more poetry has occupied this blog. Poetry is something I've been focusing on a whole lot more.

And I'm also getting Marko Man started. It's taking forever for me to actually get it going, and I actually had to stop and start over the series (well, I didn't restart it yet) in favor of "non-canon" stories that I find way more epic and entertaining than what I was writing. I actually have a few more stories that I want to write before I even bother starting the series back up again... and three fights will end up here on this blog. And I'll start up the series in November for another attack at NaNoWriMo. The difference this time will be that the 50,000 words will catapult me into the crux of the first book. I get the feeling that the first book is going to be long because I've decided to raise up on a few restriction that I imposed on myself... we'll see what happens.

Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, regardless of the sloth like progress, I need another fucking job. I want something that I can either make a career out of, or something that will give me the opportunity towards a career... you know, something with either growth potential or more money to work towards something else... I dunno yet, but I know for a fact that I need to stop washing dishes for assholes.

So yeah. I don't really have time to focus on other things. I've even cut down on my video game play somewhat... like, it's not a lot, but it's a considerable amount, enough of an amount such that if you lived with me and were paying attention, you'd definitely notice. I guess you could say I'm trying to start growing up, but that process (finally) started in 2009 (and I ain't ashamed to admit it either), and it's simply hitting a new level with a few bumps in the road and shit.

So for anyone who followed the blog in hopes of me continuing to talk about select events of the world and seeing my videos and songs for the day, I apologize. Thing is, I still watch videos and listen to music, so for those things, it's not much more than actually putting out an effort to try and go with it. And I still go on Adventures, I just don't give myself time to write about them. Like, when I went on staycation in September, I biked all around Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY.

And not a single word was typed about it on this blog.

So if I'm losing followers over this, and I'm pretty sure I am, because that whole 4chan vs. 9gag post gave me an insane amount of steam, it's whatever. I like it's evolution. And of course I would. And I'm glad I didn't monetize this blog, because then I'd find myself with extra pressure to give a fuck. But without any monetizing, no fucks shall be given.

At this point, it's your choice to follow the blog or not. Make a wise decision... stick around only if you like my work. And if you don't... peace.

Do What Feels Write

What's the difference between the stories that you wrote with no intent on publishing them and the story that you wrote that was a part of the official series? Quality. The story that had no publishing intentions was leagues better.

Stop worrying about publishing. You didn't start writing to get published. You got into writing to escape. Your stories are not literature, and you know that your stories are not literature, so stop trying to make it into what it is not. Embrace the fact that your stories are not literature. Embrace what your stories truly are: words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters of epic action packed masterpieces.

You still have your inner child, but you should not be suppressing your inner child when you write. When you write with the goal of getting published, this is seemingly what you do. When you don't, your inner child is free and you make gold. Forget getting published. Unleash your inner child. Write gold.

What you write is your world. Breathe it. Feel it. Live it. Experience it. Unleash it. Feel no pressure to enhance a world that you already created, that already exists, with your vastly improved writing skills. Make the same plot mistakes that you made when you started. Add the unnecessary adventure. Fight the unnecessary fight. Do what feels right. More importantly, do what feels write.

Writing

You give me the highlight
And you see what I do.

I write my own stories,
I wonder, do you?

Obviously in some way,
We're all part of the trap.

But how much of the paper
Has your written rap?

Everyone wants to think
That the choices they make

Are theirs, and free
Of the manipulate.

But no matter much
Your brain tries to fight,

Is it really your own,
This story you write?

Villains have Character, Too

My internal editor strikes again.

Like, I was thinking that maybe the villain(s) of the book, and perhaps the villains in general, haven't exactly been fleshed out completely as characters. Like, as they stand, I really have villains, and they have powers and abilities and the drive to either take over or destroy the world, but who exactly are these guys? Why do they do what they do? And what do they do on their spare time? Do they have spare time? Why or why not?

Of course, once again, this is why I'm definitely going to have to rewrite everything, because I do want to implement some kind of depth in the series. The lack of depth is the reason that I'm sure the books wouldn't have been published when everyone was all like "Oh, you should get your books published!" when I was younger. (I could obviously be wrong, but based on how publishing works, I doubt it.)

I guess some day I'll have to lay down the groundwork behind the villains, and maybe lay down some extra groundwork on the heroes and everyone that lays in between as well.

For now, I guess the best approach is to keep it simple and keep it fun and make it as epic as possible. Which is good. I think that even with the over thinking that I've been doing, my writing has been keeping me relatively sane as of late.

Relatively.

The Internal Conflicts of the First Book

So I'm writing the first book in the Marko Man series, and it's coming along... I'm getting the minimum 200 words a day, and because of work and life and stuff, I'm not exactly finding much time to get that much more than 200 words. The most I've written thus far couldn't have been much more than 1300 words.

But besides life's limitations on this extended project of finishing the series in its entirety lies an internal conflict that I'm having when it comes to writing this first book. You see, I'm having a hard time making this as epic as my usual material while making it a "first book" if you will. Even with the weathered down fighting styles, my recent writings with Marko Man and company have found themselves representing a relatively grand scale. On contrast with what I'm doing now, there isn't much grand at all. Granted, I haven't gotten into some of the grander parts of the story yet (both in this particular book and in this series), but at the same time, first impressions are everything and even though I know where this story is going to go, I'm not 100% impressed with what I've done thus far.

Of course, that's what the rewrites that I will doing after I'm all said and done with this are for, right? That's what I'm thinking, but it still worries me a bit.

I don't want to start over again. This time, I'm in the middle of the fourth chapter, which isn't that deep, but right now it's more than I'm willing to want to rewrite at this time, especially since I'm hardly getting enough writing in to begin with, but I guess I just need to press on. If I know that this is going to get much better, and I know that I will be rewriting this once all ten books are in draft form, then I should have nothing to worry about.

And it is now that I remember my "internal editor" and how you have all the advice that says that I should ignore it when it comes to writing that first draft.

Guess I'm going to ignore it.

But I am going to write that "Chapter Zero" as a placeholder for a more interesting beginning, and then try to fit it in better later... *sigh* I think I'm making this out to be harder than it has to be.

False Start

So I came up with some rules for the books I'm writing:

1) If good things happen to the good guys for no logical reason, there must be a consequence.
2) If good things happen to the good guys for a logical reason, there can still be a consequence.
3) If good things happen to the bad guy for no logical reason, we call it plot advancement. lol

I was also trying to ensure character development and employ themes and make things interesting and all kinds of funny shit. But in the end, I was forgetting the most important rule to writing, and especially to writing the Marko Man series:

HAVE FUN!

And thus, I had a false start. The start in and of itself was weak, and it was probably due to all the prssure of all the rules that I was coming up with. So no more pressure. I'm gonna start over (I didnt get that deep though, maybe 300 words in) and I'm gonna have fun with it.

I can deal with all the intellecutal depths when I start the rewrites. But for now? I have to remember...

Fun Comes First.

A Random Adventure Within My Mind Part 10

King started to glow his golden aura again, and his power was increasing again, and he was growing slightly bigger. Team Ultimate looked on in awe at King's growing power, unsure of what was coming next.

"It is time I end this," King said. "No more games, I will have to crush all of you!"

King suddenly vanished before the Team's eyes. A quick analysis from Cyron found that King had teleported himself a few miles away from his original location, hovering in the sky, still glowing.

"What's he planning?" Keisha asked Cyron.

"Inconclusive," he replied.

"Great intel," Convict said.

"So what are we gonna do?" RPJ asked.

"We take the staff and we take the crown," Marko said with determination in his voice, "that's what."

"But Marko --"

"Nope, no excuses," Marko interrupted. "Forget them. We don't have time to think about our weakness or our disadvantages. Only think of your strengths. We can do this."

Suddenly, the ground started to quake. The buildings around them started to shake, and then they started to rise up out of the ground. The Team looked and saw all of the building that were once down on the ground floating.

"Holy shit."

The buildings started to fall down towards the team. Cyron was able to dodge the buildings relatively easily being airborne, but the others had to rush and run as fast as they could to avoid the falling buildings. Cyron watched as the building fell in the attempt of crushing his teammate, and he seriously couldn't tell if they made it out all right. He noticed Marko climbing out of the rubble first, then Keisha, then Convict and RPJ.

"What the fuck was that?" Keisha said. "How the fuck --"

"I dunno yet," Marko interrupted once again, "but we are. Period. Wanna know why?"

"'Cause we're fucking Team Ultimate," Convict said, getting into Marko's heroic spirit.

"Fuck yeah."

As if to challenge the renewed Team Ultimate spirit, more buildings started flying in the air.

"Fuck it," Marko said. "We need the crown, and we need the staff. Let's do this."

Marko took off running in King's direction towards the buildings. Convict followed, with RPJ and Keisha running as well, and Cyron still in the air.

"YOU GUYS ARE FOOLS!" King said. "YOU CAN NOT CONTEND WITH MY POWER! DIE!"

The buildings started to fly towards the Team. One was headed towards Marko, and he was able to quickly use a Blaze Dash to avoid the building completely and continued to run. Convict found himself smashing his way through the building with his raw strength. RPJ hopped onto the building that came his way, climbed on the long top side of it, and started to run on it as it passed him by. Keisha used her hair to get a building clear out of her way. Cyron used his Heavy Bullet Cannon to blast a building into smithereens.

Marko was ahead of the pack, and he kept running as building kept flying into his path. He stayed quick on his feet, making long strides to dodge the buildings. King came to the conclusion that he probably wasn't going to hit Marko, so he sent two buildings Convict's way. Convict managed to crush his way into one, but before he could crush his way out of it, a second building collapsed on him. Marko turned around and found himself Bazooka Blasting the debris away to try and help Convict get out. Cyron clear dodged a building that was headed his way to help Marko out with the save Convict process by using his Heavy Bullet Cannon to help get Convict out. Keisha got in on the help as well by using her hair to pick up debris.

Meanwhile, RPJ kept pressing ahead. The buildings were still flying, but for the most part, they seemed to be headed for the rest of the Team while RPJ was able to get a clear run in for a while. Marko, Cyron, and Keisha teamed up to keep the buildings out of the way while RPJ kept running towards King seemingly unnoticed. Convict finally busted his way out of the mess he was in, and he pressed forward. Just as he got out, the ground below RPJ's feet started to shake just to knock him down, and a building was falling towards him while he was down on the ground. Convict was able to make his way to RPJ and stood over him to punch a hole in the building to make sure that neither him or RPJ would get crushed.

"Help them out," Marko commanded. "I've got the diversion covered."

Marko quickly jumped on the building that was crumbling on top of Convict and RPJ, and he Blaze Dashed the remaining length of the fallen building and launched himself into the air. He shot a single Megodoken towards King, not to hit or do damage if it did hit, but simply make himself the spectacle of the hour. King saw Marko, and sent four buildings his way. He was pretty easily able to Blaze Dash out of the way of the four buildings, still headed towards King.

Cyron and Keisha was able to get Convict and RPJ out of the latest building's last mess pretty easily.

"You guys all right?" Keisha asked.

"Yeah," RPJ replied, "but next time? I'm on top."

"Whatever," Convict said.

"Stop joking," Cyron said, "we gotta help Marko out, and he's already ridiculously far ahead."

The rest of the Team started to press forward while Marko was still diverting all the attention of King and his flying buildings. Marko was avoiding the buildings clearly, and he continued to press forward. King noticed that he was unable to hit Marko with any of these buildings, and he knew that he would be within striking range pretty soon, so he decided to leave him alone and sent buildings towards the rest of the Team. Marko saw the buildings fly past him, which made him stop. He turned around to see that the Team was able to handle themselves, but he was pretty sure that he was going to need the rest of the Team to help finish the job against King, so he came to a stop.

King continued to send buildings at RPJ, Cyron, Convict, and Keisha. While they were doing their best to keep the buildings from smashing them into dust, it was slowing down their process immensely, especially since King decided to send more buildings at them at a given time.

"I hope this doesn't drain me too much," Marko said, "but I'm going to need them for this to work... here goes nothing."

Marko started to charge up an attack.

"Final..."

Marko was charging up the most powerful attack in his arsenal.

"Bazooka..."

He was hoping that he could use it to try and slow down King's building hurling ways.

"Beam!"

Marko launched the Final Bazooka Beam at King. It completely obliterated a building that was flying in its path, and it hit King. It seemed to have done some damage, as King let it hit him, not expecting it to be as powerful as it was especially from the distance, but it hit, it hurt, and it did slow King down a bit, giving the rest of the Team time to catch up.

Marko stopped the attack as the rest of the Team progress past him. Cyron took the time to slow up and check on Marko.

"You okay man?"

"I'll be fine."

"You sure? You used up a lot of energy doing that."

"Maybe, but I'm not going to be able to take off his crown and relief him of his staff by myself. We got to do this. Emphasis on we."

"Affirmative."

Cyron took off flying again while Marko gathered energy and started running. King launched a few more buildings at Team Ultimate, and they were able to get pass the buildings just fine, so he stopped launching them.

"YOU FOOLS! YOU AMAZE ME! BUT YOU CAN STOP AMAZING ME NOW!"

King staff started to glow, then he launched a huge beam in the direction of the Team. They were able to split up and dodge it, but the beam was definitely powerful enough to wipe out any one of them in one shot. He launched this extra powerful beam at Cyron, who was flying and was able to dodge the blast easily. He then launched it at RPJ, who was fast enough on his feet to dodge the blast. Cyron's analysis led him to the conclusion that Keisha was next target, and he had a feeling that she wouldn't be limber enough to dodge the beam on her own, so he flew just above her. Sure enough, the next beam from King was aimed at Keisha.

"Keisha!" Cyron yelled. "Grab my hand!"

Keisha immediately used her hair to grab Cyron's hand, and Cyron pulled her up while she pulled herself up. With the momentum from all that movement, Cyron was able to launch her forward for quite a distance. King witnessed the teamwork from Team Ultimate, and it started to frustrate him.

"OKAY, SO YOU'RE A TEAM? HOW ABOUT I DIVIDE AND CONQUER?"

King went back to lifting up buildings, but this time he made sure he had about twenty buildings.

"Convict, meet up with RPJ!" Marko yelled. "Cyron, you with Keisha!"

"What about you?" RPJ yelled back.

"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

Buildings flew towards Cyron and Keisha, and Cyron was able to fly Keisha out of the way of the buildings. Buildings flew towards RPJ and Convict, and they pretty much punched, kicked, batted, and smashed their way out of that mess. Marko, on the other hand, maintained his location as the buildings came his way, and they slammed into him.

"Whoa!" Keisha said, seeing what happened. "Marko! We gotta get him out of there."

Cyron was about to fly over to help Marko.

"He said he'll be fine," Convict said. "Let him rock and let's get to King."

"But --"

"He'll be fine."

Convict and Keisha nodded, then the rest of the Team proceeded towards King.

"YOU'VE LOST YOUR BEST MAN AND YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME?"

"What makes you think he was the best?" Convict said, obviously insulted by King's statement. He charged forward, really wanting to sock King in the face. King fired a huge blast at Convict, and he was able to dodge it, but the explosion still knocked Convict off course.

"PLEASE! WITHOUT MARKO MAN, YOU'RE ALL NOTHING."

"Now that's where you're wrong," RPJ said, making his move. King sent five buildings RPJ's way, so he jumped on one of them, then he jumped towards another, and another, and another, but that building collided with the last one, which messed RPJ's footing for the final jump off the final building wall, having him fall towards the ground.

"AND I PROVE THAT YOU'RE NOTHING ONCE AGAIN! MARKO'S DOWN? YOU'RE ALL DOWN!"

Cyron analyzed the current situation, trying to come up with a plan, but he had nothing because he did not know about the unknown that was Marko Man. He looked like he was finished under the rubble of the buildings, but Convict was sure that he was fine, so he didn't know what to do.

"If you're confused, you could at least let me go so that I can try and help the others."

Cyron looked at Keisha, then he let her drop towards the ground.

"I'll provide cover," Cyron said. "Bullet Cannon!"

To conserve energy, Cyron used the Bullet Cannon as opposed to the Heavy Bullet Cannon, and he sent those blasts King's way. King didn't bother paying those blasts any mind, and he launched a building at Cyron. Cyron dodged the building and continued to shoot. King continued to pay the blasts no mind, but this time he launched that powerful beam attack of his. Cyron was able to dodge that was well, and he continued to fire at King.

"YOU LIKE RAPID FIRE BLASTS? GET A LOAD OF THIS!"

King created ten huge golden energy blasts and had them hover around him. He then launched four golden energy blasts into the sky.

"IT'S CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF DOOM!"

The blasts that were surrounding King exploded and sent an uncountable amount of blasts the Team's way. At the same time, the blasts that were in the air exploded and also sent an uncountable amount of blasts the Team's way. Before he had to deal with the blasts, he saw Marko in the distance, behind King waving.

"Cyron, I can find Convict... holy shit! Cyron watch out!"

Cyron looked up, and he saw the blasts coming down towards him. Keisha took cover under a piece of brick, hoping that it would protect her. Cyron dived down towards Keisha, dodging blasts all over the place. They were seemingly coming from all directions, and once Cyron got to Keisha, he managed to blast a deeper hole in order to protect Keisha and himself from the onslaught of blasts that King had launched with all of his power.

Soon, the all of the blasts had finished up. King looked in the distance, and he didn't see any of the heroes anywhere.

"YES! YES! THEY'RE FINALLY FINISHED! I KILLED THEM!"

King's power and size started to decrease back to what it was before he decided that he could no longer hold back. He landed on the ground triumphantly, proud of the fact that he was able to take Team Ultimate down.

"Now all I have to do is reap their souls," King said. "They were a persistent bunch. I never thought I'd ever have to use that much power. But no matter, with them dead, I can reap their very, very strong souls, and no one will be able to stop me!"

King raised his staff in the air, hoping to reap the souls of the fallen Team Ultimate members, but nothing happened.

"What? What's going on?"

"Turn around and find out."

King heard Marko's voice, and he turned around, surprised to see all five Team Ultimate members still in tact. Keisha wrapped her hair around King's arm and King's neck. Convict held Keisha's hair in place, and Cyron held Keisha's body in place, in case King threw up last second resistance, which he did.

"Hurry!" Convict said. "Hit him now!"

"Static Shock!"

RPJ hopped forward and popped King in his chin with the Static Shock kick. It forced him to release his staff to Keisha's hair, and with a Blaze Dash from Marko, he scooped up his crown from his tilted head. With neither his crown or his staff, King was completely powerless, and he fell to the ground, hurt from RPJ's kick.

"Well, look at that," Marko said. "Never has it been more fitting to say checkmate."

King struggled to get up. He looked, and he found himself completely surrounded and with no defense. Marko slammed the crown to the ground and stomped on it, and Convict took the staff from Keisha's hair and broke it in half.

"And with that, all the souls you stole should be able to rest in peace," Marko said. "And you? Well, I could care less about what happens to your soul. Bazooka Blast!"

Marko launched one last Bazooka Blast at King, and it killed him instantly.

"Still ruthless against evil, I see," RPJ noticed.

"Yup," Marko replied. "Well, I guess we can go home."

"Yeah..." Keisha said, "how exactly are we getting home exactly?"

"With this."

Marko pulled out a device, pressed a button, and a wormhole that was supposed to take them back to their home dimension was made.

"Wait a second, this was a different dimension?" RPJ said. "How the fuck was anyone supposed to know that?"

"Yeah, and do you what kind of plot holes this creates?" Convict said. "How did we get here in the first place?"

"Guys, guys, you're reading too much into this," Marko said. "I'm starting the real series soon, this was merely a tune up, and I just came up with the 'not so obviously another dimension' thing like, maybe, three parts ago. And besides, this wasn't about plot or character development or anything like that. I was just trying to make this as epic as possible. And was it epic?"

"Affirmative," Cyron replied immediately. "Very epic indeed."

"Alrighty then. So King's dead, souls can rest in peace, and the story, even with all its deficiencies, was epic, so we can go home. Missions accomplished. We rock. Now wait until I'm done with the series and you see what I really have in store for you guys."

Marko walked towards the wormhole with a smile on his face.

"Wait!" Cyron said.

"What now?" Marko said.

"The destination that wormhole will send us is relatively inconclusive... there's a chance we might go home, and there's a chance we might end up in another dimension."

"Well Cyron, if you don't want to enter, and you'd rather stay here..."

Marko pointed at the mass destruction that laid behind them with all the buildings and all of the King's lifeless minions.

"... then you're more than welcome to stay here."

"We'll miss you!" Keisha joked.

"Speak for yourself," Convict added. "One less teammate means more spotlight for me!"

"You mean more looking like an idiot," RPJ said. "You have nothing to gain from Cyron staying here."

"Hmmm... you're right."

Convict grabbed Cyron and pulled him towards the wormhole.

"Come on, get in there you sonofaglitch."

Convict pushed Cyron into the wormhole. RPJ shook his head and followed. Marko took Keisha's hand and helped her in.

"After you."

"You ain't slick."

"I wasn't trying to be."

Keisha entered the wormhole, Marko followed, and the wormhole was closed.

THE END

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That little exchange between Marko and Keisha at the end was in reference to a joke that I used to use but I'm pretty sure I won't be using in the actual series... I might change my mind about it, I'm kinda on the fence with it for different reasons... but we'll see what happens.

And anyway, that is the end of this Random Adventure Within My Mind. It was fun as hell to write (when I was writing it) and I hope you had fun reading it. Eventually, I'll link this thing up properly for easier reading in the future for both future readers and returning readers, but for now, this thing is over...

Oh wait... I almost forgot... I had an alternate ending in mind. LOL I'll definitely have it done before August ends. 

I do have some other Marko Man material I want to put up here, such as the few Sparring Sessions I wrote and this one story that I have to transfer from paper and pen to computer that I wrote... I got some pretty cool stuff coming in the distant future, but for now, I'm seriously getting the Marko Man series started. 

Seriously.

So until next time, friends.

And yeah, Alternate Ending to this is coming before August ends. I'm sure of it. :}D

A Random Adventure Within My Mind Part 9

Project, Jack, Ace, and all of the motorcyclists, bandits, and red bombers bowed down before their King and Queen. Meanwhile, Team Ultimate stayed on their feet, bowing to no one.

"Fools!" King said. "Why do you not bow before your King?"

"Because we don't have a king," Marko spoke.

"Disrespectful fools..."

"You haven't earned a lick of respect."

King looked at Team Ultimate with disgust, truly upset that they did not bow before him.

"It is clear that you do not know my power," King said. "If you did, you would kneel, and you would show respect, and for your heinous actions, you would beg for mercy."

"You sent a million mother fuckers to try and kill me... kill us, and they couldn't do it. And now you think we're supposed to fear and respect your 'power?' Please."

"Ahhh, I get it... you don't truly understand the full extend of my power. You don't even understand why 'a million mother fuckers' were sent to kill you. You probably don't even know why I was setting off explosions... you know nothing. And your ignorance will be your downfall."

"Oh really? Well save me, ol' great King! Save me from ignorance! Enlighten me! Please!"

Marko's sarcasm did not amuse King.

"Since it's way too late for you to do anything about anything and I'm going to kill you all anyway, I might as well tell you what's going on... you see... the explosions have two purposes... killing people to obtain their souls, and putting those who survive in panic. And what do I do with those souls? I control them. I manipulate them. I put them in whatever vessel I want for my own use. Some souls are stronger than others, hench is the case with Jack and Ace. And Project is a special case... a vessel that can hold more than one soul, and therefore strengthened with every added soul. Right now, he's at eight souls."

The story that King told Team Ultimate blew their minds.

"So that's why they called me in... but I had no idea..."

"Of course you had no idea!" King continued. "You weren't supposed to have an idea. You were supposed to die, simple as that. But apparently I have underestimated you. Your soul is not only stronger than I originally thought, but it is very resourceful... resourceful enough that you managed to bring four more souls for my consumption!"

"Wait a second," Convict said, stepping up, "you ain't consuming anymore souls busta."

"Still, you have no idea..."

King held his staff up into the air, and the top end of it revealed a white jewel that immediately started to glow.

"Queen, Jack, Ace, Project, and all of my subjects! Lend me your souls to crush these pathetic peasants and their souls to my collection!"

A white aura was generated from Queen, Jack, Ace, and Project. It seemed to seep out of them and into the white jewel, and then they fell lifelessly to the floor. White auras were also generated from all the motorcyclists, the bandits, and the red bombers from near and far, and they were all seeping out of them and finding their way into the King's staff. They were all falling to the floor as well. With each absorbed soul, King was growing more powerful, and Team Ultimate could tell.

"Ummm... perhaps we should try and stop this," RPJ suggested.

"Doesn't matter," Cyron said, "the soul absorption would continue until it is complete."

"Then perhaps we can still hurt him before he's finished," Convict said, charging at King. He jumped and punched King in the face, and it knocked him down, but he still had the staff in his hand, and it was still absorbing souls. He quickly got up with an evil grin on his face, and Convict once again charged at him. This time, King swung the staff at him and sent him to the ground, all the while still absorbing souls.

"You can't stop me, peons!" King said. "Kneel before your master and maybe I will show you mercy!"

"Fuck outta here," Marko said. "Bazooka Blast!"

Marko fired the attack at King, and he knocked it into the ground with a downward swing of his staff.

"You're powerless against me...ahhhh... almost complete!"

Convict got up, and he was ready to attack again, but King flashed. After the flash, he was even bigger, and his staff and his crown was different.

"On your knees, dog."

King swung the staff and sent Convict flying before he landed on his back. The rest of the team looked Convict, then at King. Marko also took time to notice all of the King's subjects that were lying down on the ground with no life in them.

"You coward..."

Marko stepped forward slowly.

"It's one thing to have a team, but you killed innocent lives for your own personal greed? And to what? To rule what?"

"To have complete and utter control of all souls!"

King fired a blast at Marko, but he jumped up to dodge it.

"Well, you're not getting my soul!"

Marko landed and ran towards King.

"And if I can do something about it, I'll let all of these people get their souls back! Mega Kick!"

Marko went for the Mega Kick, but King swung his staff and knocked him down to the ground.

"Bow down, or die!"

Marko was getting up, but RPJ and Cyron decided to get in some action, with RPJ running at King ready to attack while Cyron provided cover with a Bullet Cannon volley. RPJ jumped off of Marko's back, getting extra height than King expected him to get, and he took a drop kick to his face. This led to King getting hit with blasts from Cyron. As the shots were hitting him and kept King off balance, Keisha stepped up herself and had her hair wrap King's leg up. Convict was up by now, and he charged King, wrapping himself around the back of his neck to choke him out. Marko got up, and he started to charge up a Bazooka Blast.

"I'm sorry," King said, "but is this supposed to defeat me?"

King fired a blast at Marko before he could finish charging up his attack. He launched the Bazooka Blast early, but it lost easily to King's blast and hit him, hurting him and leaving on the ground. He then swung the staff to hit Convict off his back, then used the staff to pluck at Keisha's hair, which knocked her in the air then back to the ground. He spun around to ravel the hair around his legs and bring Keisha closer. Cyron saw this, so he charged in to try and save her, but Cyron took a blast from King's staff, knocking him out of the air and on the ground. Keisha decided to release her hair's grip, but by that point, she was too close and King smashed her to the ground with the staff.

RPJ decided to pull out his RPBat to content directly with King's staff. He ran at King, ready for any kind of attack from him. King fired a blast at him, and RPJ swung his bat to knock the blast back to King, but the blast exploded on contact, knocking him to the ground.

Marko and Convict got up around the same time, and Convict decided to charge in, albeit a bit more slowly this time so that he could see an attack coming. Marko ran behind him a bit before Blaze Dashing into King, but the attack wasn't very effective. King retaliated by swinging the staff at Marko, but he managed to duck under the swing, and this gave Convict the chance to grab King. Marko jumped up and connected a Mega Kick to King's face while Convict had him in his grasp. Convict jumped up and tried to slam King on the ground, but King took off flying, having Convict lose all control but still maintaining his hold.

Cyron looked up and saw King flying in the air with Convict holding on. King decided to smash his staff against Convict as hard as he could, but Convict was still holding on. Cyron took flight, hoping to try and give Convict help, but King saw him coming and changed the direction of his flight by going up. Cyron chased King, going up as high as he could.

Marko looked up, wondering why they were going so high.

"Keisha, mind giving me a boost?"

Keisha was pretty hurt, but she still had enough in her to use her hair to launch Marko up in the air, so she nodded. She grabbed him with her hair, then launched him up high to try and meet up with King, Convict, and Cyron. As Marko was launched, Cyron noticed Marko was going up, so he flew to catch him and give him a ride. He caught Marko and had him on his extended shoulders, and they flew towards King.

"What are you planning to do?" Cyron asked.

"Kill him," Marko responded.

"Yeah, but how?"

"I dunno yet... maybe beat his ass?"

"I have a good feeling that it won't be that simple."

"Shut up and get him."

Cyron increased the speed of his flight, catching up to King, who still had Convict on his back.

"Mega Kick!"

Marko jumped off of Cyron to fly at King and try to Mega Kick him. King was able to spin around and hit Marko, knocking him out of his Mega Kick and have him fall back to the earth from quite the height. Cyron dived down, knowing that he had to catch Marko or he would have been quite hurt from the impact of the fall, but King spun three more times before firing a blast at Cyron that he wasn't paying attention to. The blast hit Cyron, and now he was on the way to the ground via pain. King kept spinning, and Convict started to get dizzy, so he smashed the staff on his back on last time, and this hit knocked the dizzied Convict off of him and he started to fall as well.

RPJ and Keisha were looking up, and they saw that Marko, Cyron, and Convict were falling.

"Who catches who?" RPJ asked.

"You stick to the lightweight," Keisha said, "my hair should be able to catch Convict and Cyron pretty easily actually."

"Gotcha."

RPJ and Keisha waited as their teammate plummeted towards the ground. Suddenly, King appeared in between them using a teleport. He hit Keisha with the staff, knocking her down, and he blasted RPJ down with a powerful shot. With both RPJ and Keisha down, Marko, Cyron, and Convict hit the ground hard.

"HA!" King said. "You fools are feeling pain that you don't have to feel! Hail the king, and I will make great use of your souls!"

But Marko somehow managed to land on his feet.

"When we're done here, the souls that you have stolen will soon rest in peace," Marko determined. "Your soul, on the other hand, will burn in hell!"

"Interesting... you said 'we're,' implying you and some other people. But those 'other people' are down right now."

Marko looked and saw that his team was down and hurting at the moment.

"Okay, so I'll run interference. Megodoken!"

Marko fired a Megodoken at the King, and it was swiped away with the staff. King returned fire with a few blasts sent Marko's way, and he dodged all the blasts, making his moves towards the King. After the missed shots, Marko jogged towards King, and King tried to hit him with the staff. Marko ducked under the staff and countered with a jumping uppercut to King's chin. He landed and King tried to hit him with the staff once again. Marko jumped over the staff and connected a Mega Kick that knocked King back a bit, but King was still barely hurt. King teleported to the air, then he dived down trying to smash the staff over the top of Marko's head, but the attack was sidestepped and Marko jumped up to connect another Mega Kick, which was followed up immediately with a Bazooka Blast. The Bazooka Blast hit, but still, King wasn't hurt much at all. He immediately swiped at Marko and sent him flying before he hit a wall. King flew towards Marko, with the staff glowing, and he hit Marko again, this time sending him through the wall and into the building.

King flew up into the air, the staff still glowing.

"And it looks like the first soul I will taking is yours!" King announced. "All I have to do is crush you current vessel and it will be mine!"

"Negative. Charged Cannon!"

Cyron was up and he fired a charged up blast at King. It connected, but there was still very little damage done to King. He redirected his attention towards Cyron, and fired off the blast that he had ready for the building to crush Marko. Cyron dodged the attack, then he fired a few shots from the Bullet Cannon attack. These blasts hardly did anything as King fired off more blasts, forcing Cyron to stop firing and avoid the attacks.

Marko hopped out of the building with a look of determination. He saw that the rest of his team was coming to, so he ran to RPJ.

"Yo, I need you guys to run interference," he told him. "I have an idea."

"Okay, but dude. We're fucking hurt."

"So am I. But we're about to end this. Keisha, come with me."

RPJ and Convict rushed in to get King's attention by jumping towards him while Cyron had his undivided attention. Meanwhile, Marko led Keisha to a random, yet seemingly specific spot.

"Okay, after I fire a Bazooka Blast, I'm going to need to grab the staff."

"... yeah, that makes sense. Smart move. Okay. After the Bazooka Blast."

"Right."

Marko moved once again as Cyron, RPJ, and Convict were dodging attacks from King, who was teleporting all over the place to try and hit the trio.

I'm going to need him to stop that, Marko thought.

Marko waited a bit, and when King found himself on the ground, Marko did a Blaze Dash, running into King, but it only stunned him for a moment. He turned around to try and hit Marko, but he dodged the attack  without trying to counter, just standing there. This led to Convict grabbing King from behind and tossing him into the air. Once he was airborne, Cyron launched a Heavy Bullet Cannon, hoping to do some kind of damage, but King soon gained control of his flight while still getting hit with the blasts.

"Fuck it," Marko said, "Bazooka Blast!"

Marko launched the Bazooka Blast. It connected, but all it really did was turn King around and further his frustration. That's when Keisha's hair went into action, flying up to grab King's staff. She had it, but King wasn't just going to let go of the staff. He pulled on it, but Marko jumped up to him and connected a Mega Kick to his hand, which almost loosened his grip enough. Convict immediately jumped afterwards and delivered a hard punch to the back of King's head, which was enough to knock the crown off of King's head as well as knock the staff out of his hand.

As Keisha reeled the staff in, King fell to the ground. Marko walked over to Keisha to hold the staff and smiled in victory.

"Annnnnd you're done," Marko announced. "Good shit guys. This is why we're Team Ultimate."

King got up off the ground, looking at Marko hold his staff while Cyron, RPJ, and Convict grouped around Marko and Keisha, standing before King in victory. King looked around and he saw his crown. He put the crown back on and he held his hand out. The staff started to glow, then it magically disappeared out of Marko's hand and back into his. This move blew Team Ultimate's mind.

"You guys are really, really good," King said. "I am really impressed with how you guys handle things. But now, I see I can no longer hold back..."

to be continued...

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King is about to pull out all the stops.

August is right around the corner.

I think that it is time to end this... and there's only one way to end this... as epicly as possible.

200 Words

So from August 1st to October 31st and from December 1st and so on until October 31st of next year, I will challenge myself to write at least 200 words a day for the Marko Man series.

200 words doesn't sound like much until you realize...

and that's what I'm gunning on. The 200 words a day would lessen pressure on days that are ridiculously busy (I can put up 200 words on my phone in, like, 10 minutes if need be), and on days that yield a bit more free time and/or inspiration, I'll easily crush the 200 word goal because...

But why am I skipping November?

Well, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), so for that month, 50000 word will be in order. And I'll be dropping 50000 words whether I'm working on one book or in between two. The number is the goal for that month.

Inspiration tends to be the easy part. It's the discipline that needs work. And hopefully this will help that out, especilly with knocking out creative blackouts.

And that's that. I'll start writing the Marko Man series in August. Lets the story begin.

A Random Adventure Within My Mind Part 8

As Convict stood, ready to confront Project, Marko looked behind him, seeing the rest of the team fighting against the undying army of foes. He looked back ahead and he saw Project walking towards them, with a bloody Jack and a bruised Ace with him at his side. Project and Convict had made eye contact, and apparently from that they both took each other as a challenge, so they both started to run towards each other. Project's steps were rumbling the ground, and the tremors caught Convict off guard, forcing him to stop and gain his balance. Project smile, then he lunged towards Convict to grab him. Convict managed to avoid the grab with a side step, and Project landed on the ground on his stomach just in front of Marko. He fired a Bazooka Blast in his face, which hurt him quite a bit, but not enough that Project didn't try to smash Marko with his huge hands while still on the ground. Marko avoided the attack, and then Project was getting pulled away from Marko by Convict. He tried to hoist Project over his shoulders, but Project turned over on his back, sat up, and punched Convict in his face, knocking him back quite a distance.

Convict's movement stopped when he found himself up against the wall of a building, and he saw Project getting up. Convict took a few steps forward, but Project took off running. He tried to punch Convict, but he avoided the punch and grabbed his huge arm, swung himself up to Project's face, and kicked him in his nose.  The kick made Project stumble a bit, but he stayed on his feet. Convict landed and punched Project's knee, but still he was on his feet. Convict continued to punch Project in his knee, but Project was still not getting knocked anywhere, and he was starting to get used to Convict's punches.

"You might as well be as weak as your friend," Project taunted. "Try some real strength!"

Project grabbed Convict and tossed him up in the air. Project jumped towards the airborne Convict, but Marko launched another Bazooka Blast that hit, messing up Project's concentration. With that distraction, Convict was able to grab Project's head around his neck and landed doing a Death Sentence, landing while slamming Project's face into the ground.

"Not gonna let you ruin this!" Ace said, pulling out his club. "Take this!"

He started to fire his lasers at Convict, and a few of the shots hit. This made Marko launched another Bazooka Blast, which Ace had to avoid. Convict turned his attention to Ace once he stopped shooting, but Project was getting back up. Marko noticed that Convict's attention was diverted from the bigger threat, so he ran, jumped, and Mega Kicked Project in the back of his head. Project turned around and tried to punch Marko, but the punch was dodged as Marko ran past Convict to attack Ace.

"Get the big fuck," Marko said. "I'll handle this dude. Mega Kick!"

Marko jumped towards Ace and connected a Mega Kick that knocked him to the ground as Convict turned around and ran towards Project. He jumped at Project and lead in with a shoulder charge at Project's chest, but Project hardly budged. He tried to grab Convict, but he knocked his hands away, jumped up again, and punched Project in his face. The punch stunned Project for a moment, which was enough for Convict to grab Project's arm and try to do some harm to him. Project was able to recover, however, took control of his arm, grabbed Convict, and sent him flying.

As Keisha was fighting off a motorcyclist, she noticed Convict flying out the corner of her eye. She used her hair and turned Convict's flight back around towards Project without him losing much momentum. Convict was now flying towards Project as Keisha decided to run towards Project. Convict used the flight to connect a mean flying punch in Project's face, which almost knocked him down. Project recovered and saw Convict land, but he didn't notice Keisha coming up on him from behind, and she used her hair to tie Project up. Project saw that he was begin tied up and he tried to fight out of it, but Convict was able to rush in and punch him in his legs as hard as he could. One punch was able to make Project collapse to one knee, and this gave Keisha the ability to lift Project into the air, then slam him into the ground. She was able to lift and slam Project in the air with her hair three more times before Project managed to get one hand free. Keisha tried to retract her hair, but Project had already grabbed her hair and reeled her in a bit. He swung Keisha into Convict, knocking him down, then he slammed Keisha into the ground.

"Ha! How do you like a dose of your own medicine? Not very healthy, is it?"

Cyron was blasting enemies when he heard the impact and heard Project's taunt. He turned around and he saw that Keisha was at Project's mercy, and this made him quite angry. He immediately turned his attention to Project, firing Bullet Cannon blasts at Project. The shots bothered him a bit, but he decided to use Keisha as a shield. Cyron analyzed that move before Project could do it, so he timed his last shot just perfectly so that when Project used Keisha as a shield, there were no more shots.

Cyron jumped over Keisha and hit Project with a Cannon Punch while maintaining flight. Project tried to punch him, but he dodged the attack and managed to fly around and connect another Cannon Punch. Project retaliated by swinging Keisha around like a weapon, but Cyron avoided her and fired at him with the Bullet Cannon. Project braced himself and swung Keisha around once more. This time Cyron grabbed Keisha and ended up landing on the ground. He upgraded his attack into a Heavy Bullet Cannon attack, and the blasts were connecting and doing more damage. Project tried to reel Keisha in to use her as a shield, but Cyron wasn't letting her go, so it only brought Cyron closer, which made the blasts closer and more numerous, which resulted in more damage for Project.

Project once again braced himself against the blasts, then he unleashed a mean punch that hit both Cyron and Keisha, sending them into a building through a wall. RPJ was fighting the forces when he heard them go through the building. He looked and all he saw was the dust from the resulting damage of Project's attack.

He's fucking huge, RPJ thought. Heh, that's what she said.


RPJ saw Convict running towards Project to attack him again, but Project turned around and delivered a back hand, sending Convict back where he ran from, making RPJ laugh.

That guy is pure comedy.


Project heard RPJ's laughter and turned his attention to him. This made RPJ stop laughing.

"Dude, I'm a tell you right now," RPJ said, "don't even bother attacking me."

RPJ's warning caught Project off guard.

"Am I supposed to be scared of you?" Project asked.

"You might as well be, because I'm about to show you a bad time. A very. Bad. Time."

"You're probably just as weak as the rest of them."

RPJ nodded, put his RPBat away, and walked towards Project with a angry expression on his face.

"Gonna fucking question me-"

Project threw a punch at RPJ, but he somersaulted under his fist and ended up behind him. RPJ jumped and hit him with a drop kick that almost sent Project to the ground on his face but he caught his balance. He turned around and saw RPJ walking towards him. He tried to grab him, but RPJ jumped on his huge arms and jumped off of them to deliver a spinning drop kick to Project's face, making him fall back a bit. RPJ landed and he continued to walk towards Project, who was growing more and more frustrated with RPJ's attack. He decided that he wouldn't attack this time, and would just wait and countered whatever RPJ was going to do.

RPJ looked at Project, noticing that he wasn't attacking anymore, so he went for Project's leg. Project moved his leg and tried to grab RPJ. RPJ blocked the grab and went for Project's arm. Project used his other hand to try and punch RPJ for trying to grab his arm. RPJ moved and temporarily had both of Project's hands in his grasp. Project opened his arms up, sure that he was would leave RPJ stunned, but RPJ released his hands before he opened his arms, so he left himself wide open.

"STATIC SHOCK!"

Out of the blue, RPJ stepped into a Static Shock had a whole lot of extra pop on it, knocking Project down on his back.

"Fucking idiot," RPJ said. "You don't challenge me to a wrestling match. I know all your moves muthafucka!"

Marko quickly ran into the scene after handling Ace and Jack on his own.

"Wow, you dropped him," Marko said. "That's gonna be a hard act to follow."

"He ain't shit," RPJ declared. "I'll do it again, no problem."

Project was getting up from his attack as the rest of the team had finally recovered from their attacks and regrouped with Marko and RPJ. Just as Project got up on both his feet, King and his Queen appeared between Project and Team Ultimate out of thin air.

"This?" King said, waving his staff aimlessly. "All of this? It comes to an end. And becomes mine. Now."

to be continued...

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Hmmmm... ain't got much to say at this point. 

August is right around the corner, so I do need to bring this to an end. 

And I do need to make this mine. 

I'll go into slightly more detail on that between now and Sunday. 

For now... all I'm saying is... the end is near.

A Random Adventure Within My Mind Part 7

Marko landed from his flight, courtesy of Cyron, and he took off running. He felt as though he didn't have much time considering the huge numbers against him, and he really wanted to bring this fight to an end somehow, but he still have an idea much better than beat Jack and Ace up to the point that they'll stop the fighting. He was still going to go for it.

As he ran, he saw Jack and Ace sitting on a stairway that led into a random building. They looked and they noticed Marko coming, prompting them to get up on their feet.

"Whoa," Jack said. "How did you even get here?"

Marko came to a stop before the duo.

"I got to the top of the world, then I had some help coming back down."

"Dude. You left your team. Why? Plan on surrendering?"

"Actually, I was hoping that you guys would do the surrendering and stop this."

Jack and Ace looked at each other, then they bust out laughing. Marko already knew that the idea was ridiculous in context, but their laughter still angered him.

"Marko Man," Ace said after laughing, "you can't be serious."

"Oh, but I am. And I will gladly beat the both you into a bloody pulp until you call an end to all of this."

Jack and Ace saw that Marko was completely serious about trying to stop the massive fighting against his team, so the smiles disappeared.

"You're gonna beat us into a bloody pulp? I dare you to try."

"I didn't need to be dared."

Marko ran towards Jack. He threw a punch when he was close enough, which was blocked. Ace came in, trying to retaliate with a swing of his club, but Marko avoided the obvious attack by ducking, and Ace ended up hitting Jack in the face. Marko hit Jack with a Mega Kick, knocking him to the ground, then he moved towards him to stomp on him. Marko stomped on his face three times before Ace ran at him, trying to hit him with the club again. Marko took the club to the back, stumbling over Jack while turning around to face Ace. Ace jumped over Jack and tried to smash the club over the top of Marko's head as he landed. Marko side stepped the club and countered with a jab, that was followed up with five punches and two spin kicks, followed by an uppercut that knocked Ace into the air. He was about to jump into the air to continue his attack, but Jack grabbed his foot, messing up his balance and having him drop to the ground.

Jack got up, still with Marko's foot in his hand, then he took out his club. He was trying to hit Marko's leg, but his free leg kicked Jack away. Marko quickly got up and had to avoid attacks from Ace. As Marko avoided punches, kicks, and club swings from Ace, he noticed that Jack was aiming his club at Marko to fire lasers. Jack started firing, sure that he would hit Marko, but he grabbed Ace and pulled him into the line of fire while he moved out the way. The blast hit Ace, and Marko followed up with a punch, punch, Mega Kick combo, knocking Ace down.

Jack got angry at Marko's ability to avoid the attack, so he charged at him, firing more blasts from his club. Marko avoided the blasts while moving towards Jack. When they were close enough, Jack tried to hit Marko with the club, and he dodged it and countered with yet another Mega Kick, knocking him down.

Marko turned around and saw Ace rushing towards him, trying to get in a sneak attack. He quickly fired a Bazooka Blast at him, and it connected, sending him flying. Marko turned his attention back to Jack, who was in the process of getting back on his feet. Marko Blaze Dashed into him, knocking him back on the ground in a roll. Marko continued the pressure by jumping and landing an elbow drop on Jack's face, then he applied a headlock and started wailing on Jack's head. The whole time, he was watching Ace, who was running towards Marko again, and this time he was very angry.

Marko continued to punch Jack in his face until Ace was close enough, then he fired a Megodoken at him, adjusting his course. This gave Marko time to get up, but Ace was able to still get in the first move between them and get some offensive in. He kept his club swinging quick and precise, knowing that Marko would be able to avoid the majority of his attacks and not wanting him to be able to counter with ease. Marko dodged every attack, but Ace suddenly fired a blast at Marko and it connected, knocking him down to the ground.

Ace immediately rushed at the downed Marko, and he tried to slam the club into his legs. Marko moved his legs and kicked Ace in the face, and then got up in a spinning motion immediately after the kick. This gave Ace time to recover quickly enough to block the punches that Marko threw at him. As Marko kept throwing punches, Jack was able to get up.

"Marko Man!" Jack yelled.

That was just enough distraction to get him to stop throwing punches. Ace immediately swung the club and hit Marko in the face, knocking him down after a mean spin. Ace immediately grabbed Marko and picked him up so that Jack could get in free hits. Jack walked over towards him nonchalantly, believing that Marko was finished at this point.

"So you wanna stomp people out?" Jack taunted, pulling out his club. "You wanna try and beat people's face in? Well, trying implies failure, and you failed! Now here's your booby prize!"

"Mega Kick!"

Before Jack could even swing the club, Marko was able to get his foot up high enough to Mega Kick Jack in the face and knocking him into the air. As Jack was on his face down, Ace took Marko and tossed him towards the nearest building. Marko braced himself for the impact against the wall as Ace was charging towards him. Ace ran at him, elbow first, but Marko moved out of the way at the last minute, and Ace's elbow hit the wall and nothing else. Marko gave Ace a Mega Kick to his back, pinning him to the wall, then he followed up with a Bazooka Blast that sent Ace through the wall.

Marko immediately looked towards Jack, who was definitely hurt as evidenced by how long it was taking him to get up. Marko ran towards him and he Mega Kicked him in the side of his head. He rolled along the ground for a quite a distance before he stopped, but Marko ran to keep up with him. He grabbed Jack's leg and quickly dragged him towards another random building, then using his all his strength, he picked him up and flung him into a wall. Marko followed up the toss with a Bazooka Blast that connected for free and sent Jack into the building. Marko ran into the hole that he created with Jack and the Bazooka Blast and found Jack laying on top of a pile of rubble. Marko grabbed one of the bricks and tossed it at Jack's face as he got up. It smacked him with a sickening thud, and Marko immediately followed up the brick toss with a heavy punch to the face. The punch led him to find himself mounted on top of Jack, so he just wailed on him with punch after punch after punch.

"Hey... guy!" Marko taunted, with every word followed by a punch. "You... wanna... stop... this... fight... yet?"

Marko suddenly felt the ground tremble slightly. He delivered a few more punches, but the trembling was getting stronger with each pulse. He looked back and he saw someone big walking towards the hole. He hopped off of Jack and ran towards the hole, and he saw Project, who was bigger than ever, with Ace by his side.

"So Marko," Ace said, "remember when I said that this fight was unwinnable? Well guess what? It just got much more unwinnable!"

"Whoa," Marko said, "am I supposed to be scared or something?"

"Considering that you ran away from me and I wasn't even this big," Project said, "the answer is yes."

Inside, Marko was definitely quite worried about what could happen, because Project was definitely much bigger than the last time he saw him, and the last time he saw he had already grew from his original size.

"Fuck this," Marko said, running towards Project.

As Marko got close, Project stepped forward and tried to punch Marko in his face. Marko slid under his fist, ending up just under his chest and his chin, and he got up, jumped, and connected a Mega Kick to Project's big chin. It knocked him upright a bit, but hardly did damage enough to make Project worry. Ace stepped back, sure that Project would be able to handle Marko on his own since that's what he was designed to do.

Project tried to grab Marko, but Marko jumped up again to avoid the grab and Mega Kicked him in his chin in a backwards motion to try and create space. Project's chin was rocked a bit, but Project didn't even move. Marko continued to move backwards when he landed, and he fired a Bazooka Blast, which Project grabbed and crushed into nothingness. That ability surprised Marko, but he kept his eyes on Project as he rushed towards him. Project threw huge punches when he was close enough, but Marko was quick enough to dodge the punches without much problem. Marko was able to connect a few punches and kicks in between Project's attacks, but they were doing very little damage and they weren't keeping Project from attacking at all.

"Marko Man!" Ace yelled. "Take this!"

Marko took a split second to look at Ace, who was just standing there. Meanwhile, Marko took a huge punch from Project that sent him clear through a building and into the street on the other side of the building. He was down, wondering what kind of power just hit him. He felt the tremors in the ground, and he knew that Project was coming, so he quickly got up. Sure enough, Project was charging through the building, and he had a bunch of brick in his hands. He was tossing them at Marko while still running towards him, and Marko avoided the bricks, but wasn't even paying attenion to the fact that Project was coming towards him. When he was close enough, Project tried to smack him in the face with a brick, but Marko dodged it and countered with a Mega Kick out of desperation. The Mega Kick connected, but Marko was immediately sent down the street with a backhand from his left hand, flying down many blocks before skidding an incredible distance and then coming to a stop.

As Marko came to a stop, he found himself down near the rest of Team Ultimate, who was fending off the pressuring army of motorcyclists, bandits, and red bombers. His eyes met with Convict, and he quickly pulled him off the ground.

"Hey guys, look who I found."

Each member of the team took quick glimpses to see that Marko was located, and they continued to fight. They had come to the conclusion that they could locate Marko if they were able to get the large forces to pressure them into the general direction that Cyron had analyzed Marko would be in, and they ended up finding Marko early.

"What brought you in sliding on your ass anyway?" Convict asked after throwing a random bandit back into the crowd.

Marko looked at the battle ahead of Team Ultimate, then he looked back in the direction from which he came. The tremors were returning, which meant that Project was on his way down the street.

"That."

Marko pointed at Project, who was jogging down the street to catch back up to Marko Man. Convict looked and saw the sheer size of Project, and he nodded with a smirk on his face.

"Makes sense since you're only, like, a hundred pounds soaking wet," Convict said, stepping in front of Marko towards Project. "Step aside and watch a real heavyweight at work."

"I don't think he'll be coming by himself, fat ass."

"Well shit, I got back up too, right? Now stand aside and let me handle this juiced up jerk."

to be continued...

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So I know it's been more than a week since the last time I wrote for this random adventure, but as you can see, I didn't forget about it. I've been busy. Life happens.

Anyway, as you can see, we have Team Ultimate back again, but all of the forces are about to collide. This probably isn't going to be pretty. Stay tuned.

When Inspiration Hits...

So I'm on FaceBook and I see the following:

NaNoWriMo: Friday writing prompt: the dialogue wars. Dun dun DUN. Our summer fund drive obviously took a little inspiration from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but there are so many epic contests and competitions in literature! Take your favorite character (your own creation or not!) and give us a sample of his best trash talk.

And this is what I come up with...

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‎"Look at you," King said. "On your knees. Just like you're supposed to be when you're in my presence. You swore up and down that you would take me down, but now, here we are, in the moment, and the only that's down is you... pathetic."

Mark tried to get up, but King smacked him with his saber, keep him on the ground.

"Stay on the ground dog. You do not deserve to have feet. You are a peasant. Nothing more. Nothing less."

Mark turned his head towards King.

"A peasant?"

"Yes. I did not stutter. You are a peasant. Even if by some unlikely chance you were to defeat me, you'd still follow rules, you'd still do things under the influence of others. Ruled by rules, by law, by morals, by things you did not create, by things that you could become more than. I, on the other hand, am above all those things. I create the rules. I'm above the law. I don't care for morals. And that is why I am King."

Mark made another attempt to get up, and King swung his staff once again, but this time, Mark grabbed it before it could hit him.

"So that's what you think?" Mark said, continuing to get up his King's staff in his grasp. "You think I'm below the rules and the laws and the morals that I fight for? You think I don't know my power?"

King struggled to regain control of his staff from Mark.

"You're wrong! I know my power! I know where I stand! I can hurt and kill and rule people just like you, coward. But I'm not a coward. I choose to fight for the rules. I choose to fight for the law, for the morals. But was that your choice, coward? Did you choose to rise above the law, or was that a reaction based on fear?"

The word fear struck a nerve in King. He quickly yanked the staff out of Mark's hands and struck him in the face with it, knocking Mark back on the ground.

"Fear of what? Fear of these powerless peons that you choose to fight for?"

"Fear of what these 'powerless peons' represent! If they're so powerless, why bother killing them?"

King slammed the staff across Mark's back, dropping him flat on the ground.

"Because I can."

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I'm not even sure this has anything to do with the prompt anymore lolol

Outdoor Paper and Pen Writing

So I've been doing some paper and pen writing recently.

It started with writing poetry at work in an attempt to cope with the fact that my job sucks. If I prolong the escape long enough, I pretty much consider myself getting paid to write (beating the system?). I then tried to write a story using paper and pen while at work, and while I was able to get in a few jokes, the overall product was garbage for unknown reasons, and I trashed the story before it could get going. Said prematurely ended story did give me an idea for a story that I will write soon, but in the end, it had to go.

But I wasn't ready to end the paper and pen writing for stories just yet, as even though the story sucked, the actual writing of the story with paper and pen felt good. So I had made a plan to do some more paper and pen writing for a story that will eventually show itself on this blog. The paper and pen writing is pretty much a "back to my roots" kind of thing, as that's where the story writing thing started for me (and probably every writer ever, but with today's technology, that absolute claim could have been negated last week for all I know), and as I said, it felt good, but I wanted to take it a step further.

I bought a fresh composition notebook, and I found a nice, outdoor location, and I started writing. And from that location came bits and pieces of environmental inspiration that I wouldn't have been able to get from being inside. I also had music going, which was getting me hyped to write, and then I came up with the idea of changing my location, which would also change the location of the fight scene I was writing, and therefore come up with more environmental inspiration.

The story isn't done yet because it started raining as I was writing (paper and water don't mix, fyi), but I will definitely return to the location I was writing to finish the scene. And I'm probably going to go for another location change too, to make the fight more epic.

Overall, I'm probably going to do some more paper and pen writing. And I'm going to do more writing outdoors as well. There is something about writing on the paper with a pen that you can't get with typing... obviously, in the grand scheme of things these days, it's a whole lot less time effective in a sense because I would probably end up having to retype everything I already wrote, but the feeling is definitely different and definitely something worth exploring every so often in my opinion. And the outdoor writing is definitely something I want to do more of (at least while it's still warm enough to do it) because I'll definitely see something and be like "Wow, I need to put that in the fight," and I get pure gold from it.

Overall, the best thing about this is that I'm at least in the swing of things when it comes to writing. It's been very good relaxation for me... Lord knows I need it.

A Random Adventure Within My Mind Part 6

 Jack and Ace didn't even mentally flinch at Team Ultimate's unified confidence, since they still had a much larger army. They smiled right along with the members of Team Ultimate, returning the confidence.

"You're toast," Ace said. "Attack! And kill!"

"No problem," Marko said.

Just as a red bomber jumped over Jack and Ace to attack Team Ultimate, Marko jumped at the red bomber to attack back. He was able to deliver the first attack with a Mega Kick that sent the red bomber back towards Jack and Ace, and they had to dodge the flying red bomber. Marko landed, and he continued forward as though he wanted to attack Jack and Ace, but a bunch of motorcyclists with clubs in hand charged in front of them to attack. Cyron flew into the air and provided cover with a Bullet Cannon attack, rapidly firing at the motorcyclists. This allowed RPJ, Convict, and Keisha to press forward and initiate their attacks.

Marko kept on attacking whoever got in his way with punches, kicks, Mega Kicks, and Megodokens. He was taking down motorcyclists and red bombers with no problem with his attacks. Soon, RPJ, Convict, and Keisha caught up with him to give him extra cover as Cyron landed in the middle of the fray and was blasting away at the hordes of enemies.

The enemies kept coming, and Team Ultimate kept knocking them down. As effective as Team Ultimate was at taking the enemies down, they really weren't actually doing anything in the grand scheme of things, but they didn't seem to notice this at first. They were having plenty of fun just taking out motorcyclists, bandits, and red bombers. Marko and RPJ were teaming up to taking down huge amounts of enemies with the Bazooka Blast-Solo Shot combination. Convict used Keisha's hair to swing her around like a large mace ball as she kicked multiple enemies in their face. Cyron kept blasting to keep enemies at bay, and when Convict released Keisha into the crowd, Cyron charged into the crowd that tried to surround her, blasting while their focus was diverted. Once he got to her, he sent blasts towards Keisha, while she used her hair to send the blasts in random direction, taking down a wide radius of enemies.

Marko and RPJ soon found themselves teaming up with Convict, as he would toss enemies towards them while they attacked them, either with Mega Kick or Solo Shots, respectively. When the enemies tried to overwhelm Convict from behind, Marko opened things up with a Blaze Dash while RPJ cleaned up with his Static Shock kick. More kept coming at them, so RPJ used his Impact Clothesline to clear out a bigger area with the explosion that the attack caused. Marko followed up with a Bazooka Blast to clear out even more space, giving Convict more than enough room to charge towards enemies and line up a punch powerful enough to take down quite the line of them.

Marko looked around and noticed that the attacks from Keisha and Cyron were no longer as explosive, so he ran in their direction. He saw that they had been separated by the sheer number of enemies, so he attacked enemies as he moved towards Cyron. When he got close enough to him, he pointed in the direction of Keisha, and they proceeded to smash enemies as they made their move. With a few good Cannon Punches and Mega Kicks, they were near Keisha, who was sending enemies away with her hair. Marko and Keisha made eye contact and he pointed up, so she nodded. With her hair, she grabbed Cyron and Marko, and launched them high into the air.

"Heavy Bullet Cannon!"

"Bazooka Blast!"

Both Cyron and Marko rained down heavy destruction upon the crowds of enemies as they were tossed into the air. Cyron maintained his altitude, while Marko fell back down towards the ground. He launched another Bazooka Blast as he landed, to clear some room, then he launched yet another Bazooka Blast, this time at Keisha. She caught the blast with her hair, and she swung it around a bit, but made sure that no one hit it. With all the extra momentum, she sent the Bazooka Blast at Convict, who caught it and compressed the attack into an energy ball the size of a baseball. He pitched the blast at RPJ, who hit the ball with the RPBat into the air at Cyron. The ball went directly into Cyron's cannon, and Cyron started to glow. With Cyron's glowing, the rest of Team Ultimate started to take cover by running in the opposite direction that Cyron was aiming. He was charging up a bit, then he fired that blast out towards the enemies. They all dodged it, so the blast hit the ground, but the blast was so juiced up with power that the explosion was huge and killed more than enough enemies.

Or so they thought.

After the smoke cleared, all the dead enemies were seemingly instantly replaced with live, fresh ones. Team Ultimate saw how the numbers were easily replaced, and it kind of depleted them a bit, as that was one of their best team attacks.

"So, yeah... this isn't working," Keisha said, breaking the ice.

Everyone heard her, but no one said anything. Marko looked around, seeing all the enemies, then he looked into the sky, which was practically nothing but smoke and flames due to the buildings that had exploded.

There's probably more bombs, Marko thought. Yeah, let's use some of their resources. 


Marko took off running into the crowd. The rest of the team looked at him go, still willing to fight, but wishing that they had a plan, not knowing that Marko had a plan of some type in his head. Marko pressed ahead with Mega Kicks, but he wasn't trying to take everyone out. He was simply trying to clear a path to get to a building that hadn't exploded yet. Cyron gave him cover from above with his Bullet Cannon, and the rest of them pressed forward to attack the enemies that Marko missed, but Marko's movement was definitely swift and with purpose, as he was leaving his team behind. They had no idea what Marko was doing or what he was going for, but it was clear that he was leaving the fight for something, so they decided to not focus on him and continue their attack against the enemies.

After many Mega Kicks, Marko finally got to the building that he was trying to get to. He Mega Kicked the door open, and a few bandits tried to chase him. Marko turned around and fired a Bazooka Blast at them as they tried to get through the door, and they all got hit in the bottleneck. Marko found the stairs and he ran up as fast as he could. As he sped up the stairs, he heard extra footsteps, and he just knew that someone was following him. He stopped at an unknown floor and saw that red bombers were chasing him, and to him, it seemed like they might have had an idea on what he was going for. Marko fought off the red bombers, knocking most of them back down the stairs with a Mega Kick and actually breaking one of their necks by tripping one of them up the stairs.

With the immediate wave of red bombers cleared, Marko continued his ascent up the stairs. Soon he got to the top floor and quickly looked around for roof access. He found nothing, so he climbed out of a window and carefully scaled to the top of the window, from which he double jumped to the roof's ledge. He grabbed it and climbed up, then he looked around. It didn't take him long to find the bomb so he ran to it and carefully grabbed it. He walked towards the ledge of the roof and looked down, seeing the sheer numbers of enemies that they had to deal with.

Wow, he was right. This was an unwinnable fight. Guess we just aren't going to win this one.


Marko tossed the bomb off the roof and towards the ground with all the enemies.

But perhaps I can make this a no contest...


Marko watched as the bomb fell, and when it made contact with the ground, it blew up and killed everyone with the blast radius. This made Marko smile, so he Blaze Dashed to the opposite side of the roof and jumped to get the maximum distance in his jump, then he double jumped to get to another roof. He looked around and he saw another bomb, so he grabbed it, ran to the edge, and flung it off the roof haphazardly. Once again, the bomb fell down, hit the ground, and killed everyone that was around.

You know, I'm almost sure that Cyron would be much more effective as this since he can fly and I can't... where is he?


Marko looked around and he saw Cyron in the air but in the distance, trying to analyze the explosions. Marko waved his hands in the air, trying to signal Cyron, and sure enough, Cyron started to fly towards him. Marko saw that some of the motorcyclists were trying to blast Cyron with the laser from their clubs, so Marko launched a Bazooka Blast at them from long distance, giving Cyron cover as he flew towards him. Cyron decided to move faster, and he was able to get to Marko in no time after that.

"That was you dropping those bombs?!"

"Yes. Yes it was. But then I came up with a better idea. You drop the bombs."

"Me?"

"Yes. Since you can fly, and you can probably analyze the position of the bombs better than I can, this job is perfect for you."

"I guess, but that doesn't mean we're going to destroy each and every last one of these guys. Nor does it mean we solve the problem with the bombs."

"Well, I'm not trying to win this fight anymore. I'm trying to make it a no contest. Speaking of that, I'm going to need some favors from you."

"Uhh... okay..."

"First, I need to know the locations of Jack and Ace."

"Who?"

"The two guys that were talking shit after we united but before we attacked all these things."

"Oh. Okay..."

Cyron analyzed the location of Jack and Ace and found them in a pretty distance area away from all the fighting.

"Yeah, over there somewhere... they moved pretty fast considering the traffic."

"Okay, good. For my other two favors, drop bombs, and tell the rest of the team to relax... Don't fight to win, fight simply to survive. I get the feeling that this fight really is going to end soon, only to lead to another one."

"Affirmative."

Cyron was about to fly off towards the nearest bomb.

"Wait!"

"What?"

"Can you give me a boost?"

Cyron smiled and nodded. "Affirmative."

Cyron grabbed Marko and took off flying towards the roof that had the nearest bomb in it. He then used his cannon arm, added a bit more energy, and sent Marko flying towards where Jack and Ace were located.

"Good luck Marko!" Cyron yelled as Marko flew. "You're probably going to need it!"

Marko heard what Cyron said, and it slightly dampened his mood.

Silly robot. I didn't want or need your undercover analysis...

to be continued...

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And just like that, we go from having Team Ultimate unite to having Marko back on his own. The team's not done yet, obviously, as there is still plenty of fighting left to do.

I can say now that I at least know what general direction this story is headed, but hopefully, I can surprise myself with something outrageous. If I keep the music flowing and keep letting work frustrate me on the low (lol), then maybe I will, in fact, surprise myself.

Only time will tell... see you next time!

A Random Adventure Within My Mind Part 5

"Ace!"

"King, what's up?"

"I located Marko Man. He headed towards the other two. When those three get together they will do some harm. I need you to squad your men up and head for the location I just sent you now."

"No problem King. They won't make it out alive, that's for sure."

"I know. I'm converging all forces there. You'll have more than enough back up. Still, don't waste time. Eliminate them."

"Got it."



It's that awkward moment where you regret feeding into your own jokes, RPJ thought as he fought off random black scarf wearing bandits. But I think it's real bad that if I had a chance to do it all over again, I'd probably do the exact same thing.


RPJ was fighting off the bandits mostly with quick strikes, punches and kicks, and keeping his general grapples to a minimum because the bandits were plenty and they were moving quickly. He was trying to get to his partner Convict, who he had thrown to the wolves as a typical Untouchable X joke, but things had abruptly gotten serious with the added backup that the bandits received, and now they were in a mess.

RPJ continued to battle through the waves of bandits, but didn't seem to be having much luck in terms of movement, and he hadn't seen Convict in a long enough time that it actually had him worried. His punches started to have more punch in them, his kicks had more kick, but he still wasn't able to get where he needed to be.

"Fuck this."

RPJ pulled out his RPBat, and he started swinging, partially out of frustration, partially out of desperation. He needed to find Convict and figure out if he was okay.

Suddenly, a bunch of bandit went flying in his direction, and RPJ used his RPBat to defend against them. The weren't flying towards him on their own will, however, and RPJ realized this when he saw Convict standing up with an angry, yet dazed look on his face.


He's in his concussed state now. RPJ thought. I need him to be fully conscious damn it!


Convict looked around, and he started to aimlessly attack the bandits with brute force. Haymakers and clotheslines were sent in every direction to try and take the out the bandits. While Convict was definitely suffering from a concussion, it made him a much more dangerous fighter to contend with. However, it also made it virtually impossible for RPJ to run any team maneuvers him, as he was basically running on auto-pilot with the single tracked mind of taking out all potential threats.

RPJ simply kept close to Convict, backing him up, as he was taking down the brunt of the bandits at this point, but they really weren't showing signs of backing down any time soon. As Convict and RPJ kept knocking them down, they kept coming.

With this madness, I guess it's a good thing I called for extra backup. I just wish they'd hurry up...

"Bazooka Blast!"

Suddenly, there was a huge explosion just in front of Convict. A bunch of bandits go down, and the smoke clears, giving them space to finally breath for a moment.

"Mega Kick!"

From the air, Marko Man drops onto the scene, dropping a Mega Kick on a bandit that was trying to attack RPJ from behind. The attack connects, knocking that bandit out, and he keeps moving, attacking a wave of bandits that were trying to attack RPJ and Convict from behind.

"Blaze Dash!"

Marko used Blaze Dash to run into a few bandits, and used Blaze Dash to find a clearing.

"Bazooka Blast!"

Marko launched another Bazooka Blast to clear out more space and take down more bandits. Marko looked, and he had a bit of space for now to rally up with RPJ and Convict.

"So, he's concussed?" Marko asked.

"You know it," RPJ replied.

"Nothing new. What's the situation like over here?"

"A complete mess. It kinda makes me regret trying to bring Untouchable X back. You may have been able to take them out, but there's more."

"You don't even know... but the real problem is... I don't think I even know."

"Well then it's a good thing-"

RPJ was interrupted by a bandit attacking him from behind. Marko looked and saw that Convict was under attack. He was about to attack the bandits that were attacking Untouchable X, but he just knew that there was a bandit coming for him, so he turned around and dodged a punch that was aimed for his head. He countered with a knee, but he had back up to dodge the three bandits that jumped over the one that tried to punch him in his face, and countered with a Megodoken to at least stall. Marko took a quick glimpse and saw that RPJ and Convict were still taking damage, so he Blaze Dashed into one of the bandits that were focused on him, then he Blaze Dashed into one of the bandits that were attacking Convict. This freed Convict up, and from that, Convict delivered an insane punch that sent a bandit flying into another bandit, which sent them flying into Marko, knocking him down as well.

Convict kept attacking aimlessly and without much strategy, while RPJ was still struggling to turn back into a threat. Marko pushed the bandits off of him and got up, then he ran towards RPJ, Mega Kicking any bandits that were foolish enough to get in his way. Once he was close to RPJ and the bandits that attacked him, he grabbed them and punched them in the face, one by one. When RPJ was cleared of the bandits, he told Marko to duck, and as he ducked, he swung the bat and clobbered a bandit in his face with a swing of his RPBat. Marko returned to an upright position, only to see bandits coming from behind RPJ. He jumped over RPJ and Mega Kicked three bandits with one motion, then he landed and fired a Megodoken at the remaining one. RPJ pointed behind Marko, so he side stepped a bandit that was trying to kick him as RPJ tossed hit bat at that bandits head. RPJ caught the RPBat as it returned to him as both he and Marko saw bandits coming towards them.

"Bazooka Blast!"

Marko aimed the Bazooka Blast at RPJ, who redirected the blast at the oncoming bandits with a perfect swing of his RPBat. The Solo Shot'd Bazooka Blast hit one bandit and exploded with a large enough explosion to take down the rest of them. Through the smoke, more bandits started flying as though they were being tossed. Sure enough, through the smoke emerged Convict, picking up bandits and launching them any which way.

The three had cleared enough space to finally unite, but the bandits weren't ready to call it quits.

"Where does this guy get so many disposable minions from?" RPJ asked.

"I don't know," Marko said, "but just fighting them is clearly getting us nowhere."

The bandits started to surround Marko, RPJ, and Convict. The three weren't tired, but they weren't fresh, but they weren't about to give up.

"So then I guess we'll have to help you out," a voice from the air said.

Marko, RPJ, and Convict looked up, and they saw their old buddies Cyron and Keisha. Keisha landed from flying on Cyron while he stayed in the air.

"Heavy Bullet Cannon!"

Cyron started to blast the bandits from the air, doing a whole damage to the crowd. Meanwhile, Keisha was using her live hair to whip, lash, and toss bandits into Cyron's line of fire. The duo was able to do quite a bit of damage upon arrival, and left a lot of bandits on the ground hurt.

"Took y'all long enough!" RPJ yelled angrily.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa," Cyron said, "what you need to do is be appreciative of the help you got."

"Cyron, please," Keisha said, "if you had analyzed correctly the first time and stopped looking at girls, we'd have been here much earlier."

"Exposed," Marko said. "But we're good, all things considered... so you called in the union of Team Ultimate?"

"Well, I thought Untouchable X would be good enough. But this shit is ridiculous."

"Indeed. Smart move."

Cyron landed, giving Keisha a dirty look due to his exposure. He then looked at Convict, and noticed that he was not normal.

"What happened to him?"

"Yeah, you are slipping," Marko teased. "If you analyzed him, you'd know he's suffering from a concussion."

Cyron shook his head, disappointed in Convict's status. He walked up to him, looked at him a bit, and then slapped him in a specific spot on the back of his head.

"Dude!" RPJ yelled angrily. "He's concussed! Why are you trying to knock him out?"

"Knock who out?" Convict said.

"He's fine now," Cyron said. "Thanks for assuming that I'm an idiot."

"Well, if the memory chips fits," Keisha taunted.

This made Marko and RPJ laugh while Convict was still confused as to what was going on.

Suddenly, they all started to hear motorcycles.

"Shit... they're coming," Marko said. "Those fucking motorcyclists I left behind."

Just as Marko finished his statement, six building exploded at the same time.

"Whoa!" Keisha said. "What was that?"

"Those red bomber dudes," Marko explained. "They've been blowing buildings for what is currently an unknown reason... and look in the air... here they come now."

Team Ultimate was slowly but surely being surrounded by all of the King's henchmen. The motorcyclists were rolling in, more bandits were showing up, and the red bombers were exploding onto the scene. Throughout the entire mess that surrounded Team Ultimate, Jack and Ace found their way to the center of the stage before Team Ultimate.

"Well look at this, you got a little more help, huh?" Jack said.

"Yeah. A little." Marko replied.

"Well, as you can see, we got a lot."

"Yes, I can see that."

"So I already know that you're not going down without a fight. And that's perfectly fine, because as you can see, we have a cool little unwinnable fight ready ready for you and your friends!"

Marko looked at Team Ultimate, and Team Ultimate looked back at him.

"So guys, we got an unwinnable fight on our hands," Marko announced. "You guys ready to win it anyway?"

"Fuck yeah." they all said in unison.

to be continued...

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So I know this is part 5, but this might actually be the real beginning of the story lol. 

It's all action packed goodness from here on out. 

But please, for the love of god, don't expect any character development... I'm saving that for the actual series, okay? Okay?

It feels good to write Team Ultimate shit again.