Chapter 166:

Fame And Games!

Project: INFERNO


(Meanwhile as a month had past back at the Magachi Mansion, Kazuya and Shibuto were playing fighting video games on Shibuto's recently bought "G-Box" as they both were competitive.)
"T.V: K.O! Winner: Lotus Kenhiro!"
"Kazuya: DAMN IT!"
"Shibuto: Hahaa!!!"
"Kazuya: OH CUT THE CRAP, YOU USE LOTUS BECAUSE OF HIS GOJAI FINISHING ATTACK!"
"Shibuto: Even so, you always use yourself Kazuya. Look in all honesty, you can't beat Lotus in real life but in a virtual game, you can try if you don't fight the wrong person with skill."
"Kazuya: FINE! REMATCH RIGHT NOW AND I'LL FIGHT YOU AS ZEUS!"
"Shibuto: Be my guest."
(After a demanded rematch, Kazuya continued to be defeated by Lotus in-game as Zeus was then defeated by a gory finishing technique as Lotus taunted in victory. To hide the anger, Kazuya began to purposely light the controller on fire.)
"Kazuya: T-THIS... IS... IMPOSSIBLE...!!!"
"Shibuto: Its gonna take a while Kazuya, you'll get use to it someday. So don't worry!"
(As Hinami then appears out of nowhere with her head resting on both of Kazuya and Shibuto's shoulders, she was curious as the two then jumped at Hinami's unexpected presence.)
"Hinami: What 'cha guys playing?"
"Shibuto: One of the newest games released right now its called: "Project: INFERNO - Showdown Among War" and its very fricking awesome!"
"Hinami: Hm.. "You can fight in either online or against other players to initiate the PVP settings. The following modes added are Story Mode, Arcade Mode, Time Trial Mode, Survival Mode, Face The Dead Mode..." and so many ongoing modes, how much did this even cost?!"
"Shibuto: I'm not sure, maybe... over 13,000 yen...?"
"Hinami: WHAT?! IN AMERICA THAT'S LIKE ABOVE 90 DOLLARS!"
"Shibuto: Well, I bought the DLC's, unlockable characters and even whaled on these awesome game affects!"
"Hinami: Well, how does it work?"
(As Shibuto and Kazuya shows Hinami the opening sequels of the game as almost every fight was recorded as the game's intro and Hinami was then introduced to the massive roster of characters and variations, including herself which gave her a shock.)

"WHOA!! I'M IN THE GAME?!"
"Shibuto: All of us is!"
"Hinami: This is insane, look at this! Heroes, villains, assassins guild, EVEN THE PRIMORDIAL GODS TOO?!"
"Kazuya: Yup, everyone!"
"Hinami: Hm... Shibuto, I would like to have a match with you!"
"Shibuto: Be my guest! Kazuya, you don't mind?"
(As Kazuya handed the controller to Hinami, she then chooses Onara Shiori in her Human Variation as Shibuto chooses Lotus Kenhiro in his Elemental Tournament Variation as the fight arena was decided to be at Magachi Mountain. As the fight was already over in under 30 seconds, Shibuto was completely in shock that Hinami beat him and broke his record.)
"...H-How.. How did you..-"
"Hinami: In truth, I played some game like this already... I believe it was called Street Fighters or something like that.."
"Both: YOU PLAYED THAT LEGENDARY GAME?!"
"Kazuya: I really thought you wasn't into video games...!"
"Hinami: Well.. I beat Sawano in video games before. I even attended online video game tournaments and always come out as one of the top ten!"
"Xinera: Did someone mention video games up here?"
(The three then smiled as they saw Xinera.)
"All Three: Hey Xinera!"
"Xinera: Back when I was in my teen years, we didn't have video games in this timeline.. So.. I popped a little trip to a different timeline and experienced it, man did I have fun..!"
"Hinami: You know what, when was the last time we ever spent time with Xinera? There's actually a gaming convention happening in a week!"
"Kazuya: We gotta go there!"
"Xinera: You three clearly wanna hang with little old me?"
"Shibuto: Who wouldn't mother?"
(Xinera then hid her tear-filled face as she was called mother and perked up with a smile.)

"Xinera: Alright! Then lets start gaming!"
"Kazuya: Is there any tournaments going on or anything for this game?"
"Hinami: It says here that... OH! Apparently Showdown Among War is one of the games being given a tournament! According to the website, we can apply for the P:I S.A.W Tournament if we qualify in the tournament bracket as long as we have a higher game ranking of 1,250!"
"Shibuto: Then its time to start practicing as quickly as we can to qualify!"
"Xinera: Oh! Before it slips my mind, Shibuto have you seen your father?"
"Shibuto: He left me a message saying he's out of the dimension for a few days, he'll be back soon he said."
"Xinera: Oh that guy... I love him."
(Meanwhile on another planet, an entire clan of martial artists were fleeing for their lives as one by one were snatched out of sight and hung on several tree branches in order as the last remaining clan member was horrified out of his mind then began to hear voices in his head.)
"???: Come on..! Wanna avenge your friends...?! Want to kill me that badly huh?! THEN DO IT! DRAW YOUR SWORD AND STRIKE ME, I WANNA SEE YOUR STRONGEST WIND SLASH NOW..!"
"???: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU...?!"
"Gaito: I'M GAITO MAGACHI, BITCH AND I'M YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE..."
(The ground began to split open as two massive eyes grows out of the ground along with a row of sharp teeth growing out of the mouth to terrify the last clan member as he began screaming out of fear loudly.)
"HAHAHAHAHAAAAA...!! COME ON! FIGHT ME, YOU WANT YOUR FRIENDS TO BE BURNING IN HELL WITH NOTHING BUT EVIL SURROUNDING THEM?!"

(As the ground in the blink of an eye turned into a mirror, the member would only see himself and several zombie-animated friends of his who died chase him as he was running for his life only to understand he was being chased by an illusion he could see but cannot touch. Suddenly, both of his legs were erased into thin air as the clan member was crawling for his life while pissing himself at the same time out of absolute fear.)

"OHHH HARAKIIITEEEE...!!!! FIGHT BACK..! FIGHT WITH ME..!! YOU ONLY LOST YOUR LEGS, DIDN'T YOU?! USE YOUR DAMN JUTSU...! REGROW YOUR DAMN LEGS AND GET YOUR MEASLY ASS UP TO FIGHT LIKE A MAN! QUIT PISSING ON NATURE'S GROUND... YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"

(As Gaito then blasts a rocketing kick to the chest, Gaito then catches the clan member and begins to mercilessly beat the shit out of him with mid-air combos to a thundering gut punch following be a series of punches which creates more thunder for every connecting punch then swings the right leg around his neck and drops the final clan member to the ground and purposely snaps his neck and forcefully turns his head upside down as Gaito disrespectfully then kicks his head into a pile of his own feces left behind.)

"That's for shitting on yourself in nature's courtyard, you filthy fucking ape. Fuck you."

(He'd then kick the corpse one more time, spits a loogie on it then vanishes out of the dimension at warped speeds. In less than a second, Gaito returns to his timeline and appears in New York City's Times Square for it was more crowded during the day and packed with heroes as he then began to enjoy his days off. Meanwhile in a hidden domain, the Omnipresent Twelve was meeting with the new Prime Minster as eight of all twelve spheres which represents the protection of the realms.)

"Okura Hitomaro (Japanese Prime Minister): A...HA! HAHAHA!!! EXCELLENT, WE'VE CAPTURED EIGHT OF ALL TWELVE REALMS!"
(As Okura was laughing in victory, a helmet-wearing member of the twelve spoke to interrupt Okura's gloating.)
"Rui Matsuno (No. 10 of the Omnipresent Twelve): So when the hell are we gonna battle Gaito?"
(The rest of the twelve then takes a confused glance at Rui as a war-clothed Kono Shusen spoke.)
"Kono Shusen (No. 8 of the Omnipresent Twelve: Uh.. WE? Its only, YOU pal!"
"Rui: Don't tell me the rest of you are chicken!"
"Otani Erize (No. 12 of the Omnipresent Twelve): No.. its just that we would rather be alive and live our lives than ever fight him."
"Okura: Otani...! You know-"
(Otani then scoffed and uppercuts Okura over his desk and over the eight realm spheres as the twelve was silent.)
"DO NOT EVER CALL ME BY MY FIRST NAME, YOU FILTHY POWER HUNGRY DOG!"
(Okura then sits back up and holds his right cheek.)
"Okura: P-point taken.. Sorry..!"
"Yamida Hachiko (No. 3 of the Omnipresent Twelve): Now, are we free to go?"
"Okura: NOT. YET! I'm assigning the two of you to take one last realm sphere.. and that is in the Beast Realm."
"Miyashiro Rosanjin (No. 2 of the Omnipresent Twelve): Do you want to understand what you're making us fight against? This is KHOMAT, one of the Primordial Gods, a horrifying force of nature in power. Along with the fact he recently regained his prime strength!"
"Okura: I DON'T CARE! YOU ARE TO DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD, FOR I OWN ALL TWELVE OF YOU!"
"Everyone: ..."
"Okura: NOW GO GET ME THAT DAMN REALM SPHERE AND DON'T BOTHER COMING BACK UNTIL THEN, SHOULD'VE KEPT YOUR MOUTH SHUT!"

(As Okura continued to laugh, the two who arrived at the meeting departed along with the rest of the twelve was dismissed as Miyashiro and Yamida arrived in the Beast Realm undetected and enters the gate to the Beast Realm's power sphere which was enclosed in domain magic which Miyashiro was able to dispel but noticed the entire sphere was an illusion for it was a trap.)

"???: I expected you Omnipresent wannabe punkasses to show up in my realm..."
(As the shadows was then turned upside down, Khomat walks towards the two after sleeping like a bat on the ceiling and forces the shadows to be absorbed into Khomat for his entire presence was blocked out by darkness.)
"Yamida: Oh shit..! I didn't expect him to really be here...!"
"Khomat: So you believe I'd abandon my children? You humans are a huge waste of my fucking time! So I won't be using any combat techniques or powers, instead... You get this."
(Khomat suddenly appears behind the two and without a moment of hesitation, their hearts was quickly infected by a very lethal curse Khomat cursed Dynnael with. The two then lowered their guards, fell to their knees and began to cough out thick loads of and wet and sloppy green blood for the curse was infecting them quickly.)
"Miyashiro (Pained): H-How...! Only.. t-two minutes.. and we're.. b-beaten..."
"Khomat: Since I'm in such a good mood, here's what I can do.. One, I can let you both go and kill your leader or two, you force yourselves to serve to me and me alone!"
(The two of the twelve was then forced to make a decision now before the poison killed them.)
"Yamida: W-WE'LL.. WO-WORK FOR YOU..!"
(Khomat then inhales the air which the curse was then vacuumed out of their bodies thanks to Khomat's deep breath.)
"Khomat: Now. Was it the Prime Minister who assumed my realm was unguarded?"
(The two was suddenly shocked that Khomat of all people knew the plan.)
"Don't bother acting innocent. Gaito knew everything and allowed it from day one, he ordered the realm protectors to let their power spheres be stolen. Just so you twelve could sooner than later figure out that getting the spheres was too easy. In short, Gaito has every last one of you on his radar. But since the two of you will work for me, I want you to deliver a message..."
(As Khomat explained the message to them, we return to Xinera with Shibuto, Kazuya and Hinami as the four got their own game consoles along with P:I S.A.W and they'd all practice with the best character that suits their playing style as they all prepared for the gaming tournament.)