Chapter 4:

Halloween blitz

Streamer Royale

Leona stared in confusion as everyone around her, including Jester's allies, cringed in disgust at his musical number. "Seriously, who the fuck is this guy!?"

"Some creep that's been trying to kidnap and kill me for years!" Madoka glared.

"Jouzu's sworn enemy and a giant piece of shit cringe!" Kumi glared.

"An asshole that tried to kidnap me n' Cece-chan!" Iori glared.

"So he's really bad then?"

"YES!!!"

"OI Don't ignore me!" Jester shouted as he landed before the girls. "Madoka! We meet again! You too zappy bitch and ninja streamer girl... Who's the bitch with you?"

"Leona Wasabi Wabasbi!" Leona declared as she struck a pose.

"Bu- BUWAHAHAHAHA! What kind of stupid name is that!? Wasabi's shit!"

Leona began to tear up a little while the others continued glaring at Jester.

"Now, Madoka! As you can see, I've assembled a team of the evilest streamers that you never invited to Streama festivalen, all so we could kidnap everyone and drag them to a parallel world to murder them, you all included!"

"Whoa, whoa, that skeleton guy's a streamer!?" Iori scowled.

"He's kaiser of Prussia and runs the Prussian state Ewetube channel and streams his speeches on it so it counts!"

"Great, an undead dictator. And the others?"

"SURPRISES! I ordered them only to reveal themselves at specific times! But Red Reaper decided to ditch the cloak first. Sucks none of you recognize him though."

Iori went silent as she stared up at Red Reaper. She had taken notice of the fact that had a DESPER, causing her to get giddy at the prospect of a chess death battle. "Oh, guess I should ask, would you get charged for murder here?"

Jester paused and thought for a moment. "Hmm, in this place... Yup, you murder ya go to jail."

"Oh come on!"

"Unless it's a chess death match via DESPER or JESPER. Same for normal death games via JESPER. SPEAKING OF WHICH..."

Jesper suddenly pulled out a JESPER and activated it, however, nothing seemed. to change. Yet as Leona decided to move, Kumi immediately stopped her.

"Boo! I was hoping she'd step on the mine!" Jester scowled.

"MINE!?"

"Yeah, we're playing a large-scale version of mines in the ground, except, you don't get a bird's eye view and there's over 100 mines! Oh, and a giant flaming buzzaw will chase after you too so get- DOH!?"

Before Jester could finish, Madoka kicked him in the face, sending him flying. As he landed, a massive explosion occurred, followed by a chain of other explosives as Jester was sent flying off into the sky.

"FUCK YOU MADOKA!" he cried before vanishing from sight.

One of the cloaked figures let out a sigh. "Well, guess it's up to me to be the brains of this," he nodded as he threw off his cloak.

He turned out to be a man with spiky grey hair clad in a lab coat and khakis, making it fair to assume he was a scientist of some kind.

"Never met any of you in person, except for you, Iori Ishikiridokoro. Name's Manfred von Skarberghast. I currently have a gig at Stanford, and I'm in the Desperado league."

Iori immediately perked up as she recognized the man. "I remember you from a few days ago So what do you stream? Your matches?"

"Nope, just the college science lab's experiments. I own the channel and get all the profit from it so there's your technicality."

"Professor Skaberghast, how much longer must we wait before the hunt?" Red Reaper snarled.

"Oh you can go. In fact, everyone disperse."

"Then I'll handle the girl," Red Reaper glared as he leapted down and landed before Iori.

"You better use that DESPER," Iori growled as a sinister smile began to form on her face.

"Naturally, it shall be a 1 minute bullet match and should I lose, I die."

"Yeah, you get blown to bits!"

"Then the same death shall befall you," Red Reaper glared as he activated his DESPER.

Iori suddenly found herself inside a Sopwith Camel flying through the air, while Red Reaper flew behind her in a Fokker. A chessboard was present in the cockpit of the plane, prompting Iori to open by moving her pawn to e4.

Red Reaper responded with e5, and the two then brought all their knights out to f3, c6, c3, and f6, respectively, all while the others watched from below.

"Surprised the game's being streamed from down here," Kumi grumbled as she looked at her phone.

Iori taking notice of the fact that the game was being streamed, decided it was time to show off. "HAPPY HALLOWEEN, MOTHERFUCKER!" she laughed as she captured the pawn at e5 with her knight.

"What the hell!? Can't the knight take her knight!?" Madoka cried as Red Reaper did just that and captured the knight at e5 with his knight.

"Relax viewers, this here's called the Halloween gambit, and old graveyard just fell for it!" Iori maniacally grinned as she slammed her pawn doen on d4.

Red Reaper scowled and quickly moved his knight to c6. "Schizer! I should have gone to g6 instead. Though I have more time on the clock than her. Perhaps I'll go for running her out of time," he thought as Iori pushed her pawn to d5.

Red Reaper quickly moved his knight to e5, but Iori was waiting for that and pushed her pawn to f5, sending the knight to g6, but now she could push pawn to e5 without worry, sending the knight back to it's starting position of g8. Then knowing the opening, Iori pushed her pawn to c6, prompting Red Reaper to capture said pawn with his c-pawn, leading to Iori capturing said pawn with her e-pawn, and Red Reaper capturing said pawn with his bishop.

"WHOOPS! YA FUCKED UP!" Iori taunted as she captured the bishop at d6 with her queen.

Red Reaper scowled in annoyance, but realized her still had 40 seconds left on the clock while Iori only had 30. "I just need to catch her off guard, and she'll lose on time," Red Reaper thought as he moved his queen to a5.

Iori was on top of thinga though ans moved her bishop to d2, prompting Red Reaper to capture the pawn at f4 with his knight, yet Iori saw that too, and captured said knight with her queen before a second even passed.

"Damn her speed. So this is why herr Jester referred to her as a ninja," Red Reaper snarled as he moved his queen to h5.

Iori instantly moved her bishop to e2, prompting Red Reaper to try a surprise attack and capture said bishop with his queen, howver, Iori was able to quickly capture said queen with her knight, once again in under a second.

Enraged at Iori's insane speed and reflexes, Red Reaper angrily moved his pawn to d5, hoping to somehow throw Iori off enough to win on time.

"This shit's going down to the wire! Girl's barely got 15 seconds left!" Leona cried as Iori moved her bishop to b4.

"But she's making great time. Though I'd still be faster," Kumi smirked as Red Reaper movwd his knight to g8.

Seeing blood on the water, Iori quickly moved her queen to d6 as Red Reaper angrily moved his knight back to g8 and stared at the clock. "13 seconds!? And she knows the moves. Damn her!" he fumed as Iori moved her queen to f8, forcing his king to d7.

Iori then castled on the queen's side, bringing her time down to 10 seconds, but all she needed to do now was make 3 more moves at most, which quickly went down to 2 moves after Red Reaper moved his knight to f6.

"Plenty of time to spare! It's over. CHECK!" Iori snickered as she moved her queen to d6.

Red Reaper stared in fury at Iori's time. "9 second left!? Verdammte Schlampe! Ich werde sie dafür umbringen [Fucking bitch! I'll kill her for this]!" he shouted as he was forced to move his king to e8.

Then without letting a second pass, Iori moved her queen to e7, winning the game. "CHECKMATE! Back to hell!" she snickered as she gave Red Reaper the middle finger.

The Sopwith she was riding in then maneuvered behind Red Reaper's Fokker and opened fire, destroying the plane in a fireball, sending it's remains, along with fragments of what was left of Red Reaper, crashing to the ground.

"YO! You film that shit!?" Iori grinned as the Sopwith landed and she ran out to greet the others.

"Yeah, shit was streamed live! Guess maybe all this does count as Streama festivalen," Kumi nodded.

"But what channel is it streaming on, and who's recording?" Leona asked.

Before anyone could offer a hypothesis, Madoka went pale with horror as she began pointing towards the wreckage of the Fokker. Everyone turned and to their horror, saw Red Reaper regenerating before their eyes.

"Oi... NO FUCKING FAIR! YOU CAN'T JUST REGENERATE AFTER YOU DIE!" Iori fumed.

"Seems you don't know of me," Red Reaper glared as he finished regenerating and picked up his DESPER, which was now emitting a puff of smoke. "Anything on me when I "die" regenerates with me. That being said, DESPERs will always be destroyed upon each "death" meaning I have to both acquire a new one and re-register with the Desperado league. Now let's see how accurate Professor Skaberghast's theory was."

Red Reaper then slammed his palm into the ground, causing it to rumble as an ominous structure began to appear behind him.

"Oi, oi, you saying he CAN summon the Ultima-master? Guy's broken beyond hell," Skaberghast nervously chuckled.

The girls meanwhile stared in terror as the Ultima-master began to materialize before them.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?" Leona cried.

"NO FAIR! YOU FUCKING CHEATER! YOU CAN'T RESPAWN AND SUMMON A SUPERWEAPON!" Iori shouted.

Kumi attepted to shoot a bolt of lightning at the Ultima-master, however, it appeared to be protected by a forcefield.

"WE NEED TO RUN, NOW!" Madoka cried as she scooped up Leona and Iori before sky hopping away as fast as she could.

"I'll do ya one better, all aboard the Kumi express!" Kumi grinned as she scooped up all three at once and blasted away at the speed of lightning.

Once Red Reaper received his new DESPER, the Ultima-master returned from which it came.

"Well, guess you are at full power here after all. Now, let's go hunt down everyone. There's plenty of b-list targets roaming around," Skaberghast snickered.

The Full game:

White: Iori Ishikiridokoro (2044) Black: Red Reaper (2780)

1. e4 e5

2. Nf3 Nc6

3. Nc3 Nf6

4. Nxe5 Nxe5

5. d4 Nc6

6. d5 Ne5

7. f4 Ng6

8. e5 Ng8

9. d6 cxd6

10. exd6 Bxd6