dramadramaduck | [video; backdated to Halloween; oh god this post is huge] Oh. He was already THERE.

((Please note that the video contains rapidly flashing colours and also blood! If you choose to watch it anyway, please pause at 2:11. If you don't, then do have some accompanying music. :u))

[The feed opens with a glimpse of what appears to be computer code, followed by the sight of dozens of rapidly flashing billiard balls.

Whatever the hell that meant, the scene quickly changes. Within a massive Green Sun which may look familiar to some floats what remains of Scratch's apartment. Inside lies the man/puppet himself, maimed and lifeless. A clock ticks on regardless - the very same he nearly rambled about last post, before the weird orange dude stopped him - oblivious to the fact time is a nebulous concept in its current location.

Tick. Tock.

The pendulum - a cue ball - slows to a stop, and both it and Scratch's body begin to glow an eerie lime green.

And then the body begins to move, albeit probably not of its own volition.

Veiny green limbs extend and expand from Scratch's; clawed fingers and toes break through the host's comparatively tiny hands and feet; the stuffing on the ripped leg appears to be replaced by bright red blood gushing gratuitously from a growing green stump of a leg.

The monster rises, not inconvenienced by the blood splattered all over the floor, and he is still growing - Scratch's trousers look more like tattered shorts now, held up by a pair of surprisingly resilient suspenders, but his shirt has been effectively reduced to shreds.

Dude's ripped, yo.

A golden peg leg materialises, finally covering up the bleeding stump, and it stomps imposingly in the floor. The clock is going completely nuts by now, flashing in bright, eye-searing colours, its pointers spinning out of control. And then, the pendulum begins to darken and crack.

Scratch's head is doing the same.

The monster summons an impressive overcoat as he slowly rises to his full height; the head appears closer and closer to exploding; that fucking wolf head from Neverending Story cameos menacingly, reflecting the chaotic flashing colours lighting the entire place --

And the head breaks. The monster is... uh...

The monster is something alright. He at the very least looks like he's ready to get the hell out, but at that precise moment, Kefka and Okuu show up.]

No wonder the cueball's such a prissy stick-up-his-hole know-it-all! He's got an entire Frankenstein Monster crawling around in there! [Kefka's eyes glow and his body tenses; it looks like he's powering up for some super-charged attack.] You want a swing at the main course while I warm up the oven?

[ Okuu doesn't need to be asked twice; making suns comes easy for her. She points her arm canon at the green monster, and within a second dozens of suns burst into existence and head towards her opponent. She follows the trajectories close behind, wings blazing, ready to tackle the thing before her with a power enough to level an entire city. ]

[No living being could possibly survive such a thing. Except... Except for this monster, apparently. It is hard to see what is going on, but behind the suns' flare, he smacks Okuu with the back of his hand, hard enough to send her flying across the room. When the light clears, he is slightly singed at best and his feet - well, foot - firmly planted on the floor. He turns to glare menacingly at Kefka.]

Let's see if you can get as good as you give, you jealousy-faced jello-footed jolly roger-pated-philistine! Forsaken!

[There goes Kefka's ultimate attack, all golden light! Unfortunately, Kefka hasn't worked out all the kinks in it yet; if he had it mastered, he could break the damage limits when using against a single person. As is, it does the same damage against one or many: about as much as a fireball, or a lot to a human...but against Lord English...]

[... It only makes him angry.

He whips his head from side to side as if to shake off the attack, grabs Kefka by the neck and slams him against the ground.

Repeatedly.

When he's done with that, he turns to Okuu again, his sharp teeth bared at her. She already has her arm cannon charged and proceeds to fire a devastating charge of nuclear energy within the next moment.

(Kefka, meanwhile, just lays on the ground, unable to ow because the wind got totally knocked out of him. OW.)

What happens next isn't entirely clear, once again - in the blink of an eye, Lord English is no longer where he was a moment ago. Rather, he is directly behind her, and without wasting a single second, he smashes her forehead against the nearest wall, tosses her to the floor and finally steps on her back with his peg leg, only to kick her away after that.

Then finally, as if annoyed by what was most likely a derail in his routine, and this is the point at which you may unpause the video if you were watching it, his overcoat disappears, an overly colourful sarcophagus in its place. It shuts around the monster, and with that, he leaves for another place and another time.

But as he goes, a terrible sound echoes across space just before the feed ends.]

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I suspect that would have worked far better had you not waited until his ascension. Either way, one can only hope that this will not disrupt the timeline too badly. Things are precarious enough now as they stand.

[The fully-realised Seer is not amused]

[ WAIT WAIT THIS MEANS-- ] No plush corpseto spare?I almost feel betrayed.[ Brb going to go brood over how she doesn't have a plushie puppet right now. ]

[ Ouch her head. ] That guy...! Who does he think he is?!

Oh, only the single most powerful entity in Paradox Space. All things considered, it is for the best that he was able to abscond at this stage.

Paradox space, huh... [ She breathes out, rubbing her head. ] Heh, just give me time and then I can take him.

No.

[Stated in a very matter of fact tone]

This isn't your fight. Already you've risked the stability of the timeline. And I will not see myself and my friends doomed for some outsider's pride.

[ ... ]

I don't get it.

The timeline that comprises our universe is remarkably inflexible. I am able to navigate it to some degree, more so now my Seer powers are fully realised. While it could be considered that the community allowed you to worldhop to his location at all means this will not have a significant impact later on, the fact remains that this timeline was not designed with the community in mind.

[ ........................ ]

So I won't get another chance to fight him?

It's still too early to say whether it will be an option. Certainly I would advise against doing so without consulting with myself. While we do still have a Time player, it's going to be difficult to manage timeloops in a location where time and space hold no meaning.