Thread: Split Ends: Start-Up

Lindsey looked back and forth from Ozias to Helen in shock.
Laura flew over to Ozias. "Are you okay?!"

"I got rid of a potential murder weapon. You'd do the same if someone attempted to cut your head off."

The Merge's face was going purple. "S-something... seems to be affecting my genes... No, w-wait... It's stopped affecting th-- Agh!"

"Unless there was an error in transcription, there shouldn't be a--" A click resonated from the collar, and the Arceus Merge went limp, dropping to the floor.

"Well, there's finally some good news," Sophia shrugged.

Ozias got up, coughing. "I'm feeling a little ill... No matter, though. I'm gonna live. Besides, last time I checked, the only bits of me that were independently Keldeo were the bits on the shoulders, the sword, part of my hair, and my cardiovascular system."

Scorpion stared at the fallen Arceus merge for a few seconds before she ran over to Helen and used Cut on the collar, making sure not to hit Helen, trying to break the collar. Get that other person... talking through her... away!

"Wait, are you not Keldeo at all anymore? I thought breaking the sword would just revert you to the normal form since it stops you from using Secret Sword."

"What happened, then?" Mia wondered aloud. "Could the controller have been pulled away or something?"

A thin slit was cut in the side of the hollow cube, and light poured though it.

"Those would be our missing friends... I dunno about the Keldeo bit... I guess even the muta... mutagen I used was... was... wasn't... perfected..." Ozias patted his chest, "No cardiovascular system... I've got about 45... seconds left to... l-live. T-that's good... eh?"

"Shadow-Human." Maxwell opened the back door of the house. "Remember that, Ozias."

"Oh yeah." He then looked quizzically at Maxwell. "What do I do when that runs out?"

"Guys, there's light coming out of this collar thing," the Scorpion Queen said. "What is this?"

Laura turned to at Maxwell with a worried and expectant look.

"Pray that it doesn't."

OOC: What light? The light's coming from a slit in the metal box.

A gust of superheated air melted a hole around the cut in the crate.

"It will, though. It always does... I just need to stall it until I regenerate..."

"Reinjection is always a possibility."

"Yeah... four Pokémon would be fun..."