Chapter 82: Oblivious
Ospinn: "So here you are, Rebirth Crusaders."
Spencer's team has stepped through their door as it closes behind them.
Connor: "Hi."
Dawn readies her gun.
Dawn: "Happy to see us?"
Ospinn: "Quite, actually."
Ospinn looks towards Spencer.
Ospinn: "The one with the ability to use all unique Waves."
Jeremy readies his bat as Ashley assumes an offensive stance.
Jeremy: "So?"
Ashley: "It seriously just means that your Hellfire Wave doesn't work."
Ospinn draws a pistol.
Ospinn: "That may be true, but I don't need it to win."
Ospinn cocks the gun and points it at Jeremy.
Jeremy: "We may only know about your Drain Wave, but you can't have much else!"
Ospinn readjusts his aim at Spencer.
Spencer: "What? You honestly think bullets are going to work?"
A red aura sparks around Ospinn.
Ospinn: "No. Adrenaline Wave."
Ospinn puts the gun down.
Connor: "Th-That's a new one!"
Ospinn takes a step forward, denting the floor.
Jeremy: "So it increases physical strength."
Connor begins to zip around the room.
Dawn: "It's basically diet Artist's Wave."
Dominic: "I wouldn't call it anything else."
Ospinn: "Are you done?"
The others ready for the fight.
Spencer: "As ready as we'll ever be."
Connor heads straight for Ospinn.
Ospinn: "Glad to hear it."
Ospinn catches Connor's club.
Connor: "U-Uh..."
Connor is thrown into a nearby wall.
Ashley: "Nothing we can't find a way around."
Ashley dissolves into the shadows.
Jeremy: "I'm here for crying out loud."
Ospinn walks towards Dawn.
Dawn: "Yeah sure."
Dawn fires three BB's at Ospinn's right hand, causing a little blood to seep through the Relay Gear.
Jeremy: "(awkwardly) That hurts."
Spencer: "It really is kind of Jeremy."
Dominic is beginning to activate the Artist's Wave.
Dominic: "Guys!"
Ashley appears next to Ospinn, before landing a good punch in his jaw.
Ospinn: "Not bad..."
Ospinn grabs Ashley by the wrist.
Ashley: "(struggling) What the hell?!"
Ospinn throws Ashley right next to Connor.
Jeremy: "You okay?!"
Connor: "You come here often?"
The Artist's Wave is active.
Dominic: "No time for jokes Connor!"
Ospinn's aura fades.
Ospinn: "(in head) And soon that one won't be able to come up with a one liner."
Spencer's fist is enveloped in a strange aura.
Spencer: "Iron Fist Wave!"
Spencer prepares to slam Ospinn in the gut.
Ospinn: "Zealionde had shown me everything about that."
Ospinn dodges before Spencer can land the hit before karate chopping his back and the aura fades away.
Spencer: "I should've guessed."
Spencer stumbles for a moment before getting his stance together.
Ospinn: "(in head) Another minute."
Connor begins zipping around the room again as Ashley activates Lure Wave.
Ashley: "Forgot about us?"
Ospinn: "Dispel Wave."
The effect of the Lure Wave vanishes before Connor can land an attack.
Connor: "Are you freaking kidding me?!"
Connor jumps back as Jeremy prepares a Focus Wave.
Jeremy: "Here we go!"
Jeremy fires the Wave, but barely misses.
Ospinn: "Sounds like you've been slipping with practice."
Jeremy: "(awkwardly) I've... been stuck on healing duty."
Dominic: "(awkwardly) I won't deny that."
Ospinn begins to chuckle.
Ospinn: "(chuckling) Now then, may I unveil Spencer's mask of facades?"
The fighting stops.
Spencer: "What lies?"
Ospinn turns towards Spencer.
Ospinn: "Why, you've already shown it."
Ospinn points the gun at Spencer.
Dawn: "I'm seriously try to figure out what the hell you're talking about."
Ospinn: "He shuts out the outside world and locks himself in a mental room."
Dominic: "Huh?"
Spencer: "Yeah?"
Spencer on the outside is unfazed, but inside is a different story.
Spencer: "(in head) What's he trying to do?"
Ospinn: "And by closing the door to reality, he had created a world born from a concept in his mind."
Ospinn is slowly pulling the trigger, but Spencer's legs have locked up.
Ashley: "Hey Spencer!"
Spencer: "(in head) I can't move!"
Connor's stamina is drained.
Connor: "(exhausted) I... can't..."
Ospinn: "It was fun, but your time's up."
Ospinn pulls the trigger, landing the bullet right between Spencer's eyes.
Jeremy: "I-I'll try-"
Spencer's eyes have lost their light and he begins to fall to the floor.
Ashley: "(gagging) What the actual fuck?!"
Ospinn tosses the gun to the side.
Dawn: "Did you just kill him?!"
Jeremy: "Isn't Horus going to be pissed?"
Ospinn: "No, it was his orders."
Moment of silence...
Connor: "Are you for real?"
Ospinn: "We changed plans when we discovered how difficult Creations are to change."
The room begins to break apart.
Dominic: "So you dispose of the Catalysts and keep us around?"
They've entered the realm of the Hellfire Wave.
Ospinn: "That's what we were planning."
Ospinn kicks Spencer's body to the side.
Connor: "Guess you wouldn't expect much less from the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler."
They've completely abandoned the room and now stand completely in the world of Ospinn's torture.
Ospinn: "But now comes the fun part."
The heroes begin to feel hundreds of needles skewer them.
Jeremy: "(in pain) Not again!"
Ospinn forms a deranged smile on his face.
Ospinn: "(maniacally) To torture you until you accept your fate!"
The pain transitions to being shot in the chest.
Dominic: "(in pain) You really think we'll just accept that we're just a bunch of pawns?!"
Ospinn: "(maniacally) But of course. The Progressive Wave can't possibly pull you out of this one!"
The pain feels as though their lungs are full of water.
Jeremy: "(in head) You say that now, but it always finds a way!"
The heroes are forced to suffer.
However...
Spencer is standing in a clear, hazy realm in his normal attire.
Spencer: "Why did I stop? Why did I take that bullet?"
Spencer kicks the air.
Spencer: "I only hid my mind away so reality couldn't faze me."
Spencer looks towards the ground.
Spencer: "I guess... nothing can faze me now."
Spencer takes a single step.
???: "Who are you?"
A man wearing an apron, muscular, and a scar on his face stands behind Spencer.
Spencer: "You're Matt..."
Spencer turns towards Matt.
Matt: "That didn't answer my question."
Spencer: "It's Spencer."
Matt: "Thanks."
They look around the hazy realm.
Matt: "What kind of place is this?"
Spencer: "I've got no idea, but..."
Spencer looks at the floor.
Spencer: "... I'm dead so it doesn't matter."
Matt: "Wait, you're dead?"
Spencer: "(shrugging) Ospinn shoved a bullet in my brain."
Matt: "Ospinn?! He's supposed to be in a government prison!"
Spencer: "He's with a government, but in a completely different dimension."
Awkward moment of silence...
Matt: "How?"
Spencer: "The same way the Rebirth Crusaders got stuck with me?"
Matt: "So you're telling me that those kids have been in an alternate dimension this whole time?"
Awkward moment of silence...
Spencer: "Yeah?"
Matt: "I've heard of weirder stories."
Matt looks towards the sky.
Matt: "So I guess I believe you."
Matt looks back towards Spencer.
Matt: "How did Ospinn fire a bullet into your skull?"
Spencer's fist begins to shake.
Spencer: "He took something personal and used it against me. Then when I was l=thinking about it, he sent a bullet between my eyes."
Matt: "What did he expose?"
Spencer looks to the side.
Spencer: "He abused the fact that I shut out the world around me when I was focused on our fight. I then returned to my head and was pondering the question."
Matt smacks Spencer in the face.
Spencer: "Hey!"
Matt: "You let him just hit you where you're weak?!"
Spencer: "Yeah..."
Matt: "Then why not try to make a weakness a strength?"
Spencer: "How, exactly?"
Matt puts his hand on Spencer's shoulder.
Matt: "Think of your obliviousness as a way to keep the enemy's words at bay."
Matt begins to fade.
Matt: "It may sound strange, but be clueless when the enemy tries to attack you with words."
Matt has faded away.
Spencer: "Ignore only what I need to?"
Spencer begins to fade.
Spencer: "Eh, worth a shot."
Spencer has faded away.
Meanwhile...
The heroes are still being tortured, now with the feeling of being crushed by a building.
Connor: "(in pain) When will it end?!"
Ospinn: "When you accept your position."
Ospinn laughs over the struggling heroes.
???: "(weakly) I've heard enough."
Ashley: "(weakly) Wh-What?"
Spencer gets back on his feet, looking at Ospinn with a deathly gaze.
Ospinn: "Wh-What?! There should be a bullet in your brain!"
The realm shatters as Spencer activates the Hellfire Wave himself.
Spencer: "(darkly) Yeah, you think that matters?"
Ospinn takes a step back.
Ospinn: "It's a bullet!"
Spencer's Echo appears behind him as hazy, golden air fills the area, allowing the others to get back on their feet.
Jeremy: "What the?"
Spencer: "(darkly) I won't run from the reality around me."
A gold light flashes in his Echo's eyes.
Dawn: "Whoa..."
Spencer: "(darkly) I'll put you in your place!"
Spencer has a blinding, gold light surround him.
Spencer: "Nameless Wave!"
The light envelopes the room.
Dominic: "(blinded) What kind of Wave is this?!"
A few seconds later, the light fades away.
Jeremy: "What was that?"
The heroes feel relatively unfazed, but..."
Ospinn: "I-I can't summon Hitler!"
Spencer: "That's the effect of my Nameless Wave, my unique Wave."
Ospinn's vision begins to go blurry.
Ospinn: "Wha?"
Spencer: "It allows me to temporarily erase a multitude of names from history."
Jeremy: "So you erased both Hitler and Ospinn from history!"
Spencer: "Thus, your Stream Echo powers have been sealed and with your name erased, your strength is fading fast."
Ospinn falls onto his knee.
Ospinn: "(weakly) Why are you alive?"
Spencer slowly walks up to Ospinn.
Spencer: "Because I accepted my obliviousness and made it my strength."
Spencer stops in front of Ospinn before kneeing him in the jaw.
Dawn: "Looks like your jokes have come to fruition."
Spencer slugs Ospinn with the Iron Fist Wave, draining more of Ospinn's vitality and into a wall.
Spencer: "And I'm enjoying every second of it."
Spencer walks towards Ospinn again, with Ospinn unable to move for a bit longer.
Dominic: "Let's finish this!"
The others begin moving towards Ospinn, but Spencer stops them.
Spencer: "When I give the okay."
Connor: "But that means your going to have all of the fun."
Spencer's Echo splits into thousands of pieces.
Spencer: "But you get to experience the grand finale."
Spencer glares towards Ospinn as his senses screw themselves back together.
Dawn: "I'm just going to watch."
Jeremy: "Such a shame that we still have no popcorn."
The pieces fly into Ospinn, causing a little blood to spill from each wound.
Ospinn: "(weakly) The Thousand Arrow Wave."
A massive blast of blue energy from Spencer barely flies above Ospinn.
Spencer: "There's the Guillotine Wave."
Ospinn shakily points his gun at Spencer before shooting.
Spencer: "Mafia Wave."
The bullet bounces off of him.
Ospinn: "(weakly) Are you... mocking me with the powers of my former allies?"
Ospinn is sent suddenly crashing to the ground.
Spencer: "Now you get it? There's the Gravity Wave."
A purple light flashes in Ospinn's eyes before he repeatedly slugs himself in the face.
Spencer: "Stalin, Napoleon, Ivan, Capone, Tweed, and Khan."
Spencer looks towards the others.
Spencer: "I just wanted to have him remember the people he forsake."
The purple light fades.
Ospinn: "(weakly) You..."
The hazy aura glows brighter than ever.
Connor: "Finally!"
The heroes assume positions.
Heroes: "Perfect Synergy..."
Connor speeds over before hitting a hole in one as Dominic and Spencer give everyone a boost.
Heroes: "... Quintuple..."
Dawn copies Connor and lands a sucker punch in the gut.
Heroes: "... Reborn..."
Ashley rushes over before round house kicking Ospinn and Jeremy landing a Focus Wave in the gut.
Heroes: "... Ultra Finisher!"
Spencer perfectly replicates every other attack before Ospinn drops to the ground.
Ospinn: "(weakly) Damn you..."
The aura fades as Spencer returns to his original attire.
Spencer: "Never use something like that again."
A button falls out of Ospinn's pocket and is pushed by landing on Ospinn's hand.
Ospinn: "(weakly) I'll keep that in mind."
Ospinn fades away.
Ashley: "Aaaand he got away."
The door to the other side opens.
Spencer: "You think a government wanted person wouldn't be caught quickly?"
Spencer walks towards the door.
Connor: "Sounds about right. I mean, look at us."
The others follow...
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