Calabro Conversion

Episode VI: Save the World!

“We have to find Andrew and Joe.” said Mike, who motioned everyone to follow him toward the large door where the champions entered. Inside there was a large express elevator that took them to the top of the arena. They walked on further to find the catwalk where Li Eclud had appeared from earlier. They walked onward to the exit he ran from, when a shadowy warrior crawled from the wall, leapt and knocked Mike down to the arena floor. The shadow began to fight with him and Gilday revved his chainsaw and said, “Go on ahead! I can handle this sack of shit!”

Then Calabro ran onwards to the next door ahead. They opened the doorway and walked to a dark passageway. Two more shadowy warriors leapt out and ready to fight. At that moment, Joe Zukoski flipped out, wearing clothing identical to Joe the Powerful. Instead of the heavy cape and turban of Joe the Powerful, he had a heavy clothe collar made of the same material. He was only wearing a purplish gi with a red cloth sash. At that moment Andrew flipped out next to him, garbed in the chain mail and armor of a Holy Paladin, he drew his sword from his left side. “You’re mine!” Shouted Joe angrily. Andrew pointed his blade to the other shadow, acknowledging his opponent. They motioned the crew to move onward as they battled these shadows.

The crew moved on to the left as the sounds of sword smacking and heavy punches were echoing through the hallway. The found a flight of stairs they climbed up. After finishing their ascent, two more shadow warriors flipped out in front of them, Ross stepped forward and pulled his twin SMG’s for a fight. Before he fought them a loud shout was heard as a figure ran down the hallways with a M16 rifle. The figure was none other than Erik Bette yet another scholar of the English class. “Yo, Bette, you want to help me out here?” Asked Ross, “You bet, Ross, got an old score to settle wit ‘dese asses.” answered Erik. Both warriors began to battle the shadows as the crew ran to the right, opposite Erik’s entrance.

At the end of the hallway, there was a massive door leading to the bridge. Opening the door, there were two shadows that charged Nate and Bryan and pushed the out of the doorway and the door closed. Leaving only Mr. Farrall, Mr. Calabro, Caitlin, Sean and Tara. A loud shriek was heard and Li Eclud landed on the floor ahead of them. “Haha, you humans surprise me, managing to occupy my seven shadows while you try to kill me, how foolish of you all. Now, I want to defeat Calabro, hand to hand.” With this he stretched out his arms and a gusty wind began to pull at everyone except Calabro, and they flew to Li Eclud. As soon as they touched him, they were absorbed into his body, increasing his size dramatically. Legs appeared on the sides above tail and he stood up on them. “Feel the wrath of everything I have absorbed to me!” said the alien leader. He grabbed his left thigh and pulled a piece of his flesh off which changed to a sword.

Calabro unsheathed his blade and prepared to battle him. He ran toward the leader and clashed swords with him, then pulled his sword and tried to hit him from above, he blacked that. The two were locked in incredible combat, one as equal as the other. None of them were stronger than the other. That is until Calabro made a nice 3-string punch, kick, and roundhouse attack combo, which slightly overwhelmed Li Eclud, and Calabro kicked him in his stomach, which sent him down to the ground. Li Eclud, flipped back up, and ran to Calabro and nailed him with his shoulder to the far area of the bridge. Calabro got up, slowly and a bit of pain as he began to bleed from his injury. From this, Calabro ran with all his fury and tried to slash at Li Eclud, he quickly slashed at his face, which cut a long scar into his cheek. In another great screech he grabbed Calabro with all his strength and tossed him like a rag doll to the other side of the bridge. “Calabro, you weakling, you can never defeat me!” said Li Eclud.

Calabro got up, slowly. He was beaten up and very angry from these taunts. With everything that remained in the teacher’s body, he rammed at full speed and rammed into his stomach, full force. Li Eclud gasped as he grasped his stomach and felt sick to his stomach. He tail whipped Calabro away. From that he then coughed up Mr. Farrall, Caitlin, Sean and Tara, who were weakened from muscle strain of the transformation. Just as Li Eclud was ready to finish off the rest of the Calabro crew, there was a hard bash to the bridge door. It was being repeatedly beaten up by something.

Then the door gave away and came in, Joe Zukoski. His gi was ripped around his leg and his chest. He collar was burnt up a bit. He was bleeding a little from the lip and forehead. His deadly and angry eyes were focused at Li Eclud. The alien leader turned to him and gave a nervous look. “I thought my shadows killed you, like they killed the rest.” said Li Eclud. From the weaken state, Caitlin couldn’t help but laugh, very hard. For everyone in the party knew that she hated Mike and since Mike died, she was happy that he wasn’t going to put up with him anymore. Li Eclud said “Haha, I must finish Calabro first before you have a chance to save him, so you have no hope to saving him and beating me.” Li turned and fired a hand-sized beam at Calabro while he was down. Joe, saw this and dashed toward his fallen teacher and got in front of it as he put his right in the way. The beam ate away at his skin, as Joe cried in pain as he realized his arm was broken, but he saved Calabro! “CURSES, you foolish boy, I will have to KILL you now, so you wont interfere anymore.” shouted Li Eclud as he cupped his hands together and brought them behind him as he gathered energy to his hands. “Haha, Joe, how about a taste of your own medicine.” He said.

Joe, sensing what will happen began to cry as he fell to his knees. “I can’t do it anymore, I give up. I have one arm left and that won’t stop him.” He said to himself aloud

Behind him, Calabro got up and whispered to him, “Why give up so soon, Zuk? You have done so much by yourself; you astounded everyone with your powers. You can do it, just focus, just like your readarounds.” Joe snapped for a minute and realized, perhaps he was right.

“Alright, I got it coming to you. This is for all of you who fought so hard and didn’t make it. He recited, “KA...” Then brought his only hand back behind him, the lightening around him was attracted to the cupped hand and created a round ball of energy. “...ME...” Joe continued to chant as the ball began to grow larger. As of now, Li Eclud fired his large beam at Joe, which ran through the bridge and right to the warrior. “HA.... ME...” Joe continued as he pulled his arm in front of him, fully charged ball in his hand. He waited a second, then he voiced echoed with, “...HA.” and he fired the beam in the same direction as the beam. Both beam collided and tried to push or pull each other to better the other beam.

After a minute or so, Joe’s beam was weakening, as Li Eclud’s was eating away at it. Joe felt failure coming in, “ I knew it, I didn’t have enough. I can’t do it.” He thought to himself. He let the other beam overtake most of his...until he remembered all who died today, giving him the opportunity to win, Ross, Mike, Erik, Nate, and Bryan. As he thought of all these fellow warriors who fell, He felt something on his shoulder, then another, and another. Soon he felt a hand from every fallen friend. The spirits of his friends were giving the rest of their energy to Joe, as well as confidence. Joe felt more powerful than ever, even when fused as Joe-squared. He felt his energy reach an entire new level and he jerked a little as his beam doubled in size and ate at Li Eclud’s beam. It disintegrated the beam, and began to eat away at Li Eclud. “Impossible...You’re just a kid…nothing compared to a mighty ruler as myself.” He said as he fell apart to nothing. The beam busted through the bridge and out of the ship entirely. Force fields blasted on to prevent the vacuum of space in. Joe, feeling exhausted fell down and was out for the count. Out of shadows, watching them leapt a figure in the same spot Li Eclud fell. The figure revealed himself as the Calabro clone, the exact duplicate of our main hero, he said, “Greetings, you have fought well all of you, but now you must die!” He drew his sword and walked to Calabro.

A shout echoed from out of the bridge and Scott Hellriegal ran in. He was armed to the death, carrying Ross’ SMGs and wearing the shotgun from Mike, the M16 of Erik, the pistol of Nate, and the Mace of Bryan. He wore a bandana around his head as a headband, with the stars and stripes of the American flag. He gave the infamous smirk and said, “Come get some! This is Hollywood Hellriegal, blasting off!” As he fired the SMGs at the clone to distract him, the clone blocked all those shots with his sword, typical easily, but the force of the rounds emptied at him, pushed him back a bit. Scott ran to Calabro and gave him a Bastedo cookie.

Feeling energized Calabro got up, picked his sword up and ran to his evil counterpart. The real Calabro gave the first blow and the other block, and then Calabro made a quick circular motion and knocked the sword out of his hand (and his hand with it!) Calabro pointed his blade at the clone’s neck, and was ready to cut it off. The clone said, “Kill me, isn’t that what you do to us clone’s?” Calabro thought about this for a moment, pulled the blade away and said, “You know what, even if you are a bastard, I can’t just kill my good-looking self, its wrong.” He drew his sword and walked away from him. The clone got up and whispered to himself. “Well, Calabro, you are a very strong human, and for that I shall reward you for you humanity.” He raised his hand and a white cloud appeared around everyone. There was a flash and everything went black.

When everything became clear again, all of the fallen allies and weakened students awoke to Calabro and Farrall’s room. Joe looked at the time and saw that it was 10:11 am. Calabro walked in, with a devilish smile and shouted, “Readaround time!” Amidst the whines that filled the room, those students still remember what they encountered and smiled. Calabro sat at his table with his coffee and said, “Damn, I love teaching, you drink coffee and yell at kids.” With that, no one, other then the several special scholars, ever did remember what happened, as everything was reversed to before what had happened before the assault on PHS!