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Chapter 37 - Chapter 37: Hex Defeated

(Lucky Girl ran down the secret tunnel, scaring off some rats as she ran for safety.)

(She ran until she couldn't anymore and had to stop to catch her breath.)

(Little did she know, Hex was on the other side of the wall and he heard her breathing.)

(He then actviated his spell.)

Hex: "Eterla Morbulus!"

(On the other side of the wall, the Luck Charm glowed once again as Lucky Girl rested against a brick, which pushed forward and fell out on Hex's side of the wall.)

(Suddenly, his section of the catacombs lost their stability and the heavy boulders came crashing down around him as Lucky Girl stumbled back into a skeleton and she screamed as she noticed Hex protected himself with a forcefield.)

(She ran away as Hex levitated quickly after her.)

Lucky Girl: "I'm doomed!"

(she screamed as a portal suddenly opened right in front of her.)

(Scarlett suddenly rushed out and her fists lit up in fire as she shouted out and thrust her hands forward, sending out a huge flamethrower that hit Hex dead on, sending him stumbling backwards.)

Scarlett: "Come with me if you want to live."

(Scarlett said to her as she nodded.)

(They then ran towards a dead end as Scarlett held her hand in front of her to stop her.)

(She then rubbed her hands together as she gave out a battle cry and slammed her fist directly into the wall, causing it to shatter and she then summoned a red forcefield and crashed against it, causing the wall to cave in as the two ran through the cemetery as Hex recovered and followed them as they ran for cover behind the trees.)

Scarlett: "Let me handle this, Gwen."

(Scarlett whispered to her.)

Scarlett: "I'm the only one of you guys strong enough to take on a sorcerer that powerful."

Lucky Girl: "But my Luck Charm-"

(Lucky Girl began and Scarlett shook her head.)

Scarlett: "Luck is a factor in every battle, little one. But luck runs out."

(Suddenly, the plants came up around them and they gasped as they were wrapped up by the plants and were lifted up into the air as Hex levitated the vines around them and broke the Luck Charm right off of her neck.)

Lucky Girl: "No!"

(Lucky Girl shouted as Hex took the charm from her and teleported away.)

(Scarlett groaned as she focused and her eyes glowed white and she fired them at the vines that held her and burned them off.)

(She then took her sword out and sliced the vines off Gwen and groaned.)

(Max and the Twins ran up to them as Scarlett helped Gwen up.)

Lucky Girl: "Thanks, Scarlett."

(Lucky Girl said.)

Diamondhead: "Where is he?"

(Diamondhead asked.)

(Scarlett then looked up and saw Hex levitating in the air.)

(He levitated the Archamada Book of Spells and the Charms of Bezel glowed around his neck and he smirked.)

Hex: "Time to turn this city into an old memory! Rava Eelartas Gallametroy!"

(Storms gathered in the sky directly over the city and lightning crashed down onto it.)

(The civilians screamed as they started to be lifted up into the air along with the cars and street signs.)

(Diamondhead and Four Arms jumped up and slammed directly into the deranged sorcerer, causing him to lose his focus and the storms dispersed, saving the city.)

(Scarlett leaped down to the scene as she brought out her Keyblade and spiked shield with a glare as Gwen and Max ran down.)

Four Arms: "Stay back!"

(Four Arms said.)

Four Arms: "Without that charm, you're helpless.'

(On top of one of the graves, Hex levitated his staff to his hand again as he glared at the three in front of him.)

Hex: "You dare to challenge me!?"

Diamondhead: "We dare alright."

(Diamondhead said as Scarlett glared.)

Scarlett: "The Archamada Book of Spells must never be used by sorcerers like you."

Hex: "Gargelia Vortium!"

(Hex shouted as a scarlet-colored smoke escaped from his staff and was absorbed by the gargoyles, whose eyes glowed red as they advanced on the three heroes as they glared.)

Four Arms: "Let's do this."

(Four Arms said as they all went into battle.)

(A smaller gargoyle grabbed onto Four Arms' face as he glared and tossed it to Diamondhead as she glared at him.)

(A larger gargoyle whipped its tail at him as he glared and grabbed his tail before he bit his shoulder as he shouted out.)

(Diamondhead tossed her crystals at the flying gargoyle as she missed him and formed her hands into blades and started swiping at it, missing every time.)

(Scarlett advanced on the larger gargoyle as she held her Keyblade in her hand and lit it on fire as she blocked every one of its attacks with her shield as she shouted out in effort as she slammed her shield against its face and slammed her Keyblade against him before charging up an energy kick and slammed it against him.)

(While the heroes were busy, Hex went back to work and activated the storm again.)

(Suddenly, he was hit in the leg with a rock as he groaned out in pain as he saw Gwen tossing another rock in her hand.)

Gwen: "Lucky only gets you so far, Grandpa."

(she echoed Scarlett's words before she tossed another one rock at Hex's face, knocking him unconscious as he fell off the grave.)

(Max picked up a discarded pole with a cinderblock on it as the flying gargoyle flew up to him.)

Max: "Going... going... gone!"

(he then hit the pole directly onto the gargoyle, smashing it and Diamondhead tossed a flurry at it, destroying it.)

(Four Arms then tossed the middle gargoyle into the grave, causing it to cave in on it.)

(He then picked up a large sword as the gargoyle noticed him and Scarlett walked up to it as she held her broadsword in hand as she glared.)

(Four Arms gave a 'bring it on' gesture as the middle gargoyle ran at him and he dodged his blow before he struck him with the sword as Scarlett slammed the ground and levitated a boulder up into the air and slammed it towards the final gargoyle smashing it forward before she tossed two fireballs at it, destroying it.)

(Gwen knelt and picked up Hex's necklace of charms curiously as Hex recovered and noticed it missing and that his nemesis was holding it.)

(He ran forward to stop her before he was grabbed by Four Arms who just smirked.)

Four Arms: "Time for the magician to disappear."

(he said as he tossed him into a grave and Max and Scarlett covered it with the lid as she smiled.)

(The young queen then picked up the Archamada Book of Spells with a smile as she held it under her shoulder.)

Scarlett: "This book is coming with me where it can't harm anyone ever again."

(The four then looked to Gwen who smiled at the charms.)

Gwen: "I could fly, shoot bolts of electricity, bring trees to life... I'd be unstoppable! Or, I guess I could just be me."

(She then placed the necklace on the gravestone and smashed it with a shovel, destroying the charms and sending a mystical blue mist into the skies as the others watched as the Omnitrixes timed out.)

(The cops uncovered Hex's grave and arrested him.)

(Scarlett smiled as she looked to the others with a smile.)

Scarlett: "I must be on my way. My kingdom needs me."

Jen: "Will we ever see you again, Scarlet Warrior?"

(Jen asked.)

Scarlett: "Guardian angels are always with you, Jen Tennyson."

(Scarlett smiled as she activated the portal again, book in hand, and left the family as they walked to the Rust Bucket.)

Max: "You three make a great team."

(Max commented.)

Gwen: "Made."

(Gwen reminded him.)

Gwen: "My power's history. These two are the heroes now."

Ben: "Hey, you did the right thing, destroying those charms."

(Ben said, reading a comic.)

Jen: "I would've done the same thing. You did good, cuz."

(Jen said as she looked through the window, still daydreaming about the Scarlet Warrior.)

Gwen: "So, Ben. Now that you and your sister are back to being the only heroes around here, could you just do me one favor?"

Ben: "What is it?"

(Ben asked.)

Gwen: "Just admit that I did a good job?"

(Gwen asked.)

Ben: "sigh Gwen, you did a good job."

(Ben said with a smile.)

Ben: "Happy?"

Gwen: "Definitely."

(Gwen said.)

Ben: "Good. Because I'm never saying it again!"

Gwen: "You don't have to."

(Gwen smirked as she held up a tape recorder and pressed play.)

Ben: "Gwen, you did a good job."

(Ben said over the tape.)

Ben: "No!"

(Ben shouted.)

Gwen: "I am never going to get tired of that."

(Gwen said as the Rust Bucket drove off.)

(Scarlett walked through the portal and sighed as she walked to her lab as her royal steward, Colette, walked up to her.)

Scarlett: "Colette, did anything happen while I was gone?"

Colette: "Not much. The Protectors are having a meeting tomorrow. They want you and your cousin Sofia there, my Queen."

Scarlett: "I'll be there."

Colette: "Other than that, everything's pretty much fine in Cinnibar."

(Scarlett sat down and sighed as she put rubbed her forehead as the option to recall the Scarlet Army popped up again and she rubbed her fingers on her forehead and pondered it.)

(She then looked to her right to see a picture of her and her grandmother, the Amazonian known as Hestia as she sighed.)

Hestia: "Never see the world for as it appears to be, little one."

(Hestia once told her.)

Hestia: "Dare to see the multiverse for what it could be."

(Scarlett smirked.)

Scarlett: "I was never one for following rules anyway."

(She then pressed the button and the image disappeared.)

(Then, a projection of tons of worlds throughout the universe popped up and pictures of several of Scarlett's old friends and soldiers appeared next to them.)

(There were too many to count.)

Lucy: "Establishing agent connections."

(Lucy said as she sent out a signal to all of the communicators and she smiled proudly.)

(The names scrolled across her screen as she smiled to herself.)

(Kratos, Bayonetta, Cole McGrath, Ryu Hayabusa, Avatar Korra, Dante, Virgil, Queen Elsa, Princess Anna, Caitlyn of Cinnibar, Sona, Ahri, Katarina, Mulan, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sora, Kairi, Riku, Aqua, Eddie Riggs.)

(They just didn't stop coming as Scarlett smiled.)

(It suddenly stopped on one name in particular.)

(Princess Sofia.)

Lucy: "Connection established."

(Lucy said as the call activated.)

Sofia: "Scarlett?"

(an 18-year-old Sofia asked as she smiled.)

Sofia: "Is that you, old friend?"

Scarlett: "Indeed."

(Scarlett said.)

Sofia: "It's been too long. 5 years."

Scarlett: "I know. Now onto why I'm calling you. I'm bringing the Scarlet Army back together. The multiverse needs the Scarlet Army. And the Alliance."

Sofia: "You don't even need to say it."

(Sofia said.)

Sofia: "The Protectors can do what they want to overturn the Violet Act."

[To Be Continued...]

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