% BGLanders wrote:


Blackness.  A complete and utter void, totally absent of any light.  A
darkness so thick that it almost seemed to have mass unto itself.

Kagato was starting to get used to this.

"All right, I know you can hear me so

% me, so

cut the dramatics and get on with it.
I have a training session to get back to."

With that, the obsidian surroundings dissolved to show what appeared to be
a
cosmic backdrop.  For the vaugest

% vaugest? There's got to be a better word to use than that.



"Cut the formalities and state your purpose for this intrusion.  I was in
the
middle of something, my round friend."

% I like his arrogance, it just feels like Kagato here.


Once again, Kagato found himself floating in the swirling void of
nothingness.  After making sure that no one was visibly around, he called
out
into the nothingness.

% Ah, and a second lease on life appears.


"Excuse me?  What right do you think you have�"

Kagato was cut off by a white hot flash of pain searing though his body.
He
dropped to his knees, spasaming in pure, unequaled pain.  After several
seconds, the pain vanished as mysteriously as it had appeared.

% Kagato: Oh, that right. Never mind then.


"Wonderful.  Now as you may or may not be aware, there has always been a
constant weighting, a balance between the basic forces of good and evil.
Not
so much in individual actions, though beings like you do help to
contribute
to the overall effect.  No, this balance is achieved by the existence of
beings created solely to represent each side.  Do you understand so far?"

% Conceptual Entities then

"You are, without a doubt, one of the finest examples of villainy in your
particular universe.  You are the living embodiment of all that has ever
been
feared, and now you are rehabilitated�sort of� and can fully see the need
for
balance.  Am I mistaken?

% Need a line break here.

Kagato nodded again, still remaining silent.


Kagato froze.  Thinking to himself, he weighed his options.  'I don't
particularly care what the outcome of this is, but if it means a chance to
see Anata again, then I really have no choice.'

% Ah, a little mystery here.


"A ship, and details on where I am to go and whom I am to be
encountering."

"A worthy request!  And one I shall happily grant.  Would you prefer your
Souja, or would you wish something more� inconspicuous?"

% I have to admit, I like the orb too. he has a certain flare which
appeals to me

Kagato thought about it for several moments.

"I would prefer the latter, considering I have no idea where I'm going and
who I will be encountering.  Besides, I'm tired of being shot down."

% Heh. Although how often has that happened? The Souja was a pretty
impressive ship.



Kagato froze.  "What do you mean, 'my assistant'?  I work alone, orb."

% Just pray it isn't Torgo from 'Manos, the Hands of Fate'

***

"I wonder where my new 'partner' is?" Kagato managed to put every ounce of
spite he could muster into that word.  Partner.  The very thought of
working
with another, especially a former monster like himself, filled him with a
sense of foreboding.  Desperately seeking something salvageable from all
of
this, Kagato tried to reevaluate his situation.

% He decided he was screwed.

Kagato was about to speak when he noticed the girl's eyes.  They were
familiar, so familiar that Kagato caught himself whispering out loud.

"�Anata�."

The blonde girl laughed, then struck a pose.  "Not quite, Kaggi old pal.
I
am the magical girl of love and ambition!  I am Pixy Misa, your new
partner.
Pleased to meet ya!"

% AH! Not a Magical Girl Pretty Sammy Xover.


Throughout the shiny purple ship he had found himself on, Kagato let out a
primal scream of denial.

% Allow mine to join to his. AHHHHHHH!!!

% Now that I think about it, it does have amusment potential. Though. You
already have sympathy for Kagato, no matter what villainy he has
perpetrated in his life, he does nt deserve to be straddled with am evil
magical girl as his sidekick.

Nice work

D.B. Sommer