Stirring Hearts

[Merchant]

Grimm once out of the throne room he teleport to the market to get some food. Then he feels somethings. Then any pedestrian nearby see's Grimm get shocked. Shocked enough that one could swear they say his skeleton. "Somebody broke a rule. This is what I get for not telling anybody the rules. Note to self. When everybody is here. Tell them the rules. As for who broke the rule." As Grimm keeps on walking without paying any form of attention. Passing somebody he would recognize. He gives up his train of thought and starts to sing a little. "There are 6 pillars in all. One for, water, another for wind, a third for darkness, a forth for earth, second to last is light, and it all ends with fire. Once gone doom follows. As two worlds collide" Grimm teleport's away again.

Meanwhile with King Neptune and Blaze. "Girl you must go along with his plan. I do regret to inform you that for now there is no way you can stop him." He gives you a card. " You are to use this card carefully. Please find my replacement. Grimm plans on shattering a dimensional pillar. You must stop him. Such an even can ignite a chaos seed, and not just one, but many. He may say he wont let even one seed go off, but I do not believe nor trust him enough to even think about. Card is the key to undue all of his work. But for it to work all the pillars have to be destroyed, and once one falls only time will tell. Find a powerful Aquos user that card is proof of their role. It cannot be used for battle. It will only fix the pillar. Also listen to Grimm's words carefully. He can be quite literal at times. In the mean time my guard will escort you to a room reserved for royalty. You are a guest with the best intentions at heart. Do to the rules I can't say anything yet. Only the one who declared himself the game master can. He said it's kind like D&D but with puppets.

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The rules will be explained don't worry, but I wasn't kidding. You can gain a lot of info if you treat what Grimm says as Literally as possible. The song fore shadows everything. It is as subtle a punch to the face.

[Atom]

Atom was continuing to follow the glow when it suddenly turned. He looked in the direction and saw Grimm. He quickly hid in the crowd, evading Grimm’s detection. “It’s sometimes good to be able to hide among others.” Thought Atom. “Though, I suppose I should count myself lucky when I need to stand out.” That’s when he heard Grimm’s song. Looking back, he saw Grimm vanish.
“Close one.” Said Leonidas. “But I can’t help but feel dread with that song. It’s, unnerving.”
“Tell me about it.” Said Atom. “But, we know something now. There’s six pillars, one for each Attribute. And I don’t want to know what dimensions are going to collide if they’re all destroyed.”
“Agreed, which is why we should keep moving. We have to find Grimm.” Atom got moving again, only to feel a tap on his shoulder. He turned around.
“Excuse me, but did you say Grimm?” Asked the Atlantian.
“Yeah.” Said Atom. “Why?”
“If you’re looking for him, he’s at the palace. Biggest building. Can’t miss it.” Atom looked at the Atlantian.
“Thanks.” He said. “But why help me?”
“I don’t want my home destroyed, which is what’s going to happen if his plan comes to fruition. By helping you, I help myself.”
“Fair enough. Thanks for the tip!” Atom ran off.
“Good luck!”

[Merchant]

As Atom reaches the entrance to the palace. He is all the sudden standing in the throne room. To see the king, and Grimm. What is shocking about the sight is that Grimm is dancing around as though he is being electrocuted. "Thisssssssssss. Hurrrrrrts. Soooooooooo. Much! Atom. I see now. The reflection  is caused by you." The dimension card that was in Atom's pocket floats out and burns. "Punishment dealt out. Now your rule breaking wont reflect back on me. Sooooo Atom Leonida. How do you do? You got my message. Neptune I will take him from here. Oh there maybe a third person. I don't know when they will arrive but they have 15 hours to go." Atom and Grimm teleport to a room that looks really fancy. Serperios is also there but not in sphere mode. He is fully out and takes out a decent amount of space in the room. "Don't worry about him. The world could end and he would sleep through it. So you are one of the players. Terminology evolved with time when I say player. It will be more accurate to say. Unwilling participant." Grimm sits down in a chair and gestures you over. "Just because I'm all about chaos that doesn't mean I can't be orderly. In fact order and chaos go hand in hand. But eleminating both is or one of the other isn't here either. But still, why did you not use my dimensional card. That card was saying you are welcome to Atlantis, I don't have to sneak around." Grimm then offers Atom a crumpet. While drinking tea somehow. "Oh and do you remember Blaze. She is here too. Poor girl I gave her a reason to despise me. You know she came to me. Found the little shack I sent my message out from. My the stunned silence was something. Perfectly capable on her own, but her backup. Well they wont be going six feet under anytime soon now."

[Atom]

"So Blaze is part of this too?" Wondered Atom. "How did she get wrapped up into this?" He focused on Grimm. "Unwilling participant? Shows how much you know about me. As for the card, there's a good reason I didn't use it. I figured you would use them to track up when we used them. So, in an effort to reduce how much you knew of my whereabouts, I didn't use it. Of course, I didn't expect you to be out in the open in here. But, I will admit, I at least now know a way to reduce your hold on me throughout this. Hopefully it won't come to that." Atom looked at the crumpet. "No thanks. I don't typically eat before or after using a Dimensional Gate. The last time I did wasn't pretty."
"That's an understatement." Said Leonidas. "It was a gigantic mess. Somehow more came up than what you ate." Atom grabbed him.
"That's enough of that." He looked at Grimm again. "So, what are these Six Pillars? Sounds to me like you're trying to destroy the Attributes themselves, along with any stability there is in the world. Do you understand what would happen if you do that?" Atom showed Grimm his Bakumeter, especially the timer. "When this timer hits zero, it's done. Game over. The Chaos Seed within you will detonate. That means death for you. And then, Dark Atom will ensure death for everybody else within this Reality. You need to stop this game and come with me. We'll get that seed out of you and shot back between Realities."

[Merchant]

"First the Pillars are not just about the attribute. Their names are from the attribute of the bakugan use to make the pillar. Next is that I want to activate the seed and your timer is off by the way. That time traveler can only see so much." Grimm waves his hand over the thing and the total time reads two months. "You see in order to delay the seed as much as possible I created a chain reaction. Yes negative emotions stir about, but the desire for some for of order keeps the seed at bay. I created chaos just to make order. All in order to live to see my plans through. In the end so what if I die. Others care more about the seed than me. Oh by the way. The two codes I collected. I finally finish it." Grimm pulls out a card and symbol. "First the code extracted from Dark you is made into the activation card. You will see in the future. Next the Symbol. This stone is the result of the other gene. This allows me to switch my attribute when necessary. I'm glad I was pulled into your little pocket dimension. I wouldn't have gotten to this point if I wasn't. Don't feel too guilty. you didn't know. But now best you got to your room and prepare. The King will give us the challenge that will see if the pillar falls or not.The guard is waiting to take you to your room. Sleep well." As Atom now warped to the guard who catches him.

"Would you rather walk or let me carry you to your room?"

"Grimm. You are a fool. That boy will be more of a hindrance then that girl. The othersss are going to get hungry again ssssoon. Break that pillar so they can feassst." The four heads of Serperios his out.

"Don't worry. I will destroy all six pillars. Starting with this one."

[Merchant]

"I'm laaaaaaaaaaaaate! when I get there that fish is going to blast." One scene change later Grimm appears In front of Blaze, Atom, and the King. Who all waited for him too get to the throne room for his so called game. "oh hi. Ghaaaaaaaaaa!" As Grimm gets blasted by an unknown source of water. "ow" 

"These two have been informed, and I was heard of the fate of an Atlantian soldier. I will deal with that soon after. It is in your best interest you don't lose if you want to live boy. Now follow me" The king guides you all to a back chamber from the throne room. It is wide an spacious. In the middle is a pedestal with a blue sphere on the pedestal. It levitates over to the kings hand as he heads to the other side of the room. "We will now start the game prepare you bakugan. I do not know the rules you battle each other now these days, but this is of my own creation. The rules not the creatures trapped in little balls. Before we do that though." He gives Grimm a look.

"Oh right okay so before we start this I should explain the rules of pillar seeking. The Pillar seeker must gather people who hold power to the pillar he wish to visit or in my case destroy. Then the guardians of the pillar challenge them all to a little game. The results are based on the game, and the guardian running the game. Pillar seeker must make sure the others are following the pillar seekers setup or they get punish the by the pillars themselves. It is why I got zapped badly when you came here through your own means Atom. Once the game is over. The current or old pillar seeker can choose to end the game. Anybody who has committed crimes now no longer hold immunity to their punishments. This is the same for the ones gathered by the pillar seeker. There can be more than one pillar seeker at a time, but you must visit the pillars in order. Starting from aquos and going around till pyrus. Now that is done with please continue your majesty" With a huff the king pulls out a stone plate. The pedestal goes down and becomes another tile in the floor.

"Battle field Open" Grimm is quick with his response "Field Open!" The walls are now gone and so is a roof, and behind the king is something big. A giant pillar so big and tall you can see the ends of the pillar, top bottom, or either of the sides. A giant aquos symbol engraved into the thing is above the king. He throws the stone plate and it acts much like a gate card. "Swim forth. Rise and guide us Aquos Nerus" (google Nereus if you want to know what he looks like) "Now all your bakugan please." 

"Okay then. Bakugan Brawl. Bakugan stand. Rise and Destroy Darkus Serperios" 

[Atom]

"This might be annoying." Said Atom.
"We have to do it if we want to get to Grimm to remove the Chaos seed." Said Leonidas.
"I suppose so." Replied Atom. He looked at his Bakumeter to gauge what the current situation was. He sighed. "Ready?"
"You know it." Atom grabbed Leonidas.
"Let's hope Form Change worked the way it did in the past! Bakugan, Brawl! Bakugan, Stand! Rise Aquos Leonidas!" Atom had used Form Change before he transported to Atlantis to turn Leonidas Aquos, and it showed. "We may not have the same access to Light,"
"But our command over water will win the day!" Finished Leonidas. Atom looked at Blaze.
"Hopefully you're ready." He said. "Make sure to put that gene to use, okay?" Atom looked at Grimm. "We will remove that Chaos Seed before it detonates. Grimm may think his creation or Order slows it down, but it's his own actions that dictate its detonation time."

[Merchant]

"What you guys waiting for? It will be unfair if it is one against one. After all if it is one against one, all one has too do is play their take all card twice. Man I said one a lot. Yet that wont matter to me. As long as somebody still has more than half then I should be good"

"Now know this. All bakugan in this must contribute their power. Weak bakugan are wanted in this fight. For you see if there is more power in the total. The longer it takes to chip away at it. Neptune it has been so long since I have last seen action. This better be worth something."

"Wait, the piece of rock can talk?"

"Grimm focus please. We have a pillar to knock down. Your easily distracted mind can wait."

"But things are getting intresting. Hey Atom we should meet up too. If I tell you more will you work with me. I saw what you can do. Especially after I wrecked you evil. I still have yet to anything with his dna code, that I copied. Oh if I win I will tell you the location of the ventus pillar. Hey Blaze don't be too quiet it. Hey come on. Say something snarky. I'm on a all lives are for the greater good cause here. Yet maybe losing good men to a hoard of desperate chaos bakugan speaks volumes of my danger."

"Grimm focus again. Now humans play the game. Beat us and we will try to corporate as much as much as possible." Once Serperios is done his Grimm visably winces. When he removes his hand from his face there is a crack and something black on Grimm's hand. "You best be careful boy. I didn't give you your powers without a price remember."

"I guess I need to ease up on teleportation. Channeling this energy through you isn't easy."

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Game will start on my next post. It should be a couple days. Maybe. I don't know. Yet I need all players for this part. Or those who have time to go along with it.

[Blaze Hayes]

Blaze ignored what Grimm said for there was no need for words to him. She had been thinking of ways to stop Grimm from succeeding. She just needed to get her ideas across to Atom. She hoped this ability her sister talked of worked. She looked down to Prirad Drexore and actually spoke, "You ready for this Prirad?".

He nodded before he gave a response, "Always". With that Blaze activated form change making her red of her clothing blue as Prirad turned blue also. "Bakugan Brawl!" she called out as she threw Prirad, "Bakugan Stand! Rise Prirad Drexore!". Out came Prirad Drexore in blue and gold. Blaze sighed to herself and looked to Atom. Atom would hopefully hear this thought of Blaze's.

'Atom, don't freak out if you can hear this, they must NOT know I can do this. I have abilities outside the gene. Now, I was thinking, the aim of the game is the have the most of the power right? Well if we can end the game on equal points or with one of us on the most then we save the pillar right? And if one of us gets the most we could become the next seeker and end this game."

Blaze then took a breather. 'Understood? We have to be careful. We have to MAKE him use his TAKE ALL BEFORE US. That way he will be screwed and we can end this.' Blaze then looked to Grimm. "Oi Grimm! Bet your too chicken to use take all on us! I mean this is YOUR game after all.I mean you areeee the high and mighty grimm." Blaze hoped those words would work or at least Atom would say something too to try and get it to work.

[Atom]

Atom prepared his response. 'Blaze, believe me, this is the last thing that would make me freak out.' He responded in thought, thinking she made some sort of link between them. 'And I fully understand what you're saying. There is one way I can think of to make us all equal in the end, but it's slightly risky. We need to wipe all the Take Alls asap, and then use one take each. If everything goes well, we'll all end on an even power. But, something tells me there's a low probability of that being the case.' Atom looked at Grimm. 'Unfortunately, goading him will not work. He doesn't have much of an Ego, and even if he did he's not Narcissist. He won't fall for out taunts easy. However, he does have a small anger issue. We can use that against him, instead.'
Leonidas looked over the battle. "Let's hope this doesn't completely break down." He thought.
Atom took a deep breath. "Grimm, tell me, you're afraid aren't you? I mean, anybody in your predicament would be desperate, but I never thought you would go this far. Attempting to collide dimensions? Making the whole world dangerous? All of this just to try and stop that Chaos Seed?" Atom sighed. "It would be so much easier if you would just let me help."

[Merchant]

"Your right Atom I am terrified. Like what if I do succeed, but fail in one little thing and everything falls apart. There is so much at risk. Yet I made a promise. I made a deal. I chose to be the one who will bare the chaos seed. If I had it my way." Grimm stops to think for a sec. "If I were to have it my way over long time a ago. I would have activated it without a single thought. But when I got the seed. I had experienced something that would forever affect me. So now if you don't mind The game begins right." Cards float in front of all the players.

"I will now start moving the power around" Nerus collects all the energy of every bakugan on the field. Then It evenly splits itself  among the bakugan. Each of the playing bakugan get 600gs to work with. "Turn one is Atom. Turn two is Grimm. Turn three is Blaze. Begin round 1." The pillar's symbol glows as if signaling to begin.

"Hey I just realized, Blaze why is your bakugan blue now. Is he sad that he lost precious friends. Well all I can say is well. What can I say. Murder is such an interesting tool. If you want to scare people, there is no better way. It's all to cliche. If circumstances were different I bet we would have been great friends."

"Grimm! Focus you tiny thing of an Ego!" the hydra yells.

"Yes Sir!" Grimm is standing so straight you think he gets taller for a second. "Well Atom play your move."

[Atom]

'Blaze, here's hoping.' Thought Atom. He looked at the cards in front of him. 'This would've been so much easier with four people, but as there's only the three of us, it'll have to do.' He held up his first card. "Leo, we have to stop Grimm. Whatever it takes, he cannot continue his game!"
"Understood."
"That Chaos Seed will be removed, and ejected from the Reality." Said Atom. "I just have to hope this'll work." He remembered a small chat he had with Chronogian before the brawl.

"Atom, you will need to focus with this one. Playing your cards wisely will only take you so far. You must also be able to read Grimm, and understand what he's saying. If you must, use the ability you're best known for across Realities."
"Are you sure?" Asked Atom. "The last time I used that, it destroyed the entire Reality I was in."
"As I said, only if you must. Keep Grimm from causing chaos, and don't cause any yourself. No matter what he says, it's the chaos that's created that defines how long it will take for the seed to detonate. Any order created from chaos doesn't affect it in the slightest. Now, let's discuss the strategy you will need to use." A small diagram appeared in front of Atom. "Grimm will probably use his greatest asset first, so you will need to counter it quickly. And yes, I have looked into the future a bit. The game is deviously simple, yet extremely complex. Every possible action and reaction must be understood and watched. Do you understand?" Atom blinked at the intense complexity of it.
"Sounds like we need to start now and work quickly."

Atom took a deep breath, and lowered his card. "I will not play into your hands, Grimm. I skip."

[Merchant]

"Is that even allowed?" Nerus nods his head. "Oh no. No no no noooo." Grimm looks like he is fuming. "No matter. I know how to claim victory. It is as simple as one two and three. I play my take all Card."

"Grimm calm down. You may have prepared a strategy beforehand, but focus. Do not fall for their mind games."

"I understand." Grimm mumbles that last part."

*Flash Back*
"Grimm wouldn't it be easier to just rip open many holes and watch it fall?"

"No it wouldn't be. That will kill everyone and that is not the goal."

"So what is your plan?"

"They can only stop for so long. I only need one card to win."
*Flash Back End*

"I will win this Atom. I will admit there is a way to stop me. But remember. Whoever has 900gs or high destroys the pillar. The round will come back to you. You have to play a card some time"

"He is right boy. Eventually you must make a move. Yet that appears to be after Blaze. Now girl. What is your move, before I move any form of energy."

[Merchant]

This dead is super dead. So let me spoil the crap of my end goal with this rp. This rp would be where Grimm explains how an army of chaos bakugan declared Grimm their "king". More like leader but it took a lot of taking and Serperios had to help. Next is Gaia-Gigas. A primordial entity of chaos Grimm calls upon what ever mysterios power to aid him in his goal in destroying the 6 attribute pillars. Massive pillars that prevent a certain doom dimension from falling on top of another. Yes that does mean what I mean. The heroes of the story fought Grimm, an army of chaos bakugan, and Gaia-Gigas and would stop a falling dimension from killing about 75 percent of life on earth. Grimm does feel conflicted but to fulfill his agreement to the Chaos Bakugan. (The wish for a new home that is not the Doom freaking Dimension. This wish would still be achieved for when Grimm fails in the exploding caldera of Yellowstone the location to the last pillar Pyrus. The pillars are restored and the condition of the world is restored, and Grimm and the chaos bakugan get trapped in another dimension as consequence when they lose. Grimm desprate to give the chaos bakugan a home makes a new home for them and gained Yggdrasil ability cards. Powerful abilities. Grimm will eventually return to just cause General Mayhem and keep tabs on things and will always return to the chaos bakugan. But he will always cause trouble.

Wow that was the goal. To bad stirring hearts died. Welp. That stuff I said is cannon to Grimm. His little stunt gets a lot of eyes on him. He becomes a wanted criminal, and wanted by S.h.i.e.l.d. Blazes team for Blaze took part in this. Sorry Blaze. You need to add Grimm to your enemies. Atom is also one of the heroes who stopped Grimm. Blaze Atom we can talk about how Grimm was stopped at another date, but yeah this needed to be made. 

This a now a dead thread. (It doesn't help that I nearly forgot it existed.) Thank you for those who posted here.