| abstract | - The Halloween party, narrated by Jimmy T, a shifter and ghost talker. He's on the UltraViolent List because of a little incident where he threatened to eat someone. Note that the main events are split between The Devil's Dance and Insanity Prerequisite: Part 4 - Reincarnation - you need to read both to understand some of the character's sequences. Other pieces are scattered among several other stories. Part of the action is a confrontation between Team Kimba and the Power Rangers, both of who have come as the Tenchi Muyo crew. I'm not profiling most of the cameos of the various students' fights and reactions. There are simply too many. The party starts off fine, with some nasty meddling by the Alphas, and then is crashed by the Chessmaster's forces. There are three different forces involved: the Chessmen, a group of cyborgs which are the Chessmaster's personal force; the Sabertooths, a group of Syndicate elite forces that are Dragonslayer wannabees; and the Tiger Guard. The first wave is headed by Deathlist, who is one of Lady Astarte's old enemies, and commanded by the Chessmaster, who is a major probability forecaster and who has a fixation on outdoing Mrs. P. The attackers use a sonic weapon, (courtesy of Nimbus), to immobilize most of the students and teachers, and a second one to immobilize Fubar. The Alphas turn out to be one of the major sets of traitors. A few students turn out to be immune (or at least able to function somewhat) to the sonic weapon, including Chaka, Tennyo, Chou, Sara, Vox, Screech and Axel. Screech and Axel destroy the first sonic weapon, and Tennyo finishes the job just as the second wave of attackers arrives. Jimmy T. gets the sonic weapon on Hawthorne that was immobilizing Fubar and then deals with a couple of mercs that are trying to take Fubar down. Fub is almost out of it, but Jimmy T. manages to get him to send an emergency call through to ARC via Berlin. Meanwhile Tennyo takes out one of the second wave of dropships, and most of the fliers start harassing the ships en masse. (NOTE- elsewhere it's said that Fubar was immobilized by something that released a thousand souls and overwhelmed him.) Lady Astarte and Deathlist have a major battle. Deathlist's prepared program (the Antagonist Response List) for handling enemies is messed up by Clover, who's a probability manipulator. Carson eventually manages to pound most of Deathlist into scrap metal, but his essential parts teleport out when the Chessmaster hits the “bug out” switch. Sara leads one of the invading teams, including the Goobers, off through the forest and toward an old, ruined mill (or something). Sara and Sarah have their climactic battle at the old mill. Rumors that it demonstrated the awesome power of a box of Ramen noodles to stop an Orichalcum blade are utterly unfounded. Ayla is at the Halloween party. Vox came as Black Canary. Once Screech and Tennyo took out Nimbus' gadget the rest of the kids started killing Syndicate mercenaries. She discovers that Poe has a huge hole in it, which Mrs. Horton and several kids are calmly fixing. Adriane and Kayleigh are having a wonderful time when the Chessmen crash the party. Adriane disintegrates two of them while escaping, and disintegrates two more at the entrance to the gym, where they're rounding up and holding students. Anvil sees what he does, which presumably shifts his perception of the situation. The ready response team from the ARClight military satellite responds to the emergency call as Terror (one of Deathlist's special troops) kills Caitlin "Backdraft", Erik "Hijacker" Mahren's fiancée. Erik goes berserk. The forces of evil are routed, but not before Chessmaster stares in horror at his probabilities going totally blank in early 2008. The school gets the students together in the miraculously surviving Crystal Hall. What's left of Nyarlathotep escapes, presumably under the real Nyarlathotep's influence. Note – this takes place earlier according to a different story.
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