Fused Shadows Nonsense

[gothamsknight]

Bet you thought you'd seen the last of today's plot posts from Eric, didn't you? NO SUCH LUCK!

So this is a plot that Midna-mun, Major-mun and I have been putting together. It makes some assumptions about characters played by other characters who we haven't asked for permission from yet, which is the main purpose of this post.

It goes like this:

1) Midna has been searching for the Fused Shadow pieces, artifacts of great power that belong to her people. Previously, Midna almost got one, but it fell into the Major's hands instead when Batman ruined everything by mistaking Midna for a museum thief.

2) A second shadow piece is held by Hellsing. No doubt they have numerous artifacts of great power under lock and key.

3) Midna finds out about this and tries to steal it. Again she gets there just too late. The Last Millenium launches an assault on Hellsing's HQ (Like they do.). Midna is captured by Hellsing, but is able to convince them she's the goodguy here, but not in time to stop Millenium from stealing it.

4) Batman catches up at this point, meeting Hellsing agents and Midna as all three parties board the train that Millenium is using to ship the Shadow Piece back to Amestris. There are exciting train antics involving climbing on train cars and punching vampires. Possibly both at the same time.

5) In the end, Batman ends up escaping with the Fused Shadow, which he uses as a bargaining chip to get Midna to work with him. The Major, fed up with getting his nose tweaked by do-gooders, decides to start being more active with is vampire army. I'm a little hazy exactly what he does at this point and am open to suggestions.

6) Whatever acts of villainy he commits, there isn't much action taken against him by the rest of Dagaria, because The Major has a zillion contacts in various armies around the Empire that all work for him. Furthermore, some of The Major's vampires are using pale imitation of the Twili's powers, reverse engineered from the Fused Shadow piece they've had all this time.

Every step of this is currently open to debate and change, especially since I have yet to approach anyone from the Hellsing Cast beyond The Major. Ultimately, I want this to end with Integra, Midna, and Batman teaming up to board The Major's airship and kick his ass.

Comments

[infinitejustice]

If there is anything either of my Amestrian characters can do, I will gladly toss them into this.

[gothamsknight]

What do you think of The Major pulling his strings in the Amestrian Army to get Roy as one of the guards of the Shadow Piece on the train? He can start out unwittingly helping The Major and thinking that Midna and Batman are badguys, then later on start to realize that maybe he's not on the right side after all, leading to dramatic revelations and possibly a one man crusade to clean up the corruption in Amestris' army.

[king_of_flames]

Two-person, since he't let Cornelia in on it -- not only are they engaged, but he knows more can be done with a general's influence. But sure! I need Roy to discover unsettling things about the company that Bradley keeps (and ideally about Bradley himself).

[gothamsknight]

Sure sounds good.

[trollsdragons]

_{Gonna reply to this one so you both get notifications...}

What do you both think of Xellos being involved, to aid the Major? Maybe just provide some of the summoned mooks granted to him via Ninetales, and possibly be seen by Roy? (I kinda like the idea of cranking up the tensions between Xellos and Roy-Lina, with them sort of stuck in a mutual blackmail stalemate.)

[king_of_flames]

I have no problems with this!

[pink_dragon_spooker]

I'd suggest that Xellos and Lina (who would likely be with Roy with intent to protect him) basically end up pulling each other off to the side - in part because, if the train fight turns into a three-way between the Black Knights, Batman, and Millenium, Kallen will almost assuredly be involved at some point.

Plus it allows the two to face off - possibly resulting in Lina doing a bit of Grandstanding. Possibly resulting in her revealing one of her Noble Phantasms.

[trollsdragons]

That'd definitely be interesting - and show Xellos in the process that Lina's gotten a fair bit stronger with this revival, compared to the old days with the equality. Make him rethink the way he does things juuuust a bit.

[integra_hellsing]

Sweet! That sounds pretty awesome, I'm down with that!

[createworlds]

Mind if the Black Knights try to take possession of the train as an entrance to Amestris?

[hair_dress_accent]

One more interesting - what if this operation goes wrong? I've been wanting to set up Kallen getting captured for a while.

[createworlds]

Sounds good. We have the choice of giving the Amestris part of that plot to someone other than Millennium (since we already have a very similar one scheduled with them), or combining it with Chizuko's rescue, if you want it to be related to them. We should get a chat up.