bakerstreet | the final battle meme

It's been a long road. Your adventure, your journey is finally coming to an end. But, before that, you just have one more thing to wrap up. Before that, you need to defeat the Big Bad; the final boss. Only after they're defeated can you clearly say that you've won, and your journey can FINALLY be finished.

How to Play:
1) Post, you know this part of the drill.
2) The character that replies to you is the final boss!
3) Final Round! Ready? Fight!

And if you need it, I've got some scenarios for you.

1) Platforming Boss:- All your running and jumping skills have really paid off! You've even probably done some puzzle solving and have powered up quite a bit. But now, you have to be exhausted. One life left, no continues, but on the bright side, you have a full life bar. Unfortunately, here comes the final boss of the game! Maybe they take 8 hits, or 10 hits, but either way, get ready for the end!
2) Adventure Boss:- An epic adventure, but there's just one thing standing between you and your treasure or your goal. Maybe it's a rival of yours, or the evil enemy you've been trying to keep from getting there first.
3) Fighting Game Boss:- After fighting seven other people and even a midboss, you're now staring down the final fight. The guy at the top of the tournament. The boss in charge. Are they an SNK boss? An MK Walker? THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU
4) RPG Boss:- You know how at the end of a lot of RPGs you and the end boss just have a one on one epic LIMIT BREAK VS. LIMIT BREAK MOST POWERFUL MOVE VS. MOST POWERFUL MOVE battle? Yeah, that's what this is. No, you don't get EXP for winning this one.
5) Puzzle Boss:- Someone's been threatening your land and you're finally confronting them. How are you going to stop them? A good ol' game of Tetris. Or maybe something else. Whatever floats your boat.
6) Monster Battlin' Boss:- No, you weren't the one who fought their way here. Be it a team of Pokemon, or monsters you've been able to summon, you and this boss aren't going to fight directly. Instead, you're going to command your monsters to the final showdown between you and them. Can you two (or more) pull it off?
7) Misc. Boss:- The finals of a card game tournament? Maybe the final game of 1 on 1 basketball to save the rec center? The World Champion Boxer/Wrestler? A huge robot that you have to go through an obstacle course to fight in only a truck? Something else I may have forgotten? There's only one way to win, and it's to go at it head on. So get to it.

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[The lightning bolts from Tojiko's body strikes the Major with relative ease. He tries dodging, but there's only so much he can do with his body mass. Even so, despite the burns and the shock coursing through his body, the Major perseveres.]

Girl, you're helping me fulfill my dream. Why do you think I've come this far? As a trivial show of strength? To snuff out the hopes and dreams of many like yourself? No. It was to find an enemy worthy of fighting!

And here we are!

[The Major fires a few shots from his luger. But having such a piss-poor aim doesn't do him any favors. They're close to hitting Tojiko, but most of them would probably miss. The Major progresses forward closer no matter the damage he's being dealt with.]

*For an experienced grazer, the shots are no problem. She can feel the friction as they whizz past even in her undead state, but she barely pays it any mind. She has few spell cards; she feels no need for them anyway. Useless ornamentation. And who cares for aesthetics anymore*

An enemy? An ENEMY?! You who destroyed the ambition of 1500 years! You have the audacity to tell me you did this all for the sake of your pathetic earthly bloodlust?! FINE! Then I hope you are satisfied! I am your foe! And by the time I am done, not even your soul will be separated from the ashes! HYEEEEAAAARRGH!

*She summons all her energy, and the bolts only get larger and angrier, bursting around the Major with astounding destructive force. She summons a bolt of pure lightning in her hand, dashing forth to strike him down herself.*

How pitiful it must be! How positively dreadful for a goal with such longevity to come to an abrupt end! And what an honor it has been for me to end it!

[The Major howls with laughter as the destructive burst of energy pummel his body. But he doesn't relent. As Tojiko dashes at him, he raises his luger again and makes a shot from a close range, intended for Toriko's forehead. Although, his pathetic aim may not see to it that it hits.

Toriko strikes the Major with her own power, sending him flying into the air backwards. He lands back onto the ground. Hard. And Toriko would notice that the man's body, where all the deep, fatal wounds should be, reveal gears, wires, pipes, and metal hanging out. He laughs and laughs, reveling in the pain.

He has "died" already long ago. What stands before Toriko is a ghost of war, still lingering on in the world, looking to incite more violence.]

Superb... You are truly superb, Soga no Tojiko!

*Not that these physical weapons can do much to her at this point. Being a ghost has some advantages. She can still feel these things, though, and tends to dodge on instinct.

Still, she stares, flabbergasted.*

An... an automaton? It cannot be...?!

How rude of you, girl.

I am absolutely human.

[Still smiling, the Major raises his gun up at Toriko, but does not shoot. Not yet.]

Human...

*She holds her bolts.*

How can you claim to be as such? No blood runs through your veins anymore. You could not even be called youkai. How can you possibly tell me you are human?

Do you know what it is that gives humans their defining characteristic? It is their will. Yes, as long as my will exists, no matter what I am, a brain in a jar, a memory circuit inside a huge computer, a lingering soul held down to the world by a phylactery...

I would still be human. My heart is my own. My soul is my own. My will is my own. I am human. I am myself. I am me!

The will of the human...

*She closes her eyes.*

I see. How dreadfully ironic. You are human, and seek to extend your human life through immortality. Your desire was my Prince's. In that sense, in the desire to live long, to see through all of one's dreams and wishes, you are not so different from her.

You. You are right. You are human. Dreadfully, painfully human, fearing death the same as all of us. Fearing the end, we seek immortality in our own ways. Even I once sought it through the will of Buddha, for as much good as that did me.

*She opens her eyes.*

You, however, shall never attain it. You who are tainted with the blood of a Saint, who revels in the sin of battle. Immortality shall never come for you. Allow me to put an end to this wretched imitation of life!

*Her entire ghostly form becomes immeshed in electricity, readying for one final shot.*

"Fear" death? Please! Our pursuit has lasted for over fifty years in preparation for our deaths! For you see, Fraulein, I do indeed have a dream that I wish to see through. I wish to fight a glorious war and die at the hands of a worthy enemy. Dying for no reason? That is the one and only thing that we must not and cannot do!

There is something beyond our deaths. Something that would make our deaths infinitesimal. That is why our struggle has continued for all these decades without stop! To find a place where we can continue our war eternally! For the sake of the battlefield endlessly covered with blood, gore, and gunfire!

This is the immortality that I seek. You will grant me my immortality, Soga no Tojika! This is where everything shall end and begin anew!

[Regardless of Tojika's changing form, the Major continues firing, "fighting" his last battle.]

the final battle meme

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