Crusaders of the Void

Crusaders of the Void
Created by:	Bladehero22
Showcased in:	Ragefest V: The Enragement Ring
Engine:	FE7
External Link(s)
Playthrough: Download: [1]

Crusaders of the Void is Bladehero22's entry to Ragefest V: The Enragement Ring and a sequel to Array of Randomness. It is a hack of Blazing Sword.

Synopsis

The submission begins with MarkyJoe talking about how Ragefest V is almost over, and pondering which submission he should play next. Suddenly, Bladehero22 appears before him and accuses him of "cheating and a display of unprofessional attitude" in his Ragefest 4 submission. As a punishment, Blade sends Marc to the Realm of the Uncreated Submissions.

The story then goes to 3 months after Marc's banishment. The worried fanbase decides to band together to rescue Marc, but give up when they find out where he is, as the Realm of the Uncreated Submissions is a dangerous place where nobody returns alive. Before they can despair, however, a champion comes before them in the form a young boy, The MageHero, Patricius, who vows to go into the Realm of the Uncreated Submissions to rescue MarkyJoe.

Patricius starts his journey in the Realm of the Uncreated Submissions alone, telling the player about his father's defeat in Ragefest 4 and how it drove him to toss Marc inside, and how he feels that such an action is wrong. Being raised to know right from wrong, Patricius decided to rescue MarkyJoe, as he says it's not only right, but par for the course in a child's rebellious phase.

As he ventures further into Darkblank City, he encounters the eccentric Yuev and Omek, who hint at his father's dark side. Getting a headache from a complicated explanation, Patricius asks the two to direct him to a place where he can eat pancakes. When the two lead him to a pancake inn, they find it has been taken over by Bladehero's Written with the occupation headed up by the murderous Iron Wolf, Gunz. This leaves Patricius scared and conflicted, as he knows his father's Written shouldn't try to kill him unless they've been ordered to. With encouragement from Omek, Patricius, remembering his mission, musters the will to fight.

With the help of a local group of freedom fighters, the Sunrise Brigade, Patricius defeats the occupation forces of Darkblank City, and interrogates Gunz on why the Written attacked him. Gunz tells Patricius that his father knows of Patricius's mission to save MarkyJoe, and is trying to stop him, even planning to execute MarkyJoe after holding him in the void for over 3 months. Patricius, shocked, but grateful for this information, requests that Gunz be tied up and held prisoner, however, the now enraged warrior refuses capture and attempts to decapitate Patricius, forcing Patricius to counterattack in self defense, killing Gunz in the process. After Gunz is killed, Patricius is shaken up, having never taken a human life before. Yuev attempts to console him with a pancake dish, which Patricius reluctantly accepts, despite his love for pancakes.

While at the pancake inn, Patricius learns that Yuev and Omek were in the custody of an extremist that wanted to kill them until Bladehero saved them, and allowed them to work for him. They stated that they enjoyed working for him. But then he changed after Ragefest 3 in the sense that his behavior became more destructive because of Marc, and at one point, threw Yuev and Omek into the void, where the two were arrested by the Sunrise Brigade, but after negotiations, were allowed to join their group. Though they waited for Bladehero to come back for them, he never did. Then, Ragefest 4 ended, and Archie the Archer was thrown into the void, and he relayed the news that Bladehero had become a sadistic lunatic, confusing Patricius even more.

Yuev asks Patricius if he's looking for MarkyJoe, to which Patricius says he is. When asked why, Patricius says rescuing him feels like the right thing to do, but becomes unsure as it also means he's contesting the wishes of his father, who now wants to kill him. Patricius considers giving up, but finds new resolve after a pep talk from Yuev, who agrees to be his most loyal sword. Omek, on the other hand, wants to find out what's wrong with Bladehero, and begins formulating a strategy to storm Bladehero's castle.

The next day, after Omek tells the group his invasion strategy, which involves breaking a large wall and rescuing prisoners from an arena of execution, Patricius leads the rebels into the castle, where the lights have been dimmed from the endless darkness, however, Patricius can see perfectly fine in the dark, possibly because, as Omek speculates, Patricius inherited this ability from his father. Before they can enter the castle, they encounter a pack of robbers who have stolen some of Bladehero's stuff. Patricius and his troops kill the looters and reclaim the stuff, and proceed to enter the castle, where the guards have been shorthanded because of the execution going on.

Meanwhile, MarkyJoe, Batta the Beast, a thief named Thug Life, a mage named Midori, and a feminine monk named Lesley have been put into the castle arena, pitted against Bladehero's Written minions, as well as Flipper and her two generic soldier friends, and Rideshot, who has become a god of death after MarkyJoe used him to singlehandedly solo Array of Randomness. Bladehero sentences them to death for the crimes of cheating and display of unprofessional attitude,(MarkyJoe) Violating principle,(Batta) defying orders,(Midori) breaking and entering,(Thug Life) urinating on his lawn,(Thug Life again) and without regard for whatever the last prisoner did, he should be killed anyway.(Lesley)

Patricius and his troops break through the wall, and Patricius recruits the heroic robber Bella and her bandit gang, who have broken into the castle as well to steal Bladehero's Fell Contract. With Bella's help, Patricius opens the door to the arena, which angers his father, sending him into a rage in which he insults the Written for being incompetent as well as MageKnight404 before turning to Patricius, and insulting him, calling him a disgrace to his bloodline, saying he doesn't deserve to be a part of the family. At this, Patricius becomes heartbroken that his own father would say such horrible things to him, until Omek tells Patricius that it's not the real Bladehero, otherwise he wouldn't have tried to kill him OR throw him and Yuev out.

Quickly pulling himself up, Patricius asks who the being is, only for a champion to appear and tell him that HE is the true Bladehero22, and reveals to Patricius who the false Bladehero is. The false Bladehero's name is Ragezero, and he is a manifestation of Bladehero's hatred for the Fire Emblem community for the way he was treated when he wanted to learn how to hack. Bladehero himself tried to hold back his hatred, but it just made the bullying worse. Bladehero finally reached his breaking point when Marc kicked him out of his project, Fire Mumblem: Chronicles of Lussaria, and declared the community to be his enemy, and wanted to bring them down, which awakened Ragezero from within his soul, and the two made a plan to destroy the Fire Emblem community. However, in the stages of planning, Bladehero got better at hacking ROMs, which he soon remembered was what he wanted all along, and so he realized destroying the community was pointless. When Ragezero told him it was time to execute the plan they made during Ragefest 4, Bladehero decides he wants nothing more to do with the plan, which angers Ragezero, and as a result, Bladehero was cast into the Realm of the Uncreated Submissions for sucking at hacking. At this, Ragezero reveals his plan: To first demoralize the community by taking away the greatest event of all time to them, the Ragefest contest. To do this, he needed to get Marc in the Realm of the Uncreated submissions and kill him, throwing the community into a state of panic and despair. Then in their darkest hour, he'd declare war on them with his almighty army of Chosen Ones in a mass genocide.

Ragezero then says the plan was working until Patricius interfered. Bladehero then remarks that he is more proud of his own son than he has ever been in his life, and that he intends to save Marc and take back his castle from Ragezero. Angered, Ragezero leaves his minion, a poorly articulate battle robot, the Metal Knight v1.01 to dispose of the intruding rebels.

With Bladehero's help, Patricius and his army defeat the Chosen Ones in the castle and MK-101 is killed in the ensuing battle. After reclaiming the castle, Bladehero congratulates Patricius for helping him reclaim the castle, and although Marc is ungrateful to Bladehero at first, he thanks Patricius for saving him. Bladehero then presents Marc with an important item, The Enragement Ring, which he must wear for his sanity. After putting it on, Blade tells Marc he had sex with Reisen to trigger him, which works, but the power of the ring allows Marc to handle the situation in a calm manner. Bladehero tells Marc he was joking, and that the ring controls his excessive raging, but passes the rage onto someone else, increasing their power for a bit. Bladehero tells Patricius to gather everyone willing to fight against Ragezero. Patricius does so, and with the realization that Ragezero is on his way to the gates to the community itself, Bladehero uses the castle's switch to take them out of the Realm of the Uncreated Submissions.

Upon returning to the real world, Patricius becomes glum from thinking he was getting in over his head in wanting an adventure after not joining the heroes in Heirs of Rage. However, it not understanding what it meant, he set off in search of his own adventure, and now feels unsure of what to do. Bladehero, noticing Patricius's sorrow, embraces his son and tells him that people of his bloodline are adventurous by nature, which is why they are storytellers, and that every adventure they begin is the stories they tell to inspire others to tell their own tales as well.

His fighting spirit invigorated once again, Patricius decides he won't end his story until Ragezero is defeated, and leads the charge against the villainous hatred incarnate.

The heroes arrive just in time to see Ragezero's ultimate weapon of mass destruction, the RAGE Colony. Ragezero challenges Patricius, and insults a number of people in the Fire Emblem community, such as Ghast Station, Mangs, and Avraxas for choking to death on a Happy Meal, mocking them all for being too "weak" to stop him. Patricius accepts the challenge, and swears to take Ragezero down. Ragezero, not willing to bow out, summons his own Heir, a clone of Patricius by the name of Rageoir, as well as an army of his Chosen Ones. Patricius rallies his army with a speech, and the final battle begins.

After a hard fought battle of fighting through a number of Ragezero's Chosen Ones, killing Rageoir, damaging the front gate of the colony, possibly destroying the colony, Ragezero is fatally wounded in the battle, and is defeated by Patricius's forces. Ragezero asks how he could have lost, and Bladehero tells him that he found a better way to handle how they were treated: To prove the detractors wrong. Bladehero then tells Ragezero that his plan was imperfect because Ragezero had deluded himself into thinking Patricius was his son, and with that rationale, Patricius wouldn't come looking for Marc, and because he did look for Marc, Patricius thwarted Ragezero's plan.

Bladehero also tells Ragezero he was defeated because he held onto his hatred for the community. Confused as to what Bladehero meant, he asks Patricius who he thinks he is, and Patricius responds with:

"We're not anyone of importance. We're people thrown away by hatred. People who are by no means perfect. But you know what... We still stood up for what was right. We still stood up for what we believed in. We rose up from literally nothing, and we took you down. To the world, we are nobodies, but to each other, we are warriors. We are the heroes who inspire all and came from none. We are... The Crusaders of the Void!"

Ragezero, now realizing what Patricius and Bladehero fought for, gives Patricius a final piece of advice, saying that as long as there is hatred in the community, there will be another one just like him who will do anything to stop the effect of hatred, no matter how destructive the methods are.

As Ragezero dies, Patricius promises that he will never forget what Ragezero told him, possibly to prevent a second Ragezero from rising up.

Marc interrupts the cutscene, which prompts Patricius to call him out on ruining a beautiful moment, to which Marc says he didn't really care. Marc then realizes he must return to Ragefest V as he's been away from the contest due to being trapped in the void for 3 months. He then recalls that Bladehero made something, to which Bladehero says that Marc already IS playing Blade's submission, and that it isn't over yet...

...Because Bladehero still has to congratulate him for beating it! Marc cheers at this revelation with joy. Meanwhile, Patricius tells Yuev and Omek that he enjoyed the adventure he had with them. The two express that they enjoyed it as well, and Yuev says she'll miss the adventure AND Patricius, until Bladehero steps in and tells Yuev, Omek, and Patricius that the three of them can live with him in a NEW headquarters, which will allow the three to be together everyday, much to Yuev's joy, and Omek's annoyance.

Patricius remarks that all has ended well until Bella angrily comes up to Patricius and demands the Fell Contract she was promised. Bladehero sets her straight, and tells her that her treasure map lead her in the wrong direction, which prompts her to leave to find the right place. Bladehero then tells Patricius he actually lied to her because he doesn't want to spoil her. Patricius asks why it's any of his business, and Bladehero responds by telling him that because of the many lives he has on the internet, as well as he and Ragezero being separate entities, the Aurora Machina conceived a child not only for him AND for Ragezero, but it conceived children for every single life of his as well,(Implying that the device can do this for other hackers as well.) and that Bella is a child of one such life, which means that she is Patricius's sister. Bladehero tells Patricius he has a number of siblings, but because of how long he was in the void, he doesn't know where they are. Patricius vows to find them and reunite his family once again, and he and Bladehero head off to Bladehero's new headquarters to begin Patricius's next adventure...

MarkyJoe appears again, complaining about his lack of presence in the submission, and decides to leave to go back to Ragefest V.

Before the playthrough ends, however, Bladehero asks the audience what they thought of the characters Yuev and Omek, looking forward to their feedback in the comments section of the video. The scene fades to black, and the submission ends.

Cast

Protagonists

• Patricius
• Yuev
• Omek
• Marc
• BladeHero
• Bella

Allies

• Archie
• Alex
• Troy
• Henry
• Judas
• Merchant
• Batta
• Thug Life
• Lesley
• Ryder
• Sandora
• Clint
• Snowfire
• Zero
• Patrick
• Ricia
• Hyde

Antagonists

• Ragezero
• Gunz
• Metal Knight v.101
• Flipper
• Rideshot
• Rageoir