The Obscured Visage
~SnowFire

"Here! Here at this ancient ceremonial site, deep in the Qlippoth, I shall make my stand! Fate, karma, the Score, and even the True Runes have no power over this wretched life!" The Masked Bishop drew out a dagger and made the markings on the altar. "It is too late to stop these events now."

"My fellow replica," the mysterious masked God-General Sync intoned as sonorously as a pseudo-13 year old could, "the time to free ourselves from this dark future by killing everyone else is now. Soon, our terrible destinies shall be..."

The violins suddenly cut, and tinny, yet heroic music began to play in the background. A muscular warrior in a stylish butterfly mask stepped out from behind a pillar, striking a pose.

"I'm not sure I understood all that, but I know an evil plan when I hear one! Prepare to face my submarine!"

The Masked Bishop staggered backward in shock. "Guh-Grand Papillion?!! Im- impossible! An idiot like you couldn't possibly have found out our plan!"

"And you're quite right. I couldn't have done it without one other."

A polite cough echoed from above, drawing attention to the mighty Mystere standing valiantly atop one of the pillars, cape flapping in the breeze.

In the distance, the rising sounds of a battle theme intro could be heard.
  • Justice always prevails! Even if sometimes it must hide its face.
  • Akashic Torment and a True Rune introduce even these two do-gooders to angst and pain.
  • The Suikoden detectives close the case and reveal everyone's secret identity, humiliating them.
  • After an epic battle exhausts all, the four are kidnapped from the hospital and forcibly impressed into Tantalus's act.

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"Okay, so we're agreed." Joachim said, with a sigh.

"...yeah." Luc and Sync said in unison, before glaring at each other.

"...yeah, we're never, ever to mention that our brilliant disguises were pierced by that mysterious stranger, and we all mutually agree not to blackmail each other with this knowledge." Leo sighed.

"Agreed." The other three echoed.

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"Y'know. I've seen a lot of cases. But one where everyone had a worse disguise than mine? I mean, mine's okay, but... man, that's still pretty bad." Kidd chuckled, as he put away his photograph of the four unmasked heroes/villians.

Grand Papillon and Mystere: 13
Luc and Sync: 8
Suikodetectives: 17
Tantalus: 13