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Chapter 78 - Chapter 78: The Keystone Of Bezel

(In Las Vegas, the gang had parked outside Caesar's Palace, where the magic convention was taking place.)

(They stepped inside the hotel, looking at the wonder and excitement that was going on as they passed by Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen restaurant in the hotel where a familiar figure in a red dress and sunglasses was sitting and dining with a friend.)

(She had a very tall slender sexy look with long black hair in a high ponytail with a red ribbon running through it and blue eyes behind a nice pair of black reading glasses.)

(She had quite plump breasts with a golden amulet around her neck and a black bodysuit with gold lining around it as she sighed at her as she cut into her roast duck.)

???: "Remind me again why I agreed to come with you?"

(she asked.)

Scarlett: "Because, I'm your queen and you do as I say. Plus you're my head sorceress and this concerns magic, Bayonetta."

(she said as she sighed.)

Bayonetta: "Yes, Queen Scarlett."

(she sighed.)

Bayonetta: "Now, what's the purpose of our mission?"

Scarlett: "Somewhere at the magic convention that's taking place here today lies a very important artifact known as the Keystone of Bezel, which holds the power to magnify its holder's abliities by tenfold. When I first came to this dimension a month ago, Gwen Tennyson destroyed the Charms of Bezel, which are directly connected to this Keystone. Now, there's going to be a solar eclipse that's happening over the United States today. If this stone is used for the Ritual of Bezel at the highest peak during the right moment of the eclipse, the charms can be recreated. There are some sorcerers in this dimension who know about this and will stop at nothing to achieve this goal. It's our job to make sure this doesn't happen."

(Scarlett stated, folding her arms.)

Scarlett: "And in the event that it does, we have to make sure that we get the charms back ourselves and bring them back to to the Mystic Isles so that they can never fall into the wrong hands again."

Bayonetta: "As long as the mission isn't boring."

(Bayonetta sighed as Scarlett picked up the check and laid down her credit card before she looked over her shoulder to see the Tennysons and Allison walking towards them.)

Scarlett: "Oh come on! Why is it that whenever I come here I always run into these guys? And it looks like they have a new friend traveling with them too."

Bayonetta: "Should you introduce me?"

Scarlett: "Not until we're absolutely sure that they need us."

(Scarlett said as the waiter brought her card back and they followed them towards the magic convention.)

(At said convention, they looked towards the stands and saw magic acts with cheap card tricks, connecting rings, and LARPers playing Dungeons and Dragons at a table.)

(Needless to say, nothing impressive.)

(Gwen groaned in disappointment as she looked at the banner overhead.)

Gwen: "Magician of the Year Expo? It's just a bunch of cheap junk and gross-out tricks! I thought it was going to be magic magic. Not cheesy magic."

(Ben then scoffed as he looked at the bin as his sister walked over to him with a sigh.)

Jen: "You what I don't get about you, Ben? You know for a fact that magic exists. You've seen it for real, you've been in the presence of powerful sorceresses like Scarlett and Hex and yet you just scoffed at Gwen's disappointment."

(Jen said with a smirk on her face.)

Ben: "True."

(Ben said as he sighed.)

Ben: "But it's still hard to believe."

(He then looked through the cheap gags with a sigh.)

Ben: "Hey, look, fake bugs in ice cubes, fake barf, fake dog puke!"

Max: "Yeah, we get it, Ben."

(Max said.)

Max: "Still, as long as we're here, we might as well look around."

(Gwen nodded in disappointment as the camera positioned back to Scarlett and Bayonetta walk in and sighed when she shook her head.)

Bayonetta: "This is where this Keystone is? At a poser convention? Are you serious?"

(Bayonetta asked as Scarlett sighed.)

Scarlett: "I don't get it. My magic sense has never been wrong before."

(Scarlett said.)

Scarlett: "It has to be here, but it doesn't look convincing from first glance. We'll find it here."

Bayonetta: "You'd better be right about this."

(she said as she clutched at her belt with a sigh.)

Bayonetta: "It's a pity that I'm not allowed to use guns in hotels."

Scarlett: "If something bad goes on like I think it will, I think the guards will be willing to make an exception. Besides, it's not like anyone's going to find out, right? According to all known governments outside my dimension, we don't exist. We're ghosts."

Bayonetta: "You're right."

(Bayonetta said.)

(They walked over to the Magic Jewels section where they examined the selection of jewels with the shopkeeper reading a book as Gwen walked up.)

Gwen: "I don't suppose you have any real magical artifacts?"

the shopkeeper: "What you see is what you get, honey."

(the shopkeeper said.)

(Gwen gazed over the selection to see a blue and gold bracer with a familiar looking red and black keystone in it that shimmered before her eyes.)

(She then slipped it on with a smile as she looked to the shopkeeper.)

Gwen: "I'll take it."

Max: "Gwen, you find something you like?"

(Max asked as he and the others walked over.)

Gwen: "Yeah, it kind of reminds me of..."

(Gwen said before they heard a screaming outside as a helicopter was smoking with an escape artist in a straight jacket dangled from a rope.)

Pilot: "Help!"

(he shouted as the others ran out as they examined the case as they walked outwards with Scarlett and Bayonetta not far behind.)

Max: "Something tells me that's not part of the act."

(Max said as they looked towards the twins.)

Ben: "I know, I know."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "Hero time."

Jen: "Let's do it."

(Jen said as they ran off.)

Bayonetta: "Should we help them?"

(Bayonetta asked.)

Scarlett: "Not yet!"

(Scarlett said as they too ran off in the other direction.)

(The helicopter careened out of control and severed some powerlines as it crossed them as the escape artist dodged them in fear as Stinkfly and Firefly grabbed onto either side of the helicopter, trying to stabilize it.)

Stinkfly: "Everything's under control!"

(Stinkfly shouted as the tail fin of the helicopter broke off and was sent spinning down towards the crowd as Firefly gasped.)

Firefly: "Never say things like that under these conditions, brother!"

(she shouted.)

(Scarlett and Bayonetta looked as the tail blade spun towards them as Bayonetta reached for her guns.)

Bayonetta: "Now?"

(she asked.)

(Scarlett glared as she nodded.)

Scarlett: "Now."

(Bayonetta nodded as she fired her guns and that hit the fin dead on, slowing it, but not nearly enough.)

(The blade was spinning right in Max's path as Gwen and Allison gasped and Gwen sprung into action.)

Gwen: "Grandpa, look out!"

(she shouted as she went flipping off the cards as Allison gasped in awe at this.)

(Suddenly, the bracer around her wrist suddenly glowed and she tackled Max out of the way.)

Max: "Gwen, how did you do that?"

(Max asked as she looked at her wrist and smirked.)

Gwen: "Just lucky, I guess."

(she said before running off.)

(In the sky, Stinkfly and Firefly were hanging from the helicopter as they tried in vain to stabilize it.)

Firefly: "Do something!"

(Firefly asked him as Stinkfly nodded and spat out his go from his mouth on one side and attached to the helicopter before he fired more from his eyestalks that slimed the building on the other side, creating a web that caused the helicopter to be stuck to the buildings.)

Stinkfly: "Hold on just a few seconds longer!"

(Stinkfly shouted as the fire burned through the rope, breaking it.)

(The escape artist screamed as he plummeted to the ground with Firefly diving after him, trying to close the gap.)

Firefly: "Not good!"

(she said.)

(That was when Gwen, dressed in her Lucky Girl suit, ran up onto a car and backflipped onto a bus and then shouted out as she jumped off and caught the falling escape artist before bouncing off an awning and landing safely on the ground as the twins flew down as Allison ran up to them, shocked at what she just saw her friend do.)

Firefly: "Lucky Girl?"

(Firefly asked.)

(That was when the crowd cheered out as the Omnitrixes timed out and the Omni Twins stood next to them as the crowd cheered at their heroics before Lucky Girl turned to them.)

Lucky Girl: "Don't you two even start with me about cramping your superhero style."

Ben: "Hey, we're just finally happy to get some backup."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "We need all the help we can get in this business."

Jen: "But how'd you get your Lucky Girl powers back?"

(Jen asked as their cousin smirked.)

(That was when Scarlett and Bayonetta looked from beyond and nodded.)

Scarlett: "We'll be seeing you again soon, Lucky Girl."

(Scarlett said with a bow as they took their leave.)

(Gwen looked at her bracer and looked up the gem in the middle with a glare as the group gathered around her.)

Gwen: "It looks like it's one of the Charms of Bezel."

(Gwen said.)

Ben: "That's impossible."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "You destroyed all of those charms in that cemetery in New Orleans fighting that Hex creep. That was when Scarlett took the spellbook and left."

Gwen: "I thought I did."

(Gwen said, remembering the event.)

Gwen: "But this is the legendary lost Keystone. It's rumored to increase ten times the powers in scale of the one who possesses it."

Max: "Well the legend seems to be fact, not fiction."

(Max said.)

Allison: "I can't believe it."

(Allison said in awe.)

Allison: "Magic's real."

Jen: "You are so lucky."

(Jen said.)

Gwen: "It's not luck."

(Gwen smirked.)

Gwen: "It's magic."

[To Be Continued...]

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