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The Core

Alphys: I doshshshshcxhchschxhchsh interferenchxhschshscxsh breaking uschshhxhchshcxhs...

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The lights dim as a certain rectangular metal hunk chuckles from the background. "OH YES. THERE YOU ARE, DARLING. IT'S TIME TO HAVE OUR LITTLE SHOWDOWN. IT'S TIME TO FINALLY STOP THE "MALFUNCTIONING" ROBOT. ... NOT!!! MALFUNCTION? REPROGRAMMING? GET REAL.

"THIS WHOLE TIME, IT'S ALL BEEN AN ACT, JUST SO ALPHYS COULD SAVE YOU FROM DANGERS THAT DIDN'T EXIST. ALL SO YOU WOULD THINK SHE'S SOME GREAT HERO. AND NOW, IT'S TIME FOR HER FINEST HOUR. AT THIS VERY MOMENT, ALPHYS IS WAITING OUTSIDE THE ROOM. DURING OUR "BATTLE," SHE WILL TRY TO INTERRUPT. SHE WILL PRETEND TO "DEACTIVATE" ME, "SAVING" YOU ONE FINAL TIME. FINALLY. SHE'LL BE THE HEROINE OF YOUR ADVENTURE. YOU'LL REGARD HER SO HIGHLY SHE'LL EVEN BE ABLE TO CONVINCE YOU NOT TO LEAVE. ... OR NOT."

"YOU SEE, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS PREDICTABLE CHARADE. I HAVE NO DESIRE TO HARM HUMANS. FAR FROM IT, ACTUALLY. MY ONLY DESIRE IS TO ENTERTAIN. AFTER ALL, THE AUDIENCE DESERVES A GOOD SHOW, DON'T THEY? AND WHAT'S A GOOD SHOW...    WITHOUT A PLOT TWIST?   "

-The doors suddenly lock behind the pair.-

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

Float: <Eeee~>

Belinda's Room

-Crash nuzzles his mate as their eggie hatches~

Crash:=D

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Iggy:...meep.

._.

-Can't go back, Iggs...-

-All she can do is step forward-

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"MY, MY, MY, HERE WE ARE AGAIN. THE FINAL SHOWDOWN. THE END OF A CHARACTER ARC, THE KILLER ROBOT VERSUS THE TINY HUMAN! OOOOH, THE FANS ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS! NOW, DARLING, PREPARE FOR LIGHTS! CAMERA!    BLOODSHED!   "

-tik tik tik-

"YES I WAS THE ONE THAT REARRANGED ALL THE PUZZLES. I HIRED ALL THE MERCENARIES, BUT I REALIZED WHERE WAS THE FUN IN THAT? WHAT WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER IDEA WOULD BE KILLING YOU MYSELF!"

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin

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-Iggy braces herself-

Iggy:S...Sorry...I don't wanna die...not when I'm this close!

-She recalls a trick from earlier, clicks the Yellow button on her phone, and turns her Soul and clothes back around.-

-As an update, said clothes are still the Keep-Me-Cool shawl and shorts combo-

-She fires a very smol soul shot-

-Nobody has notified interpol of anything suspicious, and Tex has done almost nothing noteworthy for the past few weeks-

Captain Briggs:Barrister, you're being redeployed again. We've got plenty of help in Solaceon.

Tex:Lemme guess. Veilstone?

Captain Briggs: How did you...

Tex:Veilstone always has weird shit.

-Tex is in a generic place in Solaceon. Someone might run into him.-

If anything worthy of interpol intervention happens, can someone PM me? I just want to be involved....

edited 26th Jun '16 6:46:11 PM by MajorProblem

THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST THAT PROGRESSIVELY GETS MORE DIFFICULT AS IT CONTINUES

-Sholto reads Blitz's text, then calls to Shun-

Sholto: <Hey, can I show one of my friends police evidence if it'll help find the costumed people?>

edited 26th Jun '16 8:41:59 PM by CorvusAtrox

"life is just a series of increasingly canon-eluding ao3 tags" ~ everydunsparce "Keep your hellfruit away from me, tempter" ~ also Every

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Mettaton chuckles. "HA HA, THAT LITTLE PEASHOOTER CAN'T SCRATCH ME. DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND-" -pose, pause- "ACTING?"

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin

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Iggy:Y...Yeah...

-She pulls her soul back-

My Auntie used to do a lotta it.

-Wait, really?-

-Yeah, established long ago.-

-Huh-

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Mettaton stops for a moment. "LISTEN DARLING, LET ME LEVEL WITH YOU. YOU'RE WEAK. SORRY TO SAY, BUT IT'S TRUE. YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME, AND YOU CERTAINLY CAN'T DEFEAT    ASGORE   , BUT IF YOU STOP NOW, LET ME TAKE YOUR SOUL, I'LL BEAT HIM FOR YOU! THEN I'LL GO UP TO THE HUMAN WORLD, AND PROTECT IT, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, BE THE STAR I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE! MILLIONS OF HUMANS WATCHING ME! SO WHAT IF A FEW PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE?    THAT'S SHOW BUSINESS, BABY.   "

"If I am to be met with disrespect, then I must first love myself with a fierceness no fool can take away." - Vraska, Gorgon assassin

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-Iggy hold her Soul gently-

Iggy:Sorry...but I gotta get back to my Papa!

CU, Theater, Time Shenanigan Zone

Well, we're right near the end of the song at least, right? So either we need someone to cross the pit with levitation or do some leap of faith stuff here. Dezi, you're up again.

A much more mundane Theater, though this one is outdoors. Also in a Time Shenanigan Zone

-There's a bit of a crash and the screen goes a blank white static. There's a moment of silence before there's some not muffled but still unintelligible cursing coming from Pent in the projectionist's booth-

Friggin' piece of junk VHS player up here caught fire! Anyone got a spare CAT 3 cable I can run down and grab so I can just hook up my laptop?

-The screen's static persists... The clock ticks later and later and the air seems tense with the latent music of the night-

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

The Drive-In, DEEEEEP in the TS Zone

-Ren sighs at the shenanigans with the projector... But exasperation soon gives way to shock as Ren is suddenly grabbed by a blue arm that starts dragged him towards the movie screen.-

Ren: -panicked- AHHH! Guys! A little help here?

-Ren struggle futilely against the arm dragging him towards the screen by trying to dig his heels into the ground.-

edited 26th Jun '16 7:20:03 PM by keys2tkingdom

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Alphys: Pshhhhxhcschhs got a buttonshchshphshcsp on his backhashpcshcs... lowers his defencesshoshphphcsp...

CU, Theater

Dune: Woah!

Galvani: <GAH!>

-Dune and Galvani both jump back from the pit. Dune stares down it for a moment.-

edited 26th Jun '16 7:46:44 PM by DuneTheWanderer

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Iggy:A switch....on his back...?

-Beat-

-Ding!-

M-Mettaton, look! A mirror!

-She points behind him-

-And as soon as she does, she clicks over the large and quite obvious switch-

Drive-In - PASSSST

-Jacob and Verax grab on to Ren-

-The blue arm is unyielding-

CU - Theatre

-Jacob sighs and steps forward-

Verax: "Um? I don't trust that pi-"

-And Jacob steps into and falls down the pit-

Verax: .-.

CU - Alpha Quadrant

-Jacob nods-

"Right then. Let's get going."

edited 26th Jun '16 7:48:57 PM by Verax

"If there is no way to win, I will simply force a way."

Solaceon, past

-Kendall looks at Erin warily, then returns to a normal posture-

Human!Kendall: ...All... All right then.

-looks around-

Whatever is giving me a sense of what I'm looking for is gone... Can I stay with you two?

Now

-Depending on the answer to that question Kendall may be staring over Blitz's shoulder with concern-

Near Tagg, now

Gilgamesh: -doing the same with Tagg- Ah geez... You mind if we help too?

Enkidu:' ~If two of your friends are in need we'll gladly assist.~

Contact Me!

-To Gil and Enkidu-

You're free to do whatever.

-To Zoe, noticing her distress-

Don't worry, we'll get them back, I promise.

I get the feeling she might not be telling the whole story, but I figure I'll find out the rest eventually.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

CU, Theater, Farther Past

-Rather than plummeting into an endless abyss, Jacob descends slowly. And a few feet beneath Jacob's feet appears a wide stair case leading to a formerly hidden door. The stairs look like they're made out of tiles of clear glass with electric blue borders and as soon as Jacob's feet touch the stairs, banisters made of golden hard light form and the door opens.-

-Above Jacob and as soon as the door opens, the statue of Caesar comes to like as the Golurk-like demon it was modeled after and begins to sing a solo.-

Caesar
This is the moment
This is the day
When I send all of my doubts and demons
On their way!

Every endeavor
I have made - ever -
Is coming into play
Is here and now - today!

This is the moment
This is the time
When the momentum and the moment
Are in rhyme!

Give me this moment
This precious chance
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last!

This is the moment
When all I've done
All of the dreaming
Scheming and screaming
Become one

This is the day
See it sparkle and shine
When all I've lived for
Becomes mine!

For all these years
I've faced the world alone
And now the time has come
To prove to them
I've made it on my own!

This is the moment
My final test
Destiny beckoned
I never reckoned
Second best!

I won't look down
I must not fall!
Moment for moment
This is the moment
The sweetest moment of them all!

This is the moment
Damn all the odds!
This day or never
I sit forever
With the gods!

When I look back
I will always recall
Moment for moment
This was the moment
The greatest moment
Of them all!

-Caesar takes a bow before floating out the south door.-

Ren: ... Well that was something.

-Saying no more, Ren steps off the edge himself and descends to the stairs as well.-

-Daydre may suddenly be hit by a Locked-On Heal Pulse from Pythagoras.-

edited 26th Jun '16 8:09:22 PM by keys2tkingdom

-Tex is still in Solaceon, where someone may see him doing police work-

THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST THAT PROGRESSIVELY GETS MORE DIFFICULT AS IT CONTINUES

Veilstone City

Zoe nods nervously at Tagg.

Zoe: Oh, um... t-thanks again, but I just remembered, I have to, uh... I need to feed my pet rock I'll be around if you need to ask me anything okay bye!

She dashes off, leaving only a piece of paper with her number written on it floating slowly to the ground.

Hearthome Pokemon Center

Shun looks over at Sholto.

Shun: ...I suppose, though I would rather know what the evidence is and who you're sending it to.

edited 27th Jun '16 7:26:41 AM by Herbert40k

Trans rights are human rights. JK Rowling preaches hate. If you sit at a table with five bigots and say nothing, there are now six bigots.

Drive-in, Deep Past

o_o

-Aaaaaaand Pent's running down from the projectionist's booth quicky-

I can 100% say for certain that this is not my intended plan, okay?!

Theater, Shallow Past

Alright, I think that means the hole is the answer so... Yeah.

-Pent shrugs and follows suit-

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

CU, Theater

Dune: This place continues to confuse and befuddle me.

Galvani: <Those are the same thing, dear.>

Dune: I know.

-They follow.-