A Game of Gods: Infinities

"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Dubix said to the Tick Chopper heading for Gray's back. He then drove to the Tick in an attempt to run him over.

The Behemoth spewed forth a round the separated into at least a thousand smaller bullets, which smashed into the Nitro and parts of the surrounding scenery, ripping vegetation to mulch and causing a dusty explosion of debris to arise. All was silent... And then a hole appeared that punctured through the smokescreen, a sort of invisible comcussive blast that roared toward Cletus.

Byakuren's sword wave lopped off one of the GT Robo's arms, though the black unit was quick enough to save itself from further damage. It's arms then opened up to fire a weighted net at the monk. Nanoha's blast was avoided by the other two, the red Robo countering with an incendiary grenade stored on its back. The final brown Robo was currently engaging Gunner and Sani by firing Razor Wind from its peelers. The King dodged through it rather easily, but Gunner's mech was sliced to slag for being such a big target, though it managed to land a few rounds of Gatling on the enemy's chassis after the thing was distracted by the impact of the Tick's hard wood slamming into it. The Gunner's fall was saved by her firing off a grappling hook into the stalk, though it left her dangling awkwardly and rather open to future attacks, such as another razor wave headed her way.

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"My creators are Ms. Metaluca the Mechanic and Ms. Ixia, Witch Extraordinaire. The Witch's magic powers my frame that was built by the Mechanic." The robot said, it's tone gaining a proud undercurrent.

Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.

The weighted net was unsurprisingly ineffective, since the closer it got, the easier the monk's rapid swinging cut through everything. She would have rushed to the Gunner's aid if not more concerned with filling the sky with arcs of light. It wasn't danmaku, that was for sure, but the principle behind it and the reason Byakuren had sacrificed all defences for speed was abundantly clear.

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Nanoha's autoprotect kicked into gear, and formed a circular shield to defend her from the incendiary grenade, which struck the shield and exploded in a burst of flame without piercing it, leaving it with nothing to ignite. The moment the flames dissipated, Nanoha deactivated the shield and directed the magical bolts to turn around and head back towards their original targets.

"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

Cletus ducked quickly and fired again. So, ranged attacks. This wouldn't be fun.

"What's the matter, you avian son of a bitch? Your mom kick you out of the nest? Did your egg get dropped when you were an infant? Or are you just that ugly?"

...and that's terrible.

Not wanting to put herself in too much danger, Kohaku floated behind Byakuren and Nanoha, partially to encourage them, but mostly just to use the monk as a human shield should things turn south.

"Go get 'em, Nano-chan and Purple-chan~!" she yelled enthusiastically, pumping her arms up and down like a cheerleader waving invisible pom-poms.

Vile's was somewhat happy by the turn of events, but he was still too weak to do anything. He dragged himself over to the side of a building and sat against it.

edited 6th Nov '11 9:02:46 AM by Envyus

Scorpion looked down to see the shadow of a motorcycle coming down to crash behind him. With the Chopper now reeled in nearby, Scorpion yanked out his spear and teleported out of its way, letting the motorcycle fly down and finish off its rider for him.

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!

Earlier:

Antroz simply jumped back onto the destral cycle and revved the engine at the oncoming demon.

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Antroz was surprised that the demon had actually changed his target, it was unexpected but rather convenient.

Time to taste dirt.

Antroz revved the engine and hit the acceleration, the bike roared with sonic energy as it propelled itself at the demon with the green car.

"Nice view up here isn't it?" Tyrell said to Gunner, who was dangling beside him. Pulling her to a handhold he did his best to provide covering fire with fireballs and Heat Waves while she got a grip. "I don't really want to get any closer to them than this. Cletus would probably shoot me by accident. Can I take a look at that later?"

I'm getting tired of having to hide behind people while they do all the work in combat. I am a Fire Adept, I'm supposed to be the guy who takes the hits and gives 'em back! As soon as I can it's about time I got down to some serious training.

Earlier

Upon arriving at the stalks, Garland hadn't bothered with platforming. Using yet another trick that every combatant in the Conflict had learned, he jumped towards the giant stalk, and began to run straight up it, apparently never running out of momentum. He wasn't as fast as the flyers though, so it would take him a while to catch up.

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Now

Garland had finally caught up with the rest. Upon seeing the enemies, he quickly leapt into action. Quite literally. He jumped off the stalk towards one of the flying robots while switching his weapon to its axe form, he delivered an enourmously powerful overhead smash with the intention of knocking it to the ground.

As gravity reasserted itself on the knight, he controlled his fall back to the stalk and started running up it again. It would take him some time to return.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.

Launching another Magic Arrow at the demon, Mehir jumped aside, then waved his hands from his prone position. His Circle glowed red, and two arrows of red energy shot toward the Efreeti, hitting them. They started conjuring their magicks again, and this time the magical energy was blood-red. "Die, being of Chaos!" shouted Mehir, and the Efreeti's attacks shot toward Fleetus.

edited 6th Nov '11 10:51:12 AM by desdendelle

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

Fluttershy heard the monkey demon coming straight behind her. He reared up and bucked the demon, knocking the creature off its motorcycle and managing to hijack for herself. The pony, for some reason, was somehow managing to operate the vehicle like a pro despite not having driven one before. "WHO WANTS TO PLAY CHICKEN?!?" he yelled, managing to turn around drive straight towards another Tick Chopper, aiming to ram it.

DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!

"Well, you should probably put me in a bed next so I can rest," Chun-li said to Model Hades who was still carrying her. "I mean if it's not too much trouble."

Chun-li would probably try to sleep for a while once she was in bed.

Wizard Needs Food Badly

Grey paused, turning around as he heard the hissing and Shotaro's exclamation. Calculations carried out in astronomically small amounts of time told the reploid what he already knew - Shotaro wouldn't be able to run over the monkey before it reached him. Growling, he swiped at the primate with his guitar.

"Get away from me, you rat," he spat, his angry tone contrasting in a jarring manner with his stereotypical surfer/rockstar accent. "I won't let you get close to our father!"

Inwardly, Grey wished that he had swung his guitar at Doviculus rather than the monkey, but by now it was abundantly clear that his body was no more than a mere puppet for the demon to direct as he pleased. The thought was frustrating, but hopefully there would be some way to reverse its' effects... right?

Locking you up on radar since '09

The Robo that fired the net was quite unprepared for the arcs of light that Byakuren expelled, and was caught in the strike, sundered in twain by the aggressive attack.

Nanoha's bolts however, was used before, so the GT Robos were quite able to dodge those blasts whilst strafing and firing air bullets of their own back. The mage's attack did prove to be an ideal distraction for allowing Garland to strike the back of the red Robo, though its the axe chop only produced a small hole in the Gourmet Telexistence Robot's titanium alloy hide.

The hole was enough for Sani to snake his invisible hair inside the thing though, and literally rip it apart from the inside out, shattering the second robot into scrap. "Not bad." The king mused, seemingly flying in the air.

"Thanks, Tyrell." Gunner heaved a sigh as she was brought to cover, and not a moment too soon as an enormous chunk of cornstalk was carved from existence.

Cletus would learn that the blast was just a distraction as the Nitro simply "bounced" whilst the man dealt with the shockwave. Said bounce propelled the Nitro through the air like an arrow, speeding the thing at an alarming rate towards the others higher up on the stalk... The aftereffects of the bounce then occured, as the ground was torn asunder an aftershock of upheaved earth began churning its way toward the man with the huge gun.

Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.

Nanoha's autoprotection blocked several of the shots, until she dismissed it. Clearly, she reasoned, she needed to use something stronger.

"Barrel Shot."

Aiming Raising Heart, Nanoha let loose a blast of what appeared to be air from Raising Heart's tip. However, it was actually pure force, not enough to destroy but certainly enough to temporarily stun. It was a prelude, anyway.

"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

The monkey Grey swung at let out a garbled cry as it was knocked off it's bike...just in time for Shotaro to manage to run it over, leaving it a screaming heap on the ground. Same for the one that Scorpion had just dropped a motorcycle on top of, leaving it crying in pain as well.

Though a few of the choppers had managed to escape, most of them were know sprawled out, crippled, or at the very least incapicitated with fear, all from the Coil's actions, or just from Doviculus's presence. Their cycles...either whole or in a few cases, in pieces, were scattered about as well, along with a few bodies of the creatures that hadn't survived the onslaught.

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Either the monkeys dealing with the Doom had no notion on what to do about a pony riding a motorcycle, or were still suffering from the results of the lightning strikes. Either way, most of them went skidding off the sides or away, trying to avoid Fluttershy as she gunned for them. The one she was aiming for in particular turned quickly to one side, nearly toppling over and losing control for a moment, but it managed to toss a pointed metal sphere at her before it did.

Fletus meanwhile, was certainly not prepared to deal with two attacks from two different directions. Of the options available, he chose to dodge the energy beams, not familiar with those, but took the hit from the cycle full against the side of the car, sending it screeching sideways and tumbling end over end. Somehow it managed to land back on it's wheels...a curious habit the four-wheeled vehicles seemed to have in this land, with Fletus shaken up but not looking too injured. His car, though, was smoking and sparking, as though it were seconds from exploding.

"Arggggh..." he growled, sizing up things again, and settling on discretion as the better part of valor...or at least on the merits of a fair fight versus being ganged up on. He practically twirled the wheel of his car, aiming it for the pathway he'd driven up and gunning it, trying to make his getaway. "Y'ain't heard th'last of me, drinkers!"

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Rey was apparently so entranced with his game that he failed to notice Jack's charge until the last second. "Oh, Lars, you're just such a OH SHIT!" He abruptly dropped the body and moved to dodge, but Jack's sword still caught the tip of his left wing, clipping off several of the feathers. Rey let out a shriek, shooting upwards into the air to gain some distance, then settling on the ground a distance away, clutching at the wing tip, face etched with shock.

"Look...look what you did to me!" he bellowed, glaring at Jack. "You fucking bastard, how could you?! How could you do this to me?!"

Amazingly enough, his voice actually had taken on a tone of a wail, like a screaming, tantrum-throwing child. "You cut me! You complete bastard! I thought you might still be one of the decent ones but that's all any of you are! You're all heartless, betraying bastards! Every last fucking one of you!"

It actually almost seemed as though his feelings were actually hurt...but he quickly reared up, returning to the air, glaring down at the crowd. "Fine! If that's how it has to be, if that's all you want is my blood, then come and get it! And by the way, I did you all a favor and cleaned out your graveyard! You can come see your old friends again, because now they're all with me!"

That being said, he turned, flying off into the distance at nearly unbelievable speed, leaving behind...what was left of Lars's corpse, a stunned Ironheade, and Lita, on the stage, curled up and blank, staring silently towards where her brother's remains still lay.

Mangus glanced back to Eddie and Ophelia, even as he still tried to comfort Lita. "I think we better just get a move on, guys. This is getting way out of hand."

Easing back into life one step at a time

"HAH! ENJOY YOUR PUNISHMENT! PEONS!" Dubix said, flipping off the running Tickers. "SO, MASTER, WHAT IS OUR NEXT TASK? WE GOT SOME SWEET TRANSPORTS!" Dubix said.

The Doctor is still waiting for adventure to happen. "Yes my children I know Jack was the one who went through Thor with me but... it's Riggs home. We should celebrate his return to the games."

Some more squeaking. "Yes yes I'll explain the statues..."

Even more squeaking. "Why do you even care for the newbies? What fun would they be?"

The squeaking would grate on a lesser man's ears. "Oh you mean as a MEAL! Yeah you can eat them. But leave Jack for the sea and give Eddie to me... I'd like to give my old, dear friend a heart to heart."

He seems to chuckle evily and madly as rats are running back and forth trying to construct... something.

To Be Updated when I'm not Lazy

As Fletus tried to make his getaway, he would noticed Grievous, who was standing in the middle of his road. The cyborg general had not gotten directly involved, leaving it to the others.

After all, that's what the pawns are for.

Grievous narrowed his eyes as the car accelerated and one skeletal arm emerged from his cloak, holding a lightsaber. He flicked the on switch, and with a snap-hiss the blue blade emerged. Grievous charged, right at the car, aiming to suddenly side-step and slash the car in half...along with its driver.

Grey dusted off his guitar appreciatively, enjoying the visceral force that had jolted through his arms when he had struck the motorcycle riding monkey. However, even his controlled body winced imperceptibly as he saw the unfortunate monkey get run over by Dubix. "Well... this is one concert they won't be causin' trouble at again."

Looking back at his master, Grey waited patiently for him to give a command.

Locking you up on radar since '09

Jack had landed well, and stood silently during Rey's mad rant. A small smear of blood stained his sword, giving off tiny wisps of smoke. He was sore at heart to listen to the ravings of the demon, but it only strengthened his resolve to free the real Rey from the depths of the black sea. Some of Rey's words though, gave him real cause for alarm. He had thought the Doom would be limited in their resources for a critical moment, but if Rey spoke truly about the army of the dead he had raised, that moment had passed quicker than Jack had thought and they had to move fast before things got any worse. There would be little to no time for scouting missions, though he still had deep misgivings about going to war without determining the cause of Dovicus' return and the rise of the two opposing armies. As Rey flew off, he spoke quietly to the shrinking black figure against the sun.

"We are coming for you, but only to save a friend. If you can hear me, know that we have not abandoned you."

He flicked the drops of blood off his sword and sheathed it, before walking back over to the leaders of Ironheade. He feared for Lita's stability. Such things as she had seen...well, they were not to be overcome easily. At Mangus' commment, he nodded.

"I agree. We must move swiftly to locate and destroy Rey's forces. He has the greater proportion of fallen champions, he is the more dangerous of the two. Yet we dare not leave ourselves vulnerable to an attack by Dovicus' forces. If we can catch Dovicus between us and Rey's army, we might spare ourselves the effort of fighting two foes at once. A two-front war is to be avoided if possible. I suggest that we send out scouts to determine the location of the two armies and position strike teams to drive them or lure them towards each other, while we slowly advance and devote more effort to uncovering the cause of this evil. And also...we need time to recover from this news." His voice softened as he spoke to Lita directly.

"Will you be all right?"

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. -Lao Tzu

"What's wrong cowards?!? Afraid of a pony on a motorcycle?! YOU SHOULD BE!!" Flutterbitch proclaimed as she tried to run down the fleeing monkeys. She saw the pointed sphere being thrown at her tried to dodge, wiping out in the process. Both her and the vehicle along the ground, the pony sliding off with the chopper continuing to spiral out until crashing into a grave stone and exploding. She painfully tried to get up, her fur soaked in blood from the scrapes she received.

"YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!" she yelled in rage. "I'll make you freakin' PAY FOR THAT!!" She then unleashed another torrent of lightening down on the sharp toothed monkeys, particularly the one the tossed the projectile at her in the first place.

edited 7th Nov '11 5:40:50 PM by UdtheImp

DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!

Some of the other captured "new" members of the Coil started gathering up the motorcycles and parts that were scattered about and take them back to their base at the Sea. At least one of them tried to catch the gazes of the similarly captured challengers, as though to let them know that it would be best to simply follow their example before Doviculus could turn his full attention on them.

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Fletus saw Greivous ahead of him, and again had to choose the lesser of two evils. He leapt upwards out of his car, surrendering it to the light saber's cut...though he also let out a snarl as he passed overhead.

"No one destroys MY Squealer and gets away with it! Soon as I can, I'm comin' back for the likes'a you, Doom!"

He flared his wings, taking swiftly to the air, despite the apparent impossibility of something his size being able to fly, and glided off, cursing at them as he went.

The monkeys that had been attacking Fluttershy were taken out by this newest blast of lightning, finishing off the last few that had been part of the incoming force.

Within moments, they would become aware of Rey returning, apparently furious over something, landing next to the Doctor and fuming without any acknowledgement of anything around him. "Those horrible fools! I always knew they could never be trusted. No one can ever be trusted!"

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Mangus gripped Lita by the arms, then gave her a bit of a hard shake. "Lita! Come on, snap out of it. Don't let that little black drip get the best of you! You're tougher than this, babe, we need you to be!"

Lita squeezed her eyes closed, gritted her teeth, and stood up quickly, shaking her head, turning her back to the nasty scene she'd been previously transfixed by. When she spoke, there was still a quiver in her voice, but that same steely monotone had come back as well.

"Mangus, get the bus ready. We'll leave behind a contingent here and get on our way."

She looked at Jack. "Thank you...I'm all right. But we won't have much time to scout...and there's only two places I can think of that we'll encounter either enemy." She scowled. "We'll head straight for them."

Easing back into life one step at a time