-Nailbrain sniffs the air. Explosives and industrial substances...-

Oi, 'oo's makin' fungus beer?

-An arm appears in the air, forming from floating runes.-

We gots sorssrers!

Huh, I didn't even notice people don't usually number the world they come from. Clearly these guys haven't visited or even know of alternate universes. I can't—or want to—be the exposition girl. Nobody likes those! But whatever helps the readers, I guess.

"Oh, you have no idea. When you write What Ifs for almost forty years, there is gonna be hundreds of alternate universes. And that's not even taking into account time travel, throwaway universes, movies, cartoons, and the like. You need to keep track of them somehow, and a serial number is good enough for the job"

Time to drop the bomb.

"But that doesn't matter. I come from the real Earth. The one where you are a just fictional characters"

Mickey accepted my help (animated series, here I come!) but he doesn't really know what I'm trying to save the world from. I don't know either.

"From whatever villains are here. I told you, I'm a superhero. At the end of the day, though, the real antagonists are low sales, bad press, and... aggressive shippers" This Amethyst girl sounds cool but I've seen what kind of conflict her kind creates "I've got my eye on you, Amy"

Time for a plot point! A cyberspacey hand with a bunch of zeroes and ones came out of the bricks. So, Doc Ock? I really hope that's his work and not a really crappy villain's instead. That wouldn't be cool at all. Mickey and this other green guy have their own theories: A heartless (The hell?) or a... sorcerer?

"Seriously? What is this, 1996? For the love of Kirby, if it turns out Videoman is behind this..."

edited 26th Nov '16 8:54:57 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Surface, Area Z-Octa

Momohime saw her would be companions draw blades at the sight of odd constructs of disembodied hands, her own slender fingers wrapped around one of her lighter blades "Youkai... they must be angry" said Momo.

"Need any help there, princess?" asks Jinkuro.

"they look weak, my Oboro should be enough to fend them off" said Momohime, muttering a soft prayer and taking a guard position.

Ok that explanation raised more questions than answers

Amethyst, being unable to articulate a coherent response to whatever the hell Gwen just said^note something something existentialism? lmao?, just blinked and let out a "What,"

Also for some reason Gwen was suddenly suspicious of her and that came out of nowhere.

"Hey, I thought we had a thing going. What's got you so MAD suddenly?"

Out of the blue, a nasty black goo eased from the fountain she had been sleeping on, slowly and with a string of numbers producing a humanoid hand. Oh. Of course. She was gonna have shards to bubble later, but FOR NOW...

She drew her whip on instinct and got into a battle stance.

edited 3rd Dec '16 3:00:10 AM by MsAmiClassified

Surface: Area Z-Octa

Strange black ooze forming into humanoid entities was somewhat new to the Doomslayer but suffice it to say it was far from the worst thing he's ever seen. In two blinks of an eye the Doomslayer vacated his spot on the bench and was besides the newly forming entity with shotgun appearing in his hands. He stood there unmoving, unflinching, and silent waiting for the entity to fully form. He suspected it to be hostile, but for the moment he was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. After all if he killed every demon he had ever seen he would currently be lacking his Praetor suit.

Surface - Area Z-Octa

Upon the hand breaching the surface of the brick, Knack makes an odd motion - all his relics seems to shift at roughly the same rate, backwards - that makes him seem less solid for a fraction of a second. He slides to a stop with a hand on the ground to steady himself as he looks up at the new entity before getting his dukes up in a fighting stance.

"Looks like trouble finally arrived," he says, glancing at his compatriots. He feels like this should be, more or less, a cakewalk.

Surface - Area Z-Octa

The arm began to clutch to the ground, and then pulled itself up; eventually revealing a wireframe-like model of a human, but with a strange crystal in the middle of its completely transparent head. It then rushed at the group, and broke apart, separating itself into little rods.

As it formed back into one behind the group, it finally spoke... or made a sequence of seemingly unrecognizable noises that played in quick succession.

   "01001111 01000101 01001011 00100000 01010001 01000010 01000010 00100000 01010001 01001000 01010101 00100000 01000101 01001011 01001000 00100000 01000010 01011001 01010101 01010111 01010101 01001001 00101110 00100000 00101000 01000011 01000001 01000101 01010011 01000001 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001110 00100000 00110001 00110110 00101001"   

edited 1st Dec '16 3:50:20 PM by NagisaStick

Amethyst didn't take my comment well at all. Understandable but can you blame me? I don't want to appear in that kind of fanart.

"I'm just being careful. Some people like arguing about who you make out with" This was true even for the king himself "They also probably talk about him, too"

Anyway, these guys are too quick to draw their weapons at thew first sign of a threat. Yeah, ok, I also do that but this is the intro, they are not going to kill anyone. No one important, anyway.

The hand finished building itself and the body it was attached to. It rushed at us and showed it could separate into little rods and reform itself. That trick deserved a small applause. I mean, villains don't usually get this kind of presentation. I bet he (?) is a good guy. I'm like 70% sure of it.

That binary speech, though, could use some work.

"Ok, can you actually speak English? No one is going to understand that except for the nerds that go online to translate it"^{Open me!} You went online and translated it, didn't you?

Z Octa

-The arm turns into a ghostly 'umie, then starts talking, not in their overly-complicated language but hisses and beeps much like 'umie meks. Yet this one carries none of the gear or weapons that makes them such good looting. Nailbrain points his gun at the apparition.-

Talk normal, ghost 'umie! Wuddya want?

Surface - Area Z-Octa

There was a 'click' sound inside the wireframe humanoid. Then it spoke actual English.    "MY ORDERS ARE TO NEUTRALIZE YOU ALL. COMMENCING CLICHE ATTEMPT AT APPREHENSION."   

Ripping out some rods out of its right arm, it then formed into a pistol by itself.

   "ENGAGING HOSTILITIES."   

Then it promptly proceeded to fire at Gwenpool.

edited 4th Dec '16 4:49:19 PM by NagisaStick

Surface - Area Z-Octa

Knack, having been initially surprised at the entity's ability, is nevertheless ready to react and, when the creature fires on Gwenpool, moves to block the shot with an extended arm. The blast knocks some of his relics away, and the remainder reconfigure to maintain his form.

"All right, let's do this, then," he says, and dashes toward and goes to deliver a relic filled punch. He figures it's something that's never really failed him before, anyway.

edited 4th Dec '16 5:36:18 PM by MrJikoui

Z-octa

Zog me, dat's da skinniest 'bliterator I'z ever seen.

-The mek opens fire, bullets spraying towards the arm.-

"That sounds...gross, somehow, even though I have no idea what you're getting at. Mind elaborating after we deal with this thing?" Amethyst responded to Gwen, as the wiry hand was accompanied by the rest of a humanoid shape, though with a crystal of some sort for a head.

Yep. Definitely a corrupted gem or something.

It split its form into little rods and rushed behind them, then reformed and got into an argument with Gwen that apparently involved it making weird noises.

It then lunged for Gwen, to which Amethyst sprung into action and flailed her whip at it with a sharp flick of the wrist.

Surface: Area Z-Octa

The Doomslayer for once, hesitated. He was unused to having friendlies to deal with. Opening fire with abandon would harm the other non-hostiles, and a number of them had already engaged the strange entity as well. The shotgun vanished as he pulled out his energy pistol instead. He was less likely to wing an ally with the single shot weapon and in a blur of motion he circled around the group and the wireframe humanoid to flank them.

He wasn't expecting it to last long enough for him to do anything now that he had wasted so much time, but if it was still alive and fighting he would fire two shots into the back of its knees, and then attempt to rip its head off.

Amethyst wanted to know exactly what I meant when she explained the concept of shipping and why I was wary of her.

"Tell you what, if this place has wi-fi I can show you some pictures. You are gonna love it"

Huh, so Mr. Wireframe wasn't a good guy after all. Well, I can't be right all the time. At least the golem is looking out for me.

"Thanks for the hand. Now, if you don't mind..." I quickly took out my phone to take a picture of the rock-man going to town "Hold that pose for a sec"

Hey, don't look at me like that! He can handle it. And I'm doing my part anyway.

"Eat lead!" Aren't assault rifles wonderful?

edited 8th Dec '16 9:30:31 AM by DeisTheAlcano