New World Jungle

Colton is sideswiped by the tail, but no damage befell his jacket as he had since removed it and packed it up. He also had made an attempt to dodge, so the attack pierced the skin but didn't go much deeper.

Lumiose Raid

He totally just healed him.

We're duped.

Futures Factory, Floor 25

Rogue: Eat your heart out, Ultron. Anyway, that's all well and good and all, but you know what?

-They casually strut forward, seemingly on the shortest path to the life support.-

Rogue: It must be so lonely here, you must be dying to play a game with some friends. So I have a game for you.

-And as they draw close to the turrets' range, their cloak flickers to life, masking them from view.-

Rogue: Let's play hide and seek, why don't we?

Carmilla's Estate Grounds — Today

-Outside the front door, Kai is waiting. They have not knocked on the door, instead simply checking the time to gauge how unfashionably late Livius might end up being.-

Edited by BittersweetNSour on Jul 27th 2019 at 9:28:27 AM

Carmilla's Estate Grounds

-About twenty minutes pass before the door of Carmilla's estate swings open and Livius emerges, wearing his usual suit and a coat with the collar turned up.-

Livius: Ah, it's you again. Kai, wasn't it?

-He glances around.-

Livius: I don't sense Kahlia. Am I to assume you've yet to complete your duties?

Carmilla's Estate

-Kai turns to look at Livius as he approaches.-

Kai: Local news stations seem to think I've done a fantastic job, although they also think it was someone else. But no, I followed through with my word, I told her to rest in the Pokemon Center, she looked like shit. Care to follow me?

Orre Factory, FuturePalkia battle, Past

Taipan does a barrel roll and escapes. She unleashes Maverick and Jackie in the confusion, who promptly rise up in the air.

Jackie: <Not gonna lie, I'm getting major blasphemy vibes here.>

Maverick: <Totally.>

Taipan: Nǐ bùshì shàngdì!^note You are not a god!

Maverick: <She's speaking [Mandarin]. Now you know things are going down.>

Orre Factory, the Circuits, Past

Murphy: <Master Rogue? Anyone else? I'm in the system. Right now I'm blocking a couple of things here and there but if you can use the extra hand I can have a script or two blocked to stop any turrets from activating... or redirect them, whichever is more appropriate.>

Monster Hunter Base

Goober and crew arrive within the walls of Multiman's base, being careful not to draw attention to themselves. Cameras are affixed as they try to draw closer to the action.

Goober: Fellas, you've my permission to intervene when any of those monster things are attacking. Got it?

Edited by MasterJayAM on Jul 26th 2019 at 9:08:16 PM

Carmilla's Estate Grounds

-Livius tilts his head at Kai.-

Livius: Do they now? I confess I've been somewhat distracted today. In any case, I don't doubt that she's a sight for sore eyes, but you should have brought her straight here. A Pokemon Center won't be able to help her, and it won't matter in a few hours anyway. But yes, lead the way, I suppose.

Carmilla's Estate

-Kai makes a deeply uncomfortable face.-

Kai: ...Right. Well, still, it was my plan from the beginning, so I stuck to the plan.

-They start leading the way.-

Carmilla's Estate Grounds

Livius: I see. I suppose I ought to be grateful that you were at least successful, although the consequences of failure would have been amusing in their own way.

-He gives a wolfish smirk and follows after Kai.-

Lumiose Pokemon Center

-After some brief, uncomfortable travel time, Kai finally reaches the room they checked out earlier.-

Kai: All right, here's the place. I left her in this room.

-They open the door.-

Kai: Whatever you do to her, please don't get me involved.

-Their fingers twitch in the direction of their phone, just in case.-

Lumiose Pokemon Center

Livius: Oh, you needn't worry about that. I wouldn't do anything to her here. Far to public a space to air our grievances.

-He pushes open the door... then pauses as he looks inside, his voice suddenly cold as ice.-

Livius: ...Where is she?

Edited by Herbert40k on Jul 26th 2019 at 2:38:59 PM

Lumiose Pokemon Center

-Kai pauses.-

-They look inside.-

Kai: ...Well, the last time I saved her hide, she did decide to leave the sanctuary I gave her.

-They turn their gaze to Livius.-

Kai: That said... you're a vampire, yes? And a Cain, no less, so if I'm right, you're of the typical Auric variety. Meaning you should be able to confirm that she was here via Aura Sense, and therefore prove that I held up my end of the bargain. Which was that I would free her, and then take you to where I left her. And then you would, quote, "clear up any legal entanglements you've gotten yourself tangled up in". That's the deal, was it not?

Lumiose Pokemon Center

-Livius is silent for a moment. When he does speak, his tone is chillingly level.-

Livius: ...That is true. I suppose you think you're quite clever, getting one over on me like that.

-Suddenly, he grabs Kai by the neck and slams them against the wall with such force that the door slams shut behind them.-

Livius: However, there was also nothing in that deal to say that I couldn't bleed you dry and dump your shrivelled husk outside the courtroom once our business was concluded. The only reason I'm not doing that is because breaking Carmilla's toys is a good way to get on her bad side. You think you've "saved" Kahlia somehow? I'll still find her, I can promise you that. I have half a hundred ways to do it. And once our contract is over with, should I feel like it, I can use each and every one of them to make life a living nightmare for you and everyone you've ever cared about. Is that understood?

Lumiose Pokemon Center

-Kai barely has time to yelp before they get a healthy dose of Sasuke Meme to the neck.-

Kai: Ack—

-They cough and sputter a bit, before finally finding the air to gasp out a response.-

Kai: ...I was hoping you'd respect my daring, but I suppose this is fine. The— the sooner the legal mess is settled, the better for you to get your way, right?

(Fuck fuck fuck Kai you dipshit what are you doing)

Lumiose Pokemon Center

Livius: Then you're arrogant as well as foolish. Rest assured, the next time you try something like that, Carmilla's protection won't be enough to stop me from ripping your throat out with my bare hands.

-He drops Kai and dusts off his hands.-

Livius: We're done here. You know how to find me.

-He turns on his heel and walks briskly out of the room.-

Lumiose Pokemon Center

-For a moment, Kai just sorta slumps to the floor with staggered breathing.-

-And then they finally get the energy to pick themself up, and stagger to the bathroom to start applying heavy levels of concealer to the bruising they just received to their neck. They do, after all, have a Frontier Brain job to get back to.-

The turrets get a few strikes on Rogue, the armor denting a bit, the slugs stinging but not punching through at all, and then Rogue is gone.

"WHAT?! Where in the blazes did you go? Switching to thermal optic... WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE?!"

Braun was getting angry, and stressed, very quickly in fact, the turrets started to swivel and turn, trying to find Rogue.

The second set at the far sides of the room popped out, a turret to the left of the prototype room, and a turret to the right. Braun was starting to stretch himself thin...

Jackal observed the mecha-Palkia, "Coming up with a plan now, not entirely usual situation."

"You should really be wearing a power suit!" Fox brought up, "This is a pretty dangerous situation."

Jackal blinked, "Can we not have this discussion right now?"

"I think this is the perfect time, I thought you were running the same kit as the rest of us and now I'm worried!"

"Fox I've been doing this for awhile, I-"

"One of the last times you did this you lost a arm! You were hurt in more than any physical way, I could see it in your eyes, you didn't feel right at all! Now we're in a situation where you could lose more than your arm and I'm worried!"

"Fox... please... I have a team now, they have my back, we have a target, we have a goal, I won't lose my arm ever again."

Fox huffed, "It's not just the arm..."

"I know... we'll talk about this when not under threat... I promise."

Fox nodded, "Okay... okay... sorry if I-"

"It's fine."

Jackal turned to Hayon, "It has Aura in it right?"

~Yeah I'm picking up something, most likely whatever is left of Braun's soul.~

"Okay... Here's the plan team," Jackal said, his tone quickly taking charge again, "Gaia keep hitting him from up high, distract him. Murphy do what you can to isolate Braun as best you can, everyone else, full assault, aim for the joints, those are the weakest points, it has no cloned flesh to protect those parts."

In the Cyberspace, Murphy would be faced with a bald scientist with a curt beard, who seemed to be missing large chunks of himself, he glared angrily at the Pory, "The hell are you doing in my headspace? Get the hell out before I rip you apart!"

Thankfully this distracted Braun and the Palkia paused for a moment, Jackal letting out Archer who took aim with a arrow as Jackal raised his lase-

Fox proceeded to grip on to a weathered part of concrete, and ripped it off the tower with all of her (and her suit's) strength, before chucking it right at the head of the Palkia machine, it didn't do much but it at least dented the plating and damaged a optic.

Jackal could only stare and felt his heart skip a beat, a factor Hayon took note of and made a mental note to tease Jackal for it later.

Brigitt had leaped onto the neck of the Palkia machine and begun to spit hot fire onto it's servos, <Come on people! Let's break this overgrown toy!>

Orre Factory - Rooftop

-Phantom places a hand on Jackal's shoulder.-

Phantom: "Never let her go."

-With that he steadies his grip and nods at Spectre and AA.-

Phantom: "Steamblasts. I'll support with Shackles. Man I wish I could make constructs without a base.."

-Phantom throws a trio of Spirit Shackles at one exposed joint, trying to either restrain the Mecha-Palkia or force it to the ground.-

-Spectre shoots off an Ice Beam which collides with a tight Flamethrower from AA, exploding like a pressure cooker.-

Orre Factory - 25th Floor

Vulpecula: "You get cooler by the minute, Rogue."

-Vulpy decides to take this moment to see if the turrets can point up.-

-She hovers in the air and hopes Jackal made her armor bulletproof.-

Futures Factory, Floor 25

-The few shots that strike manage to earn winces of pain, but at the same time, they're laughing.

Rogue: Hey, let's play some music, why don't we?

-One turret is kicked, in such a way to send it spinning wildly.-

-Another is hit by a rust-covered knife flying out of nowhere.-

-A third one gets its optical sensors covered in an unusual paint, by arms that are only briefly visible before they disappear again.-

-There's a snap, and suddenly all three are lit up by thermite charges beneath them, first trailing from the paint, along a line to the knifestruck one (where it turns out the knife itself was the charge), and along a second line to the first one that got kicked.-

Edited by BittersweetNSour on Jul 27th 2019 at 3:01:10 PM

The New World, Jungle

Sounds like a Nargacuga. Careful of sonic based attacks, they'll make it angry.

Addie's Super Fang doesn't seem to do much. Megan's attack seems to do a bit more damage. The Nargacuga leaps away from the group for a moment, then does a slight hop and turns 180, bringing their spiky tail down onto Vee.

The New World, Volcano

The Rathian brought back her head and thrust it forward, trying to take a bite out of Lance. Her attention was drawn back to Hunter!Pent and she rushed him, looking to crush him underneath her massive talons.

Orre, Factory

"Affirmative!"

Stranger had his Xatu put up a Reflect for the group. His Pikachu fired a Thunderbolt at the left arm joint of the mechanical monstrosity.

Stranger looked over at Gaia, who had been swinging around on that grappling hook of hers.

"Ok, I really want one of those."

Palicogon-2: Noted!

-fortunately, the damage wasn't quite the point—Addie is yanked back to Logan on fulminous threads carrying something glowing and orange-

-she...applies it to them, somehow, and Logan feels their body toughen as an essence of monstrous defense shoots through their veins-

-Megan is flung bodily backwards by her guardian to land on her feet-

-fortunately, since the tail slam splatters Vee across the landscape-

-when it's removed, nothing's left except the sad, lonely tip of her parasol on the ground and a wide area of glowing blue cracks in the jungle stone-

Megan: -gulps, and tries to look like an appealing target on the other side-

Logan: -seeing this- The Capture Line modification developed by one Straw Aspear—

-they flip several of many switches on their Styler and use it, unusually, to lasso a sturdy branch high above them-

Logan: —grateful to 'im.

-grappling it and yanking themself high into the air, trying to land in a secure position on the Nargacuga's back-

Addie: -charges the Squirrel Glaive for a lightningrod-strike impact slam-

Edited by Asterisk395 on Jul 27th 2019 at 8:10:49 AM

The New World, Jungle

Megan strikes true and electricity surges around the Nargacuga, temporarily stunning it. This gives Logan the opportunity to successfully mount the beast. The fanged wyvern cranes its neck up and roars before it begins to trash about, trying to knock Logan off and moving closer to Vee's Pitfall trap.

Logan: -yelps-

-but despite the very strong, very fast creature trying to buck them off its back, they somehow manage to hang on somehow, evidently accustomed to something like this-

-the circuitry in Logan's (fingerless) gloves crackle with Aura-infused electricity, and they grip the Nargacuga with both hands, trying to keep themself on a very unhappy ride and blast as much "move onto the weird glowing spot" intent as they can into its spine, followed very shortly by "calm down calm down calm down"-

Addie: -Electrowebs them both in a relatively secure position and tries not to get crushed to death-

-the cracks in the ground pulse ominously-

Megan: -planting her weapon in the ground, pulls out a vial of something and pours it in-

-and steps a bit further back-

The New World Raid - Volcano

Lance would quickly shoot the Rathian with his Light Bowgun while it was focusing on Hunter!Pent.

Santalune Forest

Pangoro!Milagros would be roaming around with his team.

Milagros: <Well, this is alright so far. Something feels missing though.>

A Pokeball was thrown nearby him, thankfully not capturing him. Following this, a Youngster would jump out in front of him.

Milagros: <Oh right. Trainers.>

He would start to leg it away from the kid.

Edited by Routeferret on Jul 27th 2019 at 2:26:16 PM

Orre Tower, Cyberspace, Past

"Guten tag." Said the porygon to the scientist's patchy avatar.

Murphy: Whoa, I just noticed exactly how old your computer systems are. When was your last upgrade? Also, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to see much with that busted infrared camera but I overrode its programming anyway. Don't try anything funny with the turrets because they're pointing at their own circuits right now.

Murphy: Okay, this whole cyberpunk cyberspace look isn't working for you, Dr. Zola. How about a change of scenery.

Murphy opened bliss.jpg.

Murphy: Let's get the pleasantries out of the way, shall we? Call me Murphy. I'm just your average digital monster. Oh, where are my manners, I'm pretty sure you know what a porygon is.

Murphy manifests as Captain Unova sitting backwards on a digital chair in the most condescending manner imaginable.

Murphy: You're not so different, you and I. We're both living beings currently dependent on computers. We both desire to control that sexy artificial body that was simply too awesome to use. Of course, I'm a living computer program and you're a human's consciousness trapped in the mainframe of a computer system. Also, I'm a superhero and you're an unethical scientist guilty of all sorts of cruel experiments on living pokémon and possibly have a rap sheet of other crimes against humanity. Also, I look great as Chris Evans.

Murphy force quits several other programming options around Dr. Braun.

Murphy: Lemme cut you a deal, Herr Doktor. We give you one more chance to go quietly to a thumb drive and let you out of this dump; you'll be under the protection of PEFE and maybe given a robot or smartphone to inhabit.

New World Volcano

-Eye to eye with the draconic beast, the Hunter was in his element. He lived for moments like these, the struggle between the great and mighty and the small but clever-

Hunter Pent: Heh... Gonna take more than that to pierce my hide!

-Pressing the tip of his weapon's haft to his lips, he blew four mournful notes from the peculiar instrument-club-

Defense Up (L)!

-It still hurt, crushing claws against his armor and the weight of the Rathian behind it, but it wasn't as hurting near enough to bother him any-

Orre Factory Roof

-Nightingale struck with sweeping, dashing strikes. The blades under her arms throwing up sparks each time they clashed with part of the Palkia-bot's chassis-

I know she wanted to lose some weight, but this is just too harsh a diet!

-She laughed, her blades leaving deep cuts in their wake-