A Game of Gods: Infinities

"I found some gum!" Shotaro said, reentering the store with a stick of gum. It had a few cobwebs on it, but Shotaro cleaned them off as he gave it to the customer.

"That will be a dollar." Shotaro said.

It was highly unlikely, however, that a dollar would be recognized by anyone. All the items in Recette's shop were labled with varying amounts of something called pix, what could be assumed to be some form of currency. There were several suits of armor of varying size, slong with a set of weapons.

Recette cheerfully headed along. The town they were in looked like it had been pulled right out of middle ages europe... if middle ages europe had also had asian influences. It was a bit of an odd combination, to be sure. The town was bustling with people doing various things. Woking, talking, going to shops or taverns, eveything that you'd really expect.

Ahead, the town's limits ended.

-DK continues to demonstrate the weapon's range, sharpness, and ease of use by waving it in the customer's general vicinity until he gets the point.-

The town reminded Garland of his original home, Cornelia. How many aeons had it been since he kidnapped that princess? He breifly pondered how foolish a move that had been. That kind of move was just ASKING for legendary warriors to pop up and win the day.

Did he regret doing it? Yes. He had done it out of a desire for power, something he disliked in many of the other Chaos warriors, and it reminded him that he wasn't really so different from them. Or hadn't been; all that time fighting for Chaos whilst serving Shinryu and The Great Will had changed him.

Garland then realized what he was doing. He, HE of all people, was thinking about the past. It didn't really matter anymore what he had done. He still had something he had to do for Shinryu before the Wyrm would consider the debt settled, then he could focus on his new purpose, which for the moment seemed to be completing these challenges.

Still following Recette, he thought about what might lie ahead for a change. Dungeons meant monsters. That meant battles. That meant fun. Perhaps these challlenges wouldn't be so bad.

"Shotaro. Check that label. My armor had pix under it. So sir? How much pix do you have?"

— Clickclickclick...

From the bushes, a sniper round snarled for Malzahar's throat, only the flickering sheen of the Turian's visor giving him away.—

Shotaro checks the bubble gum's price tag. "About... 300 Pix... for the gum." Shotaro said. "The armor will run you about... 900 pix." Shotaro said.

edited 1st Aug '11 12:00:22 PM by Psyga315

The customer began to inspect the different suits of armor offered. "Hmm......that one's too heavy," he said to the first set. "That looks good, but it is too concealing," he said. "I want people to at least know my daughter is a woman! HO HO HO!" He then looked over at the last piece of armor. "Oh why yes, this one is PERFECT! Good amount of protection while providing adequate amount of mobile freedom for the modern young woman! Truly excellent!"

And then Shotaro found the gum. "Uh, dollar?" the customer said. He then observed the young detective's clothes. "Oh, right! You crazy foreigners and your funny money!" he said. He pulled out his money purse when he saw the sword Donkey Kong was demonstrating. "Oh yes, a weapon! My daughter would adore such a weapon like that!" the customer said. "I offered her some of the weapons in my estate's private collection, but she scoffed that most of them were too small for her tastes! I blame her lacking of a gentlemen companion, savvy?" he said, chuckling. "How much for the sword then?"

The Doctor rattles off prices. "2000 pix for the armor and... 1750 for the halberd."

"1,200 Pix for the sword." Shotaro said, looking at the tag.

edited 1st Aug '11 12:46:41 PM by Psyga315

"How about 1475 pix for the sword?" the customer asked, splitting the difference between the prices given by the Doctor and Shotaro. "I am willing to pay full price for the armor, but 300 for bubblegum seems a bit too much. How about just 50 for the gum?"

edited 1st Aug '11 1:43:19 PM by UdtheImp

"1,550 pix. And 150 for the gum."

The customer pondered for a moment. "You certainly drive a hard bargain, my good sir!" he said to the Doctor. "1520 even for the sword and 100 for the bubblegum."

The Doctor grins at the closest thing to a mental challenge in a few weeks. "Deal on the sword but 110 for the gum."

The customer frowned, his stoic emotion only betrayed by his mustache bristling . "105 then...." he said, giving out one last attack within this minor battle of wits.

edited 1st Aug '11 2:38:46 PM by UdtheImp

The Doctor sighs. "Deal."

"Jolly good!" the customer happily said, his flab giggling about a few seconds. "That is a total of 3625 then? Oh, and could you deliver the weapon and armor to this address?" he asked. He showed the Champions a card with his home address, which is well within the town's limits.

edited 1st Aug '11 3:28:14 PM by UdtheImp

The Doctor nods. "Shotaro you mind bringing this man's daughter her presents?"

Wreck-Gar grinned widely as his eyes faded back to blue. "I am Wreck-Gar! I could be a real Autobot! in the meantime though, I am good at delivering stuff and things," he said, the last part aimed at those inside the store.

edited 1st Aug '11 6:50:09 PM by Sir_Screwloose

"Very well." Shotaro said, grabbing the equipment, struggling under the weight of it. "If only I had my bike..." Shotaro said, carrying them to the exit of the store and into the neighborhood.

As Teridax lunged out of the brush towards the smaller of the two monsters, the larger of the pair turned to face him, its eyes blazing with an unholy green radiance as they soullessly scrutinized the lunging Makuta. It made no move to intercept Teridax, but all the same the chitinous horror was not about to remain idle in the face of this threat; as the light-wielding Champion charged towards the diminutive, acid-vomitting terror, numerous barbs and spikes sprouted on Cho'Gath's torso carapace like plants growing from fertile soil.

Turning ever so slightly to keep the Makuta centered before itself as he charged, the Terror of the Void then casually swung one of its enormous scything talons in Teridax's direction—and even though this blow was half-hearted and fell far short of the mark, the very motion of it triggered a reaction within the body of this insectoid monstrosity; powerful and specialized muscles twitched just beneath the portions of the exoskeleton covering the monster's chest, and then those dozens of chitinous barbs suddenly shot forth in a deadly storm of organic flechettes. These projectiles streaked towards Teridax with the speed and force of high-calibre bullets, and if they connected—almost a certainty, given their speed and the aftereffects of Cho'Gath's earlier scream—then the damage would be severe indeed, even when taking the Makuta's body of protodermis into consideration.

Not waiting to see if this attack connected, Cho'Gath then turned its attention back to the battle being waged between the two groups of minions; they were roughly even at this point, with both the blue and purple having lost a few of their numbers to each other, but otherwise it was a stalemate. Intent on tilting the balance in favour of itself, the Terror of the Void lumbered into the melee and began to hack and slash with its enormous talons and deadly pincers, cutting through the blue-clad automatons of the Champions' team like a hot knife through butter; if left unchecked, he would quickly demolish any opposition in his path.

Scorpion left cover and started fighting some purple Melee Minions. He began combat with the first one by delivering a fiery uppercut, which sent it flying into the air. As it came down face-up, Scorpion perfomed a flip kick, similarly wreathed in hellfire, which launched it back upwards. He jumped up and grabbed the minion, throwing it directly at the ground. It landed facefirst with a sickening SNAP!

Scorpion turned his attention to a second minion. This minion had been watching the ninja slay its comrade. When Scorpion punched it, it blocked. It was counting on that, but it wasn't counting on Scorpion summoning a deadly flame from the ground right where the minion stood. The minion fell to the ground in a charred mess.

Finally, the ninja turned to the third purple minion. It stood there for a moment, giving Scorpion time to get out his spear.

"Get over here!" yelled the ninja as he tossed the pointed end of his spear straight at the minion. The spear hit its target, and Scorpion dragged it back over to him. He pulled out the spear and considered for a moment what to do with the swaying minion. He decided to keep using the spear. This time, he slashed the minion's throat with the tip of the spear, then sliced his victim through the hip. With a ferocious kick, he sent the minion's torso flying into a rock.

"Fatality!" said Scorpion. He raised a fist in triumph.

edited 1st Aug '11 9:03:54 PM by TestYourMight

Teridax seeing that he could not dodge the spikes teleported on the spot. Some of the spikes hit him before he shimmered away but most of them missed. The teleportation also meant that he had lost all momentum causing his to fall to the ground with a hard thump.

Teridax leapt up as soon as he could, thoughtfully snapping off one of the barbs that was emmbeded in his armour.

"you will die, be sure of that".

With that, Teridax sprinted forwards Warhammer held ready for smiting.

Teleportation was getting tiring and he was not running from the fight anytime soon.

edited 1st Aug '11 9:00:12 PM by biomechtraveler

Scorpion suddenly turned to Cho'Gath. He knew he would need to aid Teridax, so he created two portals, one behind him and one behind Cho'Gath's head.

"Look over here!" yelled the ninja. He jumped backwards, leaving a crouching afterimage to distract the monstrosity. He flew out of the second portal, already positioned to punch the monster in the face.

Unfortunately for Teridax, his attempt to escape via teleportation had not worked as well as he might have hoped; when he tried to do so, the Makuta would find that for whatever reason his higher-tier abilities would not activate, as if some vital component that was the key to their activation had been stripped away somehow. As a result, his effort failed and he took the majority of Cho'Gath's attack rather than the minority.

Similarly, Scorpion would find that his hellfire portals did not open, and he only succeeded in doing a spectacular but otherwise pointless backflip after performing an awkward crouch. The Terror of the Void ignored the Shirai Ryu warrior, continuing to slash and hack at the blue-clad minions for now.