Training Room -> Cellblock C

X:    "Aw, fuck buckets."   

X runs out of the room and into the hallway, calling to Targa.

X:    "He's gone! Make sure everything's locked down! Don't let him escape!"   

He then runs off in the other direction.

Cellblock D

Suicide Mouse smirks before appearing above them, hanging from the roof, noose tied along his ankle. He looks unconscious, like the body is begging them to let him down.

Observation Room

Pinkamena:    "A Predator? But it's been so long!"   

She steels herself, bouncing from mook to mook, trying to slice them with her default weapon, the large butcher's knife, until she finally heads straight for the Yautja, aiming for a simple neck slice, although she knew it wasn't gonna be that simple.

Throne Room

RED utilizes Soul Burn, breathing the ethereal flames all over the Magnaguards as he retreats, shrinking to fit in the hallways.

Callis just holds up her guard and does not stop blocking.

The Smash Ball spirits merge into their recipients, granting them each the power of FS Meter Unsealed.

Outside the Throne Room

The path down the hall away from both the training room and Cellblock C leads to a three-way intersection with the ring-shaped halls of this part of the fortress... and the Throne Room.

In other words, X and Red have just run straight into each other. Also the Magnaguards left in Red's wake are literally melting.

—

Cellblock A

Slenderman does another static-y teleport into... an elevator, which he rides up to Cellblock B before teleporting away again.

—

Cellblock D

One of the guards reaches for Suicide Mouse.

He is then taken by Slenderman.

Then Slendy grabs at the noose.

—

Observation Deck

All of the mooks on the deck are Yautja. They skillfully dodge Pinkamena's butcher-knife frenzy, save for one scrub who gets his neck sliced open. The rest fire their shoulder-mounted plasma casters at the demented pony simultaneously.

Edited by KiriK on Feb 8th 2019 at 10:46:42 AM

Trigo keeps up the assault, looking for any break in her defense for a good while before hopping back and closing his third eye.

"… I see that the power of the Divine Saiyan is… well, I don't think you've taken much damage at all since you've transformed."

Outside Throne Room

X stops and smirks.

X:    "Ah, if it isn't you."   

RED turns, noticing X.

RED:    "You're just another bug for me to squash. Perish."   

X gets into the Demon's Shadow stance, starting to analyze Red as he jumps back, avoiding a wave of Soul Burn.

Meito Kieiken Improvement: 0/4

Cellblock D

Suicide Mouse does a diagonal cut with the Kingdom Key S, cutting the noose and also possibly the tentacle Slendy used to disturb it. He lands on his feet and rises, looking over his opponent.

"Huh, you aren't the same as the other fools... No, you're much more interesting."

Observation Deck

Pinkamena:    "All of them? Holy crap!"   

She bounces from wall to wall, moving through all the shots, switching to a long, thin blade and attempting to slice an X into one Yautja's back before attempting to stab another one in the chest.

Edited by DefRevenge24601 on Feb 8th 2019 at 12:10:36 PM

Callis lunges forward and tries to plant her heel against Trigo's chin. If successful, she flips him over her head before spiking him into the ground with a second kick.

Creep Squad

Cellblock D

Suicide Mouse actually cuts a gash in the palm of Slenderman's hand.

Slenderman does not respond to the boast. Instead, he teleports into the air above Suicide Mouse, tries to grab him by the face with one hand, and if successful will slam him straight down into the floor as he falls. One of his tentacles lashes out from his back like a whip to grab one of the terrified guards, break his neck, and prepare for Grievous Harm with a Body.

—

Observation Deck

The Yautja attacked from behind dies, while the one Pinkamena tries to stab manages to superman-dive underneath her, shooting a bladed disk at her legs from an arm-mounted shooter while she's got her back to him.

The rest simply ready their own blades.

He actually manages to juuuust dodge the attack; he might not be able to deal jack shit of hurt, but his skill shines when it comes to defense. As the kick flies a centimeter past his head he attempts to grab her by the leg and judoslam her into the ground.

Cellblock C

X has retreated back to Cellblock C, RED giving chase, when X stops the entire scene by crouching up and down rapidly. RED just stares in bewilderment.

This gives X enough time to commlink Narktus and GLaDOS.

X:    "So, there's this giant monster in the hallway. Any ideas on how to beat it?"   

Meito Kieken Improvement: 1/4

Cellblock D

Suicide Mouse jumps on top of a poor guard's head, moving out of the way before throwing his Keyblade straight at Slenderman's shoulder; if it connected, Suicide Mouse would warp to it, pull it out, and attempt a flurry of slashes. If not, he would simply call the blade back to him.

Observation Deck

One of Pinkamena's legs gets chopped off, hyper-realistic blood flying towards the eyes of the offending Yautja as the leg reattaches itself no problemo.

Pinkamena:    "Ow, that's no very nice! That hurt, ya know!"   

She spawns multiple serrated kitchen knives, throwing them at her assailants.

Callis ends up lying on her back.

She raises up a hand and unleashes a Rush Ki Blast (think Eastern Blitz but super-fast and with mild homing properties) upon Trigo.

Cellblock C

Targa stares at Red with bewilderment. "Star Dream summoned several of these things?!"

"That's Red, a kaiju who preys upon the fears and negative emotions of its victims. Red is at his strongest against multiple enemies teamed up against him."

"What blood-for-brains is trying to say is, safety in numbers does not apply here."

"Right, right. The best course of action is not to take on Red solo, but to engage him in a melee a trois with a third party so he can't zero in on the collective doubts and worries of those standing against him. Star Dream set loose a whole bunch of these monsters, so you should run into another one if you keep luring him around the place sooner or later."

"Or you could offer yourself up as sacrifice in the hopes that it sates him enough to leave our precious - little - station - alone."

"What did they tell you? I couldn't hear them."

—

Cellblock D

Slenderman teleports again to dodge the Keyblade. Then he teleports right in front of Suicide Mouse's face, emitting his signature painfully loud static crackling, before spinning around and trying to whack him in the face with the guard's corpse being held by the head with two of Slendy's back-tentacles. Whether it hits or misses, Slenderman then drops the corpse.

—

Observation Deck

The yautja are now down to three. Two of them fire their plasma casters at Pinkamena, while the last one rushes in and attempts to skewer her with his arm-blades.

Or rather, he would have.

   "Shhhh..."   

There is now a knife sticking out of the third yautja's chest through his back.

!!!

The rush of blasts slams into him, staggering him back. It feels like a dude standing in front of one of those pitching machines. Some spit comes out.

He desperately tries to deflect some of the blasts with the hand still holding on to the shiv, and after a short delay blows out a wave of telekinetic force.

Cellblock C

X:    "Okey, tater salad. I'll keep that in my list of stuff not to do."   

X snickers before looking back to Targa.

X:    "Right now, we need to run until we meet up with someone else."   

X makes a head start, running right past an odd statue, of which he makes no mind.

Cellblock D

Suicide Mouse slices the corpse in half, the two halves splitting and not harming him. He rushes in, attempting for a flurry of slashes before jumping back and firing three bolts of Dark magic.

Observation Deck

Pinkamena:    "This guy? Really?"   

She takes the opportunity to pull out a massive machete, using it as a shield to block the plasma shots as well as use it as a mirror to see Jeff coming from behind her. Or anything else, for that matter.

The wave dispels the rest of Callis' Ki blasts, but she comes rocketing in right after them with a Savage Strike punch.

Cellblock C

Targa stops in front of the statue. Unfortunately, this will probably get him bulldozed by Red before the statue has a chance to make a move.

—

Cellblock D

Slenderman surrounds himself in tentacles to absorb the damage of the attacks, before trying to grab Suicide Mouse by the neck with another tentacle that bursts down from the ceiling, as if to say THIS is how you do a noose.

—

Observation Deck

Jeff the Killer slices the other two Yautja to pieces.

   "Go... to... sleeeeeeeeeeep..."   

Instead of attacking Pinkamena, he turns in another direction.    "Urgh, restless noises!"    Then he charges off towards Cellblock C, likely resulting in a run-in with X.

Trigo freezes for a second before just holding out the shiv hoping Callis will end up impaling herself on it.

He then proceeds to utilize "Die geplante Zukunft!" and vanishes into thin air, reappearing three meters left of where he was; and heading towards Callis a small barrage of emerald projectiles (and one shiv).

He starts charging.

Edited by Rbade on Feb 8th 2019 at 10:12:27 AM

Optimus explains the situation, and Samsara nods.

Well, thank you, erm... Optimus Prime. I've never encountered one such as you before.

Do not worry, your reaction is understandable. I shall return to my base and I will begin to assist you with the operations.

They nod and go their separate ways.

After Miles had been given time to recover from his splitting headache, and the Sisters had finished patching up the two freed fighters, they all sat down and explained the situation as best they could, answering questions as they went.

"...And that's pretty much everything." Miles finished with a sigh.

Shyna took off her hat and scratched her head, "Not gonna lie, that's...a lot to take in, but at the same time it does explain things pretty well. Other than showing up here and being hit with that beam of light, I don't really remember much."

"This Galeem though...it's clear he's just another madman who won't stop until everyone and everything bows down to his will, and anyone who doesn't agree he'll either kill them or brainwash them," Raiden summarized with disgust as he inspected his blade before sliding it back into its holster before bowing his head to those present, "I am in your debt for freeing me."

"Same here. You guys are alright in my book!" Shyna punched the air with a fist before putting a finger to her chin, "You know, if you guys are going after this Galeem fella you're gonna need help."

"We'd be happy to have you on-board," Corona remarked with a smile before said smile stiffened and she glanced to where Targa once lied, "Though it seems that if this Targa person was any indication, we don't have a whole lot of time to accomplish what we gotta do."

"...Then there's only one solution," Miles announced as he stood up, "We split up. Shyna can come with me, Corona, Nebula, and Zero, and Raiden you can go with Rey and the others. At the very least, we can take some of the heat off the group as a whole. We'll head towards that island and see if we can't do something about the barrier ahead of time."

With all of them in agreement, they did exactly that, with Miles and his own crew heading their own way while Raiden went to join Rey and the others.

Shepards base, Flashback...

Bayonetta would seem impressed with the tale of the world which samsara hails from, Smiling. "Well, That's a long tale of your world, but... I like it. Kept me interested through the whole thing! And now, You gave me a good time to explain my world's history, and my story. Cut a bit short, of course, it's not all the mundane history either... but... I'll be able to tell you more than what I already did, now that I have a bit of inspiration... How about it? Care for a bit of storytime with cereza?"

Past!Samsara nods and sit down on the nearby stairs, inviting Bayonetta to do the same.

Gladly !

Flashback, Shepards base

Bayonetta would clear her throat, And would begin a story, spanning eons, but compressed into a normal discussion... A story of the worlds she hails from, The worlds of light, dark, and chaos. "trillions of years ago, The realms of paradiso, inferno, and purgatorio, as well as the "Normal" world, didn't exist. There was nothing but loose energy. Then, The creator of the realms, be it Jubileus, The combined powers of jubileus and queen sheba known as Omne , Or some higher power than that, Took all the energy there was, and tried to form a perfect realm. Of course, If it went well, There wouldn't Be three and a half realms sitting around, would there? The Creator Messed up, Resulting in multiple, Mostly unbalanced worlds. The world of Light and extreme order known as paradiso, The World of Darkness and Chaos known as inferno, and the twinned worlds, The "Normal" world and Purgatorio, Colectively known as the "World of chaos." She'd Smile for a bit, and rest her voice briefly, before continuing... "Each world had it's own god, to use normal terms, Each, while they were active, oversaw the further formation of their own world. Jubileus Remained in paradiso, Governing over a strict hierarchy of angels, An absolute ruler for the most part... with fallen angels being exceptions. Inferno was ruled over by Queen Sheba, Jubileus's Counterpart. Queen Sheba ruled through sheer right of power alone... And the "World of Chaos" had Aesir as their god... Who was involved in creating two essences known as the "Eyes of the world", theoreticly being in gemstones... however, the power of the eyes of the world eventually found themseves in people instead... These Eyes of the world allowed mortals posessing them to guide history, and each of the eyes had a tie to another realm. The Left Eye had ties to inferno, And the right had ties to paradiso..."

Another breather... And then, another continuation... "The powers of the eyes of the world could reinvigorate, and when combined possibly even strengthen, the gods of each world, who fell into deep slumber, save for queen sheba, after a long time... While the gods slept, Guardian factions of the eyes of the world formed from those with magical aptitudes, each guardian faction had ties to either paradiso or inferno, and protected the coresponding eye of the world. The faction which made contracts with the angels of paradiso for power and immortality, in return for being forced into their unwavering order after death, were the lumen sages, who protected the right eye. Those which bairgained their souls in contracts with being of inferno, and protected the left eye, became to be known as the umbran witches. The two factions worked together, sometimes reluctantly, to guide history. But they never mingled too much, due to a prophecy, where ruin will come to all worlds if a child is born of both groups."

She'd take another break...

"At this point of the story, the world is in the 15th century. And guess where I come in..."

And here I was led to believe that my world was complicated ! she says, with a wry smile. This very interesting though !

"Well, Continuing the story, In the 15th century, An umbran witch named rosa and a lumen sage named Balder Broke the rules the two factions tried to uphold, and bore a child. That Child's name was cereza. When that child grew older under the care of the umbran witches, she eventually earned the nickname... Bayonetta. That Child was Me. My mother was Imprisoned for a long time by the rest of the umbran witches, while my father was temporarily exiled from the lumen sages. Tensions rose between the factions, and eventually, war broke out. At first, it seemed like the lumen sages were losing, but while the umbran witches were weakened, a sudden attack courtesy of paradiso's forces arrived. Another force, an avatar of aesir, killed my mother, whom my father still loved... I was sealed away with the left eye, the power of the left eye merging with me, courtesy of my close friend and rival Jeanne. Then, Hundreds of years passed. my memories faded for a while after that... And that's a good point to take a break, if you want one."

Samsara listens, being sad, awed or happy at the right times, and slowly understanding the situation. She giggles a little when a break is mentioned.

Luckily, Miriel's running the show currently, so don't worry.

Flashback, shepard base "Well then... When I first awoke again, No memories, no nothing, I was awoken by a man in strange garb, Which I later learnt was scuba gear, in a coffin in the middle of a lake. As soon as I got up, The man and I were attacked by angels... I couldn't save the man, But I could kill the angels, and protect his young son, luka. I remembered how to fight almost immediately, and I found my nickname in the man's journal after the fight... After that I fled... for a good Twenty years, I hid on the outskirts of a large city, Until I met a man named Enzo. Enzo is an undertaker, and an information broker. Greedy, but reliable, and a rather good man otherwise behind his demenor. After a bit, he told me about the new place I found myself in. The Twentieth Century, in north america. He eventaully showed me over to the "Gates of Hell", Where I met Rodin, And learned more about who, or at least what, I was. Not everything though... I knew about umbran witches and lumen sages and such thanks to Rodin... but not my name, or every last ability I had... Eventually I became a reoccuring customer. During that time I did various odd jobs, but it turns out, fighting angels who are constantly trying to kill you is pretty profitable once you get their gear and trinkets on an occultist's or supernatural market. Anyways... Time passed, and I took on angel hunting and supernatural blood money jobs as a career for a while... Even drawing out angels for a fight from time to time, while rodin forged weaponry for me to, at the very least, test it on the field... Things got strange after one job though..." She'd take a breather after that.

Edited by ReynTheLord on Feb 9th 2019 at 4:16:23 AM

Samsara simply quietly nods, patient;

Cellblock C

RED decides to play with his food, stopping and spewing more Soul Burn.

Elegy Statue: "You're a moron."

The statue breaks, revealing a young kid with a gray tunic, three fairies swirling around him. He held a shield in the shape of Majora's Mask and half of the Biggoron Sword, still as strong but with less range and significantly lighter. He also seemed to be the sort that packed a lot of items in such a way that they weren't visible.

He steps in front of Targa, pulling out an Ice Rod and countering RED's Soul Burn with a wave of ice.

Young Boy:    "Get out of here, go join X. I'll have my words with him later; we of the Old Guard need to get together again."   

Observation Deck

Pinkamena:    "Ignored? Eh, I might as well give chase!"   

She follows after Jeff, only for X to run into the duo.

Pinkamena points a hoof as X points a finger at her.

   "You!"   

X then points a finger at Jeff.

X:    "You!"   

Cellblock D

Suicide Mouse gets hanged, but swings himself up and cutes the tentacle, grabbing it and undoing it from his neck before attempting to hit Slendy with it.

Cellblock C

"... Hmm." Targa promptly skedaddles.

—

Cellblock D

Slenderman gets hit by his own severed tentacle, stumbling back.

He attempts to grab Suicide Mouse by the face with one hand and throw him into the elevator before teleporting in after him and stomping him through the elevator floor, then teleporting to Cellblock C and dropping the elevator on the mouse at the bottom of the shaft. If any part of this elaborate sequence fails, he cuts himself short.

—

Observation Deck

Jeff merely grumbles angrily at X, glaring daggers at the demonic hedgehog.

Throne Room

Angry Space Marine wakes up in the throne room with no recollection of how he got there and decided to take a look around but stay unnoticed for as long as he can.