Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

Camilla flies in from her wyvern.

A small child ? Ohhh, he's so cute in those garbs !

She looks down at the people fighting him and raise an eyebrow, nonchalantly firing a Thunder tome at Lucas in an attempt to surprise him. It packs quite a punch thanks to her good magic.

Aww, striking a child is such a vile demeanor... I'm going to have Dharkon cut up, piece by piece, when I get my hands on him.

Morgan arrive near the battlefield and sighs, looking at Doppio and nodding.

Do it, my sweet Doppio says The Boss, his voice coming out of Doppio's phone.

Your boss calls you... his sweet Doppio ?

He's nice to his subordinates, huh... es-especially to me, since I'm high ranked.

He begins using epitaph, looking forward for five seconds, while Morgan look on, preparing a spell...

Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 1st 2019 at 11:49:33 AM

"Damn!"

Thor takes to the air, then begins charging a now-sparking Mjolnir in preparation for his next attack.

Pietro releases his hold on the scepter, dashes away in order to give the others a clear shot, and waits to see what effects the glow might've had on Lucas.

"Quick question: has Lucas always been able to psychically increase his strength? Because there's no way he should've been holding onto the scepter that tightly!"

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 1st 2019 at 12:08:45 PM

"Increase his... only through PSI Offense Up, but the effect doesn't keep stacking.", Masc says. "Maybe that Spirit has some kind of ability that does that though."

Lucas flinches from the Thunder, though doesn't seem to move much.

He then glows for a second, a sharp sound eminating in the air, and Camilla will receive twice the damage she dealt. Which, luckily, isn't that much, but enough for it to be noticable.

Masc flees Lucas' proximity too, and once the area is clear, Duster throws the smoke bomb. It hits Lucas, whose eyes become watery, and he's forced to close them.

"His attacks will be less accurate now. ... sorry, little buddy.", Duster says, not looking happy with having to use his tools against Lucas.

Kumatora takes a deep breath before attacking, unleashing her PK Fire γ at Lucas. The flames hit him and he shrieks in pain. Angered, he raises his scepter, psychic power gathering at the tip.

The Masked Man, not wanting to give him a chance to attack, starts charging for him with his sword. Doppio, however, will be able to see a vision of the next few seconds.

A large flash of power, a destructive wave of energy, and the very tree they're standing on collapsing and falling into the void below. The attack Lucas is charging this very second is going to be incredibly strong, and it'd be best to try to avoid it.

Airborne allies, like (presumably) Camilla and the Masked Man are not safe from the attack.

Edited by DevilPsyco on Jul 1st 2019 at 9:15:30 PM

AIIEEEEE ! He's aiming for us all with a big attack ! Quick, get us out of here !

Morgan nods and shift through her book to prepare a spell, though she's confused when Camilla is struck. So is Camilla, obviously, even if she just dust herself off.

Clever. she says, preparing another spell.

Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 1st 2019 at 12:17:46 PM

SI Gang

Internally, Dylan stressed for just a bit.

Dylan: Uh... I can't remember.

EX Dylan smirked at the efforts of the beat that was at least somewhat his.

EX Dylan: "Well, let's get a move on!"

He looked over to Rey and the Shobijin, motioning them to go first.

The Warrior howled to the sky in victory before waiting for anyone else.

"Not if he doesn't get the opportunity to use it first!"

Thor rockets back towards the ground before striking it hard with Mjolnir, sending the lightning he had been charging coursing through said ground in a column towards Lucas.

"Odds are I shouldn't have to remind you all by now, but it'll probably make our lives that little bit easier if we knock him out before he can trigger his supermove!"

Pietro dashes at Lucas in a zigzag pattern in the hopes of disorienting him, then attempts to kick the scepter out of his hand before he gets the chance to trigger the destructive attack Doppio had described.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 1st 2019 at 12:45:34 PM

Kumatora's eyes widen.

"Thor! Don't, he has the-"

But it's too late. The lightning's path starts to shift and warp, stopping and gathering in front of Lucas, where it starts to spin, slowly getting absorbed by the Franklin Badge.

As for disorienting him, that's not going to work due to the fact that his eyes are closed, still forced to do so because of the smoke bomb. Pietro does manage to kick the scepter out of his hands though, but then Lucas grabs the tail of the Rope Snake and tosses the rest of him out towards the scepter. Rope Snake grabs it with his mouth, then pulls back towards Lucas, handing the scepter back over to him.

This manoeuvre happened in the time it took the Franklin Badge to absorb Thor's lightning.

Lucas swings the scepter high in the air, moving it in a rotation, after which he slams it down, a huge blast of PK Love descending towards the battlefield. The lightning now gets reflected by the Franklin Badge, joining in with the PK Love blast to make it even more powerful.

The Masked Man's systems sense the danger, and for once decides not to be a reckless fool. He flies over to Masc, Kumatora and Duster, grabbing them forcefully and flying off of the tree as fast as he can.

Everyone will have to make a run for it, because the wave takes little time in hitting the battlefield, a huge part of the tree getting blasted to bits and causing an imbalance that makes the rest of the tree tilt until it falls down into the abyss below.

Regardless of the result of this attack, Lucas' eyesight will start coming back around this time, and he takes on a battle stance again. That attack didn't even take enough out of him to make him catch his breath, and Manic's powers keep making his attacks stronger each turn.

The Masked Man lands in the small forest area below, dropping his passengers off.

"T... thanks.", Masc says, surprised that the Masked Man bothered to save them.

"Keep the thanks until the end of the fight, if we both survive.", the Masked Man responds. "The forest will give us cover, buying us some time. Blindly attacking the target will not work, we need a plan."

"... do you have to call Lucas 'the target?'", Masc asks, unamused.

"No. No I do not.", the Masked Man says, grinning a little. Masc groans.

Edited by DevilPsyco on Jul 1st 2019 at 9:52:38 PM

These fools ! King Crimson's ability is absolute ! If it sees something...

The attack triggers anyway !

Then it shall happen ! Quickly ! Use-

Morgan uses a teleport spell to escape with Doppio, while Camilla flies out at top speed. The explosion is so large, though, that the shockwaves disorient the wyvern, forcing her to fly around incoherently.

Doppio and Morgan are teleported close to the Masked Man, and Morgan nods, talking quietly to avoid being heard by Lucas.

We need to keep him constantly distracted and prevent him from focusing enough to use a spell. Can one of you potentially defeat him with one well-charged attack, mayhaps ?

It's useless, he has that reflection spell.

It doesn't cancel any damage to him, though. We could ask a durable person to strike. They could probably knock out the boy and withstand the counter-attack. It counter the damage itself, it won't knock out the opposing party if there's a wide enough gap in durability.

Morgan claps once, quietly.

Beside... well, what are the weaknesses of this move ? You seems to know what he can do. I could propose a better strategy if I know what he can do to the fullest. she asks Duster and Kumatora.

Doppio listens to his phone, taking it out of his pocket quickly.

Huh, can we be fast ? I mean, he could drop on us at any time.

Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 1st 2019 at 1:10:57 AM

"Shit... I forgot all about that bloody badge of his!"

Taking flight moments before Lucas' massive attack can annihilate him, Thor is momentarily thrown off by the ensuing shockwaves, but he thankfully manages to reorient himself before attempting to guide Camilla and her wyvern towards the forest where the others are gathered.

"Holy crap, what kinda Spirit did Galeem slap onto him?!"

Not particularly enthusiastic about the prospect of being completely obliterated, Pietro wastes no time dashing away from the massive PK Love, quickly joining up with the others as they begin forming a plan of attack.

"One thing's for sure, as long as he's got that badge, we've got our work cut out for us," he chimes in. "So if anyone could distract him long enough for me to swipe both it and maybe his scepter, if I get the chance, that'd be appreciated."

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 1st 2019 at 1:20:20 AM

The four turn to Morgan's group.

"My PK Starstorm might be able to put a good dent in him. Or PK Ground, but he's in the air at the moment, we'd have to knock him down for that."

"My most powerful attack is lightning, which he can reflect with his badge.", the Masked Man says. "And with his Defense Up, my chimeric strength probably isn't enough to knock him down."

"The only tool I have that could make a difference is my Hypno Pendulum. If I can manage to make him look at it long enough, he'll fall asleep.", Duster says. "But I doubt he will, and there's the risk of Rope Snake snatching it out of my hands."

"My attacks are weaker versions of his.", Masc says, gesturing to the Masked Man, then looks sad. "I don't think I'm of much use in general here..."

"Oh, but wait! PSI Counter isn't permanently active. He has to cast it every time he wants to use it. So unless we see an indicator that he casted it, it should be safe to attack him. But there's the risk that he'll activate it the moment we strike, and then the reflected damage increases..."

"We need someone to act as a fast, long range attacker.", Duster says. "If Lucas activates Counter, then that person has to land a weak attack before anyone else can deliver a strong attack against him. That way we'll take as little reflected damage as possible."

Masc turns to Pietro.

"I don't know, I've never seen that guy before. But he has to be raising Lucas' psychic power, a PK Love this destructive would've left visible fatigue on Lucas, but he looks like he didn't even break a sweat."

"Getting that badge off of him is gonna be hard with that Rope Snake.", the Masked Man says. "As long as the snake is controlled by Galeem too, he's going to keep defending Lucas."

"At least Rope Snake isn't poisonous. Don't be afraid if he tries to bite you, you won't die from it.", Duster says.

Meanwhile, Lucas lands near the edge of the forest, getting ready to look for his opponents as he charges up more PSI. Masc pauses.

"Wait, guys, he landed. I can feel it through my puddle's vibrations.", he says. "If we can keep him occupied and on the ground for a moment, Kumatora can try to use PK Ground."

Ive got the range. I’ll try to support you from afar and hit him when he uses it. Thanks for the explanation !

I’ve got the power, huh...

Doppio scratch the back of his head.

If I get into the right position, I have a move that could work. But I’m fragile so we need...

Teamwork, yay.

Thanking Thor with a nod, Camilla receive a quick explanation from Morgan.

I’ll try to knock him off the ground. Get ready.

The princess take flight, while Morgan snatch a Thoron Thor and a simple Wind tome. Doppio... sighs.

Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 1st 2019 at 1:30:50 AM

"Well, then I guess stealing his badge is off the table, even if the... Rope Snake isn't venomous," Pietro says before glancing at Duster. "No offense, but your world sounds freaking weird. Anyway, so the plan is to have someone use a weak attack on Lucas if/when he actives that Counter ability, then hit him with a stronger one before he's able to recharge it. Provided things don't go south, I think it might actually work."

Thor arrives alongside Camilla, receives a quick rundown from his fellow Avenger, and nods to the others.

"Right, before we begin, I'd like to apologize for... unwittingly empowering Lucas' attack earlier. That damn badge and its abilities had admittedly slipped my mind, so..."

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 1st 2019 at 1:53:17 AM

Confluence of Fates

"I'm Rey - remember that it's spelled R-E-Y if you ever have to write it. The other guys are Omega and Dylan, and they're currently fused into one person called EX Dylan," he says, gesturing to the fusion.

"You're here because of a big ball of light with wings formerly in the sky called Galeem, who stripped you from your physical form - Tiamat - and made you into an intangible spirit. The other aspects are also spirits. They're probably holed up in a hotel right now, we can take you back there later. As for the puppet bodies you and another unrelated spirit were forced to inhabit, they'll be fine, they're just knocked out."

The aspect of dragons glances at the fallen dragons from other worlds. Noticing their chests rhythmically moving in and out with their lungs, she decides it's good enough. "I suppose I shall follow you for the time being. Time away from my other selves leaves me more time to do what I wish."

When EX Dylan waits for Rey, he looks at the Shobijin and shrugs. "Guide me."

The Shobijin seemingly take over his mind - a swift reminder of how far down normal humans are on the power scale.

EX Dylan pauses. "Hey, Rey, are you alright?"

Well, I was about to ask Rey how we diffuse, but this looks a little more important.

Internally, Dylan simply agrees, without saying anything.

Like a drone, Rey blindly carries the fairies to the center of the island, the former site of Xeno'jiiva's first battle. EX Dylan hurriedly follows him.

"This will do."

Rey sets them down side-by-side, then immediately snaps out of it, stumbling back in confusion. "Whoa, what the hell?"

"Guess not."

All goes still, including the Warrior.

EX Dylan looks up and nods. "Now for the light show."

Mothra's Song

The Shobijin hold their hands up to their chests, fingers interlaced, as they begin to sing in unison.

Mosura ya Mosura (Mothra oh Mothra)

Dongan kasakuyan indo muu (If we were to call for help)

Rusuto uiraandoa, hanba hanbamuyan, randa banunradan (Over time, over sea, like a wave)

Tounjukanraa (You'd come)

Mutter-whispering so as not to disturb the fairies, Kishar comments, "Hmmmm... is this a Conjuration Incantation? It's quite pleasing to the ear, I must say."

Rey whispers back, "I'd recognize it anywhere, like my own face in the mirror. This song was part of my childhood."

Kasaku yaanmu (Our guardian angel)

The crystals making up the cavern interior begin to sparkle and emit light of their own. Unnatural light, reflected from nowhere.

The sparkles begin to rise into the air.

"Whoa..." Rey looks up to the sky, holding his hand above his brow as a sun visor.

"Oh, look!" EX Dylan points high, high above - Area 2 of the Confluence of Fates. The sparkles are gathering there.

Dylan reacts with the awe appropriate to the situation. Holy shit, it's beautiful...

The Warrior simply looks up.

Mosura ya Mosura

Dongan kasakuyan indo muu

As the incantation continues, those present feel as if they are being lifted off the ground by their very souls, and being filled with warmth.

EX Dylan feels tingly, smiling as if he's trying to hold back laughter, like he's being tickled.

Rusuto uiraandoa, hanba hanbamuyan, randa banunradan

Tounjukanraa

Kasaku yaanmu

The entire island is lit up with sparkles, a great northern beacon of power and hope that illuminates the dark sky.

Solitude, The Winking Skeever

Glali Nik◊ is chilling at the bar with a number of familiar faces from her world drifting around the place. There's the avian alien, Quoth; the military man, Chris; the black-clad mage Terlette and chimeric knight Aeleris; and the egghead, Zero, and his artificial man Frag. In particular, Chris is standing behind the counter, playing bartender.

Yes all of these characters have appeared in the Arena before, and yes they were all from the same world.

Only one person is at the same table as her. It's a tanned man with brown hair that looks like dreadlocks woven into five mini-braids. His cheeks, neck, center of back (albeit obscured by armor), thighs, and ankles are covered by deep, dark purple scales. He also has a thorny reptilian tail of the same color protruding from his lower back through what looks to be a custom-designed hole in his armor. The tail rests idly on the floor, spooled in a circle around his seat. Occasionally, the tip of it flicks against the ground. On his back is a bow and a quiver of arrows, and holstered in his belt are two daggers with blades shaped like tuning forks.

Nik pulls out her phone and texts a message to Nicole. Mikael's here. Check the Winking Skeever in Solitude, northwesternmost city.

Edited by KiriK on Jul 1st 2019 at 11:47:05 AM

"Rope Snake is far from the weirdest thing about our world.", Duster says, a little amused. "But it's easy to get used to when you live there."

Kumatora gets ready.

"Tell me when I have a clear shot at him!"

Duster nods and jumps into a tree, looking out at Lucas from there. If he gets pinned or knocked over, he'll be able to tell Kumatora.

Masc hides in the tree as well. He wants to help out, but with his body being connected to the ground most of the time, if he goes in to fight, he'll end up getting hit by PK Ground too.

The Masked Man then turns to Thor.

"Well, I tend to forget as well, so I suppose nobody can blame you either.", he says to Thor, being surprisingly civil towards him.

Before Thor can possibly comment on it though, he flies up alongside Camilla.

Once in sight of Lucas, he launches a bolt of lightning at the ground right next to Lucas to grab his attention, which works. Lucas, now fully focused on the Masked Man, launches a weaker PK Love than before at him, not large enough to endanger the nearby Camilla.

The Masked Man swerves around it, though one of his wings gets hit at the tip, causing him to lose some of his balance.

Lucas, slowly grinning, gathers PSI with the intent of finishing the Masked Man off.

Meanwhile, Kumatora gathers the PSI needed for PK Ground.

"Now?", Kumatora asks.

"Not yet.", Duster says.

Camilla dives in and attempts to have her wyvern's tail collide with Lucas, aware that such a blow would not fell him so easily, but might fell him to the ground.

Morgan is preparing a Thoron, flipping the pages at a rapid rate as runes appear below her feet. Doppio, meanwhile, watch, intrigued.

Say, have you ever been to Italy ? The Boss would appreciate people like you.

—

Saizo, Lucina, Cynthia and Samsara are looking over at the light. Saizo fails to recognize what it means, but the three girls guess it. She drops her sword, revealing that she's been training with Lucina close to the fort.

What in the... ?

—

Marie is at the bar, in front of Nanza, who, for her part, has a fat glass of mead in her hands.

You're going to get yourself knocked out cold, ya know ?

Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 1st 2019 at 2:21:55 AM

Really dang far away, but able to see the Mothra island

Rbade looks up from his meal. It appears to be a ball-tip sandwich smothered in BBQ sauce.

"Them madlads, they really did it."

He pats himself on the back despite doing nothing, mentally congratulating the SI!Gang.

Deciding that further discussion about the oddities of Duster's world could wait until after the fight, Pietro transforms into his Chaos Form, dashes into the fray, and attempts to whack Lucas with a Chaos Crowbar.

Thor, despite his initial surprise at the Masked Man's display of civility, nontheless strides towards the fight before breaking into a full-on run, then aiming a swift kick at Lucas.

Solitude, Winking Skeever

On my way.

After a short while, Nicole◊ walks through the bar's entrance, takes stock of the people from Nik's world currently present, and heads over to Nik herself upon noticing her table, greeting the Draconian with a smile.

"Heh... only in the Arena can you walk into a medieval tavern, only to find knights and mages hanging out with aliens and scientists, eh, Glali?"

She then pulls up a chair and sits down before shifting her gaze to Mikael.

"Anyway, I take it this dude here's Mikael of the Five Braids? Gotta say, I wasn't expecting him to have such a huge spiky tail."

Wanda◊, who had been meditating atop Bonestrewn Crest, notices the enormous beacon of light heralding the imminent arrival of a certain giant moth.

"Whatever is causing that light... I hope it came here to deal with Galeem and Dharkon."

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 1st 2019 at 2:50:25 AM

"Nope, never even heard of Italy.", Kumatora says as she continues charging.

While in the moment, Lucas doesn't notice the others until it's too late and gets whacked by Pietro and kicked by Thor. Thanks to Defense Up he doesn't outright fall down, but the attacks are still enough to cause his balance to waver, as he almost falls over, having to try to keep his balance by swinging his arms around.

Then Camilla's wyvern comes into play, and the whack from its tail is enough to knock Lucas onto the ground.

"Now!", Duster yells, and Kumatora grins.

"Everybody outta my way, this one's gonna be big!"

She brings her PSI to her hands and slams them down on the ground. The psychic shockwave surges through the earth, hitting the area Lucas is at and moving the earth around him violently, resulting in not just a hefty amount of damage, but also Lucas' right leg getting stuck in between two pieces of ground.

As the Masked Man manages to safely land, he realizes the opportunity this presents.

"Everybody charge him! Make it look like you're going to hurt him so that he might put up a shield or counter, but when you go past him, try to take the Franklin Badge off of him. With enough people putting pressure on him, the Rope Snake won't be able to stop all of us!"

Doppio run in, holding his arms out.

Fear me ! I'm going to hit you hard now ! he says. When he realizes that he's just running in, though, he panic and run past Lucas.

However, a large red arm appears out of nowhere and tries to snatch the badge. Luckily for Lucas, its range is short, and it vanish one second after appearing.

Morgan keeps charging, unwilling to endanger her allies. She notice the arm, though.

Camilla charge as well, though she's farther than most since she flew off a little after her tail bash. Thus, she does not reach Lucas in time.

Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 1st 2019 at 2:56:01 AM

Brainiac's Ship, Upper Atmosphere

The quiet hum of highly advanced machinery is all that can be heard within the halls of the ship hanging in the Arena's atmosphere when the island becomes illuminated. A series of alerts suddenly ring out throughout the ship, notifying the android of the phenomenon.

Brainiac's attention shifts from monitoring the Dark World to inspecting the sudden appearance of light around the island. He quickly runs a series of scans and tests, noting and classifying aspects of the occurrence. He decides against intervening, being content to watch and catalog.

"For Asgard!"

Thor runs straight towards Lucas while rapidly spinning Mjolnir... before attempting to seize the badge with his free hand and toss it to the Masked Man.

Pietro, meanwhile, notices how far Camilla was from the group and dashes over to her wyvern.

   "Hey, miss, I've got an idea that'll save you the trouble of flying all the way back to the action. Hop off the dragon, then I'll catch you and bring you over myself. Sound good?"   

Should she decide to do so, he will indeed catch the Nohrian princess and quickly carry her closer to the battle, then let her off.

   "Name's Pietro, by the way. Nice to meet ya!"   

He then runs past Lucas and attempts to swipe the badge, should the others fail.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 1st 2019 at 3:14:16 AM

The song comes to an end. In an instant, the lifting feeling stops and the humans and Kishar are now standing in Area 2, the Warrior having to climb up the walls of Area 1 to peer upon them due to a lack of space.

As the sparkles multiply and grow, EX Dylan nudges Rey. "How do we defuse?"

"Take off the armband."

The fusion does so, and Omega hands Rey the Metamo-Ring back. "whoa what just- Oh, right."

Mothra Arrives!

The sparkles congeal into a ray of light that pierces into the heavens above and expands, clearing the skies and bringing a dawn-like radiance.

"Whatever this thing is, I see it has chosen for quite a spectacle of an entrance," Kishar comments wryly.

From the skies comes another equally bright ray of light, creating a blinding spot right at the cloud level.

The first things to emerge from that brilliant light are two gigantic insectoid wings, so massive they flap more like the wings of a great bird. The next is a sound. The voice of Mothra, calling out like a deafening song. If you're not taken directly to it, it's the one at 42 seconds.

And at last, the Queen of the Monsters emerges in full. The view of her, sparkling and gleaming brightly, is breathtaking.

Especially to those gathered right underneath where she is landing. She lands on all her limbs at once, and now they are able to get a good look at her.

She has the utterly massive wingspan,◊ mantis-like forelimbs, and general form◊ of her MonsterVerse incarnation, but the softer and more brightly-colored hair, as well as the opaque wing texture, of her older appearances.

"It's beautiful."

Rey: "She's beautiful. It looks like she's taken design cues from both those Legendary teasers and Heisei, though. Huh..."

Dylan: "Well boys, we did it. Feel free to pat yourselves on the back," he comments as he does exactly that.

Omega takes a few steps back, being careful to make sure he doesn't slip off the edge or bump into anyone. "Wow... That is... that is a big... Wow."

Mothra looks down at the gang and chirps. Damn, that is loud.

The Shobijin bow to Mothra, then turn around and bow to the heroes. "Mothra says she is forever indebted to you for the hardships you endured to bring her into this world in a time of great strife. She will fight on the side of you and your friends, for as long as you require her service."

Rey immediately steps up. "Dylan, you have the Warrior. Omega, you have your Stand. Rbade has his Wolverinekugan and the new guy's powers haven't been figured out yet. I call dibs."

"That is.... a very big friend. I think my brain broke."

Rey looks at Mothra. "Do you know about Galeem and Dharkon, the two big nasty orb-things that made a mess of this place?"

Mothra chirps again.

"She does indeed."

Rey looks around at his team, reading their expressions.

He turns back to Mothra. "Then I say take us back to our hotel and then go assist with the shit happening in the Dark Realm. Please?"

Mothra nods. That needs no translation. She flexes her wings, sparkling dust shedding from them. The lifting feeling returns, and in an instant the gang is King Crimson'd back to the front of Hotel del Rey, in Whiterun, with Mothra flapping her wings in place above them.

"Jesus."

Rhea bolts out in an instant. "YO HOLY DEMON REALM IS THAT MOTHRA"

"Yes," Rey says flatly. "Yes it is."

Kishar notes, "Ah, teleportation. Such a magnificent convenience! If it's alright, I think I'll go meet up with the rest of..."

She pauses for a moment, struggling with the point of reference and the grammar. "My... selves?"

"Yeah sure go ahead."

"In that case, I will do that."

Mothra lets out another cry to the whole Arena, then takes off in the direction of Skuldafn.

Rey staggers into the hotel along with Kishar, presumably also Omega and Dylan with the Warrior 'parked outside'. He breaks away from them, goes up to his room, which feels like it's been vacant for months, and collapses on his bed, falling asleep.

END SCENE

Nik waves to Nicole as she walks in.

When Nicole makes her remark, Mikael rests his chin on one hand and grunts, annoyed. "Was that literally the only thing about me you told her?"

"Um, other than being a fellow Draconian and my mentor, I'm afraid so. Sorry about that."

"You do that with someone again, I'll leave you at your parents' house for a month."

"Oh, no! I swear I'll never do it again!"

They both laugh. When they calm down, Mikael turns to Nicole. "Yes, I am Mikael Crest. Never refer to me by the moniker of 'Five Braids' again; I would appreciate not being known by that."

Lucas gets his scepter ready to protect himself, but actually looks confused when Doppio runs past him. He doesn't notice the arm, but when the Franklin Badge starts moving, the Rope Snake acts yet again, as the Masked Man predicted, and grabs a hold of the badge.

However, Thor manages to snatch it out of the snake's jaws, to Lucas' shock. When the Masked Man catches it, he quickly pockets it to keep it safe, then immediately strikes at Lucas with a powerful bolt of lightning.

The impact makes Lucas scream, but luckily the attack only lasts a few seconds, and Lucas is still alive, though a little dazed too. Masc climbs out of the tree, and the Masked Man, knowing what's coming, speaks up first.

"I didn't aim to kill, so don't complain."

Masc's expression makes it clear that he was about to, but he stays silent. He instead puts his hands on the ground, sending a puddle of tane fuel over to Lucas to grab a hold of the arm holding the scepter, his left arm, and keep it pinned on the ground. Rope Snake leaps off of Lucas to try to get to Masc, but Duster jumps out of the trees and catches him by the neck, leaving it unable to do anything but squirm helplessly.

"That's two major issues dealt with.", he says as Kumatora now also comes out of cover.

It's starting to look like they're close to winning. However, Lucas still has some tricks up his sleeve. He raises his free hand and emits a powerful flash of light.

"Close your eyes!", Kumatora yells, recognizing that it's PK Flash. The four of them do so, and so does Rope Snake, knowing better than to look at it too.

They better do close their eyes, because, with how much Lucas' psychic powers have heightened, the chance that Flash will instakill its victims is now over 90%.

Doppio protect himself by slamming his head against the ground, in a move that means that he's out-cold for the next turn.

My sweet Doppio, it is fortunate that you have a power such as ours !

Morgan cover her eyes, she's still charging her spell.

I'm going to try to take him out in one shot, before he can use his Final Smash. Don't worry, I know how to calibrate magic to avoid killing people !

Camilla accept Pietro's offer, though he'll notice that carrying a full grown woman in armor is pretty... difficult (unless he has Super-Strength).

Regardless, she nods.

Ha, thank you for being fair to a lady ! says Camilla. When PK Flash comes up, she closes one eye and uses her other hand to keep her bang pressed on the other, though she close that one to be sure.

—

So, anything crazy happening ?

No, no. Huh, it's good, because I haven't been stressed for a while and...

Mothra makes her appearance, causing Tony and Banner, who were talking within a building, to fall over in shock. Mantis seems unsurprised, waving at Mothra from a window.

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Thanos eye the Mothra situation from his ship, but does not approach, simply quietly stroking his purple chin with his gauntlet.

Brainiac notes the arrival of the kaiju and its subsequent disappearance. A moment passes before another alert sounds, notifying the android that Mothra has reappeared in Whiterun.

His equipment quickly adjusts itself to relocate Mothra, zooming in and cataloging the most notable aspects of the kaiju.