Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

Joshua trudges quietly through the snowy tundra, nearing the back entrance. It didn't look like it had any guards, which didn't sit quite right with the Spartan.

"I certainly don't, but I suspect all the attention won't immediately divert to the frontal assault."

The ground around the base shook briefly as Lacia's explosion was set off, the Spartan chuckling

"Looks like the fireworks already started."

The Imperial Forces weren't all that surprised by the frontal assault, a massive group of soldiers and droids taking position around the base defensively. The Infantry◊ wore snowy garments for the harsh tundra surrounding them, but they still fell just as easily.

Lacia's explosions took out a large chunk of soldiers, but more poured out from seemingly every angle in the base. Crimson sabers ignited within the lines of soldiers pouring outward, Sith Warriors rushing aggressively toward the assailants.

As the soldiers poured out, golden projectiles slammed into them, slaying them before they even had the chance to raise their blasters. From within the base itself, an immense number of war droids◊ poured out, their heavy blasters trained on the assault force.

It certainly looked like the assault force had the full attention of the Imperials, but this wasn't going to be easy. Once the Imperials had reached positions, they started to let loose fire.

Lambert's sniper fire was taking out soldiers with ease, they were stood still and more focused on Lacia and the others. Although it didn't seem to be making much of a dent in their numbers.

The clone commandos poured out from Warrick's ship, running forward in a diamond formation. Discharge pulled a belt of thermal detonators from his chest, throwing it toward the Imperials.

Silver quickly swapped to his sniper attachment, and just before the detonators hit the ground, he sniped one of them in the air. This caused the entire belt to explode, killing at least a dozen Imperials.

Bogey and Sovereign stuck with their base attachment, using their rapid firing blasters to force some of the Imperials to cover.

All four commandos dived to some nearby cover, but it wouldn't last long.

500 Imperial Infantry

250 Mark II War Droids

100 Sith Warriors

It begins!

Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Jan 20th 2021 at 4:25:32 AM

Medic comes out and keeps his healing beam on Warrick, the most visibly heavily-armed member of the team who isn't also a superbeing.

Über: 17%

Warrick draws twin heavy blaster pistols and begins unloading on the opposing forces, walking right towards them without bothering for anything like cover or dodging.

Lacia alone doesn't take cover, her enhanced sixth sense allowing her to perceive danger and deflect or avoid it. It's not too perfect tough, and she's hit in the shoulder, eventually forcing her to also seek cover.

She turn her sword into a whip and swipe it into the air. This seemingly spawn fireballs, who fly high into the air before coming down at the Imperials. Then, Lacia herself get up and use her sword as fire shotgun, hurling pellets of fire at the group, while pumping the air after each shot... When she doesn't need to.

SORRY

Anna being played by someone else, I think we'll have to wait until they're ready before continuing the shepherds scene, apologies

"Youre annoying"

she stared at the clown, cearly irritated by it

she looked back over at the dragon, intruiged by its words

"What do you mean by wiped away"

not visible to either person, some arms had sprouted from her back and were closeto both of them, but not touching

"Good idea, if you want to immediately draw attention to ourselves and jeopardize the operation," Ben says to Skippy. "Don't forget that you're on the stealth team."

When Joshua doesn't come up with a way to bypass the ray shield, he contemplates his options for a moment, then reaches out to try telekinetically seizing the control panel and deactivating the shield with the Force.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 20th 2021 at 3:34:26 AM

Exactly as it sounds. Anything that touches my scales, and is not at least as powerful as me...

Kuro flexes her wings, one of which brushes against the Vector nearing her and destroys it instantly, though the clown wouldn't notice unless he can see the invisible.

Ceases to be. And few things are as powerful as me.

Edited by KiriK on Jan 20th 2021 at 5:41:03 AM

{droidspeak:"I'm just spitballing, jerk."}

It watches Ben try to do force things and questions why that wasnt his Plan A.

Edited by Rbade on Jan 20th 2021 at 3:38:13 AM

Onyxis - Imperial Outpost

Seeing more soldiers pour forth, realizing how many they're going up against and looking to the clone commandos, Lambert that he's playing it too safe. But before he goes all gung-ho, he releases one of his drones to let it take flight, staying about a twenty meters above and behind him. The cloth of his mask weaves itself to cover Lambert's non-dominant left eye as he switches over, giving him simultaneous first and third-person views so that he won't be caught off guard.

He decides to piggyback on Lacia's blasting shtick, but instead of her and Warrick's 'tactic' of just going all-in, he shifts his attention to the commandos. "Blizzard II. Thunder II. Fire II." He starts giving support fire in the form of elemental explosions every few seconds at the troops closing in on their position, providing them with some breathing room to maneuver while also testing whether their enemies are weak to any particular element. The sudden increase in firepower might alert them to his presence, or even his position.

Lambert's Buffs: Flask of Frost, Thermal Vision, Third Eye

Edited by AqueousBunnies on Jan 20th 2021 at 6:55:38 AM

Ben's attempt to use the force on the control panel within the building seemed to succeed, the shield lowering for a brief moment. Although a few seconds later, it sprung back to life.

Joshua points to a trash chute on the wall next to the back door,

"Maybe that's our way in? Get one of you two inside through that, then you disable the barrier? We couldn't manage to get the interior blueprints, so I've got no clue if that'll work, but that's better than blowing a hole into it."

The Spartan walks closer to the door, scanning the wall for any cameras or sensors of some kind. He looks behind him, beckoning the pair behind him to follow. The Spartan walked right up to the shielded door, his gaze traveling to the trash chute.

It was big enough for Ben or the droid to go through, but certainly too small for the massive Spartan.

"Looks like that's our quietest way in."

With the extreme lack of care Warrick demonstrated, the Imperials began to focus fire on him. The heavy blaster bolts from his twin pistols took down one infantry after another, even managing to fell a few war droids in his careless push forward. The Medic was also in the line of fire, but Warrick was the primary focus.

Although Medic would have another problem on his hands, two Sith Warriors vaulted over the firing line of the Imperial infantry, flawlessly dodging through each laser bolt to rush toward him and slice him apart.

Lacia's fireballs exploded into large torrents of flame, engulfing large groups of soldiers and burning them into a fine ash. Her fire shotgun caught a few Sith Warriors attempting to rush her, the fire pellets burning through their bodies and armor.

A group of a dozen Sith Warriors rushed toward the woman, crimson sabers in hand attempting to slice her apart quickly.

Lambert's blizzard spell was the only magic that saw resistance from the soldiers, mostly in part to their adapted armor for the environment. The intense flame and lightning though, tore into many soldiers, killing them.

The thunder spell was certainly most effective versus the war droids, frying their electrical parts, effectively turning them into giant paperweights on the battlefield. There was still plenty of Imperial lefts, and now that Lambert had stepped out of cover, some soldiers began to spray into him, hoping to land a shot.

The clone commandos took the opportunity to peek from cover, swapping to their anti-armor attachments. The four fired their explosive payloads, blowing away Imperial cover and killing some soldiers.

440 Imperial Soldiers

220 Mark II War Droids

95 Sith Warriors

Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Jan 20th 2021 at 5:19:30 AM

Warrick takes a number of hits, but the Medigun immediately heals them off as he continues firing. Similarly, the Medic eats a blaster bolt or two, but not so many that his inherent slow regeneration can't sustain him.

Then the Warriors attack. Warrick uses his jetpack to get in front of them and attempts to catch them both by the necks, before throwing one aside and chokeslamming the other into the ground.

And from the skies above, the serpentine dragon that Warrick mentioned descends.

Über: 33%

Edited by KiriK on Jan 20th 2021 at 6:20:36 AM

Lucia throws her sword into the air and use her Sixth Sense to pull off a sick dodge, managing to dodge the sabers (though her armor is nicked in spots, narrowly missing flesh)... and the rain of flaming swords that come down from the sky, aiming to hit and impale them all, though Lucia's Ultra-Instinct-like ability allows her to move out of the way.

She pick up her sword and most of the other swords coalesce back into one, amplifying its size and durability back to normal. At that point, she swing a crescent-shaped flame projectile at a group... but alas, she notices the drake and raise her hands!

My friends! A most dangerous predator approach! Stay wary of those below, for I shall need to temporarily vacate these premises to communicate! She sprouts flaming wings and then attempts to reach the Dragon, extending her arms to the side.

Halt, great one! A most important battle for the fate of a noble warrior is unfolding below! Though I dare not give orders to a resplendant one such as thee, allow me to at least ask of you to lend us your aid in this battle, so that your considerable power may shift the tides and prevent evil from consuming more lives in the future!

She sheath her sword and joins her hands in prayer.

Edited by Bolded1 on Jan 20th 2021 at 1:21:52 PM

"Stang... this would've been easier if that horned woman were here."

Huffing with annoyance, Ben follows Joshua over to the trash chute and shakes his head.

"Oh, no... Oh, there has to be a less foul-smelling way through. But if there isn't, I suppose this will have to do..."

He proceeds to reluctantly jump through the chute.

Skippy beeps with alarm when Ben just jumps in, and watches him fall. He tries to lessen his falling velocity with the Force.

Onyxis - Imperial Outpost

Lambert takes his eye off his scope as he starts seeing incoming fire in his general direction. "Ah, there we go." A couple lucky shots hit him, though his ice armor takes the damage in his stead, shards flying off of his person to hit non-existent melee enemies.

Seeing his Thunder spells doing the most damage, he uses his minor telekinesis to take out some special ammo - the first of many stored shots, skipping their normally long casting times in favor of the faster act of loading.

"Electric Cachexia." He uses a lightning shot at one of the droids, intending to take out a larger number of enemies with just one spell while they're crowded. However, it neither deals instant damage nor does it quite chain like one would expect from a standard Chain Lightning attack. It instead acts more like a spreading infection, dealing Damage Over Time and jumping to nearby enemies before it burns itself out within each individual (and in many cases the individual with it), like a plague on overdrive. It could be stopped by changing formations to 'quarantine' the infected, but in a chaotic environment like this... good luck.

Before he takes any more fire, he releases a second drone, this time blowing turbulent wind around himself to create a pseudo-smokescreen out of snow and hide his exact location. Behind his cover, he teleports about a dozen meters to his right to hide again, while the smokescreen begins to drift left to throw off his attackers.

Lambert's Buffs: Thermal Vision, Third Eye, Diversion Drone

Edited by AqueousBunnies on Jan 20th 2021 at 7:45:10 AM

Hub Centralis

Annoying? Why you dare to call me "annoying", you brat?! And a death dragon... interesting. This meeting begins to be funny.

@Bolded 1 Sure! I'll be awaiting then! Stay tuned!

Edited by BombonBombin on Jan 20th 2021 at 6:48:44 AM

"what!"

lucy took a step back, planting some vectors into the ground on her left and right

"Youve proven your words but how did you see them"

the vectors were still around the clown

"And i say as i please"

I am something akin to a god. Ethereal forces do not escape my sight.

Kuro bows her head. I apologize if my action has offended you, but I only acted to defend myself.

Another point of Hub Centralis

Travel log

My name is Susana. A year ago, I was hired by the Mexican government to protect my country of a dangerous virus, and because of this I was injected with the Energetic Serum, that gave me the powers of fly, generate invisible barriers, and heal. But a week ago, without having completed my mission, was absorbed into a mysterious portal, and appeared in a city known as Hub Centralis. My labor here is protect the people here, but today, my city turned grim... a lot of people was killed, and I was watching at distance a girl and a clown discussing with a dragon. And it went downhill from here...

due to the clown, lucy was maing it a point to look all around her, and noticed the new girl, moving some vectors over to her, she counted as human

"by the way lizad, i wouldnt have killed you, there was nothing to defend'

"i might show you mercy if you beg for it" The voice would be in the girls head

its imparative the insivisble vecotrs dont even touch the newcomer, or else her children will turn out like lucy if she has children

"And as for the rest of you, unless the clown is the same as her you hve no buisness with me'

Edited by vgm23 on Jan 20th 2021 at 5:25:58 AM

Hey Bombon, ever watched Elfen Lied? If not, well Lucy is the protagonist and the invisible hands that emerge around her are called 'Vectors', which she uses to... kill people. If a female human is touched by the Vectors and not killed, she is infected by a virus (how ironic) that causes any future children she bears to be of Lucy's species.

Kuro is able to see the vectors reaching towards Susana's location, and what she realizes... does not sit well with her.

"STOP THIS!" declares the black dragon aloud, and a shockwave emanates from her voice, capable of blowing down everyone in the immediate area.

"No. More. Killing," she snarls through bared teeth.

Edited by KiriK on Jan 20th 2021 at 7:30:46 AM

Susana noticed the girl, an said her: Don't worry, I'm only here doing my duty. I'm here protecting the city, but can't do it alone. I'm searching allies. But none of you seems to be my ally, so I'll search for another site.

And the clown said: I don't want to harm the girl, if she don't want to fight me. She's a funny girl, although a little bit stubborn.

@Kir K Thanks for the info, haven't seen that anime.

Edited by BombonBombin on Jan 20th 2021 at 7:32:35 AM

Ben would find himself in a very wide room, filled with all sorts of trash and foul liquids. The putrid smell was enough to drive anyone mad, but a quick look around the room would reveal a very large ventilation duct. The metal could easily be sliced apart by a lightsaber, and if Ben crawled inside he would eventually find himself above the room with the door.

Through the ventilation duct, he could see no one was standing there, the council unattended. How did it turn itself back on then?

Joshua waited, drawing his heavy blaster cannon from his back.

"Here's hoping the one who opens that door isn't an enemy."

The rain of flaming swords surprised the Imperials, soldiers diving out of the way as best as they could, but it didn't save all of them. Their enflamed bodies burning whilst their armor melted into the ground.

Warrick's blaster fire continued to take down the infantry one by one, his heavy blaster pistols easily shredding through their armor. Once the Sith approached, the Mandalorian caught them by their throats, one being thrown into a nearby mound of ice.

The thrown sith gets back up, raising his saber and letting out a fury filled scream. Although a moment later he was silenced by Silver's sniper attachment with a clean plasma bolt directly through the Warrior's temple.

The other three commandos loaded another grenade into their anti-armor attachments, letting loose another trio of explosive payloads into the Imperials. Although it wasn't without cost, however. Discharge was blasted off of his feet by a heavy blaster bolt from a war droid to his chest.

Sovereign's visor cracked from being shot twice in the head, the commando's shielding preventing him from a swift death. Bogey managed to dive into some more cover before he could be harmed, barely managing to escape unscathed.

Lambert's sniper shot on the droid disabled it, he had managed to strike a key position on its side. The other droids continued to clump up around it, moving forward without care. Although soon enough, the spreading electricity began to multiply across the droids. They didn't seem to care until they started to fall over, completely useless.

A small cluster of soldiers near the droids also managed to get this electrocution plague, toasting them inside their armor.

Since it seemed the normal soldiers wouldn't be enough, some sith warriors turned their attention to Lambert, rushing toward him in a flurry of red.

400 Imperial Soldiers

190 Mark II War Droids

94 Sith Warriors

Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Jan 20th 2021 at 6:40:35 AM

"Hold him still!" barks the Medic.

"Really? Okay." Warrick keeps his grip on the Sith Warrior who he chokeslammed, and Medic proceeds to brandish the Übersaw and try to impale the Sith. If successful, the Warrior will die very quickly and Medic will acquire full Übercharge.

The dragon, perhaps surprisingly, responds to Lucia, speaking a language only she can hear, which sounds to others like some kind of booming ethereal moaning. Some frost blasts start flying her way from its head, but it chats with her as if that isn't happening.

   "Well met, angel. I am Naydra, spirit of Wisdom. However, I lower my head in servitude to none but the gods. Your pleas have convinced me to stay, but I will not fight unless forced to."   

With that statement made, Naydra begins to circle around the battlefield. It seems content to watch the course of the battle for now.

Edited by KiriK on Jan 20th 2021 at 7:37:06 AM

Wait a moment! You are the criminal known as "Clownface". You are in my black list. Prepare to be arrested.

The clown was shocked. You... discovered me! You'll pay for this!

Edited by BombonBombin on Jan 20th 2021 at 7:38:59 AM

Lucy wasnt knocked over due to her planting vectors in the ground, but it did stop her from attacking for a few moments

"Why do you care lizard? these arent friends of yours"

she noted the commotion between the two and had to make a descision, does she keep questioning what she thought was a lizard, or off the two and risk erasure she went for option A of course

"Lizard, why do you protect these two, especially if one is apparently a criminal?"