Remains of the Tournament Arena
Aleifr starts to ready another round of blasts as Orochi is stunned, though he pauses as he thinks of switching it up a bit - Jack Frost's Bufudyne in particular reminds him of a different way to manifest elemental attacks. He reaches within for the accumulated energy and ki he's absorbed - while he was intended to keep it to study later, it wouldn't hurt to use just a little right now, especially if it's For Science!
"Let's try this combination..." He concentrates for a moment, and his power output spikes as he gains a golden aura and hair, once again borrowing the Super Saiyan transformation. A trio of energy balls take shape in front of his palm, taking the form of fire, lightning and wind respectively as he shoots it out. "Agidyne, Ziodyne, Garudyne!"
Edited by AqueousBunnies on Jan 23rd 2021 at 1:30:45 PM
Divine Burden
Momoshiki frowns and fly up, though his grimace soon makes way for a smirk as he hold his hands out.
Looks like a generous donator is on the way.
He doesn't so much as glance at the others.
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
If the Loptyr cultists were not monstrously evil, one would probably feel pity for these particular ones as they scream in pain and terror upon being melted alive.
Julius, naturally, doesn't bat an eyelid upon seeing this happen.
"Perhaps mere footsoldiers are wasted here. I'd rather not see them all dead before I can throw them at Anna." , he says.
"You haven't impressed me enough yet to warrant holy weapons, but how about I send some actual Einherjar at you?"
Warping into the fray is a total of nine Sages. Six of them look like generic mage soldiers in uniform, but three of them look like they're something more special.
"Deal with him." , Julius simply says to the Sages.
"At once, my lord.", one of the three girls says as the generic Sages move in towards Ganondorf, sending 2 Elfire flame bursts, 2 Elthunder bolts and two Elwind streams Ganondorf's way.
A strange sound can then be heard in the air, and Ganondorf will, alongside those attacks, suddenly find a bunch of giant, iron arrows being launched his way.
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Enemy Units
SQUADRON: NPC Sages X6 (Non-Einherjar), Level 18.
- Weapons: Elwind, Elthunder, Elfire (14 Might)
- Stats: 50 HP, 1 Str, 13 Mag, 14 Skl, 14 Spd, 6 Lck, 9 Def, 12 Res
Vampa (Fire Sage)
, Eliu (Thunder Sage)
, Fetra (Wind Sage)
, Level 20.
- Weapons: Elfire, Elthunder, Elwind (14 Might), Life Ring X3 (Restores 10 HP every turn).
- Stats: 52 HP, 2 Str, 16 Mag, 16 Skl, 16 Spd, 7 Lck, 11 Def, 15 Res
- Skills: ???
- Weapons: Iron Arch (25 Might)
- Stats: ?? (Depends on each archer)
"Then I'll go talk to her and Flowey now. Chara can stay with you while you wait.", Frisk says.
"Wait, what-"
Frisk is immediately off, and Chara starts yelling at them in comical anger.
"Frisk, wait! Damn you! You know I'm not good at being on my own!"
Frisk just smiles trollishly before entering the inn, leaving Mettaton with Chara. As for Chara, he just floats there in awkward silence, glancing away and rubbing his arm. Who'd have thought that a formerly demonic murderer would have troubles in a social aspect.
"I see how that'd be an issue that can't easily be solved. Your hands are more tied than mine ever were.", Areui says. "But at least try to really take things into perspective and ask yourself this."
He crosses his arms, looking serious.
"Are your own inevitable demise and making an enemy out of people, all unrelated to your goal, really necessary to get the revenge you want? Is there no way to get it without envisioning your own death and harming people who have nothing to do with this? I'm not judging you on all of this, because I know I am one of the people most unfitting to do so. I just want you to think about it. The way you're doing things now will just earn you more and more enemies."
He tilts his head a little.
"Maybe you think I'm just giving you a spiel, and I doubt I'm the first one you've heard something like this from. But it's clear to me that you heard about my story and struggles, and brought me here to learn how I handled all that, likely because of our similarities. And what I'm saying now is part of a thought process that came to be from looking back at the things I've done."
He then looks troubled.
"A lot of people got hurt because of my actions as well. I'm also indirectly responsible for a lot of problems back home... as well as deaths... if I could do it all over, I would've been more careful, less aggressive and less manipulative, or at least not as manipulative in a damaging way. I know, hindsight and all that, but it's still true."
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jan 23rd 2021 at 7:43:29 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
[PASIO]
Sporacles's ears perk up.
"Nevermind! I hear the next big thing!"
Aaaand he's gone narrow-brain too. Karstodes gruffs at being ignored by both other parties.
"Fine then! I'll take this 'big thing' down all by my lonesome, and show you up!"
/＼｡｡/＼
Laxin, Sith Emperor
The TXRA absolutely obliterated one of the walkers, tearing it to naught but scrap. Bits and pieces of metal flying in a large radius, although most of them were small enough to not do any lasting damage to the rest of the Imperials.
With everyone else having fled, however, all fire was focused on the TXRA. The fighter squadron above, the imperial infantry, and the remaining walker. The fleet of dreadnoughts came close enough to begin bombarding him as well but chose not to fire.
The Avenger - Bridge
A rage-fueled scream echoed across the entire ship, Laxin at its center. The Emperor turned to face the crew, none of them could manage to hide their fear-plagued faces from Laxin's fury.
Laxin stormed out of the bridge, Admiral Pola soon tailing him as he continued forward. Laxin gave the woman a quick glance, nearly freezing her in terror. The Emperor spoke,
"I want that Jedi slime tracked down, and I expect a full report from the Commander on his utter failure to stop this prison break."
"Anything else my lord?"
Admiral Pola said gently, the woman coming to a sudden stop as the Emperor before her stood still. Laxin turned to face Pola,
"Inform Jobak I have requested his presence, immediately."
The admiral gave Laxin a brief nod, turning to head into the bridge.
Men have regrets
King of the Monsters
Warrick's fighter flies away with himself and Raeii aboard.
Grima's eyes flash yellow, and a barrage of Thoron bolts fly forth at Ganondorf as well.
Ganondorf is battered by the projectile onslaught. However, he maintains his footing and raises his swords to the sky, causing lightning to strike them, then sweeps them and fires a pair of large electric rings at the mages, and more at the Fell Dragon.
"So... what do you think of the merch?"
Narktus remains silent until Areui is done speaking.
"... Th...thank you, Areui."
He telekinetically grabs a bag of pretzels, and a mouth-shaped hole in his mask suddenly materializes for him to eat through.
With a gesture, the wall behind Areui opens up, allowing him to leave.
DUM
Some support pillars towards the edge of the castle
◊ collapse.
DUM
On the opposite side, a bridge
◊ falls to rubble.
And within the gate to which that bridge led
◊, a figure emerges, unleashing a hellish cry at those it sees gathered before it as it rises up on its hind legs, destroying the archway, then it gets down on all fours and climbs over the rubble.
It licks its lips with an appropriately long, reptilian tongue.
Then, suddenly moving like a serpent, it crawls around its foes, looming right over their heads and getting dangerously close
◊ with a snarl.
Fatalis beats its tattered wings, rises up on its hind legs, and roars!
This time it does not immediately lower itself, instead craning its neck and spitting a fireball at Momoshiki. If it hits, he will find that it hurts.
Like, from peak condition to 60% vitality in one hit hurts.
Then, it turns its head and spews flames on the ground in an arc at Karstodes and Sporacles, leaving lingering burning patches on the ground.
Which explode moments later, dealing even more damage than the fireball if they get caught.
Artillery
Wall
◊: Cannons x3
Edited by KiriK on Jan 23rd 2021 at 1:05:20 PM
"He's gearing up for war."
Onyxis - Imperial Outpost
The combined fire of the remaining forces of the outpost is obviously far too much for TXRA to handle all at once, and staying here would be... bad for his health. However, he sees that he's done his job as the rest of the team is a safe distance away. He endures a few more seconds, buying time for his teleport to come off cooldown again. "Well, so long!" With that, he yeets out of the battle.
Edited by AqueousBunnies on Jan 23rd 2021 at 1:59:50 PM
Divine Burden
Momoshiki frowns and hold his right hand out, confident in his chances that he can absorb the fireball. While he succeed at absorbing a good part of it, he's not so quick enough that the rest of it can't crash into him and smack him to the ground, triggering an explosion.
However, the flames are quickly blown away by Momo, who emerges. It hurts, for sure, but his absorption allowed him to reduce the damage... Though his snarl indicate he wasn't expecting this.
I've tamed worse! Prepare to become my pet! He boasts, creating chakra pills in his right hand. He swallows it, and smirks, power coursing through him. He take one step forth and one step back, and raise his hand, creating a potent (though weaker than the original) fireball, which he yeet at Fatalis... but then he yeet more of them, laughing as he swipes his arm and send fiery death at the drake!
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
[PASIO]
Neither Sporacles nor Karstodes are much for artillery. Sporacles dodgerolls away from the attack and behind some rubble, whilst Karstodes moves a second too late and is caught on fire.
"Aiee! My sumptuous musculature!"
He manages to get out of the area before the detonations, but the oil he is lathered in is on fire and whittling away at him. He lunges, intent on smacking Fatalis with the blade attached to his arm.
/＼｡｡/＼
Laxin, Sith Emperor
Above Castle Schrade
From far above the castle in a flash of light, a starship
◊ appears. It circles overhead for a few moments, scanning the dragon and walls below.
The starship didn't take long to spring into action though, dive-bombing toward the ground. Once it came critically close to just crashing, it swung upward, and from the lower half of the ship dropped a Guardian.
The woman
◊ was clad in shining armor, blacks and golds bordering the armor. This Guardian was massive in stature, her helmet holding a single eye.
Wait.. was it blinking?
The Guardian drew a gun from her lower back, raising it to the massive beast before her.
Men have regrets
Explora Colores
After the attack, the Astro Top returned to the hands of his owner.
I... hit him!
Topboy was visibly touched, with tears in his eyes. His partner was hugging him, and "Clownface" only gave him a pat in his back. But Susana was keeping the calm.
The battle is not over. We have lost the surprise factor. We must draw close to the being and inmobilize him. Ideas?
I'll see if in my Bag of Holding I got something.
"Clownface" was checking his bag, where only his clowning instruments must enter, and pulled out 5 hula-hoops. His idea was throwing them to the being, trapping him. If works, then his team partners could start to attack at a distance again.
Edited by BombonBombin on Jan 23rd 2021 at 1:13:11 PM
King of the Monsters
Fatalis charges through the fireballs, aiming to just trample over Momoshiki, then it snaps at Karstodes right as the latter attacks, aiming to leave its mark on him. With teeth.
It then turns to the Guardian wielding Hawkmoon and fires a fireball at her.
"He's gearing up for war."
Divine Burden
Momoshiki skillfully fly away and zip around, frowning at the fireballs having no visible effect.
Hmph! He put his hands together and create what seems to be an halo of red chakra, composed of six spheres held together by ropes of a sort. All six fire at Fatalis, each triggering a large explosion on landing!
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
The regular mages bite the dust, but Vampa, Eliu and Fetra swiftly dodge by blasting their magic attacks downwards, propelling them up.
"Take this! ELFIRE!" "ELTHUNDER!" "ELWIND!"
They fire the same attacks as the mages did a moment ago, though do so from the air, before they've even landed back on the ground, both trying to damage Ganondorf for the sake of doing damage, and for the sake of giving themselves a safe opportunity to land back on the ground.
The Ballista reload.
Chara looks back at Mettaton.
"Me? ... uh, well...
He quickly looks around to make absolutely sure nobody else is around before he leans closer and whispers to Mettaton, looking slightly embarrassed.
"Don't you dare tell a soul... but I think it looks pretty good."
He then looks a bit more like his usual self again.
"I did take notice of a factor that I wanted to ask you about though..."
Feeling a bit less on edge now that it seems he and Narktus can relate to one another on some level, Areui is less wary. Before today, he had never really expected to meet anyone who not only experienced a form of injustice comparable to his own who also wanted to talk about it... and was willing to listen to his side without disregarding it.
He glances behind him to see the way out, then looks back at Narktus for a moment.
"No problem... I just hope what I told you will be useful to you.", he says, now finally reaching for a snack to take with him on the way out, though doing it a bit slowly to see if Narktus would be okay with it.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Monster Eater Champion
Hub Centralis, A hotel.
Shulk, having his breakfast, suddenly drops his plate as his eyes flash with a blue light, as he sees something. Something horrific. Fiora runs over, concerned as can be, asking "Shulk! Is everything alright? Did you have a vision?"
Shulk nods, saying, rather bluntly, "Y... Yes. I saw... an outbreak of a disease in the arena. Bodies all over, not anyone we know, but... various districts of the hub and other parts of the arena were seemingly under quarentine. Men with flamethrowers burning bodies. And there was... a theater. Both a surgical theater and a theater of play. Three doctors were there... discussing... something. Then there was a flash." Fiora nods, as shulk stands up, saying "I don't know how long we have, but something has to be done to stop this."
The Bachelor arrives
Memento Mori
A bachelor of medicine arrives in hub centralis in a part of the city resembling early 20th century russia, carrying a bag of surgical tools and other medical equipment fitting for the era. He seems unconcerned for the oddities of the arena, as he enters the city. "A long journey, but a complete one none the less. This is the world where death forgets its duties, it must be. Perhaps here, I can find a way to slay this eternal foe of mankind..."
This man is named Daniil Dankovsky.
Traditional, and nontraditional, Medicine
Artemy Burakh, surgeon, arrives at the hub centralis on a train, soon being assailed by three men. He, in self defense, kills all three, but is wounded afterwards. He aproaches the strange town, just another actor in this play. "This is not my home, and yet, it feels familiar. Mayhaps my father is here, in this strange land."
There is one actor left to arrive, but, the scriptwriters are unsure of her part so far. this play is, after all, work in progress.
[PASIO]
Karstodes is knocked out of the air (albeit not instantly, his slash possibly still landing). He seems outright offended that he is now marred with bite marks.
"How dare you? First the fire, now this?!"
He picks up a great chunk of rubble and tosses it at Fatalis's head.
Sporacles has somehow managed to sneak next to one of Fatalis's legs and tries to go ham with his Thermoblade on it.
/＼｡｡/＼
Laxin, Sith Emperor
The Guardian was in fact, a titan. As such, she stands her ground against the massive fireball, erecting a towering barricade to shield herself from the intense flame.
She swiftly moved out of her barricade, letting loose a few shots at the beast, directed toward its eyes. If she couldn't manage to land a shot, she'd press forward, building up intense speed moving toward Fatalis.
Men have regrets
King of the Monsters
The electric blast impacts fruitlessly against the Fell Dragon, to his mirth.
Ganondorf jumps over the spells, landing in front of the mages, and does a simple diagonal cleave with both swords in succession.
"Myeeeeeees?"
Narktus quietly nods to Areui to let him know it's okay. It seems he's done talking.
Karstodes' slash causes a flash of light that indicates it was a critical hit on Fatalis, as do the Guardian's gunshots, proving that Fatalis' head is definitely a weak point. It doesn't happen with Momoshiki's blasts, the thrown rock, or the attack to the leg, though.
Fatalis lowers down on all fours, cranes its neck, and unleashes a massive jet of flame over a triangular area in front of it. It's possible to get out of the fire, hide behind some rubble, or even climb up to the wall with the cannons to get above it... but if you don't do any of that, you're toast.
And then it finishes the fiery nova by creating a point-blank explosion to fuck up anyone who thought they'd be safe if they stood right next to its head instead of in front of it.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 23rd 2021 at 1:39:49 PM
"He's gearing up for war."
Divine Burden
Momoshiki does fly behind the wall for protection, but he's smart enough to raise his hand just a bit so as to absorb some of the fire. This grant him a pill, which he ingest and turn into raw power!
No way those weaklings could hit harder than I... surely...
He comes out and uses the Byakugan, attempting to use it to enhance his precision as he smirks viciously and raise his arm above his head, laughing madly.
THERE YOU ARE! He says, shooting an intense stream of flames out of the eye on the palm of his hand, aiming to impact the head!
Edited by Bolded1 on Jan 23rd 2021 at 8:39:56 PM
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
Intrigue
Pietro sits outside of the abandoned G.E.M base, checking something on his phone.
"I know this is a big place and all, but you'd think a symbol that looks like a crossed-out eye would be a little easier to track down..."
[PASIO]
Crits are cool, but Sporacles's MO is Death of a Thousand Cuts, so he ain't gonna risk his ass for one. He just keeps slashing at the nearest leg.
The lucky Karstodes takes only a few seconds to get out of the fire, and can literally feel himself being cooked! He is alive, though.
"W-wretched daemon beast!"
He stops, drops, rolls, and jumps out of the roll in a lunge to try and slash at the head again on his way past.
/＼｡｡/＼
While Vampa and Eliu get hit by Ganondorf's sword and hit the ground, Fetra's so swift on her feet that she's able to dodge the swing immediately after landing.
Vampa and Eliu aren't dead though, and their Life Rings heal them a little. As they get back up, the Ballista fire both at Ganondorf and the area in front of him, which'll block him off from Vampa and Eliu for at least a little bit.
Knowing that this means she'll have to deal with him on her own for at least a moment, Fetra swoops behind him, firing off a powerful Elwind blast at him, trying to push him forward and destabilize him as well. If successful, he won't be able to defend himself as well against the Ballista shots as he would have otherwise.
"Well, one detail stood out to me, and..."
—
About fifteen minutes later, Frisk brings a nervous-looking Alphys
◊ out of the inn, bringing her over to Chara and Mettaton. Flowey
◊ is sitting on Frisk's shoulder, probably tagging along out of interest in the situation.
As such, Areui takes a snack with him before spreading his wings again.
"Thanks for the treat.", he quickly says before he flies back out.
A playing card is suddenly thrown at the ground right next to Pietro, which may startle him. If he then looks up at the roof of the now abandoned base, he'll see a grinning Hisoka sitting there, looking at him.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Laxin, Sith Emperor
The Guardian dived out of the way of the flame, managing to duck behind a nearby wall just before she was absolutely incinerated. Her gaze traveled upward, landing on the cannons above her.
She had an idea, the guardian jumped up, using her jump kit to boost her to the top of the wall. She looked down at the cannon, looking for any particularly obvious loading mechanism.
Men have regrets
King of the Monsters
Ganondorf is pushed back by the Elwind, causing a few Ballista shots to hit and stick into his armor.
"Pathetic." He creates a large fireball that homes in on Fetra, exploding powerfully if it hits her or the terrain, or she evades it for long enough.
Mettaton waves to them. "Well, hellooooooooooo~!"
At the back of the cannon is an open compartment, seemingly meant to top-load cannonballs into it. It looks like it could fit up to five cannonballs, which are conveniently sitting stacked in a wooden crate nearby.
Fatalis briefly recoils from Karstodes' slash, while Momoshiki's fire blast... does nothing because it's immune to fire, though the crit VFX do appear. It fires a concentrated jet of flame at the ground and sweeps it out towards Guardian, leaving more smoldering patches that explode moments later. If she stays away from the edge of the cannon wall, she'll be fine, but if not, that's an ouch.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 23rd 2021 at 2:15:37 PM
"He's gearing up for war."
Oh, wait-
As soon as Lucy is back, she's out of there yet again.
Castle Schrade
A hint of movement, a flicker of a tail...
The streaking shimmer of black scales.
Something heavy is stomping its way through the castle.
The sky turns red, the ground starts to rumble, rain starts to fall, and some ruined walls begin to crumble.
"He's gearing up for war."