"Well then perhaps I should reconsider your assignment."
Laxin opened the door before him with a swipe of his hand, entering the base. The inside of the base was relatively quiet, only a handful of soldiers and officers meandering about. Laxin's presence drew a few glances, but the flow remained the same.
The Emperor walked up to a nearby elevator, tapping the call button and waiting for its arrival. He turned to Jobak,
"If you can manage it, your assignment is a simple scouting mission. See if there are any particular areas of interest, despite my constant patrols, there is much of this place that remains unmapped... Including another region beyond the hub world, I believe it's called Tamriel?"
The elevator arrived, Laxin stepping in.
The Deliderp now stares at Pietro with its beady little eyes, tilting its head. It can't really answer his question if it can't talk.
It hops off of the table and walks over to the can, picking it up and putting it down on the side of the table, after which it turns back to Pietro and hops towards him, looking up at him once near him.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.The Deliderp tilts its head again before looking around. It then does a weird 'go on'-like motion with one of its flippers.
... wait, is it telling Pietro to leave the base?
It seems so, because regardless of what Pietro does, the Deliderp suddenly starts hopping out of the room, into the hallway and towards the exit.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Orochi Strikes!
X, who's in Demon's Shadow stance already, simply moves his hand to parry Zelerie's kick.
X: "As much as I don't mind staring down the barrel of the loaded gun that is a particularly loudmouthed Saiyan, we have much bigger things to worry about."
As Zelerie springs off of his hand to fight Orochi, he sneaks in as well, going for a meaty elbow strike from behind, into a rising knee, into a conical blast of magical energy!
X: "Death!"
He smirks at Alefir's efforts, caught a bit off guard but not incredibly phased.
Azrael smirks at Orochi as he gets attacked by the rest.
Azrael: "Let's see if you survive this. If so, then I'll feast."
Azrael enters Enchant Dragunov Level 2 in an exuberant show of force, taking up his turn.
Orochi wraps his wings around himself, letting the hula-hoops come around him, only for them to be destroyed by the antimatter as he blocks the rest, however some of them come through and hit him.
He then gets shmixed by the Saiyan, demon, and dworc, but pushes out a burst of energy to counter their final attacks, turning them into sweeping beams of energy!
Gohan starts whistling "Mahna Mahna" as he charges the Special Beam Cannon, the barrier holding up okay against the sweeping beams.
SBC: 1/5
"DIO is the ultimate being! The being of the future! Dare you not to rival me!"A chapel in a little village in Reprium
...and so our service has finished. Remember that you can buy my sacred scriptures at the hall of the chapel. Go with me.
The priest is a man wearing a simple white robe, and his bald head shines like the sun. He's none other that the Brother Warren.
Edited by BombonBombin on Jan 23rd 2021 at 8:39:06 AM
Three freaking ghosts!A few moments later, seeing as it isn't nearly as fast as Pietro, the Deliderp also exits. It looks up at him for a moment, then hops over to a stick, picking it up with its flippers and turning to Pietro.
It then plants the stick in the ground, pecking at its sides a little to damage the stick, a few layers coming off and hanging onto its side, making it look like a literal stick figure, though with four sets of arms. ... or are the upper parts supposed to be wings?
Then it looks back at Pietro, points at the stick figure...
Then at the base.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Sig raises a barrier against Orochi's retaliation, then Shaq comes up to him and they talk for a bit, inaudible due to the action.
He fires a harmless but attention-grabbing beam at Azrael and Goku, silently asking for them to come and listen to his and Shaq's idea.
Jobak nods and departs.
Omega
Nero cautiously stepped back, holding up his flesh-hand. "Easy now, big boy... no sudden moves... no death lasers... just stay calm..."
He was secretly building up a Charge Shot with the Mega Buster, ready to unleash it at the first sign that the fight was starting.
KiriK
Seemingly still more lucid than Ridley was while under the Cyber Angels' control, Safi'jiiva notes the presence of Reyna - the person whose actions it perceives as having led it to all of the pain it's endured thus far - and immediately targets her first, bitchslapping the huntress into next week.This also means that the one person present who knew how to fight this thing is no longer around to help fight it or even give advice.
Sonic catches the sound of Eggman's laughter. "Man, you really know how to up your game."
"Indeed!" he declares as he flies in on his Egg Mobile. "Behold, our greatest creation yet - Cyber Safi'jiiva!"
Guiding Lamp to the Otherworld / How Life Springs Anew
Cyber Safi roars as blue light builds up in its maw, clearly ready to attack.
Sonic shrugs. "To the dragon, a knight. Come on, Caliburn!"
A sword
◊ materializes in his hand. He then holds it up to his chest and begins to channel power...
Zenkichi and Yasha move to defend Sonic, while Schezo uses "Shadow Edge!" to turn into a silhouette and slash at Cyber Safi's face.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Pietro watches as the Deliderp creates a figure of something out of sticks, then shifts his gaze to the base. Judging by his expression, he seems to have completely understood what the bird was trying to tell him.
"Oh, don't tell me G.E.M had some kind of demon overlord locked up in their basement..."
a teenage looking girl had popped her head into the chapel, a common thing to see back home
her face glowed, and had scarily perfect features, she was so beautiful it was almost unbelivable
she wandered into the mentioned hall, seemingly just looking around
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoesTournament ruins
Damnit! The hula-hoops do nothing to him. But have to think another way to hit him.
Also, we have to protect the warrior kid... My barrier is resisting, but not for long...
The Ivan "brothers" thought together for a moment, and both of them had an idea.
I have an idea! Let me throw my top-nado again... But this time, will be different. I will require the help of all of the team.
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Three freaking ghosts!"Dr. Eggman! To think that you'd go this far to block our path...", Silver growls. Then he's momentarily distracted by Sonic summoning forth a freaking sword.
"We'll go as far as we have to. We're not underestimating you lot again." , Dr Wily says, flying in with his Wily Saucer. "Besides, this marvel of our combined intellect isn't just some roadblock. None of you will be able to beat it! I'm almost sad we won't get to destroy you ourselves."
"You better not think we're just going to sit here and listen to you taunt!", Knuckles says, leaping towards Wily... and making himself a prime target for Cyber Safi'jiiva on accident.
Assassin Base
Snively is observing the fight against Cyber Safi'jiiva. And while he doesn't like to admit it, especially because Eggman created it, he finds the mechanized dragon quite impressive.
"Well, if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that that blasted hedgehog will find some way to... is that a freaking sword!?"
The Deliderp shakes its head, as if to say 'no' to Pietro's suggestion.
It then plucks the stick back out of the ground and pockets it in its tail, as it had done with the Staff of Navitus. Could make one wonder how that tail exactly works.
It then takes out a present and puts it down in front of Pietro, after which it starts to hop away. Opening the present will reveal that there's an apple inside of it.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jan 23rd 2021 at 4:04:26 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay."Oh, thank god... Someday, I'm getting Stark or Banner to find out how you store damn near everything in that tail of yours."
As the Deliderp departs from the premises, Pietro picks up the present and opens it. Upon realizing that he'd been given an apple, of all things, he raises an eyebrow.
"Okay... the weird bird that may or may not be a god in disguise just left me an apple. I'd better not fall into some kind of endless sleep if I eat this."
He takes a closer look at the apple.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 23rd 2021 at 7:14:43 AM
The chapel
The Brother Warren was cleaning when heard steps in the hall. He went to see and saw the girl.
Oh, be welcome to the First Warrenian Chapel! Do you want to buy my last scripture? "The Answers to Universe, Life and Every Sudoku Ever Published".
Tournament ruins
Topboy explained his plan to the team.
It's very risky to use it now! But it will be our last resort. Meanwhile, it's time for some ol' good melee fighting. "Clownface", Ballonman, time to punch.
BOUNCING PUNCH! Balloonman bounces around the floor and remaining walls to punch Orochi many times. Meanwhile, "Clownface" takes out his bag his good knives.
Three freaking ghosts!It looks like it's a completely normal apple. Nothing off about it.
Because it truly is a normal apple.
—
Inside the abandoned base, something in the room that Pietro and the Deliderp were in but a few moments ago flickers a few times before silently descending into the ground.
Assasssins Base
Not long after that, the shadows in Mara's room shift about for a bit. Mara
◊, who was sipping from a glass of wine, glances back for a moment.
"They really did leave, huh? So Andropov not seeing any movement around the area for a while wasn't a fluke. What a shame."
She finishes her drink, after which she grins sinisterly.
"Let's try to look for them before the boss makes us get back to business. I'm up for some fun..."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Vs. CyberSafi
Nero turned to the camera and grimaced a bit, before side-stepping and unleashing his charged Mega-Buster shot, aiming at the cyberdragon's wings!
"Well, that didn't work so well! Any advice, Reyna?"
He looked for Reyna, and noticed a distinct lack of the hunter.
"Aaaaahhhhhh damn it."
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousCyber Safi responds to the shot at its wings by targeting Nero instead of Knuckles, answering his blast with a big mouth-blast of its own.
However, Mega Man jumps in the way and uses a Skull Barrier to reflect the blast, damaging Safi instead.
So, it just sweeps its tail across the ground, the laser-spikes adorning its tip causing explosions of Dragon energy in its wake.
Zenkichi is forced to leap out of the way, firing his guns at Cyber Safi's head.
Yasha does some weird Hand Seals and projects his energy into a defensive barrier. "I am not used to protecting a target... how long will this take?"
Some more swords appear around Sonic and begin to spin around him. "Just a little longer!"
"Hmph!" Shadow jumps over the tail, lands on it, and starts running up Cyber Safi's back.
Schezo laughs off the ground-explosions and retaliates with one of his own - "Areiado!"
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Luckily for Wily, his UFO is rather fast, so he just has it fly out of Knuckles' way, leaving him to fall down the mountain in a cartoonish way.
Silver flies over Cyber Safi'jiiva's tail-sweep, though doesn't expect the explosions and gets sent hurtling upwards. He's able to gain control over his flight again relatively quickly though, then grabs some loose rocks from the mountainside and chucks them at Cyber Safi'jiiva's head.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Vs. CyberSafi
Nero's Mega Buster fell to pieces, and was quickly replaced by the Punch Line devil breaker. It's mobility would be a welcome asset in this fight — which he decided to put to use immediately, punching forward to send the Punch Line forward with its internal rocket. A moment later, it swung back around, and Nero put a spin in his jump as he mounted it, dodging away from the explosions!
As he did so, he also fired off a salvo of shots from Blue Rose at the cyberdragon!
Castle Schrade — Scouting
Megan, clad in her armor as the Horned Warrior and travelling in a small boat, approached the strange and shifting castle. Wordlessly, she stepped ashore and began to survey the land, traveling forward slowly... The air here felt still not with death, but with an utter and true dread.
She steadied her breathing, and continued as far forward as she dared...
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousCyber Safi gets rock in its eyes and bullet in its everywhere.
But none of that matters. All it cares about is Shadow the Hedgehog on its back. It screeches and thrashes about, trying to buck him off, then when that fails, it fires a laser from every single piece of armor plating on its body, briefly turning into a glorious disco ball of fiery death.
Zenkichi gets blasted down by a laser, but he swiftly recovers and begins to ready a Megidolaon.
Yasha is driven back and forced to drop his barrier so he can jump between the gaps in the beams. He throws some Razor Wind flurries at Cyber Safi.
Sonic's sequence finishes, and he raises up Caliburn as the sword transforms into the legendary Excalibur, and he gains a sick-looking suit of golden armor
◊ that protects him from the beams!
Shadow readies a Chaos Spear for the back of Safi's neck, only to be blasted away by the lasers. He lands on his back, sits up and looks at Excalibur Sonic like 'what the hell'.
Schezo smirks and, having learned his lesson from last time he tried to parry a laser, casts a barrier spell to protect himself before unleashing the powerful Areiado Special!
Castle Schrade
It's still raining, but all other signs of Fatalis' presence are gone. The damage it had done to the castle was repaired by the Arena's inherent properties.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 23rd 2021 at 10:41:01 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

Upon realizing that he'd been joined by none other the Deliderp, Pietro can only stare at the bird in complete and utter confusion.
"...How the hell did you even get in here? There's literally no windows in this room for you to fly though," he says. "Either Loki was right about you being some weird-ass god in disguise or you're a lot sneakier than you look. Or maybe I'm just going crazy."