Zenobia looks at Oca. "Not particularly. I'd rather keep fighting forever, of course."

"In an alleyway in this city," she says to Angel.

Thouzer/Zamasu

Thouzer leaps and flips around to avoid the attacks, then dives in front of Enzo, body-blocking the book while using his aura to stop it from sealing him, so that the wizard cannot reach Zamasu.

The Fountain of Imagination is successfully destroyed, though it bursts into one last shower of Imagination sparks as it does so.

"Nuts!" Hael opts to just pepper Thouzer with gunfire from his flintlock.

—

Middler narrows his eyes. "I think I see. We have no instant effects that can get rid of Zamasu, and we can't do it gradually while the other two are here to cut us off."

He smirks. "I have a solution, but it's going to remove me from the fight."

He slides towards Zamasu like he's performing the Shun Goku Satsu, attempting to grab him and... simply teleport out into the Arena with him.

And then, once they're outside, he will finish rewinding Zamasu until he is fully mortal - and bazinga him with a Fractal Tri-Beam before the mad god can recover!

One Tri-Beam blast splits into four split into sixteen split into sixty-four split into... you get the picture. It's a kikoho with so many layers that it will instantly deplete all of Middler's stamina, but kill Zamasu with one-hundred-percent guarantee if it hits!

—

Eleven

Master Asia gets hurled away, but he stops himself in midair and leaps to support Dres.

Star Knight gets spiked through the ground. As expected, he emerges almost instantly, though instead of pressing the assault, he draws his sword back and gathers energy, making the blade swirl with a rainbow light...

Self-Insert Gang Event: Vs. BE!Overclock

KiriK

Hotel del Rey

Rey and Rhea are outside eating hot dogs with the kids - Erma, Charlie, Geo, Paintra. Hey, the Fourth of July was only four days ago when this was written - ignore that it's now August.

BombonBombin

Hey, can I eat with you? Those hot-dogs look delicious...

DevilPsyco

Andrew stays outside for just long enough to get some food, then hurries back inside to get to an empty room, feeling a little anxious around so many people. Seiros, who was enjoying a bit of food herself, notices Andrew wandering off alone and appears a little worried about him.

OmegaShadowcry

Hotel Del Rey

Omega...

Omega was standing off to the side, doing his best to look dramatic and spooky in his Azakun Armor — though he was taking a break to c o n s o o m some Hotted Dogs[tm].

Tiamat and Bahamut were also present, enjoying this mortal celebration — albeit, somewhat awkwardly. Cultural adjustment, it seems, was difficult even for gods.

Of course in Bahamut's case this could just be because he was not the shiniest shield in the shop, but thats neither here not there.

Arachnos

Arachnos, as Arachnos is wont to, is utterly oblivious to the holiday that everyone is celebrating because he is Canadian I mean, because he is a demideity that transcends nationality and time, of course. Such mortal follies are simply not his business, except when they allow him to slack off, then they're very much his business.

Therefore, he opts to spend his valuable guardian of reality time indoors, playing what can only be described as "Paper Mario, but with insects instead". And sucking at it.

DefRevenge24601

Fourth of July Party

Dylan is hanging out with the others, in a much better mood overall after a fully offscreen return to Earth to live his life up to the player's IRL current day, with bonus ability rework included.

"Hey, I'm gonna go see if Arachnos wants anything. BRB." He starts to head inside.

Rbade

Fourth of July Party

SI!Rbade eat pineapple borgar. M.

"Mmm... I don't know if I still count living in America, here, but I sure as fuck still feel AMERICAN."

Realm of Chaos

BE!Overclock is lounging about on a nebula, and, is bored. Discontent, even. Irritated? Something is tickling the edge of his awareness - some niggling wave. It raises its head.

It looks through space into the Arena and grins to itself. Fresh meat... that's what it needs. Delicious.

{Targets: Human whelp, human whelp, ghost, human(?)dragon whelp, human whelp, human whelp, human whelp, human whelp, human(?)arachnoid whelp, human whelp that somehow resembles the Original (?!), kaioshin...}

Kaioshin?!

Yeah, they're DEAD.

Fourth of July Party

BE!Overclock decides to make a suitably dramatic entrance by telefragging through Rhea, instantly reducing her lower body to a bloody red mist.

   "S K R E E O N K !"   

BE!Overclock attacks! - Invaders (Waterflame)

autohit approved ahead of time

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 12:25:40 PM

AWAY DULL CREATURE! Zamasu shines intently, repelling all the attacks on him that weren't already blocked. He laughs as the sky turns green, all but preparing to abandon his physical form...

And then Middler grabs him and send him off.

'''You wish to die alone? Gran... G Uh?! Zamasu reels back as he's unmade, going from a powerful unleashed core of a god back to his present self. He take the time to briefly scream in horror before he's blasted into fine gruel. Without his immortality to stop that, this means that he's truly eradicated, for good!

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

...

Eleven sees this and grimaces. That was a good diversion but now... oh well, time to carry this. She's struck by the hammer and punch but doesn't seems too much hurt yet again, and instead she just vanishes a few seconds after being reeled back...

However, she's actually moving at physics-defying Super-Speed, being so fast that time may as well be stopped for everybody else but Pietro and Thouzer. And even the former will be hard pressed to stop Eleven from using her speed to try to pummel the living crap out of everyone in the victiny.

Fast as a blur, she attempts to barrage everyone in the battlefield but her, Dres and Thouzer with a series of blows faster than lightning, aiming to crumple up their bodies like tin cans. It's an effortless blitz, that she unleashes on everyone at once through sheer speed!

Once done, she then begins to quickly run around the battlefield. The air created by her proceed to form a mighty tornado in an instant, which could suck up people. But since most of those are god-likes or strong, she doesn't hesitate to break away to try to uppercut them deeper into the tornado. Anyone who tries to fight against it will at least be exposed to one pummeling, though the need to maintain the tornado prevents Eleven from coming back if the initial assault fails.

However, her plan is to gather everyone in one place at least, or force them to hunker down, as done by Dres, who coat herself and Master Asia in a Susanoo and uses the Deva Path to keep it on the ground. Annoyed, Eleven turns to Thouzer.

They're all lined up, Thouzer!

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 2nd 2021 at 7:00:06 PM

Thouzer does a backflip high into the air, a bright four-point 'cross' star appearing in the sky above as the surroundings turn dark as night.

Nanto Hishō Hakurei!

With a graceful dive through the center of the storm, he crosses his hands over his shoulders and swoops down through the tornado, sweeping his arms outwards in a horizontal chop that splits through the tornado itself and inflicts devastating injuries on anyone caught inside!

will account for attacks on thouzer next post

KiriK

"Hey guys what's tha-"

Rhea's upper half drops to the ground, a look of shock on her face.

"Uh-oh. Dylan!" Rey finishes the hot dog he was eating and draws the Rough Cut 2x4.

Charlie stares at BE!Overclock, completely frozen like she's witnessed something from her nightmares.

Erma raises her fists, but she's visibly shaking.

Def

Dylan flares up with a black aura and dashes to catch Rhea before dashing back inside with her. "Arachnos, we have half a god here! Handling it is on you!"

Bombon

Lan almost chokes with his hot-dog when saw Overclock appears from nothing.

Geez, I just knew those guys and I'm going to fight with them...

He then draws his BFC (Big Freaking Crayon) and proceeds to smite the monster on its head.

Omega

Despite his dramatic demeanor and apparent seriousness, Omega had not been expecting Rhea to get telefragged by...

Well, by whatever the fuck THAT was.

"FUCK!" he exclaimed, tripping backwards over an unoccupied table and activating his 「Stand」 in a panic. His 「Stand」, speaking of which, then proceeded to flip said table over to form a makeshift barrier while Omega gathered his courage — and also while he poured a fair bit of power into his armor, for later usage.

[1/3]

"Rhea! No! I still owed her twenty gold!"

Bahamut wasted no time in drawing his gleaming sword and shield, before charging into melee combat and opening with a shield slam chained into a leaping overhead chop!

Tiamat, much more cooly, simply unleashed a concentrated beam of frost at Overclock, seeking to halt the being's motion.

"Can't a goddess and her cohorts simply enjoy a holiday?" she quipped, only mildly annoyed.

Arachnos

In the very moment Overclock emerges from Rhea's entrails, Arachnos feels a painful sensation akin to a stab to the soul, which causes him to mistime a block and take massive damage in the game. That's what he tells himself, at least. The truth is, he would have mistimed it anyway. After a moment of shock, he realizes that this is, for the first time in forever, his Guardian Sense reacting to a massive anomaly in reality. He only gets a second to ponder how come this is happening in a realm he is not supposed to even be attuned to before Def busts in, at which point he has much bigger issues on his hands.

He rushes to a window and sees the... thing outside, drenched in a pool of God blood, turning its eyeless gaze upon his new comrades. The unnatural screech twists through his essence like rusty nail.

Half a god.

He doesn't even remember last time he has fought something like this. Sure, he's had a spar with Rey and Rbade, beaten the pulp out of a few digital nuisances, but this? THIS?! His limbs begin to lock up, unable to take any action but tremble and shake.

Handling it is on you.

He cannot take his eyes off this thing. If this perversion of reality kills him, will he still come back? Will the Arena be able to do its thing? Or will he spend eternity screaming along with thousands of other souls inside an endless eldritch gullet?

"On... me..?"

On him. It's on him. The fate of the entire Arena could well rest on the shoulders of an obsolete, rusty guardian. If he fails... when he fails... what happens?

"I... I... don't..."

Wracked with dread, his body shuts down, and Arachnos collapses on his knees.

Psyco

Seiros is about to turn to Charlie to ask her if the boy that just left is doing alright, but she is then witness to BE!Overclock's way of arrival, glaring as she puts her food aside and draws her sword.

"Children, hide inside!", she calls out to Charlie, Erma and the other kids before charging forwards as well, attempting to slash at its face with her blade.

Rbade

"FUCK!"

Welp. That's Rbade's worst nightmare realized. His character has tracked him down and is very obviously feeling violent. as far as SI!Rbade is aware, this is just a Clippped Wing Angel Oca - Overclock as its own character was not a realized concept until well into my participation in the Arena

He backs up, and primes his Buster.

Ami shrieks and jumps away. She locks her bow onto the monster, but is trembling as badly as Erma.

"...!"

It snorts when Lan, Seiros, Bahamut, and Tiamat try to attack it, and displaces a couple of meters to its left - the attacks pass through thin air where it just was.

Overlock's head snaps to its left, then right, analyzing its opponents. Despite its inhuman countenance, it is very clear that it is grinning. It watches Dylan rush the Kai inside - bleh, whatever. It can finish them off once its done here.

   "THE BLOODBATH BEGINS WITH YOU"   

It talks?!

Overclock also, apparently, has firearms. Rusted submachinegun barrels erupt from its foetid flesh, and fires some scattered dakka accross the encapment. SI!Rbade is able to take cover behind his shield, and Ami leaps over them with a milisecond to spare - her nocked arrow goes wayside, though.

Whilst the volley is fired, it pushes off the ground and lunges for Tiamat with fangs extended.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 12:10:59 PM

Xoeur grabs one of the last sparklies, before being utterly bazingad by Eleven. Sister or not, Eleven is freakishly strong compared to her.

"Grrrhk!"

The barrage crumples her, and she's caught in the tornado.

*ga-SHUNK!*

Aaaaand Thouzer has cleaved her in half. Luckily for Xoeur, this isn't too much of a debilitating factor - she simply grabs her lower body before it can get away and holds it tight against where it was lopped off, trying to regenerate.

Sparkly energy attack on hold...

"Okay, cool."

The thingie is popped into his inventory.

"Yeah, some shiny whatsit bonked me on the head. I picked it up, and boom! New self-proclaimed sister. With an axe."

KiriK

Rey quickly summons the Stonewall shield over his right arm, projecting a barrier as he moves to cover Seiros and the kids. "Get inside now!" He aims the Rough Cut and fires it at Overclock a couple times.

Charlie nods and goes ghost, heading inside to meet up with Andrew. Erma and Paintra, however, have other plans.

Erma lashes her hair at Overclock, aiming to rip the gun barrels out of its body, while Paintra paints up more shields.

Geo suddenly blitzes from behind Rey's cover with a rising toe kick, aiming to simply knock Overclock off-balance with sheer Super-Strength.

—

Inside, Charlie finds herself in Arachnos' room instead of the main lobby. She looks down at Arachnos.

"Uh..."

She moves to put a hand on his shoulder. "You good?"

Def

Dylan groans a little when Arachnos is out for the count, before turning his attention back to the matter at hand.

Dylan:    "Didn't you wanna see me?"   

Dylan rushes in, then switches to White, unleashing a volley of Fire and Ice magical missiles upon Overclock!

Psyco

Seiros stops in her tracks when her attack misses, swiftly glancing over to Overclock's new location and seeing its firearms.

Now, she does not know what that weaponry is, but it definitely looks like some manner of ranged weapon to her, and as such she moves back behind Rey's barrier just in time to avoid getting shot.

"I cannot simply go inside. The less people fighting out here, the more chance that this monster will break through and reach the children."

—

Andrew, completely unaware of the turn things have taken outside, is sitting in a room somewhere on the ground floor, eating in peace. He hears breaking glass, but assumes that someone just dropped a plate or something.

Bombon

Lan trips failing to attack Overclock, and he stands. He spins quickly his BFC to cover himself against the bullets.

Seeing Arachnos falling, he pulls out from his backpack a map of the hotel and a normal pencil, drawing a small circle around the place where Arachnos is.

RAIN!

A small cloud of rain appears over Arachnos, dropping its contents over him, trying to invigorate him.

Arachnos

Arachnos's eyes shoot open wide when he realizes Charlie is here. He doesn't even notices the rain from Lan, figuring maybe the fire extinguishers went off or something. Oh no! The kids! They're still- some of them are out there! With that thing!

As the sound of countless bullets hammers the hotel walls, Arachnos tries to scramble to his feet. "I know what to do..! We can just escape... with my portals, I can get us all out of here! There's gotta be somewhere this thing can't follow us, right..?"

Omega

Bahamut whirled back around, cracking the stonework with the force of his movement, and charged at Overclock again, this time putting his speed, platinum-plated mass, and godly force into a single almighty shield-punch, as he attempted to smash Overclock away from Tiamat — and, ideally, into the the nearby general store.

Tiamat, meanwhile, blasted herself up into the air with a fireball, taking some damage from the rocket jump-esque movement — but probably a lot less than what Overclock would've done to her. While she was up there, she decided to rain down a veritable torrent of rapid-fire lightning bolts. Each one wasn't notably strong, but the whole mass might give Overclock a bit of a bad time if it all connected.

Omega, meanwhile, still sat back, but at least he could see what was up now. He tossed a Shadow Shield up to guard Dylan, who he was... more than a little surprised to see leaping out of the window, but hey, whatever works.

While he did this, he managed to keep a little of charging going in to his armor. Not nearly as much prior before.

[2/4, charge time increased]

After Zamasu got eliminated from the fight by Middler, Enzo grabs some of the last Imagination Sparks with his Dream Brush, but he doesn't attack now, because he was caught in the tornado too!

It's too strong that even nullifies Enzo's teleporting abilities! The only thing he can do is covering himself within his book against the attacks of their enemies.

Rbade

Rbade fires a charged Plushter shot, still hunkered behind his shield.

Geo's kick catches Overclock off-guard - he didn't look much different from the other twerps here, but he actually has a - relatively - impressive amount of muscle under that facade of normalacy. It is indeed knocked off-balance for this round, preventing any significant evasive maneuvers.

   "UNDER-"   

Dylan's fire and ice missiles hit Overclock's rubbery flesh. They don't seem to do too much other than leaving a layer of frost or some scorch marks - the impact force of Rbade's charged shot blows a bit of flesh off its body, but not a huge amount more than sloughs off by default.

Rey's NERF bullets sink into Overclock's hide, riddling it with holes - they're there, but they don't like they're doing much to stop it. In fact, the damage is slowly sealing back up under new layers of wretched daemonflesh.

One gun barrel is ripped out by Erma - the other is just pulled to point in Erma's direction. It proceeds to fire another volley.

Bahamut's attack blows it into the general store, smashing through the storefront. This one actually deals some damage - chaos goop and strings of flesh splatter from the point of impact, drowning the ground in the essence of Chaos and possibly corrupting those it hits - i.e., Geo or Bahamut, who are right there. Maybe Erma's hair too.

   "ESTIMATED..."   

Overclock is sheltered from the storm of lightning by the store cover, and even the ones that get through simply ripple off its rubbery hide. They do succeed at annoying it, though.

   "ADJUSTING PARAMETERS"   

Ami hangs back, and fires an arrow at Tiamat. These are healing arrows! Healz! Healz up!

Overclock does not emerge from the storefront. What does, unfortunately, is a roiling beam of blacker-than-black energy which it sweeps accross the battlefield. Ami cries out and manages to jump over it - just barely - whilst Rbade, while protected from a direct hit by his shield, is blown backwards into the nearest building behind him.

KiriK

Rey stares at the energy wave. He hunkers behind the Stonewall, but it fails to endure and he gets blown away.

Erma covers her face from the bullet storm. She's a ghost, did you expect it to seriously hurt her? She then unleashes a sort of sonic shriek at Overclock, blowing away the chaos goop that would otherwise brush against her hair in the process.

Geo leaps back from the chaos debris, being careful to avoid it.

Paintra quickly moves her shields to form a defensive layer in front of her as Overclock's beam sweeps through, protecting her from the brunt of the damage.

—

Charlie sighs. "Not happening. Everyone else is fighting out there. They're not fighting to survive, they're fighting to win. You're stronger than all of us, and you and I are the only ones backing down. I'm just a kid - I can't do nearly as much as you - but are you going to..."

She gets an idea. "Are you going to let everyone else show you up if they win without your help?"

Bombon

Glad you are OK!

Lan tells that to Arachnos, not realizing his power did nothing to him.

The children! Are they still here? Cast your portals quick and keep them out of this! I'm gonna distract it!

Lan draws with his BFC a creature similar to Overclock on the air, but cartoonish, who then goes to attack it, or at least to draw its attention.

Psyco

Seiros remains mostly safe from the beam behind Rey's barrier, and the moment the barrier is about to shatter she jumps out into the open again, running towards Overclock while casting a powerful arrow of holy light magic that threatens to burst through the walls in order to get to Overclock.

Def

Dylan actually lets himself fall to Gray, a sigil appearing in front of him before he seemingly disappears into the beam...

Before he suddenly appears over it, skating on the beam with his Keyblade, going for a meaty punch that, due to it acting as a counter to the beam's impressive power, will hold much more of a punch than it appears to!

Dylan: "I know you're here, Chaos; where's my goddamn money?"

COUNTER

Arachnos

The spider looks at Charlotte with desperation and panic in his eyes. "Fighting and losing! Just look out there! Look at that abomination! It tore a Supreme Kai in halves, a deity! Any wounds they deal close up immediately, and the less I say about its firepower, the better! How can anyone... anything but an even higher God stand against that kind of power?! No, there's no way... we have to-"

He pauses and puts a hand on his forehead. "Wait... a God... I haven't heard from the Mother in... decades? Centuries, maybe... but this thing is a creature of chaos. If she were to be willing to lend me power again... there could be a chance to turn this around! It's a long shot, but it has to be worth a try, right..?"

Arachnos closes his eyes as be begins focusing. A very faint, pale aura in the shape of a perfect circle surrounds him, slowly builds up, becoming more and more defined... then fizzles and fades away, like a dream forgotten come morning.

Arachnos sighs and slumps over. "Nothing. For a moment there I almost thought... I could have sworn I had an answer... but I guess I really am not worth anything to anyone. Useless to the end."

Omega

Omega kept up his charge this time, though he did have to GTFO and shadow-shield himself to avoid getting proppa krumped by the Beam of Fuck. His armor was beginning to manifest wispy tendrils of darkness as he deposited yet more power into it.

"Rbade! Are you alright?!"

[3/5 — Charge Time Increased]

—

Tiamat received the healing arrow and descended back to earth, flaring out two jets of fire from her hands as she descended to both re-adjust away from the beam, and soften her landing.

"If anyone knows what this... creature is, now would be a wonderful time to speak up, please."

She crouched down and slammed her palms into the earth, manifesting a huge spell-circle in her typical style.

[1/2]

—

Bahamut raised his shield to block what he could of the Chaos-Goop. It ate away at the shine and splendor of his armor — and it brought a more... warmongering portion of himself forward while causing the heroic part to recede. It wasn't a complete change, but when Bahamut next charged and swung, it was a brutal and inelegant two-handed cleave.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 1:33:23 PM

Using his own speed, Pietro manages to dart back and evade Eleven by mere seconds. Though he realizes exactly what she was doing, he only has enough time to dash towards Loki and pull him behind Dres' Susano'o for cover. Once he was certain they were in the clear, he lets out a harsh, bitter laugh.

   "'Let's get in on the hopeless suicide mission,' you said. 'We might actually be able to win against the unbeatable, overpowered, invincible assholes who always know just how to counter everything you throw at them,' you said!"    he growls, his frustration boiling over.    "How's that working out for us? Hmm? Removing that thing from Eleven didn't make her any easier to deal with; hell, it seems to me like it just made her stronger! Our big trump card against Thouzer? Smashed to freaking pieces! And now I'm gonna die in this godforsaken wasteland with the smug bastard who dragged me into this bullshit!"   

Loki, for his part, simply remains quiet throughout Pietro's rant. Once he was certain the silver-haired speedster had gotten it all out of his system, he looks him in the eye.

"The battle has only just begun, and you're already falling into despair? There have been setbacks, yes, but not all is lost," he points out. "Zamasu has finally been removed from the playing field. Eleven no longer has access to his power. Even with the fountain gone, I still have my plan - or should I say, contingency plan - to fall back on in case its final remnants aren't enough for us to slay Thouzer."

Pietro snorts with contempt, clearly unimpressed.

   "Yeah, a plan that's probably gonna blow up right your face. Just watch, Thouzer's gonna pull something out of his ass to make sure you fail and look like a complete idiot."   

"Look, boy, arguing amongst ourselves will solve nothing. Save that fury for Eleven and just... give my strategy a chance," the god of mischief retorts. "Do that, and we may yet emerge victorious. Can you manage that for me?"

Reluctantly, Pietro replies with a nod.

   "Alright. But you owe me for getting me caught up in this."   

"As I recall, you agreed to join me. Nevertheless, feel free to name your price once the dust has settled."

After seizing Imagination sparks for themselves, the two wait for an opportunity to strike.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Aug 2nd 2021 at 12:29:38 PM

Aldred: Aldred can only sigh as he praised his opponents' prowess in his head, prior to getting caught in the tornado. Just before he was cut in half by Thouzer's attack, however, the Angel he just summoned punched him away and tanked the attack for him instead, causing the giant to immediately dissipate into bright dust as it returned to Paradiso. At the moment, Aldred simply waited for his time to strike.

Siz: Siz was immediately hit by the powerful barrage from Eleven, is not phased by her. In fact, he didn't even flinch when the tornado came.

Oh no... a tornado... whatever am I gonna do? The Void Being exclaimed in a mocking voice.

Just as he got caught, Siz suddenly just stopped moving in midair. Everything started passing through his body, as if he is intangible. Although, Siz still had to dodge when Thouzer threw out his devastating attack, which is easier due to his current state. In short, Siz just no-clipped through that devastating tornado.

After that, Siz's speed suddenly started picking up and even began to match Eleven's, thanks to his current "No-clip" state. Ooga booga. The Void Being reached out to grab the girl by the head.

Surtr, on the other hand, was hit by the barrage that didn't do too much damage. Although, getting caught by the tornado and having a part of his torso sliced off is not a good time. Thankfully though, the flaming giant is strong enough to survive that combo.

Once Thouzer finished launching his attack, however, the flaming giant immediately swung his sword downwards and engaged Thouzer. The massive weapon clashing against the purple lego aura, but Surtr is not stopping, as he wish to at least trap Thouzer in one place while Siz deals with Eleven.

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Thouzer

Upon landing from his attack, Thouzer quickly drops his Maelstrom aura. As a result, he takes the full brunt of the attacks headed his way, and Surtr's blade even leaves a sizable gash in his shoulder, but he is still standing and not stuck in place by any means.

Nanto Denshō Reppa!

With an upwards sweep of his hand, he launches a wave of Razor Wind that travels along the ground before arcing upwards at Loki's head to try and split him open. He then launches another, going for Siz - who, while it will damage him, won't actually be that badly harmed. As something beyond normal laws of existence, the Maelstrom, the anti-existence that seeks to destroy all, cannot harm him. That said, he'll still be hurt by the base attack. He throws a few more, going for Enzo and Dres.

"The Impossible Battle" by Robert Russel

"We got this." Hael's eyes glow with the light of Imagination as he stabs his cutlass into the ground. Ruined-looking buildings and small lakes emerge all around the combatants, until Thouzer's end of the fight resembles a standoff in a ghost town more than a standard desert storm.

He then leaps directly at Thouzer, attempting to grab him and throw him into a saloon like a scene right out of an action movie! He hopes that Loki will catch on quick - if they bait him into destroying the building, they'll get materials to work with.

Eleven

Master Asia gets pummeled, but a blur of black-and-red snatches him, carrying him away from the tornado - and away from Thouzer.

One moment he is being tossed around in the wind, the next he is firmly inside his Master Gundam!◊

The East is Burning Red!

"You will have to do much, much better than that!" The Gundam does a speed-vanish up above Eleven, locking its hands together and attempting to bring its fists crashing down on her in order to spike her into the ground!

Star Knight isn't so lucky. Not only is he immobilized while charging and thus caught in the tornado, Thouzer's attack is a direct hit. Fortunately, he can't be literally bisected, but Eleven's punches and the Nanto Seiken general's slash still inflict major damage and destroy all of his armor, revealing Kirby's adorable pink face and nubby limbs underneath. However, he still has his sword and shield.

He doesn't immediately attack, being awed into silence by Master Gundam's entrance to the fight.

Rbade

Rbade sits up in the building he was knocked into.

"Urgh... I'm fine! Just battered!"

He shouts to Tiamat.

"I recognize it! It's a demon! Or daemon! I know it can regenerate, teleport, and basically cleave through whatever it wants with its claws, but I don't know what else it can do!"

"Arceus! I choose you!"

The simulacrum of the Alpha Pokémon pops into existence just outside the store, standing at attention.

The arrow of holy light is indeed powerful enough to punch through some random store's walls. Overclock has enough of a lead to twist around it before it can be hurt, however.

Howeverer, this leaves him open for Dylan's smashy punch, which knocks him off-balance and into some store shelves. Chaos gloop sprays from the point of impact, which as usual, threatens to hit and corrupt Dylan.

   "SKREEEEEE!"   

It spews a torrent of chaotic goop from its maw throughout the store. Dylan now has two vectors of corrutpion to deal with - as does the newly arriving cartoonish clone. If Dylan is corrupted, the affected body parts will start to slough off like rotting flesh as the effect starts to rapidly spred. If Cartoon!Overclock is hit and corrupted, it will become exactly as malicious and rotten as the original.

Regardless of the success of this maneuver, it lunges at Dylan, and two so-quick as to be nearly-invisible blades sprout from its arms and attack Dylan in a cross slash. These things are sharp - if they hit, Dylan will suddenly be sorely missing his legs.

   "GYAHA!"   

After firing off these attacks, Overclock scrambles past Dylan and Cartoon!Overclock. As Bahamut runs to cleave at it, it jumps over his swing and past him, possibly kicking off his back and pushing him into Dylan and Cartoon!Overclock.

It bursts from the storefront and selects a target. It lunges -

"Arceus! Telekinesis!"

Overclock grunts as its frozen in place by sudden psychic power. Rbade smirks as - oh, Overclock remembered it can teleport. ... To a spot right next to Arceus's neck, unleashing a powerful slash. ... Good bye - Arceus's head.

Overclock latches its talons onto Arceus's head and uses it as a projectile, making it careen towards Ami - bar interference, she will be hit and pinned against the outer wall of the hotel.

The main body of the Pokémon slumps and starts to fall out of the air, threatening to fall onto Seiros, Tiamat, and Paintra.

Rbade is no longer smirking.

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Geo leaps in and knocks Arceus' head away with a flying kick before it can reach Ami. He turns and leaps at Overclock with another flying kick.

"... That thing was a gift. Alright, fucker, open wide." Rey swaps to the Vulcan EBF-24 and goes full Heavy Weapons Guy, unleashing innumerable darts in a ceaseless barrage.

Paintra casually swipes her brush, melting what remains of the depowered poké-corpse with acidic paint. She then paints up a stormcloud - Kracko - which takes to the sky, bombarding Overclock with lightning.

Erma dips into a dark spot on the ground...

—

Rhea coughs and splutters. "You know I'm... not dead, right?"

Charlie looks down at her in surprise.

She flexes and regenerates her lower half, clothes and all. "I'll handle keeping the kids safe."

Charlie nods and noclips down to go find Andrew.

Rhea turns to Arachnos. "I'm not good at the whole pep-talks thing, so I'll just point out the obvious. You forget we haven't even begun to go all-out against that thing. Mothra and I are gods, the Warrior is a superweapon, Rbade, Omega and Dylan have super modes, Ultra Fusion is powerful enough to break reality over its knee... You think we're losing? We've just started! You're the only one who's going to lose if you keep dragging your damn feet!"

If Arachnos continues to protest, she'll just shut him up with Kai Kai to forcibly teleport him into battle.

Bombon

Wow, An Arceus! Cool!

Beat

...It's hacked, right?

In this moment, the evil goop wraps Cartoon!Overclock, becoming EvilCartoon!Overclock! The goop even made it more durable than the other cartoonish creations of Lan. He facepalms his head hard. And then he watches how Arceus' head was cut. Now he is really hacked.

You are making me angry... You don't like me angry. Time to get silly serious.

Lan grabs his BFG with strenght, and it begins to glow! His body begins to morph into a cartoonish version of himself... Known as Cartoon!Lan!!

"No tengo idea" (theme of Cartoon!Lan)

He then draws with his glowing BFC a giant "X", which flies towards EvilCartoon!Overclock for massive damage!

Arachnos

"You people are crazy! I literally just saw this thing decapitate Arceus! Arceus! Literally God just died before our very eyes and nobody finds that to be a bit of a turnoff?! Granted, I know that Pokémon in Pokéballs have their power severely restrained, but still..! All that, and we don't even know whether it's fighting seriously either! For all we know, it could be still toying with us!" Arachnos stammers, but despite that, he finally finds the will to contribute at least something to the battle. Instead of going for Overclock, he decides to help Lan out with the less scary EvilCartoon!Overclock, at which he immediately lobs a vertical Void Blade, a black slash through the very fabric of reality attempting to basically Portal Cut it in halves.

Those who know Arachnos will notice several things - first, he hasn't changed to the edgy-ass business suit he has usually worn to every battle thus far, second, he is opening directly with a Void move, which means that he, for one, is not intending to hold anything back. Regardless of anything Rhea has said, it's obvious that Arachnos is absolutely seeing this as a battle for dear life right now - no time for his usual chuuni gimmicks.

Def

Dylan widens his eyes and turns Yellow, Reflect spamming like his life depends on it. To be fair, it does.

Dylan: "Come on now, Hemingway hero..."

He opens his eyes and barely misses the slash, the very edge of it opening a wound on his leg!

Dylan: "GRACE UNDER PRESSURE!"

Dylan immediately responds with a Wind God Fist, suddenly linked into another, then suddenly linked into a Strike Raid!

Wind God Fist: short upwards arm strike. Yanno, the funny Mishima thing but with no electric.

Strike Raid: Dylan tosses his Keyblade, it spinning and hitting the opponent multiple times on hit. It returns to him if he's hit or when the attack finishes.

Psyco

Even if Paintra takes care of Arceus' body before it can collapse on anyone, Seiros is, naturally, horrified by how swiftly Overclock managed to kill it. She hadn't even had the time to react and help in any way.

"We must ensure the childrens' safety. If this beast were to get to them..."

She aims her hand at Overclock once more, attempting to cast the life-draining Nosfetaru light spell on it. Just in case that doesn't work, or if it gets Overclock's attention, she stands ready to evade right after a potential counterattack.

—

Andrew has just finished his food in the room he chose to eat in, and is lying down on the bed, not yet asleep but clearly planning to take a quick nap if left unchecked. This will at least make it very easy for Charlie to find him though.

Omega

Omega decided to just say "fuckit" to the charging for now. The armor wouldn't degrade the amount of energy within it, and he could resume that later. For now though, he had to actually contribute something to this fight.

In this case, that would be making a sprinting dive to get Ami out of the way of Arceus's big ol' decapitated head — and firing off a Reapette or two from his Great Reaper Palm.

—

Tiamat looked up and sighed as Arceus's body fell on her. Normally she didn't need to use material components for her spells, but just maybe she'd be able to make use of—
And it's been melted.

"My thanks for the assistance, Paintra."

The spell-circle on the ground flashed with a aurora-esque array of light and colors, as Tiamat brought her focus onto it and invoked the spell she had sought to cast.

"[Maximized True Magic: METEOR SHOWER]!"

The heavens above filled with black swirling clouds as unstable orbs of raw and elemental fire began to rain down from above. Mercifully, thanks to Tiamat's mastery over such magic, her allies — and the hotel — were at minimal risk of being krumped by a meteor. Though, as this was a... somewhat unpredictable spell, it was still possible that something might go awry.

"I recommend staying quick on your feet."

—

Bahamut(/Bahramos?) did something kinda strange. Instead of channeling his fury into a martial arts attack, he slashed his shield-bearing hand across the palm, producing a... frighteningly high-pressure spray of scintillating god-blood, which seemed to flow up to his shield, forming a serrated, toothed ring around it.

"[Sanguine Art: BLOOD-SAW]!"

Bahamut then proceeded to hurl this entire blood-and-shield contraption at Overclock as hard as he could, giving the entire thing a rather horrifying amount of spin as he did so — hence the name, evidently.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 2:59:10 PM

Eleven grunts when she sees Siz floats through but wait before attacking: Once he's close enough, chaotic red lightning erupts around her as she once again enter the state of Limit Breaker, amplifying her speed and strength further. She turns the sand at her feet to glass as she attempts to smack her fist into Siz. If it works, the subsequent blow distort the air flat and cause a crapton of sand to float around, before she send him off kilometers away with a mighty punch.

I've had it with giants! Eleven dashes for Surtr next, not dropping Limit Breaker. She kick the air to "fly" of a sort and attempts to immediately kick through his torso, though that's only a part of her attack. Regardless of if she whiff the kick or not, Eleven kick the air further and further up above... and come back down with a freaking Elbow Drop, intending to cleave through Surtur in half. She lands on the ground and smirk, impressed with herself, in spite of the burns sustained doing the feat...

... Only to get spiked into the ground by the Gundam!

Aw, fuck! Coming back up with Limit Breaker deactivated once more, Eleven attempts to perform a mighty headbutt into the mecha's head. She then attempts to spike it into the ground with her own downward heavy blow! Cool mech though!

...

Stop whining, god! Unless that can kill them! Dres raise her hand, and attempts to use Shinra Tensei to blast Thouzer with gravity, meaning to push him into the saloon.

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 2nd 2021 at 10:11:22 AM

Aldred: The Lumen Sage quickly dashed towards Thouzer when the Maelstrom aura is down, as he thrusted his sword forward. The weapon unleashed a stream of holy lightning headed straight towards the martial arts master as he attacked Siz, Loki, Enzo, and Dres, hoping to catch Thouzer when he's focusing on others.

Then, the sage flew upwards and assisted Hael from the air, launching a stream of holy fire at Thouzer as the Hael tries to grab him.

Siz: The Void Being did not manage to avoid the wind, so while the Maelstrom didn't manage to hurt him, the razor sharp attack left a cut on his chest. Although, Siz appears to be temporarily distracted by the Master Gundam's entrance to care about the cut wound...

Oh shit, is that a Master Gundam-

...which caused him to get punched square in the face by Eleven, sending him flying away.

Meanwhile, Surtr was kicked clean through the chest, but what really incapacitated him was the elbow drop. The giant was cleaved in half vertically, but it seems like it still has strength left.

With a roar, Surtr used a skill obtained by absorbing Fenrir. A gust of cold wind akin to the ice Fenrir once ate in Niflheim rushed right at Eleven, intending to slow down her movement.

Rbade

Ami squeals and covers her eyes as the head comes at her, only to be rescued by Omega. Geo kicks the head away a second later. Nice teamwork! Ami yells her panicked thanks and targets Geo with a healing arrow this round. She also hits EvilCartoon!Overclock with a Stun arrow.

The EvilCartoon!Overclock roars in annoyance, being battered by Dylan's attacks BE!Overclock has vacated the premises, so it would be a bit hard for him to be the target of these attacks. It is then struck by that weird X attack from Lan and the Stun arrow, and is staggered just enough to be portal cut with no issue, proceeding to fall apart. It's still alive in two pieces, but from the way it's thrashing it's clear it won't be getting up within a suitable timeframe to help its predecessor.

   "S K W R Y Y Y Y Y"   

Overclock takes note of what happened to its counterpart. That won't work on it.

Rbade spares a chuckle for Lan's pun, before returning Arceus...'s head. Wolverakugan would probably meet a similar fate, shouldn't waste time with it.

Overclock displaces out of the way of Geo's attack, and tries to slam him back down to earth with a burst of dark energy. In fact, it angles it so Geo would be forced into the path of the Rey's shots.

Being in open air, Kracko's lightning is a bit more effective than Tiamat's was last time. Overclock grunts - the surges prevent it from utilizing any machine-based weaponry this round. No guns... this is a sad day in the hood. The damage dealt by the lightning is still Not Very Effective, however.

"Guys, its hide is like rubber! Lightning won't work! Shit, that probably applies to Ultra Sheen's lightning as well..."

"But not its punches!"

Rbade raises an Eridium crystal like he just got it from a broken pot. The building he's in shines with purple light before Ultra Sheen Rbade rockets out, and socks Overclock in the side of the head while its busy firing at Geo. Its stunned for a split second.

The draining spell works, in a sense. Overclock's hide ripples as energy leaves it. Seiros may not feel great afterwards, though... imagine using Giga Drain on something with Liquid Ooze. That is, the energy she is absorbing is inherently malicious.

Once Overclock gets its bearings, it giggles and fires off a slash, and while it comes very close to decapitating him, Ultra Sheen's speed boost combined with the saving grace of Arena Balance lets Rbade duck under the blow. A follow-up jab with the other claw succeeds punching through Rbade's left arm and rendering it useless, but pure adrenaline keeps him from going into shock for now. The pulls back a bit when the Reapettes hit, getting a few cuts in on Overclock's flank before it tries to hack them in half.

Then the meteors start coming, and one manages to nail Overclock with a fiery explosion while its distracted by the Reapettes. It doens't ground it, no, but he's certainly knocked a few meters down. Flesh shlops off from the point of impact on its back.

STUNNED

This allows Bahamut's very awesome blood-saw to hit Overclock dead-on and cleave right through its rubbery flesh. It hits something tough, very tough, in the center of its body, and gets stuck - but Overclock is bleeding chaos goop profusely from the point of impact, and missing an arm. For the next five rounds, Overclock can only fire off one 'lethal slash' at a time.

   "S K R E E E E E !"   

Rbade commits that DBZ thing where a fighter is reduced to a rippling effect to avoid the meteors, while Ami just cowers.

Overclock's tail coils up before pointing at Tiamat. A laser akin to Shin Godzilla's erupts from the tip - it fires at Tiamat, before trying to sweep it from Tiamat, to Bahamut, to Lan, to Omega. If it's a near miss, that's still a high dosage of Radiant damage.

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Geo gets blasted by Overclock and subsequently healed by Ami's arrow. He dashes forth and dives to rescue Ami from the meteor shower, preventing him from fighting back right away.

Rey sighs. "That wasn't actually Arceus, Arachnos. It was a toy from our world that got the ability to take a Pokémon form when exposed to Arena, like Wolverakugan. Cool your jets."

He switches guns to the Longstrike CS-6 and calls forth the Aurum Palm, firing a digi-blast charged shot at Overclock to try and get its attention before literally quickscoping it with a dart that packs the punch of a TF2 Sniper's rifle. If he can make it look his way, he'll aim right for the mouth. And he also fires like four more charged shots for good measure.

Erma emerges inside of Overclock's shadow, rising up from its back as a shadow herself, and attempts to claw away at it. If successful, the damage will be reflected on Overclock's body, causing tears and gashes to spontaneously appear.

—

Rhea follows Charlie down to Andrew's room.

"Andrew, we have to get somewhere else, now! There's a monster outside - it'd make the Nightmares look like your Fredbear Plush!"

"What she said," adds Rhea. "If you're ready, I'll just teleport you away until the coast is clear."

Psyco

Seiros soon learns that using Nosferatu had not been the smartest move, as she feels a bit out of it afterwards. Her own holy energy dispels the hazardous parts, but that process does still take a mental toll on her, leaving her vulnerable for a little bit. It is a VERY good thing that Overclock ended up getting stunned or it might've been able to outright kill her similarly to Arceus.

She is not safe from the meteors though, and while one doesn't directly hit her, one still crashes into the ground right next to her, causing her to get flung to the side and get some noticeable damage by the debris.

—

Andrew is startled by the suddenness of Charlie coming into the room and yelling that they have to hide, to the point that it takes him a bit of willpower to remain calm. Being jumpscared is a feeling all too familiar to him. As such, he also needs a moment to really comprehend what she and Rhea are saying.

"We have to hide? Wait, is everyone else okay?", he asks as he gets off of the bed, ready to be teleported but also clearly worried.

Arachnos

"What. The FUCK?! You mean it doesn't actually have any divine power at all? So during our duel, I was super terrified of that thing for nothing!" comes an irate response from the spider. Somehow, his annoyance at that fact - or maybe the encouraging relative success against EvilCartoon!Overclock - seems to motivate him into fighting harder. Assuming his true spiderrific form, he attempts to yeet the cartoonish duplicate's thrashing remains into a void hole, before propelling himself into the air in pursuit of the genuine article.

"A rubbery hide that blunts our attacks..? Then... all we need to do is melt through it!" Arachnos teleports around BE!Overclock multiple times as a confusion tactic before vomiting a cone of neon green acid in a manner similar to a black dragon's breath, aiming to drench the demon thoroughly in hopes that the corrosion will damage the integrity of its tough hide.

Bombon

Thank you!!

Cartoon!Lan waves his hand to Arachnos, as is just saw near here the Pica-Pica, and wanted to greet them.

He runs quickly to avoid the meteor rain, and then pulls out of his now hammerspace backpack a giant spirograph. Then proceeds to draw a figure with it on the ground, and tips the figure with the back side of his crayon.

MANDALA...!

In this moment, Overclock's beam passes! It misses by a bit, but Cartoon!Lan is sent flying by the energy, letting him lying on the ground by a while.

Damn... I'll try again later, perhaps...

Def

Vs. Overclock

Dylan goes Blue and attempts to end EvilCartoon!Overclock with a Blizzaga to freeze it solid. If successful, he will then dash up, dash backwards, crouch and stand up and weave his body all over the place like he's having a seizure...

"RAGIIIIING..."

He crosses his hands over his head...

"STOAAAAAM!"

...and slams them into the ground, causing 'spikes' of energy to erupt in a claw shape around him with enough power to shatter the demented drawing and put it down for real!

Omega

Omega dashed away from the beam, throwing small bolts of withering darkness towards Overclock while his 「Stand」 tossed out a Shadow-Shield towards Lan, helping to shield them somewhat from the danger!

"THIS IS GIVING ME TERRIBLE DEJA VU!" Omega exclaimed, trying to lighten the situation a bit.

—

Tiamat dashed towards the beam, and dove into a sort of sliding-dodge, keeping a thin barrier of magic between her body and the rough ground in order to extend the slide. As she did this, she slashed her left arm through the air and brought her right arm up to her shoulder, throwing a sort of "Tracking Mark" out towards Overclock. If it landed on them, this would cause the Meteor Shower to focus in on Overclock, barraging him/them? with a rain of unstable meteors — but burning out the spell entirely by next turn.

However, there was a very good chance for this to go wide, and instead land on Dragonsreach, turning it into a smouldering pile of rubble for a couple minutes — and still burning out the spell.

—

Bahamut tanked the hit, seemingly almost blowing off his shield-arm in the process. Through the power... raw anger and divine power, assumedly? he managed to keep his limb attached. Full of fury and pain, he slashed his sword through the chaos-goop, attempting to use it for a Sanguine Art. If it was possible to gather it, he would then launch himself forward to rip away his blood-saw shield, and channeled the chaos-goop-blood-stuff into a massive extension on his blade, turning it into something akin to titanic meat cleaver. Failing that, he did the same kind of thing with his new wound and his own god-blood, causing yet further damage to himself.

"[Sanguine Art: BONE-RENDER BLADE]!"

And with that, Bahamut swung.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 3:28:33 AM

Acting fast, Loki raises Nightbane to defend himself from the oncoming Razor Wind, though he's still knocked back a good deal. Upon noticing what Hael was attempting to do, he recalls Kenshiro's interest in fighting Thouzer and, with a knowing grin, summons numerous illusory copies of the Hokuto Shinken master inside the saloon.

"Oh, yes. It's all coming together now."

Dashing back into the fray, Pietro whips up a Chaos Katana and blitzes by Eleven several times, hacking and slashing away at her with every pass.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Aug 2nd 2021 at 1:34:44 AM

Vs. Set's Cabal

From out of the portal, looking as though he had just been dropkicked in the face, came Augus!

He...

... rolled across the ground, bouncing up on some uneven ground, before sliding on his face for a few meters, and flipping himself up with a well-placed kick to the sand.

"I have no idea who any of you are, but I'm not about to let that stop me!"

AUGUS joins the fight!

OK. Legs - reattatched.

Xoeur explodes into Limit Breaker with a roar, trying to dispell the tornado around her. Master Gundam, more like, very cool, nice it's on our side, but I sure don't care because I'm ANGY.

She blasts up and around, before trying to hit Eleven in the back of the head with a knee strike.

"SCREW! YOU!"

Enzo is still covering himself inside his book... But it received the razor wind, which weakened its defenses because, you know, wind isn't good for books, and even less if it cuts.

"I can't keep myself defending: as the old saying tells us, attack is the best defense."

So, he uses the last Sparks... Not for an powerful attack, but for buffing himself. His clothes are glowing in an intense electric blue, and so the brush handle. He is more powerful than before.

And with those buffs, he bursts himself outside of his book, releasing strong lightnings homing to their enemies!

Angel nods. "It happens to many of us. It's an interesting... coincidence, that's for sure, that not all that long after meeting me you would happen upon her."

Angel pauses. "Wait a minute... self-proclaimed sister?" Angel smiles, putting her hands together in front of her face, struck by cuteness. "Awwww, that's so sweet. You're both in good hands."

Zenobia feigns dry-heaving at Angel's mushy act.

Thouzer

Thanks to Aldred's attacks and Dres's Shinra Tensei, Thouzer is forced into the saloon, where he confronts the illusory Kenshiros.

"You cannot fool me with-"

The real deal comes hurtling in via the same means as Augus.

"WHAT!?" Thouzer leaps backwards and throws a massive arcing crescent blade of Razor Wind, taking the roof right off the saloon, but it disperses the illusions while phasing through the actual Kenshiro, who has an Ultra Instinct-esque 'boiling' aura around him.

"It's useless, Thouzer." Kenshiro redirects Enzo's lightning towards Thouzer with a kick, aiming to knock him down.

Meanwhile, the roof of the saloon is sent flying and explodes into a shower of LEGO pieces in the air.

A hologram-like outline appears where the bricks land, with a 1/3 floating above it. They need more debris before it will begin to take a comprehensible shape...

—

Eleven

Master Gundam goes reeling back from the headbutt, but it vanishes before she can spike it. Lashing out a Laser Blade version of the Master Cloth, it whips it at her, creating huge gashes in the ground as it does so!

"Whoa..."

Star Knight, understanding that the Gundam won't last, resumes his charging from before.

1/2

Rbade

Unfortunately for Arachnos, Overclock is well versed in teleport spam - it counters with a series of 'ports and toxic spray of its own. Some of Arachnos's spray manages to get on Overclock's hide regardless, but the effects are minimal.

Rbade notes the attempted acid attack.

"I meant that elemental damage like lightning or acid or fire that won't work! Try just stabbing it!"

Rey's initial shot, with some absurd luck, manages to punch Overclock right in its main wound. When it inevitably turns to look, the following ones (along with Omega's shadow shots) batter its head. Some bleeding starts in its mouth - a bullet or two must have made it in.

   "S K R R"   

It fires a bomb of black energy in Rey's direction.

Overclock's body is damaged by Erma's shadow attack, an event which seems to catch it off guard. Rbade utilizes these twin distractions to try and ORA-ORA it - well, he gets some good hits in, but with only one working arm there's only so much rapid force he can put out. Overlock grunts and noncommittally slaps him into Tiamat's tracking mark, and then into the next building.

"!!!"

Ami fires two healing arrows at Rbade, trying to give him enough HP to survive the attack and the oncoming meteors.

Normally, the sanguine whatever probably wouldn't have worked, but... sanguine is blood? Overclock bled the shit? On a physical level, definitely not. On a conceptual level? Fuck, good enough for the Arena!

All of this - Arachnos's distracting teleports, Rbade, Erma, Rey's shots, etc., keep Overclock from noticing Bahamut until a moment too late.

   ?!   

And then Bahamut swung.

Daemonflesh is shredded, scooped out like half-melted ice cream as the great blade tears into the daemon's side. Given the sharpness of the hit, Overclock doesn't receive much knockback, almost a third of its body mass is lopped right off, including part of a wing. The wretched beast recoils as bronze wires and computronics shining with blood and bile are exposed to open air.

   "W H A T ?!"   

Okay, no THANK YOU. That hurt like fucking hell, and has definitely impaired its physical movement, but Overclock still has its ace in the hole.

TP time.

Overclock winds up a super-slash, and mid-attack teleports to a spot point-blank behind Arachnos. He's big, so it probably won't OHKO even with a crit, but fuck. That's going right through.

Not even waiting to see its handiwork, Overclock proceeds to teleport over Bahamut and try to slam him into the ground with a sudden explosive burst of dark energy.

—

EvilCartoon!Overclock's remains are flash-frozen and shattered into itty-bitty pieces. In fact, I would dare say that the thing is very dead. It is then flung into the void, probably never to be seen again.

Bombon

Lan stands after a while of lying on the ground by the beam, the shadow shield helped to protect him. He was about to attempt his Mandala Beam again, but he heard the advice of Rbade.

Thank you, my friend!

He grabs firmly his BFC, glowing again; but now, the crayon grows 4 times its length. He then runs a short distance and throws it to Overclock like a lance, shouting as hard as he can. Hit or miss, the crayon will return to Lan shortly after.

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Rey gets sent flying conveniently towards Bahamut by Overclock's energy bomb. He pulls himself up on all fours, looks at Bahamut and takes a deep breath.

He swaps to the Hulk Abomination Blaster. "Oi, big guy."

There's a pause. Is Rey going to seriously regret this? Probably. Will it look so cool though if he pulls it off? Hell yeah.

"Throw me into the air above its head!"

-

Erma dips out of Overclock's shadow back into realspace, not about to learn if he can adapt or what will happen if he gets obliterated while she's still in there. She swings a hand, and sheer kinetic force gets launched at Overclock like a projectile.

-

Geo stands still and at the ready, waiting to see what Rey and Bahamut do.

-

Paintra paints up a group of Bio Sparks, which all rush Overclock, spamming kunai projectiles and powerful sword slashes.

—

"They're out fighting that monster right now," Rhea replies. "Charlie doesn't seem confident in the two of you being able to contribute, and I don't want it to eat you, so I'm going to have to ask you to just settle down and follow along."

She gives Andrew a few seconds, then - "Kai Kai." - she teleports, along with him and Charlie, to LeBlanc in Hub Centralis.

"Now stay here and I'll come find you when we're in the clear, alright?"

Psyco

Seiros, having been left along for long enough to recover, gets back up, glaring daggers at Overclock. She keeps an eye on the beast as it teleports, and the moment it tries to slam Bahamut into the ground she runs towards them. Even if Overclock's slam succeeds, she won't reach them until after the burst has ended.

Should she get to Overclock successfully, she'll athletically try to leap up on top of it, and if that works, will attempt to viciously plant her blade into the beast's head.

—

"EAT us!?", Andrew asks, successfully deterred and thus letting himself get teleported away with Charlie.

Omega

Omega focused on keeping Rbade alive with a boosted Shadow-Shield, dropping the power stored in his armor back to its ambient level.

"No dying today! Live, damn you!"

—

Tiamat looked genuinely upset at the result of her spell, and did what she could to adjust the course of the meteors, causing them to deal less damage upon impact if they did not miss entirely — but also preventing her from doing much else.

—

Bahamut dodge-rolled away from the slam, but still got struck by the burst of dark energy, sending him tumbling away. He stumbled to his feet, genuinely more than a little exhausted from this fight already. As he had not yet gone fully into his other aspect as Bahramos, being directly asked to do something caused him to briefly pause and snap out of his blood frenzy.

"Ah, yes! A most astute plan!"

Of course he would think it's brilliant — and the Bahramos side of him recognized it as having some tactical advantage as well, so there was no real internal resistance. He grabbed Rey by the ankles in one big armored dragon-hand, swung him around and casually yote the student sky-high.

Def

Dylan clasps his hands together, only to notice the absolute devastation going on behind him, his eyes widening as he scrambles behind a peice of debris.

As he pops his head out, he squints, turning Green.

Dylan: "That thing ain't dead. Yet."

Arachnos

Arachnos and Overclock thus end up having a bit of a teleport duel in the air impossible to follow with the naked eye. Overall, the spider comes out of this a bit worse than the daemon - even though his carapace is slick and resistant to such things, it's visibly bleached and worn thin in some places. Then Overclock teleports, and the world slows down.

In his mind's eye, Arachnos sees Overclock closing in to fillet him like a fish. His Guardian Sense, the same mystical connection to the world that has been stabbing him in the soul all this time as Overclock's chaos continues to send ripples in reality, has just saved his life, or at least his ability to participate in the fight. He twists in an almost unnatural way faster than his massive bulk should by any means have permitted, turning a blow that would have probably nearly bisected him, armor and all, into a still nasty, but survivable rend in his side that spews pallid blue blood on Overclock's claws.

Next thing he sees, there is an explosion of dark energy and then Rey is hurtling straight into Overclock's horrifying non-face, with what is very definitely a nuke in his arms. What follows is a surge of hope. Then a feeling of dread as he realizes there's no way that desperate gambit will be fast enough to nail Overclock before the inevitable teleport. Then a decision. All within fractions of a second that somehow feel like an eternity. An eternity that is still far too short.

Planar Binding [Gleipnir]

The spider hurls himself at Overclock as a tangle of silver threads, looking as delicate as the finest gauze and faintly glowing with a white magical aura, appears between his claws. He casts it like a fishnet upon the demon, and it attempts to converge upon him and constrict him, as if possessed of a will of its own.

If this delicate-looking binding successfully hits and Overclock attempts to teleport away from his impending cosmic-nukey predicament, he will find that he cannot. An odd force will bind him in place, forbidding him not only from moving physically, but also from warping spacetime to his will to do so. Almost as if he was entangled within the fabric of reality itself like a dolphin in a net. A net imbued with a layer of divine energy, dispensed with the sole purpose of upholding Order and denying those who would sow and exploit chaos, forbidding his reality-distorting shenanigans.

Of course, unlike the great wolf of Norse legend, Overclock is far from helpless before this tactic. Made with the waning power of a forgotten demigod, the binding feels... relatively flimsy, all things considered. The divine power upholding it, scant. A mere pulse of his eldritch powers would likely be enough to blast this... almost insult of a restraint to pieces. It would only take a second.

It's a second he may not have.

KiriK Again

multipost approved in advance

Rey feels like a rocket-jumping Soldier.

And speaking of which...

As he goes into the air, he scrambles to pump up the back of his rocket launcher, building up air pressure in the chamber. At the peak of his ascent, he turns and twists and aims his upper body at the ground below. He aims his gun at Overclock.

"BAZINGA!"

He falls towards Overclock and fires.

The rocket crumples like the foam-and-plastic toy it is on impact... and then bursts, sending cosmic radiation in all directions. Pure RED blankets the surroundings with a deafening roar, as enough cosmic energy to oneshot The Incredible Hulk is unleashed in an explosion akin to a mini-nuke. It's even so powerful that it warps the narration!

Rhea warps back onto the scene of the fight just in time to see Overclock and Rey get consumed in the blast, along with Paintra and all of her Bio Sparks. "WHAT DID I MISS?!"

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 3:50:29 AM

Eleven dodge the Master Gundam's attacks with grace, and leap for a knock out blow, but then Xoeur, Pietro and Surtr's attacks manages to knock her around before she can do so, with the latter ensuring that the former hit. It last well, up until she decides to... vibrate on herself. This seems like an odd strategy, up until she sets herself on fire with it. It's not enough to beat back the cold, but it does warm her up. When Pietro goes for another strike, Eleven does a well-timed attack with her knee and elbow to block the blade in-between them.

Katanas aren't the best weapon you know! Eleven crushes the Chaos Katana with her strength and then attempts to do a quick jab with the back of her fist at Pietro's face. Should that be successful, she jabs her two fingers at his chest to propel him backwards. Then, she turns to Xoeur.

I really wanna hit you, like you, not them. Sorry! Eleven punches the air at very quick speed, hurling several localized shockwaves right at Xoeur. Then, while she's distracted, Enzo's lightning strike her, once more giving her pause and actually getting her to slow down.

Ah, this is great! This is great! Keep fighting! Eleven pulls her sleeves back and widen her arms to create... several plasma orbs at the ends of her fingertips, oh oh.

With a laugh, she fires off More Dakka in the form of plasma blasts meant to batter the battlefield, creating huge explosions in their wake. Because she want to make sure that Surtr is dead, since he's been the biggest (figurative, literal) threat so far, Eleven jump in the sky and point down, attempting to barrage him with a series of blasts similar to Zamasu's earlier spam.

I had to discard some of those powers to keep Zamasu at bay! So yeah, I'm sort of stronger now! Eleven look down at the battlefield, and pink lightning emanate out of her head, attacking everyone in sight but the Gundam. Those struck will be briefly turned to Eleven's side, which will result in them going on to heal her or attack her enemies for one turn before the effect drops. The bolts are dodgeable, but if struck, no amount of willpower or eldritch-ness or badassness can negate the brainwashing. Master Asia's protected by his Gundam though, and so is Augus because Eleven has yet to realize he's here.

... Which is why Eleven come down at him like a meteor, intending to ram into him with enough strength to cause a mighty explosion!

The wounds are piling up, but her impressive durability allows her to still look ready to brawl on for a while!

Hey! Big beard guy! Come forth and fight me too! Eleven then says, defiantly pointing at him.

...

Dres is nonplussed by everything's going on, and instead observe the pile.

That's not enough.

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 2nd 2021 at 11:03:51 AM

Rbade

Rbade is JUST able to weather the meteor storm thanks to the boosts he gets. Ultra Sheen runs out, though, and he's basically left laying unconscious in rubble. Good for you, Omega. He live!

Ami panics a bit. There is a lot going on. She nocks and fires three heal arrows - one for Bahamut, two for Rbade. Then, she takes cover.

—

Overclock lashes out, using slashes to hack the attacking Bio Sparks to pieces. They lacerate Overclocks flesh, but this doesn't impede it more than it already is.

The big fucking crayon manages to stab Overclock in the flank. It's not a deep wound, but it gets its attention. Overclock fires a god damn AGM-114 Hellfire missile out of its mouth at Lan.

Overclock intentionally bleeds chaos slop in the direction of Erma, once her kiai-like attack disturbs it.

Unfortunately for Seiros, Overclock is still rather high up. It's a little distracted, though, so she manages to drive her sword well into its underbelly. Unfortunately, gravity may ensure she proceeds to shower in corruptive chaos gloop. All these shenanigans prevent it from noticing Arachnos's threads, or at least giving the seemingly useless 'attack' high priority.

Overclock glances up at Rey falling towards it and snarls. Huh, this string is weirdly sticky.

   "BALLSY"   

It recognizes that the thing being aimed at it is cosmic in scope - the sort of attack it did not expect to find one of these mortals being able to throw around. At the last second, Overclock telep–

BLINK INTERDICTION DETECTED - BLINK TELEPORTATION WITH YOUR CURRENT SETTINGS IS NOT POSSIBLE - A FORCED B.TP ACTIVATION WILL RESULT IN INFO-STRUCTURAL DESTABILIZATION - PLEASE ADJUST...

Ah, fuck.

—

Overclock's upper body is shredded by the blast. Mechanical parts crunch and come undone under the sheer force. The daemon is slammed into the ground at plus-mach speeds, upon which its flesh splashes out from the impact in a near-liquid manner. Its belly (and possibly Seiros, if she's still down there) are squashed and crushed under the force of Overclock's weight - and of course, the far more signicant force of the blast. Given Arachnos's current state as literal thread, I don't know if the force will hurt him, but that still is quite a lot of cosmic light he's in the thick off.

The result is something that looks not too dissimilar from what might happen if you dropped a raw steak from the top of a building, if that steak was filled with wires and ???????? gizmos.

—

Congrations, Dylan. You're a prophet! Overclock is, in fact not dead. It may be nearing Death's door, though. It looks like a mf slime mold covered in barbeque sauce.

   "S K K K T !"   

KiriK

Rey is flung away by the blast, and Paintra is just... dead. She dead.

"Oh fuck."

Rhea quickly bawoops in and out to retrieve Rey and (hopefully) Arachnos. She comes to a stop next to Seiros, dumping him (them) behind her.

She speaks very fast, not wanting to waste any time. "Hey, name's Rhea. You're god-adjacent, right? Watch those two for a minute, I'm gonna KAAAAAAAAAAA... MEEEEEEEE..."

Drawing her arms back, an intense black light builds between her cupped hands.

Mothra suddenly descends from the sky, attempting to impale Overclock on her forelimbs from above with a vengeful shriek!

Geo pulls back a fist like he's charging up a punch. After everyone else has attacked, he'll unleash a simple full-force shoryuken!

Erma stays FAR away from this.

Psyco

Seiros may have missed the head, and while she has to pull back when she gets hurt by the corrosive gloop, she also understands moments later that having reached her intended target might not have ended well for her as she sees Overclock's upper body get shredded.

Figuring to take advantage of this moment, she rests a turn to heal some of her wounds. She looks at Rhea when she speaks up.

"Rhea? ... that's a rather beautiful name. I am Seiros."

She then looks at Rey (and potentially Arachnos) and, nodding to Rhea, tries to use healing magic to restore some of his/their health.

Def

Dylan: "Heh. Hey sludge fuck! We're going Hollywood!"

Dylan slides and jumps in. He dashes forward with a knee strike that deliberately stops short of hitting, then leaps into the air and does a drop kick. On impact, it will cut to an x-ray of Overclock's internal matter and machinery as it gets crushed by Dylan's feet, actual damage dealt be damned.

Tear Jerker, one of Johnny Cage's specials in Mortal Kombat 11 - specifically the Krushing Blow variation that triggers if only the second hit connects.

Meanwhile, the Warrior emerges from beyond the horizon, approaching the field of battle to aid its master.

Bombon

Lan giggles and smiles when saw his BFC piercing Overclock.

Yay!!!

...but his expression changed shortly after, when saw Overclock's missile going towards him. His eyes widened as the missile drawed near him.

OH SH-

He runs quickly, trying to avoid the missile, but it's too fast... Fortunately, his crayon appears again in his hand just in time via teleporting. So he does the first thing he thought: he turns his body quickly, swinging his BFC to hit the missile like a baseball...

KABOOM!

The missile exploded, just a bit away to only send Lan flying away... And then the cosmic mini-nuke happens, send him flying yet farther away!

cough, cough... Red isn't really my color, y'know...

He shakes his body like a dog to wear down the red color, and then proceeds to walk slowly back to the battlefield...

Omega

Tiamat dropped to one knee, looking rather winded. She would need to take a round to recover her energy if the fighting kept going much longer...

However, she did still have one last blessing to provide.

"Magic such as I wield is ancient and powerful, and defies the coventional rules of spellcraft oftentimes."

She snapped her fingers, and invoked...

"Take my power and be as conquerors! [Blessing of the Dragon Queen]!

And then Tiamat unceremoniously toppled over. She was still awake — merely completely spent for the time being. However, a draconic-looking halo of rainbow light descended onto each fighter — except for Bahamut — amplifying their power greatly for a brief moment!

—

Bahamut cast aside his helmet, causing it and his armor to dissolve into motes of gold-and-platinum light, and revealing a set of attire that could best be described as the battle-worn garments of an unarmed brawler.

Beat

And another helmet.

Omega's stand suddenly slapped a nearby speaker, causing it to suddenly start blaring Ai wo Torimodose, of all things — and Bahamut just kind of rolled with it.

Leaping forward, Bahamut's arms glowed with a brilliant light, and seemed to multiply in number. They had not — Bahamut was simply striking that quickly.

"[DIVINE ART: PLATINUM HURRICANE FIST]!

—

Omega decided to say fuckit, and charged in with Bahamut. His own fists did not glow with a brilliant light, but with a dark and terrible purpose. The rhythm of the punches just seemed to come to him, though he could not explain how... Perhaps it was a stand user thing.

He shifted into his skeletal form and activated the spirit of Arch-Tempered Kulve Taroth, turning him golden as he and his stand shouted his metallic, death-imbued, dragon-boosted fury!

Arachnos

It worked! We did it! We actually fucking did it! SUCK ON THAT, YOU PIECE OF BLOODY EXCREMENT!

Those are Arachnos's first thoughts when he sees the cosmic totally-not-nuke collide with BE!Overclock's stupid catfish face.

Wait... oh shit shit shit shit FUUUUUUUUUU-is the second one as he realizes that he's about in point-blank range of the impact point. In his excitement, he totally failed to take into consideration the possibility of friendly fire. The wave of annihilation washes over him, nearly deep-broiling him inside his own carapace like a lobster. He mercifully loses consciousness for a moment, and comes to when Seiros heals him. Even with that timely intervention, all he can say in return is a series of incomprehensible hissing and clicking noises of extreme agony.

"You are such a BITCH!" Xoeur says, barely managing to defend Eleven's shockwaves. She fires back with a series of kiai of her own.

She is able to avoid the brainwash lightning.

Oca chuckles, not quite as off-put by the display of mushiness.

"I didn't take it quite like that, but I guess I can see the sentiment. Very mushy."

"She might take a bit to get used to the family, though. She seems to be weirded out by my oldest."

Enzo guards from the pink bolts with his (regenerated) book. It guard him from the damage... But the brainwash has effect though!

"What's this? I... Can't... Fight... It......"

LONG LIVE THE CABAL.

Enzo summons again blue lightnings... To his allies! Thankfully these are weaker than the former, but yet...

Rbade

Ami pokes her head out and gives a hesitant cheer. She blasts Rey and Arachnos with Heal Arrows, before sparing a couple for Tiamat.

—

Overclock comes to. While very beat up and looking like a shredded piece of meat, his body is still relatively solid and identifiable.

   "S K K T . . ."   

It struggles to its feet for a second, stunned from the impact.

Tiamat's blessing gives the fighters more than enough extra oomph to deal severe damage to the downed daemon.

The first thing to jar it from its daze is Mothra's stabbing attack, punching right through its upper body and pinning it to the floor. Stressed by the force of the blast and the impact, Dylan's Krushing Blow finally causes Overclock's internal mechanisms to crunch and shatter under the pressure - most notably, knocking its Blink.TP Matrix loose.

Bahamut's PLATINUM HURRICANE FIST and Omega's spoopy Ora Ora proceeds to pulverize Overclock's mecha-skeletal structure. Mattergenners, small engines, servos, all sorts of mechashit are reduced to scrap. The flesh of its hump is also ripped off, reducing its body mass by almost 30%.

Finally, Geo's shoryuken crushes what remaining structural integrity the central support had and blasts the Blink.TP Matrix into the stratosphere.

Of course, everyone involved in melee attacking will have to be wary of their hands being covered in chaos sludge.

TELEPORTATION CAPABILITIES NULL

MATTERGEN CAPABILITIES SEVERELY IMPAIRED

STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY SEVERELY IMPAIRED

Piss. Shit. FUCK! HATE! Really?! Are you FUCKING kidding me?! This is HORSESHIT!

BE!Overclock's mind is clouded with raw, primal anger, the likes of which it has not felt in quite a while. Geo's final blow is the last straw before it rockets back into awareness. That funny 'trick' that kid pulled has escalated this way past the sadistic game Overclock intended - now it's fighting for its life.

Without any indication of what it is doing beforehand, Overclock lashes out with lethal precsion and murderous intent. Its one-hit-kill claws still intact, it intends to rend its point-blank foes to ribbons - Bahamut, Omega, Dylan, and Geo. Mothra is in a bit of a weird position directly above it, so it tries to jam its tail with similar levels of deadly precision into her underbelly.

BE!Overclock's Death Throes! - Hellclown but it's Tricky only (Friday night funkin')

KiriK

Geo is torn apart...?

Mothra manages to avoid Overclock with a quick beat of her wings to send her away, and she flies around, scattering dust over the area to buff the heroes of the battle.

Rhea continues charging. "HAAAAAAA... MEEEEEEEE..."

Rey regains consciousness thanks to Seiros and Ami's healing. "Urgh... I don't suppose he's dead yet?"

Erma appears next to him, shaking her head. Not yet, but he's on the ropes.

Bombon

Lan just returned to the battlefield, altough he is standing at a safe distance from Overclock.

I just LOVE rainbows.

He, or rather, his crayon is surrounded by a subtile rainbow colored glitter. In this moment, altough hurt, he is feeling with more trust in himself, and less fear. All of this thanks to Tiamat's blessing.

He decides to try again an attack he attempted two or three rounds ago. He picks again his spirograph, and draws with it on the air, pointing at Overclock's eyes.

MANDALA BEAM!!!

From the figure drawn, a multicolored beam is shoot towards Overclock, using the last bit of energy left by the blessing. After the attack, Lan will return to his normal being, even losing his cartoon mode for a while.

Arachnos

"Definitely not," Arachnos replies with a strained voice as BE!Overclock's screeches of wrath start damaging whatever he has that passes for eardrums. "The good news is, looks like that attack hurt him badly, so unless he's a really good actor, he's definitely not as unstoppable as I thought him to be. The bad news is, it hurt us badly too. I think another slash from these claws will be the end of me, even after the healing. Now it's a question of who will be the last one standing, and in the state we're in, I'm not sure we can win that contest with that thing going apeshit on our asses like that."

KiriK

Rey summons the Thunder Fury Short Sword with the express purpose of stabbing it into the ground and using it as leverage to stand up. "Well, I guess we're both pretty fucked," he says to Arachnos.

He smirks. "Then again, if we fuse... the fusion will start off in perfect condition and raring to go. You down?"

Arachnos

"Does it really work like that? Well, it's not like we have anything to lose! It's either this, or we're probably dead from its next attack, so let's go!"

Arachnos assumes humanoid form again for the purposes of initiating the fusion dance.

KiriK

And so it begins. Metamo-Rings really are a godsend when it comes to fusion - without them, our heroes would have the risk of undergoing a failed fusion mishap - a very large risk. With them, as long as they get the general motions down, it'll work exactly as intended.

"Fuuuuu... sion! HA!"

Arachnos

Slam - Pendulum

A pale man with long flowing hair that billows around him steps forth, keeping his head down as he pushes in his glasses all cool-like. "I. Am. Power. I am human, and I am divine. I am venom both arachnid and serpentine. I am the unending coils from which there is no escape."

He raises his head, and an extra pair of eyes suddenly sprouts, glowing a stark red in contrast to his deep green 'main' eyes. Lines cut through the air all around him - a nest of threads providing their own visual effect reminiscent of a legendary summon in a gacha game. He also uses these threads to cut his own hair to shoulder length. "I am Areychnos," he declares.

He reaches out his right arm, clutching the N-Strike Elite Stryfe, as the limb darkens and the Midnight Palm's tattoo brands itself on him, followed by the Aurum Palm's armor plating covering it up. Then four clawed spider-limbs sprout from his back like with Reybadygara.

In his left normal arm, he wields the Stampede ECS. Two of his spider limbs brandish the similarly-designed Retaliator and Recon CS-6, while the other two pull a base-yellow Longshot CS-6 out from behind his back, twisting the 'barrel' to split it into two separate yet individually functional guns. "It's over, creature of chaos. I've come to destroy you!"

Def

The Warrior steps in, eating Overclock's attack for Dylan while grabbing its master out of the way and swiping its free claw at Overclock as it lets him go.

Dylan: "Thanks, Warrior!"

Once let go, Dylan, noting the fusion between Rey and Arachnos, pops Gold, smirking.

Dylan: "This new self won't be outdone by a simple 2-man fusion! And since that's technically 2 down..."

   X-FACTOR!   

Dylan pops Level 3 X-Factor, staring down Overclock with a wicked grin.

Dylan: "If they're the unbeatable fusion, then I'm the Champion of West Galaxy!"

He throws off his jacket for extra impact, it flowing in the wind and disappearing with a glow.

Dylan: "I'll have you know, I never really liked Corruption. Not as a tag, not as a mod, and most certainly not as a physical concept! Have at you!"

IKARI - KOF XIV

Omega

Omega was similarly doomed as Geo, rent asunder even through his shiny golden coating...

Or rather, that would have been their fates.

At the last moment, Bahamut flung himself forth in spite of his less armored form, dooming himself in the process to shoulder-check the two young unarmed warriors and send them hurtling out of Overclock's danger radius. A mere instant later, he suffered their would-be end, reduced to a spray of divine gore and blood. It was a single fraction of a moment for the others.

In Bahamut's immortal perspective, this moment stretched into a small eternity — and even though it hurt in a way that a mortal could barely even imagine, he did not regret this for a single subjective second of that eternity.

—

Tiamat, however, incredibly irate as she caught the healing arrow and peeled herself off the ground.

"..."

She slammed one fist on the ground, and engulfed her body in flames, becoming an incandescent mass that grew in size and shape as she assumed her true, seven-headed draconic form!

Tiamat, Queen of Dragons

... And then she immediately decided to charge in, biting and tearing with her seven heads.

—

Omega would have liked a moment to contemplate his almost-death, but he did not have that — not with the chaos-goop slathering his face and the blood of a god coating his armor. He felt...

Well, in extreme pain for a skeleton.

He threw himself in a nearby fountain to wash the goop off before it literally melted his bones away, and then proceeded to drag himself over to Rbade, stumbling and trying to not think about the fact that he would probably need a healing before he returned to human — otherwise there might be some nasty consequences.

"Hey... Rbade... wanna go for a fusion? I just... got my skull fucked up, and those two just went fused-mode."

Psyco

"... Is he doing well?", Seiros asks as she hears the sounds Arachnos makes.

When Overclock loses its cool and goes into 'kill every last one of them' mode, Seiros' attention snaps back to it. She isn't immediately attacked by it, giving her the opportunity to act. She starts spinning her blade before launching blasts of Holy magic at the creature, all the while witnessing a fusion of two people happening besides her, which she observes with great intrigue.

It's possible to have two people, two consciousnesses, two bodies fuse into one being? Is that something restricted to this world? Or is this something that would work in her own as well?

It leaves her to wonder...

Edited by KiriK on Aug 2nd 2021 at 4:22:54 AM

Aldred: With Thouzer being occupied by his nemesis, Aldred took the chance to shoot another stream of lightning at Thouzer in coordination with Enzo.

Though, the sage also had to quickly avoid the pink lightning blasts from Eleven to avoid getting shocked.

Siz: The Void Being is nowhere to be found, while Surtr's already failing body is falling apart from the blast spams from Eleven. However, the flaming giant is not going out without a bang.

Surtr levitated into the air and raised Laevatein, prior to calling out the name of his final attack.

   '''Reduce everything to dust! Loptr... LAE-   

The attack was suddenly stopped by Siz, who returned and smashed his fist through the giant of Muspelheim.

   Why... you...   

Sorry mate, can't have you burn away literally everything.

Surtr growled angrily, but he has no more strength to keep going. The flaming giant fell apart, its sword falling onto the ground. Surely, Eleven can win now that her biggest threat is gone, right?

Any thought of that would probably be discarded as Siz picked up the massive sword without effort.

Surtr is an inconsiderate, grumpy asshole, so he wouldn't hesitate to raze everything, including his allies. Which is why... The Void Being zoomed across the sky and thrusted the giant sword toward Eleven. ...you face me.

Edited by cyzja922 on Aug 2nd 2021 at 2:25:44 AM