"DIDN'T YOU HEAR WHAT I JUST FUCKING SAID?! I SAID I'M FUCKING TRAINING GODDAMNIT!!" He says angrily, cocking another punch at the tree his fist suddenly erupts into flames as he fists a clean charred hole through the tree as the flame dissipates. He looked surprised but also tired from all that punching but is trying his best to hide that from Luffy, although his light panting could be heard.
"The fuck did i just- do?" "I'll ask questions later about shit about what kind of fucking pirate he is... this is fucking exhausting"
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realOca tanks the punch, moving back a millimeter as Viche wallops his chest. Viche might hurt his hand just from this - that's ki-reinforced metal under there.
"... Well, I guess that counts as answer."
He winds up a blow,
*BAM*
and moves to drive a very precise, VERY strong blow into Viche's solar plexus.
ZJ is very pleased, and surprisingly quickly reverts to his previous babyface. His fingers are back and everything!
"Aawabwawbawba!"
He nods, but tilts his head for a second.
"Wai?"
Hub Centralis
A truck
◊ literally crashes through the space time continuum, skidding to a stop on a street after pulling a tight curve. A crocodilian head sticks out the driver's window.
"These people need cars too, right?"
He is here. Gustave, the dread CEO. ... Or at least, one of his instances.
This shit
is playing from the truck's speakers.
Thor answers Picky's question with a nod.
"Do you know if Duster and Kumatora might be there as well, Picky? I was hoping for an opportunity to speak with them as well," he replies, a goodnatured smirk on his face. "Provided, of course, Kumatora doesn't get too caught up in yet another shouting match with Claus."
Pietro responds with a thumbs up.
"Lead the way, man. I was just wondering if the food here's as top notch as the rest of the base."
Hub Centralis
Gustave's first 'prospective customer' is not even a person. It is a shoebill, tall enough to make eye contact with the interior crocodile even with the size of the Chevrolet accounted for.
It just sorta stares at Gustave.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Get a loada this guy. Bleedin' moron. Bet he doesn't even have a high school diploma.
"... Well, it's your loss, kiddo."
Food? Eh, not hungry right now. Maybe in a few days.
Gustave slips out the window and slams to the floor.
"Maybe there's a Men's Warehouse around here."
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/\。。/\If it does hurt his hand, Viche is doing his damnedest best to not show it.
And then the counterattack hits. Viche is pretty much frozen in his position, soft, pained gasps escaping him as his body slightly shudders. After a few seconds his eyes fall shut as his Ki fades with him falling unconscious, slumping before he starts to drop. Courne goes to catch him by the back of his uniform, easily keeping his grip on him.
"There's no way he didn't know it'd end this way. I genuinely have no idea why he didn't just take the chance you gave him.", Courne says.
Pilly looks confused for a moment.
"Is he asking me why? ... If I'd known this would happen I would've taken Paula with me, she works at her parents' preschool, this'd be easier to understand for her."
"Well, I think your dada will be worried if you're gone for too long.", she says, both as its own thing and as a potential answer if ZJ did ask her why.
"How about we get going?"
She looks up at the hole ZJ made.
"That should be the quickest way. Can you fly that high?", she asks, pointing up at the hole to make it more clear what she's asking him.
"I know Kumatora's still working, she had a lunch break two hours ago. I've got no idea where Duster is though, this place is huge.", Picky says. "Not as big as Pseudo's base, but still big enough that it's easy to get lost."
He then takes out his gauntlet, not having it around his arm since he's not wearing his uniform, and he has it project a small map hologram.
"I sometimes still need this to find my way around."
He then smiles at Pietro.
"Oh, the food here's great. Restaurant tier. G.E.M. apparently owns some plantations, and while 95% of their food supply goes to the people who are out of a home, the rest goes to the shareholders and soldiers. Which, thanks to Claus collaborating with them, includes everyone working for him too."
Umezou eventually glances back to the fight.
"A-anyway, Chansey! Toxic!"
Chansey sends a poisonous blob flying towards Biblically Accurate Mewtwo.
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In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Oca drops to base form.
"I bet it was that whole 'saiyan pride' thing. That sort of defiance is productive in do-or-die situations where a small fighting chance is better than curling up and dying. But it's counterproductive when the situation is one you can just walk away from."
"Healing item?"
ZJ nods. That makes sense. Dad does get worried if he's gone for too long. ... These few minutes probably don't count as that, but I guess getting back earlier will stop it from reaching that point?
"Oa Kay."
He looks up at the hole and nods. Yeah, no biggie. ZJ lifts off again and starts floating upwards.
/\。。/\"Maybe. He's definitely not the only one in our army who'd react that way.", Courne comments. Then he shakes his head.
"Nah, this way he'll be quiet for a bit, and then I can train. Not to mention he'd throw a hissy fit if he found out you healed him. He didn't cough up any blood when you hit him, so he'll probably recover over time on his own."
He throws Viche over his shoulder.
"I guess you're gonna go look for your kid now?"
"Full on flight, not just hovering. That'll make it easier for us to look around for his dad.", Pilly says as she aims her hand down at the ground.
"Shame I can't fly, but at least I can do this. ... though maybe I should ask if brother can't install jetpacks into my legs or something later."
She launches an Annihilator Beam at the ground, rocketing herself up with the force, and once she gets to the 'ceiling' of Blackreach, she slams the tips of her metal spider legs into it to prevent herself from falling back down. She then hangs there for a moment, like someone whose parachute got stuck in the branches of a tree, doing so to balance herself properly. Once she's sure, her metal legs start moving across the ceiling all insect-like, letting her head towards the hole.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay."I see... Hopefully, I'll not have to wait long to see them again. I was hoping to see if Kumatora had many any progress with her water technique," Thor replies. "Now then, I believe we have a dining hall to reach."
Pietro lets out a low whistle.
"Kickass tech that Stark and SHIELD would be jealous of, great food... Thor and Claus really hit the freaking jackpot with these guys," he says. "Anyway, this restaurant tier food's not gonna serve itself up to us on a silver platter. Heh, unless G.E.M. has a cool gadget for that, too."
Oca nods.
"I mean, 'look' is a strong word when I can just teleport over to him, but yeah."
"By the way, you master those god forms? Been a while since I've seen you really fight."
ZJ giggles at Pilly's maneuver, and scuttles along in a similar manner up unto the hole.
"Bibawrhobehwabobwabwbabwabawobaobwboaobwowbaowbaow..."
He crawls in, but pokes his head out soon after. Will Pilly fit? The hole is ZJ-sized.
/\。。/\"I've been working on it. I've got a pretty good grasp on God. I'm still trying to work around Blue's bigger stamina drain though.", Courne says. "And this guy here isn't giving me much time to continue that training."
He groans.
"I almost wish Lord Beerus would show up to take me away for some more training with him. The look on Viche's face would be priceless. Even he knows better than to mouth off to Lord Beerus."
Once near the hole, Pilly lets two of her metal spider legs dislodge from the ceiling, the tips now opening up and firing thin lasers upwards. She moves those two legs in a circle formation over the ceiling, cutting a circular hole in it that's big enough for her to get through.
Should ZJ coincidentally be standing on the part that'll fall down due to having been cut out, Pilly will swiftly dislodge a third leg to catch him by his shirt to prevent him from falling. Yeah, he can fly, but when you get taken by surprise you might not immediately think of doing that.
Regardless of whether or not she needs to use a third leg though, she then swings a bit before hurling herself upwards, grabbing onto the edges of the hole and pulling herself out of it without any issue. If she's holding onto ZJ, she'll put him down on the ground besides her.
"I hope that bit of ground won't hit anyone down there.", she mutters to herself.
—
Simporak
◊ happens to be walking down there, and the piece of ground falls on his head, comedically knocking him out.
"We should be almost there.", Picky says. He then shrugs.
"I guess so, but we won't be able to enjoy these luxuries forever. Once they have everything they need mined up, they're probably going to leave the Arena due to how dangerous it is. That way they'll have everybody in their world to help work on reparations. I don't know what they're planning to do with this base afterwards, but with some luck they'll let Claus keep it."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay."Heh, that's part of the reason I prefer Primal in concept. God forms may give the bigger power boost, but Primal has no obvious drawbacks."
"The other reasons are that the version of Blue from my universe is outright weaker than Primal, and that I'm biologically incapable of achieving God. Call it sour grapes, sue me."
He thinks for a second.
"Why not just ask him for that? Even if you're afraid of him, I'm sure he wouldn't just delete a guy he's been spending this much effort training up."
ZJ does fall, and is catched before the two swing up the hole. He seems as pleased as ever by the whole thing.
"Bawababgabh!"
Once they're out, he squirms out of Pilly's grip and drops to the ground, before standing up.
"Dada bee evebaerebywwryerehre delepor."
/\。。/\Keeby gets sent flying by the punch, hurtling towards the still-standing Castle Dour. He lands on a parapet, switches to ARCHER and readies an arrow...
Biblically Accurate Mewtwo leaps over the Toxic glob, doing a front flip. On its way back up, it stretches out its leg, pausing right before descending before slamming down with an axe kick.
The shoebill walks away.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""No drawbacks, huh?", he mutters, thinking. He then looks slightly nervous.
"Well, I would, but... he's made it pretty clear that he'll come to me if he wants me around. Unless I find some kind of new food that he'd like, it's not really a good idea to contact him."
He then looks sheepish, a rare expression to see on him.
"But I don't know what he would like, and I'm absolutely terrible at cooking, so that leaves me with no options but to wait for him."
Then he glances behind him.
"Guess I'll leave you to your thing now. I'm gonna get going."
Pilly looks at ZJ for a moment, trying her best to understand what he's saying.
"I think he's saying something like 'dad be... uh... every... beard? ... no... dad be... something something... delepor'? ... Delepor... teleport, maybe?"
"Your dada can teleport? So he'll come to us?"
"I agree with ya there. Ah, we're here.", Picky says.
Thor and Pietro may be shocked to see the size of the cafeteria. It absolutely dwarfs the size of the cafeterias Pseudo has strewn throughout his base, and there's a lot of soldiers, both G.E.M. and Pigmasks alike, sitting at the tables, eating and chatting.
"Lucas and Claus should get here any minute now, and in all this khaki and pink they shouldn't be too hard to spot.", Picky says. "If you wanna grab something, go ahead. I'll head to the table they always sit at."
Chansey gets wrecked, and Umezou facepalms. Of course, Mega Mewtwo X, not Y.
"Mega Kangaskhan!", he then sends out as he recalls Chansey. Kangashkan hits the field, and once again, despite the lack of a Mega Ring and Mega Stone, energy still flows from Umezou to allow Kangaskhan to Mega Evolve.
"Fake Out!", he says, and Mega Kangaskhan goes for it, aiming to make Mewtwo flinch.
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In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Deut begins to use her gravity powers at several spots to raise impressive barriers, though actually they're mostly there to block Keeby's view and get him to guess where she might be as she approach the castle...
...
Oh! Nice punch! You... incinerated that tree! He says, struggling a little to find the word.
I bet you could do a lot of damage with a move like this!
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Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"I-I should really go. It was... um, nice to meet you, Mr. Afton, sir, but... seriously, please don't follow me."
Charlie goes for the door while the tarot cards are returned to their positions underneath the table and Mystical Maggie retakes its idle posture.
Keeby continues charging, seemingly unbothered by Deut's attempt to psyche him out. His arrow flashes with light, gaining a magical blue aura...
Biblically Accurate Mewtwo folds its arms and gets struck by both hits of Fake Out (assuming this Mega Kangaskhan has its Ability like in everything that wasn't Let's Go).
"."
One gets the sense it's holding in place out of respect to the rules of flinching and not because it's actually being stopped from tearing Mega Kangaskhan apart.
Mewtwo's Steadfast
Mewtwo's Speed rose!
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""I mean, I hear he goes fucking ballistic over ramen noodles. Even if they aren't new... Dunno if you can find any back at your place though, you guys got rid of Terra. I doubt there's any leftover noodles there."
"But if you can find some here, they're piss easy to make. It's like. Find a cup of them at a store. Fill it with boiling water and close it back up. Wait three minutes. Bam, noodles! No hyperbole, seriously, that's it."
Oca salutes Courne and *bawoop!*s out.
ZJ nods furiously.
"Ooabwoabwaobabowabowbowaobwaobwaobaowbaobwaobwawbwbahbwhbthehjebthaebhrawjbajhwawbwjabwhawbjawhjaw–"
*bawoop!*
His... I don't even know, is interrupted by the sudden appearance of DADA.
"Hey, kiddo! This is where you ended up...?" Oca glances at Pilly. "Who's this?"
"Billy!"
"'Billy'? Er, howdy."
/\。。/\Keeby is fully charged. His arrow gains an even bigger and grander aura, ribbons of light swirling in rings around it. He now starts adjusting his aim, trying to find Deut.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

"Teeth that could crush a human skull..."
"Uh, speaking of that, if you're taking suggestions, maybe make the teeth out of soft foam instead of—"
Charlie looks at the booth's window and yelps, jumping onto a table. William won't be able to see anything out-of-place unless he's already interacted with Remnant, but as for Charlie...
Letters have been scrawled into the glass. They look like they were written by someone using their finger like a paintbrush.
RWQFSFASXC
Red silently nods when Umezou calls him out for the attack on Snorlax. Biblically Accurate Mewtwo nods back.
"I merely got carried away." Mewtwo waits for Umezou to finish his mind-conversation.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."