Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

I find your inability to "take a hint", as they say, much more noteworthy than those attacks of yours. Thanos smack the beam away, but his glove absorbs a part of the power in doing so. Then, he forms a energy sphere using that same glove, add Raven Beak's beam power to it, and fire a big-ass beam to completely engulf Raven Beak and more or less decimate everything in front of Thanos.

In that aspect, you share similarities with the local variant of the "God of Thunder". He waits for the beam to implode in the distance.

... And you're both about as successful with getting rid of me too.

Edited by Bolded1 on Oct 11th 2021 at 7:42:54 PM

"To each their own, I guess."

Katarina drops to her knees, clasps her hands together, and closes her eyes.

"Please please please can you bring me to some games, any games? I'll share Tia's omurice with you!"

Okay.

"A regular house, huh? Not something I ever imagined living in for a prolonged period of time."

King Harkinian smiles warmly after saying that.

"But I do not object at all. Let us find a good spot."

He begins to walk and looks at Bismark.

"Come with us, Bismark."

"W-wha? Me? I-I already have a... well, I don't, but..."

"Then that's settled.", King Harkinian laughs gently as he walks off. While stammering a little, Bismark eventually concedes and follows.

Reprium

Within the deep forests of the lively region, what appears to be an alone sith warrior is crouched down, his face submerged into water. The warrior's mask lay to his side, resting on a nearby stone. Pulling his face from the water with a deep breath, it is revealed to be Wrustoiz.

Having taken the clothes of one of the warriors from the cavern, the armor bears a large slash across its chest armor. Wrustoiz stands, pulling his mask to him and donning it. To anyone but those who had sensed him before, he may pass for a sith warrior. The sith lord spins around, looking through the trees behind him.

He sensed someone, but he couldn't quite place who yet. He gently placed his hand onto his stolen lightsaber, ready to draw the crimson blade.

Shishishi! No one needs to wear a hat on my crew!

Then there's Sanji! He's really attracted to women but hate men. This means he doesn't hit women, ever! I don't care much either. Men or women, if you fight me or my crew, I'm gonna hit you with everything I got!

But his kicks are super strong and he can lit his legs on fire or something! He also cook like super well! The best you ever tasted!

"Have fun in your new house, king dude! And Bismark!"

"Hohoho... coo, de-gesol... He should cook shrimp, de-geso..."

Sanji sounds SUS. But ok.

"If he reely hates men, how did you get him to join your crew?"

I helped him out on a restaurant ship he was working on! And I guess this made him want to follow us along, huh!

He ponders. Oh! And he really has a rivalry going with Zoro. But they put it aside when it matters!

Reprium

Ben races through the grassy plains of Reprium on his speeder bike, the wind whipping through his brown hair. He had detected Wrustoiz's presence in the Force, and he wasn't about to let him just slink away. Not after everything that had transpired aboard the Grip.

Hitting the brakes once he nears a forest, he climbs off the bike, takes a deep breath to prepare himself for the confrontation to come, and leaps into the treetops. As he jumps from tree to tree, he eventually nears a figure clad in the attire of a Sith Warrior. While he probably could've passed for any of the Empire's acolytes to someone not attuned to the Force, Ben knew this had to be Wrustoiz. There was no mistaking that presence for anybody else.

Ben jumps from the tree, landing before Wrustoiz. He stares him down, one hand falling to his lightsaber.

"Hello there," he says.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Oct 11th 2021 at 12:53:00 PM

Wrustoiz watches as Ben drops from the trees, quickly drawing his lightsaber and igniting the blade before he processed exactly who it was. Quickly inspecting the Jedi, Wrustoiz lowers his blade and deactivates it. The sith lord lets out a deep breath, removing his mask and dropping it to the forest floor.

   "Ah, Ben. You are a foolish one. Don't you think it would've been better to announce yourself?"   

Clipping his lightsaber to his belt, Wrustoiz locks eyes with Ben, his yellow corrupted eyes glowing beneath his hood. He carefully looks around, before properly lowering his guard. He takes a few steps toward the Jedi,

   "You shouldn't have come here, I'm still being followed."   

"That's good!" she says. "Is that everyone de-geso?"

She shakes some sand off her. Sand is sticky, yaknow.

"What does your pirate crew do besides... 'freedom' I de-guesso? Do you pirate things?"

Raven Beak, perhaps surprisingly, withstands the counter blast. It hurtles through and past him, leaving him down on his knees.

He looks up at Thanos, lowly hissing in Tranquil Fury.

Thanos doesn't seems surprised, though he raises an eyebrow slightly. Approaching Raven Beak, he stares back and uses some Eye Beam to try to force him on his back. He then keep it going for a solid five seconds, before stopping.

I would call this productive, but I am no liar... Black Order? Go back to your quarters, there'll be a reckoning for your performance.

The Black Order bows in shame before being transported back. Thanos, meanwhile, turns his back to Raven Beak, showing he's not worried about a sneak attack, and begins to walk out, adding insult to the injury.

...

Hm there's Usopp! He fights at a long range and... he has a long nose too! He's very reliable, even if you may think he's cowardly! He's saved my hide before!

We do pirate things and help each other mostly! A lot of the time we meet nice folks though, so we punch bigger, meaner pirates. Or marines!

Edited by Bolded1 on Oct 11th 2021 at 10:44:40 AM

"Wahaha! I'm going to pirate a movie! And Eiko can't say I can't, because I'm a real pirate now de-geso!"

"..."

Ika curls up in a sitting pose, head on her knees as she looks down into the sand.

"I miss Eiko. And Takeru. And even Chizuru. They were my friends, de-geso. We could fight sometimes, but still. I miss them a lot."

Ben scoffs derisively as he approaches Wrustoiz, fighting the urge to lash out with the Force or begin swinging his lightsaber. His hazel eyes meet the Sith Lord's blazing yellow ones.

"How courteous of you to warn me about your planned ambush. If only you had shown us such kindness before we tried sneaking aboard Laxin's flagship," he remarks. "That's right, Sovereign and Master Zeloai led a mission to rescue you from that monster Laxin calls a Star Destroyer. Shall I tell you how it went, Wrustoiz?"

He unhooks his lightsaber from his belt, though he doesn't ignite it. Despite his calm tone, he grips the hilt of the weapon tightly, doing everything in his power to keep his anger from getting the better of him.

"The plan failed. One of Sovereign's men, Discharge, is dead. Angel was captured, and she's either occupying your old cell or hanging from an Imperial torture rack, if not worse. Aqua and I were nearly slaughtered by your master, and we only escaped due to outside intervention. Everyone else barely made it out with their lives. And you were nowhere to be found."

He glares at Wrustoiz.

"You lured us there on purpose, didn't you? You manipulated us into walking straight into a trap, knowing it would be the perfect opportunity to crush us in one fell swoop."

Hieros followed the others, trying to run sweeping scans for any of their gear. It was unlikely that it had ended up down here of all places, but they had seen stranger things occur.

"A normal house...? I... yeah, that sounds reasonable — it's hard enough to lay low as it is for me. Rhino here isn't exactly a stealthy frame, after all. I had others, but... well, I'd need to find the rest of my Orbiter to access any of them."

Hub Centralis

Rho was, for once, not getting bullied by one of his more aggressive Summons, nor getting dragged off into great danger and high adventure. He was simply v i b i n '

Hub Centralis

Someone else appears to be v i b i n.

"Beep..."

There is a short little radical dude, appearing to be deep in thought...

Luffy seems to be feeling low-key bad about this.

Maybe we could get them in your place? We'd ask someone who know and then we come to pick them up and you could be a crew by yourselves!

Raven Beak rises up just in time to get blasted onto his back. He struggles to rise, but ultimately, Thanos's power wins out. The Mad Titan is victorious, leaving a beaten, half-conscious Chozo would-be conquerer.

Even now, though, he has already decided. This isn't over.

—

After Thanos has left, Raven Beak gets back on his feet, panting, snarling.

And then THIS fucking dude◊ appears in front of him.    "Arshgar-Behek,"    he says, telepathically projecting his thoughts in a way that the Chozo general hears as his own tongue.    "Your skills and goals have been noticed, and we would seek to add you to our like-minded cause."   

A number of silhouettes suddenly appear around Alarak.    "Accept, and wealth, power, glory - all of it, beyond measure, can be yours."   

   "Hmmm..."   

Space Battleship Yamato

Mega Man X stalks the halls of the battleship-fortress. He stops by a specific room - the Captain's Quarters, which stands out among all the other rooms for having a traditional hinged door instead of an electronic sliding door. He knocks on the door, to no response.

"M-Ms. Aran?"

No response.

"... Samus?"

Nothing.

"Samus!"

...

By this time, Faith has wandered into the hallway and is just idly staring. X notices, but does not address her. Instead, he grabs the doorknob and twists it until the lock breaks from sheer force. "Samus, we-!"

Samus is on the floor in her Morph Ball, slowly rolling around in circles and... giggling in an uncharacteristically soft voice. "heehee orb"

X stares for a solid few seconds before slowly closing the door and burying his face in his hand. "She's hopeless when she gets into one of these moods. It's just like Snake and his cardboard boxes..."

Faith looks at him. "So, what, then?"

"Well, the news about Raven Beak will have to wait until later."

And so, they walk off.

Wrustoiz stands there in stunned silence as Ben goes on his lengthy tirade, but he does not wear the feeling on his face. On the surface, his eyes simply followed Ben with a cold stare as he walked toward him.

Once Ben drew his saber, Wrustoiz looked down toward the hilt for a brief moment, a grimace twisting across his face. He looked back up at the Jedi and scoffed. He raised a hand to his face, briefly burying himself in a facepalm.

   "Are you serious? If I wanted to kill you I would have no need for a trap, nor would I even be giving you the courtesy of a conversation. There was no such trap regarding Laxin's new flagship either, I had no idea any of you were even coming."   

He pauses for a moment, matching Ben's glare with one of his own.

   "As a matter of fact, you're all fools to have even attempted such an operation in the first place. I escaped on my own just before I had even been transferred aboard that behemoth."   

He draws his lightsaber, igniting the crimson blade, but still lowering it at his side, pacing around Ben.

   "I sense your anger Jedi, and I sense the denial of your own responsibility. Do not dare to blame me for any of your own foolish plans and tactics, nor for the ensuing result. Ever since I escaped that dreaded son of a Hutt I've been in a fight for my life."   

He gestures to the damaged sith warrior armor he wears, tapping the gash mark with his free hand as he continued to walk around Ben.

   "I've only just recently gotten out of my prisoner garb. The Sith are trailing me, they've caught my scent and they have no intentions of letting me continue to run away. If I was truly a spy of any sort I would've led them straight to you bumbling fools while you sat in that death trap you stole."   

He stops moving and raises his blade in a defensive stance, gripping his hilt with two hands.

   "If you've any questions of my loyalty, know that I have avoided you all precisely because I am being tailed. If I lead them to you when they still know my whereabouts, we will all be dead. Now get out of my way."   

Talion looks in wide-eyed surprise as the nameless King flys out from the smoke, using his magic enhanced reflexes to give himself some time to think. Formulating a quick plan, Talion swipes out with his sword. This parries the blow to his left rib, but the wind projectile slams into his gut. He is briefly brought to his knees by the wind, but quickly rises and watches as the king continues his wind-ride around.

For the second attack, Talion whips around and does a neoesque lean dodge to barely outmaneuver the stab aimed to completely impale him. Seeing the wind projectile coming this time, Talion leaps into the air to dodge it. This also protects him against the mound attack, sustaining his air time with a double jump once again.

Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Oct 11th 2021 at 5:05:03 AM

"I-I don't know how to get back to my place, de-geso. I-if I did, I would have left before now."

She perks up a moment.

"I want to be part of your crew... but I also want to sea them again de-geso."

Andi thinks.

"What could possibly go wrong?"

Lillie chuckles nervously at Andi's statement. "Where do you mean? There are a lot of potential places to go inside..." she looks behind her at Nebby "...though, a place with a lot of... internal space, that would be best."

Andi smiles at that. "13 by 15 by 20. In feet. That. Is the degree of space required to fit one very nice Moone Pokemon. More is better. Doors not required."

Luffy shake his head but doesn't look discouraged.

I'll find a way 100% sure! I can't let my new pal be sad without doing something about it!

Ben ignites his own lightsaber in response. Instead of attacking or taking up a stance, however, he holds the sapphire-blue blade to his side.

"Betrayal and treachery are practically a way of life for the Sith. Forgive me for assuming that a Sith Lord did what his order has always excelled at. And none of us had any kriffing way of knowing that you could've possibly escaped Imperial captivity by yourself. As far as I knew, Laxin had done everything short of personally guarding your cell to ensure that you remained his prisoner."

He stands his ground, taking a moment to try calming himself as Wrustoiz raises his lightsaber.

"So... how do I know for certain that everything you've just told me is true, Wrustoiz?"

"You...you threw me!"

She didn't seem to quite realise what was happening, and ignored the fact she shouldn't be alive

"Why didn't you j-just give me directions?"

Ochimo takes the rhetorical question seriously.

"Hm. Well, some pretty big fights happen sometimes. I guess if we're inside, we might not see a giant attack before it's too late. Then again, what are the chances, right?"

"That might be tricky... er, that one looks big enough!" he signs/says/broadcasts(?), pointing towards The Jarl's Longhouse.

"..."

:D

She jumps up to give Luffy a quick hug.

"T-thank you so much, de-geso! You're so cool!"