"Wait a second... is he talking about meeting the God? As in, with a capital 'G?' But why the friggin' hell would His last words be a bunch of random numbers, of all things? Unless..."
Before Nicole can continue that train of thought, the log ends with Narktus revealing the passcode. Without a moment to spare, she types it into the console.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Oct 29th 2021 at 1:45:50 AM
Pepsi Man, recognizing an advantage to push, takes another sip of the moonlight Pepsi, before running in, taking a great leap and punching the Devil Gundam right in the chest, releasing a wave of destructive moonlight on contact!
Afterwards, he leaps away. He's... 99% sure that the whole absorbing thing only works on machines, but it's assuming these things that can get people killed.
Yatta!Outpost
...We are about to discover it.
The second recording starts. Tito laugs a bit with the alloy's name, but stops with Narktus' warning.
They listen carefully until the end. Lulú writes the code in her notebook.
What could it means "the dying words of God"?
I heard some time ago that mathematics are the language of God, but this is ridiculous.
And where could it be that super armor he mentioned?
Vs. Devil Gundam
The golem resists the lasers, altough it flinches a bit. Then, it throws a Megaton Punch at the head as an answer.
Meanwhile, Super Love tries to communicate with Shinji through her microphone:
You will not die today. You have the strenght to fight and overcome all your obstacles. You only must believe in yourself.
Her voice is converted into healing waves by the microphone.
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Three freaking ghosts!"Trust me, I know how powerful you are. And I'm still absolutely sure of my claim.", Giegue says to Thor, exerting an aura to forcefully launch the needles in him away. Ninten, seeing this, does the same thing.
Since a computer can't dodge, Thor's lightning and the Sovereign's obliterating blast hit it dead-on. The computer loses a good chunk of its surface armor from the latter attack, but the containers and bottles near the walls also shatter from the attack.
"Ah! Be careful not to destroy my ship.", Giegue says to the Sovereign.
"You mean my ship."
"Will you sh-oh, forget it."
Ninten casts PSI Shield β. Psychic shields will appear around all of his allies and defend them from one attack.
Giegue's attack was inexplicable!
Giegue launches a freezing psychic blast at the computer, dealing some good further damage to the areas that got damaged by the Sovereign's attack.
Master Magnolia lashes out at all enemies with his thorned branches. However, the PSI Shield may let them just charge through this attack without getting hurt.
He also emits Magic Mushroom spores. Giegue and Ninten immediately back off while the former tries to blow the spores away with a psychic aura.
Pandora glances at Samus for a moment as she attacks with the Annihilator Cannon. Her intrigue is enough to snap her out of it, and she flies over to Samus when the Devil Gundam attacks Pepsiman, launching some shots at its attacks in the hopes of interrupting some of them.
"That weapon you just used. How does it function?", she asks Samus.
Meta Knight, meanwhile, has charged up energy and starts to fly into the air, launching some sword beams towards the Devil Gundam just in case it tries to intercept him.
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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.VS Devil Gundam
Shinji takes one last deep breath, before focusing. His doubts and insecurities come to mind in front of him... Which he adresses one by one.
His school life stress, his Neglectful father, his paradoxical feelings of uselessness and an overwhelming burden of responsibility... These are all shoved aside, at least for now, as Shinji remembers his time in the arena, The allies he's working alongside. People care for him. His burdens aren't only his own. Sure, his father's a prick, but does pleasing his father really matter? He's saved lives. He's being forced into battle as a child, yes. But at least he's alongside people who care.
And as for his fear of death... he's not dying here.
Shinji takes one last deep breath, as he, for one of the rare occasions in his life, dismisses his doubts, burdens, and stress, and focuses.
"I must not... No. I WILL not run away... There's people who care for me, something worth defending. Maybe I am a coward, maybe I am hesitant. Maybe my father doesn't care for me. But There are people who do care. And I can't let myself break down while everyone else fights on... I can tolerate and care for myself, I can forgive myself for my failures. I can do this. Shinji, you can do this."
Shinji Closes his eyes, calming down, his panic fading away... Before opening them once more, as he begins to eminate a yellow glow from his hair and eyes, his plugsuit shining a vibrant yellow around its neck...As EVA 01 Stands up, its plating around its muscles going from their normal colors to a golden yellow.
(Cruel angel thesis, orchestra)
EVA 01 gets into a fighting stance, but Instead of its regular aggression accompanying its beastial hand to hand combat, it stands calmly, no roars, no labored breathing. It seems to be patiently awaiting devil gundam to make the first move.
NERV HQ, Comms room As feed from Nerv HQ begins again, Shinji's Mic picking up his pep talk to himself, The control room team begins watching on, with mixed reactions. Some express confusion, others start cheering. Others Begin to Place bets. Misato looks on, giving a smile. Gendo, in the meanwhile, is absent, watching the feed from his own office.
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VS. DEVIL GUNDAM
Megan knew her frame well enough that she wasn't going to be able to pull up in time — so instead of doing that, she focused her mind, gathered her energy, and waited until the last possible moment to transform her frame back into it's Gundam form — before extending a leg and going for a ki-charged falling kick, aimed right at the heads!
"SHINING TALON METEOR!"
This was absolutely going to mulch her mech's legs, with this much velocity, but she was willing to make that sacrifice if it meant stopping this monster's rampage.
—
"Gwain, if you do drinks or food or whatever, it's on me after this is all over. You're a life-saver!"
Rho planted his staff in the ground, and reached out through the great astral void for his final summon.
"Way-Watcher of the heavens, answer my call in this world's dark hour! Arise from the Aether and banish the Void — ELYSIAN GUNSTAR!"
The light of the sun focused onto a point in mid-air above the battle, as another ring of runes and sigils appeared around Rho. This light then formed into a disc, which shattered like glass as the shining form of the Elysian Gunstar
erupted forth!
Rho's shoulders were positively alight with purple-and-blue magefire as his other two summons arose from the waves, one a titan of water and salt, the other a hunched behemoth of ice and frost. He had to admit, something about being able to maintain three summons at once — even if he needed help to do it — just felt good.
—
Thranix continued listening in, but took up a ready stance. His armor shimmered slightly, as he tried to decide between the general-purpose strength of this armor, or the hyper-aggressive vampiric healing of his Carnifex armor and its counterpart blades.
"Whatever you're doing back there, hurry it up please — sounds like the battle is coming to us whether we want it or not!"
For the first time this mission, Omega shifted into his skeletal form. He wanted to be ready when that behemoth up above showed its horrifying double face — but he kept his attention on the projectors and on the general goings-on there.
"Well then... That... escalated quickly."
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousThor begins hacking and slashing away at the oncoming branches with Stormbringer, the PSI shield defending him from harm. Backing away once the spores come forth, he spins Mjolnir fast enough to whip up a whirlwind, which he launches at the aforementioned spores in order to help blow them away.
"Apologies for any damage to the ship this might cause, Giegue!"
In sheer frustration, the demoness completely ignores both GW!Thor and McNinja's comments. Filia quietly whispers to herself, hand buried into her face, so not only is her speech quiet, it's muffled as well. In sheer frustration, it takes her a few moments to notice the marine while she speaks to herself.
"He's genuinely letting them do this?"
Looking back up at the marine, and then to the troops stationed at the facility she simply waves her hand in a gesture indicating that they could investigate. Not giving him the courtesy of anything beyond a disappointed stare, she keeps waving him off until he does so. When he does, she'll watch as the projection fades and Schwarz barks out to enter the code.
She knows it's correct, but doesn't stand in the way of Nicole as she does so. In fact, she turns away from the console entirely and watches the entrance, hearing whatever is coming approaching with the loud booms of a battle. At this point, the only thing that could top her frustration, even more, was if Narktus himself showed up. Wait, what that's presence?
"You've got to be fucking kidding me."
Onyxis
Amongst the frigid dead wastes, far from the Imperial base, is Laxin. Meandering about seemingly alone across the frozen wastes, the sith casually trudges above the snow, his feet managing to stay above the dense layers of snow. He's heading toward a nearby collection of massive boulders, in an area mostly cleared of snow. Oh, wait, he isn't alone. Far behind him, someone is trudging through the deep snow.
Laxin turns back briefly,
"If you care to not freeze to death I suggest you hasten the pace."
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Gwain can't do anything other than channel power into Rho this round.
"Make good use of this..."
"... That sounds like a hell of an armor."
She doesn't really know how to process the drama of this information. So she just. Um. Doesn't. She also doesn't laugh at the name.
Xoeur watches Nicole type the string of numbers. It work?
/\。。/\As the mooks clear out of the room, the console goes to a static screen for about half a second before the computer monitor displays none other than Narktus himself.
"Filia. There is nothing else of value left in this base. While you were understandably hostile, you still did everything that needed to be done. Take the holo projectors. Leave them anywhere but here, then join the fight outside. Of everyone left in Gravitas who I trust, only you are powerful enough to defeat that Mechanical Abomination."
His eyes then flicker to Nicole. "... So. Have you found what you were looking for?"
Fortunately for Pepsiman, the case seems to be less that the Devil Gundam can't absorb energy from living things and more that whatever the hell Moonlight is, it can't be absorbed. The Devil Gundam's whole body is briefly sent reeling back by that punch!
The Gundam Head attacking the golem is punched in the face and explodes.
Samus turns to Pandora. "It uses a a mix of dark and light energies. When they're combined, it creates a powerful explosion of power."
Some Gundam Heads spring up and chase after Meta Knight, but they get rebuffed by his sword beams before Domon intercepts, slicing through them.
Devil Gundam mechanically roars at Shinji's transformation and lurches towards the newly Hyper-Mode-Awakened EVA-01, throwing a meaty punch with its upper body's arms!
Megan's Gundam Heads both explode. More of them keep popping up, though... until...
"MEGAN! META KNIGHT! TOGETHER, WITH ME!"
Domon clenches his hands over his beam saber as he powers up to Hyper Mode!
"THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER! ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU!"
Raising the blade over his head, it erupts into a heaven-piercing pillar of destructive power!
"TAKE THIS - MY LOVE, MY ANGER, AND ALL OF MY SORROW! SHINING FINGEEEEEERRRRRR... SWOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRD!"
Flying forth, intending for Meta Knight and Megan to also use the Shining Finger Sword in tandem with him, he plunges the blade down towards the Devil Gundam's upper chest area! "GO! GO! GOOOOOO!"
"Noted." The Sovereign rushes towards Master Magnolia, past the PSI Shield and getting nailed by the poison needles as a result, but it doesn't seem to stop her. Nor do the spores, as she pulses an aura of Omega Energy just strong enough to incinerate any spores headed her way. Once upon him, she swings her energy-sword at the computer.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Redacted
"Yes my lord."
Behind Laxin was no other than Redacted, his pace quickening as he continued to follow the Sith through the frozen wastes, his boots full of snow as his body shivered... He would've normally changed his body so that he wasn't so cold, but at the current moment his Atomic Manipulator was still undergoing repairs.
He hopped the scientists and engineers back at the lab would be able to comprehend the instructions he had left them, but either way he was accompanying Laxin to places unknown.
In the back of his head he couldn't help but wonder why they were there. There was work to be done, and it was very curious that Laxin would tell him nothing about what they were doing out here as well.
The scientist simply dismissed these thoughts and followed Laxin, what else could he do?
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"HAIL DOMON! Thor's voice ring out from the skies as he directly flies towards the Devil Gundam, throwing his hammer behind him as he prepares to strike with all his strength. Yes, the mechanical beast is fearsome, but Thor is fearsomer. And he proves that by warping the weather to trigger a whole ass storm!
He does acknowledge the others, but he did fight Domon, so he'd zero in on the worthiest of individuals.
ALLOW ME TO ASSIST YOU IN THE KILLING OF THE MAD CREATURE! RRRRYYYYYYAAARRGHHHH! Several bolts of lightning strike Mjolnir altogether and he smash his hammer towards the beast's chest, aiming to blow it open with a ferocious, earth-rending strike. The subsequent lightning storm in front of him add to the spectacle of the Shining Finger, and a most mighty shockwave ensues, very prettily moving trees from a long distance away.
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Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterOutpost
The 4 guys gave a jump of surprise when Narktus showed on the screen.
W-What is he doing on the screen?
Tito notices the background battle noises.
And how he knows outside here is a battle? I didn't laugh at your alloy name, I promise...
Do you know already we are here?
Tell us, what is that cause you are fighting for?
He said we must fight... And we'll do it.
But... We don't know how to fight!
Maxi puts on his goggles dramatically. We'll have to learn now.
Vs. Devil Gundam
The golem claps again its hands, provoking a huge shockwave aiming to destroy all the Gundam heads it can.
Edited by BombonBombin on Oct 29th 2021 at 4:51:53 AM
Three freaking ghosts!Filia looks up at the monitor once Narktus's face appears, and rather than explode, she lets out a very long deep sigh, metaphorically venting the build-up of anger. Once his command had been issued, the pair of projectors completely disappeared without a trace. The demoness gives Narktus a brief bow, before giving SI!Omega a concerned stare. Not waiting for any response, she disappears, presumably to the battle above.
Devil Gundam Battlefield
Amidst the battle and chaos ensuing, Filia appears in the backline of the battle, watching as Domon goes full hyper-mode and rushes forward toward the hulking machine. Looking around at what's unfolding, she is fully impressed by the endurance of the Devil Gundam to have resisted this thus far. She contemplates her options, her vision darting around to the multiple floating Gundam heads, and the central one that's far larger than the rest under assault.
Outstretching her hand and closing her eyes in concentration, she stands completely still for a few moments. A small portal tears itself open, splitting across realities, a massive blade
◊ exiting and flying into her hand. The portal closes and Filia opens her eyes, examining the massive blade.
"So it did survive."
With a light chuckle, she stares at the blade for a moment, the runes etched onto its blade pulsating with intense light. A light smirk develops on her face, but she had no more time for distractions.
Swinging it over her head with a graceful flourish, she leaps into the air and lets out a deep exhale before her face shifts to a blank stare. The demoness flies straight for one of the Gundam heads at an unfathomable speed, attempting a devastating one-handed cleave to completely eradicate it. If she succeeds she will blink to another in an instant and attempt the same move, and if that succeeds, then another, and so on.
Laxin
Laxin arrives as the scattered boulders, standing in-between them toward the center, where a firepit was sat. It was ready to be brought to life, with wood and dried foliage gathered within it. The sith turns to face Redacted, who by now should've arrived just behind him.
Motioning to the boulders around them, varying in size from small to quite large, he begins to speak.
"I told you we would discover together your link to the force. All beings can feel it, even if they come from... places beyond where they may think it reaches. It is omnipresent, and it is my belief that this place is the very heart of the force. Never have I felt such power course through me anywhere in the galaxy that I do here."
He pauses for a moment, and without lifting so much as a finger all of the boulders begin to float into the air synchronously, rising higher and higher.
"There is no better training ground, not even the sith academy on Korriban for you than here."
VS. DEVIL GUNDAM
"... Uhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhello?"
Omega's awkwardness kicked in, in full, and at possibly one of the more inconvenient times of his life. Thranix simply turned his head, and blinked in mild confusion.
"This might be particularly foolish of me, but could we ask for your help in taking this beast down at all? We'd really appreciate having some extra help, erm... Lord? Narktus? You use the title of 'Lord', right?"
—
The Wyvern Esper's legs were, indeed, nearly destroyed, but somewhat to Megan's surprise there was just enough left intact for her to more or less will the machine to Domon's side, readying her own Shining Finger Sword in the process as she slipped into Hyper Mode!
"THESE HANDS WILL BURN AWAY THE PAIN OF THE PAST, AND LIGHT THE WAY TO OUR VICTORY!"
Like mentor, like student — Megan raised her hands as a roiling blade of ki and mana formed between them, combining its light with Domon's and Meta Knight's own blade!
"NO GOD OR DEMON WILL STAND IN OUR WAY! SHINING! TALON! SWOOOOOOOORD!"
Megan lunged forward, aiming just below into the mid-section of the Devil Gundam's chest!
—
Rho realized that Gwain wouldn't be able to do much else if she was only supporting him — and she seemed quite potent, so he had an idea.
"Gwain, I've got an idea. I can use my Shard to empower myself, which should leave you free to do your thing!"
The shard materialized to his side, and, without waiting for much confirmation, he focused in on it as he held it aloft with his free hand — on the frequency, the internal 'music' both of the shard and of himself, and the raw power emanating out of that music. With a flash of brilliant blue, Rho seemed to briefly vanish, but when the light cleared away...
Who the hell
◊ is that?.
They breathed deep, the light of the nebula around where their head should have been dimming and rising as they did so.
"Oh now that is good."
That's... still definitely Rho, somehow. His voice had an arcane reverberation to it, but there was no doubt that that was indeed him. He levitated slightly off the ground he had previously been standing upon, and gestured with his staff towards the Devil Gundam, directing his Summons to make a three-pronged attacks against it!
The Waveguard immediately loosed a large amount of its newly-gathered water, trying to prime the Devil Gundam for a flash-freeze — which the Ravager followed up on by using its new ice-shell like a fragmented, freezing whip. The Elysian Gunstar, meanwhile, locked on to the Devil Gundam and loosed a barrage of divine beams that warped and curved through the air to reach their target!
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousThe whirlwind proves to be even more successful than the psychic aura when it comes to deflecting the spores. Incinerating them is also rather effective for obvious reasons.
"... Let's hope we can contain the collateral to a minimum.", Giegue sighs, forced to accept that damage will be an inevitability at this point.
Master Magnolia attacks with branches and needles once again. Ninten casts Power Shield on himself, reflecting the damage back. ... which isn't very useful when the computer is immune to the reflected attacks, but at least it was a full block.
He then scatters spores again, and this time Ninten gets hit as they pass right through Power Shield. He starts to cough harshly.
"New friend incoming~"
"Shit!"
Giegue's attack was inexplicable!
Giegue glows a bright green as he starts administering healing PSI to Ninten in the hopes of curing him before he gets infected.
"Deal with the armor, it shouldn't be able to take much more!"
Pandora looks down at her arms, looking thoughtful.
"... I wonder..."
The threads come out of her arms, starting to rearrange their structure. Perhaps they could...
Meta Knight nods gratefully when Domon comes to his aid, and when called upon, doesn't hesitate to join him.
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome power!", Meta Knight says, not as loudly as Domon at first. But then he turns it up a notch too.
"Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take this, my love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! SHINING FINGER... SWORD!""
Galaxia glows and extends thanks to the massive energy being summoned, and alongside Domon Meta Knight spirals downwards, attempting to plunge the blade into the Devil Gundam's chest area as well.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Shinji Gets his shit together
Devil gundam's strike flies Towards EVA 01, But EVA 01 doesn't make any moves to avoid it... the strike moves in... and suddenly collides with EVA's AT field, which, momentarily, Becomes Visible to the naked eye. The hit is blocked entirely, As EVA 01 weaves in, using this as an opportunity, the AT field moving closer to EVA 01's body as it grabs a second Hybrid Prog Knife from its other pylon, readying itself
Shinji, Not wanting to plagiarize domon's technique, alongside EVA 01 and Shinji having their own styles, in this moment, loudly exclaims, making shit up on the fly, "THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH THE SHINING LIGHTS OF TWO SOULS, ITS BURNING HEAT HAS FORGED THE SWORD AND SHIELD THAT WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN!"
EVA 01 brings its Hybrid knife up, as the Prog knife function goes into overdrive, and the beam component flashes with newfound energy... The energy of EVA 01's AT field forms around the arm carrying the knife, as shinji yells "TAKE THIS, MY SHATTERED DOUBTS, MY WILL TO CARRY ON, MY NEWFOUND COURAGE! SHINING CLAW DAGGER!"
EVA 01 thrusts the Prog knife towards The Devil Gundam, attempting to bring it right into his foe's Chest. If this is successful, it would be followed by the AT field around EVA 01 Suddenly bursting outwards towards the point of impact ,physically striking Devil Gundam, and shoving the knife deeper in.
Nicole blinks in surprise when Narktus suddenly appears on the console's screen. Once she's had a moment to regain her composure, she answers his question with a nod.
"Yeah... I think so. At least, now we know Gravitas didn't bring the Devil Gundam here," she replies. "The White Witch wasn't what you'd call hospitable, though. Guess she ain't as graceful and ladylike as she looks."
She lets out a deep breath.
"Anyway... could we talk after we've dealt with the big-ass nightmare machine stomping around outside? Just you and me? Before you say anything, I'm not trying to lure you into a trap or set you up for some kinda ambush. Okay? I just wanna chat."
Thor pulls the needles from his arm and tosses them aside.
"Right!"
He flourishes both Mjolnir and Stormbringer, then leaps back from the spores before striking the ground hard with his hammer, sending a column of lightning coursing towards Master Magnolia.
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"..."
She nods silent thanks towards Rho for taking the burden off of her, before jumping up. All that power that was going towards Rho is now all hers, making her look like a mf Super Saiyan.
"EXECUTION!"
Once again, she utilizes her favorite technique - the Execution Beam. This time, however, it is a single massive light construct, which she generates above herself before hurling it at the Devil Gundam's arm, hoping to slice it off.
"LANCE!"
Don't worry Omega, you aren't the only one here who feels awkward.
"This is... ... Narktus?"
Congratulations, Xoeur, you now know more about Gravitas than Oca does.
/\。。/\Narktus takes a long, deep breath. "... Right. We'll talk after. You had best return to the surface and make sure the job gets done."
Schwarz and Dr. McNinja nod.
Then Schwarz walks out into the hall and blows the roof off the base with an explosive kunai, leaving an easy exit for anyone who can fly (or jump really high).
"I saw that!"
—
Samus's eyes widen in surprise under her visor as Pandora starts doing things. She then turns her attention back to the Devil Gundam, which seems to be getting handled just fine.
As the Devil Gundam's chest is split open, a figure becomes visible inside it.
Devil Gundam was once built to have all the functions of a normal Gundam, chest cockpit included. Like a normal Gundam, it needs someone in the cockpit to move. A pilot. Domon said that in his summary, but this...
Domon's hands go limp. His Hyper Mode fades. Burning Gundam's beam saber shuts off, and as his arm drops to the side, he lets go, the weapon falling to the ground.
That form inside the cockpit, strung up with cables like Christ on the Cross, is... is...!
"M... MAAAAAASTEEERRR!"
Grasping a Broken Dream (傷だらけの夢を握りしめて)
"Oh shit, I heard that." Samus rushes towards the front of the Devil Gundam, building up a Shinespark charge along the way.
The Devil Gundam's upper body is ravaged by explosions as the damage from all the tremendous strikes spreads throughout its form, and the limp, unconscious Master Asia is consumed in them.
Burning Gundam reaches out towards the sinking form. "MASTEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!"
...
Something isn't right here. The Devil Gundam that's collapsing... doesn't look real. It's not a fake, but could it be... an illusion?
On closer inspection... Oh shit, it is an illusion. It's like a transparent image that obscures what's really happening. The Devil Gundam really is damaged, Master Asia really is inside, and it looks so unbelievably wrecked that it can't even regenerate... but it's still moving.
And it's reached the Mystic Gardens.
The Sovereign dispels her blade, replacing it with a hammer. Not like Mjolnir, more of a two-handed warhammer. Since it's made of energy, it should still be able to damage the armor, and so she brings it down on Magnolia's metaphorical head.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."WHAT SORCEROUS BASTARDRY WOULD ENCHAIN SUCH A MAN TO A FOULISH CONTRACEPTION SUCH AS THIS?! IT MUST PAY FOR THIS! Thor says, enraged at the fate of everybody's favorite martial artist dad.
Thor raise his hammer high into the air, as he notices that it is a mere trickery!
DOMON! QUICK! YOUR MASTER YET LIVES! LET OUR COMBINED STRENGTH TEAR THE GUTS OF THIS IRON ATROCITY APART SO THAT NONE MAY BE TRAPPED FOREVER! WE SHANT LEAVE A SINGLE THINGS FOR THE DWARVES TO FEAST UPON! HUZZAH!
Thor goes for the Devil Gundam, virile and righteous anger strenghtening him further, and attempts to cut the mad beast with a horizontal swing of his hammer, so strong, objects miles ahead in the direct path of Thor's swings get blown apart into huge debris!
DIE!
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Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterPepsi Man is confused. So confused, in fact, that his hesitation leads him to do nothing but continue to stand still, occasionally sipping on the Moonlight Pepsi. He feels, in his heart, a certain lack of ability to do much in the situation.
...But the instant an opportunity arises...
Pepsi Man quickly formulates a plan. A really bad plan, but a plan nonetheless. If he can simply. Extract. The guy. Then this should no longer be a problem, right?
If that fails, then he'll look for an opening, and unleash almost all of the Pepsi might he can.
After all, he does still have two tricks up his sleeve... combining plan B with the moonlight Pepsi may grant him strength comparable to plan C, which he would never dare to use unless it were a threat worthy of the full strength of the Pepsi™ family of products.
Yatta!


Dr. McNinja flinches at Filia's near attack. "Hey, hey, watch the merchandise!"
He turns to the quartet. "That guy's Narktus... an enemy of the organization to which I belong. Big, scary, evil overlord type. It's said nobody's seen his true face and lived to tell the tale... which, if true, means either we just beat a legend or we're going to die soon."
The recording ends, and tremors from the battle become audible inside the outpost.
"... Uh-oh. It's getting closer."
Doc's facial expression gets crazy determined. "But I'm willing to risk our lives on the possibility that the second projector holds the secret of the console!"
The Marine who got tossed around by Thor finally gets up and walks over to Filia. "Ma'am, requesting permission to take the forces aboveground to investigate the disturbances. You can stay here - you're, admittedly, stronger than all of us combined, so it'd be best for you to keep an eye on these people."
-
The second device has a similar projection to the first, only this one is the inside of a metal room. Narktus is hunched over a desk, wearing his by-now-signature mask. His face takes up a whole wall of the projection.
Narktus's Personal Log, Part 2 (郷愁)
"Personal log, entry twelve. All the pieces have fallen into place. Gravitas is now fully underway. The Gerudo, the Predators, the Droid Army... all under my command, with more to follow sooner or later. I've made allies with a powerful mercenary group, known as Freelancer Corporation. Their leader, Hit, is one of the greatest assassins in the arch-realm, and many others are under his sway. I've constructed an alloy, but I'm not good at scientific-sounding names, so it's just 'Gravitas Alloy' for now. It's constructed of Kryptonite, Taedenite, Seastone, Kachi Kachin, Uru, Adamantium, Tomasite, Mithril, and Phrik - if anyone watching this laughs at that name I will find you. I've also had a chainglass under-armor constructed, so... now I'm basically invincible."
BOOM, CRASH
He sighs. "I don't know if it's a good idea to do that. Fate has a way of making weaknesses for those who are too strong. I might have to store the armor made of these materials away somewhere, only to use when I absolutely have to. Probably in the same place I keep everything else that's too valuable to lose but too powerful to use. Heh, that rhymed... anyway. Oh, I also used a polymorphic alloy to build a weapon that can take any shape I want, and I enchanted it with the ability to mimic powers. This will be my signature weapon."
THUD
"With Ultron disposed of and Jergingha, GLaDOS and Star Dream taking his place, I was confident enough to go home again. So I did... and, at the center of the universe, I found what I think was God. He had been abandoned, just like me. Before he disappeared into nothingness, he gave me something - a power to call my own. The power to create and destroy. The power of the Big Bang."
CRNCH
The projection of Narktus sighs again. "Does that mean... I am God? I don't want to be. I never asked to be. I'm just a man looking for revenge."
KABOOM
"Now that Gravitas is spreading into multiple worlds at once, I need a way to keep in touch with them from afar. I created a secure interdimensional communications network, one that you can only access via a passcode. I'm never going to change this passcode, even if it's discovered... because it was the dying words of God Himself. Zero-five-one-two-two-zero-zero-one."
"That's it!" cries Schwarz. "Type it into the console!"
In the midst of his panic and entrapment, Shinji will likely be startled by Domon's voice.
"...inji! Shinji! SHINJI!"
He's... in the LCL? Okay, that's actually just some sort of astral projection effect because sticking to camera feed-based communication is for the weak, he isn't physically there. Still weird as hell.
"Shinji, you have to focus! Remember our training! Devote all your senses to the enemy, but keep your thoughts clear! That's what meikyo shisui means!"
Samus slowly raises her arm cannon. Inside the Annihilator Beam, particles of light energy and anti-particles of dark energy are introduced to each other, causing them to... well, annihilate... and the resulting output is sent hurtling towards the Devil Gundam with immense power.
Devil Gundam loses chunks of metal to the fireballs, but a nightmarish serpentine neck with a malformed Gundam's head at the end
sprouts from the ground and fires sweeping lasers at the golem in response.
Two Gundam Heads spring up in the Wyvern Esper's path, blocking its blasts. If it doesn't pull up prematurely, it'll crash right into them.
As the Devil Gundam is bombarded by Moonlight blasts, it summons three Gundam Heads to face Pepsiman, but one is obliterated by an Annihilator Beam headshot, while the other two rush head-on at Pepsiman in succession and get split down the middle for it, promptly exploding moments later.
The Sovereign raises a hand and launches an arrowhead-shaped blast of purple light. Whatever it hits within a given size limit will be obliterated (so if it's too big it'll lose a chunk instead of being completely destroyed).
Edited by KiriK on Oct 29th 2021 at 3:11:14 AM
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