Volcanic Hive

A new event had changed his course of action. Once retrievinf Nakai the Wanderer Kroq-Gar found himself now compelled to aid his master's in holding back a insanely destructive threat. Visions reminiscent of the invasion of the Under Plague were playing on loop as he charged forward, rushing through till he found his target, the mountain sized hive. And the mooks, the horrific spawn of death and bastardized unity. He laid motionless at the edge of their periphery.

These weren't enemies. They were vermin, and they would be hunted as such.

He observed their strange ritual as they entered the maw of the site, and would continue to stalk around till he found the most traversible path to the entrance, his eyes scanning around as he made sure his gauntlet was ready to let loose annihilation.

Volcanic Hive

A titanic rumble, followed by a titanic roar, echoed from underground.

   "Long have I observed this growing calamity. Long have I ignored it."   

A fissure formed in the ground, widening into a chasm.

   "Now it knocks on my doorstep, and now I ignore it no more. To you, defilers of fleshcraft, I say... BE."   

With another roar, the full splendor of the Elder Tyrant Dragon◊ EXPLODED from the hole in the ground.    "GONE!"   

He looked down and saw Necromorphs swarming around the area, and with a wave of Oppression Flames he consumed them all, intent on going full scorched earth.

Edited by OmegaShadowcry on Mar 17th 2022 at 10:33:57 AM

Mad Rat also rewinds, and in doing so... they start right back at the 3 2 1 GO! and die in seconds again.

Take three:

<Hold on is there a 'quit' button?>

"Nope!" GO! *pop*

Mad Rat is now realizing the truth of this "challenge." They are being GER'd.

「探っていた。上に登ってから、中を見たかった。」 (I was exploring. After I climbed on top, I wanted to see inside.)

"Interesting idea," muses Callis. "We have no way of knowing for sure, though... I've got to think on this."

Hub Centralis

Previous

And here comes Monika! She gasps in shock and fright upon seeing her glitched-out former friend. "Oh my God, Natsuki?!"

Minira

Luffy's opening Grizzly Magnum clears away a number of Combat Forms and Carrier Forms, but some Infection Forms are too small to be hit and slip past, leaping to latch onto his chest and dig their feelers in.

If they succeed, they won't turn him into a Combat Form like they did to the innocent civilians. Instead, they will explode like organic grenades, which, due to being partially inside of him, will hurt him really badly. He can rip them out easily enough, but if he tries to punch one off after it's already latched on, it'll burst all the same.

Some Combat Forms march through the hail of gunfire, wielding guns of their own in the hands that haven't been warped into horrific claws. They fire back on the Ylissean soldiers with rifles and shotguns.

As Garuda strikes down an Infection Form, it pops into a cloud of spores, which will obscure her senses just long enough that she'll only have a split-second to react to the SPARTAN-IV Combat Form lunging at her with its claw in a strong sweep. Despite its weapon being mutated flesh and her body being space metal, it can cut through her like butter.

The building on which Homura stands is converted into a Flood-infested structure, covered in Meat Moss from which tentacles sprout to try and fling her into the ground.

The remaining fighters are merely attacked by unarmed Combat Forms, which swing their intestine-tentacle-claw things at them to rend and pierce. Their claws are not as powerful as that of the SPARTAN-IV, but they still pack a punch.

Maou swats aside a Combat Form, grabs it by the claw and spins it around, blowing through a number of other Combat Forms. The Halloween Grimas decide to join the fight because hey, it's their world to conquer! They summon their true bodies, a pair of tremendous serpentine six-winged dragon monstrosities. Wearing pumpkins on their heads. The Fall Dragons spew ghastly purple fire streaming with ghosts over the area.

Suddenly, more people warp in: Ruby Rose and Doctor McNinja!

"We have to destroy the infested buildings! They can pour out endlessly from them!"

"And they've flooded - no pun intended - an underground lake! Some of us will need to go there and flush 'em out!" Dr. McNinja thinks for a bit, then points at Gustave, still careening through the road. "YOU ARE A CROCODILE CAN YOU DO THAT"

OBJECTIVE UPDATE

Destroy Infected Buildings: 0/6

Seize Infected Water Reservoir: 0%

—

Valley

As Thor lays waste to the Zerg army, the Queen of Blades swoops in to try and tackle him to the ground!    "Pick on someone your own size!"   

As soon as some of the monsters die, more take their place. Amidst the horde, some blobby glowing-green creatures appear, only here and there at first, but soon they make up an overwhelming number.

These green monsters - Banelings - roll towards the Librarians, the Grandnova forces, Dynamax Mukade, and Wriggle's own bugs. On physical contact, they explode into highly potent acid, melting flesh and steel with equal ease.

As if the Distraction Carnifex recognizes the versal nature of Kyoko and Karstodes, it bellows, and suddenly all of the hormagaunts start bearing down on those two, striking with gnashing fangs and acidic spit. The Carnifex itself goes after the Bee Empress and her cohort, its four scythe-like limbs whirling like a combine harvester and with as much lethal force as one too.

   "This one brings much essence. Much power."    Dehaka drops to all fours (well, all threes) and starts DK running his way towards Wriggle's swarm, tearing through her armored beetles and ripping out chunks with his teeth until he reaches the bug queen in charge, at which point he stops.    "Show me... your power."   

OBJECTIVE UPDATE

Destroy Zerg structures: 0/5

Convince Dehaka: 0%

Wilderness

The combined impacts of Xoeur and Eleven, two Sisters, are more than enough to reduce the SA-X to black mist, but it just as quickly regenerates. Katarina-X Flash Steps towards it in a zig-zag, but it rushes away with the Speed Booster before suddenly rocketing back and reducing her to mist with a direct impact Shinespark! As it skids to a stop, Crux whirls his axe around in big sweeping motions before bringing it down on the SA-X's head. However, it deflects the blade with a Melee Counter and immediately freezes him solid with an Ice Beam charged shot, before kicking him aside, forcing Torxetil to catch him.

"So strong...!" remarks Torxetil.

The SA-X then locks on to Eleven and Xoeur and shoots a barrage of Storm Missiles at them! Even with their Sister-given durability and regeneration, these micro-missiles pack one hell of a punch.

One of the skull-headed deer monsters gets the drop on Samus from behind, wrapping its arms around her in a death grip, only to be blasted to bits by Mega Man X! "We've got your back!" He aims at the flying fortress Itorash in the sky above. "That thing's overrun by the parasites. We need to blast it out of orbit if we want to stop them."

OBJECTIVE UPDATE

Destroy Itorash: 0%

One Hornoad-X slashed by Zero reverts to its parasitic true form and immediately flies at him, trying to enter him and take control of his pseudo-organic body. However, just like the Flood Infection Forms, it can't do that. What it can do is royally mangle his insides if he doesn't dodge or do something to force it out first.

The music is hijacked by a chorus of hums. Sinister, droning hums. A voice echoes,    You seek to meddle with a mind billions strong. Your efforts will bear no fruit, you have committed a most grave wrong.    Following this, a psychic shockwave emanates from seemingly nowhere, trying to Mind Rape Enzo with the visions of everyone who has been assimilated by the Flood, the X, and the Zerg, all at once. What they saw, heard, smelled, felt in their last moments as individuals.

Hive

Outside

As Hadraniel stands amid the smoldering remains of Necromorphs, he will find one beast still standing, rising up to meet him. It is the Eyeless, a primary vector of the Rakghoul Plague. It charges to topple him over with brute force, surprisingly strong given their relative sizes. If the Elder Tyrant is toppled, new Necromorphs will emerge from the surface of the Hive to start stabbing and slashing all over his body while he's vulnerable.

To Cell, who is also in this area, the Eyeless is the clear highest power level around the Hive, though another similarly high one lies within.

—

Inside

On the inside, Zelerie Junior and Kroq-Gar find themselves wading through purple-and-gray infested meat, lining the floor, walls and ceiling of a cavernous structure. Soon, they are surrounded by abominations. Not that ZJ would care.

The shambling ones, Rakghouls, lunge in a howling frenzy, flailing claws and teeth that can inflict an inevitably fatal virus, born of the Dark Side of the Force. The upright ones, Nekghouls, draw weapons and begin to attack with coherent, albeit monstrous-sounding, battlecries.

And then there's the Ubermorph, which just sorta screeches like a banshee as it flails its bladed limbs at them both.

OBJECTIVE UPDATE

Slay the Eyeless

Destroy the Ubermorph

Edited by KiriK on Mar 20th 2022 at 8:53:02 AM

Margit observes the battle going down below, not quite wanting to simply smash his way through since he's seen it would be pointless. His eyes observes the Zerg structures instead, and how they should go first, but attempting to destroy all five at once would be foolhardy and could leave him stranded.

And while he doesn't fear death at the hands of mongrel beasts, too warped by decadence, carefulness is how one goes far in... "life".

So he decides to AFK for now, more or less, until he sees his chance to act and because he hasn't been struck yet. The others below could die for all he cares. But he'd rather they be of assistance in getting to the structures, so he's waiting to see if he'll have room to intervene or if he'll end up needing to lend his aid to them.

Witless fools. He then slightly throws his head back as Thor clashes with the Queen of Blades, having anticipated the strike. Her strength rivals his as they have a brief wrestler lock going on, before he tries to headbutt her into the ground, causing apt violence and shockwaves.

I SEE NO ONE OF MY SIZE HERE, PEST QUEEN!

...

Luffy's eyes glows red and he smirks, pulling back and biting into his arm right before the creatures can dig in. GEAR! Steam explodes all around him, his body take the shape of a balloon at drastic speed and Haki cover up parts of his body. It'll be hard enough to penetrate it at this point because it's so stretched, nevermind how they could get blasted off by accident by it or Luffy's magnificent jumping, being followed by a column of white smoke!

FOOUUURTHHHHHH! Luffy flies over one of the buildings and moves his arms horizontally in a rapid fashion, transforming into the leaner Snakeman form and arching backwards to compress his fists into his arms. He then unleashes GOMU GOMU NO BLACK MAMBA! by moving his arms up and down to give himself a new pair of "arms" via afterimage before unleashing a very wide range of attacks, changing the direction of the punches in mid-air to try to demolish two buildings by sheer range, along with the scum below.

This will create the impressive visuals of Luffy's arms stretching all over the damn place like a black cage over the battlefield, sprouting out of the ruins of the buildings as he tries to defeat as many enemies as possible.

Once he's done floating, Luffy retracts his arms and turn off Snakeman, laughing as he flips in mid-air to try to land on an enemy. Shi shi shi! I'll take care of the buildings!

...

Eleven smirks at Xoeur, while waving her hand. A bunch of pink portals appears in front of her to engulf the missiles, drawing them in an alternate dimension where they'll be "frozen" for the time being. The rest of the missiles, she deals through by swinging her hammers to create a potent shockwave and cancel them out via a massive explosion.

She then leaps through the flames and come down at the SA-X with a ferocious stomp with both hammers, cratering the ground.

I'll handle that bitch-thing since she's the strongest around! You go and tak care of the island thing!

Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 18th 2022 at 2:31:18 PM

Hub Centralis

Friend was being a bit generous, as natsuki only saw Monika as someone ambivalent to her best friends mental problems at the moment.

Hello Monikammmmm

She said with a fairly annoyed tone in her voice, but decided to put her feelings aside for now to ask what's important

   What are you    Doing here?

Edited by vgm23 on Mar 17th 2022 at 11:27:47 AM

"Don't forget to inform Amaterasu. If anyone could deduce the true nature of Navitus energy, I'd wager a hefty sum of gold on her. Oh, and before I forget, there's something I wanted you to have."

Thor reaches behind the pillar and pulls out a custom-made set of Asgardian armor◊ before offering it to Callis.

"Your very own suit of Asgardian armor, forged in the heart in of a neutron star by the finest smiths in Nidavellir. I made certain to have it based on your Saiyan armor as much as possible."

Volcanic Hive

Kroq-Gar had survived similar conditions and came out on top, the Oldblood seasoned after fighting back the Chaostide many times over. As the Rakghoul drew closer he wouldn't be fallen by the maddened cries of entropy and assimilation. Kroq-Gar would pull his Spear of Tlanxa out, it's prophetic song calling out to the beast.

He would make a general arcing strike, the end of the blade striking up from their feet to the top of their scalps. He would then repeat the motion from the opposite angle, golden arches left in his wake creating an X shape. The searing energies spoke to the entities on an individual level.

The fate you have sealed is of your own volition, and it shall only last for but a second. But your death, is permanent.

Each strike of his spear would actually bring upon fatigue, and glimpses of their own mortality coming to a swift end. All of this in but a second, and after holding his Golden Gauntlet out: The Hand of the Gods, he would fire it out at the armed Nekghouls, the gauntlet immediately firing forth a miniature sun at their lines. He would continue his slaughter of the enemy, hoping to get up close and personal either he Ubermorph

In the valley, the Grandnova forces are being cut through by the Banelings.

Above, Jennifer is watching the battle through a screen, fuming at her army's lack of worth in this battle. She shouted through a headset to her human soldiers, issuing commands to “hurry up and kick their asses already”, without ever specifying how exactly she wanted their asses kicked. She began formulating a plan, but for now, could only watch as her forces were swiftly destroyed.

However, she at least sent out an order to the infantry A.I.s, having them act as shields for the tanks so that they may continue firing their barrages of high-powered missiles at the Zerg structures. Meanwhile, the mechs fire at the blobs, aiming to eradicate as many as possible before they can waste more troops.

- - - -

For an entity of war with a reaction time such as a Warframe's, a split second was all she needed.

Garuda ducked underneath the swipe, coming up behind the SPARTAN-IV. She moved to stab her claws into the enemy's back and, if successful, would take them out, drawing a hell of a lot of blood with it. This blood was then shifted and took form in front of her as a floating, rectangular shield that she would attempt to use to knock the SPARTAN down with.

The Skull Squadron listened to orders, nodding afterwards. Their strategy to dealing with the enemy lifeforms if in close combat was first removing their tentacles via chainsaw swords, and then finishing them off with a bullet or multiple to the head. However, they soon realized (thanks, of course, to being explicitly told) that they would have to deal with the source of these assholes: those buildings. Three would begin firing at any aliens exiting the building, to grab their attention as well as slow them down by creating a pile of bodies in the doorway. Meanwhile, the other two would attempt to stealthily place charges at either side of the entrance while the attention was off of them. If they did, and got away safely, they would set off the charges to collapse rubble onto the entrance and make it unusable.

Edited by ISZATSO on Mar 17th 2022 at 8:56:36 AM

Haruhi, being an experienced warrior against abominations such as these, is able to competently deflect the Combat Forms' deadly claws before lashing out with her own sharp implement.

"Love Tempest!"

Plunging her sword into the ground as it flashes blue, she casts a spell; purifying, damaging rain falls in a quick burst around her. Let's say a radius of eight meters?

"What?! Of course I can!"

Gustave forlornly salutes his monster truck before just diving out the window like a dog, his top hat somehow remaining on his head. On the ground, he immediately tries to wrangle a flood mook in a deathroll just because.

—

"PREPARE FOR A RUGGED AND STRENUOUS SQUISHING, Uh-UGLY SPACE BUGS!" Karstodes yells, ripping a third rock out of the ground before leaping into the air and trying to. You know. Squish some Tyranids.

"Er, mah speciality is daemons, don'tcha know?" Kyoko complains. "Ah ain't built for this." She's not doing too badly lashing out and zoning hormagaunts away from her and Karstoedes, though - many boolit does work no matter what your specialty target is.

Karstodes, being fucking CHONKY, takes scratch damage so far.

—

Xoeur seethes when the SA-X reduces her sister to dust, and tries to prematurely detonate the missiles aimed for herself with bursts of lightning, before concentrating the blasts into a beam aimed for SA-X.

She also gives Eleven a sideways glare. You're here, too?

Oxa looks up at Itorash, and. Well. That's the target, huh? He pokes Xeru.

"You ready, little man?"

Xeru doesn't know what he's ready for. It turns out, it was for Oxa winding up before yeeting him through the sky at the flying fortress! Himself, Oxa then bawoops through to catch Katarina-X's brain in hopes of preserving it.

"Eesh..."

—

I don't know if ZJ can even get sick. Like, even if he did, could he just slough all the infected flesh off? If that's all of it. Couldn't he. Slough all of his organic components off? Whatever.

"BABJKSBAJWBJAWSAKBFKSJLKSGLASGPOGSBASKKBSASLABKWBK!"

Screaming like a, well, angry toddler, ZJ scurries around the attacking enemies before latching onto the ceiling, unveiling a high-powered machine gun barrel in his throat as he opens wide, and then opens fire.

i can't believe Rat God removed free play, cringe

In the third run, Boyfriend forgoes singing and tries to throw his empty can of iced tea at Rat God.

"Beep!"

*pop*

-

Fourth time's the charm! He doesn't respond to the rhythm!

The notes run by and he loses normally, balls blueing and skeleton cracking. And then he pops.

Edited by Rbade on Mar 18th 2022 at 12:20:36 PM

Minira

Clarilú, Pipo and Loli are flying around the battlefield, trying to dispatch some flood with Sonic Boom or Bug Buzz.

Meanwhile, Roco is tanking the attacks of the Combat Forms, giving the others a chance to pummel them.

And the Pica-Pica are doing the usual: singing "Tutira mai nga iwi" to buff all of their allies' stats a lot.

Hatch nods at the Ruby Rose"s petition, and he sends Roco and the ABC's into a portal to an infected building.

A: Roco, cannonballs!

The snail fires a lot of cannonballs at the building, trying to destroy it.

Valley

Gregoria glances quickly at the Bee Empress and Wiggle.

   But how many insect persons there are?   

She and the Insect Ladies call their own swarm of bugs: cockroaches, hairy caterpillars, mantis, ladybugs, etc., trying to attack the Zerg and protect the Bee Empress from any attack.

And talking about her...

Hey, guys! Protect your Queen!

A lettuce and a broccoli run to tank the Carnifex's saw hands, sacrificing themselves to try to "jam" their hands. Meanwhile, the Empress, being surrounded by a bee circle, jumps high, and tries to dive-kick the Carnifex on its head!

D-Max Mukade roars of pain when the blob balls explode against her tail, prompting her to attack those with quick poison jabs, trying to explode them without being seriously harmed.

Dynamax turns: 2/3

Wilderness

Altough Enzo is a mystical long-living man, his brain is still weak, and because of that he falls victim to the mindblowing wave.

Super Love goes behind him, and sings a soothing song with her magic microphone, trying to snap him out from the attack.

Super Pamp hears Megaman X advice, and flies towards the floating fortress, taking with him Pirimplim, Super Mupa, Anauna and Super Ben.

Meanwhile, the Vanilla Gang still plays their music, trying to dispel the psychic waves, and Gaia summons a wave of vines, trying to attack the X hosts.

Edited by BombonBombin on Mar 18th 2022 at 6:31:44 AM

"You want to see power, you say?" Wriggle repeats as the Viridi Claws manifest into existence on her hands. "Shame my main body still needs some work, but oh well."

Leaping Kamen [Wriggle Kick]!

The insect queen lands on the ground - or rather on top of some unfortunate zergling - as her legs morph into powerful grasshopper rear limbs. The alien splatters in a burst of chitin and gore from the sheer kinetic force as her legs uncoil, propelling her into the low stratosphere, whereupon she comes down like a ballistic missile, aiming to demolish Dehaka's physiognomy.

Throughout all this, her portals continue spewing out her endless forces. While the rhinos and mantises are being decimated by the Banelings, a second wave emerges, consisting primarily of oversized Nasutitermes and bombardier beetles. They assume position like living mortars or cannons and open fire upon the horde. The termites' sticky goo aims to impede the enemies' progress, while the beetles' burning acid will give the Banelings a run for their money.

Edited by Arachnos on Mar 18th 2022 at 12:08:25 PM

Minira

Mar, seeing the incoming attackers, yells "Some got through the gunfire! Mages, burn them to ashes! The Farfort convention doesn't mean a thing in this fight, so use of incindeary weaponry is permitted!"

Some of the infantrymen die to the flood's returing fire before the mages make their advance, using various spells which, in the days of old, would be found in fire related tomes.

Vincent, in the meanwhile, moves to lead a squad of bikers, yelling "Motorcycles, on me. Once we get a chance to move, we take it!"

Some tanks start to get crew manning it, and APCs are flooded into by some panicking soldiers.

Homura in the meanwhile, stops her calculations, and fires the artillery at one of the meat moss'd buildings, before jumping off the building to avoid the meat moss, stopping time to make her way through the hordes of flood to get to another safe location.

Roland looks towards the banelings, swapping to using his guns, as his librarians equip pages related to either the rabbit team, or a bunch of well dressed mafioso using bolt action rifles, alongside angela's team doing so. The gunfire repels some of the banelings, but, It's not enough. Some of the banelings get dangerously close, and....

A die is rolled by those who dictate fate. And it lands on a 40, as a single individual exits the lobby of the library, in an outfit burning and smouldering, and unleashes an inferno of flames upon the approaching banelings.

Malkuth raises her blade, her outfit changing back to one of a chinese military style, with a flaming wreath around her. "Sorry to keep you waiting. The other librarians will be ready soon enough!"

Malkuth spins around the Guandao she's using, flames following its movements, as she rushes into battle, her librarians, wearing the uniforms of liu office fixers, following along.

Wilderness

Zero, Suprisingly, is NOT pseudo-organic, much to the x's surprise, being fully mechanical. However, Zero uses this opportunity to briefly shut down his heat sink, as he rushes into combat to aid Megaman X, yelling over "X, Let's do this. Like old times, right?"

Samus looks on confused to her mysterious saviour, but shakes her head, focused on the current situation. "Taking out that flying fortress is going to be hard when I don't even have missiles. I'll keep to dealing with the ground forces."

Samus moves to grapple one of the X-Lifeforms, her metroid dna Kicking in as she drains its life on the spot, and the parasite.

Madoka continues firing off a barrage of arrows.

"Ah, I see.", Nesley says. "As for me, I spent the night in this place. There was nobody there, but there were sleeping bags, so I figured 'why not'."

He looks at the Stantler for a moment before looking back at Rhea.

"Is it strong? 'Cause this place is seriously dangerous."

—

Pseudo's monitor starts making its way over to Estraole. It hasn't even reached the volcano itself yet before it already shows some feed on what's going on.

"What in...", Pseudo mutters. Pilly looks squeemish, while Weber looks intrigued.

   "So grotesque... so intriguing. If I could get my hands on some of those..."   

Pseudo shoots Weber a look before responding to that.

"Unfortunately for you, I am not getting involved with that. I'm ordering everyone to stay inside, and I'll tell Ninten to go get everyone who's currently outside, just in case those things reach the Hub Centralis."

   "I had a feeling you'd react that way."   , Weber sighs, disappointed.

—

Hive

Perfect Cell now arrives at the Volcanic Hive as well, glancing around outside to see which ones his 'allies' would be in this fight. Not like it matters all too much, they'll meet their ends eventually as well. But he'd prefer not to hit some possible meatshields that he can use against... whatever these eldritch abominations are. The Elder Dragon's Ki feels different from what he felt just now, cluing him in that the beast is not an enemy.

His interest is piqued when he senses something awfully familiar inside of the Hive though. ... is that... a Saiyan Ki signature?

He ponders on whether or not to deal with the Eyeless first, or to immediately go into the Hive itself and get that question solved first.

...

Screw it. He came for a fight, not for some random Saiyan. If the Saiyan is worth anything they'll survive until Cell is done here anyway.

He powers up and charges down towards the Eyeless. Testing out what he's up against, he starts off with some simple Ki blasts. No need to go the extra mile yet if your opponent may not even be worth the trouble.

Volcanic Hive

Hadraniel took a split-second to consider his options. He could attempt to spear the creature, but he didn't like how much commitment that would require — especially if it failed. Fire didn't seem like it was especially effective, but if he amplified it, then perhaps...

Hmmm... Perhaps not.

His moment of thought passed, and he decided on his response. As the being impacted into him, he launched himself off the ground to absorb the recoil. The resulting side-flip was perhaps the single most logic-defying action he had ever taken, but it did mean that he could land with more control. The spot where the impact had occurred was cracked, however, and would present an unpleasant weakpoint for future strikes. To that end, Hadraniel decided to respond by raking his talons up and forward as his alchemical tattoos ignited, sending a field of vibrating ice-spikes towards the Eyeless One!

—

Valley

Though the blades of any carnifex are slick and sharp, there is still only so much gunk that they can slice through at once. As such, the cutting power of the Distraction Carnifex's blades was temporarily reduced, sparing the combatants the worst of the damage. As it continued to thrash and slash at those around it, it howled, calling out to Player 2.

Ember — Trash Heap

Previous

Simmons resisted being flung out into the void somewhat, but made no effort to retaliate against Lup and took the hint and bowed out. Cade barely even budged, however, merely scraping great gouges into the ground as the force pushed it away.

Jean, on the other hand, just fucking vanished. The distant crack of fracturing stone, followed by a pained groan, indicated that she had landed successfully somewhere very, very far away.

Cade found that noise much more interesting than any of this, thankfully, and shambled off that way.

   "A good day to you all,"    Simmon said, before heading off into the dark.

—

Omega nodded in agreement with Lan, and said, "You mean Ember...? Uh... hmm... not sure what they can do to treat... whatever this is, but it's better than just leaving that to fester, I guess."

Utilizing his [Stand], Omega helped Rey up, and started off towards the city to try and find some help.

"Thanks for the save there, Lup... I don't think we'd be ready to take on those three for a while yet."

Edited by OmegaShadowcry on Mar 18th 2022 at 9:28:28 AM

Callis

Callis holds the armor, feeling its weight and balance.

"Thanks... but I'm probably just gonna keep wearing what I'm used to."

Rhea

「十分強い。」 (It's strong enough.)

Monika

"I..."

Monika steps back, eyes wide. "I..."

She wants to apologize. To embrace Natsuki, to beg her forgiveness. But she feels she could never receive that, and is paralyzed by terror and sadness.

Rat God

Every few deaths, footsteps are audible, growing closer.

Eventually, Líf makes it up to Mad Rat and Boyfriend, raising his arm to strike with the flat of Sökkvabekkr... but when he swings, Boyfriend has already popped.

Ember

In Town

Lina manages to stay standing. "Y-yes, I'm fine, Mr. King, sir."

It seems Emberites haven't entirely grasped what "King" means, just that Harkinian is a powerful man.

"I was just handling a message from a shopkeep regarding a delivery. Please excuse me."

—

Trash Heaps

   "Never fear,"    says Lup.    "Just 'cause my forte is destruction doesn't mean I can't heal people."    She holds out a hand and casts Cure Wounds on Rey, who mumbles something incoherent, although the burns or whatever they are from the End fire fade away.

   "And now we can get back to... What were we doing again?"   

"Scavenging," says Addison.

   "Ugh, geez, no thanks."   

"Say    something   

She said, both sounding angry and confused. She didn't know what was happening, why everything hurt or why everything was going to shit back home, as she would put it.

   "What's going    on?"

Tide of Flesh

Minira

Two buildings are punched so hard they cave in. Two more are shelled with artillery fire. And all four of those are blanketed in the Grimas' explosive dragon breath, collapsing them.

However, the rubble is simply engulfed by the flesh that had already been covering it, and the buildings are converted into Flood Colony Forms, which begin to output new units.

One of the crab/spider-like Stalker Forms lunges at Luffy with surprising speed and jump height, trying to get up in his face and start ripping him up.

A Ranged Form, the one covered in needles, shoots these needles at Loli and its riders in a barrage, trying to tear the giant dragonfly's wings.

A Tank Form, the big brute, unleashes a guttural roar before merging with an X Parasite to take on the properties of the Metroid monster Arachnus. It rolls up into an armored ball, charging through the Ylissean mages' fire before springing back up to its full height, swinging and smashing with its big meaty bludgeon limbs.

A JUGGERNAUT IS SPAWNING

30%

The fifth building, the one taken by Skull Squadron... Well, they kill a lot of Combat Forms, and they blow up the door, but then the monsters just keep coming out of the walls.

One of these nasties pops out right above Skull Squadron's heads. It falls down and explodes into a swarm of Infection Forms. Depending on the mook tier status of the squad, the Infection Forms will either stick into them and self-destruct or take over their bodies and turn them into new Combat Forms.

The sixth infested building, the one Homura jumped off of, sprouts more fleshy tentacles that try to wrap around her shoulders, waist, neck, and dismember her.

Dr. McNinja nods to Gustave. "Ruby, let's go!" The two beckon Gustave as he rips a Combat Form to pieces. They rush towards a passage leading underground, lined with Flood matter. The Doc throws a molotov to burn it wide open. On the other side lies an underground lake teeming with Infection and Combat Forms.

Seize Infected Water Reservoir: 0%

And meanwhile, the SPARTAN-IV Combat Form whirls around, clashing its own claw against that of Garuda. However, Garuda can still draw blood from its mutated-flesh-appendage, allowing her to create the shield of blood. However however, it proceeds to do a brute-force shoulder tackle, boosted by a Thruster Pack on its back, to smash through the blood wall, trying to grab Garuda by the face with its un-mutated hand and slam her into the ground!

Valley

Grandnova deal some damage to the Evolution Chamber, but it's not destroyed yet.

At the behest of the Carnifex, the Zerg hatchery burbles and quivers, and spits out a group of nasty beasts.

They don't look normal, though. Well, relatively speaking.

Additionally, a Hydralisk Den spews out, well, Hydralisks,◊ and a Roach Warren spawns Roaches,◊ which assault the Grandnova army and Wriggle's swarm with a combination of anti-infantry, anti-vehicle, and anti-structure projectile spines and acid spit.

Mukade and the other insect people pass by relatively unharmed, but the squadron of Chasmegaunts begin to take aim at her and the Bee Empress...

Kerrigan is blown into the ground, but bursts right back out. Arcs of purple lightning rippling between her wingtips, she unleashes a mighty blast of psionic energy at Thor!

Dehaka lets out a    "GHE"    as Wriggle kicks his face in, sending him skidding back, but he manages to stay in one piece.

   "Powerful, indeed... But more powerful than Queen of Blades?"    Dehaka lashes out with a long, chameleon-like tongue, trying to tag Wriggle and reel her into a meaty claw swipe.

Convince Dehaka: 10%

Wilderness

Katarina-X is saved and regenerates, but is clearly dazed.

"Right!" X goes back-to-back with Zero as they face the swarm.

Not much new happens... except that Kihunter-X monsters start flying out from Itorash, trying to intercept those approaching it with acid projectiles and claw swipes.

Also, more SA-Xes start to emerge from the goop. As the primary one is again splattered, another two arrive, trying to restrain Eleven with Grapple Beams as the first regenerates and unleashes another Storm Missile barrage.

The voices subside, allowing Enzo to recover with Super Love's help.

Hive

Outside

The Eyeless slowly trudges towards Cell, shrugging off his ki blasts and Hadraniel's ice spikes. They do inflict some measure of damage, but turn a malevolent black and red before dissipating, as if the Rakghoul Plague can infect even energy and magic.

Once close enough, it swings a huge fist, trying to swat Cell like the bug he is.

—

Inside

The Rakghouls, being mindless, simply continue their violent rampage until they are struck down by Kroq-Gar and ZJ. However, the Nekghouls are more intelligent, and are baffled by ZJ's gun-mouth before they get destroyed. More come to replace them, however, and the Ubermorph's dismembered corpse regenerates in less than a second and gets up to continue the slaughter.

Edited by KiriK on Mar 18th 2022 at 8:12:17 AM

"That's good. This place is a serious danger to even powerful fighters."

He then seems to realize.

"Wait, I don't think I've told you my name yet. I'm Nesley.", he says, holding out a hand for a handshake.

"Oh? Do you require some aid? I have finished helping at the greenhouse, so I am searching for something new to help with.", King Harkinian says, kind and understanding. He does stand aside a little just in case she says no, so that she can easily get back to dealing with that message.

Volcanic Hive

Perfect Cell lands near the Eyeless, though flash-steps to its side when it tries to squash him, showing a smug grin.

   "Really now?"   , he taunts, after which tries to deliver a swift but powerful kick to knock the abomination on the ground.

"Fair enough. Should you ever decide to use it though, I can assure that it will serve you well."

Thor glances at the Hub Centralis in the distance.

"So, assuming you don't have anywhere else to be right now, what say we visit that noodle shop in the city for a quick meal?"

Woops! Luffy uses Haki and bring up his arms, but he does receive cuts here and there, though he attempts to grab the monster with his hands and dunk it with a... regular dunk.

C'mon, guys! Let's destroy the moss for good! Steam surrounds Luffy as he darts off towards one of the destroyed buildings, using Gear 2 to get faster. He throws his arm back via stretching and clench his fist as flames surrounds it, by way of sheer friction. He then throws it forward, as a flaming fist, deducing that hey maybe flames would work better?

GOMU GOMU NO RED HAWK! He then retracts his arm and jump, as the motion get him to spin in place vertically for a few seconds. He also attempts to combine this with his Observation Haki to dodge attacks aimed for him, anticipating them and trying to avoid them with the jump.

Done spinning, Luffy swings his leg at the end of it, launching his also flaming stretched leg at the Tank Form's face, attempting to strike it down. Yosh! Leave it to me! Luffy's leg snaps back to him before he hit the ground and he take off running towards the titan, smirking daringly.

I wonder what Gear I'll have to use to take ya down, squidhead!

...

Margit groans and jumps over to Dehaka, having guessed that hanging back wouldn't help. He attempts to land right where the beast's tongue is at, to cause it pain and distract it from Margit's follow-up move, the Omen launching out of the smoke to try to jab him backwards with the tip of his cane, with great strength and surprising speed for his bulk!

He then steps aside, letting go of the tongue if he did land on it... and doesn't even bother looking at Wriggle as he dismissively waves his hand over.

Attend to thy brood, Margit speaks. I shall satisfy the simpleton's desire for a peer foe.

If she has anything to say, it'll get more than words for Margit to care: he looks at Dehaka, cane at the ready. Pup. Thee haven't been disciplined much in your short life, I see... Well, Margit the Fell shall be your teacher in the matters of defeat. He forms a spiritual dagger in his free hand, a golden energy blade that's small for him, large next to someone else. Cometh.

Thor is hit by the beam, not having anticipated its weird nature. He groans and yells in place, briefly being left a sitting duck for more attacks...

AARRGHHHH! before he flexes free and points his hammer at the Queen of Blades, launching a torrent of lightning at her. It's pretty damn large, wide arcing lightning blasts emanate out of the collision point (be it the ground or the Queen) to further scar the ground and perhaps engulf a few Zergs or unwitting allies, the resulting trails having magma almost flow out of them.

He then approaches the Queen by flying through the blast to try to whack her in the face with Mjolnir.

...

Eleven is immobilized by the two rays and set upon by the missiles, but she simply toss the cube into her mouth, where it transforms into a long spear, which she uses skillfully even when she's using her jaw to hold it, swinging it around until most of the missiles are destroyed... but a few break through and hit her directly, for great impact!

But still, it will take more to do her in. Eleven toughs it out, though she has some burns and damage. I'm not going to lose to some... fleshy cannon fodder! She spits the light spear at the first SA-X, intending to spear it through the head. Then, using her monstrous strength, she attempts to overpower one of the SA-X by flexing her arms and throwing them forward together, so that the two parasites will be sent flying in a demi-arc and slam into one another.

If they do that, then Eleven jumps and attempts to land upon their heads to break them with a ruthless stomp, smirking at having pulled her move of.

...

Draugr King

Seresthene's gambit works out perfectly. And as she swings her sword, a golden horizontal trail emits several feet in front of it. Unlike the screaming souls, it's a featureless yellow swing, like a lightsaber swung fast, but it's effective enough to incinerate the Skeletons and leave them no bones to recover with.

His energy being yanked out causes the Draugr King to scream and drop Asher, urgently kneeling down to try to slam the blind woman with a panicked downward punch. It's not weakened yet and sheer panic gives it speed to add to its bulk... and strength, as it craters the ground with ease!

Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 18th 2022 at 2:51:48 PM

Volcanic Hive

Kroq-Gar continues his onslaught, striking the infectious mawtide with the Spear of Tlanxa, continuing to fire his sunbeams out at the more intelligent Nekghouls. It is a little too similar to his fights he's partaken in, the campaigns against both the Greentide, the Vermin, and the forces of Chaos. Though his original approach was far more casual, simply wading into the masses and using his polearm to dice his opponents and toss swathes of them away, the Ubermorph's regeneration reminded him too much of a troll lord. Kroq-Gar continue striking his spear out, continuing to catch scores of the gnawing tide.

The predator is getting impatient. They need to break up the swarm, and isolate the leader.

Kroq-Gar roared and began to charge forward, continuing to precisely strike at his opponents as the hunt truly began. He was oddly athletic for a creature of his bulk, running toward the Ubermorph like a therapod of old. He would fire his Hand of the Gods into the crowd again, trying to get close enough to the beast for his next move. He knew this would attract attention, and upon any of the Rakghouls getting too close, he let out a silent hiss, mist surrounding him that seemed to give him greater speed and toss the grunts to the side, the hiss becoming a bit more audible as he approached the Ubermorph.

Minira

Two more Breakout Force members, SHADE and Kazuma, warp in.

"I don't want to be here I don't want to be here I don't want to be here"

   "MBRGRBRGHGL!"   

Kazuma dashes into the fray, wildly slashing with his sword Chunchunmaru to try and splatter various Flood forms in his way, before deciding to go for broke and casting "EXPLOSION!" over the nearest Colony Form!

Haruhi also rushes in, leaping at another colony form with a yell as she comes down for an overhead (as in, the sword was being held up over her head) magical slam.

SHADE whips out a sort of... bio-squishy creature-looking pistol gun thing, before spinning it a few times and firing gobs of explosive acid boolit at some Stalker Forms. Guess he left his more normal monsters at home, for fear of them becoming infected.

–

Tossing away the remains of his latest victim, Gustave charges after Ruby and the good Dr., jumping right into the lake.

   "GRRGAOAR!"   

He goes le fucking wild, snapping up Infection Forms to deathroll and toss around willy-nilly. In the commotion, things like... spores, or tumors, start to come off into the water as well.

—

Valley

"EADSHITYAORRIBLEFAUGINBUGGERS!" Kyoko screams, before charging forwards in Ophelia, chainsword a-chainswording. She tries to crash into the new Hydralisk and Roach swarms from the side before starting to carve them up.

Karstodes, for his part, takes offense to the fact that more ugly bugs are spawning, and jump-rushes the Zerg hatchery, trying to just. Punch it. Maybe slice it a bit with those slicey things on his arms.

—

Wilderness

Oxa puts Katarina-X down, pops a Health 30 Capsule for her (sorry Oca), then takes a knee and starts trying to snipe the new SA-Xs coming out with energy bolt shots. He's pretty accurate.

Xoeur, after cooling own for a split second, flash steps to the side before trying to come up behind the original, primary SA-X.

"Fffffffffffffrick you!"

She tries to snatch it up by the leg with a yell, before slamming it into the ground once, and then yyyyyEEET it up into the thermosphere! If actual damage doesn't stop the thing for long, well, the time it takes to fall back down might.

"Bwb!"

Shaking his... 'head', to focus himself just before he's intercepted by a Kihunter-X, and morphs into his Sword copy form just before impact to try and just slice his way through like a really really sharp wheel.

—

Hive

"..."

ZJ hangs off the ceiling via his tail, and tries to just snatch up one of the Nekghouls like some terrifying little spider-baby. If successful, he will [DATA EXPUNGED]. Forgoing efficiency for just playing, I see. I don't know what we expected from a literal child.

Boyfriend, the next time he unpops for another round, right behind Líf, seems surprised.

...?

He yeets Líf a spare mic before the next time he pops.

~

"Ba skedidado jodep bida?" Is there a reason you're making me and my brother do this?

Edited by Rbade on Mar 18th 2022 at 6:50:34 AM

Tide of Flesh

Minira

Altough the majority of the needles miss Loli and the riders, a couple of these pierce the dragonfly wings, plummeting on the ground. The ABC's notice this, and following Luffy, A orders the snail to use flamethrower at the Ranged Form, hoping to burn it and the moss around them.

Clarilú and Pipo carry Loli to the Pica-Pica, asking them to heal the dragonfly. They wrap the wings with an improvised bandage made with their capes, and feed them with a burger.

Hatch and the other Alliance guys follow Ruby and the Dr. McNinja: "May we go with you to help?"

Valley

The Bee Empress orders the bees to build a wax barrier around the group, trying to stop the upcoming attacks.

Gregoria and the other Insect Ladies shrink into bug size, trying to being unnoticed by the enemies.

And Mukade uses his last silver of Dynamax energy to poison jab the Chasmegaunts...

Dynamax turns: 3/3

...after which she returns into her human form, being unable to do a thing and defenseless by the rest of the battle.

Wilderness

Road to Itorash

Super Pamp and allies, since they are riding a flying guitar, try to dodge the acid blasts, and trying to punch those Kihunters attacking with their claws. Those maneuvers are slowing them considerably.

Anauna, meanwhile, tries to channel her spirit power to calm them.

On the ground

" Owww, what a trip..."

Enzo! Do you know something about those parasites?

Enzo checks his book.

"X: A strange parasite from the planet SR388. After infecting a host, it dies, and then the parasite creates an exact copy of the host, up to and including their memories and abilities. Extremely dangerous... Oh! Here says they are somewhat weak to energy blasts in the Arena."

   Energy blasts? Incoming!   

Milky sends his Vanilluxe to the battlefield, ordering it to use Hyper beam at the parasites. Meanwhile, Gaia is still summoning vines and roots, snd Joka is trying to attack the hosts with his spider legs.

Ember

Greenhouses

I'll do only the greenhouse scene right now, since I don't know what to do for the other two yet.

Have you seen my son?

From the other side of the shed, Pepo recognizes his mom's voice, and runs to hug her.

Mommy!

My littlest melon head... You had me worried!

Me too... But I found the greenhouses, and those kind people helped me too. I have new friends! And know a lot about gardening too!

Bely and Beto, more calmed now, ask:

Could somebody show me the greenhouses? They look interesting!

Edited by BombonBombin on Mar 18th 2022 at 9:05:52 AM

Minira The mages and infantry in front of the mages get ravaged by the tank form, with Mar yelling to the others "Frontline breached! If you can, fall back! Get to an APC, Helicopter, your squadmate's pegasus, Anything other than being out in the open!" The soldiers begin to scramble to the various vehicles and skyhorses, with helicopters beginning to take off, APC's getting ready to move, and... A rather well detailed tank rolls out of a garage at the base, Firing its main gun at the tank form.

The Motorcycle squad, led by vincent, go around the place, harrassing flood which made it past the front with hit and run spells and gunfire.

Meanwhile, Homura unfortunately gets grappled by the meat moss by the leg... leading to a situation where homura can't safely stop time without dragging the biomatter into the time with her. She pulls out a blade from behind her shield to try to hack at further incoming tendrils.

Roland continues to hold the line, quickly yelling over to angela, "Who the hell were those invitations to that it got us in this mess?"

Angela, smiling, opens a book, saying "Whoever it is, they are in for a rather violent surprise." They unleash one of the abnormalities which is hosted by the Malkuth floor, Queen Bee, onto the battlefield, attempting to turn some of the flood of zerg and tyranids into hosts for the bee's spawn.

Malkuth's Squad continues to run in, attempting to, simply put, using various pyrotechnic melee weaponry, burn the battlefield in front of them to ashes.

A firearm peeks its way outside the library's front door, taking aim at kerrigan...

Madoka rushes up towards the SAX group, firing a massive barrage of arrows into the group, As Zero continues to fend off the assorted life forms.

Samus tries to find an opening to act, not being in a proper state to fight SAX head on, they try to see if any other X parasites might be important enough to have a major core.

Their immediate numbers are dwindling rapidly, and Jennifer is coping, malding, and seething from above.

She arranges for the nearest Warehouse to prepare more soldiers, although due to their position, far underground, it would take a while. In the meantime, she contemplated the use of their newest Wrecker prototype, but decided that she wasn't going to risk a giant robot worth a couple million dollars over some Arena cred. Instead, she ordered for the walls of infantry bots to begin their Suicide protocols, as the bots would begin putting damage output before survivability, meaning though they’d all likely be dead in a few minutes they could at least work to take down as many foes as possible with them. Meanwhile, she ordered a complete recall of all of her aerial vehicles back to base, as a few had already been struck down in the crossfire between a certain god of thunder on the scene and his enemy.

- - - -

The Skull Squadron, due to their status as being just above Elite Mooks and barely edging into being actual characters of whom I plan to use, utilize their training and superhuman physical prowess to tear the Infection Forms as soon as they attach to their bodies, chainsawing them in half once the removal was complete. The group made a tactical retreat from the building, firing at more of the forms as they came through. Their goal was to build up a pile of bodies so high around the building that the holes the monstrosities were coming out of were blocked by their own corpses.

Garuda recoiled as the enemy burst into and through her shield, slamming her into the ground. Once on the ground, she acted quickly, bringing up all of her claws and trying to drive them violently into the Combat Form’s unmutated arm, attempting to slice it clean off and freeing herself of it's grasp.