Frenzy

Wriggle's expression turns absolutely livid as Margit, whether intentionally or not, seems to basically tell her to stay in the kitchen while real men do the battling. Her mouth deforms into a rictus of razor-sharp chitin edges standing in for teeth. Her eyes turn bloodshot, then outright melt away, leaving black abysses dripping squirming vileness like black tears and trailing Magical Eye Streamers composed of swarming gnats rather than any form of energy.

   "You underestimate me? Are you one of those, the ones who see me as a bug to be crushed underfoot, instead of a REAL warrior? Or has the news already spread like wildfire? What, you have one little existential crisis and suddenly everybody thinks you've gone all soft and shit? I am Wriggle fucking Nightbug, and I have not come back from the edge of the abyss, rebuilt my life with my own two hands, and devoured Godlings to be dismissed by your old ass armed with a fucking walking stick!"   

   "No, you did it because I found it funny~"    a taunting voice rings in her head.

   "YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!"    Wriggle roars to seemingly no one. Her body seemingly splits in half to let Dehaka's tongue pass through harmlessly as she begins bombarding the Zerg titan with seemingly endless translucent-winged bolts of burning light.

Her army, seemingly driven into a berserker trance in synchronization with their ruler, falls upon the Zergs with renewed wrath, seemingly at the cost of any self-preservation instincts they may have had left. A third wave emerges from the buzzing portals - this time it's the winged reinforcements, Wriggle's signature Flayers - ferocious creatures resembling oversized adult dragonflies, but equipped with a dragonfly nymph's extendable jaws and a rear stinger. They swarm the Zergs, mainly the Hydralisks, in a frenzy of death, plunging their stingers into any exposed flesh over, and over, and over again.

Omega

Valley

The Carnifex kept attacking the Bee Empress, which proved to be a mistake as its blades were further gunked up by the wax barrier. Incensed, it opened its maw and shot a fucking laser from its mouth — no doubt a Zerg modification. It fired the beam at the Bee Empress, but sprayed it wildly about after, trying to blast the Librarians as well.

A strange bile-like substance dripped from its chest as its biology made minor self-adjustments to sustain the beam... but perhaps exposing a weakness, should any of the fighters be brave enough to rush in and exploit it past those monstrous scything claws.

Hive - Outside

Hadraniel observed the Dark Side destroying his ice spikes. Narrowing his eyes at the malevolent energies at work, he snorted in disgust.

   "Concern yourself not with this unsightly beast,"    he said to Cell, meaning to show the respect that was due such a perfectly-crafted specimen of bioengineering.    "It is just another part of this wretched horde. I will deal with it—focus your efforts on destroying the entirety of the swarm."    He clenched a forelimb into a fist as light flared across his scales in patterned waves, and roiling primeval fire flared to life across his talons, spreading up his arms — and far above, the clouds began to darken and whirl.

Star of Extinction: 1/3

KiriK

Callis

"Sure thing - I'll pay this time."

She flares up her battle aura and blasts off in that direction.

Rhea

Rhea shakes Nesley's hand and says, 「レーアと申します。」 (I am called Rhea.)

「私はヒスイ地方からきましたが、アローラ地方は出身です。」 (I come from the Hisui region, but my home is Alola.)

Monika

"Natsuki, I..."

Monika steps back, her head hanging low in shame. "I... did this."

Minira - Buildings

Luffy manages to blow one of the Colony Forms to bits, completely shutting it down. Kazuma and Haruhi also erase one with only ashes left.

It's just not the Skull Squadron's day today. After the holes are blocked, they just re-absorb the corpses of the fallen and mulch them up to make more Carrier Forms, which continue to flood the street with self-destructing 'popcorn' Infection Forms.

Fortunately, Maou the Devil suddenly smashes down, creating a shockwave that instantly pops all of the Infection Forms in a chain reaction, most of them too far away to hurt the soldiers.    "You good?"   

Similarly, while Homura slashes at some tendrils, more keep lashing out, and the one holding her drags her towards the fleshy mass... until the Fall Reincarnation rips right through it with a fist coated in Expiration flames, burning the tendril to ash.    "Hmph."   

He then calls upon his dragon form, which simply swoops down and smashes through the building with its sheer bulk, leaving it in too many scattered pieces to regenerate into a Colony Form.

Destroy Flood Structures: 3/6

JUGGERNAUT: 50%

—

Minira - Units

The Stalker Form going after Luffy is splattered, though the other Stalker Forms targeted by SHADE are adept dodgers and try to circle around before lunging.

The Tank Form is blown to fuck by the literal tank, but a couple more come lumbering out, too far away to threaten the Ylisseans.

The Fall Vessel descends from the air, landing by Mar.    "You reek of Exalt, boy. Prove your heritage when it matters."    She immediately tries to grab him and Fastball Special him at the Tank Forms.

Flamethrower proves to be super effective on this fungal infestation, instantly incinerating the Ranged Forms, but yet more come and retaliate with their needles.

The SPARTAN-IV Combat Form's energy shields protect it from being dismembered, but those shields are also popped by Garuda and it goes flying back, giving her a clear opening to retaliate in full.

—

Minira - Reservoir

"Sure thing!" Ruby says to Hatch as they descend.

To be fair, there were already spores and tumors there, courtesy of the Flood. But now there are more, thanks to Gustave.

Dr. McNinja uses a hand gun, grenades, a katana, and some weird ninja tricks, deftly switching between them on the fly as enemies swarm him.

Ruby rockets all around the place with Crescent Rose, proving impossible to catch for these lumbering zombies and small little blob creatures as she slices and dices Combat Forms.

Seize the Infected Water Reservoir: 50%

Valley - Buildings

To recap, the primary Zerg structure is a Lair, but there are also the Hatchery, Spawning Pool, Evolution Chamber, Hydralisk Den, and Roach Warren. None of these are super hidden... the fighters just have to get through the swarm first.

Karstodes does severe damage to the Hatchery, but some spear-tipped tentacles around its base lash at him, trying to harass him into fucking off.

The Grandnova army finally gets its big break - a lucky shot proves to be a finishing one, destroying the Hatchery and abruptly halting most of the flow of enemies, though the tentacles are still bothering Karstodes.

Destroy Zerg Structures: 1/6

—

Valley - Units

The Chasmegaunts are resistant to the poison, but it still hits them hard enough to stop them from firing their shots just yet, forcing them to back off and reposition, finding new targets.

Ophelia is caked in Alien Blood as Kyoko rampages through the field, but the Roaches and Hydralisks that are left target her directly in response, and she may find their combined strength overwhelming...

With her psychic powers, the Queen of Blades is acutely aware of a gun aimed at her, but she can't do much about that before Thor sends her flying with his lightning blast. She goes hurtling through the air, stopping herself just in time to block Mjolnir with her forearms and try to punch him across the face before following up with a flying knee!

—

Valley - Dehaka

Dehaka's tongue keeps moving even after being squashed, trying (and failing) to hit Wriggle. He also retracts it despite it being stepped on, and stares at Margit as he presents his challenge, before Wriggle goes berserk, forcing him to raise a functioning arm to weather the assault.

   "I require... essence."   

He turns and rakes his claw through a number of Wriggle's bugs, splitting them open and eating the insides. As he does so, his eyes and body glow, his entire form trembles and warps, and his lost large arm grows back in full, restoring him to his old six-limbed splendor.

And then he turns back to Wriggle and Margit.    "Now. Both of you. Show me."   

Convince Dehaka: 60%

Wilderness - Itorash

The Kihunters are semi-pacified by Anauna - at least enough so that Xeru is able to slice through them and keep going. They're near the ship now...

—

Wilderness - Units

The lesser X Parasites are successfully Hyper Beamed into oblivion, leaving only the SA-X and her friends, the SA-X.

The first SA-X is successfully speared and subsequently obliterated by Madoka's arrows, but the second simply decouples its Grapple Beam to avoid being thrown around before leaping at Eleven with the powerful electric Screw Attack! The original also starts charging up a Wave Beam shot...

And then Xoeur says 'this bitch empty' and yeets it into low orbit, where it is unable to fight. For now.

The only other X around that have Core-X forms are the six clones who have already proven themselves to be on Samus's side, so she's hopefully not going to go after them. A gray Chozo Warrior X, however, emerges wielding a spear and lunges to stab Samus!

Two more also appear, challenging Mega Man X and Zero. One is red, one is golden, both have shields. "I'll take the red one!" says X, rushing at it while charging a shot.

Hive - Outside

The Eyeless is knocked back by Cell's kick, but remains upright. It lumbers towards Hadraniel as he builds up power, taking a simple swing with its massive claws.

—

Hive - Inside

That poor Nekghoul got throngled by ZJ. A few more, wielding blaster rifles, shoot up at him from below.

The Ubermorph meets Kroq-Gar's challenge head-on, bull rushing him with its blades swinging.

Valley AND Hive

The keen eye may notice various Necromorphs emerging to descend upon the battlefields where the corpses actually stay dead, collecting the fallen bodies and either eating them or dragging them off to God-knows-where, bringing them together for some unclear purpose...

Edited by KiriK on Mar 19th 2022 at 3:43:05 AM

"I'm from a country called Eagleland, from the town of Onett. ... they're not very creative names.", Nesley says, laughing a little.

"Anyhow, if you wanna explore this cave and the general area, I won't stop you. But be careful of dangerous people like the Assassins and Gravitas. To keep things short, they're both organizations with powerful people who are more than willing to kill innocent people."

Beat

"Also, you can take a sleeping bag from in the cave if you want, but you can't take all of them. One of them will be mine.", he says, smirking a little.

Perfect Cell turns to look at Hadraniel, looking pleased that someone managed to instantly recognize his perfection. Normally that wouldn't really be enough to make him follow the given advice, but he's in a pretty good mood right now, so...

   "Hm. Very well."   

He heads over to the Valley now, blasting at as many buildings as he can see, as well as the tentacles that are attacking Karstodes. Though whether or not he purposely aimed for them or they were just in Cell's line of fire is uncertain.

Edited by DevilPsyco on Mar 19th 2022 at 11:06:26 AM

Great job you guys! Let's keep this up! I'll open up a path! GEAR! FOURTH! Luffy explodes into an enlarged shape, like a literal iron balloon, having activated BOOOUNDMAN! he retracts his fists into his massive arms and move them, creating two new pairs of arms via afterimage before unleashing a wild asskicking series of stretched punches at the swarm in front of him, meaning to clear it out for his own allies to roll in and do their things.

GOMU GOMU NO KONG ORGAN!

...

... Thee have a flame, seeking to be smoldered. Margit says, unable not to answer after that rant but not wishing to dignify it further with a more eloquent answer. He holds his stick overhead with his two arms, as if preparing a powerful blow, and spends about three seconds preparing it before dashing forwards to try to smack him with a downward blow.

But after doing that, Margit quickly attacks with his dagger, recovering fast from his previous blow to swipe twice with the dagger, intending to stun Dahaka or distract him as he raises his cane to slam the tip of it down at the beast. There's fair wind-up, maybe too much because he means to catch Dehaka out by delaying the blow.

Thor is struck in the face and kneed right after, hurling him back and causing blood to draw forth out of him. YOU HIT WELL! HAHAHA! He spins around off his own momentum and toss Mjolnir at the queen, while using his other hand to wipe his mouth to see if he's bleeding, and he seems pleased to be.

...

Eleven starts to create a pink bubble around her, slowly encompassing her portion of the battlefield, and let a pink energy surround her hand, like a bit of a lightsaber around her limb. It's actually a very sharp "blade": she uses her spatial power to split space where she moves her hand, which means that she can cut anything in half with a sweep of her hand.

She moves to try to cut the attacking SA-X in half with a diagonal sweep.

Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 19th 2022 at 3:13:10 PM

Minira

Town

Roco shields itself inside its shell, answering with another flamethrower afterwards. As there are more Ranged Forms approaching, the Pica-Pica trio goes to help, firing a Tri-Attack at one of them.

Meanwhile, Clarilú summons a myriad of rainbow butterflies from her universe, trying to distract and blind the Flood with their glitter and colors.

Reservoir

The Alliance guys use their clothes to avoid breathing the spores.

As they advance, the triplets and the Faux!Pica-Pica are punching the Combat Forms they find, while Hatch, Croix and Nough fire their magic missiles (shaped as #, X and O's) at the blobs around.

Valley

   I'll Protect the Bee Queen! You go to attack the ugly beasts ahead!   

As the Carnifex fires its laser, blasting away the Empress, Gregoria, still bug-sized, goes under its dripping chest, and grew again her usual size, uppercutting the Carnifex on the process.

Meanwhile, the other Insect Ladies grew again too, and they go to clash with the Chasmegaunts, along with the Empress' veggies.

Wilderness

Sky

Being relatively out of danger by now, Super Pamp and allies fly towards Itorash. Their leader sings a song, about to summon an ally for the task ahead.

Ground

Vanilluxe needs to recover!

   Good job, return to your Pokeball.   

Enzo tries to help his allies, trying to strike the various SA-X with his paralyzing yellow paint.

Meanwhile, Painty and the Gang are playing again their music to buff the allies' stats.

Edited by BombonBombin on Mar 19th 2022 at 1:16:15 PM

Minira

Homura gives a nod to the fell dragon, before moving to street level, pulling out a machine gun. Despite being a young girl, she manages to keep the recoil under control, mowing through the various flood on the streets as she goes.

Mar Gets Grappled, being thrown towards the tank forms. Thinking quickly, he uses this momentum to attempt to skewer one with his bayonet, pulling out a grenade midair to try to blast another one, yelling to the fall vessel "I was about to ask if anything else could go wrong! Get in line, My hat trick's going to have to wait!"

Vincent, in the meanwhile, takes command, yelling "Everyone, move out! Artillery, fire on the buildings! Helicopters, evacuate the footsoldiers! Pegasus riders, Harass the enemy below with grenade launchers and the like! Tanks, Secure the area! Apcs, Move out, evacuate! Motorcycles, On me!"

In the distance, the sound of a jet can be heard.

Valley

A Shot rings out as a blue beam sails towards Kerrigan, as yesod steps out of the library, in Der freischutz's garb. Alongside him are various librarians equipt with the armor and blunt weaponry of the Rhino team. He yells out "Sorry to keep everyone waiting!"

At the same time, Hod's squad, wielding various sharp weaponry designed to cause deep wounds, with hod herself wielding a serrated knife, rush out, with Hod giving angela a nod, awaiting further orders.

Zero nods to X, saying "I've got the gold one." Zero proceeds to rush in with a charged slash, trying to cut the warrior in half!

Madoka continues firing off arrows, getting closer and closer, likely drawing further attention from the various X around.

Samus, having actually practised spear-fighting recently, tries to read the grey warrior's movements, trying to evade the lunge, grab the spear, and either claim it for herself, or lock it down as she moves in, similarly to what one would do with a dagger against a spear, firing off shots as she grabs onto it.

Edited by ReynTheLord on Mar 19th 2022 at 12:10:37 PM

Minira

SHADE is not the most. Agile. Goop boy in the goop pond. The Stalker Forms have got him, and probably claw off some like. Goop. This does mean they are way closer, and probably less likely to dodge when he shoots again, from nearly point-blank.

Kazuma falls to a knee, huffing and puffing. Explosion does take a lot out of a lad. Haruhi ends up landing by him, and begins viciously defending her impromptu downed comrade, at least until Maou enters the fray. She continues to stand guard though, tapping her foot as Kazuma recuperates with some Manatite.

She decides to help with the SPARTAN-IV Combat Form by fucking yeeting her broadsword at it like a lance, hoping to catch it by surprise.

–

Gustave is just having a grand old time, playing with these ugly whatever in the aquifer. He roars a crocodilian roar, and splashes water and instances of Crocodylus cancer everywhere. Don't worry, unless you're a Crocopod you should be fine.

—

Valley

"EUGH!"

Karstodes is not quite very hurt yet, given that he is a super-engineered transhuman warrior. However, he is disgusted by these tentacles, which is apparently enough to incapacitate him for this round.

After a bit more rampaging, Kyoto curses when she realizes Ophelia is being overwhelmed. Though ejecting and leaving the mech for dead would have been inconceivable back home, here she's... kind of grown numb to it, heheh. In any case, she leaps out before she can go down with the ship and tries to pick the remaining units off via her own spearmanship.

—

Wilderness

Xeru makes it to Itorash...'s lower outer side, sort of splatting against it.

"Bwa!"

Popping back to three dimensions after a moment, he tries to float his way down and towards the bottom entrance using the UFO copy ability, hovering "over" the surface of Itorash.

–

Enforcer is just. Sitting. Like a puppy. Watching the carnage.

Oxa gets up and stretches. The fighting here looks like it's dying down. The others can handle it, right? Despite his strength, he still doesn't fancy himself much of a fighter.

Xoeur just watches SA-X goooooo for a bit, before... teleporting up after it and trying to knock it even higher (and possibly splatter it) with a punt. Like, why not, right? Fuck 'em.

—

Hive

ZJ's fun is cut short by le blaster rifles, causing him to squeal and drop to the ground.

   "HJGDUÅÁÍÓ䇋Îfl·›°˜‡°Î°·˜Ø‡°Ô!"   

He dashes into the fray lashing out with suddenly-there steely claws and needle-like fangs to try and just savage his way through the 'morph resistance.

Edited by Rbade on Mar 19th 2022 at 12:11:53 PM

   "So be it then. I'll show you... both of you, the true meaning of a world pushed beyond its limits!"    Wriggle spreads her arms as one of the swirling portals behind her begins expanding to colossal proportions.

Supreme Exemplar

A slithering abomination, the size of a freight train, pokes its spider-like head out of the portal, with snapping antlion-like jaws. A seemingly endless armored millipede body, dotted with countless wings from various insect species, begins uncoiling, soon revealing two powerful asymmetrical forelimbs, of which one terminates in a mantis-like serrated scythe and the other in a grasping claw. Before it's even entirely out of the portal, the creature slams itself into the thick of the Zerg forces, where its many sharp implements begin dishing out a harvest of death comparable to the tremendous damage Dehaka has wrought upon Wriggle's own brood.

Thor rockets after Callis towards Hub Centralis, jagged streaks of electricity trailing behind him.

Volcanic Hive

Kroq-Gar would vault over the beast, landing and rolling out of the charging Ubermorph's way, the Swiftness of Itzl fading away as the mist began to dissipate. He reared back and roared at the being, his teeth bared in a sign of challenge. He'd take a step back, shaking his frill at them to further the point.

"Welcome to your final hunt, abomination."

He powered up his Hand of The Gods, energy beginning to pour out from the sigils as he immediately went on the offensive, roaring out as he lunged the spear forward, hoping to make contact, all the while his clawed hand was revving up another intense solar blast.

"It is where you will be broken! It is where the Great Plan will be enacted!"

Natsuki wasn't entirely sure what that meant, she knew weird things were happening, but she wasn't sure how that related to Monika directly

What do    you mean?   

Just then, her body Jittered through a few posed

"My FUCKing neck!"

She said while rubbing her neck

Onyxis

Previous

Syana dusted herself off in a very official and proper sort of way, scanning the battlefield with both her raw visual senses and her omnitool scanner for any interesting materials that she might be able to put to use later. As she did so, she off-handedly threw one of her hammers at a remaining robot — if indeed any remained.

"Well, this has been quite a curious day. I came out here for one thing, and found something entirely different!"

Ember — Trash Heaps

"... Fair cop. I forgot how busted spellcasting is for utility. Couldn't really wrap my head around it when Tiamat was trying to teach me, if I'm being honest..."

Omega decided not to dwell on that thought.

"Hmm. Think we should find somewhere to take a break until he wakes back up, or just get back to it?"

—

Hieros, who had at some point activated his Rhino's Iron Skin, gradually untensed.

"... I don't think I like those three very much. I mean... the Warden is okay, I guess, but I can never get a read on it."

Tide of Flesh — Valley

The Distraction Carnifex reeled back from the strike of the Incredible Shrinking Cockroach Woman, interrupting its laser Breath Weapon, but it stopped itself as it stumbled - and immediately whirled around with impossible speed and grace, swinging its bladed tail in a circle around itself.

Tide of Flesh — Hive

Hadraniel met the Eyeless's swing with a slashing blow from his tail-blade, trying to knock the abomination away from him. Three triangular sigils ignited in the sky, forming a corridor-portal through the eye of the raging, ash-black clouds...

Star of Extinction: 2/3

Rap Battle

Líf fumbles to try and catch the mic, staring at it before growling.

~

"I'm not telling you~"

   "This wasn't the plan, parasite."   

"I know!" snaps Rat God. "You just mistimed it!"

<Hold on wha-> *POP*

This time, Mad Rat uses his full power. He rewinds by a full minute, leaving him and Boyfriend back as they were before Rat God showed up - just vibing. <Hoo...>

They're so far back, their drinks have been partly "refilled". But Mad Rat isn't concerned about that. <C'mon bro, let's get the hell out of here before the countdown starts again!>

Rhea

She nods, not totally following along with Nesley's explanation but getting the gist of it.

「うん、分かる。ありがとう。」 (Yeah, got it. Thanks.)

She heads inside, past Nesley.

Monika

"I... I broke the g-... our world," Monika says. "I saw beyond the boundaries, and then it was like none of you... none of us mattered. I wanted to escape to a higher plane, but I saw you as... obstacles. So I looked within and found what made us tick, and I changed it. I made Yuri and Sayori insane. I made your life worse. And one by one... I destroyed you. I..."

On the verge of sobbing, she chokes out, "You, Yuri, Sayori, I-I thought all of you needed to die so I could be free. I was wrong."

Monika curls up on the ground. "This is it. The world beyond that boundary. The world I sought to reach. And now I can't fix what I broke - can't take back what I did. Natsuki... I'm sorry."

Nesley goes inside as well, headed towards the sleeping bag and picking it up as he said he would.

"You'll be okay on your own, right?", he asks as he rolls it up and straps it to his backpack.

「うん。」 (Yep.)

She recalls the Stantler and sends out three Pokémon - a Dartrix, a Quilava, and a Dewott. 「この空洞を守れ。」 (Protect this cave.)

They nod and take defensive stances while Rhea gives Nesley a smug look.

He looks surprised when she brings out more Pokemon.

"I hope that'll be enough.", he smirks, teasing a little. After that, he starts walking off while raising a hand, doing a victory sign with it.

"Peace."

As he exists the cave, a strange shiver runs down his back. He glances around, his eyes glowing a little red. He sees nothing, but a cold wind passes by him from above, and he narrows his eyes in recognition.

"... Jack Frost... an Assassin..."

He ponders for a moment, then starts trailing the cold wind.

That was...a lot to absorb. And natsuki didn't know how to feel.

She knew that this was all Monika's fault, and she had always suspected something, but now it was all but confirmed. She was so...angry. It was all Monika's fault, her pain, Yuri's insanity, the weird things that had been happening. Natsuki had every right to physically assault her or get some sort of revenge, she had to, right?

And yet...Monika seemed powerless in this state, completely destroyed by her own actions, all the reality stuff didn't compute to natsuki, but she knew it hurt. Monika seemed actually sorry, and this confusion was a lot for her.

"Mon Ikaaammm"]]    "I don't...I don't...I...   

She was at a very unfortunate loss for words, though the emotional confusion was audible

Edited by vgm23 on Mar 19th 2022 at 11:06:21 AM

Not too entirely amused at being shown up, the man at the forefront of the Skull Squadron gives a reluctant nod.

"…Yeah," He immediately focuses his attention to other things, such as getting to high ground and drawing attention to them so that their allies could cut down the uglies faster, all five of them watching eachother's backs.

——

Garuda prepares to rip this Combat Form a new one, drawing her right arm back.

A circle of blood begins forming in front of her, starting large but soon narrowing down until it focused only on the SPARTAN IV. She let loose a hail of talons formed from hardened blood, which would most likely inflict prolific bleeding on the Infected lifeform if it meant anything to it.

"It's okay if you hate me," says Monika sadly. "I probably deserve it."

Tide of Flesh

Minira

The Flood are purged from the reservoir!

Seize Infected Water Reservoir: ✓

The Fall Vessel gives Mar a bemused smirk as he actually manages to deal some damage to the Tank Forms.

The SPARTAN-IV Combat Form, being wide open, gets skewered through the head by Haruhi, then riddled with holes by Garuda, successfully downing it. Instead of truly dying, though, it drops to its knees before the ground opens up around it and swallows it.

Leader Unit repelled!

More monsters are slain, but no progress is made on the Colony Forms...

JUGGERNAUT: 70%

A giant, and I mean five kilometers long assault carrier suddenly bwips into the sky above Estraole, coming to an instant crawl from a hyperspeed jump.

The voice of Thel 'Vadam calls out from it. "Reduce Minira to glass! DO NOT let the Flood spread beyond the city!"

Blow Me Away - Breaking Benjamin

Several Mgalekgolo◊ drop from the sky like miniature meteors, landing in the streets of Minira. The Arachnus-Tank Form hybrids rush to engage them only to be swatted away like baseballs hit by a bat, then pulverized by their Fuel Rod cannons. The carrier in the sky shoots down a giant laser that melts all it touches into a glass-like substance, scorching a ring around the site of the Flood infestation.

Three absolutely ginormous◊ Spider Tanks drop from the sky into the city, flattening buildings in their wake. They storm around, unleashing devastating torrents of green energy from their "faces" to torch and vaporize the Flood forces within the glassing perimeter.

The Arbiter orders the heroes, "Those still alive, board the Scarabs if you wish to stay that way! This whole city will soon be a glass floor! It is the only way to stop the Flood!"

Valley - Units

Kerrigan is blown into one of the mountainous walls surrounding the battlefield, leaving a crater that crackles with purple electricity. She glowers at Thor, not reveling in the pain as he is. She hunches over in preparation to take flight.

   "Would you just-"    The Queen of Blades suddenly gets nailed by Der Freischutz, sending her crashing into the ground! She retaliates by launching rapid-fire psychic blasts at the Librarians and the Library itself.

The Chasmegaunts fire powerful shots at the Insect Ladies and vegetables with sniping weapons, but due to their targets getting up close, they aren't as accurate as they could have been. Regardless of how many hits they land on their attackers, the Chasmegaunts eventually die.

-

Player 2

Player 2 stares at the emerging Supreme Exemplar. "Oh shit that is not good. Welp, time to release the queue!"

-

The Zerg Lair is covered in a cocoon that explodes to reveal it has upgraded into a Hive, from which THIS THING bursts out.

With its titanic Kaiser Blades, it roars and rushes to engage the Supreme Exemplar head-on. Two more emerge moments after, charging at the Librarians to try and trample them or slice them to ribbons.

—

Valley - Buildings

Evolution Chamber? Collapsed. Hydralisk Den? Buried. Roach Warren? Incinerated. Hotel? Trivago. The swarm has suddenly become a lot less numerous.

Destroy Zerg Structures: 4/6

Kerrigan stares at the destruction, jaw dropped in confusion.    "Wh-what? How? WHO?!"   

She notices Cell, the perpetrator, and promptly rockets at him with a fist that creates a massive explosion of reality-bending psionic power on impact!    "YOU!"   

And whether or not that hits, she promptly follows up with another!

—

Valley - Dehaka

Dehaka blocks Margit's first strike with his big arms, but then gets flinched and staggered by the rapid dagger follow-ups, driving him back. The final cane strike, however, is caught and shoved away as Dehaka spews acid in retaliation.

However, he then looks and sees the Supreme Exemplar. And he sees Cell laying waste to the Zerg buildings, and something finally clicks.

Convince Dehaka: ✓

Warhead Junction - Heroes of the Storm

   "Yes... You. You are more powerful than Queen of Blades. I am Dehaka. And I only bow to the strongest. That is now you. And she is now prey."   

He promptly turns around and leaps into the fray, recklessly tearing apart the Zerg and Tyranid beasts that were his subordinates just moments ago. Disappearing and reappearing from ruins or foliage, dragging his enemies into their silent demises with his tongue, creating patches of destructive slag, he's as much a stealthy slasher movie villain as he is a generic horror monster.

How soon the tremendous swarm is reduced to just a few major enemies...

Wilderness - Units

At some point, the X Parasites seem to just give up and hide in the black stuff coating the ground, leaving only the SA-Xes.

The SA-X on the ground is paralyzed by Enzo, resulting in Eleven easily destroying it.

Xoeur also manages to destroy the Prime SA-X, which turns into its Core-X form and flies away from the battlefield towards the Volcanic Hive.

Leader Unit repelled!

The gray Chozo Warrior is disarmed by Samus, but in response its head immediately splits open to become a monstrous maw and blasts a huge torrent of icky black goo at her.

The red Chozo Warrior charges X shield-first, and he just punches right through it before unleashing his Charge Shot, instantly taking it down.

The gold Elite Chozo Warrior blocks Zero's attack with its shield before retaliating with a sweep of its spear. It is now the only real threat left.

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Wilderness - Itorash

Xeru makes it to Itorash first, infiltrating the inside - and being confronted by a swarm of Kihunters and Flood Tank Forms that converge on him to try and beat him to paste.

The other flying fighters aren't too far behind, and with the threat on the ground more-or-less dealt with, it won't be long before everyone else joins them.

Hive - Outside

The Eyeless stands firm and withstands the tail strike. With a horrible groan, it lurches forward in an attempt to grab Hadraniel's head and bite his face off.

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Hive - Inside

The Ubermorph is impaled, but it continues to thrash about wildly. It seems swinging those blades is all it can really do.

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Player 2

"What a leader unit. Impossible to kill, can only do one thing. Piece of shit. Oh well, not like it matters."

-

The Nekghouls are shredded, but their bodies are taken...

Hive - Peak

All the biomass from the fallen is being gathered up to the top of the Volcanic Hive, forming... a beacon made of meat.

It lets loose an ungodly resonating noise, audible all across Estraole.

   WE HEAR ITS CALL. WE ARE COMING. WE ARE HUNGRY. WE WILL BE MADE WHOLE.   

Edited by KiriK on Mar 19th 2022 at 12:14:13 PM

Valley, Buildings

Perfect Cell chuckles to himself, pleased.

   "What devastation with only a mere fraction of my power. Some of it is still standing though."   

He holds out his hand, aiming down.

   "A battlefield scorch should solve that-"   

He then hears Kerrigan's voice, glancing to his side.

   "Hm?"   

And promptly getting punched in his perfect jawline, the explosive, psionic punch sending him spinning backwards through the air.

Before the follow-up attack can land though, he stops himself with a Kiai, then immediately attempts to blast Kerrigan out of the air. However, if she's able to just power through the attack, Cell will get hit again.

Due to being... rather distracted right now, he doesn't notice that he inadvertently helped his allies gain a new ally.

Hive, Outside

A crackling portal suddenly appears in the sky, and a soft, warm and gentle light shines down from it. However, powerful winds suddenly fly down from said portal as well, attempting to converge around specifically the Eyeless and trap it in place. Hadraniel won't be harmed or restricted by the winds at all.

Then the being responsible for these winds descends down from the portal, which closes behind her. The strange but almost enchanting-looking creature◊ ends up hovering closely above the ground, pointing at the Eyeless as a faerie-elemental energy burst attempts to engulf the potentially-trapped Eyeless.

Reprium

Omagi is startled out of their meditation by a monstrous, resonating sound from the land besides Reprium. They quickly hop up into a tree, looking over the rocky area in between Reprium and Estraole. An aura forms around their eyes, allowing them to better see what's going on even from this distance. As such, they spot some signs of the massive fight that's going on there.

"What in...", they mutter, confused and intimidated. If that battle moves here, there's no way they'd be able to repel it all with their usual tactics.

Pseudo's Base

Through his monitor, Pseudo, Pilly and Weber see the giant assault carrier's arrival.

"Whoa!"

"This is getting out of hand really fast.", Pseudo mutters as the monitor lets them overhear Thel'Vadam's announcement.

   "Is it though? Would it not be an effective strategy to destroy the city?"   , Weber asks.

"That's not what I was referring to.", Pseudo says, now looking contemplative. "If people are willing to go to such lengths to stop whatever that infestation is..."

Weber grins.

   "Ah... I see now."   

"Brother, are you thinking about using the cannon?", Pilly asks, concerned. Pseudo remains silent, but his conflicted expression says enough.

Assassin Base

Mr. L, having just arrived back at the base after having been contacted by Cyber, walks up to an enthralled Andropov and Hub, whose eyes are glued to the crystal. If an intruder had gotten in they probably wouldn't have even noticed.

   "So what's this about a big batt-OH MY STARS!"   , he shrieks when he sees the giant assault carrier reflected in the giant crystal.

   "I don't know who that ship belongs to... but now we no longer have a choice in the matter. We have to keep watching to find out. We need to know what to watch out for in the future..."   

   "There won't be much of a future if they fail to stop that horde."   , Mr. L says once he's gotten a good look at the battle itself.    "Can't we send Mara to help fight?"   

"Mara went off to go look for her runaway kids. She isn't even coming back to the base right now, so sending her isn't an option.", Andropov says.

   "Darn it all. She always just does what she wants."   

Lourent, border with Estraole

Out for reasons unknown, Porky Minch briefly turns to look at the volcanic area that's under siege.

   "Whoa... so this is what the split-lips guy who threatened me for his precious key is bringing to the table. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on one of those... Good to know he's packing that, though."   

He turns away again, then pauses for a moment, looking as if he's in deep thought. He glances back at the battle going on in the distance, and while he doesn't say anything, he suddenly seems to look... uncomfortable.

Edited by DevilPsyco on Apr 8th 2022 at 3:30:52 PM

Volcanic Hive

Now this felt off... Incredibly off. A feeling was permeating his mind that something here didn't add up. This was a hive. Other creatures had to be here... This couldn't be the main force no! Either this was a tertiary node of command, or it was a trap. Perhaps he looked too deep into it. He couldn't say...

The thrashing Ubermorph still needed to be dealt with. He twisted his blade, and pointed the Hand of the Gods at the entity, the raw wrath of Quetzal being seen just breifly. A ball of Sunfire, pure radiance. He would fire it at the Ubermorph, listening in to the carnage in the surface. The Naoalli might have an answer to this. His instincts were still present, as he waited for his enemy's next plan.

The Ultralisk and the Exemplar deadlock, matched evenly in a clash of giant blades and with armor to match. It's only now that the tail of the beast finally emerges, terminating in a scorpion stinger that spews blazing acid upon the rest of the Zerg forces while the front of the Exemplar deals with the enemy titan.

"Gee, what a flaky guy..." Wriggle says with an uncomfortable wince as Dehaka goes to town on his own former allies. "If power's all he respects, that means he'll betray us too without a second thought the moment a bigger fish shows up. He'll be useful for now, though. This means that all we have left to do to win is take down the opposing Queen! Just like in chess." Seems like Wriggle hasn't actually played much chess, but that doesn't render her any less of a threat. Judging the enemy forces here well handled by Dehaka and her Supreme Exemplar, she flitters off on her gossamer wings in search of the Bitch Queen of the Universe.

Margit block the acid with his own arm. While it visibly affects his arm, causing damage to it, he still looks ready to punch the Dehaka with it... until he suddenly leaves to turn against his former allies. Margit witness in silent, stoic confusion. ... There is no honor in switching to the victorious side, but there is wisdom perhaps.

But he takes what he can. Margit jumps over the battleground, tossing three golden dagger at the enemy below. The final throw has him raise his hand overhead, which he uses to produce a big magic hammer nearly his size to try to flatten his enemies with, caring about thinning out the numbers. Once the landing is complete, he spins his cane and hammer around, swinging his scorpion-like tail as a third and last strike.

Thor, up above, seems upset with Cell's appearance. YOU FOOL! SHE WAS MINE TO BEST IN BATTLE AND YOU HAVE DISTRACTED HER! Thor picks up his hammer and charges at Cell and the Queen, attempting to knock both of them away with a swing of Mjolnir!]]

If he succeeds, he then points to Cell. [[red:YOU WILL WAIT YOUR TURN AND FIGHT ONE OF THE WEAKLINGS BELOW

Margit sighs.

...

Luffy deactivates Boundman and keep running, noticing the giant ship up above and its invitation to glass the entire damn city. Luffy raises an eyebrow, as if shocked [[red:What?! No! What about the celebration feast after the battle?! And those people will lose their homes too! No! I'm just going to wipe out the Flood the way I deal with the usual jerks!]]

Luffy speeds ahead to one of the remaining Colony forms in a flash, blinking and vanishing over it with a burst of steam until he stands a dozen feet over it, with his fist enlarged to the size of a small house and coated in Haki. GOMU GOMU NO! ELEPHANT GUN! He punches downwards, meaning to flatten it to pieces. If he's successful, he then begins charging for the other remaining Colony Form, looking ready to activate Gear Fourth again!

If a tank or so get in his way, Luffy will try to yeet it away. He's that ready to save the city and leave it intact... as intact as it can be, moreso.

...

Eleven smiles and nods at Enzo. Nice work, geezo!

She then looks at Itorash and frowns, while also glancing at the Chozo warrior. I'm going to split that island in half! I won't be able to fight her if I can't do that! But first- Eleven picks up her cracked sword and blitz forward with the use of speed and her spatial power, moving at absurd speed to try to cut the being with a cool iai style blow, unsheathing, striking with quick speed and power, and unsheathing it again once past the Chozo.

But as she rolls forward, having sheathed it, Eleven leaps to Itorash, causing dust to kick up at her feet, and aims for it with a glorious uppercut, activating Limit Breaker just to be sure as she has a burst in power.

With a scream, and after applying her new weapon into a boxing glove, Eleven tries punching Itorash!

Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 20th 2022 at 1:21:53 PM

Part of natsuki wanted nothing more than to agree with Monika, and leave her there sad and alone, like Monika had done to her.

But she knew that wouldn't be the right thing to do, even natsukis pride wouldn't allow that, doing what she did would make this all redundant

She decided to hug Monika

"You're such an idiot, you know that?"

Minira

What do they mean with "glass the city"?

Nacho shows Emi the effects of the laser.

The Alliance guys exit from the reservoir, having finished their task. They heard the orders of the Arbiter. And then the voice of Luffy.

Hatch, what we should do?

Hatch was about to answer Belén, but then Clarilú said: All of you, get on the scarabs! We'll deal with what's here and help the rubber boy! We'll be OK! Quick!

Hatch nods, and The Alliance guys rode a scarab. Clarilú and Pipo ride Loli again, and they try to attack the remaining Colony Forms with Air Slashes, with help of the butterflies. Roco and the ABC's also stood there, trying to burn the Flood moss with flamethrower.

...

The Pica-Pica trio are sitting on the scarab.

Do you think our friend could help us?

Maybe... If only we had a way to talk with him...

Suddenly, the Phoenix feather began to glow. Belén takes it, and shows it to the sky...

Valley

Gregoria shrunk again to avoid being slashed by the Carnifex claws. Indeed, she barely avoids them, but she got sent flying by the wind of the slash.

Meanwhile, the Bee Empress orders the bees to send honey to she and her allies to heal them.

After the Chasmegaunts got defeated, Mantix gave orders:

   Bugs! Attack the giant thing with the claws! Veggies! Attack the ugly beast! Quick!   

The veggies try to body slam the Carnifex. Meanwhile, the Insect Ladies run to stop the beast with the Kaiser Blades and help the Librarians, but then, a loud crashing noise was heard on the battlefield...

I will not let an ugly monster attack innocent people!

The mutant child runs to help the Insect Ladies with the beast. And Ecoloco, who arrived with the child, tries to slam a garbage can on the Carnifex's head!

Wilderness

Ground

" It's Enzo, not geezo. But thanks."

"Go to the floating fortress to help the others. I'll catch you later. Go on the spaceships."

Painty and the Vanilla Gang ride their spaceships and take off for Itorash, taking with them Pirimplim, Gaia and Joka Mattheus. Super Love follows them. Meanwhile, Enzo tries to slash quickly the Golden Chozo with his Dream Brush.

Itorash

Super Pamp and co. arrived to Itorash. He finished his song, and the Concrete Golem appears with them, attacking the Tank Forms.

"Do you need some help right here?"

Pampín, who was flying around there patrolling, lands on the fortress, and starts to punch the Kihunters.

And, if Eleven punches successfully the fortress, she will trip on the ground.

Edited by BombonBombin on Mar 20th 2022 at 12:00:14 PM