Amy wasn't attentive to star knight at first, as she was trying to figure out where she was.
Finally noticing a local, or what she assumed was a local, made things much easier on her end
"Excuse me, Uhhh"
Getting a good look at the stranger, she couldn't get a good handle on the gender
"Do you know where I am?"
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoesFlowey just snaps his head towards Pietro, as if he's desperate to see anyone other than Spamton right now.
"Oh thank god it's you.", he says, sounding so exasperated. His stem starts to extend as Flowey 'approaches' Pietro, looking more and more unhinged as he continues talking.
"Pietro, I've lived thousands of lifetimes. Got to know everyone in my world, befriended them all, killed them all, played every game, burned every game, solved everyone's problems, caused everyone's problems. I interacted with them in every way, to the point that people just became predictable to me."
"TAKE A HIKE TO BIG SHOT AUTOS, HOME OF CHALLENGE [pipis]. THAT'S RIGHT, CHALLENGE [pipis]! HOW DOES IT WORK? IF YOU CAN [pipi] SIX FEET IN THE AIR STRAIGHT AND NOT GET WET YOU GET [no money back guarantee]! DON'T WAIT, DON'T DELAY, DON'T [*$#@] WITH ME OR I'LL RIP YOUR [eggs] OFF! ONLY AT BIG SHOT AUTOS, THE ONLY DEALER THAT TELLS YOU TO [fuck] OFF!"
"And even after we all got out of the Underground, I've become so good at reading people that it usually takes me about a few minutes before I can predict what pretty much everyone I meet is like.", he says as he shifts to his creepy face
◊.
"But... this guy... this INSANE IDIOT..."
He stops right in front of Pietro.
"I can't make heads or tails of this guy, and he's starting to seriously drive me nuts! It's been hours since Chara went with Alphys and left me to babysit this guy and he just keeps repeating his failed sales pitches! Pietro, please, get me out of this room! I'll freaking owe you one, that's how badly I want to leave!"
While his expression is still his creepy one, his shivering petals and twitching eye reveal that he's not trying to be creepy, he's just completely desperate to escape. Pietro might get the sense that Flowey would grab his shoulders and violently shake him in despair if he had hands.
"HURRY UP [ass]HOLE! THIS [specil] DEAL ENDS THE MOMENT YOU WRITE US A CHEQUE, AND IT BETTER NOT BOUNCE OR YOU'RE A [permanently closed] MOTHER[$*µ§er]!"
Spamton spreads his arms wildly.
"TAKE A GODDAMN VACATION STRAIGHT TO HELL! (also known as big shot autos], CYBER CITY'S FILTHIEST AND EXCLUSIVE HOME OF THE [big]GEST SON OF A BITCH IN THE DARK WORLD! GUARANTEED!"
Nesley gets sniped by Glacies' attack and backs off for a moment. He turns to look with glowing red pupils that pierce through even the howling blizzard, glaring as he's about to counterattack.
Thankfully Loki interrupts the fight with his Surtr illusion and causes Nesley to pause when he hears him. The glow is still present in his eyes though, and if Loki has been made privy of some information Wanda recently learned, he'd know why that's not a good sign.
Regardless, his following reaction shows that he's not yet corrupted to a point where he's become unreasonable, because he reacts with genuine surprise.
"What? I didn't know jack about a deal. Are you sure you told m-"
A small pause, then he chuckles to himself.
"Heh, jack."
He snaps out of it.
"Anyhow, yeah, I attacked him, but I did it 'cause he was on his own. I figured taking out an Assassin would help a great deal. I was close to winning too, 'cause for whatever reason he was holding back until just a moment ago. ... so what's this about a d-"
He's interrupted when Glacies gets to him all finger-wagging. He actually looks a little stunned that she's basically lecturing him.
"... I'm sorry, who are you exactly?", he asks, sounding as if he doesn't quite know what to think of this.
-
As for Jack himself, he got startled by the illusion, though it doesn't take him very long to realize that it's not real. Nevertheless, he looks strangely amused by Glacies' appearance and interference.
"Well now, Jack, it's your girlfriend." , he softly mutters to himself before glancing to the side with a somewhat evil smirk.
Inside of Jack's mind, a grinning Pitch Black
turns to look at Jack, who seems to be held captive by shadow tendrils.
"Should I be cruel and tell her you're not home right now?"
"You leave her out of this, Pitch!", Jack growls.
"That depends entirely on if she gets in my way or not."
"Pitch, I swear-"
"You'll swear what, Jack?"
Pitch now fully turns to him.
"Your softness caused you to hold back even when this kid was trying to kill us. And I'm sorry, but I am not willing to lie down and die for your fragile emotions. If I hadn't taken control by force and whipped up that storm, he would've killed us."
"W-well, Glacies and Loki are here now! They'll be able to calm him d-"
"Do you really think I'm going to let that kid go now that he's proven himself to be a threat?"
He turns away again.
"Watch, Jack, as I show you how to get things done."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.I'm Glacies! And I like hanging out with Jack! she jabs her thumb Jack's way. It means I won't let you just kill him! And I don't quite kill myself but I can knock you down and out!
She creates an ice spear and then realizes that it's lethal and make an ice bat instead.
Hey Jack! Are you okay? She says, cheerfully, without quite glancing his way because Nesley could attack.
...
A lot of the shadow effects meld back into Suzuki,like her "blood", her floating crown things. They sort of drop into her shadow and vanishes, leaving her stranded in her black garbs.
She stays unconscious for now though, at least until her eyes snap open and she decides to try to grab Vera's hand. "Say goodbye to your arm! TAKE THIS!" she swipes with her "blade" and, of course, only swings air at Vera's arm. Confused, Suzuki lets go of her and back off, attempting to summon forth her darkness sword.
After a lot of struggling, the tip of it barely emerges from her palm and she laughs, before "pointing" it at the two of them. "Behold! I still have the blade of injustice to... hrm!" She puts her index on her "blade" and shove it back into her hand with a light wince.
"What have you done?" she asks, very plainly.
Edited by Bolded1 on Apr 9th 2022 at 12:57:14 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterTrainer grits his teeth as he is savaged by Kaminari's bites, the feloid's Crunch latching onto his right arm.
"Get out of here, [[[![#[@[]?!"
He raises his free left hand and makes a fist which flashes with a light brown (Ground-type) light, before trying to slug it into the side of Kaminari's head.
/\。。/\Pietro actually looks at Flowey with a tinge of pity as he rants about how much Spamton has been driving him up a wall. Picking up Flowey's pot, he carries him into the next room and gingerly sets him down.
"Alright, it sounds like he's done going on about... whatever that was supposed to be."
Relieved that Nesley was willing to listen to reason, Loki dispels his illusion of Muspelheim's fiery king.
"Right, so during the Assassins' attempted siege of Pseudo's headquarters, Pietro Maximoff managed to strike a deal with Jack here. If we can free those he holds dear from Mara's spell, he'll gladly sever all ties with the Assassins," he explains.
Upon noticing the glow in Nesley's eyes, he makes a mental note to tell Wanda about this before it can become a serious problem. Then he greets Glacies with a little wave.
"He's done for now, but trust me, in a few minutes he'll be at it again. I don't even know why he would be repeating failed advertisements he made in the past, as if that'll somehow make them more effective if he uses them again.", Flowey says before sighing in relief, his expression calming again as well.
"Thanks for that, it was driving me mental. ... even more than usual."
The fact that Flowey thanked Pietro without being prompted to proves how glad he is to finally get a break from Spamton.
"Chara better watch out, I'm so gonna get them back for leaving me alone with that lunatic.", he groans... after which he looks back up at Pietro.
"Do you have any ideas? Anything I come up with usually fails 'cause Chara is unfairly good at predicting what I try to do."
Nesley tilts his head again.
"... huh. So basically me stalking him for a few days and attacking him wasn't the best idea then."
He then blinks at Glacies before grinning, now letting the tip of his own bat rest on his free hand (obviously dispelling the psychic blade as he'd otherwise cut into his own hand), threateningly tapping it a few times to suggest he's ready to take her up on her threat if he has to.
"I'm not much of a gentleman, but I should warn you that I'm probably better with a bat than you are, so if we were to tussle I'm not too scared for my chances."
"I'm Nesley, by the way.", he then says, looking just slightly more friendly. As weird as that moodswing is, the fact that he isn't immediately attacking Glacies shows that things don't have to escalate.
Pitch controlled!Jack, meanwhile, descends and holds one of his hands behind his back. Unseen by the others present, he conjures up a nightmare spike in it, planning to make himself look non-hostile for long enough to get closer to Nesley.
"I'm fine now that you're here." , he says, smirking. It looks a little 'off' compared to Jack's usual smirk, but since Glacies isn't looking directly at Jack she won't be able to see this detail.
Jack then glances at Loki, eyes widening a little when he realizes he was the one who created the now-faded illusion.
"How did Loki get here?", Pitch asks back in their shared mind. Jack smirks a little.
"Both Glacies and Loki are here. The moment one of them takes a good look at me they'll know something's not right. I highly doubt you can trick either of them."
Pitch groans, then crosses his arms.
"All that tells me is that I'll have to try to make my move fast. That kid's the only one I got to get to."
He lets the winds die down a bit as he starts to approach the three.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Apr 9th 2022 at 1:15:52 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Pietro strokes his chin in a thoughtful manner.
"Maybe you could try getting him to sit through one of Spamton's ramblings. That should make him understand what you just went through."
"Indeed. Fortunately for you, lad, the rest of this encounter ought to be calm and civil."
Loki approaches Jack, having noticed that something seemed a little off about him, and shows him his signature smirk.
"Isn't that right, Jack?" he says, placing a hand on his shoulder.
... Hi, I'm Glacies! Glacies says, nevermind that her name could be known. She takes his advice and forms an ice minigun... before changing it into an Ice flail but with the spiky bits removed.
Well, it doesn't look like things needs to escalate though! There was a mistake but we can solve it altogether, right? Tell you what! I'm gonna drop my weapon as a show of good faith! Hm! She drops her weapon on her feet by accident, and freezes over, shaking slightly.
...
She cringes her way into a smile and pop a thumbs up. Me is am... fine.... hehe!
...
The Draugr King is struck by its own power, causing it to roar and be unable to stomp on Asher when he attacks its leg.
It falls over to the ground and tries getting up with fluid, human-like movements, but there's a little pause between the fall and it trying that!
...
A-all well that ends well, phew!
Vincent sticks his chest out and put his hands on his hips, as if he helped in any way.
Edited by Bolded1 on Apr 9th 2022 at 1:29:31 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterNakai was not happy. Well, he was happy some of the party survived. But the Nergigante proved itself to be a formidable opponent. Nakai wasn't new to this realm, but the Annihilation took a sinister and sadistic flair in its destruction, something that distinguished it from the others he had thought. Luin, to his knowledge, was not prepared, and Nakai's expression soured as he thought on how to kill this beast it was obvious how he had a seemingly scrunched up brow, and the Kroxigor was busy mumbling to itself scripture, mixed with battle plans and prayers. He paused briefly to look to Ruin, and Weiss, shooting the Crazy Musician a confused glare. This group had potential, but it was undoubtedly the element of surprise that had failed them.
Perhaps however, he could stick around and find out more on them.
Astil seemed changed after the tide of flesh. There was for starts, the shifting lights composed of hundreds of thousands of spiritually significant logography and scripture, which danced around the upper atmosphere like flickering sprites, occasionally reweaving itself into a vaguely web shaped pattern. The already aggressive plant growth was even more pronounced, as there now from a distance, seemed to have played atop itself many times over. Even the high peaks and plateaus were blanketed, and the jungle floor was choked by dense undergrowth, with few visible paths beyond animal trails. Kroq-Gar immediately marched into the crashed Temple Ship, which now seemed more like it's old itself, the marble and amber gold stone a bit more polished then when Issun and Amaterasu we're here before. Kroq-Gar would speak up, somewhat authoritarian in his tone.
"Follow..."
AwawaSome time after the end of the Tide of Flesh...
Aboard the Yamato, all screens spontaneously are engulfed in static before displaying a familiar sigil of a crossed-out eye.
Incoming Threat (Einhander - Breakthrough)
"Found you~"
The radars and other detection systems of the Yamato start going absolutely wild as they detect the approach of something enormous...
Edited by Arachnos on Apr 10th 2022 at 4:50:45 AM
"The problem is that Chara can just switch with Frisk and float away. They'd totally do it too, the jerk-"
Spamton suddenly barges into the room.
"I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT-"
"OH GOD PLEASE NO MORE!", Flowey screeches. Spamton pauses for a moment as if confused, then laughs.
"OH YOU LITTLE [garden weed], THIS ISN'T ABOUT MY AMAZING DEALS! I'VE COME TO ANNOUNCE THAT ALPHYS AND THE [undefined genders] HAVE RETURNED!"
"Oh thank Go-"
"AND ARE CURRENTLY GETTING ATTACKED BY MALWARE!"
"... what?"
If Pietro goes back out of the room (with or without Flowey), he'll be able to see Kris
◊ and Frisk
◊ (with Chara
◊ floating behind them) through the window, having taken on a defensive stance. Alphys
◊ is on the street ground, not visibly hurt but definitely shaken.
And as for the 'malware', that turns out to be none other than a small group of Hubs
◊, all of them aiming their arm cannons at Kris, Frisk and Alphys.
Jack stops in place when Loki places his hand on him. He quickly camouflages the nightmare spike before using his formerly concealed hand to scratch behind his head, 'revealing' that he had nothing to hide.
"Well, if he's actually willing to stop fighting, I guess it's alright. Things didn't end up going badly, so let's let bygones be bygones." , he says, letting out a slightly awkward laugh. The winds now fully stop as well, giving some 'proof' to his words.
Nesley actually winces a bit when Glacies manages to hurt her own foot with her weapon.
"Well, I'm not gonna drop my bat 'cause I can't create bats out of nothing, but I'll strap it back to my backpack as my showing of good faith.", he says as he begins doing just that.
In Jack's mind, Pitch's eyes narrow. Nesley just disarmed himself thanks to Loki and Glacies de-escalating the situation. If only Pitch can get past Loki without him getting suspicious...
"Anyhow, Loki, Glacies, it's been a while since I've seen you both. How've you been?"
Edited by DevilPsyco on Apr 9th 2022 at 1:45:59 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.It's fine, haha! I forget about it from people! Anyway, hey, Jack! she walks up to him and shows the bag, apparently not noticing anything wrong. She does freezes slightly, but that seems to be because she walked so soon after dropping something heavy on her feet. It has shattered outright... until a bit of a walk allows it to draw cold from the ground to regenerate back.
I've got bagles! Let's eat. You all get one! She takes three bagles and shove two in Loki and Jack's hands before going off herself to bring the third to Nesley.
The bagle is cold and hard to the touch, like ice, and the food inside doesn't appear to drip or spill out. It's actual ice. She's using a remote ice body as a "teleportation" but forgot that she didn't actually teleport the bagles. They're just ice constructions.
...
Sarah jumps and... actually misses it, looking surprised that she did, yet pleased. She attempts to use the God Hand as a last resort, but it fails to stop it again.
Ahaha, nice kick! Here's mine!
She grabs the balls, throw it overhead and then does a bicycle wheel kick backwards, it's ambitious... but the ball smack into the sand without bouncing back, so Mark needs no effort to "stop" it.
oh says Sarah, after doing a perfect landing, flipping her hair back as she expresses her profound grief.
Edited by Bolded1 on Apr 9th 2022 at 1:58:53 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterPietro nearly jumps out of his skin when Spamton suddenly enters the room and loudly announces his entrance. He takes a few breathes to relax his nerves... only for Spamton to then reveal that Alphys and Frisk/Chara were under attack.
"Oh, great."
Carrying Flowey with him, he dashes out the door to see the aforementioned pair cornered by a squad of Hub.
"How the freaking hell did they... never mind, things are probably gonna start making sense real quick."
He activates his Chaos Form
◊, cracks his neck, and blitzes into the fray before swinging a Chaos Warhammer at the Hubs.
"I've gotta say, after turning Ultron to dust with the Infinity Stones, smacking around Hubs kind of feels like a step down!"
"Oh, I've been well. Among other things, I learned that some massive conflict apparently devastated an entire bloody region when I wasn't looking." Loki replies, his smirk widening into a mischievous grin as he steps between Jack and Nesley. "What about you? Have you and Glacies finally stopped dancing around the matter and confessed your true feelings for one another?"
Then Glacies hands him a bagel, prompting him to raise an eyebrow in surprise.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Apr 9th 2022 at 5:14:30 AM
Since the Hubs obviously don't see Pietro coming, they all get whacked to the side of the street by his attack, harshly hitting the ground.
"O-oh, thank goodness, Pietro.", Alphys says as she gets up, looking relieved but also still nervous. Frisk shows a grateful smile.
"Right on time. They snuck up on us when we were on our way back from shopping for new parts for the robot body Alphys is creating.", Chara says. "That surprise attack put us back on equal footing."
- You point out that they're getting back up.
Chara's, Frisk's and Alphys' attention returns to the Hubs as they get back on their feet.
"I shouldn't be surprised that we couldn't get lucky."
"Is he taunting us?"
"I guess we should kick things up a notch."
More Hubs now teleport in, making for a total of ten. Flowey, still in his pot, looks up at Pietro.
"Got more bright comments to piss them off with?", he snarks. Good to see he's still Flowey.
Two Hubs change to Roll Soul
, skating towards Pietro while firing arrows from their arms. Six of the others go after the kids, and the final two set their sights on Alphys.
"Pietro, throw me down on the ground so that I can get out of this pot!", Flowey quickly says.
"I heard about that. I was instructed to stay away from it." , Jack says. He then looks unamused, his reaction implying it's because of Loki's comment. But in reality it's because Loki's standing in the way. Pitch figures by now that Loki knows something's up.
"Don't make me bonk you with my staff, Loki."
"'Bonk you with my staff'? That's not how I talk at all!", Jack says in his mind, actually feeling kind of insulted.
"It's how kids in general talk.", Pitch dismissively says. Jack groans.
"Are you just being hateful on purpose today?"
He then just stares as he's handed a bagel. Made of ice.
"Uh, thanks."
Nesley just looks at his bagel too. It's made of ice, so he can't exactly eat it.
"... so, like, am I supposed to lick it, or...?", Nesley asks.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Oh what the OOHHHHH No! I'll be coming to you with the real one! Hm! Just give me five minutes! Behave, please! Except Loki!
Despite everyone behaving, Glacies leaves on a mound of snow, surfing on it back to her real body. This... may be a bit of a win for Pitch, who now has one less obstacle for the next five minutes.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterT!Rhea gasps in shock as Kaminari gets swatted aside, slowly rising to his feet groggily.
In anticipation of Trainer throwing another ball, she recalls the Luxray and doesn't send out another Pokémon, leaving her alone on the field.
DB!Rhea and Amaterasu follow.
The Supreme Kai whistles appreciatively at the architecture, running a hand along a wall as she hovers just a foot off the ground. "Nice place you got here."
"This is the Arena," replies the round creature in a voice reminiscent of a teenager. It's somewhat similar to how Amy herself might sound if she were a few years older. That certainly doesn't make Star Knight's gender any easier to discern.
"A realm of combat, conflict, strife, peace, friendship, happiness."
Yamato
X reports, "Ma'am, we have a problem!"
Samus silently narrows her eyes. "Activate frontal shielding! Cannons, aim!"
—
Over on Polyphemus' side of the playing field, Myo sits quietly, sharpening a knife and awaiting her cue.
Witchmist Grove
Someone peers in on the scene from out of sight...
Edited by KiriK on Apr 9th 2022 at 7:59:49 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Unfortunately, Trainer rushes up to Rhea, clearly still under the impression that she's a rare specimen of pokémon. Battle and batter to lower HP before catch, yes?
He raises a fist, but pauses when no Typing flashes for an attack - the suit knows what she ain't.
Hypno hisses in disapproval from his shadow, and jerkily puppeteers his fist into going for her gut.
/\。。/\"I might have a few in mind."
Throwing Flowey's pot to the ground, Pietro whips up a Chaos Magic replica of Captain America's shield to block the oncoming arrows before hurling it towards the Hubs who fired on him. Then he opens fire on the clones antagonizing Alphys and Frisk/Chara with a Chaos Minigun.
"So what are you going after these guys for, Hub? Does Cyber seriously think a quirky kid and a harmless scientist pose some huge threat to his master plan, or was he just feeling really petty today?"
"Come on, it's not the end of the universe to have feelings for someone," Loki replies, a chuckle escaping his throat. "Don't tell me you somehow lost your sense of humor since our paths last crossed."
Flowey's pot shatters on the ground, allowing Flowey to burrow into the asphalt.
The thrown arrow simply disintegrates into data before it can hurt the Hub that shot it. Luckily Pietro's follow-up attack forces the Hub clones to stay at a distance from the others. Still, they do open fire on the kids, with one of the Hubs that attacked Pietro at first now switching to them as well.
Kris manages to defend himself against the shots with his shield, while Frisk tries to dodge to the best of their abilities, but eventually gets grazed against their leg, yelping as they fall on the ground. Flowey's vines shoot out of the ground and restrain the Hub clone that hit them though, preventing them from making a follow-up attack.
"Damnit. Frisk, switch with me! If your dodging doesn't work, we'll have to fight. And don't give me an excuse that we can show mercy, because we both know this guy's nuts!"
One Hub then looks at specifically Pietro.
"Jumping to conclusions, are we?" , he says as he suddenly switches to Double Soul
◊, revealing himself to be the main Hub instead of a clone.
"This wasn't an assigment. The other Assassins aren't interested in Alphys at all. She's already fulfilled her purpose by giving us a spare body to throw at you."
In a rare moment, Alphys looks genuinely angry that Hub dares to refer to Mettaton and the Assassins' blackmail in such a manner. Unfortunately for her there's not much she can do about it though, as two Hub clones take aim at her.
Hub shows Pietro a genuinely creepy smile as he raises his arm, about to try to shoot Pietro to death. In this powered-up form, he is very much capable of doing so.
Flowey pops up, about to intervene, only for one of the Hubs to go into Fire Soul
and launch flames at him, forcing him to retreat underground again. His only other option was getting burnt to a crisp.
"If Cyber wanted her dead, we'd have gone after her a long time ago. I'm here on my own accord. She humiliated me by escaping the first time around. So I'm going to finish what I started!"
The main Hub charges up his attack, begins to laugh sinisterly, and right as he's about to start firing on Pietro-
"H-HEY HeyheyHEY, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT!"
Spamton suddenly zooms up to the main Hub, grabs his charged-up arm cannon and starts shaking it like he's meeting a business partner. Hub is, understandably, very taken aback by this.
"What-"
"TODAY IS YOUR [lucky day], YOU [little grape]! HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU!"
He puts his arm around Hub's shoulder and gestures up at the sky, as if he's about to tell Hub something life-changing.
"FRIEND, YOU ARE CLOSING YOUR EYES TO [savings] YOU DON'T WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE! BUT YOU'RE LUCKY, VERY LUCKY, THAT I AM HERE!"
"W-who the hell are-" , Hub tries to say, now not only caught off guard, but also flustered as well. But Spamton doesn't let him speak.
"BECAUSE YOU SEE, NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A BIG SHOT! JUST SLIDE YOUR KROMER INTO THE SLOT!"
And with a slot, Spamton seems to mean his mouth, as his head grows big again and he keeps his mouth open. Hub pushes him away, stumbling back.
"What the hell!? Who is this freak!?"
Hub's confused state and Spamton's presence seem to affect the clones as well, as they stop focusing on their enemies and are now looking at Spamton. Just a happy side-effect from Spamton's incessant need to make deals with people? Or did Spamton purposely do this to help his allies out?
Regardless of which guess is true, this is the perfect moment for them to launch a counteroffensive.
Pitch silently curses to himself. He is not good at emulating a 'sense of humor'. At least one that isn't so dark that it'd confirm something's up. Jack tries to subtly wriggle free, hoping that Pitch won't notice.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you're outright rooting for a romance." , he replies with a small smirk. That should do the trick, Pitch figures.
Nesley and Jack then watch as Glacies surfs away.
"She's a weird one. But not in a bad way. She reminds me of some of the people back in Eagleland.", Nesley says as he crosses his arms.
Jack's eyes snap to Nesley. His back is turned, his attention is on the distant Glacies, he's not holding a weapon and with his arms crossed he can't quickly react. This is the moment!
"Pitch, don't-"
With one swift movement, he's suddenly on the other side of Loki, and by the time Loki will have turned around to see what's happening, Jack is already right behind Nesley, swinging the still camouflaged nightmare spike down towards the kid's neck, and when it hits-
poof
Loki won't see it due to the magic camouflage, but both Pitch and Jack stare in shock and confusion as they see the spike literally disintegrate upon touching the back of Nesley's neck, turning back into regular snow. As such, from Loki's perspective, Jack just moved around him to... pelt Nesley with a snowball.
Nesley yelps from the cold, then turns around with a perplexed expression.
"Did you just push a snowball into my neck?", he asks, voice breaking for a moment due to his surprise.
"... yes. It's payback." , Jack eventually answers, because whatever the reason for his attack's failure, the best thing he can do right now is pretend like it was never an attack to begin with.
Nesley looks annoyed, then rolls up some snow left over on the ground from the blizzard. He looks back at Jack with a grin.
"Y'know, payback or not, I don't like the cold. So..."
He conjures a psychic aura around the snowball, hardening it. Jack looks somewhat nervous, and-
"Alright, you can be in charge again.", Pitch says to Jack, instantly freeing him and pushing him forward. Jack resumes control over his body right in time to get pelted in the face by the hardened snowball, getting knocked on the ground as Nesley laughs victoriously.
Unlike Loki and Nesley though, the mysterious onlooker may have noticed that there was more to Jack's 'snowball prank' than meets the eye.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Jerky, uncontrolled motions or not, a gut punch is a gut punch. Rhea doubles over, clutching her stomach and gasping for air.
Star Knight waves dismissively. "It's an old, long-outdated name, but nobody has a better simple name for it."
Ascended Fjorm bursts onto the scene, about to intercept Pitch's Back Stab... only to stop and backpedal as "Jack"'s attack proves harmless, sheepishly lowering her frost axe.
"O-oh, please excuse my disruption."
For one reason or another, she doesn't really take note of the fact that it was clearly intended to be much deadlier than it ended up being.
Edited by KiriK on Apr 9th 2022 at 8:39:35 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""Oh"
Amy said, feeling a little awkward now
"Can you give my directions to-"
She cut herself off, she had absolutely nowhere to go, and no idea where to start
"Do you know where a newcomer should go? Or where to leave? I need to get back to sonic and the others"
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes

Rhea goes reeling back from the blow, landing on her ass as her hat flies off. Kaminari catches it for her.
"Grrr... Agile Bite!"
Moving with speed and grace, the Luxray tries to chomp down on Trainer, and if successful it will get to move again before he can even try to respond, using Crunch to chomp down harder.
"... I'm curious." Vera puts a hand on Suzuki's forehead, channeling energy to seal Suzuki's abilities, before channeling it again to jolt her awake.
The racing game is like a Hot Wheels track where the toy cars just go down a set path, but mixed with a remote-control element. The cars are motorized, their acceleration is remote-controlled, and they have customizable parts to tweak things like speed and maneuverability.
Hub Centralis
Star Knight sits on a bench, listening in on the pink hedgehog's mumblings.
Edited by KiriK on Apr 9th 2022 at 5:35:29 AM
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