Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

Irkingthand

Nakai would shake his head no at the prospect of payment. Nakai seemed somewhat distraught himself, his jaws partially opened as he panted, his eyes looking back from whence they had left the cave. His demeanor spoke volumes: he wished to see an end to this.

"Nnnnnooooo nnnneeeeeed... I... Wisssssh I couuulllddd of heeellllpppeddd.... Mmmmorrrrre..."

He motioned to Luin, snapping jaws now as he took a knee, lowering his crest in respect towards the Rider. Before raising his head again to speak to Luin.

"I wiiiissshhh ttttooooo accccommmpppaaannnyyy youuuu... Ssssooo thaaaaattttt wheeennn the Elder rrrreeeeeturrrrnnnns... I'm reaaaaadddyyy..."

Astil Ruins

The Naoalli was rather impressed at who was given to him willingly. It would show minor signs of amusement as the energies coursed through it flared in strange golden and green colors, flickering sprites of silver static coming from the system as it looked the Kai up and down.

"You are... Sufficient. The purpose of this construct is to harness both Geomantic and Stellar energies. To unite earth with the heavens. This is where I can safely make the next wave of Lizardmen to fulfill the great plan, and aid in the defense of this world. The magic here is potent and thick, but unruly. This temple shall be a Nexus to sow order back into it, so that it can be arranged as fine tapestry, easy to cut and place. This temple design, is essential to the design.

He would project the Internal layering◊, showing the many floors, and for the ship to be built into the lowest level, all of which upon a blue hologram. The Naoalli would project another schematic, the Exterior Design.◊ Which seemed to be situated in the heart of a collosal city system built with the land, as opposed to complete destruction of the surrounding jungle and ruins.

Edited by ArbiterOfTheBog on Apr 16th 2022 at 4:16:59 AM

Green keeps the meat stick in her mouth to as she leaps into the air to ram Luffy with her strangely sharp crown. Not seeing Luffy abruptly stop however she starts rapidly flapping her arms before crashing against the ground. Head stuck.

Digging her head out of the ground her eyes lay on Zeeroe who's putting on bandages. She gives a strange thumbs-up of approval before sitting to nom again.

"Instincts take over like that when I see something delicious! Friends stop me but they ain't here!"

Rhea studies the schematics. "Hoo... that's quite a complex design. Can't just snap that into existence. But I can make it - piece by piece, if I have to."

"Ammy here will lend her help. Won't you, Ammy?"

Rhea looks over for reassurance, and Amaterasu barks, wagging her tail.

"Thanks, guys." Rhea turns back to face the Naoalli. "So, where should the center be? Gotta know where to center the structure."

"... Can you stop associating me with bad things?" Zeeroe asks Oca, smiling nervously. She is now actively trying to ignore Luffy and Green.

—

Katre's eye twitches. She backhands the rocks away with her full strength, the shockwaves clearing away the dust. "... You're doing what Zeeroe did after she got a bite of me. Mimicking my moves. Stop it, or I stop fighting. Now."

"Huh... did either of you boys know she copies people or am I not the only one in the dark about her?" Nicole remarks, tapping her fingers against the pommel of Olympus' Wrath.

"I haven't seen her fight before so there wasn't anything to notice yet, but now that you mention it...", Demo mutters.

Yuno meanwhile blinks, confused at Katre's reaction to something.

"What? Why are you angry? I'm not mimicking you."

"Well, you... kinda are.", Demo points out from the 'spectators stand'. Yuno looks back at him for a moment.

"I am?"

He nods. Argo continues to look worried. Yuno looks back at Katre, then calls out to her.

"Sorry! I'll fight like someone else I've met then!"

She digs the front of her feet into the ground for a moment, leaning forward as if preparing to launch herself towards Katre.

And then she does exactly that, moving much faster than most would anticipate. She aims to deliver a powerful punch to Katre's stomach, and if that stuns her at least, Yuno will follow up with a winding punch to send her flying into some nearby rocks.

Demo tilts his head. Someone who Yuno's met who fights like that? ... Neuff? No, it looks visually different from how Neuff fights. He can't really think of who she might be talking about.

Argo, while obviously still worried, does look surprised for a moment when Yuno moves so much faster than she's moved prior to this moment.

That's cool! Who's in your crew? Luffy helps Greene out and sit down to eat, engrossed in the conversation.

Oca looks like he's holding back from saying something that could be insulting.

"... Okay."

That's character growth, baby! A few years ago, he would not have hesitated at all to call her a pussy.

*sips*

"You want a healing drink? They're fruity."

Tae looks between Ash and Mei once she plops to the floor.

"Bgruh... grahmbaba!" she says, pointing at Ash. Translation: HAMBORGAR!

Digguh is crushed by a rock. The rest of the beasts have wised up and abandoned their pursuit of the blue creature, leaving him without an offense to employ.

"Oh... Oh no... what do I do now?" The creature looks around, before settling on none other than the Mutant Child. Arcs of light stream from his body and flow into the Mutant Child, making the pollution-powered boy even stronger (but not bigger).

—

Ash pouts. "For your information, though I may resemble a boviform, and I do sacrifice my health and wellbeing for my people, I am not the kind of cattle you can eat! I am an attendant of Lord Askr's divine grace!"

Green starts an excited ramble with the fellow meat eater. Her food being chewed and swallowed as she talks.

"Well it's more like friends than a crew, there's no captain! They're all strong in their own ways except for Nick who's Pathetic for someone who says they lead the group! Mark knows this so both of them always get into fights when we split up! he firehead's with me and Reiss while Nick's with Amy and Potato! I dunno who sleepyhead sided with though!"

She pauses for a bit and remembers a tiny detail she forgot to mention.

"But that was a few months ago before this place, I know Mark's in hot pursuit but I wanna be with them when we punch God really hard!"

Skyrim

Seresthene ignores the marines, exiting the cave. Where her adventures are to bring her next, nobody knows. But it is clear to her that she'll be made to fight once more.

Also Skyrim

Luin seemed thankful for the Crazy Musician's attempts to comfort her, but was already focused on the two newcomers. She was instantly defensive, until she saw a familiar face amongst them: A man, one of the ones who had been there when she battled the Annihilation Nergigante for the very first time.

Oh, she had thought she was young then. Inexperienced. Weak. But after the events of the previous hour, Luin realized she was every bit as weak and as pathetic as the first day she had set foot in these lands. Maybe even more so. It was her inexperience, her utter arrogance and stupidity that had brought her to lead her very own into battle and, as a result, their deaths. Lutemis, the Nargacuga, and the Gore Magala back at home were all that she had left.

Nakai, the poor, undeserving, crocodile man was the straw that broke the Tetranodon's back.

When he had spoke, she was dead silent for a moment, and spoke.

"Returns? Returns? When that… that fucking thing returns, I'm turning right around and I'm running. What you saw today was not the first time it stole lives from me. And if I fight it again, it sure as hell won't be the last. You might have not been prepared, but I was. I knew, I knew somewhere, deep down, that it would be here today, and I made every preperation for that possibilty, and look what happened as a result of my…of my sad attempt at being ready. It didn't make a goddamn difference. So you can go back after it if you want, but me?" Luin made a motion of washing her hands, wincing as she did so and quitting as soon as a stray finger grazed the injuries on her arm. "I'm done." She took a breath to calm herself, looking to a nearby wall. "I'm sorry, Nakai. Those words weren't necessary…but they stand true. Annihilation Nergigante…the fighting…putting the lives of my monsters in jeopardy…I'm through. And for what it's worth, I'm sorry about your own monster." She apologized, referring of course to the sea leviathan that had helped them during the battle. Seeing that it appeared in conjunction with an action that Nakai had performed, she assumed it was his.

The Rider was too distraught to thank Amy, or to notice the elevator lowering, something on the other side pulling the lever.

Hub Centralis

Atlas is thrown from the top of the building-mech and onto the ground. With a roar from Arad to pump himself up, Atlas swings punches at the air in the direction of the mech. It's not exactly certain what it is he's doing, until large boulders shoot up from the now ruined ground and towards the mech.

Pyratbriån Docks, Tropique

Rebecca grinned, and laughed as she spoke.

"Ta find and take his treasure, of course!" She fell back in the swivel chair at the table, leaning back in it and crossing her legs on top of the table, putting both arms behind her head. "What other reason would people like us have? Eh, regardless, my men are setting sail as we speak, but I have to be sure-You two are in this? The treasure'll be split four ways-A quarter for the boys on this ship, and quarter for each of us troublemakers. Sound good?"

Estraolean Forest

Two giant bears were duking it out in a heavily wooded area, making a general commotion. While the one with what looked like body paint was far larger that the other, looking to be around the size of an elephant, the one with a ringed pattern on it's chest seemed to be more generally capable in terms of power.

Forest in Estraole

Battle! Wild Pokémon - Pokémon Legends Arceus

Ursaluna, the more 'raw strength' one, makes an awful bellow-howl and stomps the ground, creating Ground Waves to try and trip up and slow its foe with the move Bulldoze.

Edited by KiriK on Apr 16th 2022 at 8:35:17 AM

Estraole Forest

The Good Hunter is menacingly strolling the way of the BIG BEARS. It's not like they even attack or prepare to madly roll: they walk, letting their long coats breeze to the wind.

...

Sarah nods and smiles. Off to see you later! And invite me if you lead a game there!

With that, she TP off!

Edited by Bolded1 on Apr 16th 2022 at 3:42:08 PM

Skyrim

The Crazy Musician is left wordless after hearing Luin and Nakai. That beast has taken too many lives from her, and it could be back soon. No hug could comfort her now.

But he talked: I can help. But it could take sone time to prepare, and maybe find some allies.

Rebecca's ship

Drake, making calculations, thinks he and his two allies will win more than her minions. I agree, Milady.

Meilin

She takes her panda form. I can't believe it! There is another woman who is an animal too!

Meilin addresses the LEGENDARY zombie girl: Sorry, girl. This is not your lunch.

Mecha-Palace

The boulders, altough damaging the Palace, does nothing to stop its rumble, and it's almost freed from the ground.

Meanwhile, the Mutant Child feels the strenght granted by Elfilin flowing by each vein of his body, and he smiles at they. In this moment, he hears a voice:

   Hey, child! Can you hear me?   

Is Ecoloco, along with Gregoria and Mukade, who got out from the sewers, being disturbed by the mecha's rumble.

   I got an idea; hear me...   

Ecoloco whispers into the child's ear. He nods.

Mukade! Armor guy! Could you try to hold that palace still on its place? I'm gonna do something to stop it already!

He says it while walking backwards, as if taking impulse for something, and absorbing Ecoloco's pollution to grow even more big.

Edited by BombonBombin on Apr 16th 2022 at 8:59:20 AM

"Some treasure is better than no treasure, yeah? I'm in as in can be!" Red says with gusto, clapping his hands together.

"Biwagahgbwah!"

Translation: "BITE ME".

She just looks at the two of them, before slowly approaching Ash again. It is NOT AN ATTACK. She is not GOING FAST. SLOWLY APPROACH THE COW.

...

NOM!

"Fruity? I'd love a drink, then!"

Zeeroe idly tunes back in to Luffy and Green's talk.

—

Katre gets stunned and smashed into a rock formation, which promptly collapses on top of her. With a roar that echoes over the mountain range, she unleashes an explosion to free herself from the rubble a la Armstrong.

She then pulls out a fucking shotgun and shoots Yuno. At their power levels, this will do nothing except maybe startle and slightly scrape or bruise any unarmored parts, but the point is just to catch her off-guard.

The real attack comes when Katre flips the shotgun to hold it by the barrel and rushes in to smash it on Yuno's head. It's not made of any Earthly metal, but something far tougher, and Katre's swinging with enough force to break it, so this could concuss Yuno something fierce. However, hit or miss, the rear end of the shotgun impacting with either Yuno or the ground sets it off in Katre's face, making her reel back afterwards.

The creature flies up high where he thinks it'll be safe. He's given the Mutant Child a power boost, not much else he can do. Not without depleting his already limited stamina.

"As I just explained, I am not truly just an ordinary cow. My origins are divine, and-"

Ash is ready this time, and she sticks out her staff, resulting in Tae chomping down on a magical cowbell. If the zombie idol could still feel pain, her teeth would be superkilling her right now.

Edited by KiriK on Apr 16th 2022 at 10:01:51 AM

Estraole Forest

It was a fine day in the forest for a walk, Ara thought to herself before stumbling on two bears fighting eachother.

Outstanding. Eridani was going to laugh at her in... three, two, one...

...Oh, she didn't laugh at her, how about that. Thinking about it, she never had laughed at her in the past, so the expectation didn't really come grounded in reality. Then again, these things rarely do.

Oh! But yes, it might be best to explain what Ara is doing... not about to fight Z999 in a swamp in Astil. Well, you see. Chronologically speaking, for her, that has already happened. Sort of. The event is... well, we'll say it winds up not interacting with time in a way we mere mortals can particularly wrap our heads around, but for all intents and purposes yeah it already happened for her. In fact, that was some time ago for her!

She is newly equipped, wielding a glittering Starfury and a set of peculiar metal armor of similar texture and color to polished tungsten, though a whole lot more green. It is very alien-looking, machine-like and over-engineered, but not particularly elegant. It covers her entire body, actually, making it difficult to tell she is a wholly organic, regular person rather than some manner of machine.

The first thing she does, seeing these bears fight eachother and The Good Hunter strolling up to do god-knows what?

...Wait, of course!

It's not like she's willing to attack two perfectly innocent albeit evidently violent creatures just because of their own personal disputes.

"What are you doing?", whispers Eridani to Ara through whatever manner of connection they have, because really, what is she doing?

Ara shrugs, because oh boy, she has no idea.

"Okay, she definitely copied Pietro just now. Who else could move that friggin' fast?" Nicole says. "Your sister's got a helluva lot of explaining to do after this, guys. Just another reason this had better end fast..."

"Wait, I don't remember, has Yuno even met Pietr-oh my god!"

The bullet hits Yuno, and for just the briefest of moments it seems her armor shines dimly. Very dimly, it's genuinely difficult to notice any difference.

Regardless, Yuno's merely stunned, but then gets bonked by the shotgun's barrel, falling on her behind and rubbing the top of her head with a comically hurt expression on her face.

"Ow, ow, it still hurts!"

Argo would be panicking from what just happened, but Yuno's reaction and Katre's plan kinda backfiring leaves him very confused on how he should respond to this. Demo as well.

"... She takes Katre's restrained but still powerful attacks without complaining, but getting hit on the head elicits a reaction?", he asks.

"W-well, I think we should really put a stop to this fight now.", Argo says. "I don't know how Katre's gonna take what just happened."

"Yeah, I'm getting a chain ready.", Demo says as he starts moving his arms. "Create a double and have it be ready to shield Yuno if Katre loses her patience. I don't think she'll actively try to go for a kill, but if she doesn't think about holding back she may do it by accident."

"R-right!", Argo says, stammering a little. Still so unlike him, Demo thinks to himself as he creates chains over his arms. Usually he'd just get angry, Demo's never seen him this... extremely but also rationally frightened before.

sisterz

Oca tosses her a full can of HP Drink 50 - it should fill her up a bit.

"You don't mind if I scan your braincase, neh? I'll get some of the other Sisters later so I can cross-reference."

Dawn (not that Dawn!) shows up, and looks over the bears.

"|/\/•|\•/\?"

She licks her lips and like, grabs a stick off the floor. Bear meat!

Estraole

The sizable Runebear flinches back and howls, feeling the earth tremble underfeet and finds that it is somewhat slowed. Regardless, it shoots forwards, aiming to politely separate its foe's guts from its body. Halfway there, though, it freezes. Slowly, its head arcs in the direction of the three new presences here, and without a moment's hesitation, abandons this battle temporarily for a midfight snack. It slams it's paw down onto the area where Dawn stands, arcing the rest of it's body around to bulldoze Eridani.

Meanwhile, in some nearby bushes, a blind lady watches (er…listens? Senses?) in horror as her dastardly plan to allow these two targets to destroy eachother is foiled by the appearance of the three newcomers. Groaning out loud, she jumps out from the bushes and whips one of the chains around her arms at the Ursalana, deciding to let the Runebear be distracted by the interlopers while she dealt with the smaller, yet equally powerful one.

Pyratbriån Docks

"Aye, perfect! And, uh, there's no need to call me that, lobster. I'm no lady." She spoke to Drake. "Just call me Rebecca."

"Well, then I suppose we'll be-"

Before Rebecca could finish, the ship lurched forwards, causing her to fall backwards in her chair.

"…Off." She finished as she got to her feet, patting herself off. The pirate cleared her throat and approached the door to the quarters. Once she exited-

"Oh, one last thing before I head the helm-You should meet someone." She waved at the man in the crow's nest, beckoning him down. Heeding this, he took hold of a rope and swung onto the deck, landing on his feet with an "umph". "This is Ed. My brother."

The man grinned and stuck his hand out. "So, y'two are the ones my sister hired for this fool's errand?"

——

Hub Centralis

Under the assumption that he was the "armor guy", Atlas nodded (well, as much as a neckless being could nod) and mustered up a large sum of energy, before stomping the ground and creating a powerful shockwave. From the earth around the palace, walls of rock and stone would emerge and attempt to surround the legs of the mech to keep it in place.

Edited by ISZATSO on Apr 17th 2022 at 1:54:04 AM

Noble Ursaluna notices the intruders, but he doesn't move. The chain strikes him, but glances off his peat-covered body. With a bestial groan, he slllooooooowllly turns to face his attacker.

Ursaluna used Baby-Doll Eyes!

He gives Seresthene a big wide doe-eyed look, compelling her by not-quite-natural means into softening her heart. If successful, her attacks against Ursaluna will be weaker.

Edited by KiriK on Apr 17th 2022 at 4:06:34 AM

Rebecca's ship

And you can call me Drake, not lobs... Ah, my suit.

Drake tumbled forwards, and tripped on the floor. He stood up, and greeted Ed.

Well, yes, altough I could say I was in the correct time and place.

Meilin

Regardless if Tae munches the cowbell or not, she will slap the zombie girl with her fluffy tail, trying to push her aside.

Cool! My panda also has a divine origin!... More or less. One of my ancestors summoned a panda to help her to protect her village, and all of her female descendants inherited the power!

Mecha-Palace

Mula Dynamaxed out, and wrapped the Mecha-Palace, keeping it on its place with help of Atlas.

And now the Mutant Child, already doubling the palace height, and with a sickly green glow because of Elfilin's powers, ran to kick the Palace away to the sky!

...And this is a touchdown!

"I'll be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack...!"

Phew... Thank you, guys. The city is saved again. But how many time...?

The Arena Space

The Mecha-Palace is sent flying at a meteorical speed through the space... Until it crashes against the head of yet another Brother Moon, who was floating slowly towards the Arena, and causing them to explode, with fireworks-like sparks forming the face of the Mutant Child, visible from the Arena.

Some random building in Hub Centralis

Morgan is curled up in a living room, swaddled in a blanket like a cocoon. Her health certainly hasn't shown much improvement - that can be chalked up to being afraid of Refia's 'gift' failing on her and just continually defaulting to what she knows is safe to eat, which still isn't enough to be nourishing.

Jenkyovposting — The Return

"Ah, wondeful! Finally, something big enough to justify using a gravity incantation!"

Syana reached out her hands as spell-circles formed around them, and around her feet. At the same time, a two much larger spell-sigils formed above and below the hammer-wielding machine, suggesting a cylinder of an equal height. Syana waited, feeling the pulse of gravitons as they shifted with the flow of space, and, much more subtly, as they were disrupted by the movement of mass from the other fighters. When the time was right, she raised up her arms, made a grasping motion, and yanked down on the very flow of gravity itself as she incanted her magic.

"[Boosted Maximize Magic: Astral Crush]!"

If successful, the mech would find itself subject to a rapid-magnifying gravitational force, growing to such an extent that it may very well start threatening to crush the thing to the ground, even as it stood there.

Borrowed Abode

"... You sure you don't want anything to eat?", Victor asked, with a genuine concern for Morgan evident in his voice. "I could try and call up Refia, if you aren't sure if it'll stay...?"

Edited by OmegaShadowcry on Apr 17th 2022 at 6:30:05 AM