"Yes, and I plan to ride that vendetta as long as possible. Laxin, like all Sith, is a slave to his emotions."
He said, thinking for a moment. His eyes light up,
"Perhaps it's time to turn that hate against him. I fear if we wait too much longer, his power will grow more, and with his fleet crippled, we may stand a chance."
He said, a hopeful tone in his voice.
The rifle's fractured fragments morph into small white boxy pieces. The result of breaking that kind of weapon apart. The man does not listen much to the lizardman in breathing range. But the men nearby do — like tireless students in a lecture. Being left to assume that this speech scare tactic more than anything of significance after the unnamed man grunts and rolls in the ground in pain as his wrist is effectively snapped like a twig... Yet, they're left at the offer of a satisfactory death.
They do as said and hand him a gun, the ones remaining already glued on fighting for their country till the end unlike the ones gone. They feel confused by his offer, thanks to it boosting morale.
While no verbal response, it's clear they're all determined to end their fight, right here right now. Aiming their rifles — and pistol for the one without a weapon at Kroq-gar. All of them taking a moment before relentlessly opening fire once more.
All of the fighters rely on radar to some extent or another. Making them confused as Tiktaq'to stopped in the air, quickly seeing the reason why as their wings don't fare well in the chaotic vortex generated. Causing heavy turbulence for the pilot before they're made to eject and parachute out, the man-made turbulence being too much.
Meanwhile the other fighters were relatively busy trying to get a good position to engage Zwuup, encircling and firing them once they get in the middle of the formation. The reliance on radar made clear as the pinkish blot of foam mildly affects their flight. Still continuing to fire till it slowly starts bogging down to a nosedive. Their ejector seat rendered unusable as the plane blows up when it crashes. The remaining aircraft performing a maneuver to switch formation as they decide to engage, one of them shooting missiles at the flying pair — for each of them, whilst the others continue the usual gunfire. All of them not trying to overstep each others flanks, friendly fire is a scary thing.
3/5 fighters remaining. Still 1 chopper, which is put to use once again as the speaker audibly laughs when Tiktaq'to answered.
realI know not, but act to your best abilities, my friend! And I shall be able to undo what happened to the two ghosts once we find them, with my magic being as powerful as it is! she gestures at the other Eves in the room.
They will help and assist you. Why, perhaps later, you could... oh, wait, she grabs a bottle of ketchup and hand it over. here she says, much more casually than usual.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"You think we should launch an attack on Laxin's forces so soon? Wouldn't he see us coming from parsecs away?" Ben asks, raising an eyebrow. "He still has his monsters and perhaps other horrors we haven't seen yet. I thought you said we would need to be prepared when it comes time to face him again."
He looks out across Skyrim's vast landscape.
"His army is scattered across this place, and his fleet is crippled. I saw his capital ship nearly destroyed, and he can't have recouped his losses from that battle so quickly."
He said, looking out to the wider Skyrim with Ben.
"The clones haven't picked up any Imperial communications in Skyrim, so they are not as widespread as I had believed. Laxin's resources are not endless, and the Empire is fighting a war with the Republic."
He paused for a moment.
"With his fleet crippled, forces stretched thin, and he's fighting a war on two fronts, he'll be forced to face us himself."
Hub Centralis - Unnamed building on the outskirts
Icarus is back with his favourite construction mech. There have been a couple of security updates to the brain simulation software in the past days, which aimed to make it way more difficult to read the simulation, but since they were written very hastily, the software still has plenty of bugs in it, which make it unsafe to use. Supposedly, there should be another patch today that's supposed to squash all of the bugs - Icarus doesn't get his hopes up that all of the bugs will be gone, but he does hope that the update will make the encrypted mode safe to use and protect him against potential mind-readers. Maybe keeping a mech's computer in another universe than the body is a functional workaround, but it does require using identity crystals as scintillators or structural parts, and having an unpredictable third party come across an identity crystal is... problematic, to say the least.
All those thoughts go through his head as he slowly approaches a landing spot in an empty parking lot, in front of a well-decorated red-and-white building at the south edge of Hub Centralis. This building might pass for a mall, what with its modern, unusual facade, but it's very clearly missing a sign above the main entrance...
What should this building be called? Dynamic Battlegrounds? Dynamic Arena? The "dynamic" part certainly fits its internal workings, and an alliteration would point to "Dynamic Dojo", but that name was just a little too whimsical for Icarus' taste, so he had decided to take down the original sign previously.
Shifting Stage? ... Now we're going for Super Mario levels of whimsicalness. Screw it, Dynamic Battlegrounds it is.
A matching glowing sign quickly gets placed above the entrance, and the robot marches inside to look for more things to improve.
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong."We believed that we could infiltrate and exfiltrate his Star Destroyer undetected, and Discharge paid for our mistake with his life. What's more, he died for nothing, because Wrustoiz had already escaped by the time we made it onboard. You could be wrong about this as well," Ben replies. "For all we know, we might end up charging headfirst into the jaws of his Force-sensitive war beasts. Laxin isn't a fool, Master. Even if you're right about this damage to his flagship, he'll know we might try to strike and he'll be more than ready to have every last one of us slaughtered."
He shakes his head.
"We need to be prepared, and we're not. I'm not. Attacking now would likely be a suicide mission."
"Geez, what kind of kid are you?" , Monty asks, seemingly intimidated by Sunny's glare.
The crocodile sees what Sunny's about to do though, and despite how crazy that plan sounds, Monty's decided to take no risks. He moves his other hand to try to stop S-
Gregory immediately shoots Monty in the eyes with the Fazerblaster, stunning him and preventing him from stopping Sunny. As such, Monty gets stabbed in the back of his hand, roars and lets go of him.
Freddy then goes for a Full Nelson to restrain Monty.
"Stop this, please! I do not want you to get hurt!"
Monty, at this point, is just growling at Freddy as he tries to wrestle himself free.
Chica now comes in and tries to grab Sunny by his wrists. If she can't make him drop the knife, she figures restraining his movements so that he can't stab anyone would work better.
"Hold still, boy."
Roxy looks around, growling.
"I don't know what stabbed me in the back just now, but whatever it is, I'll get that too!"
She looks around and sees Evan glow. Her special eyes are alerting her to something about him, so she immediately lunges for him.
Then, however, something runs into the alleyway from behind Freddy and Monty, past everyone else, and suddenly tackles Roxy to the ground. Gregory, Evan and the animatronics turn to look, with Roxy looking up at the lapine-shaped robot currently attacking her.
"Bonnie!? What are you doing!?" , she yells as she kicks her assailant off of her. Once she gets up though, she sees that it's not quite Glamrock Bonnie standing there.
Rather, it's Miketrap, who's glaring daggers at her.
"Mike! Be careful!", Evan says to him, worried. He doesn't know how well he'll be able to fight with his decrepit animatronic body. The main reason he'd been such trouble when they fought was because Mike was powered up by some weird soul stuff.
Miketrap shrieks at Roxy, upon which the Phantom Animatronics form and start swarming her.
"What the-"
"Weak."
"Pathetic."
"So bad."
The Phantoms start whispering demeaning words to Roxy as they fly around her. Naturally, this pisses her off, and she grabs the trash can Chica had been about to use earlier, slamming it all around her to drive the spirits away.
"DON'T YOU INSULT ME! I'M ROXANNE WOLF! I'm the best! The best, you hear!? THE BEST-"
While the Phantoms get dealt with thanks to Roxy's enraged thrashing about, Miketrap seizes this opportunity to grab Roxy by her hair and full-on throw her into the nearest wall. Evan's just... kinda staring, understandably a little surprised at Mike's brutality. He must be really angry.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Pantheon of the Fallen Star
"What the FUCK IS THAT"
Collector Samus jumps away from REX with a flap of her wings to escape its rampage, then fires some basic pew-pew Power Beams at it from above.
The knife falls to the ground, as it was piercing through the back of Monty's hand before the gator let go of Sunny.
"One with nothing left but to-"
Sunny gets caught, but twists himself in a way bodies should not be able to move in order to look back at Chica.
"Die."
SOMETHING drips from his body, pooling on the ground in an amorphous mass. It engulfs his knife to make sure the animatronics can't take it while it's on the ground, then the boy himself swings backward to try and knock Chica away, using enough force to dislocate his own hands if he has to.
"Mike!" Charlie gasps, jumping in to try and block him.
"I don't know if you heard me earlier, but they're not acting the way they should. We don't need to completely destroy them just disable them!"
Edited by KiriK on Sep 2nd 2022 at 5:27:35 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Pantheon of dreams
Alika can only stare in absolute failure to process what she's seeing, before the avatar of REX squashes her flat with his 'blade'. pancake time
This would be survivable. She is a slime, after all.
... The ensuing blast is not. R.I.P. Little teal slimy bits go splattering everywhere or are just vaporized.
/\。。/\Charlie may not notice, but Evan seems to be distracted by something for a moment.
"What the-BAWK-" , Chica cries out when she gets knocked back. Sunny's wrists may hurt as a result, but he does manage to free himself.
As for Mike, he looks down at Charlie, mechanical eyes still filled with fury. Despite that, he does stop at her words.
"If they hurt Evan again-", he begins, though then he pauses when he notices Evan is gone. Before he can question it though, Roxanne jumps him and bashes him into a wall.
"You are NOTHING!" , she roars at Mike, about to claw at him... at least until her claw gets grabbed from behind. She turns her head with a glare, coming face to face with Golden Freddy
◊.
He jumpscares her, then a second Golden Freddy
◊ suddenly phases through the wall, slamming Roxy into a nearby garbage bin.
"We're still a pretty good team, huh?", Cassidy says as she looks at Evan. Evan lets out a happy (yet slightly disturbing due to his corrupted ghostly voice) chuckle.
"Yeah. Now do your thing."
"Heh, watch this!"
Cassidy!Golden Freddy suddenly seems to pixilate before disappearing into Roxy. The wolf animatronic's eyes begin to shine and she begins to shudder as if possessed.
"HEY! What're you brats doing to Roxy!?" , Monty roars as he pushes Freddy off of him. Golden Freddy turns to him.
"Turning her off."
Monty's remaining working eye glows red as he, at this point, full-on pushes past Gregory, rampaging towards Golden Freddy.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Sunny is staring at Monty, his pupil widening.
"S-Sunny...?"
He's not mad. Not worried or frustrated. Not confident, either.
He's an animal, and he sees prey.
He takes off, grabbing his knife out of SOMETHING and then using it as a springboard to land on Monty's shoulders from behind, holding a hand over his face to blind him.
If and when Monty reaches up to pry him off, he'll slash at the joints of Monty's wrists, trying to sever his hands.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Monty gets jumped quite literally, ending up moving exactly as Sunny planned. As such, the knife severs his claws.
"AAGH!" , Monty shrieks as he tries to shake Sunny off. Gregory has an 'oh damn' kind of expression on his face. Freddy, of course, looks worried.
"Monty, please!" , he pleads, not wanting their only solution to be destroying his friends.
Chica starts getting back up, but Mike, having freed himself from the wall, slams his hand on her head and slams her back down.
"Stay.", he growls.
In the meantime, Roxy forcibly retakes control of herself, though her eyes are still shining and her body is still shaking.
"GREGORY!" , she roars as she charges right at him now, going incredibly fast and startling the boy. Freddy moves to get in Roxy's way, but she may just end up ramming him aside if she reaches him.
"I'll take you up on that offer.", Varik says. "Best to not tire myself out before the big fight."
He hops on and waits for them to depart.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Sunny jumps off. Charlie takes on the form of Lefty to intercept Roxy and hold her back, but he capitalizes on this opportunity to lunge again, this time going for Roxy...
"Sunny... stop...! Stop... hurting them!"
"Not until I know you'll all be safe."
He once again jumps at the animatronic's back, but this time brings his knife right down at Roxy's face and drags it side-to-side to split her eyes open.
Magikarp used Bounce!
To escape Cadilloculus's certain-death crockets, the Nagoyakarp leaps into the air, entering the skybox and becoming a giant shape in the distance like a moon.
Edited by KiriK on Sep 2nd 2022 at 7:01:04 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Nobody's really capable of stopping Sunny right now, and as such his attack is successful.
"AAAAA-aaaaag-ZZT-нagнaaaaaaaa-"
It's a real mercy that she doesn't have to deal with it for too long, as Cassidy manages to switch her off, and Roxy collapses. A string of data jumps from Roxy into Monty, now beginning to work on shutting him off too.
Freddy crouches next to Roxy, looking devastated.
"I-it's okay, Freddy. She's not dead... right?"
"She is not... but it hurts to see her like this."
He sounds so heartbroken, and Gregory honestly feels guilty over the fact that he can't feel as bad for the other Glamrocks as Freddy does. Yeah, they're reprogrammed, but they've tried to kill him so many times, even coming all the way out here to finish the job... Gregory wonders if he's a terrible person, or if Freddy is just a saint.
Chica gasps upon seeing Roxy so damaged, and she suddenly lets out an electronically-disrupting shriek from her voice box. It stuns Glamrock Freddy, Monty (though not Cassidy), Evan and even Mike, allowing her to push her way up and past him. Since Charlie is currently in animatronic mode, it should also stun her, pretty much leaving Gregory and Sunny as the only ones not stunned.
"You'll pay for that!" , Chica shouts at Sunny, now charging directly at him. Clearly Sunny's threat level has overridden the protocol in Chica that would otherwise leave her unable to attack him.
"Look out!", Gregory shouts to Sunny, shooting at Chica with the Fazerblaster. To his shock, while he hits her in the face, she's so furious that she just doesn't care.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Charlie collapses, her brain currently unable to switch to organic form due to the stun jittering her.
Sunny simply watches... and waits.
As soon as Chica gets close, he slashes horizontally, angling it upwards to cut her neck open and expose her voice box.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Adam is hit by crockets, the mini-crit negligible because of their status. Being a tough boi, what'd be certain death "simply" throws him about, although he gets really scuffed, pieces of his armor being blown about. To his horror, that includes his pants, which are comically not as invincible as that article of clothing usually is.
T-this is humiliating! I-I'll kill you! But first! Blushing, Adam warps a fallen curtain from a nearby house around his waist, it dropping down to his ankles, and he begins to shout furiously over at Merasmus. I'm going to make you wish your universe invented birth control, you magus freak!
Preparing to blast off, Adam relents when he notices the curtain can't handle the speed; Instead, he pick up his sword and hold it overhead, seemingly preparing to slash the air at Merasmus...?
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterGregory gets scared at Sunny not moving. Without really thinking, he's about to try to pull him back by the back of his hospital gown in an attempt to save him.
His hand is literally inches away from Sunny when the knife-wielding boy slashes at Chica's neck with enough force to leave her voice box vulnerable. Chica backs off in shock, now vulnerable to a follow-up attack.
Now Gregory is also stunned, but it sure as hell isn't because of some EMP.
Thanks to Monty being stunned, Cassidy manages to turn him off much faster than Roxy. He collapses, and Cassidy makes her way towards Chica.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Wounded and faltered, just what Sunny needs. The boy jumps onto Chica's comically wide hips, reaching into her throat to rip her voice box out through the opening he's made like a Mortal Kombat fatality.
As Charlie recovers and switches back, she gasps in horror. This would be a lot scarier if Chica were human, but even with a robot it's frighteningly visceral.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Sunny's brutal attack works, and now Gregory looks just like Charlie expression-wise. In all honesty, he doesn't know whether to be impressed or terrified right now.
Granted, he would've done the same if he'd had to for his own safety, but still, seeing someone else do it is something else entirely.
Glamrock Chica backs off more, letting out loud, panicked garbled static. Curse these hips. Why couldn't she have been rotund as hell like other versions of Chica?
... oh, right. The fitness theme of her area. Well shit.
Freddy, now no longer stunned, stands back up, still looking horrified. Though who can blame him?
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Hub Centralis
With the end of summer fast approaching, the nights seemed ever colder, the rain making that ever more clear
and yet, despite that, illuminated by a street light, was sitting a small, green haired girl
Without anywhere to go, and her friends beyond busy, she found herself sitting in a bus shelter, typing away at whatever robotics project she was working on
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoesAs per the rule of dramatic timing, Cassidy successfully shuts Chica off right after Sunny says that. She emerges again, reforming into Golden Freddy, then back into her usual self.
Evan turns back to normal too. The two look at the Glamrocks, both not really knowing what to think, though being relieved that it's over.
"Ev?", Miketrap asks as he walks over to him. "Are you alright?"
Cassidy and Evan look up at him for a moment. The latter averts his eyes, though mumbles what sounds like a 'thanks, Mikey' under his breath.
And credit where credit is due, Cassidy doesn't make a big deal out of anything, instead choosing to stay quiet and observe.
Gregory is very relieved too, but also a little concerned about Freddy. He looks up at him, but he can't quite see the bear animatronic's expression from where he's standing.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.

"Mhm"
Kanan holds onto her shoulder as they phase through, landing smoothly as he lands without trouble, chuckling as he quickly gets to work. The stove turning on with a flick of his finger on the knobs — performing psuedo-telekinesis by duplicating the air on his hands.
"Gotcha"
He grabs a nearby pan and puts it on the stove, adding some amount of oil to it as he places the fish — which has been seasoned with some salt and pepper. Intending to pan fry the fish whole. Flipping it over every few moments using his knife and slicing a small portion open to check the condition of the meat as the moments pass.
"Ketchup'll work on this... Prolly. So, how much time's gotta be crunched right now?"
Edited by BoniniBanana on Sep 3rd 2022 at 12:34:28 AM
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