it's hunting season
Tropique — Context
A small unmanned helicopter — housing Erika and Izawano — flies and approaches the battlefield from far above with Emma flying right beside it. As they begin reaching the landing zone Lucas radios in.
"Commander to First and Second Lieutenant do you copy?"
"Yes Commander."
"Loud and clear"
"Reinforcements won't be available for this mission. We cannot risk diverting the current Lizardmen forces to another who they consider the enemy. The best I can personally provide is orbital bombardment. Rendezvous to Izawano's compatriots if present and ensure his psyche isn't harmed by this 'Dark Side' the Sith can exude, out."
"understood"
Sith Academy
"Hey, Izawano, can you find where your friends are? We'll join up with them shortly."
Emma and the chopper stop once she gets within sniping distance of Laxin. As she was about to aim right at the Sith Lord's head, the storm he quite literally brews up catches both of them off guard and disorients them for a moment. This makes it nigh-impossible for her to aim, and even harder for the chopper to land properly.
"M-Maybe not too shortly, you okay there buddy?"
Meanwhile, Emma's rifle materializes and begins to charge brightly as she gets ready to fire. Erika decides to perch out a little and spot for her.
"Someone's combating Laxin, target the mages around him."
"Typical mages, I'LL BLAST YOU ALL TO PIECES!!"
Instead of a single-shot blast, she opens fire a rain of energy bullets for vague area that the nearby sith are located. Despite the split in power; the sheer size, firepower, and quantity present makes it seem like there are starfighters en-route bombarding through the storm.
Pantheon
Green backs up and decides to do what she do best to finish it all up
Edited by BoniniBanana on Jul 3rd 2023 at 12:43:12 AM
real
"Too slow." A pair of gray wings emerges from the Dragon Lord's back, propelling her into the air as the orb bursts below. "Martial Art: Void Cutter." She swings her halberd horizontally, launching a cleaving wave of air towards Baiken.
The good news is that with her being airborne, this might present an opportunity for Baiken to take her by surprise with that jump attack anyway.
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noʎ ǝʞɐɯ ʅʅᴉʍ I ʇnq pᴉɐɹⅎɐ ʇou ǝɹɐ noʎ
ʎʇdɯǝ os pʅoɔ os ɯɐ I
ǝɯ oʇ ʇᴉ ǝʌᴉƃ ʇᴉ ǝʌɐɥ ʇsnɯ I ʇᴉ ʇuɐʍ I ʇɥƃᴉʅ ɹnoʎ ǝⅎᴉʅ ɹnoʎ
Wails From The Void (Mob Psycho Advent)
What seems to be the leader of the shadows launches herself at Zenitsu, at a speed that nearly rivals his own, attempting to nail him with three consecutive slashes from her swords. If the attacks connect, Zenitsu will feel something peculiar. They don't seem to deal any tangible damage to his body. Instead, with every blow that connects he will feel the chill of the grave creep up on him, growing increasingly weaker, like his lifeforce was being drained out him.
Edited by Arachnos on Jul 2nd 2023 at 1:06:22 PM
[PASIO]
Tropique
DNP!Mewtwo quickly raises a hand, summoning a transparent barrier against which the Shadow Ball bursts apart.
[PROTECT]
Then, with a flick of a bulbous finger, the Poké Ball that it was released from cracks, crunches, and implodes in on itself, sparks flying until it resembles little more than a crushed flake of metal.
Red sighs.
"I AM NO SLAVE."
Oh then it flings the crushed ball at Mewtwo. Does that even count as a move, capital M? Probably not.
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Mewtwo looks briefly surprised by this, though quickly goes back to glaring and swings his arm, using a psychic force to deflect the incoming... 'attack'.
"Yet you accompany him?", he asks before doing a 'nothing personell', teleporting and reappearing behind DNP!Mewtwo and attempting to send it flying with a psychic burst.
"To be at peace with a human, I understand. But obeying his orders in battle?"
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jul 2nd 2023 at 8:51:49 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Divine Burden
YOU! YOU! YOOOUUUUU!
Even if she has to weaken her hand, the adhesive effect is still working pretty well against Dragaron, so she's able to keep him grounded pretty good as the others all go at him. Roaring in anger and disbelief, Dragaron sees Corrin aiming for his throat and gains a wicked idea, one born out of sheer desperation and cunning. Twisting his head slightly, he lets Einherjar female Corrin stab him in the cheek instead of the throat, and attempt to wrap the mud around her Yato. That way, his head is being pressed between two objects: Yato and Ms. Thingies's hand, which he knows she can dispel, so he's lucky that the next assaults are quick ones.
Bringing pieces of his head to different dimensions, and finding himself relieved to see that he isn't being punished for it, Dragaron is able to use this quick diversion to snarl and try to bat away the Einherjars, Corrin and Beruka. The latter two are blown back, the former being hit full-on as the later barely avoid, but Garon decides to especially get smart on this one, since he's very aware of Beruka having value to Corrin and vice-versa. Raising his hand, he quickly, almost desperately, fire a spike Beruka's way, hoping that Corrin will be forced to empale himself on it to protect her.
Instead, a recovering Corrin run in front of Beruka and punch the spike with his new hand, the large, dagger-sharp nail shattering on contact, tossing shards everywhere around Corrin as his new hand proves stronger and tougher than the spike, enough that Corrin at least has zero consequences to punching a giant knife his size or so. Thank you, Prince Corrin... What has happened to your hand? Beruka figures that there's a lot more she should ask but the hand is really bugging her. More than the giant mud dragon, somehow.
DIE! DIE! DIEEEEE!
I... uh... Corrin doesn't really know what to say. Instead, he decides that killing Garon should be his more pressing priority, himself giving little thoughts about his new hand... although he does look at it and grin after destroying the spike, even clenching it. He'll settle on what that is later.
Meanwhile, Starscream prepares to intercept Jeridan's manoeuver but find his lifeforce (he does have one, he's not a mere machine after all) interfered with. The substantial bounty of life energy is immense, such that they'd be fully healed had they decided to cast it at literally one hp, and it knocks Starscream out of the sky, the Decepticon screaming in shock as he find his very lifeforce being interfered with. He manages to land, but the experience is unsettling, enough that he's unusually silent as he attempts a last-ditch beam on the Frame.
NYUUUOOHHHHH!!!! WHAT ARE YA DOINNNGGGGGGGGG?!! Screams Foxy, screaming in shock and terror at the shit he's seeing -and, to his discomfort, participating in-.
This allows Jeridan to pull off his ballsy maneuver full-on, slamming his armor on Garon and causing it to explode on his face. This distracts the Corpse King but, for once, doesn't harm him. For it's a conventional explosion and all. So, while briefly dazed, Garon is able to quickly regain his footings. Luckily, the explosion's smoke cause his beam to go wayward, sailing over the rescuers's heads. Foxy freaks out, especially because he thought they'd be like floating away from the giant dragon!
Having already seen how game-breaking the beams are, Garon sacrifice a body part, raising his right arm and making it grow to become a shield of a sort, with which to endure the beam, leaving his actual body spared, if down a limb; Luckily, this distracts him from Whitesnake, whom he could see, but who goes unnoticed in all the chaos. As a result, the Stand does it! It plucks D 4 C free from Garon, snatching his DISC up and causing the Stand to be entirely lost to Garon.
As a result, he suddenly find himself ooching when he stop being able to dodge hits via its ability. And though the alternate selves don't vanish, it'll be probably easy enough to banish them back home. Or even just solve Garon's problem entirely by smacking into Garon into him, right? And Garon is immediately aware of this. Now unable to see Whitesnake, but being smart enough to remember that Jeridan and Pucci kept trying to grab for him, he quickly make a connection between their arrival and the immediate loss of his ability.
YOU DIE! YOU DIE! YOUUUU DIEEE! And Garon open up his mouth to launch another Fell Flame beam, but here comes Nicole with Siegfried, who slams the blade into Garon's big useless head and completely annihilate it, shooting a big crimson black beam through Garon's body, blowing a large hole into him and blowing his headless body back, causing it to fly backwards near the edge of the crater. Now completely unable to mount a counter-offensive, Garon's degrading-conscience still has a plan B: no one has really hurt his core so far, despite being very close to do so. And though his original body has fallen to pieces, with the Stand stolen and the damage impacting the core, he still has a shot at controlling what's ne-
A fucking spear. A fucking spear flies in and does what no one else could so far: it pierces right through Garon's core, causing him to screech in utter agony. Sure, every bit of damage done so far had helpled, and had it not been for Nicole's intervention, perhaps the eye could've had mass to conceal itself with, but this is truly the blow that rattles Garon to his core, his agony reverbrating through the city. The mudmen, after being blown back by Cardboard and Sawdust, instantly collapse back into formless mud, as Garon's conciousness vainly attempt to overcome the horrible pain that is currently shredding his very soul apart.
Flesh is a shield for the soul. Unless one use specific means, the flesh will always take the hits for the soul and shield it. Because the soul is a lot more vulnerable to damage and danger than the flesh actually is, no matter how frail it might seem. So, being speared in his actual soul is extremely painful for Garon. And the core even flickers a few times, reducing in size as it starts to flicker in and out quicker and quicker.
That would be his... soul, correct? No matter how loathsome the human, the sight of it fading away is a disagreeable one. Optimus muses. With the walls being wrecked by Morgan and Jeridan's explosion, there truly is nothing left between Garon's vulnerable, shriveled little core and his enemies. Who will see that, within it, there appears to be the original Bolverk, broken down to tiny pieces and Garon's skeletal upper body, with his arms, crown-wearing head and torso.
The Zulo Form's core is too small for any weapon to reach. I myself had to completely shred Samael's physical form to destroy it, Mikoto comments, making her way over to the group. For it to inflate to such massive size... Garon was a desperate one.
Let's just kill him, mom. Corrin grabs Yato and toss it like a Javelin; Salazar is likewise silent as he attempts to snipe it with a Vallite bullet. The others watch, certain that Garon is bound to die. You lose, Garon! I win! He says, the tone spiteful. And as he says this, Garon's core suddenly reignite.
And all the way back, a fat minute ago, Or look to the side, listening to Subaru's speech and shrugging. Don't we all go through these moments? Where we wish we could go back to simpler times? But the world doesn't care to cater to us that way. You would've seen such sights sooner or later, no matter how "perfect" your world would have been. I know this. I went through this.
This great darkness... it's everywhere. Such that you might not be able to see any light at the end of the tunnel for a long while, until you're really close to it. And you are close to that end, Or continues, staring at Subaru. Though one could think the speech inspirational, Or actually has little sympathy for Subaru. Even Nicole, flawed as she might be, didn't really think of it all as a game even before coming her.
And this reflects as Or's tone grows harsher, her eyebrows furrowing as she stares down at Subaru, pointing accusingly at her.But if you stop moving, you'll never get there. No matter how close you were. The tunnel is collapsing fast behind you and the only way forward is by moving your own two legs to get to the light. We, and the world, don't care about your excuses. Or what you thought this whole situation would turn out to be like. This is a journey that you've started. And one that you have to finish. Or else you'll die.
Just so you know, there's one soldier of that... "Enclave" who's yet to pay for the crimes of her colleagues.
And with that, Or walks away...
Right as a towering pillar of mud suddenly appears around the core, with it swelling in size some more as it suddenly flickers back to life. Win... no...
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Several pillars of mud explode all around the battlefield. Huge, skyscraper-sized masses, quickly threatening to take over all of the actual crater. Even the mass of inert mud, what remains of Dragaron and the mudmen explode into a big mass of mud. Far deep in the Krakenburg crater, another, far bigger pillar of mud emerges as well. They then all converge, as the armies quickly start to retreat. Half the crater is taken over, as is the actual area where Krakenburg stood, by a deluge of mud.
A mass appears within the flowing mud, which stop and start to form a towering construct of a sort. Whole buildings are completely crushed beneath its masses, the towering buildings of the rich nobles of Nohr being completely crushed and used for raw mass by the mud. The northern half of Windmire, where they were stationed along with Krakenburg, is completely buried in mud. And the part of the region north of Windmire is also taken over, the scant grass and tree being buried under the weight of Garon's new body.
The pillars quickly fill up their half of the crater, building an enormous volcano of solidified mud. A mountain, in every sense of the word, has invaded Windmire, standing so tall as to pierce through the clouds above. Its about as wide as an actual mountain too, and though its structure is disturbingly smooth, it starts to grow rough edges and spikes all over its surface. Mud flows from the top of it, with mudmen emerging on it. Flaming mud. With flaming mudmen.
The rescuers, Shepherds and armies are facing Garon's last and final form. Zulo Form - Mundus.
The mutilated clouds above start raining. I LOSE...
BUT NOW YOU TOO
I'M FINE DYING IF IT MEANS THAT YOU ALL DIE AS WELL.
I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU Garon's absolutely deep, almost incomprehensible voice echoes through before the core start visibly moving deeper and deeper in Garon's titanic body, droning the last part of its speech over and over again. And as it does, the cloud parts. Starscream, who's on the ground and witnessing this shit, "blinks". He's had seen enough. He was going home and downing some energon cubes now.
This was fun! See you never Prime! Starscream jump and transform before attempting to escape, plotting to use Megatron's new amazing gizmo to simply create a portal for himself to go to. With a sardonic laugh, he enters the portal...
... And another portal emerges a few seconds later, with Starscream coming out of it. What?!!!
STARSCREAM! YOU CHROME CRETIN! THE WORLDS ARE COMING UNDONE!!!
...
Decepticon Base
Megatron stands in front of his computer, with his livestream of the event for all to see, looking furious at Starscream's latest comical catastrophe. His lackey had spent too much time fooling around: The 'convergence' had begun. And now that it had happened, this world, and several others, were now in danger of colliding?
Or rather, it was more accurate to say that this world was about to be crushed. From his screen, with 80s graphics that stand at odd with the absurd technology at play to spectate on that, he could see that the hole in space-time had become so big as so attract other worlds to it. It was like the world of Fates was, basically, below a hole that several other worlds were converging in (hence the name, thanks Soundwave) and all getting stuck at, all at once.
Multiple mythologies, universes, timelines and all were crossing-over in ways they shouldn't because the hole was too small for any world to filter through. This was already bad enough, although Megatron didn't care, since none of those worlds were his own. What he did care about was that Starscream was in the world that would be in the way should the hole grow any larger: this would cause all those worlds to catastrophically fall on top of it, crushing it beneath their weight, and perhaps causing further damaging collisions between each other, bound to trigger a nasty chain-reaction of a sort.
One that would definitely destroy his energy-gathering gizmo. And though Megatron wasnt about to admit it -nor would he admit that perhaps he could've told Starscream to escape earlier, had he not been so caught up on Prime-, Starscream was an invaluable troop. And he was wary of fetching one from another universe now that he was seeing how disco fucked it was to bring beings from one world to another.
DO WHATEVER YOU'LL NEED SO LONG AS IT HELP YOU ESCAPE, STARSCREAM! I'LL ASSIST YOU FROM AFAR WITH MY PROTOTYPE DIMENSIONAL CANON. ALTHOUGH BECAUSE OF YOUR INCOMPETENCE, I'LL HAVE TO MAKE-DO WITH SCRAPS!!
...
Starscream would literally start sweating bullets if he could. And elsewhere, Corrin stares at the Garolympus briefly.
As he does, the clouds above move out of the way: the sky of Nohr is gone, though, gone and replaced with a bizarre scenery: a world of green water, blue grass, tall hills and tall trees with blue leaves. Shockingly, this does little to stop the overall R E D ambiance. Nor does it stop the rain from occurring, washing the group as they stare at their latest challenge.
Merlin's infinity construct is still in the air. Combined with the mountain and alien sky, it has a... eerily calming vibe to it.
I'm getting to the core of that thing. Corrin says. No matter the form, Garon's a pathetic little... thing and I'm not about to let him get the ending he wants. No matter the cost, I'm putting an end to him. He doesn't lose his cool at his "mistake". He intends to make up for it, after all.
Oh, it's a "we". We're getting to the core of that thing! Salazar grins as he reach into his case and pull out a Rocket Launcher, grinning.
Same! We've fought off several Grimas by now! And with everything that's at stake, I'm not going to get intimidated! Samsara swears, unwilling to give up.
Garon has been driven into a corner. There's little he can do to attack us. Bit by bit, with every blow you've inflicted on him, keeping his form has been harder and harder. His refusal to die is a craven one, out of anger. And to snuff out that anger, we'll need to put the fear of death in him one last time.
N-nice speech, but how are we getting in? Do we all get on Beruka's wyvern? Foxy questions, although his speech is oddly... optimistic. Like he's expecting to have someone do just that. He even glances at Jeridan and Merlin, whom he identifies as the miracle-makers of the group. But even if they have solutions, it is Athos who speaks: the mage had been charging up his legendary Forblaze tome for a while, having anticipated such a scenario and seeing his intervention as useless, given that the group was handling Garon and the Mudmen fine. But had it not been for everyone's intervention, from Yammers's earth bariers to Cardboard and Sawdust helping the army, he would've needed to break his concentration to assist.
However, even with all that time given to him... Quick. Nicole. Morgan. Ms. Thingies. Merlin, the sickly-looking jester, the young witch, I will need the most magically proficient of us to step forth and help me fuel the flames of Forblaze, Athos says. Our power will blast open a path leading to the top of the mountain, worry not, I will handle the mana consumption for each of you. But I'm afraid I won't be able to assist any of you further. For such a spell will surely drain me!
I will drive to the top of that mountain as well. My trailer can fit many of you and... Starscream?! Optimus says, seeing Starscream just standing there, a bit agape. So's the rest of the Nohrian-Hoshidan army, who appears to be completely lose at what to do. Even the royals are confused as to what to do, although they appear to be coming to the same conclusion as the group.
Gah!! What will it be, Prime?! I've heard enough of your speeches about freedom and defending life! I can predict them by now!
You'll die too if you idle, Starscream! So help us!
Starscream says nothing but he does groan and turn towards Garolympus, readying his weapons and, temporarily, joining the group. Though he keeps a long distance from them, since he's pretty pissed at not being able to kill Ms.Thingies and Mordecai before they could wound him.
Samsara pull out a whole bunch of Stamina Drinks while Optimus transforms into a truck, with his trailer for everyone to climb into, should they need. Wait, you didn't have it last time you transformed! Says Salazar, pointing to it amusedly.
Perhaps I, too, am a magician. Optimus replies, half-jokingly. Half.
This is a preparation round, so Samsara glances at Leah, who open up a portal to My Castle on her cue. If you need healing or if you need Anna to... activate some more Einherjars, here's your last cue! After this, it's all or nothing! Literally!
As for Peppino? Don't worry about him; He's already charging Garolympus.
8 ROUNDS UNTIL THE END OF ALL
Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 2nd 2023 at 9:27:47 PM
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
[PASIO]
Tropique
"Clearly, you haven't seen how this one 'battles'."
:P
The psychic burst hits, but Mewtwo manages to brace itself and take the force, only being blown back a few feet before touching down and dashing back with the move [Dark Impact].
imagine Dark-type Extreme Speed
NOHR
She takes a moment to calm herself.
"..."
Subaru may be in great distress, but she's not stupid. Either technically or emotionally. She can see that this... person, isn't very sympathetic.
Nevertheless. They have a point.
"You... you're right. I'm kind of stuck in the shit now, aren't I? It's too late to back out now."
But she points back, just as accusatorially.
"I don't care what you think. I know that my reasons are valid, even if I've made mistakes getting here. They aren't 'excuses'! I refuse to believe that even though I didn't get the gravity of the situation, that just wanting to help someone was a bad thing."
"And I refuse to be chastised for having a limit as to what I can take. I won't apologize for being a normal girl. Not everyone's psyche is iron-clad to the horrors out there."
"... But those reasons also don't exactly help me at this point. So."
"... I guess I'll be going."
Fun fact! In the Amanohara family style, one of the main principles to keeping your chakra open and flowing free involves being open and true to yourself.
Which means Subaru knows damn well that she's going to avenge those slaughtered soldiers after this.
I suppose... she starts making her way back to the battlefield.
Edited by Rbade on Jul 2nd 2023 at 12:39:14 PM
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King of the Monsters
Lost Knife Cave
Baiken does indeed jump, over the razor wind and at Altzaira, but she can't deliver as big of a combo as she could have if her charged Dust connected, so she simply throws a rising air-to-air kick to knock Altzaira off-balance, then lashes a metal flail on a chain at her to down her, before landing with a sweeping "Youzansen!" slash using a fan of hooked blades hidden in her sleeve!
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"I'm plenty afraid," Zenitsu admits. He stumbles back from the shadow's first slash, but since he isn't being cut open, he isn't in too much pain to abruptly unsheathe his sword and parry the second and third. His eyes remain wide and unfocused, and there is no hint of lightning in his blade.
"But I already know running won't get me far, so I have to fight!"
He sheathes his sword again, keeping his hand on the hilt in preparation for her next attack.
Babey Mansion
Refia wakes up to find the notes Rumia left for her. Well, if there was any remaining doubt over the swaps being real, this has just dispelled it.
She winces seeing Rumia's mention of eating people, but... well, at least she does so in moderation. And she seems pretty nice.
The succubus idly flicks at her hair, pondering how it might look with a bow like Rumia's.
And then she gets an idea. She conjures up a fresh piece of paper, along with... a phone like her own. She gives it a keypad that uses dragon emblems in place of the numbers 0-9, sets a four-digit passcode, and gives it a phone address using those emblems so only her personal phone can communicate with it. Then she registers it as Rumia's Tek Phone (the brand it's based on, as her father's corporation merges with Apple in the future of her world) before adding herself to its Contacts list.
Then she rolls over to the paper, levitates a pencil over to her hand from across her room, and starts writing. Hey Rumia, I decided to get you a phone for yourself so we can chat more easily. It uses symbols instead of numbers.
Here's the passcode. She draws the dragon emblem combination used to unlock the phone. After that, she pauses to think, wondering how Rumia could possibly get the phone over to the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
Good thing she's got implants or she probably wouldn't figure it out!
I live in Estraole too. Next time we swap, just take the phone and my note and fly around until you find your place. I'm sure no one will ask where you're going.
She stashes her own phone in the usual drawer but keeps the phone for Rumia on top of her nightstand with the note.
Nohr
Se'arah sighs in annoyance, not just at Garon assuming an even more monstrous form, but at the fact that her Patience failed yet again.
Oh well.
"I'm no mage, but I have fire to spare. It must be thanks to whatever blessing rezzed me."
She stabs Alondite into the ground and blue fire roars around her, then flows around Athos, granting him the divine power of a goddess.
"Also LEAH YOU HAVE REXFLAME GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE AND HELP"
—
RF!Anna and Mordecai stay aboard Optimus for now, though they move into his trailer.
Sith Academy
Ascended Laxin is driven back by Laxin's initial Force Lightning, but he keeps his footing. For a moment, he considers leaving the fight to Ben to teach him a lesson about arrogance. However, that would only get the boy killed. And the Emperor could use that same lesson.
So he reaches out to crush Laxin's dominant wrist with a Force Grip. No retorts to his words, just straight to the point.
—
The pie-molted Kroxigor lets out a low growl and swings its hammer, magnetically redirecting the rockets into the ground. Then it makes some sort of gesture with one hand, and a swarm of Chameleon Skinks emerge from behind the war droids and try to 'gut' them with Laser Blade knives, weapons forged based on the Ancient Blade Reyna gave Nakai back on Christmas. The Ancient machinery within these blades ensures that even if no critical areas are damaged, the droids they strike will fall to scrap.
Hearing a cheer that was not earned, Nakai jumps off his Asperdorsus and paces towards Lorelei. The legendary Kroxigor's footfall seems to shake the earth near him, and he twirls his maul in one hand as if it were a knife. Some Velociprey and Bastiladon that were also gathering around her stop and back away when they see who's come to face her.
"Doooooooon't... geeeeeet... cooooooooocky."
Kroq-Gar raises up his left arm, the Hand of the Gods, and golden fire courses through it, melting away Velkhana's frost.
"The only worm here is you, who eats at the heart of this world like the maggot you are, driving countless lives to ruin for your sake alone!"
The fire coalesces above his head into a fireball akin to a miniature sun. The flame's conductivity redirects Laxin's Force Lightning into it, and though it proceeds to shock Kroq-Gar with the full brunt of an attack meant to raze an army, the sole survivor of Xhotl would be nothing if he were not resilient. Arm still raised high, he throws the sun-ball at Dark Lord Velkhana, which crashes into the Iceborne Wyvern and blows it out of the sky in a brilliant explosion.
He bellows an order to his fellow Saurus, who proceed to swarm Velkhana and pin its legs and wings down with spears. The Elder Dragon is not in its right mind, and if they can bring it to the Naoalli, perhaps it can be saved.
For lack of a priority target, the flying Skinks start circling around the whole battlefield. Those who received weapons from the pie-molted Kroxigor rain blaster fire upon the Sith from on high.
Dark Lord Nergigante chomps down on Terra's arm and starts shaking him viciously.
Rage Awakened - Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix
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Terra is swung around at first, but eventually when it swings him down, he lands feet-first and slams himself into the ground so hard he buries himself up to his ankles... granting him the leverage to pull the Dark Lord's head in and punch it in the face with the hilt of Ends of the Earth. The impact forces it to let go, and Terra promptly stabs the ground with his Keyblade to make it erupt around the Extinction Dragon, staggering it. However, in turn, it swats him across the battlefield with a single claw swipe, and the Master goes tumbling away.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 16th 2023 at 4:02:06 AM
"He's gearing up for war."
Not expecting something like this, Mewtwo gets struck fast, for super-effective damage. He looks almost comically shocked for a moment before angrily resuming the battle, creating illusory Double Team copies of himself around DNP!Mewtwo, all of which attempt to throw Shadow Balls at it. Of course only one is real, but it's impossible to tell which one.
The final Nohrdown
Einherjar Corrin's Yato does indeed get stuck in Dragaron's neck, because she did not expect him to think of something like that. After which she gets snarl-slapped away.
Einherjar Nyx and Einherjar Zola are genuinely surprised to see that Nosferatu has its full effect on what they assumed to be some kind of sentient futuristic battle machine.
As for Merlin, she grins now that no more duplicates are coming through.
"Dispel Infinity."
Infinity is dispelled, though Chrono Coffin is still active, keeping the initial duplicates suspended in the air for a little while longer.
Once the wall separating people from Dragaron is damaged, Ban immediately jumps through, roaring furiously before sending all of his stolen strength into his arm and attempting to deliver what is basically a megaton punch against Dragaron's soul... but the mud pillar rises up around it to block him at the last possible moment.
"Sonnuva-"
The pillars of mud then start to burst out of the ground, catching all three remaining Einherjar unaware and destroying them, turning them back into cards. Morgan's wyvern had made it back to the pond just in time, so at least it's safe from this attack.
Ban snatches up F!Corrin's while Morgan picks up Nyx's and Zola's. He then plans to use Grima's Truth again, but the glow it had been exuding now turns darker and suddenly Morgan drops the tome so fast that it's almost as if it burnt him.
... which it did, it burnt right through his right hand's glove and leaves a burnmark on the upper part of his hand. That's not good...
"Magic Seal!"
Merlin starts exuding powerful sealing magic, sending zaps of them towards the battlefield one at a time. If they strike a part of the ground, then the magic that's making the mud rise will fail and illuminate that spot to show that it's a safe place. But the ones that have already started to rise up, she can't do anything about. ... well, she can, but sealing them would only stop them from rising further, and if they're not stable, they would collapse on Merlin's allies instead.
However, it becomes very clear very quickly that the rate at which the pillars rise and destroy the area around them to make way for this mountain is too fast for Merlin to handle.
"This world may not last much longer. Ban! Gather our allies and-"
"I am NOT running, Merlin!", he shouts as he does his best to avoid a pillar rising up near him. "That bastard's gonna die here and now!"
"Ban, your immortality will be your undoing if you get buried as this world collapses!", she calls out, but he's not listening. She then listens as her allies around her declare that they too are planning to face this monstrosity head-on. Well, Morgan hasn't said anything yet, but that's because he too is looking at his allies around him.
Then Athos speaks up. Merlin looks at him, then at Forblaze, and can sense the immense power of that tome. Now that she doesn't have to focus on Infinity anymore, she's free to assist as asked. And Athos' plan sounds like a well-thought-out one.
"Very well.", she says, now teleporting to Athos and allowing her immense magical power to start flowing off of herself and onto the Forblaze tome.
Ban looks up at Garolympus.
"Gods be damned, I don't think I can steal power from a literal mountain.", he grumbles. He looks at his hand. Will the power he took before be enough for this?
Morgan, meanwhile, picks up his (non-harmful) tome now and inspects it, wanting to know what just happened. One thing he notices is that using the capsule on it did indeed strengthen it as it should have, but it also seemed to increase the pressure necessary to cast its magic. In simpler terms... he won't be able to use it as much as he normally would have before its magical power runs out. And it seems like he's already very close to its limit. To be honest, he may only have a single use left at this point.
He still has Arcwind though. Maybe that'll be enough? ... even though it wasn't enhanced by a capsule.
Wait, maybe he has another way to help.
"Ban. Once Athos opens a way to the top and we get there, I can blast you forward with Arcwind so that you can distract Garon."
"Sounds good to me, pal.", Ban says, nodding. Morgan's a little taken aback at being referred to as a pal, but smiles a little from it. He and Ban then climb onto Optimus Prime, ready to go.
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As for Anna and Jake, thanks to them being able to watch from this location (and with Anna healing Morgan's wyvern's wing at the same time), they hear the suggestion for more Einherjar.
"We can't send many more without taking big risks."
"Yeah, but we can still send a few.", Anna says, grabbing the Einherjar cards for M!Corrin, Ryoma, Takumi, Oboro and Scarlet.
But then she also grabs Garon's Einherjar card.
"... I know that Morgan made a good point, but right now we may just require all the power we need. Plus, maybe having him here will trick the real Garon into thinking this is one of those dangerous duplicates."
"The mindgames may be worth it.", Jake agrees. Anna gets ready to summon.
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Through Leah's portal, Einherjar M!Corrin, Einherjar Ryoma, Einherjar Takumi, Einherjar Oboro and Einherjar Scarlet now appear. However, there's no sign of any Einherjar Garon. Perhaps Anna and Jake changed their minds at the last second?
Regardless, Einherjar Ryoma and Einherjar Takumi jump on Einherjar Scarlet's wyvern's back. Einherjar Oboro and Einherjar M!Corrin get into Optimus Prime instead.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Business Youkai of the Mountain
Nohr
"I can cough help." Yamame says, coughing not from fatigue or anything but because she choked on some dirt when evading Garon turning into a fucking mountain. "I'm not really a magician but I'm still a youkai, so magic is part of me. Otherwise um, I could help the others climb up. Though I'd need a new weapon. I um, kind of lost mine when I threw it into his... core thing."
She figures that vallite spear is either still stuck in Garon or buried under a literal mountain by now.
SDM
Rumia yawned as she woke up and stretched. After getting ready for the day she belatedly remembered to check for a note and found Refia's. She decides to have breakfast before reading it, eliciting a suspicious glare from Daiakuma upon her noticing Rumia's table manners shifted again. After a quick chat with Flan she ran back to her room.
"What's with her?" Flandre asked, curious.
"Well, Rumia seems to have picked up a pen pal of sorts." Daiakuma explained as she served some tea.
"Hmm, well that's nice. She doesn't have her usual friends here after all." Flandre hums before sipping her boiling tea. Not like she minded.
Rumia meanwhile began writing a new note as well.
"So you're like Miss Dai kind of? She's a devil but apparently some mistake her for a succubus. Your old family sounds mean, especially your mom. I hope you kick her butt! Oh and he's a he? Huh. Flandre said her dad (who she doesn't like either) had a dragon named Zazar that she liked but I dunno if we should just call him that too. I wanted to call him Spiny but Flandre said that's lame :/.
"Oh and I dunno how he does that. I saw him with fresh tea once and Miss Dai never makes him any since he's not supposed to have people drinks."
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
Nicole narrowly manages to evade the mud pillars as she returns to the ground, where she reclaims Siegfried in time to witness Garon going full One-Winged Angel yet again.
"Friggin' hell. Watch him turn into the goddamn universe next..."
Then Athos calls upon her aid, prompting her to raise an eyebrow.
"Magically proficient, huh? You sure I really fit the bill, dude? I'm not exactly Gandalf, y'know."
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 3rd 2023 at 5:51:25 AM
King of the Monsters
Scarlet Devil Mansion
oh boy it's that time again
Rumia-Refia awakens and immediately checks the notes. She cracks a slight smile at Rumia's encouragement.
Now she just has to make it through the day while Refia-Rumia... uhhh hopefully carries out her grand scheme.
"He's gearing up for war."
The Troubled Replicator
Nohr Rescue Mission (The Final Stretch)
"NO- Damn it all!" Jeridan cried out when he saw the explosion missing just one Pucci copy, which just has to have C-Moon with it, attracting the priest towards it at a speed that he can't possibly catch up to without abandoning his objective to extract D 4 C from Garon. Gritting his teeth, he carried Foxy and watched as Pucci's White Snake used the last of its strength to pull out the rabbit Stand from Garon, depriving the mud king of its option to dodge attacks.
Hah, I guess you really can't depend on expectations in the Arena. The young man has to admit that he didn't think highly of the priest who tried to reset the universe. Helps do come from unexpected sources around here. He thought as he watched the black and white Stand plucking the DISC right out of Dragaron with a smile. Letting out a quick exhale, he prepared to grab Foxy and White Snake and fly away from the Fell Flame beam, only for Nicole to rescue the duo with Siegfried.
Jeridan watched in satisfaction as Corrin landed the finishing blow against Garon's core, only to witness the guy becoming a literal mountain of mud. "For fuck's sake!" He swore out loud as he grabbed Foxy by the arms and used Valstrax's wings to fly away from the consumed half of the crater and landed near his allies after the mountain is fully formed. In addition, he would grab White Snake as well to try and pull him along, hoping that the Stand range limit would drag Pucci along so he doesn't get obliterated by the copy.
Gently dropping off his passengers (passenger if Pucci doesn't make it out) to a safe spot before approaching Corrin, he raised a hand to get the latter's attention while dismissing his white EGO armor and tucking the Vallite spear on his back. "Prince Corrin! A word." Jeridan then grabbed a stamina drink from Samsara. "You and the others have the most reliable means to actually hurt Garon, so allow me to borrow a godly being's full power to clear a large opening for you so you don't waste too much stamina on digging your way down. Don't worry about transportation, I can fly."
The young man then frowned. "Though, I won't be able to freely borrow any more powers once I gain this being's full strength, so that's a minus." He handed his Vallite spear to Corrin. "Here, in case Yato isn't enough. I likely won't need it."
Edited by cyzja922 on Jul 2nd 2023 at 2:47:54 AM
"I know you're here, Kenjaku. You big fucking nerd. Where's my goddamn cheese?"
Business Youkai of the Mountain
Babey Mansion
Refia-Rumia wakes up in the wrong room again. At this point she just yawns and goes through the usual routine motions. She reads the letter, humming in thought. She smiles at the gift but finds the lettering a bit odd but hey, it looks cool. She gets dressed in some of Refia's outside clothes since she plans to follow up on that suggestion to go to the SDM, pocketing the phone and note, but decides to get breakfast first.
Which is where she's headed to right now.
SDM
Rumia-Refia will find things as they usually are. Daiakuma serving breakfast, Karasu staring at her. The usual. Though the drink looks rather more... red than usual.
"Ah, I'm sure you don't mind some blood tea, right?" Daiakuma sighs upon seeing Rumia-Refia. "I auto-piloted and made a bit too much for Lady Flandre. I know you prefer the actual flesh and all but that's not a proper breakfast dish."
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
[PASIO]
Red equips his Wonder Launcher.
A bit busy with his hands to chat, but he does give Team Rocket a look like 'any help? It's YOUR lives that are on the line.'
-
Who cares which one is real, it's only one Shadow Ball either way. He's too busy roaring at the sky to care about Super Effective damage-
[PROTECT]
oh yeah that's omnidirectional
"SKREEEEEEEE!"
Senses online. He'll have to actually react to the next attack given Protect's exponential failure rate if used in immediate succession.
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"H-hold on, what do you expect us to do?"
"We can't compete with Mewtwo!"
"Maybe we could have outlasted him if the Prize Master still functioned, but that's not an option anymore!"
... well, you can't deny that James does have a point with that.
-
Mewtwo, knowing how Protect works too, now suddenly tries to do another 'nothing personell'. However, instead of attacking immediately, he now tries to wrap his arm around DNP!Mewtwo's neck to restrain him.
If this is successful, he'll then try to blast DNP!Mewtwo in the face with another Shadow Ball.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
[PASIO]
"It's GLASS, just break it!"
Aye, they can actually 'hear' him now. Benefits of having a Psychic-type partner on the field.
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[WONDER LAUNCHER] [X EVASION]
Heh, nothing personnel kid. Mewtwo Pokemonanime isn't the only boi on the block that knows Teleport.
That is to say, Mewtwo vanish attacks immediately behind Other Mewtwo that appeared behind him, and tries to cold cock him with. Well that's not a Move but it sure is a slugger of a right hook.
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"We would do that..."
"But the glass around it is reinforced."
"You don't think we'd have it drop out of the sky if it could break so easily, right?"
... of course, out of all the times for them to be competent, it has to be when them not having been competent would have made things easier on them.
"!"
Cue Mewtwo's response being... another teleportation behind DNP!Mewtwo, whereupon he'll try to go for a brutal tail swing aimed at the neck.
... is this about to become a teleport-spamfest?
Regardless of how this progresses, Jessie suddenly remembers.
"Wait, Hydreigon can still battle.", she mutters as she takes the ball out of her pocket. "It should resist Mewtwo's attacks, right? Together with your Mewtwo that may be enough."
"Let's send it out when Mewtwo is completely distracted so that we can launch a surprise attack."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
[PASIO]
"That wouldn't be fair."
"..."
"I guess that's not the problem right now. I'll send Charizard back out when you do. He should still be Mega Evolved."
The tail swing connects, and does damage, but all that does is make the Adamant Mewtwo angrier (i mean all besides Doing Damage). As it hits, it launches backwards, using Dark Impact to propel itself into Mewtwo with a headbutt.
Edited by Rbade on Jul 2nd 2023 at 3:05:17 AM
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King of the Monsters
Babey Mansion
There's someone Refia-Rumia hasn't seen before at breakfast. A young lady with bright red hair and dark armor with gold trim.
She is eating a single slice of bread.
SDM
"... No," Rumia-Refia says. "That's fine."
She drinks the blood tea first so she doesn't have to think about it for any longer. It tastes alright to her, perhaps on account of being in the body of a creature that eats human flesh, but... Still.
"He's gearing up for war."
Mewtwo gets hit by its counterpart and hits the ground, though near instantly gets back up. After all, while Dark Impact may be a super-effective attack, a headbutt is not.
A large, circular purple aura now starts to envelop him, after which he attempts to grab DNP!Mewtwo with a superior psychic hold.
"You should have heeded my warning."
If DNP!Mewtwo got caught, Mewtwo will quite literally perform a psychic yeet and throw him into the ocean before charging at Red and Team Rocket.
"Eeeeeeeh!"
"It's comin' right for us!"
"Hydreigon!", Jessie shrieks while sending it out in a panic. Hydreigon comes back in, looking confused for a moment. Mewtwo halts, pauses... then unleashes an Aura Sphere at Hydreigon to KO it instantly. Jessie, James and Meowth hold onto each other and start to tremble.
"Y-you don't think Vicreebel can pull off a victory?", Jessie asks, though she already knows the answer.
"I-I think it'd go down even faster..."
"We're catfood for sure now!"
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
[PASIO]
Damn, you Mewtwo that invested in Sp. Attack! Yeah he gets yote.
!
oh that was fast rip hydreigo
"..."
Why don't you heed these-
Mewtwo Teleports back onto the scene directly between the opponent and his trainer, carrying over the momentum of Other Mewtwo's yeet! And cancelling the Teleport into an Achilles Heel axe kick.
Get axe kicked bozo. Mewtwo gets hit in the cheek and harshly hits the sand. Naturally he still gets back up.
"I'm done going easy on you.", he snarls before he charges up a Shadow Ball. However, he then starts to rapidly teleport-spam, appearing in front of DNP!Mewtwo, then behind him, then to the right, to the left, above him, and repeating the patterns randomly, trying to both disorient DNP!Mewtwo and potentially bait out a premature Protect.
Regardless, he does eventually fire, doing so at a moment where he's to the left of DNP!Mewtwo.
As for the Trio, after Jessie recalls Hydreigon they look at each other.
"Maybe we should run?"
"But if it sees us running..."
"He might throw us into the sun!"
They glance back at Red.
"Hold on a sec, why ain't you usin' both your Mewtwo and your Charizard against him!?", Meowth asks. "Please don't tell me it's because it's 'not fair'."
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jul 2nd 2023 at 12:25:55 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Business Youkai of the Mountain
SDM
Daiakuma smiles and Karasu goes back to his own food so evidently nobody noticed anything odd.
"Ah I'm glad the robots and golems here deal with it. I don't know how Miss Sakuya can stomach preparing some of yours or the Lady's... favorites." Daiakuma sighs, looking a bit squicked out. "She sure is odd for a human."
Well at least Rumia-Refia isn't alone in not being a man-eater.
Babey Mansion
"Good morning." Refia-Rumia greets the red-headed stranger, acting natural. Hopefully it's not someone Refia doesn't actually know, making this weird. For now she simply gets some breakfast, a shockingly not meat filled one for once. Instead she gets some toast with that peanut butter stuff she recently discovered.
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
[PASIO]
"Charizard and Mewtwo are rivals they'd be mad at having to team up" :(
The actual reason is cause the plan was to send him out with Hydreigon and Hydreigon got K Od before he could.
Meanwhile, Meanwhiletwo is very bewildered by other Mewtwo basically going coo-coo-crazy with the Teleport spam. A preemptive Protect fails, and its eyes go wide seconds before its gets Shadow Balled in the side of the head and sent flying, blasting into the sand and kicking up a wave of it as it is driven through the ground.
"Grrrr!"
Mewtwo's aura sparks, before erupting, blowing a crater into the beach.
"GROAOOOOAGH!"
Mewtwo's BERSERK
It blasts back to the battlefield with Dark Impact (not aimed as an attack, just a speedy way to get back. Presuming Mewtwo doesn't just let it hit them for some reason, he'll just side-skid to a stop upon reaching their general area again), slinging a pair of powered-up psychic bolts of energy along the way.
Edited by Rbade on Jul 2nd 2023 at 3:36:21 AM
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Baiken gets knocked off her feet by the Heavy Blow, albeit with the damage she takes reduced thanks to the tatami. She wastes no time getting up.
"Alright then." The samurai sheathes her sword, lifts one leg, flashes orange, and a small ball of bright purple ki appears in the air in front of her. Then she stomps down and strikes the ki ball with her palm, causing it to expand and burst.
This attack is slow, but if it does hit, it'll send Altzaira flying into the air, and Baiken will jump up after her to do an aerial slash combo before they both hit the ground.
—
Zenitsu turns around. His eyes widen at the sight of the female specter, and his breathing quickens and sharpens.
Perhaps surprisingly to the master of the shadows, the boy doesn't try to run or jump, instead taking a single step back... in defensive combat posture.
"He's gearing up for war."