"That is what I just said... FOOL."
FOOL Counter: 18
"The only plan I had was to take back the Qurio, but as we have just found out, I cannot anymore. If there is no way to return to my prime, then...all hope is lost."
Hey wait a minute.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Umezou is slightly taken aback by being called a fool, but he doesn't really get angry about it. He's been called worse things.
"If that Gai-thing is as strong as you were when you fought Dialga and Palkia, that's gonna be hard. They're the rulers of Time and Space."
A brief pause.
"... huh... maybe Dialga can help you? I don't know everything about how its powers work, but it seems logical to me that it can just... y'know... blast you with time powers and reverse your body to a point where you still had your powers."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Malzeno's eyes widen as he has a flashback. Yes...the blue one reverted the Qurio to crystalline form with one of its attacks. It could de-age people and animals—it could return Malzeno to the prime of his youth!
"And...do you know where Dialga is?"
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""Know where it is? ... uhhhhh..."
"I've heard rumors that it flew towards that new continent that appeared a while ago.", Cara speaks up, having noticed the two talking and having listened in a bit. Umezou turns to her.
"There? What's it looking for there?"
"I dunno. Peace and quiet maybe?", Cara shrugs.
Hyrule. That gives Malzeno at least a general area to search in.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay."And the two of us have really got to go if we wanna make it in time.", Cara says, though more to Umezou than to Malzeno.
"Wait, are we running out of time already?"
"I dunno, but I don't want to risk it. Kingdra, go!"
She sends out Kingdra into the water, upon which the glitch kids hops onto it.
"Wait, my Pokemon need to rest-"
"I'll heal them when we get there, now do you wanna participate or not!?"
"Y-yes, yes, fine!"
Umezou looks back at Malzeno.
"Hey, good luck!", he calls out before Kingdra starts to swim away from the area.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Tropique
Most of this went over Nitori's head but hey she's glad they dealt with the fish and have a gameplan of sorts.
"Sure thing, Scarlet." Nitori says, chuckling at her own bad joke. "Just need to fix this thing first but in the mean time I can have some drones go flying around that place to see if they can spot this uh... Dialga. Whatever it looks like."
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."Tournament of Power Arena.
Icarus turns slowly on their heel, facing Narktus with both hands at their side.
Where the current Icarus looks like an echo, the impression of a person as seen in the darkness... this Icarus, this new and less-complete Icarus from the past, from before Moebius had ever revealed themselves, or perhaps even before they had begun to exist at all- this Icarus is a shadow, a dark hooded figure with no eyes and long, emaciated limbs, like a person stretched by the sunlight as a shadow does when the sun begins to set.
Icarus as they were, not as they are.
"Of course. I did not call you here to exchange pleasantries, not when there is so little time. You see, Narktus, I have a task."
The shadow that looks to be Icarus's head tilts towards the sky.
"Rather, we, have a task, should you accept it."
They move their head back down, and look forward. No matter how hard Narktus might look, he will never find a face beneath the shadow of Icarus's hood.
"To remove a threat of all-importance. Have you heard tell of the woman by the name of Angel?"
Yatta!Ryu finish up a smoke and smirks as he sees himself being approached by two opponents. One that he'd just blasted and one that came in as backup. The latter appeared to be wearing fancy armor too, albeit one that he was confident would crumple beneath the might of his blows. And he knew just how to reach her too.
Stepping back to avoid being spooned in the face, Ryu clench his jaw with the cig in it and gather some of his tremendous energy in it before spitting it at the bullet. Now, the result of a railgun shell going up against a mere thrown cig are kind of obvious, and a lesser Sorcerer would have seen his projectile cut down miserable, but his potent Cursed Energy allows the spat Cigarette to be a deadly projectile on its own, cutting through the railgun shell to try to impact Artemis, its speed and impact nonetheless dulled by its earlier exploit.
I don't do leftovers. But fine. Ryu goes for Chibi!Artemis, attempting to grab the spoon. He figures that it might be enchanted or special, being unwilling to dismiss such a weapon given his recent use of a nicotine stick as a bullet. So it might not part so easily before the might of his fist.
So, he attempts to claim the oversized spoon, attempting to rip it out of Chibi's grasp. Should he succeed, he does a quick spin and attempts to hit her with a swing of the weapon, wielding it two-handed like a bat, albeit somewhat awkwardly. I hope it's not just the two of you! He says, smiling slightly, but moreso out of smug confidence than bloodthirsty enthusiasm.
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Doll!Artemis only has a moment to dodge before the odd bullet hits her- and being unable to teleport like Chibi, barely manages to get to the side. Her suit's shielding system absorbs most of the blow, but, the bullet being what it is, and impacting directly, completely shreds the comparatively weak suit of armor... and bores a clear hole through Doll."-gah!!"
The armor falls off of Doll, revealing her pained face. Her inbuilt thrusters will keep her flying for a bit, but... She can sense her core- or rather the lack of it, the bullet having destroyed the very thing that kept Doll powered. Her eyes quickly start to fade as she lets out a pained choking gasp.
"...I... no..."
A shaky breath in and out. Her mind going numb as her life and all of her past anguish catches up to her. Inferior from the start. Never needed, but kept around. All this... hate. At this point, anyone with the ability to reliably sense Cursed Energy would suddenly sense an overflowing amount of it from Doll. After a moment, she opens her eyes, still keeping herself afloat somehow. Her voice turns from pained to deathly calm.
"...this hate. This anguish. It's what fuels your 'power', right?"
The energy around her stabilizes... and then she rushes forward towards Ryu with a look of pure determination. All that hate under the surface, and she knows what to do with it. She has no training, unlike Ryu, but her outburst might just work in her favor. She reaches out and draws her hand back as she flies forward, cloaking it in shadow and then aiming right for the man's center-of-mass.
"Then maybe what I've felt for ages can help me, too! This darkness shall be my might!"
Yeah, this is something I thought of for a while. Go figure.
...
As for Chibi, the moment Ryu gets his hands on the spoon, he'll find it gone and back in Chibi's... nubs? It doesn't have hands. It's focus momentarily turns back to Doll... before sensing the flood of energy- to Chibi, it's classified as 'energy' just as anything else -and turning back towards Ryu and smirking. It doesn't make the same mistake as last time, and gives him nearly no time by teleporting and attacking from behind Ryu, opposite of where Doll is approaching.
"You're about 'ta get scooped!!"
aeiou: the secondVillage
"Perhaps," Luin cast a side glance at Sheol. Much to her surprise, the monster turned and strolled a good distance away from them before swiping at the air twice, opening a set of rifts with either beside the other.
Their end locations were visible: One was the basement of Fort Dawnguard, where this whole adventure had started. Another led to some sort of vibrantly green jungle, where thick foliage and vines swung. Luin moved towards the former but paused just before entering, considering the other.
The Island, undoubtedly.
The woman hesitated for a few moments. She stepped away from the basement portal and moved towards the jungle.
"What are you doing?" Lenoi (i forgot he was there lol) spoke up, Rime at his side.
"I’m…" Luin paused, holding her breath for a second. "You guys can go back if you want. But I’m done waiting for tragedy to come to me. I’m going to get Davik, Lutemis, Landslide…all of them back and anyone who gets in my way…I’ll kill them. I’ll kill them all if I have to. And then," She was silent a moment more.
"Then I’m finding Annihilation Nergigante. One way or another, I’m going to end this."
With great power…you know the rest.Luin nodded. Nothing could change her mind now, but it was a shame to hear this, even if she understood fully.
"Alright. I’ll…I’ll scope the place out first. Should take me…a day, more or less. When you’re ready…" The woman thought for a moment, when Sheol stepped out from behind her, emitting a low purr. "Sheol’ll come get you. Isn’t that right?" The Riftmaker snorted.
With great power…you know the rest.Village
"Alright. I'll make sure to start preparing once I get home." Sebastien said, urging Mona forward to the Fort Dawnguard portal. "See you then."
He gives Luin a wave before heading out, though waiting a bit in case Luin or Lenoi had anything else to add.
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."Resivoir Lake
The armored core responds immediately, boosters engaging as the augmented human pilot inside instantly prepares for battle. The mech uses these boosters to rapidly dodge to the side at high velocities to evade the incoming missiles once they get close, before the mech begins to fly towards the hostile ship, locking onto it.
The second Luin stepped through the portal, she was wreathed in heat and humidity.
The Island
Behind her and Rime, the rift whooshed shut. Luin gazed about her surroundings, the endless sea of green and singing birds. The woman waded through foliage, parting bushes and pushing branches aside as she made her way towards where the sun’s glow amidst the vines was brightest.
At last she came to the edge of a cliff, looking over a gorgeous river valley. All manner of peaceful creatures roamed the sandy shores below, Parasaurs and Kelbi and beyond. Though she saw no camp, a small smile crept onto Luin’s face at the tranquil beauty of the site.
Footsteps from behind.
Luin’s hands shot for her axe but she felt the cold steel of a blade’s edge pressed against her throat. The woman froze in place, forced to gaze upon this picturesque view as a voice snarled in her ear.
"Youuuu have come to the wrong place, humannnn…"
"On the contrary," Luin produced a short whistle and the nearby snarl let her know that Rime had informed her would-be hostage-taker of his presence right behind the fellow. "I’m exactly where I want to be. How about you go tell your Poacher friends…I’m coming."
There was silence. Luin listened between the lines of the quiet for some subtle clue to give a hint at the thought process of the person behind her, of what he was considering and thinking. At last did he speak once more, hesitating in his slithering tone.
"Why are you here, humannnn..?"
"To…kill Poachers?" Luin responded to the confusion in his voice with some in her own. A few more seconds passed before she felt the dagger lift from her neck. The woman lowered her hand from her axe and slowly turned, eyes going wide with shock as she beheld an…unusually scaled man.
Actually, the fellow seemed to be more lizard than man.
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"Wha.."
"Who exactly are you, humannn?"
Luin regained her composure and offered a hand. The Lizardman only glanced at it, wary and perplexed. Luin cleared her throat and returned the hand to her side. "My name is Luin, of the village…I hail from no village." The woman trailed off for a moment, but quickly composed herself. "The Poachers have wronged me enough. I’m here to make them pay, tenfold."
"Curioussss," The blue scale pondered. "I will take you back to the Warmaster at oncccce. He will want to meet you."
Luin smiled politely. "I’d love to, but I really don’t have the time. I should be going now anyways, but it was great to meet you, Mr…uh..?"
"I wasn’t asking." Snarled the Lizardman. In the polite smile’s place, a dedicated scowl came upon Luin.
"Try. I’ll have your head lopped from your shoulders before you even get a hit and Rime here’ll eat what’s left," The woman threatened as she had seen them do in that sorcery they called “movies”.
"Maybe." Nodded the Lizardman, maintaining eye contact. "But what about them?"
From the trees, camoflafed prior by their verdant down, stepped a pack of at least eight Maccao,
all snarling and screeching and howling for a fight. Rime shut them up for a brief moment with a furious shriek, but it didn’t take long for them to begin again. Luin’s attention was drawn to them and as it was the dagger in the Lizardman’s hand was lifted to her throat once again, though this time she got to stare into the Skink’s eyes as he spoke.
"Come."
With great power…you know the rest.Tropique
Bely just watches as the fish returns where it came from.
She returns to her usual clothes, and goes with her children to see they are fine.
Onyxis
Whew, that's a relief for the world...
...But where do we can find the last infected creature? And why do a virus or whatever is too selective with their hosts?
Vs. Goyo Richard
Goyo grins, somewhat impressed by Altina's ability to catch up with his time slowing powers.
I can slow time, until stopping it... altough admittedly, and luckily for you, I can't use this ability repeatedly without tiring myself.
He clears his throat.
Anyways, I'm a conqueror. I can travel between dimensions, via portals. And I can take what I want from those worlds, such as those "Pica-Pica" you cherish so much.
You, monster!
Carolina claps, releasing a wave of healing energy for her allies.
I can do many things more, but my friends want to show you their talents instead.
Goyo "teleports" (actually, used again his powers) to the backlines, and the three with curly hair step forward, starting their workout routine again.
The hunter, the wolf and Ms. Goldilocks rush to attack them, but they got mesmerized by their moves, repeating them. And so the other two teachers and Carolina got caught too in their dance.
When she culls my game
Ding-Dong!
The elevator's doors open, and Orata goes ramming into a straight line, hoping to crash against Ryu... altough is she isn't stopped, she would reach the edge of the skyscrapper.
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Three freaking ghosts!NSC
Tarvek pondered Icarus' words. "Wow. Interesting."
He paused and walked outdoors a little. "Anyhow, would you like to see what I put into my armor?"
Kratos grits his teeth. Having grown used to slippery terrain, it doesn't take the God of War but a moment to acclimate to the caustic black gunk gathered at his boots. Again he erects the same arm shield, bolstering its integrity by crouching behind it and jamming his second arm into the back. Like a Spartan warrior, Kratos tanked the beam but was sent skidding backward far enough away not to be able to attack immediately. The shield snaps back to his arm, and Kratos looks to see the Blades of Chaos buried in the pool of gunk.
He yanks the blades back and sheathes them.
Reprium
Stained Mizutsune lets out a high pitched pained sound from Artemis' attack but isn't too disrupted by it. Seeing its opponents forced to go on the defensive, it lets out a shorter roar
before spinning around, sending caustic bubbles out in all directions; particularly to the fallen fighters.
It then stops to eye Raoh before propelling itself forward by using its tail as a spring. Right before getting close it suddenly kicks off the ground to try and smack him to the side using its tail, the wide attack potentially hitting anyone else nearby.
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."NSC
"Fire it at you? Okay..." Tarvek sounded a little uneasy, but as Icarus seemed confident, he shook it off.
"You see this bit?" Tarvek pointed to a slit-like hole near his armor's arm, as his voice shifted tone and his armor made a kind of charging sound. From the hole came a sort of dagger, but the dagger also looked like it had bits of electricity coming off it. "I based it on some of the electrical mechanisms I built for my sister, but I also took some inspiration from Wulfenbach's lightning rod!"
He then pointed the dagger at Icarus' robot. "Watch out!" He fired a beam of electrical shock. If it hit a human, it would be enough to knock said human unconscious, but who knows what it'd do to Icarus if it hit?
"Oh, you don't have to specifically target me!"
Icarus' mobility thrusters flare to life. But since he can't precisely tell when the electric jolt is going to get fired, they're not very helpful in getting him to safety. The jolt temporarily shuts down his most sensitive sensors and the weak motors in his fingers. Once he recovers, he shakes them.
"I meant more like, you don't have to worry about collateral damage hitting me. Your attacks do still hurt."
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.Tarvek's eyes widened in concern. "Whoops! Oh, um... my apologies!" He nervously chuckled as he lowered his arm. "Are you alright?" He ran over to Icarus.
"Yeah, sorry for hurting you there. I didn't mean that..." He sounded a bit bad about this. "But apart from painful, what do you think of it?"
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There's basically a small sweatdrop running down the back of Umezou's head, because most of this is going over his head.
"Well, I... I don't know what a Gaigamorm-uh, Giasmagorm is, but do you have a good plan to go about this? Like to start, if this Gia-thing took your power, you're gonna need to be strong enough to beat it first, right?"
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.