Ikaros
"I would eat consumables if I could, but..." Icarus taps his mouthless head and sits down again, when suddenly Artemis appears. He turns around to look at her with a slightly irritated expression on his face screen.
"Erm, hi? Weren't you the person that got corrupted in the middle of the fight earlier?"
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.Ikaros
She would look annoyed for a moment, cracking open her Dr Pepper, scowling at Artemis before taking a sip, seeming to calm down a bit after that.
"A tad bit rude to just butt in on a conversation. But nah I'm good with this."
She would unwrap the paper on her sandwich and take a pretty big bite out of it. Shrugging her shoulders.
"I believe ya. I know I'm not the only one that can do what I do. But Icarus has a point. Weren't you the one who took this whole spar a little too seriously?"
She would wash down her bite with another gulp of soft drink, before leaning back slightly, opening up another small portal and pulling a pair of glasses out of it. Putting them on as she enjoyed her lunch.
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"Ikaros
Artemis sighs and crosses her arms, sitting in silence for a bit before speaking up again.
"That corruption is going to be handled. Probably. Also, did you not read the Zone Rules or something? Getting hurt to the point of nearly being dead wouldn't kill you while that was up, y'know... It'd kick in some healing, actually."
Artemis says this as if it was... nothing, really. In her defense, she's been in fights for most of her life because she gets dragged into things- her sense of 'oh no, gonna die' is kinda... shot. She finishes drinking her boba and sighs again.
"...it's not like any of you actually died, so what's the big problem? The few people I've actually talked to here haven't taken well to me, and I'm... kinda confused as to why. Last I remembered, people usually enjoyed talking to me..."
aeiou: the secondIkaros
Icarus decides to try and stay polite. No point of causing a scene here.
"Well, you've just butted into a conversation that doesn't concern you. If you do that kinda thing regularly, then I'm not surprised at all that people don't appreciate you."
The fact that she can send stuff to other universes (allegedly, at least) does intrigue him.
Should I ask... dunno if I trust her.
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.POST ATTEMPT 2
(I SWEAR TO GOD I HIT SAVE DRAFT. THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP)
Kakariko Village
Prince Marth the fifth writhes in bed, haunted by nightmares, and Images of grima's brand, before suddenly awakening, the brand of grima pulsing through his mind constantly, like a jackhammer. Mar tries to get a sense of where this influence is coming from, and he turns around, before facing southwest, which causes the pulses of the dragon's influence to intensify.
This has to be dealt with.
Mar Approaches one of the medics among his squad, who's currently on guard duty.
"Daniel, You still got that warp staff?"
Daniel, the Combat medic, turns around and replies "Yes, sir. Why do you ask?"
"Look. I've got no time to explain. Send me as far as you can at aproximately Eight O clock from north. This is urgent."
Daniel nods, and unfolds a foldable warp staff, using its magic to send Mar Far, Far away, With him, fortunately, Landing right at...
Gerudo Town
Mar
Mar suddenly warps in, standing a decent distance away from the Fell tactician, Staring them down. No other threats, be it Dark gods or warriors, grab Mar's attention at the moment, as he takes a few moments to Analyze his foe, before Deciding on a course of action. He fires a few shots at the dragonstone floating by the fell tactician, yelling out "Wonder if you planned for that!" before detaching the falchion from the bottom of his rifle, wielding it as a sword once again instead of as a bayonet, slinging the gun over his shoulder with a strap.
He stands there, oddly cutting his hand, as he prepares for the fell tactician to approach.
The Face of the source of the taint of my bloodline. Robin. My ancestor. Or at least, the Body of robin. I doubt there's much of the original tactician's will there. Fell tactician. Sounds like a good designation.
An echo of a potential path I could have taken, severed by your ancestors. How exciting.
Are you going to make trouble for me, seeing as I'm fighting another version of you again?
On the contrary, If this version of me cannot stand against you, even with my aid, they do not deserve to live. If they are so willing to rule over an empire of walking corpses, they should be able to carve one out. My Conquest opposes theirs. Only one can rule.
I'll take that as both an insult and a statement of support.
Analysis, Fell Tactician. While having a humanoid body, I can tell this problem isn't going to be solved by a few bullets. The Aura of the fell dragon forms a barrier around this entity, preventing any guaranteed follow ups to an attack, and possibly weakening attackers. But, the falchion may be the ace up my sleeve that I need, as I can likely pierce this energy with this.
A Fair analysis. Now, let me pitch in. This Shell channels my energy well. You'd be correct to say that it forms a barrier, One so thick that it might act as armor, although, armor piercing weaponry won't be any more effective than regular attacks. This barrier also weakens foes who attack first, or aren't wounded. Although you may know how to bypass this.
Cut my hand a fair bit, and egg them into an attack. They're a tactician, but they'll likely still be forced into a clash with a clear threat such as a falchion.
Indeed. Draw their attention to you. Make a show of it.
I also assume they Channel some of their power through that dragonstone looking thing. They're no Manakete, but I know the ties to dragons in those rocks. Shooting that wouldn't hurt much.
Indeed, but don't waste your breath on shooting the shell. Their retaliation will strike where it hurts the most if you attempt to crack that shell with those pitiful pieces of lead. Not to mention, the more cracked that shell gets, the more of my power could flow through.
So I'll ditch the gun, and keep to the falchion.
Silverhand
Jhonny backs off somewhat, reloading his pistol, looking around at the situation around him, before being nearly deafened by mar firing his rifle off next to his ear.
He then pulls out his guitar, and begins to play, offering up a dance effect to whoever would take it.
Analysis, The Silver Handed man. First things first, that Black hair? Dyed. I tried black hair dye myself, and my hair came back blue after a bit. I'm seeing strands of blonde here and there. I don't know why, but this hair dye is distracting.
What I should be focusing on is his cybernetics. Cybernetic augmentations have begun to appear in Ylisse, and in the Restored Halidom itself, but I've yet to even consider partaking in them. I've got enough on my hands without a piece of metal connected to my nerves having a critical bug or having built in spyware.
Of note, this metal arm of his seems to have the brand logo and serial numbers scratched out post instalation, despite otherwise clean paint and decent maintnence, with signs of use. This man has ill will towards whoever was behind making this arm, it seems, if not the arm itself.
Judging by the guitar and the outfit, he seems to be a rockstar of sorts, but the way he reloaded his pistol, and the way he's carrying it, suggests he's got some military experience. As for the pistol... what caliber... .50?
[[.557.
Dear Naga, he's a fucking lunatic.
Even with that ludicrous caliber for a pistol, he's not taking on the fell tactician alone.
LISA!Anna
LISA!Anna also backs off, entering a resting stance, as she begins some deep breathing, restoring some of her energy.
Analysis, The Strange Anna. By the hair and face, I can tell this is one of the Anna sisters. But something's odd about her. The outfit she wears seems to be designed to hide her body and mae her appear more masculine. And she's completely unarmed, as well, although that might not be an issue, given the fragments of bone sticking into her fists and boots. A fistfighter. I'm not sure what to make of this.
Edited by ReynTheLord on Nov 9th 2023 at 12:46:21 PM
Ikaros
"Hard to enjoy talking to someone who wasn't invited to talking at all."
She said with a shrug, continuing to eat her sandwich as she sighs, opening a portal and pulling out a bundle of napkins.
"But while you're here, if you want any food I got some more. And in regards to your powers, if you really wanna show em off be my guest, but I got no suggestions."
She would say with a thumbs up towards, then looking to Icarus
"Is there anything that you CAN consume? Like oil or metal or anything? I feel bad for sitting here enjoying lunch and you just kinda needing to watch."
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"Sarah Reverse Boss Fight (technically heheh)
Eleven's gut goes concave, stunning her briefly. Unfortunately, Cinke's suit isn't just made of rubber, it's a lot more advanced than that. It keeps her bio-electricity stable in spite of Sarah's attempt to disrupt it, allowing her to lock hands with Sarah and push against her, interrupting the combo.
"I'm not interested in community service, Sarah. You want me to repent, you gotta punish me with your own two fists!"
She tries to headbutt Sarah away and unfurl a device—Cinke's other gift, a handheld noise cannon designed specifically for exploiting Siblings' hearing—from a sleeve. And fire it in her face.
—
Sadhri laughs maniacally as she observes the damage her attack dealt. Her senses dulled without her glasses, she has no way of realizing the scale of Cittufeni's final attack...until it hits her.
She emerges with her chest stripped down to the bone, her face charred black, and her arms gone. Glaring down at Cittufeni, she simply kicks him over in anger before rapidly regenerating an arm, ripping her own face off so that can regenerate, and picking up her glasses off the ground, putting them back over her eyes. As she does, her fiery aura is extinguished and her Limit Breaker form is suppressed. Healing the rest can wait—she flies off to Sarah and Eleven.
Only to be caught in the sound cannon's area of effect and stunned while she's still missing an arm and bearing a crater in her body. "ELEVEN YOU BITCH—"
"How the fuck was I supposed to know you would be coming at right this moment!?" Eleven shouts back.
The Game
The Empty Village
This guy's out to commit omnicide by the sound of things, Emma. You wouldn't mind killing him, right?
I mean, it sounds like he's already dead. Guess nothing really changes.
Close enough to a "yes" for me.
—
The Dead King's Minions and The Castle
"Talk about cliche," Delilah mutters. "Four agents of the big bad, one with closer ties to him than the rest, all of whom must be defeated to reach him. I might as well find a glitch to warp to the end credits now."
"That could mess up our friends in some way, though..."
"I know. Good thing they bought the Byte already."
—
Precognition
Charlie rubs her chin. "Fountains of red light? Darn, now I'm gonna be thinking about what that could mean for the rest of this adventure.
"I say we save the pearl in case a really expensive item is available later, but try to get the armor ASAP. Which of us has the weakest defenses?"
"'Victoria', which is Emma's alternate mode where the virus is in control of her."
"Virus!?" Charlie hastily backs away from Emma.
"Oh, oh no... Don't get the wrong idea. It's helpful, I promise."
"Regardless, Emma and Victoria can both regenerate if they have Biomass, which is a resource exclusive to them. The one with the next lowest defense overall is... Gregory."
Charlie looks at the boy in question.
I decided that on my own but figured as a living human child it'd make sense for his physical defense to be the lowest and his magical defense to not be that great either, compared to Evan who's a ghost, Charlie who was a ghost and still has supernatural powers outside of the game, Emma who is a fleshwarper with an entire second mind backing up the one in control; and Jax, who is a grown man, whose Armor is somewhere between "average" and "above average", and whose Magic Resistance is in the upper echelons within his own game.
Gerudo Town
Vs. Fallen Julia
Se'arah rushes behind Fallen Julia. Leah places a Banshee Θ trap, covering the front. Fallen Julia decides to try and slip past Heroes!Anna since her stats are so low, but Leah rushes to that side and places a Meteor and Fimbulvetr trap.
With nowhere she can immediately run, Fallen Julia freezes, and Leah seizes the moment—as well as her, ensnaring Fallen Julia in a ring of darkness.
"You're outta here." She conjures a fireball at point-blank and slams it into Fallen Julia, sending her into the Rexflame trap.
"This is the true potential of magic!"
There's the sound of a warp swish, the ground beneath the trap fractures and glows, and then a titanic plume of lava erupts around Fallen Julia. Fortunately, the eruption is magically contained, or else molten rock and ash might come down and burn/suffocate everyone in town to death.
"Lord Seliph, I remember..."
And then she's gone.
"Fucking finally." Se'arah huffs and falls on her rear. Leah does the same but flops all the way on her back, lying there while she uses her master device to deactivate her other traps.
"Her tome, although corrupted, invoked a divine spirit. Would've loved to get my hands on something like it."
"Maybe some day."
—
Vs. Rearmed Robin
"I see." The Fell Tactician lifts her hands off KV!Anna, merely shoving her aside with ordinary human strength as she turns her attention to Severus. Since he didn't catch her unaware in time, the Shadow Katana doesn't get its surprise factor bonus, and because of her Dragonhide skill, its damage is reduced even further beyond that. She grins down at him.
"Scheme? Ohoho, no, my boy. I have no plan. I just want a bit of fun."
She doesn't turn as Jake comes at her, but her Pavise skill activates, halving the damage dealt on top of the -8 Atk the aforementioned Dragonhide does. As a result, his mighty axe strike barely even scratches her. She just keeps talking over the sound of gunfire, which plinks off the Arcane Grima dragonstone. "Since you were able to defeat my children, one empowered by my blessing, I wanted to see what you might be able to do against me. Consider it a game of sorts. You win if you can hurt me."
"There a prize?" Douglas mutters.
Grima chuckles. "Maybe. There is one rule, though."
She suddenly reaches for Mar, attempting to control him through the Grima blood in his veins and force him to drop the Falchion. "No cheat weapons."
Then, she cups her hands together over her head. The sky darkens and fills with stormclouds. Pink lightning crackles down above her, four bolts meeting in midair to create an orb of energy, which she proceeds to swing down and forward, launching an explosive plume of fell light at Severus, Douglas, and Mar.
—
Vs. Ishtar and Hilda
Ascended Ishtar has a sudden realization. "This may be why exorcising your Julius would never keep before."
Overhearing Loptous' command, she steps away from Einherjar Ishtar and Hilda, glaring warily at them with her tome at the ready. "Do everything you can to help the man you and I love."
Then, she glances at Lucina. "Your sword is forged from Naga's body, right? Without the book of Naga, it is our best chance at defeating Loptous himself before he can escape. If these two attack, I will hold them off. Go!"
—
Vs. Loptous
Emblem Corrin speaks into Nicole's mind. "I'm sorry. Torrential Roar is the best we have. Although, I sense a familiar presence in the bracelet the young Anna is wearing..."
Tremont's Creature has been keeping its distance, so with RF!Anna busy turning it over, she's safe from the shockwave's reach. She tells Tremont to retreat, then turns to Loptous, morphs her energy blade into sword mode, leaps up and uses the Stinging Bee maneuver to dash forward with a flying stab at the dark dragon. She lands beneath him, a precarious position but one presumably safe from the winds.
Engage!Anna has attacked enough for two very important things. One, her Engage meter is full again. Two, so is a certain bar tied to the Royal Order's Axe.
"This item is not for sale!" She taps her hand to her bracelet and Engages with Emblem Camilla again, eliciting a gasp from Emblem Corrin. With the power of flight (and extra movement) bestowed upon her, she swoops out of the range of the poisonous winds, then back in, right at Loptous' right shoulder.
"Hope you've got insurance!" She attempts to stab the Royal Order's Axe (in Sword Mode) into Loptous, cling to him with an iron grip, and unleash the armor-piercing ZERO-SUM DISCHARGE, pumping him full of explosively volatile paralytic energy in a rapid-fire barrage, ending in a final blast so strong she blows herself away with the recoil and her weapon forcibly reverts to Axe Mode... which still plays into her own plan, if Loptous sticks around any longer than this.
Edited by KiriK on Nov 9th 2023 at 4:38:26 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Ikaros
"Well, I can't use my abilities from 'my' worlds right now but I can use the stuff i've picked up from other worlds..."
Artemis stands up, drifting back a bit before humming to herself.
"...which is a lot. Why was I worried about my main abilities being sealed when I have more than enough to make up for it again..?"
She shrugs and summons a giant chest from nowhere- she doesn't need to access her pocket dimension this way, but it lets outside people peer into her Soul Vault. Among a sheer heap of stuff, there's some things that she clearly took as souvenirs from other worlds. Notably close to the access point, there's a spider-like mech in a bright neon green color, which to those who know the design would be a Spidertron from Factorio. Why is it there? How is it there? Who knows. Further in is a white-painted Diamondback Explorer of Elite: Dangerous fame, and... well, listing the sheer amount of things would take too long. You name it, she (probably) has it. Of course, the powers don't show up in her vault- those are within herself elsewhere. Eventually, she pulls out... a laptop, covered in stickers. Really?
"...this is probably the most mundane thing I own but i've made this laptop work for the past 70 or so years, without using magic. Probably because it's from a time before I was... This. Besides, it's funny to rummage through a vault of extraordinary things and pull out something mundane, eh?"
Artemis grins slightly before she stores the laptop and leans back in... the most advanced chair the world has seen.
◊ Well, at least the world it came from. Her Warp Star is gone, given she replaced it with that.
Ikaros
"This body wasn't made to consume anything... except for spare parts, maybe", Icarus explains. "No need to feel bad about it, just enjoy your meal! My sense of taste is probably completely defunct by now, anyways", he jokes.
A cargo ship arrives on the ground and releases a small swarm of drones, which dismantle and pack up the first aid tent, collect Icarus' broken body, and deliver a folded-up radio satellite to him. The drones that have completed their assigned task quickly return to the ship, which takes off again. In the meantime, when Artemis was showing off her pocket dimension, he did take note of the spider mech.
"Did you build that Spidertron yourself or did you take it from a crash landing survivor on Nauvis?"
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.The Game
Evan's eyes are now sparkling with wonder. That's not the biggest fish Jax has caught? Evan's not really into fishing per se, but he's still visibly impressed by the thought of how big the biggest fish must have been.
He then turns back to Charlie and Emma as Delilah tells them who the defensively weakest of the group are.
"Wait, me!?", Gregory asks, a little shocked. Evan looks surprised at this too. He definitely thought he'd be the one with the lowest stats.
"Your class says 'alchemist', that's probably a support class. That's probably why.", Grape guesses from the outside. The thought of Gregory being the frailest simply because he's not a ghost doesn't occur to either Gregory.
"Well, that's great.", Gregory snarks, arms crossed. "So I'm basically gonna have to be babied throughout this game?"
"Um... maybe, if we become strong enough, the enemies won't deal enough damage to hurt you anymore.", Evan says, trying to cheer Gregory up. The older (technically) boy glances at him and smirks a little, patting Evan on his head. He'd have taken that as a taunt if he didn't already know how timid and kind Evan was (to anyone but his older brother, something Gregory still doesn't know the why of), so he doesn't take it the wrong way. He then looks at Charlie.
"I feel like you guys always have to protect me when things go crazy.", he says, looking a little bummed now, but still motivated enough not to make a big deal out of it right now. "One day I wanna be the one to save you."
"So you want us to be in danger so we can be saved?"
"W-what!? No, I meant-", Gregory starts, but then notices Evan's mischievous little smile. Gregory looks comically unamused.
"... I'm not holding back in Smash Bros. anymore, you got that?", he groans as he exits the store. Evan giggles a little before following him. With the decision to finish the Pearl sidequest later when Lolbit may have more loot, there's not much more to be done here.
"Goodbye, and good luck." , Lolbit says as a way to say goodbye. Before Charlie can leave though, Lolbit looks at her.
"Oh, wait, one final thing I'd like to say before you leave." , they say, crouching to be more at Charlie's eye level.
"You don't have to be nervous. I wasn't quite myself last time we met, but I have no intentions of being hostile towards you again."
... wait. This is the same Lolbit that Mettaton summoned!?
Regardless of Charlie's reaction to this, Lolbit seems to smile and does a little wave as they stand back up.
"Keep an eye out for me down the road." , they say as a final goodbye for now.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Ikaros
The demon fox shrugs with a smile, continuing to enjoy her lunch while watching the two interact.
The Hunter
They think for a quick moment, before rolling to the side, dodging the lightning ball as they dust off their clothing.
With a sigh, they toss their crossbow over their shoulder, pulling out the revolvers from before. Seemed they were recharging somewhat as they unleashed a simply volley of shots from the two guns.
After that, they would toss the revolvers into the air, the cylinders sliding out of place and dumping all the spent shots. The Hunter would then catch them out of the air, and begin to reload, opting to load in some special rounds
Chaos
The moonlight certainly burned the tendrils, but they had already been separated from the Nightbringer, he turned around as he brought his sword up, ready to block the incoming Glintstone blast.
As he does this however, he hears the screeching behind him, his head spinning around inhumanly as he saw Rumia's owl careening towards him at incredible speed. An idea formed, as he instead jumped high up, the moment the Glintstone blast had been unleashed. This blast would hopefully hit the Owl instead, and thus would detonate in Ranviris' face.
The symbol below him wasn't a concern. He could feel the magic collecting, but he knew how to dodge it, and hopefully counterattack.
As soon at the energy erupted, the Nightbringer would create a tremendous circle of fire below him, this fire would stop the energy right in its tracks, propelling him into the sky with its awesome strength. Although, he got carried straight into Other!Edelgard's second attack.
The uppercut would whip his head back at tremendous speed, black goo spraying out of his neck. Although he would flip with the momentum, escaping any more protentional attacks that Edelgard may throw.
If the black goo had gotten on Edelgard at all, she would be able to feel it trying to wiggle into her body, despite being from the fire demon, the goo would feel extraordinarily cold.
Gallivan's spell would most certainly repel Nightbringer's clone, in fact it would go flying backwards, straight into Ms. Thingies attack, which had already found its mark on the other clone.
Although, the clones would melt into that same black goo, though this time, they wouldn't fade away like before. Instead the goo would gather up into one mass, forming a fist and stretching into the air, attempting to grab Ms. Thingies bubble, and slam it into the ground.
The Nightbringer himself grabbed his head, and whipped it back into position. The time for talk was over, as he launched on his next counter offensive.
Assuming that Rumia might in fact be useless when in melee combat, the fire demon dashes towards her, his sword ready as he attempts to skewer her through her forehead.
He knew that this attack wouldn't go the way he wanted it to, so at the same time he also tried to punch her in the gut with his other hand. Should this one land, he would grab her by the clothing and give her the same treatment he gave to Other!Edelgard... Throwing her at one of the surrounding mountains with incredible strength.
He then would point the tip of his sword at Ranviris, a thin stream of fire would jet out of the blade, flying towards the fusion. This stream would be hotter than any mortal could take, and even the toughest of demons would be made uncomfortable by it.
If this fire hit, the hope was it would cause some serious damage to one small spot, or be enough to destabilize the two, causing a separation.
He would then turn his eyes to Other!Edelgard, absolute fury in them as he aims a hand at her, black goo exploding out of it as it attempts to wrap around her. If successful, he would then try and slam her into the ground, multiple times.
The circle of fire behind him grows larger, the chaotic energy in the air grows thicker.
Edited by Icyheights on Nov 9th 2023 at 7:25:23 AM
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"Given that she had just attempted to stab Loptous in the face, Nicole is summarily blasted onto the roof of a nearby building by his retaliatory shockwave. Letting out a grunt that sounds more annoyed than anything else, she takes a moment to haul herself back up as Emblem Corrin answers her question.
"Great. The strongest attack I've got, and the most it'll probably do is get him wet," she mutters, leaping off the roof to rejoin the fray.
At Corrin's behest, Nicole notices Engage!Anna activating her own Engage Ring.
"So, this Anna's got one of those rings, too. Hers is Camilla, right? You think it's packing enough firepower to at least do more than just annoy him?"
She then activates Dragon Vein, using it to conjure several large chunks of ice above Loptous in a bid to rain them down upon his head.
-
Severus is left suitably nonplussed by Grima outright tanking both the Shadow Katana and Jake's axe. As such, her fell light hits him dead on and sends him crashing to the sand near Tharja.
"Argh... Well, whoever you are, I'm afraid this is where your little game ends."
Stabbing the Shadow Katana into the ground, he leans against his weapon's hilt as he struggles to his feet. He picks the sword back up, gives it a little whirl, and sends multiple fireballs plummeting like meteors towards Grima from the sky with a wave of his free hand. Afterwards, he glances at Tharja.
"I don't suppose you've developed any hexes capable of destroying whatever sort of demon she might be," he says.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Nov 9th 2023 at 3:45:01 AM
Ikaros
"-hmm? Oh, that?"
She summons the Spidertron and it thunks on the ground before standing up.
"I had made it myself, back when I was stuck on Nauvis for a few months. I challenged myself not to use my powers there, and it was interesting... Nothing like the game I played, it took... a lot more hands-on stuff."
She smiles slightly.
"I do occasionally challenge myself in case situations like this arise and I can't use my powers."
Chaos Control
Ranviris blocks the darkness owl... thing? That they accidentally hit before leaping back... only to get hit by the fire moments after. With a yell of pain, they come unfused and crash to the ground. Avi weakly drinks from his Flask of Crimson Tears, and then runs over and pours a sip down Ranni's throat.
"Ngh... Avi..?"
"Yeah, it's me, get up..!"
He pulls Ranni to her feet and resummons his brush, which he sways in a large arc, making a flow of ink that races towards the Nightbringer. Should it hit, the demon will find themselves restrained by the ink morphing into chains. Ranni, on the other hand, is taking a moment to catch her breath. She willingly took most of that earlier blow, and as such was more injured than Avi.
aeiou: the secondSacred Pinnacle
With Kratos down, the Stained Zinogre gives him one last thunderpunch (not the Pokemon move) before focusing on the Artemis abomination thing. Black stained blood leaks out as The Hunter lands their shots but it ignores them, opting to run at Artemis and weaving just barely past the sword slam (to the point some fur is singed) to meet her charge with an electrically charged claw grab.
They might be tempted to just let that land to sap more electricity, though if they try to avoid it they'll find it going for another one right after. If it does connect though, they'll find Dark Matter tendrils extending out of its wounds to grab them and begin forcibly draining the black lightning back out while also trying to crush them to death.
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."Ikaros's Carpet
"Yeah, surprisingly given the options I had that was the best solution I could come up with... though if I made one now I'd probably use something more specialized. What I would use though, depends on if I'd be allowed to 'cheat' with magic or not."
Artemis pulls her laptop back out and boots it up, and after bit of fiddling with numerous annoying anti-virus popups and newly updated programs opening themselves, she connects to the spidertron and sends it in a repeating loop around the crater-marked field.
"This is... kinda tame compared to some of the other stuff I managed with tech, though said other stuff was from another universe entirely."
Artemis stretches a bit and sets her laptop on one edge of the chair she's sitting in.
"-actually, this chair was a gift from a universe's greatest inventor. I still have some of the gear based off their designs, if you want to see... Though some of it is reliant on magical energy to work."
Edited by RainbyPlays on Nov 9th 2023 at 6:55:02 AM
aeiou: the secondIkaros's carpet
She was just finishing up her sandwich, a small burp coming out of her before her head perks up. Pausing her game on her handheld she brushes her hands off on her shirt before speaking.
"It isn't a lot to ask for at all! I got you!"
She would say this as she grabbed the sattelite out of Icarus' hands, before she opened her portal she would look to him.
"Where too? Don't want it ending up in the wrong spot."
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"Ikaros
The robot strains his mind for what could identify his homeworld.
"It's a... universe without a lot of magic... You'll find a large portion of stars encased in Dyson spheres. And if you can make out that detail, my kind has probed at least 30,000 different universes for data at this point, and they keep a steady inter-universal connection with about 20. Is that enough to identify the universe?"
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.Ikaros's carpet
She nods her head, opening up a portal, the entrance her signature red and blue cloudyness, as she winds up her arm, lobbing the satellite through the portal like some kind of sports star.
After she's done, she dusts her hands off, looks at Icarus and gives a thumbs up and a smile.
"Done and done!"
"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"Yuji is blown back by the stomp but jumps back in time, attempting to shield someone with his body. He's a good boi, so he turn on other people to check on them. He does so in time to see some mysterious sights, like Nicole having a suit of armor or Anna as well. He also, more importantly, see that Loptous has fended them off quite well, given how fine he seemed to be.
Damn it! I didn't distract him in time! Yuji prepares to jump back in but Loptous deploys his defense and Yuji... doesn't back out. He instead bends down and rip off a piece of the right part of his pants, exposing up to his right knee as he start wrapping the tissue around his mouth and nose. It probably wasn't up to par, but he imbue the clothing with his own Cursed Energy, hoping to ward off the poison that way.
You could say it's a reflex born of the Black Flash but he'd have done it regardless. And speaking of Black Flash...
I gotta hit this guy at least as HARD as I hit Sukuna back then! And add Black Flash on top of it! Sukuna sees that an Anna is going below Loptous but that isn't his destination. Instead, he decides to target the head, attempting to hit a powerful punch on Loptous's chin. He swings his fists about eight times at great speed, with strength like modern artillery, before he finally finds his pace for a
BLACK FLASH!
He throws a mean jab with black sparks coming off it, attempting to, if not hurt Loptous, distract it at the worst moment. He'll then keep hitting regardless. Why, should part of Nicole's ice miss Loptous, Yuji grabs it out of the air, imbue it with his Cursed Energy and try to slam it on Loptous's face, with so much strength that it'll shatter in spite of him putting his energy there.
No! You ain't running away! Not this time! wow i shouldn't have yelled hope my scarf is gonna be fine
...
Lucina elsewhere glares at Hilda. But she knows that she doesn't have the luxury of fighting her. Not while Julius is active. She turns to the other Ishtar and nods: now was the time for action. And she didn't see fit to ask questions when the situation was so hectic.
Right! Lucina flourish her sword. Ishtar is powerful but she's up against a fully-healed version of herself and Hilda with Kishuna gone. And everyone else is fighting Loptous or... another Grima?!
I challenge my '''fate'!!! Lucina points her sword to the sky and let the tip of it shine brightly. Doing that seems pretty dumb when she's still near two enemies, but then she once again let Galeforce buff her up, with the gesture of her pointing her sword being accompanied by glowing multicolored afterimages. She needed all the speed and strength possible at this point.
And Julius had yet to see for himself the costliness of giving Lucina so many enemies to accrue experience on.
The last Exalt (of her time) then speed off running towards Loptous, cracking the ground at her feet and leaving out a single trail of multicolored light in her wake. Throwing herself at Loptous in a way that could be mistaken for a Super Saiyan, she clutch Falchion between her hands and burst straight through his poisonous smoke, attempting to stab him in the middle of the head after everyone's turn attacking him.
She goes in like a light missile, with as much speed and power as she can gather at once. This was punishment for every Einherjar enslaved to his whims. To every victim of his amongst the worlds he'd visited. To the fallen Shepherds. It was for Samsara, Donnel, Laurent, Niagara, Miriel, Morgan, Saizo, Takumi, Xander, Oboro, Beruka, Corrin, Gangrel, Emmeryn, Scarlet, Sakura, Ryoma, Dozla, Rennac and countless more!
Yuji, seeing this, attempt to grab Loptous's chin to hold him in place. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
No time for empty boasting or quips. If Lucina's Falchion even get an inch deep between Loptous's eyes, she unhesitantly goes SHINING FINNGGEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR SWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! point-blank, hoping to blast him in the face with her full power. And the explosion engulfs her as well, but Hyper Mode shields her well.
Lucina's sleeves and cape are gone, and her skin is burned and damaged on her arms, legs and face, but she stands defiant as the explosion send her reeling backwards close to the group. Holding her sword pointed at Loptous, Lucina stands defiant.
JULIUS! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE RIGHT HERE AND NOW! She says, as she prepares running in again.
Should the explosion be successful, Yuji's legs are left sticking out of the ground he's dug in. He sticks a thumbs out to reassure the others though. What a good boy!
...
Sarah smiles a wide grin at Eleven, agreeing silently with her. As she pulls up with the weapon, however, Sarah's reaction is immediate. She slams her hands against her ears, seemingly meaning to protect them, but screams in pain from the ensuing painful attack. She twist and shout in mid-air, as if seized by a great pain, but is aware enough to look at Eleven.
... And see that she's busy. Because she caught Sahdri in her attack.
Cittufeni! No! Sarah had grimly expected that to be the result but she's enraged enough to drop her pretense, instead approaching Eleven while she's distracted to try to knee her in the neck with a vicious kick. Then, with the same leg, she attempts to repeatedly kick her in the torso and face at great speed before flipping up to try to kick her in the chin. Then she does a full vertical spin to try to smack Eleven on the skull, with full intent to send her flying to the ground with a downward kick.
However, Sarah then flies down unbothered, attempting to catch up to Eleven to grab her by the head and toss her to the ground even faster, with the speed and power of a goddamn meteor.
And then she up and try to stomp her in the torso/back/whenever she lands, with such power as to carve an enormous crater on the land all around them.
Sarah had gotten wary of sound attacks following Eleven's scream. And she knew that those were a weakness that Sisters were "vulnerable" to. Since Eleven had acquired a suit to ward off her electrical attack, she probably had acquired a way to exploit that as well. She'd need to see the Arena's Cinke to see if she was okay... Yeah, to see if she was okay.
The Necrosword was made to be much more than a plug for the ears but Sarah had done just that. With her Necroplug well in her ears, she was safe. And because Sahdri wasn't, she decided to keep the object intact for the beatdown, so as to ensure that Sahdri wouldn't immediately be back on her feet.
But she would be. She'd figure out how to tune it out. Or would just rip her ears off. Whatever.
Edited by Bolded1 on Nov 9th 2023 at 1:19:32 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterIkaros' carpet
Icarus raises two thumbs. "Thanks, I owe you one! I've been stuck in this universe for quite a while - the satellite is gonna send a message to my kind that I'm stuck in the Arena universe. Hopefully they'll bring a portal soon."
He looks around.
"Though there's definitely still a couple of things I wanna do before I leave. Like building something without multiversal tech that can fight Sarah."
If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

The Cauldron
Yakedo reaches her hand out to 'grab' the spear with the same force she's been using. She wrenches it from the Ork's hands and simply forces it as hard as she can into the green-skinned brute. Multiple times.
"This is starting to bore me. If I were in my own world, you would be a hard fight. But in this world of abundant magic..."
Yakedo turns to the last Ork, not giving it any chance as she begins to increase gravity a hundred-fold around it.
"You're nothing but a warm up, it seems."
Yakedo doesn't care if this kills the Ork or not. She sees the last remaining target on the field- Gor-Rok -and leaps upward, her Force thaumaturgy propelling her in a method akin to flight, though it's more like changing gravity around yourself.
"Another beast..?"
Then she notices Luin, and hesitates for a moment.
"But someone's injured..."
A quick decision later and Yakedo lands near Luin, digging in her bag before pulling out a large jar of softly glowing blue salve. She also grabs some other supplies- bandages and the like. She doesn't seem to mind the massive beast that is Lutemis, though she does seem cautious.
"You don't look to be in the greatest of states. Take these."
Should she be allowed to, Yakedo will start salving and bandaging Luin's wounds. The salve has some sort of magical property- slowly closing wounds or at least making them smaller. Were she out of combat, she would stitch the wounds closed to make the salve work better- but the risk of the stitches popping back open is too great, and she doesn't have the time, and... this spot isn't clean in the slightest.
If she's refused, for any reason, she'll just set the jar of salve on the ground.
Edited by RainbyPlays on Nov 9th 2023 at 9:34:12 AM
aeiou: the second