Sanji's about to smash out of the building as soon as he hears a pretty lady is nearby, but he remembers it has to be Iris. Aka, she's taken. In respect of that, Sanji holds back, blushing and focusing on his Haki instead.
Still, he was now ready to rumble if needed. He would not allow that fiend to so much as graze her.
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"They did it... They...completed you..."
"Honestly, you're pathetic, Zero."
"What?!"
X and Zero both gasp.
"You didn't give in when I died. In the depths of despair, you pulled yourself up and found something to fight for. But you got infected with a virus and gave in just like that?"
"What...are you saying?" Zero puts a hand on his head, as if the confusion is causing him physical pain.
"I'm saying I'm ashamed of you for walking the path of destruction..." Iris -another- activates her Laser Sword.
"And I'm going to put you in your place myself!"
"These things you're saying... Iris wouldn't say that." Zero's hand digs into his own helmet. "You're not her. You're not the Iris who died in my arms!"
Activating the Z-Saber and flying in, he roars, "YOU'RE NOT IRIS!"
"Maybe not."
Zero's crushing overhead slash is caught in a Blade Lock with shocking ease, Iris -another- using the same defensive posture as Colonel.
"But I'm everything she was meant to be." She twists and pushes, knocking Awakened Zero back.
"I didn't come here to calm you down. I came here to stop you, and if that requires force, I'm more than ready to apply it."
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This battle is bound to be a destructive one. But Wily thought of that, and has Glass Man warp in, putting barriers around himself, itself and the other Robot Masters. One for each.
And from then on... he watches.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 14th 2024 at 2:54:21 PM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."OH SHIT she's in danger
MILADY!!!! Sanji charges through the wall ahead of him and make a break for it, dashing in mid-air at incredibly speed and forming a cone of air around himself as he try to slam Awakened Zero in the back with a kick for the ages.
HER HAIR COULD BE MANUFACTURED OR SOMETHING BUT YOU WON'T GET TO SO MUCH AS TOUCH A SINGLE STRAND TO FIND OUT!
Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 14th 2024 at 9:59:20 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"Ooookay, that's... really not how I saw this playing out," Nicole mutters under her breath. "Thought the plan was to talk him down and make him be cured willingly, not piss him off and provoke him into a fight."
She jumps from the rooftop, spreading her dragon wings wide as she flies towards the fray. As she does so, the Arcane half-dragon can't help rolling her eyes at Sanji yet again.
"Oh, god..."
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 14th 2024 at 1:31:00 AM
Drought
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The yeti-elf glances at the laidback gangster with a fanged grin on her face.
Vanilla comments to Jigen, "Nice goatee, man. You're pretty stylish, aren't ya? And what are you planning with that?"
KiriK
A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the point of Jigen rolling up.
Chihiro, on the other hand, blankly stares at the Jeep. "That isn't nearly big enough to haul it away."
Knowing what Jigen's here for because he was the one who called him, Lupin just snickers and gives the Ant-Men a shooing gesture. "You guys have to help finish the well!"
Then he turns to Luna and just kinda...stares awkwardly. A nervous sweat drop rolls down his forehead.
"Chihiro, what did she say?"
As Chihiro takes off the translator device and gives it back to Lupin, he also repeats what Luna said.
"Ah, I get it. your best bet in that case is to find a powerful Psychic-type Pokémon. They can just...beam knowledge of human language into your mind, see?"
Reploid District
Being in the middle of a Knockback Slide, Awakened Zero is easily struck by Sanji, and the blow makes him double over.
Shaking his head and once again reaching to grab it, Awakened Zero cackles as he rises upright. "You think... YOU have what it takes... to defeat me?"
He raises his hands overhead, then pumps them at his sides, an aura of pure malice and destruction erupting out of him. His already-red eyes turn a deeper hue, the whites turn black, his skin darkens, and his hair pales as he taps into the Surge of Murderous Intent.
"I...am the new God of Death. And here and now, I vow... NOTHING WILL BE LEFT OF ANY OF YOU, BUT DUST AND ECHOES!"
GRAVITAS BATTLE: MUGEN ZERO (I'm My Own Master Now)
Mugen Zero uses Messenkou, punching the ground to send out an array of energy blasts in all directions. Then he punches the ground with his other hand to use Shin Messenkou, making more energy blasts come flying straight up out of the ground. The projectiles are all over the place, and they can pierce through his enemies and their defenses, immune to being deflected.
Iris was built with knowledge of Zero's vast array of techniques. She weaves and spins through the energy blasts, getting in close to land a spinning slash on Mugen Zero.
X calls upon his Next DiVE Armor
◊ and flies back, out of the projectiles' range, charging up energy in his Buster.
Metal Sonic forms a Black Shield barrier around himself only for the Messenkou blasts to pierce through it and blow him away. With his speed, he closes right back in, throwing a retaliating kick up at Mugen Zero's chin.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."A god of death? I guess I'll be a god-slayer by the end of this! Because you aren't going to hurt any of these ladies, damn it! Sanji yells back, before he start running forward, using his impressive speed and reflexes to start dodging. Now, it's a lot of orbs, and so he's unable to find a purchase with which to strike in time without getting swarmed.
So he try to make himself an human shield by wading closer and closer, trying to force Awakened Zero to prioritize him.
Still, seeing Iris making a maidenly charge through it, Sanji decides to throw away caution to the wind and approach as well, raising his right leg and coating it in flames as he brings it down towards Awakened Zero's head. Concassé!!!
Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 14th 2024 at 11:22:58 AM
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Uzi squawks in alarm as she barely avoids the Messenkou, bio-wings rather suddenly forcing her backwards as she starts going Solver mode.
"This won't go like last time!"
Her arm starts morphing into some kind of horrifying bio-mechanical blaster cannon, which proceeds to spit a glob(?) of plasma goop at Zero. It does try to curve around Sanji to avoid friendly fire.
Drought
@Chihiro:
"You don't say," Jigen snarks. "The jeep is just a ride. THIS is the golden ticket," he says, presenting an Ultra Ball that I assume was stolen from somewhere before tossing it to Lupin out the window.
Nicole weaves about through the air, unleashing Arcane Beam after Arcane Beam at the barrage of energy blasts as she does everything in her power to evade them. Then Shin Messenkou catches her off-guard and shoots her down, sending her crashing to the ground.
"Y'know, Darth Vader... I've actually met gods before. You sure as hell aren't one."
As she hauls herself back up, Nicole activates Dragon Vein in order to send massive chunks of ice plummeting towards Zero before rocketing straight at him. Regardless of how Zero handles the ice raining down upon him, she follows up by attempting to seize him by the neck, lift him off his feet, and chokeslam him with all her considerable might before moving to punt him like a football.
Vs Zero
"Ready for round two?" Trio says haughtily as the fight begins. He uses Time Slow, revealing he still has the stolen abilities from last time, to make avoiding the projectiles easier. He then follows up by firing a charged up beam of Evil Energy at Zero.
Drought
"How is that dinky little ball gonna help?" Takane asks, perplexed.
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."Vampire Duel
Slayer is impaled and set ablaze, but while still skewered on the sword, he attempts to punch down, smashing Flandre headfirst into the ground, then swing his leg to kick her away.
Vs. Mugen Zero
You thought Mugen Zero was done punching the ground? Fools.
As Iris, Metal Sonic, Sanji, and Nicole get close, Zero raises a fist overhead as the power of the Satsui no Hado flows into it.
"Kongou... KOKURETSUZAN!"
He then punches the ground again, creating a wall of destructive purple flames around himself to stop the melee attacks and inflict massive damage on those in close reach. Trio's beam and Uzi's glob both pass through to hit, but Zero shrugs them off.
Metal Sonic gets sent flying. Iris pushes through to land her slash in spite of the damage, only for Mugen Zero to grab her by the face and slam her down into the ground. Dark flames well up around his fingers.
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"Zero... Did you come to save me?"
"Yes. Hang on!"
Memories of a life not her own flash in the mind of Iris -another-. Though bewildered, she kicks Zero in the chest, forcing him off, and rolls onto her feet in a cartwheel motion, taking a counter stance as soon as she's upright.
While still charging up his Buster, X summons a laser sword. With an overhead swing, he launches two gigantic sword beams at Mugen Zero, then fires the DiVE Stock Charge Shot, a large golden energy wave. Befitting the 'stock' in the name of the attack, he can now fire that beam three more times without having to charge again.
"He's a master of close-range combat! Stay out of melee reach if you can!"
"Now you tell us," Metal Sonic snarks as he stands up. He starts dashing in circles around Mugen Zero, firing plasma blasts at him from a distance.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 14th 2024 at 7:02:49 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""Eurgh. Okay, let's try..."
She summons a holographic gear in front of her extended palm, and using the [AbsoluteSolver] 's telekinetic abilities, tries to scramble and shake and pulverize and generally make the ground immediately under Zero's feet VERY CHAOTIC to try to throw him off, at least for a moment.
/\。。/\Nicole just manages to come to a halt in time to keep from colliding headfirst with Zero's wall of purple fire.
"Oh, yeah? Well, so the hell am I."
Activating Dragon Vein once again, she floods the ground beneath Zero's feet with water in the hopes of dousing his flames. She then fires an Arcane Beam directly at his chest even if her ploy fails to dispose of the violet inferno.
Gah! Sanji is thrown off, not having expected his opponent to be so fiendishly clever as to punch the ground a second time, Sanji get thrown off. But the unholy flames have flames of their own to surmount, and they coat Sanji's entire body even as he goes flying!
He gains bad burns and visible marks from the impact - but nothing that prevents him from looking defiant as he coat himself in fire.
THE FIRE WITHIN ME BURNS BRIGHTER THAN THE FOUL FLAME AROUND ME, MISCREANT! NOW, GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!
Sanji kicks the air with both legs, then proceed to lean forward and hold his arms to the side, joining his legs together to flip himself in mid-air and point them at Awakened Zero. Then, he attempts to slam into the villain's side while wreathed in flames. On a successful hit, they'll even briefly engulf Awakened Zero, briefly adding burn damage while he's reeling from the strike.
ONDO RARE STRIKE!
Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 14th 2024 at 2:41:37 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterStorm, Withering Dream
After defeating his foes, Cittufeni glanced at the beam cannon in his avatar’s hands. He ran a deeper scan on it, understanding its mechanisms and blueprints, before the weapon began deconstructing into thin air.
Then, on his mech’s right shoulder, appeared a smaller and lither version of the cannon, capable of packing almost the same punch while being considerably more maneuverable and hands-free. And speaking of, it almost instantly pivoted at the new machines. While it lined one up for a shot, Artemis burst from the ground. It was an odd request…yet one he’d fulfill nonetheless, because who knew, maybe some grand secret of human nature could be unveiled from it. Or maybe he’d just watch her kick a robot in the face. Either way, he grabbed hold of Lagann and, in the span of the second-and-a-half it took to rear his arm behind him, analyzed approximately 30,000 clips of Major League pitchers throwing down-the-plate fastballs. He mimicked their posture and launched Artemis towards one of the machines, while his modified beam cannon fired at the other.
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"Your tower?" Seated upon a nearby rock, listening in to the conversation, a nearly eight foot creature sat.
His blade was splayed across his slap, sparks running from it with every swipe of the whetstone in his hand. The odachi’s surface was black, with little rivulets of latent gray running across it, thrumming with energy. The grip was coiled, complete with the design of some sort of leviathan. His face was stooped in focus on his weapon as he spoke, a deep and grumbling tone.
"Said you wanna get back." He at last lifted his head, revealing two smoldering horns and narrow, ember eyes. A mane of white descended from his scaled and fierce face. "How much you willing to pay? I do work, but not for free."
Truth be told, Oni was just as clueless as the rest of them. He’d been in the area completing a contract—the corpse of his target, an utterly huge and supernatural crocodile, was still bound in rope behind him—when he stumbled across the oddity, not too long ago. He’d decided to stick around for a bit in hopes of finding a nice bag of gold to go along with whatever he was about to do, and it seemed fate had generously rewarded him for his patience by crossing his paths with a potential customer.
Edited by ISZATSO on Jul 14th 2024 at 9:44:19 AM
With great power…you know the rest.Dust and Bone
"Well, there's not much time to waste then, is there?"
Ethan grins slightly as the portal appears, stopping his Skill before leaping through...
...wherever he lands, he's quick to fortify.
Simple Skill: Element - Earth - Manipulation
Innate Skill: True Sylvan Magic - Moderate Warding Sign
Advanced Skill: Conceal Area
Walls and a ceiling of sandstone rise as a golden rune appears, which are quickly hidden to prying eyes. The rune, in particular, will reinforce the walls and make barriers where doors should be, only collapsing and reforming for Ethan and his allies.
"This should hold... hopefully. It isn't gonna withstand anything really strong, but hey!"
Ethan then waits for everyone else to arrive.
aeiou: the secondDrought
At Lupin's remark, the Ant-Men answer with a loud, but muffled EEEK!
Garofalo: H-How did you noticed we were procrastinating?
The 4 run quickly towards the well works.
Mall
The Rollers watch the whole tutorial with interest.
Wow... Looks pretty funny! Could we try it too, please?
Three freaking ghosts!Adventures In-Sanity
Save
- Adventures In-Sanity - Demonstration
Of course, the best way to learn something is to do it yourself (POV: Me learning how to ride a bike), and is good prep for the Rollers to get used to how combat would work during the adventure. Trick-Stars moves backwards to give the Rollers space as Hammer Bro rolls the dummy Goomba at the Rollers to initiate practise.
Once the battle starts, the fastest Roller's set of Command Blocks will hover above them.
Du-Du-Wa-Do-It, Arena KatsudouDNC
Kana had been discreet until now. In the end, she couldn't have cared that much about money. And she'd rather have let people decide what to do since she already thought she had good equipment. Armor, a legendary sword, her powers... There were others within the group who'd need to buy things and she thought she needed that less.
That, and it was still difficult to chew on everything that had happened yet. Kana was happy to just mull on that and didn't really care about what was happening now.
But with a threat close to them, she managed to snap awake. Almost blurting out what came next.
I'm a water dragon. I can be a bait if you want.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterMall
The practice battle begins! Luna goes first.
''Weapon? I don't think we have one... I think I'll hit "Attack".
Upon doing it, Luna rolls towards the dummy and headbutts it (thankfully she is wearing a helmet).
Simon is next.
You said any piece of cloth work as a weapon, right? I hope it doesn't means what I think...
Upon hitting the "Weapon" cube, Simón rolls towards the dummy and kicks it with the skate. Whew!
Last, it's Nina's turn. She tries the "Item" cube, and eats a burger.
Three freaking ghosts!Jax would've liked to take more than a few cautionary steps away from the Dead King as Shadow Bonnie emerges like a terrible entity straight from the Void, growing and pulsating with terrible power that even Jax's non-magical mind could perceive, but it was impossible. After this 'cutscene', Jax begins a swift retreat, even before the game falls apart.
The mild collapse of the group's dynamic as the end seems ultimately nigh is not something Jax is willing to stomach for longer than a few moments.
"Calm down everyone! A solution will present itself! Wouldn't be much of a game otherwise!"
Dust and Bones
Huh, so that's where east is! Denji had been running in the desert for a little while now, having elected to turn off his transformation to preserve blood. He was far from The Needless in his usual state, but he figured that he'd get to drink a lot of stuff once he'd make it. So he wasn't that worried.
As he ran, he still flicked his tongue on his left cheek to try to nab a bit of sweat rolling down his skin. Delicious!
He could see something in the distance. A shivering mass of something. Was that the town? Or was it another weird optic illusion the heat would throw at him? He figured he'd know the answer quickly enough.
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Nicole, figuring Zero had decided that the time for talking was over and that he probably wasn't going to let the others carry out their plan, prepares to jump in. That is, until the new arrival gets a reaction out of Zero.
"Alright, let's see if she gets through to him or not."