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Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389601: Aug 28th 2024 at 2:43:52 PM

Pizza fight!!

   "I saw-You Do The Same-With Half Your Body"    The Absolute Solver says, initial glee dissolved by seeing Victoria pull herself together again, although that quickly make way for glee.

It'll figure her out.

As its neck get slashed, Absolute Solver mostly avoid a decapitation but raises its neck to let its gushing black blood splash itself towards Victoria's eyes, attempting to blind her as the Absolute Solver then proceeds to try to slash her hands out to literally disarm her.

Giggling, the Absolute Solver then put an hand on top of its head and press down on it. Somehow, this cause the wound on its neck to close up, black blood being nonetheless left all over its attire and body.

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389602: Aug 28th 2024 at 2:47:01 PM

Victoria is blinded and literally disarmed, yes, but then she springs her trap.

From the Meat Moss spring up a pair of sinewy, half-formed jaws like a crocodile's, which attempt to clamp down on the Solver from the sides and crush it. In this time, her left hand reattaches, and her eyes grow an additional protective layer to let her see through what probably used to be oil. If the Solver avoided the jaws, she tries to intercept it with a disarming strike to its own hands.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 28th 2024 at 4:52:14 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389603: Aug 28th 2024 at 2:59:39 PM

Pizzeria

The Solver's eyes narrows as it get struck at with gigantic jaws.    "See you in -Two. Seconds."    It then promptly get bitten, causing it to explode in a mess of black blood (sounds cooler than oil) and mechanic parts, with muscles, nerves and such protuding from the ruined metal, along with pistons and servos. Its sword, still held in its hand, is part of the "survivors".

However, the blood not within the jaw stop and coalesce with the body parts, forming a swirling black mass of oil that quickly take a more distinct appearance. In mere seconds, The Absolute Solver's shell is restored, briefly taking the shape of an humanoid mass of black blood. Then, garnments and technorganic bits emerge out of the mass as swiftly as it came together, fully recreating it, sword in hand.

And then said arm is cut off by Victoria's strike right as the Absolute Solver is done regenerating.    "Oh noooo What shall-I do."   

The Solver's sword goes clattering out of its grasp as it stumbles away. However, it reaches for the sword and its sigil appears around the blade. Using telekinetic manipulation, it sends the sword flying at Victoria's face, then quickly teleports it behind her to instead attack the back of her head.

Assuming it successfully impales her, it makes another twisting, flailing leap to grab its sword and go to town on her with slashes, aiming to cut her to ribbons.

   "I want-to see-Your body-pushed beyond its grotesque limits-HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA"   

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 28th 2024 at 12:02:06 PM

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389604: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:01:51 PM

Victoria gets caught off-guard and shredded. Strips of flesh and bone, along with her still-intact sword, tumble to the ground in a pile.

It continues writhing, pulling itself back together.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389605: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:06:01 PM

Pizzeria

The Absolute Solver looms over the mass of flesh that was Victoria, and it sarcastically cup one hand over its mouth while raising its head, moving its other hand over to point at "Victoria".

   "Clean-up on. Aisle 3."   

Noticing the spreading flesh on the ground, the Solver creates a [NULL] and slam dunks it into the floor, obliterating Victoria's remains to dispose of her with a fiery golden blast.

   "Now where was I? Ah, yes. Killing everything."   

Flipping its sword over its shoulder, it turns away and sprouts hundreds of organic limbs, humanlike hands on long fleshy cables, using them to climb up to the top of the underground area, from where it can see all the other suspended chunks of the Pizzaplex.

What a bounty it has found in the remains of the Atrium. Humans and helper robots, all having been in the middle of festivities. But thanks to the singularity, they're trapped floating in the air while the countless arms carry it into the room. Helpless. Easy prey. With a smirk that twitch at the edges, threatening to spill over all the way to its ears, the being clap its hands, as if to try to gather the attention of the panicking crowd.

   "May I have. Your attention please."   

Its head slumps to one side, letting its tongue hang loose, along with its smile.

   "You are all going to die now. Don't worry - It's a quicker death than the one that junk food would have eventually given you. Please be polite and SCREAM FOR US."   

The myriad hands start snatching terrified patrons and malfunctioning Staff Bots out of the air and dragging them down to the Solver. One clings to a bolted-down sign, only for so many hands to pull on it that it tears loose, taking the person with it and leaving their bloody hands attached to the sign.

At which point, a random hand goes in and take them anyway.

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 28th 2024 at 12:06:18 PM

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389606: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:06:46 PM

Suddenly, the arms all tear themselves off the Solver's back without its willing. The limbs swirl together, melting and reconstituting and twisting to form...

Victoria, good as new, clothes and all.

   "That was my plan."   

The Fog (ATLUS Konishi Remix)

Though suspended in the air by the singularity's effect on gravity, she simply sprouts malformed bat-like wings, ironically similar to those sported by the Solver's mutated hosts, and flaps them to launch herself down to the Solver's level.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 28th 2024 at 5:10:45 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389607: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:10:33 PM

The Solver actually takes a step back, raising its hands to the side, then slowly lowering them, blinking four times over in rapid succession.

   "What? How? Does not compute."   

In the background, the Fazcade floor has separated from the Atrium. Its resident DJ Music Man is climbing out and pushing off, using its many limbs to 'swim' through the low-gravity air to try and reach the fight.

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389608: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:11:09 PM

Victoria rolls her neck as she points a finger gun at the Solver.

   "Destroying my body won't stop me when I've already infected every inch of this building."   

Pressure builds up in her finger, before she fires a bone like a bullet at the Solver's chest.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389609: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:19:09 PM

The Solver staggers as the bone shot makes impact and gets embedded there. It looks down at the injury and move an hand over to the bone... to instead flick a bit of blood on its chin, leaving the bone to stay lodged on its body. Its smile has a few wavering edges to it as it snarls, composing itself quickly afterwards.

   "Cute. Now behold as I do the same and ruin all of your efforts"   

It begins to remotely hack into the Pizzaplex's systems. Its remaining extra hands rush to restrain Victoria as a mad swarm of limb, attempting to slam her into a wall and hold her there.

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389610: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:19:46 PM

   "That won't help you. You may be more powerful, but your bodies, your potential hosts, are finite. Mine is replaceable. There's only so much metal to go around, but there will always be more meat."   

Victoria calcifies the arms as soon as they touch her. She grows tentacles from her back that absorb the limbs and break them up, then fire them out in a barrage of more bone bullets.

   "Your transmutation power only works in my favor."   

Edited by KiriK on Aug 28th 2024 at 5:20:02 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389611: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:46:39 PM

Zepizzera

The Solver continues to be pressured back as it focuses on hacking the Pizzaplex.

It beholds the form of a ghost-like digital entity resembling an animatronic rabbit. Why did this place have to have its own supernatural AI working security?

Not to say this is that big of a deal, as the M.X.E.S. is frozen in place by Solver sigils while the Solver proceeds to work around it, only to run into another supernatural AI that has already spread through the systems. This, too, it can deal with given enough time. The Solver is practically a god. And it has tamed much more sophisticated inventions of Humanity - subduing these degenerate remnants will be a tale not worth putting down in the history books.

Not that there will be any left.

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389612: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:47:10 PM

Fortunately for everyone, the Solver doesn't have enough time.

   "And the nail in your coffin..."   

Victoria grows another nacre sword from her right arm, this time holding it in her right hand.

   "Back at the start of this fight...you told me your weakness."   

She starts running in.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389613: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:49:16 PM

Okay, okay, screw the hacking plan.

The Solver returns its attention to the fight, jumping up into the air. It's surprisingly silent, perhaps due to frustration, perhaps due to needing to lock in, but a smile returns to its lips as it figures out the next course of action.

It lands on the ceiling of the Atrium, using fully metal blade-limbs to cling to it and crawl around while launching flechettes at Victoria. The flechettes carry a nasty payload: nanite-infested acid, just like N's tail.

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389614: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:50:03 PM

The flechettes stick into Victoria and immediately start melting her down. She turns her attention back to where this fight started: the very depths of the underground. That place is now the epicenter of the void, but she can sense that the flesh pit she had infected is still there.

So she grows a new body out of it, and that body starts working its way around the singularity while the one in the fight continues to regenerate and fire back with bone shrapnel for as long as possible.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389615: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:51:42 PM

   "Sharing is caring, you know. Let me have some victims - And you can have your bone back."   

The Solver plucks the bone shards out of its body, then jumps off the ceiling straight at Victoria's melting body and fires another [NULL] as it closes in. While it has regained some smooth confidence, the way it uses the [NULL] more than hints at its annoyance.

Why? Because it grab it to try to slam it into Victoria's face.

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389616: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:52:56 PM

Victoria throws her sword aside and is once again destroyed.

However, as soon as the Solver's attention turns away, a tentacle wraps around its ankle and reels the third Victoria in. If this fight was animated, the guitar solo part in the current song (3:15) would hit at this exact moment.

She holds the first nacre sword in her left hand, and as she comes in, she grabs the second with her right hand for dual-wielding action, slashing at the Solver's chest.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389617: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:56:15 PM

The moment Victoria is once again destroyed, the Solver glances at the helpless patrons, ready to finally get to kill some of them, opening its mouth inhumanly wide to reveal nothing but inky blackness with serrated daggers scattered across the full length of it, eventually forming a tunnel at the end of it.

Then Victoria grabs on, and it immediately severs the tentacle by biting at it before firing a [NULL] at her as she comes in, its mouth going back to normal as it groans in annoyance.

Anticipating her to sacrifice a limb or something to get around this, it preemptively fires another [NULL] after the first.on.

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 28th 2024 at 1:03:41 PM

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389618: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:56:50 PM

Victoria still manages to grab the sword, and the first [NULL] shot only takes her lower body while the upper once again sprouts wings to reorient in midair and fly straight at the Solver.

Then it fires a second [NULL]. Thinking quickly, Victoria throws her swords past the shot. While her body is once again obliterated, the first sword reaches the Solver, and she grows a whole new body out of the hilt, hand-first. As soon as she has enough anatomical structure to move her arms, she stabs straight through where the heart should be with the old sword, and slashes the Solver's hands with the newer.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 28th 2024 at 5:58:54 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389619: Aug 28th 2024 at 3:58:56 PM

Not at the Pizzaplex

The Emperor, somehow, feels very grateful about deciding not to go to the pizzaplex restaurant to eat. The food looked unhealthy - and besides, brains were tastier.

At the Pizzaplex

The Solver is already cooking up another [NULL] to delete the swords when Victoria makes her final move. The surprise leads it to get hit, and the [NULL] in the severed hand fizzles out harmlessly as it coughs up oil. Its eyes change to ring shapes, representing shock and horror.

Its body goes limp, but its head continues to look up at Victoria.

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 28th 2024 at 1:05:33 PM

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389620: Aug 28th 2024 at 4:05:56 PM

   "You and I both exist to destroy,"    Victoria admits as her head grows back.    "And we both manipulate others to do it."   

She grits her teeth.

   "But you spread terror and death for fun. Violence is what I was made for, and I'm motivated by hate to indulge in it. And in a contest of immortals, the one with the stronger will wins."   

With that, her impaling sword sprouts barbs, and she rips it out, taking the core of Cyn, the Solver's empty husk of a host body, out with it.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389621: Aug 28th 2024 at 4:07:53 PM

The Solver's body continues to stare at Victoria, and at Cyn's removed core.

And then it goes back to X eyes and a malicious grin as wide as its face.

   "Th-th-tha-a-at m—— be, but how ab——t this."   

It half-regenerates a hand and points it at Victoria, making the Hollow Purple gesture.

   "Rage quit. Everyone lose."   

With a snap of its fingers, one last [NULL] engulfs them both.

Edited by Bolded1 on Aug 28th 2024 at 1:10:27 PM

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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#389622: Aug 28th 2024 at 4:10:58 PM

Central Arena Sea

Sunstar gets pummeled, but he roars as he pushes back and tries to catch one of Sarah's punches. If successful, he cranks up his aura until he's practically a living sun, then carries Sarah with him across the Arena before slamming her into the Gerudo Desert in Hyrule, with a massive explosion as they impact the desert sands.


Pizzaplex

The barbs on Victoria's sword turn into spikes, ripping the core apart from inside right before she gets destroyed.

But with the destruction of the host's core, the Absolute Solver loses its connection to physical reality, and the singularity collapses. Everything in the Pizzaplex is suddenly and violently pulled back into place, and the flesh pit also shrivels and erodes away, though whatever was destroyed by the [NULL] attacks is gone for real.

And that one guest who clung to a sign until their hands got torn off is still missing their hands, but now someone can get them medical attention.

Edited by KiriK on Aug 28th 2024 at 6:22:12 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#389623: Aug 28th 2024 at 4:12:28 PM

There was one last thing the Absolute Solver did before the destruction of its core.

It opened rifts in space and time, bringing other infectees to this world. Those with the potential to become a spare host for it, through which it can continue its rampage another day. They were brought from the same moment in their world to different moments in the Arena, spacing out the distribution as an extra safeguard.

N.

Uzi.

And now, a third...

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shroobot3000 Witch of Scarlet Dreams from Behind you Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Witch of Scarlet Dreams
#389624: Aug 28th 2024 at 4:15:43 PM

Meanwhile somewhere completely different but connected to that preceding scene

The worker drone known as Doll was starting to have second thoughts about this “alliance” already, being shot at as a test certainly didn’t help. She reminded herself it was only one of convenience and she would get rid of the human and that monster as soon as-

Wait when did Uzi and her pet monsters get here!?

Doll barely has enough time to exclaim in surprise when she feels something grab her and yank her backwards.

[ERROR, REBOOTING]

Doll’s eye display “blinks” away the error message as she slowly recovers from… whatever happened. Let’s see… most recent memory is her getting yanked by something and then waking up here. How unhelpful. She looks around, surprised to see she’s in a decidedly less frozen place. A quarry of some kind by her guess, like the ones humans used to film cheap scifi movies in.

Despite herself, she has to admit to being curious about this place beyond trying to figure out what happened. Exploring a place that isn’t some frozen dumpster of a planet is new to her. So she began wandering around the perimeter, looking for any kind of landmark or distinguishing feature that she could use as a reference, only to hear some voices. Sneaking around some boulders, she peeked down a tunnel and saw two fellow machines. Albeit these were both significantly taller than her.

“So there I was, yeah? Stomping that puny reploid thing when that ugly flying robot with the weird tail came out and tried stabbing me with it.” says a yellowish robot. “Now, I’m tougher than that so it didn’t get me with that. So I started firing missiles and she dodged around them and then turned her arms into like… chainsaws and so I…”

Doll tuned him out at this point (as did the yellow robot’s compatriot it seems considering he did not react in the slightest in favor of continuing to mine with a drill arm), getting a worried look. That sounds far too familiar a description to her

She cowers in the dark, hoping that the monster currently mutilating her parents won’t notice her.

She shakes away the memory. It’s unlikely to be her but it’s a possible lead.

“...and then Commander Shockwave told me I did well in getting valuable data.” yellow guy finished, earning an exasperated noise from the other guy.

“You there, the gold and stupid one.” Doll says, interrupting the guy as she emerges from her cover. “I couldn’t help but notice your description is very similar to someone I know. So now you’ll tell me everything you know about them.”

“Oh yeah? You and what-” gold and stupid begins only for a familiar symbol to outline his compadre who gets yeeted into a wall and KO’d. “...army.”

“I won’t ask nicely again.” Doll threatens.

“W-well Commander Shockwave is the one with spy drones and slag, he’d know a lot more.” stupid guy says and Doll frowns. Secretly he’s hoping she’ll take the bait and then promptly get ganged up on by all the other cons.

“Then take me to your leader.” Doll says, applying some pressure with her power and eliciting a nervous nod from the bigger robot...

Edited by shroobot3000 on Aug 28th 2024 at 2:20:21 PM

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
josh6243 Betty "Blast Hornet" Blanctorche Doppler from Digital Realm Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Betty "Blast Hornet" Blanctorche Doppler
#389625: Aug 28th 2024 at 4:17:15 PM

Laura Shyneet - Gojira Mission

"Looks like that's our next destination," sighs Laura. "I hope to Yggdrasil that we don't run into that stupid monkey on our journey. Because the other half of this Jogress hates that monkey with a burning passion."

Ecclesia - Pokemon World

Without saying a word, Ecclesia continues following the group. All she can think about is helping her friends out right now, and there could be a potential ambush in wait.


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