Eve's Hospital
"Thanks!", Kel says. Aubrey glances at him, unamused.
"Uh-I mean, thank you, miss!", Kel quickly says. Hero sighs a little.
"I suppose we can take our leave then."
"But I still don't have a place to stay.", Sunny says.
"T-there's a hotel not far from here, didn't you know?", Basil asks.
"Yeah. But... no money."
"I have enough to work with for a little while. We'll use that time to try to find a way back home.", Hero says.
Sunny nods to him, then turns to Eve and does a polite bow.
"Thank you for everything."
Above Blackreach
"Oh?"
The storm of slashes strikes the entire group of Maras, ending up with them phasing through the illusions and striking the real deal. She back off a bit, dispelling them.
"My my, if I'd known you'd have such a short fuse... oh, who am I kidding, I'd have done it anyway!" , she grins.
She now opts for the other side of the proverbial coin, trying to assault Odio's senses with horribly loud noises. If it stuns him at all, she'll try to leap in and grab his head. If successful, she'll start brutally slamming him on the ground head-first over and over again.
-
Lord Duckus turns to Milo for a moment, who nods and brings out some kind of warhorn. The spiritual hound blows into the horn.
Odio won't hear a thing, but Mara suddenly pauses.
"... Uncle?"
If Odio got caught in her attack, he'll now have a small opening to try to get out of it.
Reyna VS Kaiba
The Tuner card destroyed is Maiden of White
◊.
"Maiden of White's effect activates. Upon being targeted for an attack, I can Special Summon either a Blue-Eyes White Dragon or a Level 1 Light Tuner monster from my Graveyard."
Oh shit! He's gonna-
"I Special Summon Sage with Eyes of Blue in Defense Position."
... wait, what? He didn't summon back Blue-Eyes White Dragon?
Indeed, Sage with Eyes of Blue reappears on Kaiba's field. Even Mokuba seems surprised by this play.
AP: 4/20
LP: 7600
Hand: 4
-Mausoleum of White
-Blue Eyes Jet Dragon
-Sage with Eyes of Blue
-The White Stone of Legend
-Spirit with Eyes of Blue
-Blue-Eyes White Dragon X2
-Maiden of White
-Dictator of D.
-Neo Kaiser Sea Horse
-Dragon Spirit of White
The Other Place
Unlike Sombra and Konngara, William is 100% certain that the first condition applies to himself.
Fortunately, Sectonia is a large enough target that danmaku is actually practical against her as a way of dealing damage.
The Darkling flies up and around the lightning, then casts Devil's Gift "Abyssal Flames" , launching a wild spray of fireballs at Sectonia. Some of them change trajectories to orbit around her when they get close, while others fly right on past or through.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Apr 25th 2025 at 10:57:53 AM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Oh, is this us? Breaking into the jail? How novel.
In the back the Medicine Vendor gently wrapped another set of origami to pur into his bag. He looked to his scales from his packs and recognized almost all his equipment here, would be useless. Bar for a couple of his more... interesting charms.
"I'll be on the ground in due time. No worries."
He made no motions he was approaching the drop.
AwawaJudicial Malpractice
Mal is snapped from his thoughts by an human calling him "alien". He'd have rudely snapped something back, but sadness had dulled his senses, much like anger had against Cad Bane. And as such, and in a darkly comedic way, he fails to realize her double-entendre. Which is that things are going to ensure that he'll definitely be someplace else by the time the sun set on him.
He doesn't even know what a chicken is - only that it's edible. Apparently.
... ill give you my share. He says, turning over in his bed to have his back face her, subtly telling her he'd rather be left alone.
Meanwhile, Maul's own Mobile Suit is deployed to the forefront!!
The Force User knows he can handle himself against one or two Mobile Suits but several would be bad. Deeming it prudent to equip himself appropriately, he'd taken steps to bring in his own vehicle if the Force and his good ol' twin-bladed Lightsabre didn't work out.
GUNDAM Modèle 0085 : "Lion Pourpre" - Hyakku Shiki.
◊ This one had Maul's red-and-black color scheme all over it, and it also had the addition of having a particularly unique blade to it. One that remained sheathed to its side, having visibly not been part of the Gundam to start with.
It boasted a high-powered laser rifle as well as vulcan 60mm cannons on the side of its head. Its forearms were wider and thicker, as if to serve as proper shields. It was a grand suit that overall fit its wielder well. And he was eager to see how it'd fare in battle, even if he meant to waste as little ammo as possible in preparation for the final showdown.
By his side was a red Zaku. This one was a spare one, meant for Mal to climb into and use some of his piloting skills to conduct. However, Maul had assured it had a spare AI. Rudimentary. A relic of the Clone Wars. How well these Gjallahorns pilots will hold up to it will be interesting to see. It laid motionless, walking with oddly smooth movements whenever it had to move itself, but otherwise staying back.
It was equipped with the standard Zaku grunt suit ability - a big machinegun with a drum and an axe. Nothing to make it stand out apart from its red color scheme, which would mean that Gjallahorn was doomed to fight off a foe three times faster than the average Zaku.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterJudicial Malpractice
And so they arrived. The hatch above opened up, the sub still remaining further from the coast as Hiling's Hygogg climbed out and dove out the side. She swam along until reaching the coast, emerging like some creature of the black lagoon and scanning around with her monoeye. The Hygogg had a compact heat signature, much like the Acguy, and so them detecting her with IR was unlikely.
"Coast is clear." she informed them via lasercomm, slinking off to the side of the prison gates. Inside the courtyard they could see the Graze patrols, still unaware of them for now.
That was their cue as the U-801 got as close as it could without beaching itself. Besides their own equipment and the Capules the regular crew used they could oddly enough see one of Neo Zeon's reverse engineered GN-X's with a blueish colorscheme simply sitting inert. Quaint.
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."Reyna vs. Kaiba
Reyna narrows her eyes, then continues.
"I play Option B now, granting Hiryu Agility. With it, he can attack outside of the Battle Phase, and a total of two times per turn. For the secondary effect of Option B, a random one of your monsters will lose 600 ATK and DEF."
The secondary effect hits Sage With Eyes of Blue.
"Just what I needed. Now, Hiryu can just barely send your Sage right back to the Graveyard!"
With his second attack, Hiryu cuts down the Sage, and Kaiba loses 100 LP.
Reyna draws another Option A card from Hiryu's attack.
"I didn't mention it since you had no monsters on the field last round, but all of the Spell Cards I can get from Hiryu have the secondary effect of reducing a monster's ATK and DEF by 600. I play Option A again to grant Hiryu another Shield and inflict this debuff on your Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon!"
She does that.
"With that, I end my turn. My trump card is in my hand~."
- S. A-Class Strider Hiryu (Shield)
- Genprey
- The Admiral
LP: 1600
AP: 11/16
Judicial Malpractice
Domon steps off the boat and onto the shore.
On foot, with his cape wrapped around him to hide his silhouette. Even though he arranged to bring his Gundam along.
"I'll barge in and get the guards' attention. You use the opportunity to slip past the front line."
He hurries off before anyone can object.
Mission: Analyze the Giant Monster
Mothra drops the leg bone.
"So, what, we're trying to stick these two things together?"
Kong nods and grunts in slight excitement.
Android 21 smirks. "Save the glue. I got this."
She points an index finger at the bone, then fires a beam of pink energy that crackles and zigzags like lightning. The crackling energy hits the bone and spreads to engulf it in a spiky pink aura. She then points her other index finger at the spine and does the same thing.
Android 21 pulls the objects together with telekinesis, making their zigzagging auras merge together. Then there's a big poof, and the energy disperses, revealing Kong's Battle Axe.
She poses triumphantly in front of her product as Kong picks it up.
Edited by KiriK on Apr 18th 2025 at 7:03:18 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Judicial Malpractice
Maul and the Zaku follow in. Due to standing out more, Maul hangs a bit further back. His gundam's fast enouhg that it can get in position for him to get in position anyway. That same AI could be used for it to fight, it'd just do so with less skill. But it was built to take a beating and avoid one.
The Zaku does the same. It make an attempt at blending in by just crouching low with its arms hiding its monoeye. Cute.
As Domon goes off, Maul deeply sighs over the intercom. He could get the Medicine Vendor not having a Mobile Suit but this man had one. A Gundam too. And he rushed in?
Perhaps I should have ran a background check or two as to assert... mental stability.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterHub Centralis
Sunny and his friend leave the hospital, with Sunny having said goodbye to Tony on his way out. The five of them head for a hotel. Kel, Aubrey and Basil are talking to Sunny, who in his usual way is mainly listening and nodding. Everyone knows he's actually listening though and not just pretending to listen.
Hero is still conflicted on many levels. He's very glad to see that Sunny is safe after all. And he's glad he was able to make the effort to see him again. But he's not sure if he's ready to rebuild their former friendship.
Understandably, his friendship with Sunny had been weaker than everyone else's from the start. Hero was more so with Mari, and they were older than the other kids, and Mari was Sunny's sister. So of course Hero, while still friends with Sunny, was the one with a bond not as strong in comparison to the others. Still, he'd liked Sunny. He was a good kid.
After what had happened though... and what he had been told...
Maybe he isn't ready. Not yet.
But for everyone else's sake, he would try.
Reyna VS Kaiba
Kaiba looks genuinely taken aback once again. Attacking outside the Battle Phase?
Sage with Eyes of Blue is destroyed, and Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon loses 600 ATK and DEF.
"That doesn't matter.", Kaiba says. "It's still strong enough to destroy your monster's shield, and then afterwards, that monster itself."
He draws a card.
"I summon Master with Eyes of Blue
◊ in Defense Position!"
The Tuner appears, sporting 1200 DEF. That's enough to withstand Hiryu's attack at least.
"Oh! A Tuner! Maybe he's going to Synchro Summon!", Mokuba commentates.
Kaiba's grinning. He does seem to have something in mind.
"I attack your Hiryu's shield with Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon!"
The mechanical dragon roars and fires at Hiryu to annihilate its shield. Due to the effects at play, Hiryu will survive and Reyna won't take battle damage.
"I end my turn. Now let's see if that supposed trump card of yours can stand up against a Blue-Eyes monster."
Mokuba blinks. He's a little confused now. Kaiba could've won this turn had he brought back Blue-Eyes White Dragon instead of Sage with Eyes of Blue earlier.
AP: 5/20
LP: 7500
Hand: 4
-Mausoleum of White
-Blue Eyes Jet Dragon (-600 ATK/DEF)
-Master with Eyes of Blue
-The White Stone of Legend
-Spirit with Eyes of Blue
-Blue-Eyes White Dragon X2
-Maiden of White
-Dictator of D.
-Neo Kaiser Sea Horse
-Dragon Spirit of White
-Sage with Eyes of Blue
-Trade-In
—
Noah looks amused at this play.
"Don't tell me you lost your edge, Seto.", he chuckles.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Apr 21st 2025 at 10:49:03 AM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Mission: Analyze the Giant Monster
Sofía Luna looks awed at the two bones welding into a brand new weapons, and meanwhile she explains:
This Giant bone came from some ancient ruins... I was there, too. There were some engravings of more beasts like Kong, or Godzilla.
It turns they were the good guys all along. One of those monsters, whose name is King Ghidorah, is a conqueror, and both Kong and Godzilla fight together to stop them. Oh, and almost forgot those Eruseans... We should do something to stop them!
Three freaking ghosts!Lost Forest
Shadow smiles, giving each of the Ultimate Dragon's heads a scratch on the chin and a pat on the forehead, while also giving the central head a gentle hug around the neck.
"I missed ya', buddy. I knew that someone as strong and adaptable as you wouldn't let yourself go out for good that day. I told Kaiba you'd be back, and I bet he'd love to see you."
He then quirks an eyebrow at the Ultimate Dragon's distraction, turning to see what they're looking at.
"Oh, huh...maybe he'll get the chance, judging by this feeling? Man, it just seems like I'm getting all the luck today."
"Life isn't a fairytale. There isn't always a 'Happily Ever After' waiting for you at the end of the road." ~ Isengrim Heath-StalkerFilia
Mixing her finger through the tea again, Filia's briefly drawn into Refia's gaze.
"Interesting."
She commented, her voice dimmed by the last syllable as her gaze was drawn into the teacup. The swirling, dark liquid suddenly took on a crimson hue as the demoness was drawn into a less-than-pleasant memory. Her expression sank further, eyes glazed over, and her breath became shallow. The world blurred around her, her ears filled with the distant noise of fists sundering flesh, pulled from her brief fugue state by the teacup's whirlpool settling.
"Back to why I'm here."
Her voice was weak, at first, shaky, and shallow.
"I am the last of my kind."
She paused, crafting a script for her pitch.
"Frankly, I am ruler of nothing. My responsibility is to ensure my people, their culture, and their lore endure. My role as Lucifer is more accurately that of a keeper."
Filia took a sip of tea to coat her cotton mouth.
"Up until recently, I'd succeeded. I-"
Her voice cracked, the demoness masking the reason why by clearing her throat.
"Have faced death before. It is my people's way to battle, never to cower, but this templar... I've never seen anything like him. He's of a proverbial strength, his very presence made my skin crawl, the feeling was alien. Like every fiber of my being feared him even though I didn't?"
She paused, taking a breath.
"It wasn't enough to kill me, he marched into my home, burned it to the ground, destroyed the only gift my father had ever left me, and then I had suffered enough for him to kill me. I was... powerless. Against my people's most ancient foes, I was a speck of dust."
Filia buried her face in a hand, peering toward her tea with a deep sigh.
"The most powerful man I know battled this templar, and it ended in a stalemate that unleashed an entity of pure hate on the Arena. This fanatic will not stop until my people's record is wiped clean, until I'm dead and buried with not one inkling of a trace."
Her voice cracked on her next words.
"I need help. I can't face him alone, and I fear for my people's legacy. If I die, there is no one to carry the torch, no one to remember my name and my people. It is my duty, as it is his, to end it. I am not asking for merely a blade in an army, Refia, I ask for assistance in any capacity you can offer it."
Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Apr 20th 2025 at 1:00:38 PM
Babey Mansion
"...There's only so much I can do..."
Refia looks down at herself.
"I...have my own battle to fight. But you have my support, and that of my friends."
She reaches her hand for Filia's shoulder.
"A demon of my kind is practically immortal, only in danger of dying for good when in the physical domain of angels."
Edited by KiriK on Apr 18th 2025 at 8:48:03 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Judicial Malpractice
Strolling behind, the Medicine Vendor walked behind them with his sandals, humming softly as he followed slowly behind Domon.
"Must say, you are of the eccentric variety aren't you?"
He looked to the massive suits of his comrades, raising a brow at the absurdity of it. What a way to break them free. While following behind Domon, he did get out some... pockets of gunpowder for later use.
AwawaCentralis - Church of Gor
"..!"
Well, that made Artemis jump. She even almost moved to grab a weapon- but, after a moment, thought better of it and let out a deep sigh.
"Nobody's used that name for me in years. I thought I'd outlived it, seeing..."
...
Artemis goes silent. The incident that broke her and sent her wandering, even until now. When she came back to her home and found her whole world dead. All because she had wanted to play the hero... and someone else had wanted to send a message.
"That name died the same day the planet it came from did. It's been dead for 60 years. And despite that, I'm still not..."
Strong enough.
It wasn't something she talked about often. The reason behind the reason. Why she traveled beyond just seeing the sights and experiencing all she could. It was all to fight against an army that outmatched her in size and power. An army that stemmed from one being- one whose power she was still nowhere close to reaching.
Who?
Well, that wasn't something anyone else just knew.
Yes, even Ana. There's three reasons for this- explaining all of it would take too much time, and the being in question is in a similar (generally strange is how I would put it) state of being. Third, it's a reference to a book series just like Artemis' main powerset is/was and really doesn't make sense out of context.
The Cathedral
Artemis nods, listening closely throughout- at the dust part, her eyes flick over to the mirror. One of the only things in the room that's dusty, and also doesn't shine with her light- though seeing as the very air here does, it's not noticeable. When Thessaly asks about the door, Artemis finally speaks up.
"-ah, that leads to the engine room. It's an addition to the original structure- a lot of these things are, actually. They became part of the ship, part of my experiences..."
The door clicks and swings open with a metallic creak, revealing a room that is scarcely decorated and taken up by machinery, glass tanks of an odd green-hued liquid, and- in the center on the back wall of the engine room -the engine itself, which seemed to have the liquid pumped into it. Yet at the same time it looked like it could split open like a steam train's furnace...
Artemis speaks up once more.
"None of this was made by me. Well, it was built by another version of me, but... It's a long story."
Cairo
Situation V
"Yes."
Was the response Ethan gave Lily, his focus still on Kain.
The Sylvan man wore naught but a tattered set of plainclothes, never having gotten a chance to put his armor back on throughout all the chaos. He was down to nothing more than his fists and his Vril- though he could enhance the former given this environment's power. Ethan manifests two steel-forged gauntlets on his hands, and takes a fighting stance.
When he heard Kain's laugh, Ethan's face visibly curled into an irritated snarl for a moment- though it quickly passes and his face is a mask of neutrality again.
"Out with it already. I've grown tired of your games."
Situation VI - I
Candoric was breathing heavily as the fight ended, gritting his teeth as he called upon the Warp once more to restore and revitalize his battle-worn body. The more he used it, the more things from beyond took attention. He could hear the whispers even as he stopped...
"I don't know how much more of this I have in me..."
The man's voice came out tired- exhausted, even. His body was at its peak thanks to his biomancy- but his mind was growing more exhausted with every moment. When the rift opened, and Luin emerged, Candoric righted himself.
"One last fight, huh. I'll give it all that I have left."
Situation VI - II
Tashum let out a sigh as the beast finally fell, before letting out a yell to the heavens that was both a victory cry and a challenge to anything else remaining (that was hostile).
...after a few moments, Luin appeared and Tashum listened. His mind focused on other things for a moment, and he sighed.
"I have one back home who is probably worried for me. I can't in good conscience throw myself into danger without them knowing."
With that, Tashum spreads his wings and flies off into the sky, headed for the desert expanse once more.
Situation VI - III
"YEAH!!"
The Rogue Idol falls, and Jayce raises a victory sign towards the air with her right hand, right before she unceremoniously falls through a portal. As does Alison, who was rushing over to check on Jayce.
Wherever they are now, they at least have some words to say to each other.
"Are you ok??"
"Yeah, I'm... alright. Now that the adrenaline is wearing off..."
Jayce is silent for a bit, and she looks terrified.
"...I almost died."
"-well, yes, but you saved me and we both lived so I'm thankful for that. You want to head home? I'm beat."
"Probably a good idea... Won't they need us here, though?"
"Naaaaah, that universe has a way of making things work."
"Alright."
aeiou: the secondMan or
Something in Emma's reflexes made her reach for her gun but she fights it and crosses her arms instead while listening. She has heard of old mage guilds destroying their records, leaving many details of her own history left to interpretation so Filia's pitch catches her eye. Although hesitant, Refia adding 'of my friends' makes her brush it aside.
"Yeah, friends. Well, I command a unit from..." Emma's faint awareness of her own country's "preferences," juxtaposed with this whole situation, makes her briefly pause. "A group that... Does a good job at... What you're asking— I just gotta brief the higher ups before they can be deployed!" Her body language marks her to be on the fence.
On the subject of weaknesses.
"I'd rather not say what kills me to someone I just met but you can rule out most conventional non-magical weaponry."
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Situation V
Yet Kain said nothing further. He leapt first at Ethan, joining his hands into a spiked bone club that he smashed down where the Sylvan stood. Lily moved in quick, cutting straight through his torso and cleaving the First Vampyr into two…two that quickly returned to one. She watched with eyes afflicted by anger as his flesh hewed itself back together. Kain turned mockingly to her, exposing himself to attack from Ethan. "You thought it’d be that easy, little lady?!"
Situation VII
Batman cast a glance at Marvin, himself sturdily on edge as he gestured for the child behind him to find safety. "We need to get the kid to safety." Already he was devising methods, routes out of the sewer catacombs and out of the city…when those open passages burst apart suddenly, blocked off by a simultaneous crumbling of stone with no evident cause other than the whims of this creature before them.
The creature that the man cracked in the brain with a staff. Bestial Yakub shrieked and recoiled; but what at first looked like a gesture of pain was revealed to be windup when the same arm it’d drawn back swiped forwards with a vengeance at Saffin. Its attention was next turned to the two side-by-side further back, crawling rapidly towards them. Batman reached for a tool at his belt, and a pillar of smoke rose around him and Marvin to mask the vigilante as he repositioned, and Marvin too were he to move away as well. Of the two, Bestial Yakub targeted the slowest; this being the limping and already-injured caped crusader. Batman put his all into making distance between himself and the monster, but Yakub was rapidly gaining on him…
Some Time Earlier…
She was sick of waiting. This was the decision Luin came to as her foot tapped finally against the boarded floors, the past half-hour devoured by a nervous bouncing of her knee. She breathed deeply. She was sick of waiting. A familiar feeling washed over her.
She began to approach, but…no, something felt…missing. Her hair stood up on the back of her neck, feeling a familiar presence both there and not.
Luin paused midstep. She turned to face seemingly nothing in particular, and spoke in a quiet voice that still might’ve been audible to Joe over the roar of battle.
"I know you’re watching me."
A terrible tearing sound filled the air as, against the wall which her sight was pointed at, a rift in reality was torn open. From the purple gash poured forth three figures: The Giadrome Rime, Seliph’s horse, and Sheol emerged.
Luin couldn’t help but smile as her monsters began to wreak havoc upon the Orks and the Poachers.
Her gaze found an unpopulated wall in the sparsely crowded room, bearing only five others: Annie Leonhart, a triad of Poachers, and the General herself. Luin imagined a rift there. She whispered: "Follow my eyes, Sheol."
But in the quiet cellar, it did not escape the General’s notice. "Stop her!" She roared to her guard, dictating a finger Luin’s way as the woman leapt from her seat. The trio closed in and Annie closed in faster, but it was too late: Luin was already in motion towards the wall, where rested one of Sheol’s gateways. Annie was the only one smart enough to not chase Luin, but rather to beat her to her own destination, passing through the portal first. Luin was only second through the rift meant for her, and third place was won partly by a nameless Poacher. Partly, because the only clue of him was an armored arm that dropped to the ground when the portal closed behind second place.
There Luin and Annie stood, locked together in a stalemate of sight. Luin watched Annie, watched her hands and footwork, waited for a sign of action; as Annie did Luin in return. There they stood, locked. Annie noted the unwavering conviction and the lack of fear in the other’s expression, as if she was somehow certain that any victory between the two of them would be hers.
It was Luin who risked the first word. "Are we on the same side?"
"That depends," Annie returned with cautious edge, "In what manner?"
"Grimgor is our shared enemy. The General—I’d like to believe—is my ally just as much as she is yours. So what does that make us?"
The scout was silent awhile. The tips of her mouth sunk. "I need to return you to the General."
Luin sighed. As if daringly, she said: "Then try."
And try the woman did. Leonhart lunged at Luin, drawing steel in less than a blink and aiming it at the latter’s throat. Annie was faster than Luin. Sheol was faster than them both.
A crimson filter draped her unflinching gaze as Luin lowered herself in front of Annie, the woman cloven in two. A fatal injury to anyone, but not one of her kind: A titanshifter. She recalled the grievous wounds Eren had sustained against Stained Baltaos, how he’d survived despite that. Which meant Annie would too. Despite lacking both legs, the scout’s gaze was hard and of equal resolve when it met Luin’s.
"When you’re ready, I’d like to fight alongside you against our shared foe. In the meantime…" The queen gestured and Sheol lifted Annie like a cat its cubs, carrying her elsewhere. Luin sighed, prepared herself. "Sheol, open as many rifts as you can across the city. I need an audience."
NOW — Slaughter Palace
And audience she was granted.
They were massed there, in Sheol’s strange dimension of dark makings and impossible shapes, those who had opted to stay and fight. To them who wished to leave, Luin passed no judgement; and a gateway out of the city was offered if needed. But they’d been filtered out now, and all who remained would soon be her allies in what was maybe the most difficult battle of her life. She’d tried to pick up some others, too, outside those three big battlefields. Cairo was a big city, and there were far, far more fights going on out there. Some were being won, some lost. More of the latter than the former. But if they took out their leader, threw the greenskin army into disarray…
It’s the only chance we have of winning.
Luin swallowed silent air before she turned at last to address the crowd. "I’ve…never been good at speeches. So I’ll keep it short." Her eyes scoured their faces, found some familiar ones. Venti. Megumi. Nick. Sebastien. Aelun, there at the forefront. She smiled unconsciously, the drums of her chest calming. "We’re about to fight for our survival out there. If that’s not enough, we’re about to fight for the survival of everyone else in this city, and in however other many cities that bastard sets his eyes on after Cairo if we don’t stop him here. Because if we don’t, I promise you, we never will. The momentum him and his army would get from winning this…" She sighed quietly. One side told her they needed to know the stakes, but the other reminded her not to concede defeat so soon before the battle, to feed the fire of their fighting spirits. "And if even that’s not enough, then fight for glory. Fight for the history books. Fight for whatever reason you wanna fight, but just fight!"
A distressed meow rose over the scene, from Sheol perched above them all. He had that look in his eyes, the glaze adopted when seeing through the veil into the Arenaworld. Evidently, Radahn’s stand was not going well. "That’s all. Sheol?" Behind her, the border between worlds cascaded, and into the Slaughter Palace prodded a wall of light. Her gaze lingered on the crowd of warriors. Aelun wore a proud smile. She drew Lannéadrom from its sheathe, lifted it and let the moonlight glisten off the blade’s edge. Then Luin turned and charged howling into war.
Situation XII
Amid the rubble of a ruined plaza, General Radahn and Grimgor Ironhide warred. The eminent victor, though results were far from decided, seemed clear: Radahn was fighting on the backfoot, each of his dual greatswords dedicated to fending off axestrikes. The Alpha Orc battled with almost impossible speed; it seemed somehow he was beginning a new attack before the previous had even ended, striking with a completely different force from a completely different angle each time. Despair flashed into Luin; for even a demigod and the most renowned general in his own world to be forced on the defense by this creature…
In that small moment she hesitated and slowed, Guts passed her. The swordsman’s roar rumbled the very ground as he—merely mortal—threw himself into the rumble, earning a strike against Grimgor’s side and leaving a visible marker of his deed in the greenskin’s black armor. A smirk played at the orc’s lips. He shook the game up, suddenly reached for Radahn’s wrist and flipped the Starscourge onto his back as Grimgor addressed himself to the newcomers. "NOW, DIS IZ MORE LIKE IT." The beast spoke with a controlled malice, lower in tone than his contemporaries yet exuding far greater strength. "COME ON, YA GITS! SMILE! ROAR! FIGHT!!"
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With great power…you know the rest.Hub Centralis - Outside the Church of Gor
Ana's grin turned back into an ordinary smile.
"You will understand... eventually. They all do."
She began to walk away. "It only takes... a while."
Just as suddenly as she had begun to speak with her, Ana left Artemis behind.
Though, and perhaps Artemis herself would not notice, there was something strange about her.
The last time anyone had seen her, one of Ana's hands had been completely replaced by machinery. Now, though, not only were there no signs of the grievous injuries she took in her previous fight, but...
Her hand was back, too.
Yatta!THE CAIRO TRAGEDY!
Megumi Fushiguro
Was not at his first time seeing Grimgor Ironhide, having remembered the Orkish leader standing as an ally of the General during the Poacher raid. He knew enough about him from his encounters with previous Orks to know that someone who lead the orks was very likely to be a ton of troubles. And he'd told Yuji that much during the trip, with the latter listening to every word.
Also, must you carry that sword with you all the time?
I dunno, it's pretty cool. Said Yuji, holding the fallen Borgut's massive sword over his shoulder as if it was pretty casual. It was. And he eyed Guts, the coolest-looking guy of the bunch, to position it the way he was holding his own massive sword. Trailing behind them, but still keeping going, was Reddie Mercurie, still fresh off her fight with the shaman and listening in on everything.
If these orks could indeed spread, it was best, for her own plans, that they be squashed here and there. That, and with every victory she had, she learned something useful. Tapped deeper into the Force. As Luin said, fighting was the reason as well. It was win-win.
Oh, well, who's going to possibly say "no" to her after a speech such as this? She said, hefting her shoulders, with a smile on her lips. And I know to always trust a woman who's covered in blood - so long as it's not her own. And with that, she charged off, as did Yuji and the others. To battle GRIMGOR IRONHIDE, the massive tank that could move with the speed of a bullet if it wanted. A terrifying combo that was able to pull even a demigod on the losing end of a fight with them, even if not all of them knew Radahn.
Wow! So which one is-oh, right. They had said "greenskin" so it was probably the greenskinned guy. Seeing Radahn get flipped over, Yuji ran over to him first, briefly discarding his massive sword to try to catch the gigantic Demigod. He felt the tremor of his narrow save echoes across his bones. And the sheer weight of the good general weighted upon Yuji's flesh tremendously, but the young man held firm, acknowledging that the Demigod was a worthy ally.
Here ya go.... back into... the fight! Yuji would heft down and then try to throw Radahn back into Grimgor for the Demigod to slam into, having perhaps had the warning to use a technique of his own. Meanwhile, Reddie rushed into battle, raising her left arm to try to blast Grimgor with force lightning. A bruiser such as this likely wouldn't be that much hurt, but it was her best move, so she wanted to know in advance how much trouble she gleefully put herself into.
The blue streams of lightning weaved through the air at great speed, desiring nothing more than to sear the prodigious greenskin's flesh.
As for Megumi, he thought of this a little bit more. Freakish durability or not, he has weak spots. Megumi thought, clapping his hands together after summoning an orb of water in front of himself. But first, he dove into the shadows, waiting to appear on the shadow of whoever was closer to Grimgor at the moment.
There, he'd fire Piercing Water, aiming for Grimgor's eye and counting on the projectile's speed to pierce his skull.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterMission kaiju thing I'm too lazy to find the title
"Right... and I assume this means this place will become a battleground." Yumemi muses.
"Err, perhaps it's best we leave then?" Ruukoto nervously suggests.
Judicial Malpractice
Gekito no Naka Sorezore no Yakusoku - G Gundam OST
Suffice to say, Domon gets spotted fast. Two Grazes (11 and 12) stop what they're doing and aim their 120mm guns at him.
"HALT! Stand down intruder, you are trespassing in state territory!" one of them barks out at him as alarms start ringing.
Hiling watches him go, wondering how humans can end up even stupider than usual. She leans around the corner to watch him go and potentially give covering fire if he somehow doesn't die immediately. The others of course don't get spotted since Domon is rather distracting right now.
—
Primary Objective: Breach into the prison compound
Bonus Objective: Domon destroys 4 Graze units on foot, then destroys Graze Commander with a super move.
—
Allies:
Hiling Care - Hygogg: Attack/Bruiser
Edited by shroobot3000 on Apr 19th 2025 at 6:18:52 PM
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."Mission: Analyze the Giant Monster
"...Let's go back to the helicopter and update them on the situation. Then everyone who isn't confident in their odds around three-to-four Titans can vacate while they have the chance."
Android 21 leads the way back.
—
Over on the communications end, the pursuit team has made it into Megalith and successfully convinced the Erusean forces to stand down.
And then Android 21 returns, grabs Schwarz's comm device, and speaks.
"Godzilla Tracking Team, this is the Godzilla Research Team.
We've determined his final objective: Skull Island!"
She then turns to Schwarz, Croque, and Yuka.
"Yeah. He's coming here. Anyone who doesn't think they're safe around a bunch of giant superpowered animals better clear out."
"...I'll escort noncombatants out with my helicopter."
Judicial Malpractice
Domon smirks and...slows down, simply walking toward the Grazes as he throws his cape back to show his jacket.
Just as he gets between them, he draws a katana from a sheath on his back and does a wide slash, with enough force and reach to slice off 11's left foot and 12's right.
Then he looks back to the shore, his grin widening.
Edited by KiriK on Apr 19th 2025 at 10:30:15 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Judicial Malpractice
Darth Maul at first believes that Domon is a deeply troubled man who leapt head-first into danger to find a quick and painless end to his excruciating life, whatever it involves. And for a second, he's angry that his operation was co-opted by someone looking for a Suicide by Cop via super mechas.
Yet, seeing Domon's confidence, and the way he walked in, Maul find himself no longer quite so unconfident in Domon's confidence. A fact which come to roost when the young man essentially proceed to stylishly reveal his sword. A clunky, useless, uncivilized weapon from a lesser age, as far as Maul cares, and one that would be cut apart or melted by mere proximity of a lightsaber.
And yet, as he watch Domon unsheath it...
He will succeed.
And as Domon does it, Maul smirks in annoyance and giddiness. Domon was a show-off, but he'd buy them considerable time. For not even a Jedi could do what he just did with that meagre steel stick. Deciding to strike while the iron was hot, Maul thought adequate to move in while the base was still going to be reeling from the assault. Because they'd be swarming the place soon.
Bane. Assist the humans. Maul's Lion Pourpre blazes in like a very confident partygoer at a feast he wasn't invited in, thrusters set alight as he try blazing a path into the courtyard and towards the prison. The Zeku behind him does not answer. It simply grab its machinegun and turn its entire body to look at Hilling, completly silent.
Should he succeed at getting there unprovoked, Maul would grab a saber from its sheath - the Mandalorian Darksaber, a weapon built by Mandalorians to equip the strongest of their Mobile Suit with. With Maul wielding it high, he try to slice through the Graze 10 with an agile spin of his sword before turning around (using the momentum of said spin) to try to blast at the Graze 9 with his beam cannon, using the Force to assist his aiming.
Prison
The noises outside cause Mal to startle upwards from his bed in surprise, the young man's brain finally start to work again, because he quickly establish a connection between what the young human woman said and what might be happening outside.
What the kr-what the heck is going on?!
Edited by Bolded1 on Apr 19th 2025 at 5:18:55 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterYuka and Laura - Kaiju Investigation Mission
Without saying a word, Yuka boards the helicopter. She knows full well that an Ultimate level Digimon fighting a Mega level Digimon would be catastrophic on the part of the Silphymon scientist. Godzilla is on WarGreymon's level, maybe even beyond. And playing with nuclear fire is a dumb idea, anyways.
Edited by josh6243 on Apr 19th 2025 at 8:38:59 AM
Thank you Domon
-was what he heard as the Mecicine Vendor seemingly skulked by silently, using the distraction provided to run beneath the sheltering shadows of the prisons outter perimeter. The birds he had summoned earlier finally came down and perched along the wall, tweeting to eachother very casually. Hiding the fact they gave the Vendor a wide view of the ward's external defenses.
The Stained Fortress
As the poacher was knocked to the ground, they heard something land behind them, with rattling scales. But the size was patget than that of a Seregios, and the poacher only had a brief moment to avoid the crashing rufous-scaled forewing of his attacker.
Veyolkos wouldn't let him rest for long, giving him enough time to taunt Luin originally. But now he leapt forward again, slamming the calloused wing knuckles against the ground in hopes of catching the poacher again.
Its the Big Boss
Grimgor reminded Venti of Acksnur. Imposing, immovable, just in it for the kill. The thrill. The glory.
Such a sight gave Venti the knowledge already, and the fact he flipped a man probably many times heavier like they were a lightweight, that this Ironhide fella was an instrument of war itself.
Venti quickly wrnt on the offense as well, joining Megumi in firing a rapid volley of anemo bolts into Grimgor, trying to stay out of reach of his axe swings. Each bolt was intended not to pierce the Greenskin's armor, but apply enough kinetic force to lock him in place. A focused hailstorm of materialized gales trying to make sure Grimgor didn't gain any ground.
AwawaMission: Analyze the Giant Monster
"As tempting as it would be to have a close look, Ruukoto wouldn't forgive me if I didn't observe from a safe distance." Yumemi chuckles, opting to take the offer to vacate the premises. Ruukoto nods fervently.
Judicial Malpractice
Suffice to say, losing parts of their legs to an on foot human is not something the two Grazes expected. Like two stooges they collapse towards each other (the base type Graze is a rather delicately balanced machine under gravity) and crash into the other, landing in a heap and effectively taken out of the fight.
Hiling blinks, impressive. She has to ask him how to do that later, she muses as her Hygogg flops forward and dashes along the ground; sliding closer to the fight. She shoots her waist mounted machine cannons at Graze 8, getting its attention and presumably the red zaku assisting her.
Maul meanwhile succeeds in cleaving 10 in half but the beam shot simply splashes over Graze 9 like a piddly water gun, the mobile suit dashing at him and raising its axe up high in preparation for a strike!
"What the hell is going on!?" barks the base commander as his Graze and Graze 5 decide to close in and start blasting at Domon with their 120mm rifles!
Amidst the chaos, nobody pays the Medicine Vendor any mind.
—
Primary Objective: Breach into the prison compound
Bonus Objective: Domon destroys 2 Graze units on foot, then destroys Graze Commander with a super move.
—
Allies:
Hiling Care - Hygogg: Attack/Bruiser
—
Inside the Prison
"Ohh sounds like fun to me." the lady smirks, idly watching guards run past them in preparation for a breach no doubt. She frowns a little though. "Shame about the chicken pot pie though."
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."

Mission Kaiju idk
"I don't carry adhesive or rope." Yumemi shrugs
"And I can't weld organic materials together...well, most of them." Ruukoto says.
Nazo Unleashed
"I'll have you know screaming is therapeutic." Marxkirby quips to Mordekaiser. He's grateful for the aid but then before he can say anything else they're suddenly in another dimension (but not Another Dimension). As Mordekaiser does his combo to set them up, Marxkirby yoinks one of the bits of sharp steel.
And eats it. Because hey he's still half Kirby.
In a flash of light, his jester cap is replaced with the characteristic Cutter Kirby hat and he smirks as he grabs the boomerang blade and wields it as he charges in after Mordekaiser. He slices at him once, then goes into a combo of rapid slashing strikes. Then, instead of a Final Cutter attack, he spreads his wings which shotgun out a quartet of blades at near pointblank range as a finisher!
Lourent, Judicial Malpractice
Off on the coast of Lourent sat a large prison facility managed by Gjallarhorn. Grazes stomped around the edges of the compound, occasionally stopping to scan the area with their cyclopean gazes before moving on with their patrol. Inside this prison is where they kept the more dangerous criminals who were still technically human scale. Neo Zeon terrorists, Pirates and of course poor old Mal.
"Hey, alien." remarked a prisoner
◊ from the cell sitting across Mal's own. She was leaning against the bars of her cell and leering at him, looking oddly smug for someone stuck in here like him. If he had paid any attention to the yapping around here he'd probably know she was a member some group called New Zion or whatever. "You should chin up ya know. It's chicken pot pie day."
While seemingly just being a bitch, she does give him a knowing look.
"I hear it's gonna be a real blast of a meal too." she grins at him.
—
Meanwhile outside the prison itself. The massive Mad Angler-class submarine U-801 was doing its final approach towards the exterior of the prison. Specifically nearing the beach that sat outside its southern walls. Minovsky particles being spread by the submarine carrier cloaked their approach, Gjallarhorn no doubt not being used to detecting for the abnormalities like the Federation were.
Our crew would be sitting in the main MS hangar, the one that actually opened up into the top of the submarine rather than one of the secondary ones that open into the water.
"I'd suggest getting ready, we're close." Hiling commented to them as she suited up into her jumpsuit, putting her helmet on and climbing into a MSM-03C Hygogg
provided to her for this mission. She'd be going in first to scope the coast before the rest of them would jump out.
Edited by shroobot3000 on Apr 18th 2025 at 1:48:48 PM
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."