Col Saturn's attention is easily gotten by Pietro waving at him, and he nudges Alinivar with his nose to get him to look too.
"Hey, it's them!", Alinivar says when he sees Wanda and Pietro. He looks at the others. All four appear troubled for a few seconds.
Eventually, Larice is the one to break the silence.
"IT HAS TO HAPPEN. NIIUE'S PLAN HINGES ON IT."
"...Yeah, you're right. We've doubted Niiue's plans before, but we always went through with them, and it always ended up as he planned. We have to trust him.", Alinivar says, sighing.
The four walk towards Wanda, Pietro and Neuff. Alinivar lifts up a tentacle to say hi, and has a sad smile.
"Hey. Uh... you probably know what we're gonna ask, but I'll ask anyway. Is this a good moment to start our battle?"
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Wanda and Pietro wave back at Mike, then the former turns to Neuff, flashing her a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry, Neuff. We weren't planning on there being any killing to begin with."
Pietro turns to Alinivar.
"It's as a good a time as any. Don't worry, we're not gonna kill you guys or anything. Also, hope you don't mind if we let Neuff and the new guy here join us."
Duncan deactivates his platform, simply dropping to the ground to below the acidic steam, before firing making a cloud of his own, out of corrosion, which he then sends at Mike from below, which will damage him and his armor if he gets hit.
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.Alinivar looks at Neuff and Moonflame.
"I don't see anything wrong with it. That'll make this a 4v4."
He, Col Saturn and Zarbol then take a deep breath to stay calm. The four then look determined.
"Alright then. Uh... as Lucas's allies, and per Niiue's instructions, we'll have to try to stop you!"
The four take a pose.
Boss Battle!
VS Alinivar, Col Saturn, Larice and Zarbol.
The poses are the ones from their avatar.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Mike simply flies out of the cloud's way once more. However, what's left of the snow is eaten up in the process. "You're gonna have to do better than that." He tells Duncan. He drops down again, and blows up more snow, creating a punishingly cold blast towards Duncan that is enough to turn his armor brittle.
"Funny, I was about to say the same thing to you." he answers and his body is covered with a layer of red Hard Light, showing his Thermal Armor is active. "Though, have a taste of my new attack..." He grins and holds out his arm, a large amount of heat energy gathering around it, which stifles the incoming cold blast even more, but makes the armor on his arm brittle as it takes the brunt of it. Once satisfied with the charge, he releases the energy in a large laser beam, which divides into dozens of smaller, but just a s powerful ones that zigzag around and try to hit Mike from multiple angles.
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either."Well, let's get this over with! If anything, this'll be a good sparring match!"
Pietro cracks his knuckles, then takes up an Ass-Kicking Pose complete with a Bring It hand gesture.
"Come, let's make this quick. The sooner Lucas is cured, the better."
Wanda takes up a stance of her own as she readies herself for battle.
edited 26th Dec '15 10:07:23 AM by IchigoMontoya
Mike expands the cloud somewhat and spins it, refracting some of the lasers to reduce their effectiveness. He creates a cocoon of ice around himself from the snow, blocking them and melting in the process.
Mike creates another snow blast, but this time splits it into two to attack Duncan from his 2 and 10 o'clock. Meanwhile, a few small, sharp icicles are launched behind Duncan, attempting to damage his armor and cut him.
"Don't underestimate us.", Alinivar says to Wanda. "We're not on Niiue's level, but we're nothing to scoff at either. We know you mean well, but Niiue told us to go all out, so we will. Against our better judgement."
Col Saturn starts off the battle by casting PSI Quicken, raising the speed of all four of them.
Larice casts a stream of PK Fire Omega at all four opponents.
Alinivar casts PSI Empower on Larice, raising all his stats. That Fire will do even more damage now!
Zarbol casts PSI Reflect on the team. The next three attacks will have their damage reflected at the ones who sent them.
PSI Empower is not to be confused with Nightmare Empower, Niiue's technique in which he can bend elements (like the light around Pride that one time). PSI Empower can raise all of the stats of one person.
edited 26th Dec '15 10:11:35 AM by DevilPsyco
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Wanda quickly throws up a magic shield to deflect the PK Fire.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm not one to underestimate a foe. And just so you know, there won't be any killing in this fight. Nonetheless, Pietro and I won't go easy on you four, either."
She scans the four to try and learn more about them.
Pietro takes on his Chaos Form and whips up a fan of Chaos Magic, then uses it to blow the PK Fire sent his way back at the four aliens.
edited 26th Dec '15 10:23:46 AM by IchigoMontoya
"That good. We no kill either. Zoom.", Col Saturn says to Wanda.
Wanda's scan will show that Alinivar's kind of a Red Mage, and seems to focus on healing and stat boosting, along with the incredibly deadly PK Freeze to defend himself.
Col Saturn appears to be a Glass Cannon, in the sense that, if he decides to attack instead of stat boosting, his attacks will be devastating, but he doesn't seem to be that sturdy.
Larice is a Mighty Glacier, the strongest of the group, but also the slowest. Although with the stat boosts he's had, his speed is slowly increasing to dangerous levels. If taken too far, he could potentially defeat the four of them on his own.
And finally Zarbol. Despite his impressive speed, he's sort of a Stone Wall. His offensive moves aren't that big of a deal unless boosted, but he'll be hard to take down.
Unfortunately, Zarbol's the fly in the UFO, and he's too fast to simply be stabbed. However, since PK Reflect is up, he just lets his UFO get stabbed so that Moonflame gets damage as well. Thanks to the UFO being sturdy, it isn't too damaged.
Same goes for the PK Fire and the shockwave. They all just take it because PK Reflect will deal the same damage back to their senders, Pietro and Neuff.
Since three attacks have been reflected, the effect of PK Reflect fades.
Zarbol now emits sparks from his UFO at Moonflame. If they hit, they'll deal damage, and there's a 30% chance that Moonflame will be paralyzed in place for a little while.
Larice casts PK Beam Gamma, the instakill version, at Neuff. Although he makes sure his PSI Program is switched from kill to faint, so getting hit will result in fainting on the spot instead of death.
Col Saturn casts PSI Defense Up on Alinivar. With him being the main healer, he needs as much defense as he can get.
Alinivar glares at Pietro. A Mook's glare can Diamondize an opponent. In other words, there's a chance that Pietro will turn into solid diamond, and thus be out for the rest of the fight.
edited 26th Dec '15 10:38:45 AM by DevilPsyco
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.She teleport out of the way, right next to Colonel Saturn, and goes for a sequence of punches and kicks. Her Super-Strength and Super-Speed will make it hard for him to dodge, especially when she jumps up to try to shower the group with thunderbolts, albeit not fatal ones.
She took damage, since the reflect is basically impossible to dodge, but it's healing
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"Urgh..." Duncan kicks his Thermal Armor into overdrive, tanking all of the attacks and stifling a good amount of the damage, though what the cold it self makes his armor a bit weaker, and the bittle part on his arm breaks off as the icicles hit it.
"Stop flyin' around, damn it...!" he shouts and summons four Hard Light hands out of his back and charges forward as all the arms, his own included, attack with furious physical strikes.
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.Wanda sends the results of her scan to Pietro, Moonflame and Neuff via telepathic message, then sends a barrage of Crystal Water-enhanced shockwaves at Alinivar.
After being briefly sent reeling by the damage caused by PK Reflect, Pietro grins and takes a moment to bring out his wings, then takes flight before he can be Diamonized. Afterwards, he creates a Power Fist of Chaos Magic on his right hand before swooping down at Larice and attempting to nail him with a Megaton Punch.
edited 26th Dec '15 10:57:54 AM by IchigoMontoya
"Now you're talking." Mike creates two arms out of ice as Duncan charges, and parries most of the blows, but he takes a few hits in his arms and chest, as well as one in his face, damaging his armor and giving him a visible bruise on the cheek. The ice arms shatter as well. However, the cloud suddenly discharges a large amount of electricity towards Duncan at once while the two are still close together.

Duncan quickly makes a floating platform beneath himself and uses it to surf out of the way of the initial wave of exploding ice. Seeing the second wave incoming and redirecting, he makes to hammers of Hard Light and uses them to smash the ice to pieces when they approach, though a few manage to slip through, slightly cutting his armored arm.
He combines the hammers into a larger one made of laser light and swings it at Mike as he surfs forward, which even if it misses him, should is hot enough to melt a lot of the snow surrounding him.
Oh. Well...sorry. He said no, so.
edited 26th Dec '15 9:37:31 AM by BaronGreen
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.