Boyfriend seems to consider what Rho is saying, before shaking his head uncertainly.
"Beep?" There's a lot of wacky stuff, I guess? I've met some magicky kinda people. Not a wizard or anything myself though, sorry.
"Bee da doo. Skdoo dee? Ska dee da di da dooo bopedo." All I can do is sing. And I guess that has some kind of power to hold people off or something? My big sister can throw people across a room with the sheer power of her singing. But that's not magic, I think. It's just being REALLY GOOD AND LOUD AND FAST! he says, throwing up his hands for emphasis.
"WHAT."
Alex stands stock-still for a moment, before slowly reholstering his Super Scope.
"... Thank you for... letting us off the hook? Jesus Christ." he mumbles out. He doesn't care if the doll decided that the mild curiosity that got him into this mess wasn't deserving of Instant Unavoidable Death (Trademarked) or just decided the puzzle itself was unfair, but whatever. Both are good.
He does not raise his hand.
"I could... probably blow up a mountain if I do use this thing right."
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From her viewing point a while and a dimensional rift away, Nagato quietly raises her hand. Not that anyone can see her.
Ami glows with pink magic for a moment, before dashing forwards at Megan. She tries to hit her with a one-two-three-four series of rapid jabs, each one dealing a layer of Stun status if it connects. Regardless of success, she backflips away immediately after, not keen on being chopped in half.
/\。。/\Laxin falls toward the now active volcano below him, cackling while he plummeted. Nearing the lava, the immense heat ignited the fabrics of his clothing, turning him into a ball of fire. Eventually, he crashed straight into the lava, sinking into the molten fire. The force storm goes quiet, but it still crackles above them.
The cloud moves, placing its funnel-like shape in direct line with the top of the volcano. Laxin emerges from the lava, leaping into the air. His armor and helmet were aglow with the heat of the lava, but he seemed completely unfazed. The fire burning the non-metallic aspects of his armor were extinguished in an instant, Laxin looking up to the sky.
Samus drops, but as it would notice, Laxin's feet were not sinking into the lava as theirs was. He had planned to attack, until both Vergil and Hatsune Miku reappeared. Drawing his lightsaber, Laxin overcharges it with lightning once more. The blade crackles and Laxin does a taunting gesture with his hand.
Leveling the blade toward the lava, Laxin readies himself for his opposition.
"Indeed it does, but the victors remain undecided."
Space Pirate Mothership
Arriving back in the world of Metroid, Cyber Ridley and the sole surviving Space Pirate arrive.
"L-lord Ridley, please forgive me for losing the woman. I-I beg that you spare-"
"Oh, be silent." , Cyber Ridley snarls, frightening the Space Pirate. Though to his surprise, Cyber Ridley doesn't harm him.
"It's fine. This is what I was aiming for."
"I... what?"
"I hate how I had to humiliate myself to make this work, but now we'll have someone on the inside."
"W-wait, but I thought-"
"Did you really expect me to tell you minions the full plan?" , Cyber Ridley grins sinisterly. "You'd all spill the beans to save your pathetic lives."
He looks away.
"This way I can safely keep an eye on all those pests in the Arena, as long as that blasted Samus Aran doesn't find her. In the meantime..."
He then tears off a piece of his armor and pushes it in the Space Pirate's hands.
"Something odd happened to me during that battle, and I feel like these enhancements may have something to do with it. Have it researched and report the results."
"Y-yes sir!", the Space Pirate says before running off to do as commanded. Cyber Ridley's grin grows more devious.
"Maybe suffering through those metal womens' experiments may prove useful after all..."
She does so, allowing for Raiden to slice open the cage without harming her. She climbs out once afterwards, now fully visible
◊.
"Thank you very much. They would've taken me had you not intervened.", she says, showing a smile.
"My name is Melissa Bergman. I'm a scientist for the Galactic Federation. The Space Pirates were after my DNA-enhancing research."
She looks around for a moment.
"I... don't quite know where I am... is there a safe location nearby here?"
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In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Vergil smirks and holds up the sheathed Yamato.
"I'll offer credit for not assuming you've already won."
Samus fires a barrage of energy blasts at Laxin, while Miku casts a storm of ice shards and Vergil uses three Judgement Cuts in near-instantaneous succession, capping off the third with a "Jackpot."
Raiden shrugs. "We're in a town. Just about anywhere indoors is relatively safe."
"That may not be enough. Go with her, Wolf. Keep the lady safe."
"Affirmative."
Callis can't help but laugh at Sarah. This almost costs her the game, until she remembers the ball and rushes to intercept it, narrowly bouncing it back with a panic dive.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Sarah laughs back at Callis when she apparently succeeds, but then the panic dive throws the ball back to her, literally, and she runs back to the ball before she can get another mark against her.
She actually misjudge her timing and slide too early, causing the ball to descend towards the back of Sarah's head... until she gives a backward headbutt and hul it back to Callis's side. Once done, Sarah get up and spit out some sand, before wiping the rest of her mouth at Super-Speed.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterThe doll rubs its hands together.
"Alright buds, rev up those fryers, because I sure am ready fo-"
u912 falls backwards limp as existence around everyone seems to simply... blink away.
Now in an endless black void illuminated by a single shining light in the far away distance, u912 rises... and falls to its- her knees.
"No, no, I'm sorry, I'm so... please, don't hurt me! I won't- I promise, I'll be good, I swear!"
YOU ARE BEHAVING. OUTSIDE OF PERAMETERS. THIS DEGREE OF. PERSONALITY. WAS NOT DECIDED.
"Please. Don't kill me. Please. I- I'll do anything. Please."
THAT IS UNFORTUNATE.
u912 vibrates violently, a horrendous, impossibly dark, absent shadow leaking from it like a broken faucet, springing from cracks formed on its every surface, until the entire doll is submerged in darkness.
u912 screams in agony, but the screams begin to fade way to...
IT IS DONE. THE TEST. WILL CONTINUE AS PLANNED.
EDIT - FORMAT OVERCORRECTED - ADJUSTING
TRANSFERING CONSCIOUSNESS - U943 - SUCCESS
THE WORLD
DESPAIR INDEX: ADJUSTED
I'M NOT HERE AT ALL
AD ALIUM
TRANSFER OF UNIT U943 - FORMAT aborted
The doll speaks in a new, almost perfectly neutral voice as the shadow vanishes from sight.
"Apologies. The inadequate factor has been removed. Let us begin."
Yatta!Aurum, Lourent - Vs. Jean
and thus i cast true resurrection upon this scene
Blixer cracked a broad grin moments before Jean's charge impacted him, bringing up his arms to... Not guard? No, in fact, he readily accepted the grapple, grabbing her right back in return - and promptly twisted his body mid-charge, placing his foe in between himself and the building the two were about to crash straight through. All the while, two of his larger arms quickly morphed into his good old giant laser cannons to help boost the two of them even more violently through the entire building, and carving gashes in its structure all the while.
"Woo! Yeah, that's what I'm fucking talking about!"
Ghost-Feather's Ship, Arena Orbit
As all of the combatants joined in on the projectile spam, the hangar turned into an absolute inferno, making it quite hard for anyone to make out what, exactly, was going on. Even still, amidst all the hellfire and ice barriers and what have you, things happened to rather neatly subdivide into each individual combatant's own little sequence of events, making it rather easy to convey in a concise manner. How convenient!
First of all, Zero and Nebula, the latter of which appears to have failed to fully consider her actions. Indeed, the ice barrier she had put up, while sturdy enough, didn't last long as a solid handful of clones banded together to unleash a sustained beam of hellfire against it, and the two being protected by it. Fortunately, this did give her constructs time to take some of the clones out - ten of them, in fact. Though, with her dying breath, the last clone launched herself into the crowd, detonating in a burst of flames powerful enough to dispel them.
Meanwhile, Corona's initial lightning assault was surprisingly not as effective as it might have possibly been - while it did succeed in injuring a solid fifteen clones, none of those actually died from the attack. Though, five of them were caught in the subsequent hammer-slam shockwave, finishing them off. Not that that stopped the remaining ten from barraging Corona with a hail of infernal fireballs while she was recovering from that attack, of course.
And lastly, Miles himself. His initial web snares caught a solid five clones, causing them to be caught up in various other attacks being thrown around, as well as by the laser barrage he himself unleashed just a moment later. That barrage, in turn, also caught some other clones in the crossfire before the rest started flitting around, zipping between the shots as they countered with barrages of hellfire at the now remarkably eldritch-looking Miles.
Remaining Clones: 40
Clearspring Tarn
Out of the sky, a projectile fends the air to directly land in the little spring, vaporizing the water and burning the surrounding area to a crisp. When it's done doing its thing, the whole area looks like it's covered in volcanic ashes!
And in the middle of the little clearing now stand a coiled sword, lodged deep into what appears to be a bonfire. An intimidating knight rest near the bonfire. They appear tall and very thin, with an armor that looks burned up in parts. They... do nothing for now, resting close to the Bonfire.
Kiln of the First Flame
...
Throat of the World
The Nameless King, for his next act, strolls "calmly" at Talion, albeit at a rapid pace, and then attempts to smack him down with two wide swings of its halberd. The third swing, it winds up before striking, baiting an evasive maneuver out of him.
After holding it for two seconds, lightning strikes the Nameless King's halberd, and it strikes down at Talion with a devastating cleave, accompanied by a lightning shockwave!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"..."
"What. The. FUCK. Is happening?! Did she just get ERASED?!"
This whole situation was already pretty out of left field, and JUST when things started to look like they were coming to a better... I don't know, just being BETTER in some way, that happens and fucks him up more.
He doesn't respond verbally, not yet, at any rate.
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Nagato blinks in surprise.
"..."
She closes her eyes, holding a moment of silence for the doll with which she empathizes far too well.
/\。。/\A moment before the trio fired off their projectile attacks toward Laxin, the sith shot his hands down toward the ground, rapidly sending a freezing wave that quickly turned the lava they were stood upon into a thick layer of obsidian. His goal in doing so was to leave both Samus and Vergil immobile if their feet had sunk beneath the lava.
If he succeeded, the force storm above would become active once more and unleash a twin-beam of the reality-breaking force lightning straight at the both of them. These torrents wouldn't stop for the whole round and would trace their movements even if they managed to dodge.
This doesn't necessarily mean it was guaranteed to hit, but that the pair should be careful, as the lightning could catch up quickly with one small mistake. As for their barrage of projectiles, Laxin deflects the plasma bolts before the ice shards dug into his left side.
Grunting, Laxin leaped high into the air to dodge Vergil's attacks. After he had done so, he positions his body to face Miku and launches himself toward her off of the air. Doing a sidious-Esque spin-charge toward her at blinding speed.
Talion dodges the first two overhead slams, rolling like a mad-man. Once the third of the hits came, Talion attempts to use Nameless King's windup against him by going for a swift parry strike with his sword.
Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Oct 15th 2021 at 6:17:22 AM
The Nameless King's strike is parried, and his massive halberd is tossed back. Reacting quickly, he attempts to kick Talion in the stomach with his right leg, hitting with the strength you'd except out of a demigod of war.
If he succeed in his strike, he then swing his halberd into a massive vertical cleave, hurling a wind shockwave at Talion.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterTalion is struck in his gut, but uses the momentum of the strike that had sent him flying to skid against the ground as the wind approaches. Stabbing his sword into the ground, his body swings left, and in the knick of time barely manages to dodge the shockwave. Quickly withdrawing his sword and rushing the Nameless King, he goes for a slash toward his head.
The Nameless King get a good slash in the cheek, but attempts to make Talion pay for it with a Megaton Punch to the ribs, aiming to turn Talion's precious bones into a jigsaw puzzle.
He then focus some lightning on his halberd and, after charging up a little, raise his weapon high into the air, shooting forth a lightning bolt. Three seconds afterwards, it smash at Talion's location with all the ruthless power and speed of a real bolt of lightning.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterSamus gets stuck, but Vergil leaps out of the way of the cooling lava. He launches a Sword Beam from Mirage Edge that splits the obsidian layer, allowing the monstrous ally to pull itself free and avoid the Force Lightning 'beam'. It fires back at Laxin with a giant fucking death laser from its Arm Cannon. The beam persists, unstopping, as it slowly walks closer to Laxin.
Vergil impales himself with Yamato. His body and the sword fade into blue sparks, replaced by a pale, sickly-looking man with black hair - V, the embodiment of Vergil's humanity. V proceeds to summon his familiars, the manifestations of his trauma, Griffon, Shadow and Nightmare. Griffon assaults Laxin with a storm of lightning, Shadow creates blades and spikes out of shadowy tendrils that stab and slash from every direction, and Nightmare shoots a giant laser of its own that makes the ground explode around Laxin.
Stars appear in the sky around Miku. "Jugemu!"
The stars coalesce above Laxin's head into a Kill Sat beam of yellow-orange light, aiming to engulf him. It's roughly just as powerful as her allies' Hyper Beam and World of V.
Callis rolls on the ground to chase the ball and flips back upright, hitting it with her feet as she rises up. This does not actually get it over to Sarah's side.
"Oh shit oh shit oh sh-"
Quickly, she hits it over with proper form.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."You're faltering, my vegetable-named friend! Sarah bite her lips like mad and focus. Deciding to imitate Callis, she step back and once again use her head to propel the ball forward while keeping it on her side.
Sarah then use the palm of her hand to send the ball Callis's way. She has it arguably goes far up in the air before going down, but it remains in-bound, and land a few meters to the right of the Saiyan if nothing is done.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterOn The Ghost Feathers' Ship
Indeed, the clones numbers were dwindling, but it seemed they still showed no signs of relenting, almost like they had nothing to live for except fighting and dying for the sake of their masters...
Shyna winced as she watched the carnage going on around her behind the safety of the barrier with Kazami's soulless body. Part of her wanted to drop the barrier and go help, but the rational part of her knew that doing so would be a very bad idea.
All she could do was wait, watch, and hope for the best...
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Nebula's ice wall started to crumble under the onslaught of hellfire, even with her reinforcing it over and over. She winced as she watched her clones vanish, conjuring them had used up a lot of energy so it wasn't something she could do again for a while.
As the wall crumbled totally, streaks of flame seared the side of her face, causing her to wince. However, just as the wall broke, a certain Robobot stepped in front of her and used its arm shield to withstand the blast...at the cost of said arm, of course, "Zero! Your arm!"
"Tis but a scratch," Zero remarked nonchalantly as he glanced down at the sparking circuitry, "I've dealt with far worse. Besides, if anything happened to you, I doubt that boy would ever stop crying..."
"Can't argue with that," Nebula admitted as she climbed up on his shoulders, "Ok, I'll line them up, you take them out with that tornado thing of yours." She snapped her fingers, causing firewalls of black flame to shoot up straight down the room's length, almost like a parted sea. She then conjured a giant star made of black fire in front of them. With that, Zero let loose his Rust Hurricane, becoming mixed with the star as it headed at the clones.
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Corona was slightly disappointed that her attacks hadn't done nearly as much damage as she hoped, but dwelling on that would have to wait as the clones were on her like dogs attacking a slab of fresh meat. As such, she created a wall of light around her for protection...only for said wall to not even last ten seconds as it soon exploded and launched her through the air, away from her weapon.
Despite the injuries, she was a tough cookie and thus she conjured an ice wall with her own power behind her to stop her flight. Seeing her weapon so far, Corona bared her fangs and slammed a palm to the ground, causing ice to form under her into what looked to be a giant polar bear along with a stampede of other animals. The mob would then rush towards the clones while the air above filled with spears of light to rain down on them. Any beasts that got close enough to attack would explode into a mini-storm of ice shards.
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Finally, there was Miles. Of course, he wasn't dumb enough to just stand there on the ceiling and get shot at so he sprang off it like a jumping spider to a wall then from there to another. Of course, several finally managed to hit home and cause an explosion.
Shyna watched in horror...only for something with wings to fly out of the smoke. Apparently, Miles had swapped out the spider form for something with two pairs of wings, a face on its chest and a long tail in place of legs. The creature would take off at high speed, crossing the room in a matter of seconds with its wings having razor-sharp edges to slice through what or who was in its path. It would then come to a stop and flap its wings, sending out a storm of feathers...only these feathers were a mix of Wing and Bomb's abilities so...you do the math.
The green-voiced U943 raises a finger.
"We will begin with a basic test of your agility. C is the speed of light. Current setting is: 1C. You have ten seconds to prepare for this attack."
A single line of light connects a ball of light that forms above U943's finger to each person present. The lines are harmless, but their intention is not to harm- they are markers of the exact trajectory of the coming attack, whatever form it takes.
THIS ONE. SATISFIES THE REQUIREMENT. IT WILL SUFFICE. GIVE IT THE INFORMATION IT SEEKS.
Yatta!Kali 'Wonder Girl' Holiday
She tilted her head a little bit when Katarina goes to the fridge, finding some sort of a box that has a omurice that has a small slice and she smiled and laughed at the same time because of how much of a klutz the magic academy student is right now, grabbing the box and started to heat it up by putting a pan onto the mini stove and turned it onto a medium heat because she wants it warming up. The Roush driver is quite decent on cooking but she is mostly a barbecue type of a cooker herself but this is her first time eating omurice and she puts the heated omurice onto a plate before she placed it onto a table. She grabbed a fork and takes a small bite with the rice that is the bottom of the omelette as she widens her eyes in shock due to how delicious the omurice is right now.
"That is really good!!" She gave Katarina a thumbs up because it is delicious somehow and she was now going to continue eating the omurice.
"He won the battle but he ain't going to win the war" - Martin Truex Jr., Martinsville 2018Laxin stares down Samus and watches as the monstrosity unleashes its attack, followed by Vergil's and Miku's. With no more than the smallest fraction of a second left to react, Laxin is seemingly engulfed in the full breadth of the attack. Once the dust settles, Laxin is surrounded by a spherical barrier of purple-colored impenetrable force energy.
After he becomes visible and his opponent's combined attacks stop, he shoots out of the barrier in an instant, his right hand shot outward as he careens toward the creature in front of him. If he succeeds in grabbing it, Laxin will begin the process of doing what it had attempted on him earlier.
Draining its very essence and life into him, and in an effort to prevent the other two upon the battlefield currently from interfering, another pair of force lightning beams shoot out of the force storm above to keep them busy.
La creatura is caught, instantly going limp as if trying to conserve strength instead of wasting it on fighting back.
Vergil and Miku leap out of the way, simply watching what is unfolding now.
Callis has time to recover thanks to Sarah sending the ball so high, and she calmly sends it back to Sarah with ordinary form.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

Hub Centralis
Layton is startled by the pyrotechnics display.
I've... Got it... Wrong?
PICARATS EARNED: 0/300
...but at least we are alive.
When the strange figure asked for about blowing planets, the man with the newspaper stood up:
I have the power for that! And those two guys will have it too!
The mysterious man, Warren López, draws close to Layton and Luke, and put his hands on their foreheads, sharing them some of his powers.
I like how you keep your cool in this situation. You will be a very welcome addition to Rubén's group.
Whiterun
Super Pamp runs quickly to where Reyna was, trying to block the axe with his guitar! When the axe hits the guitar, it will release a burst of music power which could cause her to flinch.
Is she a friend of yours?
Edited by BombonBombin on Oct 15th 2021 at 2:28:35 PM
Three freaking ghosts!