Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

Luffy is at Hub Centralis, and walking around eating meat. He took a break from watching Sanji because he knows he'll be back to see his boi win at the contest.

He observes the chaotic RAMPAGE and MAYHEM going around with a confused expression, but doesn't seems intent on stopping it yet.

Shishishi! You guys are weird!

A shadowy version of Zadom is observing. It seems like she has her eyes on events of all... shape and size.

Edited by Bolded1 on Jan 14th 2022 at 8:31:44 PM

Now able to overhear what's being said outside through a speaker system, Linda enters the hangar and gets inside of a helicopter.

"I wouldn't beg for mercy if they were holding me by my fucking neck."

—

Arriving in the garage, Alex hops onto his motorcycle and prepares to drive into battle.

This is a great risk, y'know.

"Yeah, well, it's better than sitting here and waiting to die."

I suppose so., Shinui laughs.

—

The tanks' shots hit the walls and doors, and while they manage to damage them, they are unable to break through. The doors open on their own, but it's to let some smaller, armored vehicles drive out. G.E.M. soldiers are inside, each of them having two soldiers hanging on the sides with plasma cannons, which they fire at the tanks. They're wearing some advanced, protective armor and helmets, probably so they don't just get shot once and die, as these are still normal people.

The turrets take it more badly though. Due to the cavern ceiling of Blackreach, the turrets aren't built to take on flying enemies, meaning that the drones get to do great damage to them while the turrets cannot fire back, resulting in them being able to kamekaze the turrets into oblivion.

Some hatches open above the G.E.M. base now and armored helicopters start flying out. Turret guns slide out from the sides and open fire on the enemy infantry.

Also coming out the front door now is Lucas, having put on his royal equipment for extra power. Concentrating his PSI, he tries to lift up one of the faraway tanks and have it crash into another tank.

—

Norm, Travis, Amber, Kumatora and Claus are all still on their ways from various parts of the base. Duster is leading everyone who can't safely fight to safety.

"It's what it looks like. A city."

"Um... I heard it's more like an entire dimension. And the city's just part of it."

"Yes."

Tinman may be surprisingly fast, but Rin can move like a Dragon Ball character. It only takes her an instant to bwip above 'Tinman' and over its attack along with the projectiles, responding with a simple bash aimed for the top of its head before landing on the ground.

   "Keep boasting,"    Klondike grunts.    "You don't know a thing about me. I'll wait for you to prove it."    He glows white and charges forward, shrugging off the shock troopers' plasma fire with an invincible dash that ends in an overhead AoE smash!

A voice from above screams, "INCOMIIIIING!"

An unfortunate group of shock troopers look up to see a giant barrel hurtling down at them, exploding on impact with the ground and scattering them to dust. Where the barrel made impact, Reyna the Huntress lands on her knees and fist. While the Reddnaught Shuma insect glaive is on her back, there's also a deactivated Ancient Bladesaw strapped to her waist.

The former weapon is recognizable to Loki as the polearm he saw that mystery person sharpening, so clearly that was Reyna.

She stands up, holding the Insect Glaive in one hand, with her back halfway facing the bulk of Polyphemus' forces. "You treat nature and its wonders as toys to play with for your amusement. In my world, the only thing people like you get to look forward to is brutal execution."

And clearly, they never really needed to worry about whose side she was on.

"And now it's time for a taste of CULTURE SHOCK!" she declares, sweeping the Reddnaught Shuma in a wide circle around her as a Battle Aura flares up.

Hub Centralis mall

Suddenly, a crash can be heard near of one of those guys: They are Sportacus and Stephanie, who landed from who knows where!

You days of chaos have just ended! Surrender now!

Pietro begins darting about left and right to evade the oncoming barrage of enemy fire.

   "Oh, please! You're just scared that you'll get your petty, racist ass stomped like you deserve!"   

Dashing towards Nigredo, he attempts to smash his one-eyed face in with a momentum-fueled swing of a Chaos Warhammer, greeting Rin with a goodnatured smirk afterwards. When Reyna makes her grand entrance and utterly disproves his theory regarding Slayer's identity, his expression changes to a mixture of surprise and relief.

"Alright... guess I won't be paying Varik a visit after all. But if Reyna's not Slayer, who the hell is?"

Thor brings out his newly-forged Mjolnir and spins it at high-enough speeds to whip up a massive whirlwind, which he sends roaring across the battlefield towards Polyphemus' forces, blowing aside oncoming projectiles in the process.

Loki grins in response to Reyna's arrival, deflecting shot after shot by helicoptering Nightbane, Vergil-style. He retaliates by unleashing a sweeping dark energy beam at the opposing forces, then calls out to the huntress.

"Fancy seeing you here, my dear. Apologies for the lack of giant monsters for you to carve up. Had I known you were coming, I'd have lured an entire pack of rampaging bilgesnipes here just for you."

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 14th 2022 at 1:29:45 AM

Warrick's wrist rocket flies into the wall behind his target. The cannon-wielding droid exploded into pieces, its assault cannon flying through the air. Max doesn't manage to avoid the droid's first attack, but her lucky streak continues. Her gunfire misses the leg, but the assault cannon flying through the room slams into the guard droid.

The velocity it flew at managed to tear its head right off. Landing only a few feet away, the assault cannon sat atop the now-defunct droid. She could do some damage with this. The other cannon-wielding droid just continued to spray Noble Six while the hulking brute approached.

If a droid could feel fear, this would certainly bring it. Noble Six hoisted the droid high into the air; and tears off an arm. Smacking it in the head with its own arm twists the droid's head nearly off. It's still barely active, but it can't manage to do anything but throw itself at Noble Six.

The Droideka successfully guns down both of the guard droids, clipping off their legs first. With no way to move, the droideka accurately disables them with two quick shots to the head. It shot so accurately in fact, a restraining bolt from one of the guard droids flies off.

Caulimon's surprise attack worked a treat, disabling the droid. Though if the bear/wolf attacked without a weapon, it would get nastily electrocuted. The other six don't see success in the defeat of their droids. Their attackers continued to push forward, attacking with faster strikes.

Fighting defensively works well for Ben, his opportunity coming from an overhead strike. Dodging around the droid, Ben slices its head right off. The droid stumbles forward without a head, slamming into a wall. Slumping to the floor, the droid deactivates. Izawano has similar success, taking off limbs of the droid one by one.

Izawano is grateful for Bulublú's spell, wheezing from the effects of the gas. Izawano glances around the room while he collects himself, stopping to focus on the security station. Narrowing his eyes, he focuses on the guard within.

The guard within's behavior changes abruptly, smacking themselves in the head. They start to scream, but it's very muffled. The guard lurches toward the control terminal, their arms moving of their own accord, or, more accurately, of Izawano's control. The energy shield covering the station from the outside disappears.

Though that is all the Jedi Knight can manage, as the soldier within finally breaks free from his control. Quickly turning to Ben, Izawano hopes to grab his attention.

"Isicabha!"

He shouted, gesturing to the door. The guard within the station moves for the terminal to reactivate the shield, but Izawano stops them. Pulling them up to the glass of the station, Izawano holds them there.

Four turrets appear from the ceiling; different◊ than the ones prior. Two focus their fire on Zeloai, who is too busy trying to reverse the flow of gas into the room. The Jedi master quickly glances over his shoulder, looking at the turrets.

He hastens the pace, continuing to funnel gas out of the room at a faster rate. Joshua has no time to help Izawano or Zeloai, focused down by one of the four turrets. Rolling out of the way of the first burst of blaster fire, he returns fire. The last of these turrets focuses on Noble Six, leaving Warrick and the Droideka alone for now.

Rhino, assuming he was close enough to the elevator shaft, should hear his attacker coming. If he doesn't, a Sith Warrior◊ wielding a double-bladed lightsaber would leap into the room and attempt to rush him with a flurry of devastating strikes.

Nodding to Izawano, Ben reaches out with both hands and attempts to telekinetically rip the door clean off its hinges. Should he prove successful, he'll follow up by launching it towards the turrets with a well-placed Force Push.

Phantasmo looks around, bewildered, as Lucas calmly returns Maroon to its ball.

"I'd like it if you could answer my question first, but honestly, so long as the Ho-oh is still there I don't care what you do."

Max crawls at the cannon, tears streaming loose from her eyes at the pain, and get up before unloading wildly into the nearest enemy, meaning to fire on them until the ammo runs dry.

As the G.E.M. base starts pulling out all the stops, the battle turns chaotic. While the destruction of many turrets by the drone assault provides momentary respite for Polyphemus's war machines, the influx of soldiers soon makes up for it. The ghostly troopers turn their attention at these incoming forces, but this means they can't fight as effectively against the named combatants. It is now all-out war and, little by little, the mad scientist's forces begin losing some ground as more and more troops are wiped out, particularly by the two gods' devastating area attacks.

Still, they persevere, and the tanks fire once more, trying to open a breach. This is where one of the tanks begins hovering, not of its own will...

   "TINMAN! THAT CHILD! PUT A STOP TO WHAT HE'S DOING, NOW!"    the machine master barks, not particularly feeling up to losing two valuable tanks in one fell swoop.

Rin and Pietro's attacks impact with meaty CLANGs, denting the heavy armor and proving that the robot is not invincible. However, they are nowhere near enough to put an end to the dark champion. After swiping its electroblades almost half-heartedly at its close-quarters opponents, seemingly more to repel them than anything, "Tinman" points his arms in Lucas's direction - outfitted with mammoth flamethrowers.

"CLOSELY NOW. SEE HOW THEY BURN. FEEL HOW THEY BURN. COME TO ME. COME FEEL. COME BURN WITH ME, CHAMPION."

A veritable tidal wave of fiery doom, powerful enough to outright melt the average robot fighter, let alone a regular person, surges towards Lucas (and likely anyone else within a few meters), trying to put a swift and brutal end to the telekinetic shenanigans.

...

As Klondike wipes out another good swath of Polyphemus's forces with his dismissive quip, the hologram abruptly turns red.

   "You know what? That's it. I don't have! to take! this SHIT! from the likes of you! I've just about had it with you idiots not taking me seriously just because I actually think with my brain and not my fists! You... you!"    The automated voice almost seems to crack a little.    "Ha.. haha..! Oh, how fitting for a physically privileged race to think poorly of a mentally gifted one for not reducing everything to contests of force! Well, if that's how it's going to be... Then I'll show you. I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!"   

A ray of light overtakes Klondike, seemingly vaporizing him. But instead, he finds himself teleported onto a flat platform atop one of Blackreach's many Dwemer ruins, high above the ground. A few seconds later, in the corner opposite him, a flash of light brings in a mysterious humanoid figure clad in a black cape and a faceless helmet, bearing Polyphemus's signature crossed-out eye sigil in neon green, and below it, a crudely painted berserk smile. To everyone else, the hologram above the battlefield - earlier showing just Polyphemus - now displays this entire small arena.

VS. POLYPHEMUS ~ GREEN-EYED HATRED (MO-NA-D-2 ~ Memory Forgery)

   "Yeah, that's right! It doesn't even matter what the contest is, I'll show you Polyphemus never loses! Strength or speed, power or endurance - throw the best at me and I'll humiliate them all! POLYSUIT, ACTIVATE!       CONFIGURATION - ONI!"   

The figure in front of Klondike hisses, clangs and whirrs, emitting jets of steam. A pair of curved horns, sparking with electricity, extends from the head. The cloak billows, revealing a high-tech mechanical armor in the process of reconfiguring itself through God knows what alien engineering. It bulks up to the point of becoming slightly reminiscent of Iron Man's Hulkbuster armor, sporting immense iron fists with spiked knuckles... and spreads them to the sides◊, signaling Klondike to bring his worst.

Edited by Arachnos on Jan 15th 2022 at 12:35:50 PM

The tank's shots strike the door once again, the explosion behind him causing Lucas to stumble. And this time, it seems like the doors have been damaged enough to create a hole in them. However, Poly's troops still need to get to the doors if they want to get into the base.

They won't have much time either, because ice is starting to form from behind the door. Amber is using her powers to try to close off the entrance again. Travis sends out bursts of flames at the tanks from inside, trying to buy his wife enough time to close up the door.

When Lucas regains his balance, he sees the flames coming right for him. They seem to hit him-!

Beat

But the flames start to swirl around in front of him, as it's revealed that Kumatora has arrived. Using her own telekinesis to manipulate them, she then swings the flames to the side and grins at 'Tinman'.

"I think you'd better worry about me, machine!"

Channeling her PSI, she attempts to cast PSI Ground on 'Tinman', the shaking earth attempting to damage him and potentially knock him over.

Lucas, meanwhile, takes on a supporting role and casts Defense Up on Kumatora.

—

More helicopters rise up from the base. One of them has Norm behind the controls. Linda hangs out from the helicopter's door, having no fear in being out in the open.

"You motherfuckers are gonna regret attacking us!", she laughs rather evilly before she opens fire at the ground troops, aiming to mow down as many as she can.

A sweat drop rolls down the side of Norm's head.

"You're making us look like the aggressors, y'know."

—

Alex, wearing his biker gear, now rides out into the open on his motorcycle, holding out his sword as he races towards 'Tinman'. If Kumatora succeeds in knocking it over, he'll channel flames over his sword and attempt a drive-by flaming sword slash attack.

Noble Six ducks around and lets the turret targeting him destroy what's left of that droid instead. He then uses Armor Lock to protect himself from the continued fire.

Warrick starts to cough, but he's not too crippled by the gas, since it's begun to subside. The Rude Droideka seems have his back now, for some reason.

"H... Help Zeloai!"

{{droidspeak:I GOTCHU HOMIE}} The Rude Droideka starts shooting at one of the turrets that's focused on Master Zeloai.

"My name's Refia," says Cyber-Refia. "But I think there's another me here who's from my past, so call me... uh..."

She pauses for a good 20 seconds. "Cyber-Refia! Call me c-Cyber-Refia to distinguish between us just in case. Cool?"

Rin gets swatted away by 'Tinman', landing on her back. She shoots upright in a burst of energy and summons her ghost to dive into the mosh pit of mooks, then trades places with it in an instant teleport, hiding among the army.

—

"I don't need carves," Reyna says, unusually serious, as she dives to the ground to avoid the fire from Poly's forces. "This is my job to do, too, and I'll do it without complaint."

From down on the ground, she aims her Insect Glaive like a sniper rifle and shoots a pellet at a shock trooper. If it hits, her Kinsect flies out like a homing projectile, making a beeline for that trooper and obtaining a red extract (somehow, ignore the fact that it's biting into metal) if it gets a bite.

—

Klondike sighs before being warped.    "Again with your baseless assumptions."   

He looks up at Polyphemus after the warp, calmly sizing them up behind his helmet.

   You're getting us killed. Or at least you'll die. Maybe they'll realize my own intellect is superior to yours and keep me around.   

   Not on your life.    Klondike twirls his axe and smashes it into the ground.    "I have less than you. I am less than you. I am only half of a man, and half nothing. And I'll show you how little that matters."   

Ancient Rage (Polemos - Mick Gordon)

He leaps into the air and slams down axe-first, sending a series of erupting rock at Polyphemus that gets bigger and stronger the further it travels.

Edited by KiriK on Jan 14th 2022 at 6:34:54 AM

Pietro watches as Klondike is whisked away from the battlefield to take on Polyphemus themselves, the distraction giving Nigredo the opportunity he needs to knock him back. He briefly considers seeking them out in order to finally have a crack at the depraved mechanist, only to practically hear Seras and Integra's voices in his head telling him not to. Reluctantly conceding that maybe watching Polyphemus in action would provide him and his friends with an advantage in the battles to come, he dashes towards Nigredo and attempts to repeatedly bludgeon him over and over again with a Chaos Magic replica of Myth!Thor's Mjolnir.

   "Shut the goddamn hell up about your freaking champion already! We get it, you're programmed to be freaking delusional!"   

Thor launches into the air, jagged streaks of electricity trailing behind him. As he descends upon the midst of Polyphemus' forces like a meteor, he takes Stormbringer in a two-handed grip and slams his axe into the ground with all of his considerable Asgardian might, causing a truly gargantuan explosion of lightning upon impact.

"Everyone, keep up the assault and send them screaming to Hel! They're not going to last much longer at this rate!"

Loki raises an eyebrow at the uncharacteristic seriousness in Reyna's tone, a suitably nonplussed expression on his face.

"Well, then.... good talk, I suppose."

He sends another dark energy beam from Nightbane arcing through the air towards any remaining tanks.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 14th 2022 at 4:21:40 AM

Caulimón, indeed, got utterly shocked after destroying that droid. He's left hurted and howling of pain.

...

Bulublú decides to help Zeloai to funnel the gases out of the room with her magic.

...

As for the other guys, well... They are giving their best to outmaneuver their attackers, and as the gas subsides, their moves are improving... But it's still not enough to beat them. Until Lulú has an idea:

Everybody! Slash their legs!

They do as ordered. If succesful, the droids will fall on their kneels, and they will be open to even more slashes.

Hub Centralis

"Damn this place looks nigh-impossible to set up a bakery, eh I can just set one up by a bridge."

Cecil has arrived there on foot and he's surprisingly not tired at all from the walk. That loot bag from eoc still unopened as he's keeping as a surprise for someone.

"Hope one of my kids're here, at least get Mark to respect me for onc- What in the fuck"

To his anger the new men lightly thrashing about were in the way of his goal and bread trading, more importantly taking some of his bread without consent.

"YOU THINK ROUGHLY HANDLING BREAD WITHOUT CARE IS FUNNY?!" He shouts to call their attention as a warhammer that resembles a bread mallet manifests around his hands and he waits.

For those 20 seconds Emma was having a crisis on the line.

"WHERE DID I GO WRONG?!"

"Got no idea buuuut I am polishing the box right now"

"YOU'RE NOT HELPING AT ALL DID I TRIGGER A SPELL OR SOMETHING?!"

"oOooOoooOOO sHeS iNvAdInG yOuR iNnErWoRkInGs"

"...rot in hell Flint."

Finally, Refia has said something, lightly startling Emma.

"Aha Cyber-Refia, got it! I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Just call me Emma!" Somehow multiverse variants aren't a new thing for her.

"Thanks for answering my questions I'd be inclined to ask more but I have to go now-" She abruptly turns around and speedwalks to wherever she was supposed to go.

Edited by BoniniBanana on Jan 14th 2022 at 9:00:29 PM

"Hey! Watch it!" Arad taunted, narrowly backing away and avoiding the attacks of the Sith as it unleashed multiple attacks at him.

Raising his foot, Rhino performed his fourth ability, Rhino Stomp. He slammed his foot back into the ground, creating a smal craters, as well as sending energy into the ground, which traveling through the ground, in an area of effect circle around him. Due to the proximity of the Sith, unless it could get out of that fifteen foot circle before the shockwave reached it, the enemy would be shot a few feet into the air and stay there, in stasis momentarily and unable to move.

——

The three paused at these newcomers, before laughing at the three who had threatened them, immediately going back to their business.

Shieldy, however, had begun to focus on a bread joint, trampling the bread without bothering to even eat it.

What are you doi-WHAT THE HELL GOMU GOMU NO JET PISTOL! Luffy devours his ham whole and instantly throw his arm back before snapping it forward, vapor appearing all over the stretched limb. He instantly just warp in front of the bread-stomper to try hiting them in the face hard with a downward punch.

Attempting to smash them into the ground first, Luffy then stretches his arm for what feels like miles to burrow the scum underground a long distance.

Cecil runs to the breadstompers absolutely fuming at the sight of precious bread being trampled.

"You've got..."

A ball of compacted bread appears on the floor by his warhammer as he launches it with a swing as if it were a golf ball towards the Shieldy. Don't let the looks fool you this thing is launched like it came out of a cannon.

"BALLS FOR TRAMPLING ON PERFECTLY FINE FUCKING BREAD!"

Sportacus and Stephanie look how the other guys destroy the bread and continue with their wrongdoings.

Hey, you...

He does a backflip kick to the face of the guy who destroyed the bread.

WE DON'T WASTE FOOD!

Without Polyphemus to coordinate the troops anymore, the battle seems to be progressing in G.E.M's favor slowly but surely. Drones and troopers are getting wiped out by the scores, and the tanks are not doing too hot, either. Thor's almighty blast has annihilated a couple of them, most of the others have lost their energy barriers entirely, with nothing but their own armor to defend them from two very angry deities - this cannot last much longer. The most heavily damaged ones rev up their engines and make a beeline for the damaged door to ram it, self-detonating afterwards if needed - whatever it takes in order to finally create the breach Blade needs for her infiltration.

Tinman stands firm, even as the PK Ground batters and shakes him every which way. Moving him seems to be roughly as easy as moving a mountain. His electric blades repeatedly clash with Pietro's Chaos Hammer, raising showers of magical and electric sparks, but this leaves him open to a vicious slash from Alex's blade, opening a deep gouge in the plastron. A surge of electric arcs runs over Tinman's surface as his single eye reaches nearly blinding levels of light, mechanisms overclocking. An alarm starts blaring.

"THEY LOVED THIS ONE. LOVED TO SEE CHROMES BURN. LAUGHED AND POINTED AND CHEERED. DO YOU LOVE THAT SHINING LIGHT, CHAMPION? ALL THE SAME TO ME. THE CHEER. THE SUCCESS. THE JEER. THE FAILURES. JUST STEPS. TO BE PERFECT FOR YOU. TO REACH YOU. TO BECOME YOU. WATCH NIGREDO BURN FOR YOU."

Empowered by the nitro boost, the dual flamethrowers flare to life and, for a few seconds, the penumbra of Blackreach turns to noon. Even those who are not at risk of being directly engulfed in the blaze as "Tinman" - or rather Nigredo - sweeps it every which way in an attempt to annihilate his close-range assailants, the base's defenders, and quite possibly a fair bit of Polyphemus's own troops by accident, may find it difficult to so much as look at the stream of raw, unrefined destruction pouring out of the monstrous weapons. Brighter than a thousand suns and only slightly less hot, this monstrous flamethrower is easily twice as powerful as the inferno that Lucas and Kumatora had to face earlier.

—

Elsewhere, Polyphemus winds up one of the Polysuit's hulking fists for the mother of all punches. As Klondike's shockwave approaches, all this power is finally released. With a deafening mechanical roar, rocket boosters in the fist, the legs and the back of the suit kick in, launching the towering armor forward fist-first with enough raw force to reduce a skyscraper to rubble, scattering the shockwave to the five winds and threatening to turn Klondike himself into a puddle of blood.

However, while such a rocket-powered attack boasts enough power to quite possibly blast Klondike through the whole goddamn ceiling of the cavern until what's left of him ends up in the mountains of Skyrim, its usage seems rather ill-advised on the relatively small platform they're standing on...

Edited by Arachnos on Jan 15th 2022 at 12:40:39 PM

The helicopters and vehicles open fire on the incoming tanks, but they can't stop them all. Some end up making it past them, as well as past Lucas and Kumatora, crashing into the doors and exploding in the process.

The numerous explosions break through the ice, shattering it and sending Travis and Amber flying back due to the force. They hit the ground and groan.

"D... damnit, I'm not used to this sort of stuff anymore."

—

Kumatora winces as 'Tinman' doesn't topple over.

"This one's a tough bastard.", she growls.

When Alex's blade inflicts a wound on the mechanical titan, Kumatora gets ready to take advantage of it, planning to launch a PK Thunder. But the incoming flames have something else to say about that.

"Look out!"

Lucas emits a burst of Metatron energy, creating a strong gravity push that sends himself and Kumatora up into the air, allowing them to evade the flames. But only barely.

As a result, even though they weren't full-on hit, their close proximity to the flames ensures that both of them will end up with some burn marks. This makes them flinch and miss their chances to land on their feet, instead hitting the ground.

Linda then fucking jumps out of the helicopter, landing near 'Tinman' with a three-point landing. She then stands back up on her legs, grins darkly and brings out the lightning whip from her arm.

"Your champion will be very disappointed when I've turned you into scrap."

She lunges for the machine, attempting to wrap her whip around its legs with a single lash, then slide underneath it to end up behind it. If all of that works out, she'll give it a strong pull to try to topple the machine.

Since she's doing this with her mechanical arm, she may just have the strength necessary to pull it off.

Alex, meanwhile, drives up to Lucas and Kumatora, quickly trying to help them back on their feet.

"... Alright, then." Refia promptly activates thrusters and flies off as well.

"Man," Rin says to herself, "Why can't I just have fun smashing up the mooks?" She rushes at one of the damaged tanks and leaps for it, initiating a Speed Blitz of numerous rapid-fire strikes if she gets within arm's reach!

—

Reyna has the misfortune of still wearing the Crimson Glow Valstrax armor set, which comes with a weakness to every element except Dragon. That means the flamethrowers deal mega ouchy damage to her. Fortunately, part of the set's effect is that when she's taken enough damage, all elemental statuses are suppressed and replaced by Dragonblight, so she isn't set on fire with any sort of lingering burn effect as would logically still happen here.

She tries to mark Nigredo with a Kinsect pellet, additionally pole-vaulting into the air and flying at his face with an air-dashing sweep of a weapon sharp enough to cut the bio-metal hide of a Kushala Daora with ease.

—

Klondike is still figuring out the strategy here. He decides the best course of action is to tank it, so he hunkers down and unfurls a collapsible shield.

Needless to say, Polyphemus blows right through the shield, but Klondike is neither reduced to a stain nor sent absolutely flying. He simply staggers back and falls onto his ass, staring up at Polyphemus with... well, they can't tell what sort of expression, his helmet completely covers his face. But given that he isn't getting up, they might be inclined to assume fear.

Of course, this is a bad assumption to make, because going for another melee attack while they're still at this proximity will result in Klondike catching the offending extremity and swinging Polyphemus over his head, right off the edge of the platform. If they're genuinely smart enough not to make this mistake, Klondike will be the one sent off the edge by whatever attack they do, clinging to the ledge with one hand.

Noticing the situation happening over at the base's entrance, Pietro immediately dashes over to where the ice wall once was, through Nigredo's flames manage to leave a rather nasty burn on his arm. Snarling in pain, he conjures up two Chaos Grenade Launchers and begins bombarding each and every last tank that hasn't already been destroyed.

Thor rockets towards Nigredo, raises Stormbringer high above his head, and launches the axe straight towards the hulking machine. Once Thor himself has closed the distance, he follows up by unleashing an enormous blast of lightning at point-blank range.

"It's a pity I couldn't have arrived under better circumstances, Linda! I was going to tell you that I managed to find the finest bottle of wine in Asgard's cellar!" he says, flashing a grin at Linda.

After hurling daggers at any remaining enemy soldiers, Loki strides over to Pietro's position and fires one more sweeping dark energy beam at the tanks.

IRISH

Rhino has great success, launching the Sith into the air. Unable to move, the Sith struggles against the paralyzing feeling. Rhino is free to do as he wishes with the Sith, assuming he can get to them before his stomp wears off.

The Droideka's blaster fire cripples the turret. Sparks fly from its casing, and it wildly sprays across the room. It doesn't threaten anyone in particular, and it's unlikely that it will hit anyone. Another turret is disabled by Joshua, shooting it enough to make part of the roof fall off.

The moment Ben reaches out with his arms, the door creaks. The metal fights back, desperately holding onto the hinges. The creaking sound grows louder, the door bending outward. With one loud snapping sound, Ben tears the door off of its hinges. Ben sends it careening toward the last two turrets, the door completely eradicating them from impact. The door falls to the floor with a loud bang, Zeloai glancing at Ben.

He has an impressed look on his face, and with Bulublú's help, Zeloai gets rid of the last bit of gas. Relieved, the Jedi master takes a deep breath. The air vent remains open, but the security console should close it. The Jedi master looks at Bulublú and nods in quiet thanks.

Lulú's idea works to perfection, each of them successfully crippling the legs of their respective droids. Unable to move, the droids are unable to stop Max's rampage. Blindly firing the autocannon, Max reduces the droids to scrap one by one. Parts fly high; and, burn marks are scattered across the wall.

Luckily enough for Max, autocannons rarely run out of ammo, though they can overheat. If she kept firing, she'd burn herself.

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With the door to the security station open, Izawano releases the guard from his grip. Pushing themselves off of the glass, the guard draws a blaster rifle and moves to the door.

They are met by Izawano, who swiftly cuts them to pieces. The Jawa quickly leaps over the corpse and into the station. The terminal is locked, a droning robotic voice speaking from it.

"Handprint required."

Izawano casts a quick glance at the guard he had just killed.

Extinguishing his lightsaber, Ben gladly welcomes the opportunity for a breather. While Izawano works on the console, he turns his attention to Zeloai.

"How much longer until we reach whatever it is we came here for, Master? Perhaps I'm the only one who feels this way, but it's beginning to seem like we've been here for ages."