Gon, deciding
Gon sought refuge in the building. But he decided to rummage around for anything useful.
Don't know if I can get a weapon or something useful in here. My crowbar's jack shit against that evil librarian.
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After a few seconds where Caboose failed to be killed by a laser beam, he felt it was safe to peek out of the window he had crashed through. While it was hard to tell, since anyone who died would have vanished, it seemed like no one was too hurt by the deadly laser.
With the beam of death gone, he could now continue chasing the librarian. The only issue was that she was retaliating against the icy archer man that was currently doing the same. He was fast and could fly, which made him good at chasing, so he would be bad to lose in this fight.
It was a good thing she was just punching him with her robot arm instead of blending him like she did to Marcus.
Jumping back out the window, since he missed the obvious door right next to it, Caboose got to his feet out of a nice roll and began to run towards Blue. His gun was trained on the robot arm, firing shot after shot at the mechanical limb. If he got close enough, Caboose would try to grab it by the wrist and slam it into the ground, stomp it, and generally do his level best to ruin it. They were invincible before, but with their user vulnerable they probably were as well.
Why is a yam attacking me?
For the Horde!
Ben nodded at Rachel.
"Of course," he told the woman. "Now hurry and get out of here, it's not safe here." He turned back towards the fight with Miss Tairee's clone, lifting off into the air and flying, fist extended, at the evil librarian.
"Hey, Queen Dweeb, why don't you pick on someone who can give you a fight?" he asked, his eyes again crackling with green light. With Caboose focused on dealing with the robot arm attacking Blue, Ben would focus on the arms she recalled. He focused his vision, shooting his eye lasers in a sweep around the evil Tairee, in an attempt to take out her floating robot arms.
Flying at high speed, he braced his fist in an attempt to make a powerful flying punch at the Miss Tairee doppelganger.
Edited by AllHailThrall on May 4th 2020 at 9:37:27 AM
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THE SLORG!
"And leave you all the fun? Besides, that's why I'm here" Rachel said as she put the magazine back into her pistol.
As Ben flew off, Caboose's charge and gunfire got the attention of the robotic arm after a couple of bullet hits; it stopped its punching and turned in the air towards him, then suddenly swung out when he got closer. A hard backhanded slap hit Caboose's helmet before he would have time to react, with enough impact to leave a crack in the visor. After the blow, the robotic hand went into a finger gun pose, and would start firing the laser like the other arm had, trying to get Caboose's neck.
Meanwhile in the apartment building, since it was a fairly normal apartment building, Gon wasn't finding much, but did finally come across a loaded handgun someone had stowed away in an end table. There wasn't any more ammo for it around, but it was something.
Ben's heat vision hit one of the robotic arms and damaged it before it could swoop out of the way, but the other two preemptively rolled away before his laser hit them. With the warning of his approach, the evil Miss Tairee turned in the air, still flying backwards at a somewhat slower speed, and scowled at him. "I haven't met anyone any of y'all yet who could!" the evil Miss Tairee retorted, holding her hands towards Ben; nearly at the last moment, she had a large fireball conjure there, letting Ben fly himself right into it, where it then exploded. The evil Miss Tairee flew down to avoid Ben and the worst of the explosion, then reoriented herself and looked up to where Ben would be.
"But I'd give ya' an a for yer stupid determination!" the evil Miss Tairee scoffed, as one of the two good robotic arms flew in and would try to get a hold of Ben's neck.
"Dragon breath!" Louie yelled as Swishee was nearly catching up, while the trainer threw a pokeball forward. With a flash of light, Pecha appeared, already in flight herself and going right for the malicious librarian. In a move like a strafing run, the vibrava hit the evil Miss Tairee with those purple flames, making her raise and arm and grunt in annoyance.
"Big mistake" the evil Miss Tairee muttered, as the slightly damaged robotic arm flew quickly at Pecha from below.
Off to one side of the fight, the second undamaged robotic arm had projected another holographic screen and was tapping on it.
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Leaving the building
After narrowly avoiding the Evil Tairee's fiery retaliation, Garrett carefully made his way back to the entrance of the building, then peeked out to see how the fight was going. The librarian, it seemed, had already flown away. However, some distance away, he saw Caboose fighting against one of the floating arms.
Garrett hesitated. He could possibly shoot a fire arrow there, but he didn't want to risk hitting Caboose. For now, he moved down the street in hopes of finding a better angle for a shot, ready to take shelter behind anything nearby in case the robotic hand turned its attention to him.
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Ben grunted in pain and wobbled in the air, losing his momentum and his concentration and beginning to descend.
He turned towards the evil Miss Tairee, wincing from his burns, and reaching out to try and grab the hand with his two hands before it could reach his neck, struggling against it. It had some serious force behind it, after all.
If he got a good grip, he would try to wrench it into a hunk of scrap, leaving it useless.
"Of course I have... determination! Stupid or not, I never give up on my friends! And a Queen of Dorkness like you will never change that!"
Edited by AllHailThrall on May 5th 2020 at 4:49:48 AM
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Unfortunately for Miss Tairee's clone, Herc had dodged the laser by following Caboose's example of jumping through a window of one of the buildings in the city, to be more precise, the same building Caboose had ended up in. Unlike Caboose, his way of landing wasn't so smooth and opted to go for the door that was right next to the other window that the sim trooper then jumped out of, as soon as Herc got back onto his feet.
Once outside, Herc then followed behind Caboose and drew out more arrows from the quiver and starting shooting at the clone's not-Doc-Ock arm that was currently tapping away at a holographic screen.
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Street Fight
Most people would probably have been a bit dazed after getting backhanded with enough force to damage their helmet, but Caboose was used to cranial assault. Aside from stumbling back, barely keeping his footing, the soldier was doing alright.
But, if he got hit by the laser, it wouldn't stay that way.
Realizing what was about to happen moments before the finger gun fired, Caboose began to try to run in a circle around the mechanical limb. In the middle of the street, he instinctively realized he'd be caught if he tried to make a break for a window again. As he tried to outrun the laser on his circular path, the sim trooper kept his gun trained on it.
A hail of bullets, each aimed right for the dangerous arm, wouldn't let up as long as he ran a steadily tightening loop around the arm. If he got close enough, Caboose would bash the arm with Freckles to try disrupting it.
Why is a yam attacking me?
THE SLORG!
The arm spun and tried to follow Caboose, the tracking laser getting a couple of nicks on his arm but otherwise doing no damage to him; it did narrowly miss hitting Garrett on accident, and did actually hit Hercules on accident, raking across the demigod's back briefly. Thankfully, this was just after he had let the arrow loose.
The bullets hitting the arm staggered it around, but it kept firing the laser, right up until Caboose bashed it, making it spin in the air horizontally. It tried to right and form a finger gun again, but then a phaser shot hit it, from Rachel peeking around the building corner. The arm was left twitching in the air helpless for just a couple seconds, but it was still long enough to act.
Ben caught the arm, and with his strength, would snap it in two right along its forearm. It went completely inert, now useless to the evil Miss Tairee.
It wasn't all good news though; the arm typing on the holographic screen finished its task and swiped, just before Hercules' arrow hit it, leaving damage in the back of its hand. The arm going at Pecha caught her head from beneath, getting a solid grip as it wrenched her head up then to the side then back down in quick, jerking motions, snapping her neck. "Pecha!" Louie yelled as the vibrava blurred and vanished, then he looked towards the evil Miss Tairee with a scowl and added, "you'll pay for that!"
"Doubt it" the evil Miss Tairee retorted simply, reaching a hand forward; there was a blur there as a large, sniper rifle kind of gun appeared, which she promptly took hold of. "Now this 'queen' demands, off with yer' head!" the malicious duplicate added, taking aim at Ben and starting to fire the gun rapidly like an assault rifle.
Still scowling, Louie grabbed one of his pokeballs and was about to throw it, but then Swishee gave a sharp honk and made a quick dive. The arm that Hercules had hit whooshed through the air where the pelipper had just been, slowing slightly and then trying to turn around to follow after the pokemon.
The arm that got Pecha floated itself over a rooftop, out of sight of those on the street, and projected a holographic screen to type on. It was tapping a bit slower though, since it was slightly damaged already.
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Street fighter
Garrett hissed through his teeth as the laser beam from the robotic arm narrowly missed him. Thankfully, despite this frightening moment, this fight was overall going in their favor: Caboose managed to bash the arm away, while Rachel shot it with some kind of a beam weapon. The hand was left twitching helplessly, giving Garrett the ideal opportunity.
Shouting: "Caboose, get down!," he aimed at the twitching arm and let loose a fire arrow.
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Success! Caboose knew he did a good thing when the laser stopped, and his friends helped make sure it didn't start up again immediately by stunning it. Breaking machines was sort of the formerly blue soldier's specialty, along with fixing them, but a bit of help was always appreciated.
If Garrett had chosen his words less carefully, such as telling him to duck or failing to use Caboose's name, he probably would have failed to get the message across in time. Thankfully, though, not even he could misinterpret such a clear order. The red armored sim trooper ducked, lowering the possibility of the fire starting projectile hitting him.
Immediately after the arrow hit its mark though, he was right back in action. Whether the robot arm was burning or not, if it was still stunned then Caboose would swing a fist downwards onto it, trying to smash it towards the earth. Once brought low by that attack, he'd proceed to stomp on the limb as hard as he could and keep his foot planted on top of it.
The goal was to both damage it with his attacks and to immobilize it under his foot while it burned from the fire arrow.
Why is a yam attacking me?
For the Horde!
Ben gasped, scowling at the evil Tairee as she quickly offed his friend's Vibrava. When he saw the doppelganger spawn a rifle in her hands, he flew up and around, over her, to try and dodge her attacks.
"Well this queen's gonna get overthrown!" he exclaimed, tossing the broken pieces of the arm down at the evil Miss Tairee's head as hard as he could in an attempt to break her aim. He continued to try and fly circles around Miss Tairee's clone to dodge her fire.
Edited by AllHailThrall on May 6th 2020 at 8:07:43 AM
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A green portal opened up directly above the rogue arm, followed by Rick making a two-fisted dive for the damaged robotic arm, tattered labcoat in one hand as he tried to pin it down. "Consider yourself... disarmed!" he cried, trying to stomp on the already damaged appendage, "... god, I've been hanging around with you people too long." he amended a second later.
THE SLORG!
The arm lurched with the impact of the arrow, but it wasn't clear if the fire itself was doing anything. It then formed a finger gun and fired a laser into Caboose for only half a second before it was smacked into the ground and stomped on, breaking it.
"We gotta get going after them!" Rachel said, moving into the street. "Can anyone here fly?" she asked.
Blue groaned in response, still laying on the ground.
A few bullets were still hitting Ben as the evil Miss Tairee tried to lead his flight path, but when he threw the broken arm pieces she flew to one side in a spin to avoid them; it did stop her firing briefly though. Once done, she reoriented and watched Ben flying around; her eyes narrowed but she didn't raise the rifle back up, as she seemed to be waiting a moment.
Then Rick's portal appeared and he successfully pinned down the robotic arm, and got a couple of stomps in. Although it dented and bent a bit more, it didn't break, and it finally responded by flying forward abruptly and quickly, making Rick fall over like a rug had just been pulled out from under him. Once free, it flew over to the evil Miss Tairee and did quick circles around her.
Meanwhile, Swishee was still flying around quickly, swerving here and there trying to avoid the robotic arm chasing after her and Louie. Louie looked back, taking stock of the situation, then saw Goldeneye blink into the air with Ace perched on top of itself. The blaziken let out a roar of a squawk and jumped for the arm chasing Swishee, grabbing onto it with both hands. The arm dipped low from the sudden weight of Ace hanging onto it, then swerved around and started spinning in place, trying to make the pokemon's grip fail.
Edited by FirockFinion on May 7th 2020 at 1:27:30 PM
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Ben grunted in pain as he was pinned by a few stray bullets, wincing and turning towards the evil Miss Tairee as she lowered her weapon, watching him.
Now that she had lowered her weapon, Ben's eyes crackled green again and he shot another eye heat beam in Miss Tairee's direction, this time at the gun in her hands, in an attempt to melt it and make it unusable, or make her drop it, whichever came first.
Once an opening came, he would fly at her at high speed with a punching motion in an attempt to deck her.
Edited by AllHailThrall on May 7th 2020 at 9:29:54 AM
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THE SLORG!
The evil Miss Tairee gave a scoff as Ben's eyes lit up, then she made a quick movement to one side while giving a little spin, letting Ben's eye beam hit her back for a moment so it didn't get her gun. Once coming back around, she already had the gun up to her shoulder to aim, and let loose a few bullets towards Ben's stomach. "Yer' gettin' predictable ya' little punk" the evil Miss Tairee said angrily.
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Scuffle Street
Caboose got a nice sense of pride and accomplishment at the demise of the troublesome robot arm, enough so to ignore the pain that the laser caused him. It had shaved off the edge of the armor on his left arm, and, in doing so, had also burnt away some of the skin lying beneath. If it had more than a moment, he might have ended up one handed. As it was, his less dominant arm was going to be a bit more difficult to deal with for anything requiring fine motor control.
Might have been able to become a hook handed pirate if that happened... something Caboose filed away to consider at a later time.
Now that their own small battle was over, it was time to get back into the big fight. "Uh, well... the guy with the wings can fly," the sim trooper answered Rachel, gesturing towards Blue. He walked over and offered his right arm to the terrarian, in a show of trying to help him up.
Why is a yam attacking me?
For the Horde!
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THE SLORG!
His arm shaking a bit, Blue reached up and accepted Caboose's help, though only into an upright sitting position. Once there, the terrarian procured a bottle of red liquid from seemingly nowhere, and chugged the whole thing very quickly. "Okay, feels much better not being on the brink of death" Blue muttered, in a tone that made it clear he wasn't totally okay yet, but he did manage to get back up to his feet. "Um, right, flying... I mean I can, but I'm not exactly used to taking passengers" he added, trying to catch up with what was going on.
"Well I don't weigh too much; I think that 'totally normal' guy and the thief can't be too much heavier than me... If they're still around" Rachel said, glancing around the street. "Surely you can at least try carrying one of us, right?" she asked.
"I guess, but who?" Blue asked in return.
Edited by FirockFinion on May 10th 2020 at 8:10:19 AM
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Streets Towards Fight
"Well, I think you should take Garrett because he likes to lurk around in dark corners and stuff. Walking in the streets is not very sneaky, but dropping him off on a roof would make it super easy to get him to a place where he can see but can't be seen without being seen on the way," Caboose noted, slightly disappointed that he wasn't even considered for being carried by Blue. He was not that fat!
Still, he was fast enough. "I will, uh, go try running until I find the Badee then," the sim trooper told the group, before turning towards the nearest street corner and running off. "Yes, excuse me, pardon me, coming through. Sorry, yes, just going this way, excuse me." He would keep on saying things like that as he ran around random corners until the city shifting took him to the evil clone.
Once he had a line of sight on her, Caboose would fire some bullets right for her arms.
Why is a yam attacking me?
For the Horde!
Ben glared at Miss Tairee's doppelganger, wincing in pain as the bullets pierced his gut.
"Grr! Y'know, I'm getting really sick of being shot in the gut!" Ben exclaimed. "Getting sick of being shot anywhere, really, but this gut shot thing is getting super old!"
Ben furrowed his brow, eye raising at Miss Tairee's evil clone, and looking her over for a moment.
She was right. He was getting predictable. He had to mix things up.
His frown faded and he smirked slightly, shrugging a little.
"Yeah, I know, that's kinda my schtick. But then you're one to talk. I mean, what, you have the power of a god and the only things you've done is summon robot arms that shoot lasers, make fireballs appear, and shoot me with a gun. A gun? REALLY?" he scoffed, sounding incredulous. "You could play softball with the cosmos and you choose a gun? How lame is that? Any bozo bank robber can use a gun. You're supposed to be all powerful, right? A goddess, you're gonna rule over the whole multiverse, right? You can make anything happen! And you decide to shoot me. Whoop-de-doo." His grin grew wider. "Y'know, you may be a goddess but you stink at being creative. Just like the Writer."
He did his best to look nonchalant and unimpressed, but he knew Miss Tairee had some serious firepower behind her. The moment she did anything threatening, he braced himself to be ready to react.
Edited by AllHailThrall on May 11th 2020 at 8:23:01 AM
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THE SLORG!
The evil Miss Tairee regarded Ben with a somewhat dull expression. "I'm good with guns, and I ain't needin' to impress ya', just kill ya'" the evil Miss Tairee said in an annoyed tone.
Louie had looked at Ben with a, 'are you serious?' kind of look, but when he saw how the evil Miss Tairee responded, inspiration seemed to strike him, and he hopped out of Swishee's bill to the rooftop. "Then how come it's taking you so long to kill us, huh?!" Louie yelled in a mocking tone.
The evil Miss Tairee looked over at him with a scowl, then she suddenly blurred; her suit vanished, replaced by the regular outfit Miss Tairee normally wore. "That bitch" the evil Miss Tairee muttered to herself. Both Goldeneye and the recently brought out Nimbus moved to start their attacks; with a quick movement, the evil Miss Tairee pointed the rifle over towards Louie, and flicked a laser sight on, the red trail going right to the very center of Louie's forehead. "Ah ah, unless ya' wanna see me try to give yer' trainer some third eye enlightenment the hard way, ya' should hold yer' horses" the malicious duplicate told them, as the robotic arm floating around her came around to her left side and projected a holographic screen. Keeping her right hand with the finger on the trigger, the evil Miss Tairee used her left hand to start tapping on the screen along with the robotic arm.
"She ain't the only one with some shortcuts programmed" the evil Miss Tairee remarked, making a swipe on the screen after only a few moments of typing. Just behind her back there was a blur in the air, as an array of ten more copies of the robotic arms appeared, all in pristine condition. The one that had just been projecting the holographic screen fell to the rooftop with a thud, and the one above the street that Ace had been haphazardly holding onto did the same. "Alright ya' little varmint, ya' wanna see some cosmic power?" the bad librarian asked in a rhetorical and dark tone, five of the new robotic arms already starting to tap away on projected holographic screens.
"Oh, but before I forget" the evil Miss Tairee stated simply, then pulled the trigger on the rifle. There was a blink in the air as Goldeneye abruptly intercepted the bullet, which took a chunk out of the pokemon.
It was around this time Caboose was coming running down the street; he'd be able to see Ben, Swishee, and Nimbus above the rooftops, and Ace kind of falling to the ground. Unfortunately, the evil Miss Tairee was above one of the rooftops out of sight from the street level.
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In the street
"Hold on," Garrett said when Caboose suggested that he be flown over to the fight. "Why me? I'm not much of a fighter, and I don't particularly like flying, either. Why not you, Ca—?"
Unfortunately, by then Caboose had already run away. The thief shook his head. "...Are you sure there's no one else?" he muttered, looking around in hopes of seeing Gon.
He turned towards Blue with a look of defeat. "...If it's really got to be me... at least keep me out of sight, okay? Just... deliver me directly into a window or something."
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Caboose arrived on what he assumed to be the scene of the battle, based on the fact that Ben didn't seem to be in a hurry to go somewhere else. Ben didn't seem like the sort of person to stop chasing Badee, so finding him basically meant that he had found her also... even if he couldn't see her.
Before he could do anything else, though, the sim trooper noticed Ace falling. Without really thinking about it, he ran forward to try catching the pokemon. Whether he succeeded or not, the soldier's next move would be to head into a building and start running up until he either reached the roof or a window with an angle on the evil librarian.
As soon as he got a chance, he'd aim to pepper her with a few shots.
Why is a yam attacking me?
Rachel couldn't help a reactive yelp as Ben picked her up, but once she realized she had been safely taken to cover she looked grateful. "Thanks Ben; I think you just saved my bacon" Rachel said, taking the magazine out of her pistol to check how many rounds were remaining. Caboose with his timely dive through a window had also safely avoided the laser.
Back outside, Ace made a charge towards the evil Miss Tairee, but the laser-firing hand quickly swiveled around and swept through where the blaziken's neck would be, which the pokemon barely avoided by diving into a somersault to one side. The laser then stopped firing as the evil Miss Tairee again turned and started to fly away. A couple of Blue's frost arrows narrowly missed her, as he swooped down from above. "Oh no you don't!" Blue yelled, but his dive was abruptly cut short by one of the robotic arms suddenly intercepting and punching his chest, stalling his momentum in the air. The robotic arm then grabbed his chest plate, and flew down at high speed, taking Blue with it and slamming him down into the ground. Then it started punching him repeatedly.
"Goldeneye, help Ace!" Louie called, using one hand to recall Nimbus to his pokeball, and the other hand to bring Goldeneye out down towards the street. Swishee gave a honk, then started flying after the evil Miss Tairee.
The other two robotic arms flew to regroup with the malicious librarian, setting her with three flying alongside her.
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