CoLC crossover RP, main thread

Strange Sewer Stuff

"Probably something bad," Caboose replied, not understanding that he wasn't the one being asked. "Like... maybe a lot of... tiny fires. Or fairies that are burning."

Freckles, though, could grasp when it was being asked a question. "Unclear. No suitable reference available," the gun provided unhelpfully.

Well, that could mean a lot of things. This city had been full of things that would fit that description. "That means it isn't something that we have ever seen, then, right?" Caboose asked his gun rhetorically. "Neat." He liked seeing new things. Unless they were bad things, then he didn't like it as much.

"Heat signatures are moving towards beneath your location, Captain Caboose," Freckles announced, the speed at which it spoke the only indicator of the urgency. "Recommendation: Move."

The sim trooper hopped to the side a few moments later and began to backpedal away from the spot.

Heatblast scoffed a little bit.

"At least I don't have a weakness like that one did, that one had a shiny green rock that left me totally powerless. If she wants to beat Heatblast, she has to beat me fair and square!" he insisted.

As they closed in on the library, Heatblast hovered in the air, glancing around the ground level surrounding the library for anything out of the ordinary.

I could see two people coming towards the library, but at first it was hard to see what they looked like. One of them looked a bit brighter than the other, but neither of them looked like the librarian.

Once they got a bit closer, I could tell that the brighter one was burning, which was bad. There were a lot of things I didn't know about the world, but even I could tell that being on fire was never a good thing.

"Miss, there's people coming, but they don't look like you. I think one of them is on fire... how do we put it out?"

Seeing that Rick and Morty were save and sound on the ground, Herc immediately then started dashing out of the building that he was in. And then decided that Caboose and Rachel would need his help, he then joined them near the manhole, Herc like Caboose and Rachel didn’t go all the way to the manhole but was still readying himself for whatever was coming. “I want to say that’s the clone of Miss Tairee down below.” Herc said to the duo: “But I might wrong about that. Whatever the case, we are preparing for the worst.”

As soon as Freckles starting telling Caboose to move away from the manhole, Hercules did the same almost immediately. “Well looks like we are about to find out, guys, get ready!”

When Freckles indicated that the heat signatures were on the move, Rachel immediately made a dash to one side, away from the middle of the street. Being winded and not quite as physically capable as Caboose though, the sim trooper was able to catch up despite her head start, by the time the signatures reached the spot where the two had been. The signatures rushed together and combined, finally giving the more distinct reading of a person: Miss Tairee.

With a thrust of her arm upward, the center of the street exploded from beneath, showering the area with little bits of asphalt as the evil librarian rose into the air.

Rachel dropped her phaser to quickly grab her walkie talkie. "Just found the bitch!" Rachel yelled a bit frantically, taking a couple potshots towards the malicious librarian with her pistol. There was a quick response from Louie, but it was hard to hear from Rachel's walkie talkie with everything going on just then.

The evil Miss Tairee scowled as one of the shots went into her gut, but nevertheless raised both arms, then quickly thrust them back down as fire formed in her hands. Two torrents of flames shot down into the street on either side of the newly made hole, and explosively spread outwards in a horizontal wave into the whole street.

"Uh... Does your universe have any saying that's like, 'all's fair in love and war'?" Blue asked in a sort of rhetorical tone, while also sounding a bit perplexed by Ben's statement.

"Just found the bitch!" Rachel's voice was heard over the militia channel, along with gunshots.

"Got, moving now!" Louie's voice responded.

"I don't hear fighting..." Blue thought out loud, glancing around, and adding, "I guess that means they're not here."

"Someone's on fire? What?" Miss Tairee asked, but she didn't actually look up from her work; her typing did seem to shift gears for a bit, but then she shook her head. "Oh, Ellen that's just Heatblast; he's supposed to be on fire. He's fine" the librarian explained, going back to her other typing.

"Just found the bitch!" Rachel's voice was heard from a radio on the desk. Focused as Miss Tairee was, she didn't even respond to the use of cursing this time.

"Got, moving now!" Louie's voice responded.

Louie put his walkie talkie back away, and looked to his team, who he now had all out, except for Pecha, of course. "Remember, we gotta take 'em all out. We can't let any get away" Louie reminded them, looking from one pokemon to the other, adding as he got to the last, "whatever it takes."

Ace gave a squawk and a nod, and they all gathered around Goldeneye, and touched the shiny claydol in some way. Then, they all blinked out...

Across the street, inside a featureless room lit only faintly by the glow of the holographic screens the robotic arms were working on, the team suddenly blinked in. The room went bright as they appeared, with Nimbus' sun form filling the whole space, then a spout of flames as he blasted one of the arms down with weather ball. Keeping with the element of surprise, Ace delivered a blaze kick to one of the arms hard enough to break it, while Lil' Sunny latched her vines onto another to use giga drain on it while it tried to struggle to fly away.

The other two arms flew for the edges of the room, intending to break out; Swishee caught one in the lip of her bill, flapping in a struggle against it, then spinning herself and flinging it back towards the center of the room. Louie himself ran after and made a leap to get the last one, barely grabbing onto the back end of it. "Oh no, you, don't!" Louie said, struggling to yank the arm back and start grappling with it.

The arm being sapped by Lil' Sunny then flipped around and flew back at the pokemon suddenly, too fast for her to react. There was a crunching like stepping on a bush, as the roserade was punched in the head, hard, and fell to the floor before vanishing. The robotic arm didn't have time to act on being freed though, as a pair of lasers shot from Goldeneye finished it off. At the same time, Nimbus blasted down the one Swishee had tossed with another weather ball attack.

That left only the one Louie was struggling with, which he now had held in like a hug. Ace moved to help, but the robotic arm did the finger gun motion, and like before, shot out a cutting laser; right up through the underside of Louie's chin and into his head. The trainer went limp and fell sideways, and the robotic arm immediately zipped for the wall again, but was smacked down out of the air when Ace delivered a high jump kick right onto it.

With that, all five robotic arms were destroyed. Breathing heavily, Ace looked back at where Louie had just been, having already vanished. The blaziken clenched his fists, and let out a loud, angry wail.

It Came From Beneath the Streets

"What? No, that's crazy," Caboose said in response to Hercules' theory on evil Ms. Tairee being down there. "She is not a swarm of small things!"

And then Badee basically uppercut a hole into the street and emerged. "Oh my God, I knew it was her the entire time!" the sim trooper exclaimed, holding up his gun and firing a few shots at the woman before she did her fire trick.

From the looks of it, the whole street would be unsafe in a few seconds due to all the fire. And, since there were flames on both sides, they couldn't break right or left either. That left only one option for Caboose. He started running right for the librarian, firing nonstop directly at her, as he tried to make his way to the hole she had opened in the street for cover from the flames.

Heatblast rolled his eyes.

"Well, I certainly don't love her," Heatblast pointed out. "Doesn't matter, point is—" he started to say, when Rachel's voice rung out on the walkie talkie. It seemed like Rachel had found the evil librarian. Which meant he wasn't nearby.

"Then where do you think she—" he started saying, this time interrupted by what sounded like a fiery explosion in the distance.

"C'mon!" Heatblast shouted, powering up his fire and rocketing off in the direction of the sound.

Gon, moving around without getting killed by being sucked to a black hole...

I need to move around. But that... thing is in the way.

Gon moved around with his grip still on the park bench.

Looks like there's someplace where I can go... I guess.

There was another park bench. And another. It looked like convenience by coincidence.

For Gon's case, it's a way out.

"Here I go."

Gon gave a couple of deep breaths before he focused his attention to the nearest bench.

He began to swing back and forth multiple times facing the nearest bench to give him enough momentum...

Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.

And after what seemed to be the nth time with his momentum swing, Gon made the leap of faith to jump.

His arms reached out to the extent of his abilities to grab it. Even if he gripped the bench's leg with just one hand.

With the flames already shooting and the way they were expanding out, Caboose wouldn't be able to cover the distance to the hole before the flames were there; therefore in his run he ran headlong right into and then through the flames, only getting out of the direct blasting of them once he was through the hole, thankfully right into water.

As for the evil Miss Tairee, she scowled in pain and annoyance as the bullets tore through her, the flames kind of lowering in intensity a bit, but never really stopping. Even as at least one bullet went through her head leaving a nasty hole.

Meanwhile Rachel decided to try to make a break for the closest building to get to cover, leaping through a window, but she too wasn't fast enough to totally avoid the flames. She let out a scream and after she was in the building, tried to roll around to put out the fire on herself. The evil Miss Tairee finally stopped shooting more flames, and glanced down at the hole briefly, then flew to one side to get out of Caboose's line of sight, as her wounds were already regenerating. In mid air she blurred suddenly, and then dropped down to the street with a yelp. "Ugh, that bitch" the evil Miss Tairee muttered as she stood up. "Takin' away my flight, well I'll... Oh ya' clever sons a bitches" she continued, scowling as she realized her robotic arms were taken out.

Forming another fireball in her hand, the evil Miss Tairee looked over towards where Rachel had gone, but then paused. The malicious librarian glanced upward as she heard something, and saw Heatblast and Blue approaching. First the evil Miss Tairee scowled a bit, but then she thought of something, and instead smiled wickedly. Letting the fireball dissipate, she pointed her arm at the building Rachel was in, then motioned in a swing up at the two fliers. The building rumbled and then extended upward just like the twisted landscape they had left behind; it twisted in the air almost like some massive snake and shot out towards the two.

"Uh oh!" Blue yelled, shooting his grappling hook out to one side and quickly reeling himself towards another building to avoid the oncoming attack.

Burning Street

Caboose was able to withstand a few seconds of being on fire, one could even say he was used to it. His combat armor was horrible at dealing with bullets, if only because most weapons in his world were designed with the expectation that they'd be used on someone wearing that type of armor, but they did great with environmental damage. If he failed to extinguish the flames in time it might have been a different story, but thankfully he landed in water.

Now that the area above ground wasn't being bathed in heat, the sim trooper decided it was time to get out of the hole. While it was too high for him to jump out of, there was a manhole cover right near it that he could use.

While the evil librarian busied herself with trying to use buildings as weapons, Caboose started to climb up the ladder. Once at the top, he'd shove aside the manhole and climb up. After observing the situation for a moment, he'd bend down to pick up the circular metal disc he had just moved aside and try to hurl it right at Badee.

Heatblast yelped as Miss Tairee raised another building to attack him. This time, however, Heatblast was more prepared for her to pull something like this. Heatblast dropped his flames on his hands and fell to avoid the strike, then he jetted towards the evil Miss Tairee.

Clenching his fists and rocketing down towards her, he began to wreath himself in flames, flying down at the evil librarian like a sentient meteor.

The evil Miss Tairee tried to raise her arms for something else, but wasn't quick enough, and Heatblast impacted into her. The two were smashed down into the street in a firey crash, crushing the evil Miss Tairee's chest and burning it up, though it already started to regenerate as she raised a leg and smacked Heatblast with her knee. Turned out she still had some deal of supernatural strength, as Heatblast was hit hard enough to launch him back over her head and smack back down onto the street several meters away.

Then the evil Miss Tairee turned herself over and started to get up with a grunt, only to then let out a yell when the manhole cover hit her leg and broke it, nearly taking the leg off completely. "Ugh, ya' fuckin'..." the evil Miss Tairee muttered, turning her head to glance over at Caboose, then waving a hand in his direction. The top layer of asphalt of part of the street, probably around five inches thick, ripped upwards and curled like a carpet corner being folded over, In Caboose's direction like a sort of wave.

Meanwhile, right as Heatblast would be about to get up again, suddenly a thrown water balloon hit him, splashing its contents; but of course the water just evaporated almost immediately, and Heatblast was completely unharmed by this attempted attack.

"Hmm, so you're not weak to water" said lieutenant Wells, idly discarding the other two water balloons he was carrying while walking down the street slowly towards Heatblast. The soldier didn't seem to have any weapons on him.

Heatblast slammed into Miss Tairee, doing some serious damage but not before being pummeled down the street.

Heatblast, stunned by this for a moment, struggled to his feet when he was splashed by a popped water balloon. Being a water-balloon splashing a large actively-flaming Pyronite, the water did next to nothing, and Heatblast just looked at the direction of the impact in utter confusion.

Heatblast furrowed his brow.

"You're gonna need a lot more water than that, Wells," Heatblast quipped. "But this wildfire's not being put out that easily!" He launched himself into the air, took a deep breath and blew a flamethrower-like stream of fire in the direction of Badee.

"More? Hm, we'll see" Wells said, stopping his march and glancing about the street.

As for the evil Miss Tairee, she managed to raise her arms up in a token attempt at protecting herself from the flames, but they still lashed across her body. It resulted in a metaphorical tug of war between the damage being done by the burning flames and her rapid regeneration factor. Thankfully for modesty's sake, the evil Miss Tairee had apparently fire-proofed her clothes, and the real Miss Tairee had not seen fit to remove that in her sabotaging, so the malicious duplicate remained dressed.

"Commander! Perhaps try this?!" Wells called out, having walked over to a fire hydrant on the side of the road. The evil Miss Tairee pointed an arm towards it, then motioned towards Heatblast; the ground around the fire hydrant ripped up, releasing a violent torrent of water, angled over towards the flame based alien.

Edited by FirockFinion on Jun 6th 2020 at 3:10:23 AM

Street Scuffle

Impressed at the success of his improvised weapon toss, Caboose almost didn't notice the wave of asphalt in time. Thankfully, given the fact that he was at least looking at it, he had just enough time to start running directly away from it until it either died out on its own or he got the chance to get around it.

Either way, by the time he was able to pay attention to the fight again things were already moving on. The sim trooper started to sprint back towards Badee and Ben, aiming his gun as he ran to try putting a round right into the evil Wells' skull. He didn't seem dangerous, but he was also a bad guy right now so he couldn't let him stay here right now.

Whether he succeeded in killing the brainwashed lieutenant or not, his goal was to try and get himself in the way of the spray of water to try shielding Heatblast. Though there was no way he'd stop the initial torrent in that way, if the water kept shooting out he'd try to mitigate further damage by using himself as a barrier.

Heatblast glanced over and noticed Wells suggested to the evil Miss Tairee and he dove off to the side in an attempt to dodge the water coming at him.

Then he saw Caboose try to shoot at the evil Wells and block the water from hitting him.

"Nice save, Caboose!" Heatblast shouted gratefully, then turned back towards the evil clone. "Now as for you!" he exclaimed, fireballs materializing in his hands. "Let's see how you like it!" he shouted, tossing fireballs at the evil clone and advancing towards her as he did so.

Thankfully, though skilled, Wells possessed no supernatural ability, and took the short burst of rifle fire to his upper torso and head just as well as any other normal person would. Which is to say, he died; thankfully he almost immediately vanished too, leaving none of the usual, messy aftermath of such an event, save for the blood splatter.

As for Ben, it was a close call with the initial water, but the evil Miss Tairee had stopped aiming it, so he didn't have to worry once he was out of the way. Instead she put her hands down on the ground, taking a breath for a moment before glaring back up at Heatblast. His fireballs flew forward, and there was a rumble in the street as they exploded. Moments later when the smoke cleared, there was a hole in the street.

Freckles' heat detection would have barely picked up that the evil Miss Tairee had fallen through the hole, which she had actually made herself, right as the blast happened. Before she hit the bottom of the sewer tunnel, her heat signature had burst again into the swirl of vague heat sources, which were now traveling down the sewer tunnel with the current.

Badee Fight

The ease with which the bullets killed Wells was almost surprising to Caboose. Maybe it was the battle that had been going on all day, with durable robot arms and regenerating librarian clones, but the sim trooper was starting to lose sight of the damage a gun could actually inflict on a mundane entity.

"Yes, yes, thank you I know I am great," he said, basking in the compliment over his save. The red armored man started pointing his gun at where Badee was before, waiting for the smoke and dust to clear. Only a few moments later, though, he could see a hole and could not see a villain. "Uh... Where'd she go?"

"Target is moving in the sewers, Captain Caboose. Recommendation: Pursue." Freckles piped up, answering the question.

Well that gave them a decision to make, on how they should proceed. "Uh... so I think I should try to follow from above the ground. Because if she explodes things down there or shoots a lot of fire or does anything like that while I am also down there I do not think it will be good for me. Freckles will tell me where she's going."

If there were no objections, he'd start running off while letting his gun direct him.

Heatblast opened his eyes and noticed Badee was gone, though Caboose's... talking gun pointed out she had merely decided to hide in the sewers again.

"Don't worry about that!" Heatblast insisted, heating his hands up. "I'll just flush her out!" he shouted, pointing a fist directly into the hole and letting out a burst of flame from his hand."

When the fire attack swept over the city, Here hid behind some dumpsters, once it passed, Hercules quickly rushed out of his cover and towards where the fight was now. Apparently the possessed Lieutenant Well had attacked both Ben and Caboose but now Herc could only see his dead body. “Guys!” Hercules cried out as he rushed over to the Red Sim Trooper and Heatblast. Just as he was about to reach them, a couple of Heatblast’s caused an explosion and then there was nothing but smoke. When it cleared the clone of Miss Tairee was no where to be seen.

Hercules understood immediately what Ben and Caboose were talking about: “If the clone of Miss Tairee reappears, then we’ll be ready for her.” Herc then said, he prepared another arrow.

The flame shot down into the sewer and a column of hot steam came rising up immediately after. The heat signature that was the evil Miss Tairee didn't really change course or speed or otherwise seem to care, as she was already getting some distance by then. After a few moments she did merge back into her human shape, still running, and now motioning her hands in front of herself.

About then, Blue's voice shouted from a rooftop. "Uh, guys? I think we've got a problem incoming!" he called down to them, while the sound of an active jump pack was starting to be audible and get closer. Freckles would start to pick up on the signature of Brother Marcus jetting from rooftop to rooftop in their direction.

Library

At about the same time, Garrett, who had somehow managed to escape the maelstrom of warped buildings, was led by the shifting streets to the library.

After looking around to ensure there was nobody hostile around, he entered the building.

"...Are you making progress?," he asked Miss Tairee.

Miss Tairee only spared a brief glance when Garrett spoke, and continued her typing as she replied. "I'm trying to do something about her brainwashing, but she made it a tough one to crack; I can't figure out how to make death not trigger it, or a way to undo it automatically, but..." Miss Tairee trailed off, still typing.

A moment or so later, there was a blink in the air nearby as Louie's surviving pokemon appeared: Goldeneye, Ace, Nimbus, and Swishee. They promptly looked to Miss Tairee and started making noise in either pleading or demanding sort of ways.

Miss Tairee stopped her typing and clenched her eyes shut for a moment. "Look- hey- settle down! I'm sorry it happened, but I can't just fix it like that! It's too complicated, I'm sorry" Miss Tairee said, looking at the pokemon with an expression both apologetic and exasperated.

The pokemon quieted down, but then Ace stood up straighter and puffed his feathers up, giving a confident squawk before turning to walk away.

"No, that won't work! The brainwashing is too-" Miss Tairee started to object, but then stopped, clearly calculating something for a few moments, then her eyes widened a little. "Wait, that's it! I can break that part! You're a genius!" the librarian exclaimed in an inspired tone.

Ace glanced back and gave a slightly confused squawk.

Miss Tairee was already back at work quickly typing for a solid five seconds or so, then stopped and snatched up the nearby walkie talkie.

"Listen, everyone! I weakened part of the mind control! If you can reach out to them you should be able to snap them out of it!" Miss Tairee transmitted quickly and hastily into the militia channel, finally sounding more hopeful about the situation. She then glanced over at the pokemon, who were still staring at her now. "What are you still doing here?! Go! Get your trainer back!" she told them insistently. The pokemon gave brief looks at each other, but then didn't need telling twice, and were rushing to the nearest door quickly.

Day twenty nine part three, earn your happy ending

"Listen, everyone! I weakened part of the mind control! If you can reach out to them you should be able to snap them out of it!" Miss Tairee's voice yelled to them over the militia channel.

"Reach out to them?" Blue repeated in a somewhat uncertain tone, as Brother Marcus landed into view on a nearby rooftop. "Uh, anybody know what's important to this guy?" the terrarian asked, as the space marine revved his chainsword and came leaping down towards the street, screaming out in fury.

"Try courage and honour; it's his battle cry!" suddenly suggested Silanea, slithering into the street from a nearby alley, already conjuring an ethereal shield and blades in front of herself, facing the astartes as he landed not far down the street from her.

Battle Against a True Smurf

Before Caboose could start his pursuit of the Badee, her mind controlled space marine showed up. He could hear the jump pack, even before Freckles alerted him, and he could remember exactly what that noise meant. "Oh, hi Mark!" the sim trooper called out, waving at the astartes right before the man leaped down from the rooftops.

He heard the message from the real librarian loud and clear. The big blue man had lost his way, but that didn't mean he couldn't find it again! Sometimes a person just needed a bit of help from their friends. Caboose stared down Marcus stoically, not even slightly fazed by the space marine's rage.

Maybe they didn't know each other that well, but both him and Marcus were soldiers of a sort and they had both fought for a common goal a week ago. Even if a lot of the others who had been with them back then hadn't been around for a while, the thing they accomplished still remained. "Marcus! Do you remember when we fought together to save Yuna's Earth?" he called out, walking towards the raging marine. "The second you found out it was the only place with humans there, and that it was in danger, you decided to help right away!"

"You were really cool, fighting like that. It's really neat, doing what your beliefs tell you. Freckles, do you remember what Marcus told Yuna back then?" he continued, before asking his weapon for an exact reminder.

"Brother Marcus stated 'Show that the strength of humanity has not wavered in you,' Captain Caboose," the gun replied, quoting it exactly.

Caboose nodded in acknowledgement. "Yeah, you told her to do that and she did! We all showed that we were strong like that. But now you're helping a mean person who will do bad things to humans everywhere. I know you'd fight against something like that normally, because you've done it before! You're just as strong as any human, so stop being so weak and get back to fighting for humans instead of against us! I heard you say something about a new empress earlier over the radio, but soldiers shouldn't change sides so easily."

"So shut up and get over this!"

Brother Marcus made a charge at Caboose when the sim trooper started talking, but his chainsword met a green shield of magic as Silanea intercepted the charge.

"Marcus! Do you remember when we fought together to save Yuna's Earth? The second you found out it was the only place with humans there, and that it was in danger, you decided to help right away!"

The light in the eyes of Marcus' helmet flickered a moment. "Earth? Yuna?" Brother Marcus muttered in a somewhat confused tone, then shook his head, and swung his chainsword around the shield, screaming out, "silence you heretics and xenos!" Silanea barely intercepted that swing with one of the ethereal blades, whilst trying to move herself backwards from the space marine's reach, though he continued to press on.

"You were really cool, fighting like that. It's really neat, doing what your beliefs tell you. Freckles, do you remember what Marcus told Yuna back then?"

"Brother Marcus stated 'Show that the strength of humanity has not wavered in you,' Captain Caboose,"

"The only strength that matters is faith in the Emper... The Empre..." Brother Marcus stammered, stalling as his latest swing was redirected into the ground by Silanea swinging her shield into it and downward. The space marine shook his head again, then abruptly backhanded Silanea with his free arm, sending her sprawling to the ground. "My faith, is my shield, I shall no know fear, for I am... I am..." the astartes muttered, placing his free hand to his helmet and breathing heavily, as the lights in the eyes of his helmet turned off.

"Yeah, you told her to do that and she did! We all showed that we were strong like that. But now you're helping a mean person who will do bad things to humans everywhere. I know you'd fight against something like that normally, because you've done it before! You're just as strong as any human, so stop being so weak and get back to fighting for humans instead of against us! I heard you say something about a new empress earlier over the radio, but soldiers shouldn't change sides so easily. So shut up and get over this!"

"I am... I am, the bulwark against the terror. I am a defender of humanity. I am the Emperor's will made manifest. I am a space marine." Brother Marcus chanted, lowering his hand and standing up straight. The lights in the eyes of his helmet returned, and he glanced down at Silanea, then offered her a hand up. "And I am... Sorry" the space marine added, turning the voice modulation of his helmet off, "for that and... For killing you once before."

"Y-yeah" Silanea muttered, still dealing with the wind knocked out of her and rubbing her chest where there was surely a large bruise forming under her shirt. Blue headed over and handed a healing potion over to the lamia.

"And thank you" Brother Marcus said, turning his attention towards Caboose, then asking, "now where is our true enemy?"

"I think she's getting away in the sewers?" Blue said, though questioningly, since he wasn't certain.

Edited by FirockFinion on Jun 12th 2020 at 10:32:06 AM