CoLC crossover RP, main thread

Cole sniffed once, wiping at his eyes with one hand, while starting to pet Nightwitch with the other. "You don't want to turn anyone to stone...Stone Prince, next Queen of the Enchanted Forest..."

He lowered his head again. "You have to use magic...to go inside and find the demon. To tell it to leave. They never want to leave. They offer bargains to stay. They tempt you and taunt you till you're twisted up and turned about...they'll say that they're nice. That they just want to do something, to give you something to stay..." He shook his head, looking to the side, still hiding under his hat. "But they won't. They always take more than they give. And sometimes they will kill rather than lose the body they want..."

He shifted, picking up the cat and hugging her gently. "I...I want to go back to the library. I don't...I don't want to help right now..."

"That is incorrect." Aigis said in regards to leg breaking. "I should clarify two points. Action to disable Ben-san and Twilight-san would only be taken if they fully lost control of their cognitive functions, and not before. And any action to disable them must be both non-lethal and not cause lasting harm. For instance, sleep gas, or a directed force impact to the skull. Leg breaking does not fall under that."

The grocery store

Bill floated over to the robotic girl and laughed a little. "You do realize I've been captured several times by now, right? Compared to me, this bird guy is child's play."

"i don't think there's anything we can do about it, whatever it is, the laws of this city protects it just as much as it protects us." Sans shook his head in a rather resigned way and gave Cole a quick glance before giving his attention to Aigis again. "with that said, we only have what that guy said about whatever it is to go with and just like any of us what he knows is limited to how they worked in his home world. maybe those who get possessed can be freed from it without having to die or using that weird magic." he shrugged as he turned over to Ben and Twilight "and we'd have to find out how before these two go berserk on us and we have to put them down."

There was very little for Sans to go with as far as understanding the situation went, the only thing he knew is that apparently somebody can possess other people as seen with the rock creature that killed themselves earlier. But whether Ben and Twilight were really possessed or not and the nature of what did it, all he had to go with were the ramblings of some bag of nerves that apparently can read minds. It looked like things could end up getting serious in the city now, maybe, depending of how real that threat Cole described was.

"if those two really are possessed, then whatever did it to them must be able to do so without the target noticing anything until they already got in. i don't know you guys but i don't possess a single clue of how we're supposed to win here."

edited 7th Apr '16 8:09:25 PM by FullMoon

Things were coming to a head when there was a loud *BANG* coming from the inside the grocery store. Plague Knight quickly turned to see a large, bipedal rock creature, apparently on the Ruckus members, shoot himself with one of the leftover guns. The knight looked on in disappointment......that Rick already claimed dibs on the shotgun used.

He started to process the latest batch of ramblings Cole said before the shot rang out, which miraculously sounded like an explanation for his earlier threats of violence upon. Apparently Cole had sensed something inhabiting inside Ben and Twilight's minds, and this something had enough control over the Ruckus members to attempt to kill Cole previously. From Cole's reaction to the sound of the gun alone, it was successful.

Ben's explanation of meeting a "bird dude" at the apparent Ruckus hideout gave Cole's ramblings further credence. When Aigis suggested an alternate means of dealing with the "bird dude", Plague Knight already had an idea.

"We trick Marcus into attacking him," the alchemist suggested as he walked towards the robot after putting away his weapons. "Though only if we do not have any better ideas." He walked over the gas arrow. "Also, I volunteer to have Ben at least stay with me at my current abode for observation. I can easily create a concoction that can subdue him if something akin to mind control actually does happen to him."

Aigis was swiftly becoming lost in the conversation as she lost context. She turned first to Bill and asked a simple question. "Who are you and what relevance does that have to this conversation?" Then she turned to the most recent speaker and again asked a simple question. "Who or what is Marcus?"

"Just now? A bit of wind, maybe" Old Feather Beak mused, standing up straight and glancing out at the view of the city. "This entire day has been quite strange. Though I must admit I have found it very amusing indeed" he added, his beak managing to smile due to the cartoon nature of the day.

He turned his head back to Mary and tilted it slightly. "But what about you, Mary? You don't look like you're having much fun" Old Feather Beak said, seeming concerned.

Grocery Store

Before Caro could answer Sans' question, all sorts of weird things began to happen. As Sans and an alien-like being that she assumed to be Ben walked around, a robotic looking girl and a guy with a large hat that she remembered from before in the library suddenly came and the girl began to accuse them of attacking him.

The guy first said that they were friendly, before suddenly drawing out daggers and accusing Ben and someone named Twilight of being posessed. She didn't know exactly what that meant. Was it being mind controlled, like Quattro had once done to Lutecia and Vivio? From the look of the discussion, it sure looked like it.

Things escalated pretty quickly, with Garrett firing some sort of arrow with gas coming out of it at the guy. The robotic girl then deflected this. Discussion turned to some sort of bird-like man that seemed to be the cause of whatever it was that was being claimed to be affecting Ben. Apparently, it could only be done away with enough magic. She didn't know if her magic would suffice or even be capable of helping in this matter but it was worth a shot.

So it was at this point that she decided to chime in, " Excuse me, did you guys say whatever is helping to them can only be fixed with magic? Well, I don't know if mine is the sort you're looking for and from what was said, it probably won't work by itself either, but I can give it a shot if there are others to help me." Turning to face the guy that had claimed the bit about magic, she said, " Just tell me what needs to be done and I will what I can do."

Shiara giggled at Cole's comments.

"That was Cimorene. Also, since I'm still not fully healed, I might come with you. We need to work out a way to get across the road though."

Nightwitch snuggled into Cole.

Plague Knight offered to keep and eye on the "possessed" since he had experience in cooking up potions against midn control.

"I can shut down Ben's watch in case things get ugly. I can cover you"

Aigis wondered who Marcus was and what made the floating triangle's opinions relevant.

"He's a xenophobic supersoldier that we managed to calm down" Rex turned to Plague Knight obviously annoyed that the alchemist was suggesting making things worse for them. "And we're not gonna set him lose unless it's the only thing we can do"

"And the other guy is a triangle. Just roll with it"

edited 7th Apr '16 8:18:27 PM by DeisTheAlcano

"...Sorry." All but deflating when reprimanded by Sawyer, the girl's demeanor turned apologetic and her repressed emotions came back in a surge as the technique broke. "It was just... not right, letting someone decide whether people lived or die like that..." The girl murmured, gripping her fist but now quite a bit more calm since Cole didn't seem to be stab happy. Still the fact that there was apparently someone going around and possessing people left quite a bad taste in her mouth, especially considering how much times she got hit with something like that. The fact that no one knew how to exorcise the thing only made her feel even more helpless... And especially the defeated rock thing deciding to off itself due to said apparent evil spirit. That made the girl tremble in place, helpless fury rising.

It was when she caught sight of her greatest fear that all signs of strong will escaped the girl, that horrible furry thing clinging atop of Scarecrow's shoulder. Her hair fluffed up and bristled at that horride sight while swaying too and fro much like an animal's tail even her skin broke into goosebumps and fat beads of sweat began to flow down her face as she saw Nightwitch. "C-c-c-c-c-c-cat..." Barely able to even hoarsely squeak out the name of that feline abomination, the brash and brave martial artist became a shuddering wreck that would give Grimlock a run for his money. Heavy panting occurred as she slowly backed away, eyes wide as saucers and movements mechanical.

A thought bubble unconsciously erupted from her, revealing a stocky bald man repeatedly throwing a child that looked a lot like her into what appeared to be a pit of scarving cats. Each time the kid was draped in various fish byproducts before being dropped inside the pit of fur and claws, the tide of furry things always congregating and scratching and biting and writhing about the tied up miniature Ranma. The cries for help resounded into the distance even as her father peered over the top of the hole, always watching but never doing anything until consciousness was lost. Perhaps the most unnerving part was that said scene continued to repeat on a loop with the only difference being the various seafood adorned upon young Saotome being different variants such as fish sausage, fish jerky, fish fillet, live eel, sushi, dried squid, and so on. "P-please no... Why here..."

edited 7th Apr '16 9:02:45 PM by Makaioh

Ben looked at Lune, who walked up and said that she was his friend. His frown turned into a smile and he nodded. "Thanks, Lune," he told her. "That makes me feel better." What didn't make him feel better was the others talking about how they were going to hurt Ben if he went out of line.

"Uh, hello, I'm standing right here!" Ben pointed out to them. "This isn't weird and creepy at all! Can we please stop talking about how you're gonna hurt me?" Plague Knight suggested that Ben stay with him. Because that was probably a wonderful idea and wouldn't result in Ben getting blown up or doused with toxic chemicals at all. Ben sighed though. "I don't think I have a choice here," Ben muttered.

He looked at Caro. "If you can do something to get rid of this evil thing in me, be my guest. But try not to hurt me, if you can. All right?" he suggested.

"Demonic possession. Great." Rick rolled his eyes. "I mean, what, you know, the-*urp* there's a simple way out of this," he explained, hefting the shotgun up in one hand and experimentally flicking the safety on and off "... 's far as I know there's no demon... hijacked body or not... in any reality that can take a twelve-gauge to the face and walk that shit off. And I've been to approximately... uh... let's se... three thousand six hundred... something... realities. Give or take. I'll take care of it."

Noticing Morty ^note  and whoever else objected to the idea of taking a shotgun to an innocent, glaring angrily at him, Rick threw up his hands in exasperation and groped for his flask as he spoke, hefting the shotgun onto his left shoulder as he spoke. "What? I'm just sp-*urp* spitballin' here. You wanna go and *urp* you wanna go and take Marcus off his little leash? You wanna turn 'em over to Dr. Demento over here? Be my guest."

"Rick, c-can't you, I dunno, make something? Like, I dunno, a, a,a..."

"A what, an auto-exorcism machine? You mean, what, like a little... beepy... device where a robotic priest pops up and sprinkles artificial holy water on your little head, Morty?" Slurp. "Yeah, sure, I can rig that up... if you feel like having your skin melted off." There was another pause.

"Look, it's not a pretty process, okay? I don't have a lot to work with here."

edited 7th Apr '16 8:26:32 PM by Locoman

"Understood. I will "Roll with it". As for this Marcus-san, I do not believe he will be needed. The situation is not one that will be improved by introducing unreliable allies who may turn on our non-human members. I assure you I have more then enough firepower to take on this "Bird dude"." At this point Aigis deployed her chaingun, which came out of her side and flew into her hand, and out of her shoulder came a large missile battery.

"As part of my duties as a Seventh Generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon, I have been configured with considerable firepower, as you can see. I can, as the saying goes, "Handle myself".

edited 7th Apr '16 8:29:47 PM by Meanken

Sans listened as everybody made their own suggestions, none of them seemed like they would be particularly good either, at this point there really wasn't anything to do but wait and see what happened, so he might as well do that.

"well, i've said everything i had about this subject. all i came here to do was complete the challenge so that communication tower would be set up, so i think i'll head back now and leave you guys to figure things out. see ya."

He then walked off, giving everyone a little wave as he went.

A shotgun, a bang, a corpse later and Hol Horse went into the closest thing he could equate to "survival mode", a mixture of fear and readiness to fight. Demons don't exist, of course. Ghosts don't exist. But neither does anything else he saw today, right? He wasn't ready to accept the existence of such things just yet, but he sure as hell was ready to prepare for them.

People were throwing around terms that he had no idea about, references to people he had never met, and all of it sounded well short of being useful. These people needed to listen to the old fart, he had a solid plan if anything. Hol Horse, for the irony of his name, wasn't sure whether his policy of protecting women covers horses. Talking, purple ones, but still.

At the moment, he opted to stand by and watch the so-called "exorcism" take place...but he was ready to shoot if something went wrong. He was the fastest finger in many countries, so he trusted his skills over Grandpa With A Shotgun. As a side note, Stand User Woman was absolutely anything but human, but there are more important issues at hand.

"I did say if we don't have any other ideas," Plague Knight assured Rex. Then he heard Rick's suggestion.

"Even if apparently the mind control is not entirely demonic in nature, at least with me, Ben does not run the risk of being killed multiple times," he said to the rival scientist, emphasizing the last two words.

Then Aigis revealed her armaments. Plague Knight's eyes widened, clearly impressed. The head of his staff was equally impressed. "My word," he said, marveling at the chain guns and missile bays. "I think a better use of your talents would be if Marcus starts to misbehave again!" he commented. As he moved away from his previous spot, though, the discarded gas arrow would have disappeared, apparently brought into the black abyss that was the knight's body this day......

edited 7th Apr '16 8:49:03 PM by UdtheImp

Ben glared at Rick, backing up. "I'm not gonna let you shoot me with that thing!" Ben stated, angrily. "No way! You even point that thing at me and I'll go Hero and teach you a lesson!" he shouted, putting his arm to his Omnitrix and waiting for Rick to make the first move. He knew that the Omnitrix was probably still on cooldown, but Rick didn't know that, at least he hoped. He already didn't trust Rick, and the fact that he was willing to gun down a ten-year-old boy (even if he had an alien watch and was potentially demon-possessed) didn't help his opinion of the man. Plus he reeked of alcohol.

Outside the Grocery -> Heading Back to Library - I Don't Know What's Happening Anymore

If Zelda thought things were winding down, she was very much mistaken. It looked like everyone was working their way out, then suddenly a big fight or argument broke out. She didn't know what it was about; being on the outside and a good distance away from the group meant she missed most of what was being spoken.

She had no idea what to make of it. One part of her dearly wanted to rush in and try to break it up, and maybe figure out what it was everyone was fighting about. She really didn't like seeing everyone at each other's throats like this, considering the situation they were all in. The rest of her knew better. For all she knew, her interference could just make things worse, or she'd wind up getting herself killed.

One thing was for certain; she wasn't accomplishing anything just by standing here. For now, she decided to ask Sans or anyone else who was involved about it later, hoping that they'd all get out of it in one piece, and try to head back to the library. It was a fairly quiet place to think about what to do next and what was going to happen, not to mention the least crazy part of the city's current state. She'd had enough of this day's theme; hopefully it would be over soon.

At that, she turned and started walking away from the grocery, trying to get as far as she could without having to cross the street. Fried wasn't around to give her a lift at the moment, and she didn't feel like trying her luck with the physics of the day.

Cole might have had something more to add, even at this point after inciting so much trouble. However, anyone taking a close look might be aware of a strange sort of buzzing about his head. Tiny, vibrating letter Z's were floating about him, and checking under the hat would confirm that the spirit had apparently dropped into an exhausted sleep where he sat, still cradling Nightwitch in his arms.

Upon getting outside the store, Sans noticed Zelda walking away herself and decided to go after her, might as well enjoy some company and plus depending on whether she was heading to the library or not he could give her a lift.

"hey, zelda," he said, trying to catch her attention, "where are you going?"

Mary - Any Fun Ideas?

Mary was many things. Mary was childish, impatient and got distracted very easily. Mary was also very inexperienced and knew very little when compared to other people. Mary was a fan of drawing and sweets and shiny things and friends and the color blue. Mary was very afraid of fire and of things related to fire. Mary was quirky. Mary was odd. Mary was unstable.

But she was no idiot. She knew enough about how the wind felt to tell that, whatever it was that she'd felt, that strange sensation at the back of her head, it was completely unrelated to any sort of wind. Or anything else she knew. Maybe she'd need to think about it some more before she could figure out how to describe it. And that'd take a while.

But until then, she may as well talk to Old Feather Hawk for a while, if only to let time pass until all the colors came back. It was already night time, so maybe in a few hours?

"Yeah... this day wasn't very fun," the fabricated girl admitted with a frown. "I'm very bored, and I have nothing to do."

Grocery Store -> Heading towards the library

It seemed that the whole discussion had gotten nowhere, aside from a few people volunteering to either keep an eye on those who were posessed or dealing with whoever was the cause of the situation.

Furthermore, it seemed that the guy who had being talking about posession and magic had pretty much fallen asleep. Without him to explain further, there was not probably much she could, as such a thing was definitely outside her area of expertise.

So when Ben said that she could try to get whatever was affecting him out, but asking hercto not hurt him, she gave a him a awkward smile and said, " Well, of course I would not hurt you. I mean, we may not have met for long, but we are at least allies, if not friends. Most of my magic is more of a supportive nature anyway. But the thing is, I'm not familiar with something like this. I'm used to healing bodies, not minds or whatver is being affected. Without that guy's guidance, " she said pointing at the asleep guy, " I don't think I can do much right now. I would probably be doing more harm than good if I tried without knowing what I'm doing or even if my magic can do anything about this. So it would probably be best if we waited until wecan speak to him again. Which is probably gonna be tomorrow given how dark it is already. It would be best if most of us stayed close to the library, to better control this situation. That's where I'm gonna be heading right now, so see you guys later."

With that said, Caro began to move towards her proclaimed destination, with Fried flying close to her. On the way, she endec up spotting Sans and Zelda. " Hey there , guys. Are you going back to the library too?"

Heading Towards the Library

Zelda smiled at Sans and Caro when they joined her. "I was heading back to the library as well. It's a little more peaceful than the rest of the city, or at least as close to 'peaceful' it can get today." She glanced out towards the streets again. "I'm just hoping we can get back there without running into yet more chaos."

She then turned back towards the others and frowned. "So, what exactly was going on in there? I was watching the whole thing, but I didn't hear what they were talking about. I just saw everyone arguing."

Ben nodded. "All right, I'll go with—" he started to say, beginning to follow her, then stopped and looked at Rick and Plague Knight. He looked over the both of them. Quite frankly, he trusted Caro much more than either of them, despite him knowing Caro only briefly. "I'll go with her," he muttered to them. With that, he began to walk outside after Caro.