CoLC crossover RP, main thread

Despite her dark energy blasts, a few bees managed to give her slip and stinged her in the face repeatedly. These bees are really annoying! Thankfully, Ben put an end to the bee menace by tossing the plant creature sending the bees Lune's way over the edge. Hopefully, something would break the plant creature's fall. Pretty sure no one can survive a fall like that and live to tell the tale. Lune gave Ben the plant creature a thumbs as thanks. "Thanks for the help, man. I owe you one!"

Suddenly, a wooden steampunk robot appeared in the sky, and at the controls, was the drunkard and Morty. Were the duo here to save the day for the group?! Or was that a lucky coincidence? Either way you slice it, they showed up at the right time. Suddenly, a plant creature boarded the robot by force. Grimlock changed back into a dragon and helped them out by swiping his tail at the plant creature. The drunkard even helped out by firing a bolt at one of the plant creatures.

Lune rushed over to assist the mysterious person pulling up the sword. She can't make out the details of the person at all even with the glow of the sword. Was this person a knight in shining armor trying to help the group out? Was this person a cunning thief planning to steal the sword and sell it for a tidy profit? Lune was unsure of this person's motives, but she wanted to help someone in need, no matter what.

edited 8th Feb '16 10:44:08 AM by josh6243

Between Ben grabbing it and Rex making a buzzsaw to chop it, the spriggan that was attacking Rex was quickly dealt with, the two remaining halves of it falling to the ground below.

Meanwhile, the spriggan on the back of Rick's machine was knocked away by Grimlock, sending it bouncing off one of the trees and rolling along the platform until it went off the edge. It had however taken a few pieces of Rick's machine with it, ripped away from the back while still in its grip; the whole machine was acting much more jerkily now, which was saying something considering it already was.

Regardless, Rick was still able to fire the crossbow bolt into the back of the spriggan which was keeping Cole away with some claw slashes, staggering it but not yet killing it. Cole was still held up long enough that Koishi and Lune got to the sword first, though the effort of two people was not necessary; the sword wasn't really stuck and it was a normal weight short sword, so it was very easy to pull out.

Once it was pulled out and pointed towards the sky, the sword reflected the night moon-less light brilliantly, and then continued to get brighter, clearly shining under its own power soon enough. Then, despite both Lune and Koishi holding it together, it started to move under its own power as well, forcing their arms down to point it off towards the distant city edge; to where the dragon was lazily flying along the city edge in a big circle around the city. A beam of light shot forth from the sword as the glow left it, and went straight out to the dragon. As it hit the dragon, it didn't seem to harm the dragon in any way, but the shimmering shield around the dragon shattered away into a million pieces of colored light that quickly faded away. The dragon glanced at the dissolving pieces of the shield and let out a roar, but didn't change course or otherwise seem to care.

With its purpose fulfilled, the sword now seemed like a perfectly ordinary sword, save for still being more reflective than normal swords were.

The spriggan, even with a crossbow bolt in its back was still fighting, now letting out an inhuman scream as it turned on Lune and Koishi to slash at them.

Kouta would hear a loud clanking and heavy footsteps catching up with him somewhere to his side. Brother Marcus, not letting a little thing like death stop him just yet, was charging after the dragon as well, overtaking Kouta's pace with his longer and more powerful legs. The space marine did glance his way, and certainly recognized him from the fight earlier, but said nothing.

As the shield dissolved away, Twilight would hear Miss Tairee cheering in joy. "Now just get over here and kill this wrassle frackin' dragon! Ya'll are running out of time!" Miss Tairee yelled in the general direction of the beanstalk, not really caring that they couldn't hear her on account of being about five kilometers away.

The clock was ticking.

edited 7th Feb '16 11:37:30 PM by FirockFinion

Wildvine was occupied fighting the spriggans, when he heard an odd sound, and looked over towards where the sword was. Lune and... some girl he didn't recognize... were wielding the sword, which was pointing a beam of light in the general direction of the burning forest. Wildvine too looked towards the forest, but turned back once the last remaining spriggan let out its inhuman cry. Wildvine glared at it, then lashed his arms over towards it while it was distracted with the girls.

The plant-like creature had great tenacity and seemed to be resisting his pull, but he managed to pick it up, writhing in fury, and toss it in the opposite direction of where the sword pointed. "We've got the sword! Let's go! Rex, help them get back to the dragon, quick!!" Wildvine exclaimed to the others, and immediately melted into the vine. He "swam" down through the beanstalk towards the ground as quickly as he could.

Not Doing Anything Really

People were fighting dragons, fighting whatever was on top of the beanstalk... and Sawyer just sat at its foot, not really doing anything of significance.

But that was alright; she'd rather be bored out of her mind than risk grievous death and or injury fighting either. She had no real weapon for that either. An executioner's sword was not made for combat.

The cleaner glanced at Asgore, one of the few people to still be around. "So... you too plan to join the fray?" She asked casually, hugging her knees as she regarded him. Then she glanced at Mary and Sadness. Perhaps it was for the better that the blonde girl decided to not climb the beanstalk after all. Kids dying is never pretty.

edited 8th Feb '16 6:00:36 AM by FergardStratoavis

If there was a moment in life that Koishi could look back to with absolute conviction and say, "Yes, I really am that cool," this was that moment. She had seen the covers of her sister's secret stash of Conan novels enough times to realize just how great this scene must of looked from someone else's perspective.

This shining sword, raised high into the air, shooting beams of light at dragons and...being held by two people. Koishi realized that she had been co-owner of this sword sometime around when the much more reasonable plant youkai tossed one of his kin screaming over her head. As it stood now, the situation felt a bit awkward. She exited from her subconscious mode, becoming plainly recognizable.

"Um...which of us is gonna keep this?" She looked at Lune as she held onto the sword, grip still firm. She certainly wanted to have it and become Brave Samurai Koishi, but she didn't really have a precedent for how to deal with situations like this politely.

edited 8th Feb '16 11:54:39 PM by wikkit

Lune held the sword aloft with the mysterious person, and they struck an awesome pose. The glow of the sword even made the pose more awesome. Damn, she should strike more poses if they're all going to be this cool.

She got a closer look at the mysterious person, and it turned out the mysterious person was a poor peasant girl. Even her hat seemed poor. However, any help is really appreciated right now. Ms. Tairee's life is at stake here. Although she was working for their captor, Lune couldn't let someone be in distress.

Lune replied, "Well, you can keep it. I've got plenty of swords with me right now. Wouldn't make sense if I got another sword, right?"

edited 8th Feb '16 8:10:20 PM by josh6243

Asgore had looked as everyone started heading to the top of the beanstalk, searching for a method of weakening the dragon perhaps? It looked like they did find something there considering he soon saw a beam of light head towards the dragon but not causing any direct harm to it. He could not tell exactly what was the point of it, but if nothing else the top of the beanstalk should be somewhat safe now.

Sawyer then asked him a question about whether he would join the fight or not.

"I... Do not know, but it looks like we have limited time to beat this creature." he answered, handing her the piece of paper the librarian had dropped earlier so she could read it herself.

Admittedly, he wasn't very interested in having to kill a creature, even though nobody could truly die in it, even if it was for the sake of a good portion of the city's population. In fact, that same concept was quite familiar to him and he did not want to go through the same thing again, especially considering the dragon was not hurting anyone as it flew around. Everything in that situation was making him feel uncomfortable and he did not want anything to do with it, but if nothing else he could warn the others about what was at stake, he just had to wait for them to come back down... Unless they decided to fly towards the dragon, which was a very real possibility.

edited 8th Feb '16 2:41:41 PM by FullMoon

The sword was in safe hands, and Cole took the opportunity to get out of the way of the tree beasts, starting to speak in that way he had. "They know who they are but they aren't acting like who they are, not any of them. The dragon, the trees, they're all from places where they live, they live their own lives, but they aren't living here, not like us. They're covered in glass inside, held down, I can see through, see who they are, what they are, but they aren't, not anymore. Who could do that to them? How do I heal the hurt that I cannot reach, cannot touch?"

He seemed rather more concerned about this at the moment than about the problems of the dragon, Miss Tairee, or anything else going on. Trying to sort out whatever was in his head seemed to have driven Cole to complete distraction, deep anxiety clear in his voice.

Top of the beanstalk

While a battle ensued in the beanstalk, Lune and Koishi had pulled the sword from the stone. The weapon started to glow and then shot a beam of light in a random direction.

"Cool. I guess you're the new Queens of England now"

When the fight was (almost) over Ben told Rex to get everyone back on the air to attack the dragon. He then sunk into the ground, somehow fusing with the beanstalk. "That kid gives me the creeps"

"I can't lift Grimlock because he's too big and I don't think Morty shouldn't be in the fight. So, I guess that means I have to carry Lune, Cole, Rick, and" he stopped talking when he got to Koishi "I never learned your name"

"Wow." Morty wiped his brow and looked around at the dead plant-monsters surrounding the group. "I mean... uh... i-i-it's a good thing that's all over, huh?" Morty clambered off of Rick's suit and poked at one of the dead plants. "We, uh, really showed him who's boss, huh?" Morty looked around at the carnage. "That was a real... intense fight, huh"

"W-w-w-what about the dragon, Morty, remember that? The dragon?" Rick fumbled for his flask and took a swig as he crunched one of the dead spriggan heads underfoot. "We're not done, Morty! I mean, what, that was the w-whole reason we came up here!"

"What? Oh! T-the dragon! Aw jeez, Rick, I thought that... I f-forgot, Rick!"

"Yeah, Morty, you forgot. Alright *urp* time to finish this fucking thing off. Climb on, Morty, it's time to-" It was at about that time that Rex spoke up, suggesting that maybe Morty should stay on the beanstalk for the time being.

"Huh, yeah, y-you know, Rick, may-maybe that's the best option, you know?" Morty flashed a totally innocent smile at his grandfather. "Otherwise, I'm just, uh, I'm just weighin' ya down."

"Alright, Morty, whatever. Don't *urp*- don't *urp* get yourself killed up here, okay? I mean, you can die, but I'm not spending all day tomorrow trying to track down your resurrected little ass." Rick tightened a screw here, punched in a dented armor plate there, then took another swig. "Morty, do me a solid, shove these dead guys in the firebox for me. Gotta stoke 'em in reeeeeal good here, Morty."

Morty winced, looked down at the dead spriggan, and then hesitantly dragged a few chunks of dead plant-monster into the firebox, wincing from the heat and the sparks. Rick's suit coughed under the strain, but seemed to be holding steady. "Alright, Morty, I'm gonna go *urp* kill this dragon, save the day, whatever."

Rick thumbed a few levers on his suit, took a running start, and leapt off the edge of the massive root canopy, plummeting down like a stone. There was a brief crackle of something-or-other as the jury-rigged broomstick began levitating, slowing his ascent; another pull of a lever and a trio of hastily stitched together parachutes ^note  by the looks of it, it seemed as though they'd been scavenged from some of the beds upstairs popped out; Rick twisted in the air and started heading down toward the dragon, metal hands outstretched.

"It's not a fairy tale until someone pulls a contrived *urp* deus ex machina out of their ass!" he shouted as he descended toward the dragon.

edited 8th Feb '16 9:04:52 PM by Locoman

Rocketing off about five kilometers in a short time span was no small feat, even for a magical broom. The whole of Rick's machine was feeling the strain, but the broom especially took the brunt of it, and basically exploded into about four pieces as Rick's machine parachuted down towards the dragon; he wouldn't be getting any more flight out of that. He landed on the side of its back, just behind the base of the left neck; there he would have to hold on to keep from just falling off the side, having not landed on a part level enough to stand on.

The dragon's right head, holding Miss Tairee, twisted around to look at Rick for a moment, seeing that it would need to swap Miss Tairee to the left head to attack him. It whipped to the side, tossing Miss Tairee through the air towards the left head; as she had been waiting for this, this prompted Twilight to swoop in and intercept, taking Miss Tairee and flying out ahead of the dragon. "What the- where did you come from?" Miss Tairee asked after Twilight grabbed her, then shook her head and looked back towards the dragon. "Never mind that now- must go faster!" she told the alicorn urgently.

Both of the dragon's heads looked after Twilight in surprise for a moment... Then anger. It let out a roar from both heads that shook the city nearby that edge.

Vendral the dragon

Vendral started to beat his wings faster, leaving the lazy, casual mode he had been in to get serious as he charged after Twilight. The sudden increase in intensity and thrashing as Vendral got up to speed was threatening to throw Rick off like a cowboy on a wild bull. With a huge difference in wingspan and size, he was gaining on Twilight fast, but she could be more nimble.

The chase was on, and both Kouta and Brother Marcus down below were being unable to keep up as long as Vendral kept going away from them after Twilight.

edited 13th Nov '17 6:30:43 PM by FirockFinion

Grimlock; Dragon form

Top of the Plant Thing

Morty gave a smile and a thumbs up before saying his thanks. Grimlock smiled as well.

"No problem," he said.

Then the weird smelling guy told Morty to talk to him later. He didn't blame him as he saw at least two more plant mem. Wait, was the other one Ben? It seemed like it. He had that symbol thing on him like when he was fire guy. Then Lune and someone other girl grabbed the sword. Then it started to glow and shot a laser beam at some far off location. He couldn't see what it hit, but he had a feeling it had to be the dragon.

Ben shouted to bring the sword and went down, Lune let the other have the sword while weird smelling guy attacked and finished off the last plant man. ... He hoped it would stay alive though. He still didn't like the thought that he didn't mind their possible deaths.

He looked to ground from where the giant plant was connected to the land they were on. It looked taller when looking down. He looked back at everyone else. Apparently, the guy, Rick, was going to fight the dragon, as well as everyone else, except Morty. Grim frowned. He wanted to join in so bad, but he didn't want to risk the others with his bad limb.

So he looked to Morty, and said, "You wanna stay up here, or ride on me back down? I ain't gonna join the fight." Then he added, a bit more sadly than he wanted to, "Can't help much if my leg's bad."

If Morty looked, he would notice Grimlock was indeed favoring his right hind leg.

edited 8th Feb '16 11:30:13 PM by ShoutmonZ

Wildvine emerged from the bottom of the beanstalk, and just in time for the clock chime noise to sound off, bathing Wildvine in red light and turning him back into human Ben.

"Aww, man!" Ben groaned in irritation, looking at the Omnitrix. He wished he had that sword right about now. Or some way to fight the dragon. Maybe he'd come off cooldown on the way there? He wasn't sure. He noticed that Asgore was still here.

"Your Majesty!" Ben shouted towards Asgore. "We need to deal with the dragon before Miss Tairee gets hurt! C'mon!" he told the king of the monsters, then started to run in the direction of the dragon. Hopefully, in human form, he would be below notice of the beast, but he had to keep following it until his Omnitrix recharged. The dragon seemed distracted anyway...

edited 8th Feb '16 11:24:51 PM by AllHailThrall

The dragon had let out a thunderous roar, it was definitely angry now and that means things had just gotten very serious indeed. Not too long after it Ben had made his surprise appearance and made his call for help before immediately running off on his own.

"Wait, Ben!" he called out, hoping that would get him to pause "There is something I need to share with you before you go."

Taking the sword into her hands, Koishi noticed it was a lot lighter than she expected. Not light as a feather, by any means, but she was worried that she'd have to drag it along the ground or something. She wanted to strike some more cool poses, but there were more pressing matters at hand. Something about the ordeal made her realize that the poor woman from earlier probably didn't need to have the sword delivered. Instead, she needed someone to use that sword and save her! Koishi would be that someone!

A considerable amount of effort had to be spent for her not to include "Queen of England" in the phrase, "I'm Koishi Komeiji," which she said to the familiar jester. "And, I can fly by myself," she added as she raised herself off the ground a few feet. "I have a feeling I've seen you somewhere before, though I don't remember your name either."

Base of the Beanstalk

It had been a long walk, but Spectre Knight finally made it to the Library. He would have entered, but the group gathered around the nearby beanstalk had grabbed his attention.

Heaven knew he wasn't going to climb the beanstalk, but he went over to the group anyway.

edited 9th Feb '16 7:50:47 AM by astrokitty

Still Not Doing Anything

Sawyer regarded the piece of paper with a raised eyebrow. "I presume this cold was the doing of whoever is the boss of the librarian?" She questioned Asgore, returning the piece back to him.

And then an authentic Grim Reaper made their way to them. "Greetings." She waved her hand at the spectre.

Top of the beanstalk

Grimlock and Morty decided to stay away from the fight and Rick blasted off in the dragon's direction. Koishi also revealed that she could fly so Rex only had to transport two people: Cole and Lune.

"Great! I'm still a bit tired so the less people I have to carry, the better"

Koishi did recognize Rex from somewhere but couldn't remember from where. It was understandble, thanks to Marcus sudden appearance.

"I'm Rex. We met near the pub. I was with Plague Knight and Specter Knight. You were with that crazy guy"

Twilight grinned triumphantly as she grabbed Miss Tairee from the air.

Unfortunately, the victory didn't last. The dragon started chasing after her. And was gaining. Twilight wasn't a supreme flier like Raonbow Dash. There was no way she could outrun it.

The people attacking the dragon from the ground would have to provide a distraction until Miss Tairee was safe.

Twilight attempted to make a u-turn towards the ground and flying the opposite direction. Hopefully the dragon wouldn't be prepared for a sudden move like this and Twilight could still gain some distance.

As soon as Ben heard Asgore call for him, he stopped running towards the ensuing fight, then looked over towards the king of the monsters. He blinked, a tad confused, then walked back in his direction and stopped in front of him, looking up at the towering boss monster, putting his hands in his pockets.

"What is it, Your Majesty?" Ben asked, curious.

Asgore nodded at Sawyer and took the paper back before facing Ben once more "You remember those people yesterday who ended up stuck in a cycle of death?" He paused before resuming. "Well... That librarian dropped this paper delivered by who I can only assume is her boss telling her that if the dragon is killed by the time it reaches midnight, that they will restore that part of the population to how they were before the events of yesterday."

Ben's eyes widened. "No kidding?!" he asked. "We gotta hurry then! C'mon! Miss Tairee and all those people are gonna be in trouble if we don't take care of that dragon!" With that, he turned around, and began to run towards the direction of where the fight was taking place. It was fairly far away now, but hopefully he'd be able to catch up.

Base of the Beanstalk

"Greetings," Spectre Knight replied to what appeared to be a headsman...or woman, in this case. He made no mention of it, but her voice sounded somewhat...odd.

Upon hearing what Asgore had to say, Spectre Knight almost wanted to fight the dragon as well. Not that he pitied them, but emotionally-dead people would get tiresome to look at after a while.

God, what he wouldn't give to have his levitation back.

edited 9th Feb '16 12:12:18 PM by astrokitty

"Queen of England, eh? I wonder if they're willing to accept an American as Queen", Lune feebly joked. If Mio were there, she would have berated Lune for making a terrible pun and then make a pun that's cringe-worthy.

When Rex introduced himself to Koishi, Lune decided to follow suit. "And you can call me Lune! it's a pleasure to meet you!" Lune offered Koishi a friendly handshake.

edited 9th Feb '16 10:40:39 AM by josh6243

Oh, he must've been the one who fell off of a cliff back when she first was spirited away. Considering he saved her life, Koishi wasn't sure how she forgot him in the first place. "Ah, I think I should thank you for that." She would have to thank him much more profusely later, but now was not the right time. Now was the time for action!

She then landed back on the ground and returned the offered handshake enthusiastically. "Yes, yes, nice to meet you as well!" She nodded and grinned, before going wide-eyed as she noticed the dragon off in the distance behind Lune. Despite five entire seconds passing, it was still the time for action. "We're supposed to be fighting a dragon, right? Should we be doing that instead of saying hello?"