A Game of Gods: A Multiversal Challenge

"So this is the final fight as some say."

Spriggan murmured, flicking the G36C's safety to full auto mode before he shouldered the weapon and aimed the red dot sight at the being. He does not want to call it Asuka as it does not look like her.

Yazata was sleeping in the same room Lux is in.

Yazata jumps awake when the militantiaries pop out of the woodwork. No... Not them.

He decides to hide near Lux.

Blink took a step back. This whole experience had possibly been one of the scariest things that had happened to her in recent memory. And worse, she wasn't sure if she could even help fight the thing that had been Asuka.

But damn if she wasn't going to try.

She reached into her pockets, in search of something that could be of use.

-Isaac springs back up.-

Give me the key, I'll go around!

"We shall not fail... not now!!!"

Hands glowing with golden light, Link pulled his left hand back -

"Triforce Slash."

And a bright beam of concentrated energy shot out from the back of his hand, flashing towards the being that was - or was once Asuka Langley. The symbol of the Goddesses' Holy Relic would flash into existence at the point of impact, entrapping her -

Then Link would shoot towards her in a blur, Master Sword shining bright as he aimed blow after blow towards her body, strength, speed, and cutting power all magnified to their limits.

"YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER!!!"

The wall of spikes weathered Phis's blast without much difficulty; beyond further blackening some of the bony protrusions at the point of impact, the red Nomad's attack had little demonstrable effect.

Asuka did little more than grin arrogantly as Link ensnared her between two magical replicas of the Triforce, and while she did jerk about violently in response to the Hero of Time's slashes like a marionette whose strings were being shaken by an unskilled puppetmaster, the Master Sword barely left anything more than a few nicks in her glossy red dress. When Link's assault was done, her only response was to place her hands on her hips once more and resume her original position, her hair-arms swaying gently about her head as though nothing had happened.

The Doctor shudders in fear "It did nothing... No... LAMBDA! WHAT CAN WE DO!?"

" Why do you care all of a sudden, Doctor, a moment ago, you were all "who cares about her"." Phi asked the Doctor. He fired off another shot to try again.

Narumi, on the other hand, began firing at Asuka.

edited 8th Jul '11 6:10:38 PM by Psyga315

The Doctor chuckles. "He may have tortured us all for his own selfish needs. But I'll save Asuka. Not for him, but Lambda's crimes are not hers to take. She should not suffer for what he's done."

" ... Good point..." Phi said, reloading his Photon Blaster Cannon.

edited 8th Jul '11 6:17:49 PM by Psyga315

At the Doctor's words, Asuka's smile turned to a frown. I should not suffer, Doctor? I have already suffered far more pain and humiliation than you can ever possibly know, and I will do so no more.

Barely reacting to the bullets Narumi sent flying her way, the multi-armed monstrosity pointed at the Time Lord with two of those palid hands. In response to this gesture, the armoured viper which hung beneath her swung up to peer intently at the Doctor with its four glowing green eyes, letting out a hiss as it opened its mouth and spat a crackling red orb of something towards him at incredible speed.

Once more, Phi's blast did little more than blacken some of the bony protrusions which made up the ring separating the Champions from the lock.

edited 8th Jul '11 6:27:58 PM by SullenFrog

"... Give me the key!" Blink suddenly shouted. "I can get past them!"

It would be a simple matter of teleporting past the spikes.

The Doctor is hit by the orb. (OOC: The effects can be decided by you Sullen.)

His voice is a lot quieter and pained as he speaks. "I know Asuka. That's why we're here. Please. Let us help."

edited 8th Jul '11 6:44:40 PM by Fusionman

"That's it!"

Spriggan went to fire his G36C at the ring himself, moving around to avoid being hit.

edited 8th Jul '11 7:26:58 PM by Ominae

" You know only a fragment of Asuka. For all we know, she may not be the things she described." Phi said, realizing that firing at the cage is useless.

edited 8th Jul '11 6:58:12 PM by Psyga315

The Doctor's voice fades in and out. "We know the pain she's been through by searching our surroundings."

The pain which engulfed the Doctor as the red energy ball struck him was intense, yet even the agony wracking his body paled almost to the point of insignificance before what came next. Sights, sounds and smells began to bombard his brain simultaneously in an overpowering and chaotic onslaught, a disjointed avalanche of frantic images and sensations without sense or context and which threatened to overwhelm his mind; he could see many things flitting by, too fast for him to gain more than a brief glimpse of anything before they were replaced by other things. Of these, the most prevalent seemed to be the image of numerous bestial, humanoid figures that bore an extremely faint resemblance to the pallid giantess crucified on the wall behind him; covered in sleek white armour and possessing vast feathery wings, these ivory giants stared at him hungrily from bulbous faces without eyes, disturbingly red lips peeling back to expose rows of massive trapezoidal teeth in monstrous grins. And then...pain, and a child screaming.

Asuka fixed her eyeless gaze upon Blink, grinning once more as her hair-arms began to sway and the multicoloured orbs held in some of her palms began to glow with increasing intensity...

Blink froze briefly when she saw Asuka charging the balls of light. Covering her head defensively, she vanished with a loud pop and reappeared about twenty feet away, in a bid to avoid the balls of energy.

The Doctor screams in agony. What's that beast doing... I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

How about I teach an ape Brat to cry again, hmm?

— Zzing

A sniper round from the shadows shrieked at top speed for the twisted figure's forehead.—

edited 8th Jul '11 8:02:43 PM by Colonial1.1

Bowser shot off two fireballs, one at the main body, and one at the snake below.

Iota on the other hand had gone to the spikes and began an attempt to pry them apart.

Asuka's head snapped back as the bullet struck her right between where her eyes should have been, and the glow of her eight handheld orbs flickered briefly as if on the verge of going out altogether...only to return to their original brilliance a moment later as she straightened up and turned to grin at Saren. The fireballs that struck her then did nothing to deter that grin, although the snake hanging from beneath her hissed as if in mild discomfort.

A good try, Saren, she sneered, her orbs continuing to grow brighter and brighter with each passing second, but not good enough; not even close.

With that last word, the red sphere shone brightest of all—and then a plume of scalding flames erupted from the ground right at the point where Blink rematerialized.

The bony spars resisted Iota's efforts to pry them apart quite handily; despite his best efforts, the towering metal skeleton of a Nomad was unable to shift them more than a foot away from each other.

edited 8th Jul '11 8:27:30 PM by SullenFrog

There was a brief moment where heat was all around Blink. Panicked, and already frightened, she screamed and toppled over, out of the flames. Her coat, which had caught ablaze, was quickly pulled off as Blink scrambled to get away from the flames.

You may call me Arterius, brat. You've not earned first name Privileges yet.

— The air buzzed with biotic activity for a moment, then a streak of blue-white hurtled across the room. The Turian slowed to a halt in mid-air to the aberration's left, calmly firing a barrage of shredder rounds for her throat.—

Lambda, this is the girl you made your Mate? Tch! Such poor taste...

Iota continued to pry the bone spikes apart, as inevitable as a glacier, even if it was just as slow. However, he began to charge up an attack.

Bowser spat another fireball, this time at the thing's face.