A Game of Gods: A Multiversal Challenge

Spriggan decided to lead first, shouldering the K3.

"I'll take the lead."

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

After a moment, one of the creatures stepped out of the dark and ventured cautiously into the light. Unlike the previous entities the challengers had seen thus far, this one was humanoid in configuration...although it was clear simply from a glance at the thing's silhouette that it could never have been mistaken for human under any circumstances. Its long, lanky arms hung down past its knees and ended in a pair of crude hands with two long, taloned fingers and a thumb, and the legs themselves were frail-looking, digitigrade affairs divided into two sections at the knee; these halves were connected to one another by a thin, translucent orange spar of what might have been bone, in effect making their legs triple-jointed, and they ended in ludicrously-thin, single-toed feet.

its misshapen chest was a ragged mess of broken cartillage and weeping sores, at the heart of which sat a glowing red sphere made of an unknown substance. Two small flaps of tissue sat just beneath its shoulders, one on either side, and every few seconds one would fold inwards with a faint whistle before the other would blow outwards with a dry rasp—spiracles, most likely. A thick, bulbous protuberance dominated its back, and it was so large in comparison to the rest of the creature's body that it seemed to sag under its weight.

Finally, the entity's misshapen head sat atop a short neck, a sharply-pointed chin jutting forward in an almost comical fashion. Two glassy, pupiless red eyes stared out at the challengers without blinking from beneath a heavy, beetled brow, and it had no nose; where said nose and mouth should have been, there was only a series of parallel vertical slits in its face. The top and back of its skull seemed transparent, allowing those nearby to see the pulsating grey matter of the creature's brain.

Four more of these malformed morlocks stepped out of the dark with exaggerated caution, their motions blurred in spite of their slow speed just as the ophidians' had been, and behind them came another one of the snakelike monstrosities, six fronds sprouting from its back and its cadaverous face running like molten wax as its features blurred and rearranged themselves.

Rey...Rey...I am here, Rey...come to me, to us...

Ravage grimaced and squinted, aiming at the six creatures from out of the corner of his optics. "Doctor?"

"Another minute!" came the shouted reply.

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—Towards the latest misshapen entity screeched a blast from Megatron's fusion cannon, aimed at the face.—

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Kimimaro shook his head, but fought down the pain of looking at them. A bone-sword emerged from his shoulder, and he now held it in a defensive position.

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Rey winced, looking back. "It...what if they stole her like they stole me...they could have put her here...they could be hurting her..." He grunted. "No, no no..."

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"Keep going! Spriggan! Help me hold him down!"

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"Nighty night!" Narumi said as he unplugs his Gaia Memory from the driver and inserts it into the Skull Magnum.

SKULL! MAXIMUM DRIVE!

"Skull Punisher!" Narumi said as a large sphere of purple energy grew from the barrel of the gun. When the sphere was the size of a melon, Narumi aimed at the monster holding Dalek Sec and fired the blast at the monster.

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Flandre raised up her hands and fired waves after waves of danmaku at these new creatures. She did not care for structural damage at this point, she wanted them to go away.

Rey screamed, breaking away from the Doctor and Spriggan...but at least he was running in the right direction, towards the transport.

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"Bloody hell! Rey! There is no Angie! Calm down!"

The Doctor gets on a PHI-module. "Mr. Mysterio is going mad. Believing his wife is in trouble and being tortured. Will fight restraint. Alive would be great."

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"No problem! Just give me a hand!"

Spriggan shouted, holding Rey by placing his right arm around his neck while placing his left arm around his right shoulder after he slinged his K3.

"This guy's hard to handle!" Spriggan shouted after he had previously tackled him.

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"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

The Doctor awkwardly tries to help.

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Where are you going, Rey? Don't run away...don't leave me alone...

The ophidian did not twitch, did not make a sound, did not react in any discernable fashion at all as Megatron's blast obliterated its head. It remained poised like a striking cobra, its regenerative properties swiftly undoing the horrific injury it had just sustained, and its facial features settled into those of a woman—one Rey Mysterio would find intimately familiar...

The morlocks, by contrast, staggered and jerked under the impact of Flandre's barrage, but other than that they did not react. Like the larger, serpentine creatures, these malformed humanoids displayed phenomenal regenerative powers; whenever they sustained damage, the red crystal spheres in their chests would light up with a painfully bright inner radiance, and their bodies would twitch and spasm as wounds healed themselves and obliterated limbs regrew. Thankfully, they were not invulnerable—one lucky danmaku bullet struck one of the creatures directly in the chest gem, shattering it; as the fragments of the crimson jewel grew dim and tumbled from the cracked ruins of its chest, the misshapen creature gave off a dry rasp and fell onto its back, crumbling into dust in a matter of seconds.

Seeing this, Ravage squeezed off a shot that took another of the creatures in the core, and it too fell over and disintegrated. The rest of them were beginning to advance now, however; long blades of glittering metal extruded from the morlocks' wrists as they approached, and the slits on their faces opened up to let a number of hideous, tonguelike tentacles slide out and oscillate like the rattle of a rattlesnake...

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Narumi's blast blew apart the top half of the ophidian easily, for the creature had made no move to dodge whatsoever. Its grip slackened a bit more, but it swiftly began to regenerate.

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Rey's eyes widened at the sight, and he went slack in Spriggan's grip for a second...then, as he had earlier explained to the Doctor during the wrestling lesson...he lashed down grabbing between Spriggan's legs, preparing to twist his wrist if the act didn't cause Spriggan to release him.

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The Doctor grabs Rey's temple. HARD. "Stop it!"

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—Megatron paused, noting the effect of landing a hit on the rather obvious and ornamented spots, switched his cannon to wide beam setting, and began strafing the entities at chest level with a continuous cone-like blast.—

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Narumi took out the Skull Memory from the Magnum and placed it back in the Driver. He then ran towards the ophidian and jumped, shooting at the regenerating bits and the arm holding Sec.

Kimimaro stabbed a Morlock through the Core with his boneblade, taking it down. He then fired bone-bullets at the Cores of two more. Then, he reached into his pack and pulled free an explosive tag. He tied it to a shuriken, and threw it at the disturbingly human-formed head of the Ophidian.

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Flandre blinked and grinned. She let loose more barrages of danmaku at the morlocs, aiming mainly for their chests, but scattering some out in case they dodge.

Rey grunted, letting go of Spriggan, speaking in a low growl, voice changing as he did. "Let me go and let me save my WIFE!"

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"YOUR WIFE IS NOT HERE OSCAR! She is home in your universe! She's waiting for you Oscar! What would she say right now!?"

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"How do you KNOW??" Rey grunted, squirming to try and get away, tightening his fists...though for the effort, he wasn't doing anything more to try and hurt them, his voice wavering. "Please...HELP ME! I have to save her! Don't let...help, please..."

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"Don't make this hard for both of us."

Spriggan muttered as he stood upright.

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

Rey gritted his teeth, shaking his head. "Spriggan...hit me...do something, do something, make it stop...hit me, fucking HIT ME!"

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