The bird's wings ended up being shot, though only feathers fell. Noel could see red splotches on the wings for a brief moment before they regrew. With a flap of its wings, the bird threw its feathers towards Noel like they were throwing knives. However, Morgan ran in and took out a green book.

"ELWIND!" With that and the Vortex, the winds wound up throwing the bird off course. The sharpness of both winds wound up cutting into the bird, giving it the same red gashes. The feathers were blown apart, but now each person had to dodge a feather thrown at them.

The Tavern
"Oooooh maaaan, yeah, I can hook you up, brother..." Charles got up to Edward. He pointed him into the direction of his shop, the Wagon Station. "Name a world approved by the Scheherazade Foundation, and this wagon can take you there!" He said. Suddenly, the bartender, who had been on the phone for a bit, hung up and banged his hand on the table to get people's attentions.

"Everyone! I have bad news! Snow was killed in a Witch attack over the weekend. With no clear report on who claimed the bounty, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take his wanted poster off the bulletins." With that, he went over and pulled away the wanted poster for an infamous president in a parallel world. At least one person groaned when this happened.

"But! Good news! I've shifted the reward for 50,000 Muros over to a more infamous person. This will be already added to his 998,000 Muro bounty for a grand total of 1,048,000 Muros! Everyone, turn your weapons to the Masked Rider!" He stabbed another wanted poster with his knife. The 50,000 Muro reward from Snow's poster was placed over the Rider's 998,000 Muro bounty.

The Rider on the poster had the large compound eyes and the antennae that Riders were known for, though they were four instead of the normal two, but he had the teeth on the mask were more akin to that of a skull's teeth. A group of people began to chatter.

"Hey, didn't he arrive at the bar yesterday and caused that fight?" A couple of them could be heard by August, Rachel, and the others.

Back at the brawl

"They are the scourge of the Multiverse! The grim reminder of cruelty!" Thomas said to Allen as he fired his guns at Wendy, though she side stepped each bullet. "The small cat you see before you is an Incubator. A deceitful fairy who doesn't deserve to live!" He twirled around and fired at the feather heading to him and Morgan. "The woman assisting him is a Devil. One whose heart had fallen to the darkness, and over there, that bird, that's what's left of her heart. A corrupt monster known as an Archdemon. They must be eradicated for the good of the Multiverse!"

And yet after being thrown straight into Kyubey and then shot multiple times into a pulp... Wendy managed to heal herself up. What regeneration skills! And according to one person, this human was in fact a devil! And then suddenly, a new Kyubey ate his old body and took over as the new one! And before Gojira-san can analyze the situatation carefully, Wendy kicked up one hell of a sandstorm, limiting her view and then a GIANT BIRD CAME UP FROM THE SANDSTORM AND JOINED THE FRAY! This bird was an archdemon, and it looks angry as all hell! And this made Goji's blood boil, boiling for a challenge against this kaiju of a bird! Enough was enough! And with a mighty roar, she issues a battle cry towards this giant opponent. But all she was met was an incoming feather, one heading straight towards her! With a powerful swipe, Gojira-san managed to destroy the feather and looks at the bird above.

"I don't know what the hell you are, who the hell you are, or why the hell your here..." she growls, "But I know that YOU will be eradicated you demon!"

And this is when her plates began to spark up and turn blue again. But unlike what happened back at the bar, nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, will stop her from unleashing her atomic ray! Her mouth foams with blue aura as she finally unleashes the blue beam right at the bird's torso.

Lucy

Groaning slightly, Lucy picked herself up out of the dirt.

So there's a fight going on, but I don't know what I can do...

No sooner had the thought passed through her head, the Smile Pact floated out of her pocket and sat in front of her face, glowing softly.

Could it be...

She took it in hand, and another object floated out of her other pocket.

"Well... here goes..."



As the flashy lights faded, Lucy looked down at herself.

"T-this c-can't be real, can it?"

As she continued to walk at the devil girl that was, for some reason, completely ignoring her despite the stated desire for vengeance, Rain got the feeling that something was... missing. Music, that was it: it was strange to be in a life-and-death fight without musical accompaniment. Thus, surprisingly deftly despite the power fist, she changed the Pip-Boy radio to 'on'.

Then, the courier sighed. Of course it would be country, given that they were in a wild west setting, it wasn't like it was going to be anythinig else. But the single most-played song on New Vegas Radio, really? Well, this was at least someone else singing, but it was that song playing?

With the girl somehow avoiding bullets, Rain decided to try and make her an easy target... because it was pretty damn easy to hit someone on the ground. And hopefully taking her legs out from under her would bring her down...

Noel's eyes widened in shock at the shower of feathers tearing towards her, ripping through the air and hurtling towards the ground. All she could do was swiftly sprint to the side to avoid them, her arms snapping up and firing at any that came too close. She could feel several impact behind her, tossing dust and debris in the air. She hadn't been able to hurt it! Even though she'd hit it in the wings... what if nothing she did would work? ... No, no... she... she had try... Noel had to try and fight, didn't she? Bolverk would keep things okay, she'd just... she'd have to try something else, maybe! Taking a deep breath and trying her hardest to stay calm, Noel skidded to a halt as the feathers finally stopped firing, raising each pistol and training them on the bird.

Okay, okay, there had to be something that could stop it... right? There... there had to be... Even if it healed, if there was some way she could stoop it responding to attacks so easily maybe the others could defeat it...

She wasn't that good at this at all... but...

Bolverk was trained, as best Noel could manage, on the bird's eyes. If it couldn't see maybe it couldn't respond as well!

Noel let off a flurry of shots, each flare of gunfire and blast of sound echoing across the battlefield.

Ran's ears perked up at the mention of a bounty and her eyes gleamed with unadulterated shine as thoughts of adventuring romance went through her head. Somehow, the girl who was slouching over the bar counter with cookies and a cup of milk was now facing in an exact 180 degree rotation, her body moving so fast it was like someone skipping forward their DVD to a different scene. "So..." Still continuing to dip her baked goods into her fresh dairy product, the girl mage stretched out her words and looked so innocent she could melt butter.

"Where was this Rider last seen? I wanna go on an adventure and hunt a villain and do fun stuff!" Acting liberally and unabashed, one could not imagine that such a carefree looking girl had the actual qualifications to go after such dastards and villains. "Also if anyone else wants to join me, I'd be perfectly okay with that! I don't need the money, and simply want to put the evildoer to justice so my share would be up for grabs!" Draining her glass, she then leaned forward and began grilling the bar people for more information. Nicely of course.

"...Yeah, I need money to move out and this seems like a really good option."

John raise his hand and walked over, removing the bowler he'd acquired from the alien bandito.

"Hello there miss! My name's John Shirkwood, with the Super Friends of Georgia. While normally I do pro bono work, I'm not going to say no to claiming a bounty that large for... whatever he's done."

Rin - The Fight Against Big Bird

Okay, so...

So she'd just wanted to act like a hero, right? Was that too much to ask? Just a bit of excitement, that's all. Just run in, act like a badass, save the girl, simple right?

But before she could even start with the pre-battle banter, everyone had rushed in! Even Peaches had just ran up and started kicking the Kyubey (not that she blamed her), and... And she had suddenly became rather aware that a bunch of the combatants all had guns, whilst all she had was a parasol. Yeah, even she wasn't that dumb and reckless. Ducking for cover, she hid whilst watching things unfold.

...Holy crap that's a big bird.

Even from behind the debris she'd hidden behind, she got a good clear view of the thing as it emerged. And... And then Peaches began singing and was now a magical girl. And the lizard-y girl had just breathed blue fire at the satanic canary. And as soon as the singing had stopped, Rain had... Switched on a radio for some reason. And it was playing country. ...At least it was Johnny Cash, but still...

Oh right, and a giant feather was rocketing towards her.

"...Oh come on! How'd you even see..." Getting up to run, she found herself stumbling and instead landing flat on her face, the Copy Essence Deluxe device calling out in activation as her arm smacked against the ground.

COPY

The sci-fi visor appeared on her head, as she tried to scramble back to her feet... And suddenly an idea came to her. That was a pretty big bird, after all... Rolling over to face the oncoming feather, she hit a button at the side of the visor. A beam of light burst out as the device scanned the feather, before the face of the Copy Essence Deluxe began flashing wildly. The visor disappeared, and in a flash of light...

WING

...It was replaced by a brightly feathered headdress, as well as feathered wings attached to her arms.

"Huh, it worked... Awesome!" With a flap of her arms, she took to the sky, dodging past the feather as she flew quickly towards the bird... And once again crashed flat on her face as she passed by Peaches. "...R-right, got to work on... Landing... Hey, Peaches, nice shorts you got there..."

Anno took one step forward... and quickly realized just because she could activate the transformation, that didn't mean she knew how to use the weapons it granted her. Raising the sword, she waved it nervously, turning it over in her hands. She had to hurry up and help, but... how exactly did she fight with this?! Aside from blindly swinging, but that could hit one of the good people or something like that and she didn't want to do that at all! Maybe if she got up really close... yeah, that's what she'd do! She'd get as close as possible... and since she couldn't fly, she'd go for the girl instead of the bird, so she couldn't support it anymore!

Confidence swiftly returning, Anno took another step when the blonde girl from before suddenly smashed into the ground beside her. She lept back in surprise, then took a step towards her, leaning down.

"A-are you okay?" she asked. Anno hoped she was, she needed to help out fighting the girl and the bird... "... My name's Anno, not peaches. Why do you keep calling me that...?"

Considering he'd just recently spent all of his money placating the saloon's patrons with as many free drinks as he could afford, August's eyes practically exploded into the shape of a muro symbol at the idea of a massive bounty. The fact that the nice lady was one of the people joining in on the bounty hunt just meant he wouldn't mind splitting the money! August jumped up off his stool and walked over to Ran and John with a grin on his face and stuck his hand out for the superhero-shapeshifter to shake.

"Name's August Lim, Multiversal traveler and wandering swordsman! I'd be happy to join in some bounty hunting as long as you two don't mind splitting the bounty three ways!"

At last a way to make up for the loss of his traveling funds! Who knew, maybe this would turn into some kind of adventure and the three of them would have to save the multiverse!

Big Birdy Brawl
In response to Gojira's Atomic Breath, the bird, Giruda, responded with a beam from its mouth, though the beam was more air based. However, even with it being condensed air, plasma has a clear advantage over gas in terms of states of matter. Giruda's beam was pushed back as Gojira's breath punched a hole right in Giruda's torso, creating a nice, red hole in it. When Noel fired her guns at Giruda, it blocked all the bullets with its wings. It didn't realize that those bullets explode. Its wings broke apart and dissipated into dark auras. A smaller pair of wings was formed form that darkness, but it's clear to Noel and the others that she had just seriously clipped its flying potential as it is closer to the ground.

Wendy fell down from the trip, but tried to keep her up in the air with her wind powers.

---

Bar Scene
Several people started talking about how the skull-themed rider was in the bar last night, but the bartender coughed.

"Sorry, I can't let these rumors cloud legit bounty hunter judgement. That's how witch trials start." He said. He turned to Ran. "He might have drank at the bar, but sources say he's in his base, somewhere by the edge of the desert. Of course, there's his mooks you have to be afraid of... Nasty robots. Well, not entirely. They could be worse... but the worst part is that... Ever seen Body Snatchers? They can disguise themselves as humans." That's when one of the people at the bar flipped over a table and waved his hands, creating a flash of red.

People screamed as they could feel time slow down to a crawl... However, for a brief moment. A second became two. And that was it. Time resumed as the person just stood there.

"Crap... Still ineffective..." He muttered. The bartender pointed to him.

"Now see, that's what I mean. His robots are able to slow one's perception of time for much longer. But he picked up some cheap knockoffs from another world." He said as he got his shotgun from the barstand. However, the person screamed as its body digitized. The numbers 210 flashed on its chest. When his body finished, there was a new, robot-like body in its place. The robot's face was that of a bat's wings, though in translucent yellow. The rest of it was in a metallic gray. The people in the bar grew in a panic.

Thinking quickly, John flipped up a table to hide his transformation. Things got weird when he did this, and this was no exception as he dialed it in. Though, when you Dial H For Hero, it's hard to predict what happens...

---

As was evidenced by the titanic mass of muscle, weighed down by bandoliers and pouches aplenty. Wearing an impossibly skintight suit, wearing a stupid tiny helmet. Inhumanly large, with gritted teeth and almost-invisible eyes through his squinty glare, this strange creature stood on feet far tinier than could support him. Most vigilantes like this had some kind of tragic backstory to explain the psychosis. Not this one, however- this was Bloodpouch, who just REALLY liked murder, and equipped himself as such.

Which, for a guy trying to emulate ACTUAL heroes like Superman or Green Lantern, was going to be a problem. He couldn't let this android hurt people though, so he attempted to reach for the large gun holstered on his back- only to discover Bloodpouch's muscles were too enormous to reach past his shoulders. Instead, he decided to break through the table and hope he could draw the creature's fire as his blood began boiling, turning his skin red- and steam to rise off him as his sweat began to hiss and pop.

"YOUR BLOOD WILL SPILL WITH YOUR CRIMES, YOU SON OF A TOASTER!"

It worked! The bird monster was falling, even if it had regrown its wings it was struggling to keep itself in the air. Noel set a foot back. But... but she couldn't really take it out like this, it could still move around... she had to help, if they stopped this then that girl would be safe, wouldn't she...? And the... the other girl, the bad one, she'd be defeated for sure! So she had to try really hard, but the bird seemed like it'd be harder and harder to ground even if the shots to its wings had worked...

Noel had to get it out of the air quick.

Sliding one foot back, Noel reached behind herself. Bolverk vanished as a golden circle opened, a much larger weapon emerging from its center, placing itself into Noel's hands. Summoning up all her determination, Noel spun the huge silvery weapon around, aiming it forwards and upwards, towards the massive black bird.

"Fenrir! Please don't fail me!" she cried, raising the barrel up. As she pulled the trigger, there was a roar of gunfire as bullets of seithr erupted in a torrent of projectiles, ripping through the air towards the bird. Fenrir rocked in Noel's hands, her arms shaking as the weapon fired, but she kept her feet planted apart. Even if she was useless otherwise... she could do this! Her finger left the trigger and the gun stopped firing before vanishing back into the golden circle it had first emerged from, as the blonde girl raised her hands to snap her re-emerged pistols, swinging both of them up, placing one barrel, tilted, alongside the hand clenching the other pistol.

"Seal..."

A white circle expanded from the right-hand pistol and faded as a light built at the tip of the barrel, with it a wailing sound that rose in volume until a shimmering orb had formed at the end of the gun. Bolverk could fire seithr in more forms then bullets.

"Release!"

The ball erupted forward into a beam, tearing towards the bird as a followup to Fenrir.

Direct hit! Gojira-san's blast literally punched a giant hole into the bird's torso! Yet it already should've been dead by now. Even with the exploding bullets from another fighter, it just regrew some new wings via shadow aura. Yet it was weakening. Perhaps a closer ranged attack could finish the job? She runs towards the giant bird, her spines pulse with blue energy once again. Once she was close enough, she stops and was about to fire her beam again, when suddenly Noel unleashed her attack! Expecting to get massively hit by the shockwave, Gojira-san cancels her attack and braces for impact as she digs her feet into the ground and holding her arms up in defense against what would be a bright light...

Barroom Brawl

"Oh dear, true blue bar brawl..." Even as she said that, Ran instantly got into action by chanting under her breath in a language that could be discerned as Latin. After a few seconds of chanting, a windy barrier sprung about the combatants and the rest of the bar, a swirling air wall that spun so fiercely and yet in such a regulated area that trying to go through the designated area would be repelled sideways by sheer momentum for a few feet. "Right, I'll keep up the shield so you guys don't need to worry about the damages!" The mage shouted over the roar of the churning aerial barrier's clockwise vortex, her hands glowing all the while.

Barroom Brawl

"Alright! A chance to get into the action, and a classic one too!"

Despite his words August's next actions were a little less than traditional for a cowboy-western style brawl. He threw himself from his seat and snatched up a pair of circular, metallic serving trays. In his mind he could feel the metal of the trays and he began subtly but near-instantaneously altering it, making it lighter and sharper, linking himself to it in a way until he could physically feel the metal trays like an extension of himself as he shaped them to his will.

After a second of concentration like that, August hurled both of the serving platters at the strange digitized monster like a pair of over sized chakram or shuriken, apparently having no trouble throwing them in a balanced and easy manner without hitting the charging Bloodpouch, despite his improvised weapons' unwieldy sizes. With luck the whirring metal trays, sharpened to razor-keenness and balanced with supernatural perfection with his metalcrafting powers, would cut into or through the digital creature to some extent.

It wasn't the most powerful technique in August Lim's arsenal, but the theories behind it were something he had been hoping to test for some time and he worried that if he charged in otherwise he might get in the way of one very, very angry and confused anti-hero.

Edward Evans

Before the bartender could answer Mr. Evans' questions, one of the bargoers decided to do so himself. Well, he only answered his second question, but it was still quite helpful. Just as Edward was about to thank him and head for the station, a commotion regarding bounty hunting sprung up. A bloke named Snow had been killed by a 'witch,' and his bounty had been switched over to a man whose getup vaguely resembled a grasshopper, called the Masked Rider. Well, glad to see I'm not the only one out there traipsing around in a silly outfit. Anywho, I'd best be going, Robert probably broke one of the pumps again.

Unfortunately, when Edward moved to rise from his seat, he heard a table flip, followed by time slowing to a crawl. Then, precisely one second later, it was back to normal. Upon turning around, he immediately took notice of two things: a hideously deformed abomination, and some kind of mechanical bat monster. Despite the former being vastly more threatening in appearance, it seemed to be focused on dealing with the later. That, and talking about toasters and crime-blood.

With that in mind, Mr. Evans briefly considered leaving the problem to the meat mountain. Then he recalled that he could shoot lasers from his hands, and nearly slapped himself. All this guy could do was slow time for a second at most. Even if he turned out to be more than he could handle, the muscly monstrosity, along with the others who seemed to be joining the fight, could back him up. That, and it was a nice excuse to figure out what else he could do. Thus, the blue-skinned cyclops decided to step into the 'ring', just as a barrier of wind poofed into existence.

Raising his hands, Edward pointed them, palms open and forward, at the bat creature. Now, I managed to fire these by accident. So how do I do it intentionally? Thankfully, it was actually quite simple. Once he focused on the idea of firing, the suit seemingly did the rest. Now, while he was prepared for a pair of thermal beams to erupt from his hands, what Mr. Evans did not expect was for a third beam to fire out of the suit's 'eye.' Fortunately, while his sight was obscured, it was for a mere moment at most, and only in the centre of his field of vision. I'm going to have to adjust to that.

With her trip... semi-successful, and jaunty country music continuing to loudly issue from the computer strapped to her wrist, Rain wasn't entirely sure of the best step forwards. She wasn't really equipped for fighting giant bird things--at least not one that was already being heavily bombarded--and the girl behind it seemed pretty impervious to physical damage.

So she went for her normal A, which was 'punch it in the face'. Maybe she'd get set on fire, that was always an amusing outcome... well, the flaming chunks from drugged-up raiders who had no idea who they were attacking were.

The Roidmude would have been able to attack Bloodpouch no problem had the wind not distracted him. It gave August the perfect chance to hit him with the trays as they sliced into his body. The Roidmude fired, but his energy bullets hit only the windy barrier. He screamed out and it seemed that the last tray that entered him wounded him enough to detonate him. As he exploded, a number: 210, flew around and tried to find a person not protected by the barrier. As it spotted August, it charged towards him.

"WITNESS ME!!!" It screamed out... only for it to be blown apart by Evan's beams.

"Welp, that's the last we'll hear from that troublemaker." The bartender muttered. "Don't let the weak guy fool you though. The Masked Rider's a deadly bandit. That robot there was just a mook. The Incubator Wars really helped bolster his forces. Best bring backup if you wanna bring him down." He said.

---

Fenrir's beam pierced through the bird. With a loud caw and a gaping hole in its chest, it froze in mid-air. It then glowed blue and shattered into millions of tiny, glass-like pieces before they broke apart like smoke. All that was left behind was a card, a black version of the card that Thomas had, Fly, though it floated gently to the ground.

"Ack! No! My Archdemon! You... YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" With that, Wendy screamed out and the entire area became surrounded in a vortex. Any chance of getting out of the vortex would result in the windy walls pushing the people back into the vortex. Wendy held out her hands and created a blue, windy aura from her arms. She flung them towards Rain and Noel.