[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[Akihisa Yoshii]

@supertinyking

As Clarent sat there, he realized he was stuck in something, and that the pit of tar was burning his master. That was a problem. The sword sighed inwardly and began to vibrate with a strange energy. In a fraction of a second he welled up all of his power and forced it outwards quickly, blasting apart the prison and blasting the tar everywhere. Blood was blasted back by the release of power as well, most likely injuring him to some degree, yet Minx remained untouched other than being cleaned of tar by the force. The blade lays in a small pool of tar, covering his blade but leaving his hilt, and upon noticing the weight makes a mental note to his master to grab him, quickly, or she might be crushed... Erza got up, slowly, following by Natsu as they watch the events.

[supertinyking]

@Akihisa Yoshii

Minx leaps over, avoiding the large metal hammer being brought down, and she gathers up a ball of darkness within her hand, a flame of darkness...a combination of the power she was drawing from Clarent, and the dark side of the force. Riki vanishes, and appears behind her, swinging his cane, aiming to break her in two with rapid strike. Minx blocks with Clarent, only to leap far back, floating in the air.

"I AM GOING TO KILL YOU ALL! I WILL BLOW THIS PLANET TO DUST!" Minx roars, as she points at the planet, and a ball of energy forms at the tip of her finger. A ball of lighting, making the moisture in the air crackle, and boil further into the atmosphere. Riki creates a shield around himself, and the guild, but Blood is left out, exposed to the darkness flooding the area. This looked grim, very grim....

[Akihisa Yoshii]

@supertinyking

Erza runs, exiting the shield Riki made and standing between Minx and Blood, requiping into her Adamantine Armor and forming her magical barrier, combining her two shields. The light, aqua green barrier formed. Nobody could see it due to the stiffness of her armor, but she was shaking. The barrier had blocked the Jupiter Cannon, a blast strong enough to destroy Magnolia. But if this was powerful enough to destroy the world, she didn't know if her shield would stand up. In any case, she'd be the first line of defense, trusting her armor to be absolute. She would protect Blood and the guild, and everyone else, with her life. The others simply watched in horror, some amazed at how the day started out normal, and... well now this shit was happening.

[thewizardguy]

New tentacles sprouted from the growth, grabbing onto the large pellet as the radioactive decay started accelerating. Cancerous growths appeared along the edges of the growth, as it pulsed like a heart. Roots extended deeper into the earth, draining power from the decay, forming what appeared to be a purely biological Reactor of some sort, breaking down the material for power. Tentacles shot upwards and grabbed on to Kishin's legs, spiked talons attempting to dig into his skin and drain the life from him.

The being was covered in a thick layer of bark-like skin, large pores opening and closing to release toxic gasses and fluids, a combination of waste disposal and offensive strategy. Great arm-like appendages begin to form, as in the centre what appears to be a bulbous growth reaches the size of a car. Hundreds of maws and eyes dot it's surface, each belonging to a different creature, each adapted for the purpose of destroying life. It was, all in all, an abomination.

Alucard, meanwhile, simply stood opposed to Logar, smiling slightly.

"Outnumbered? Why, I don't think you quite know what that word means."

He draws back one fist, as suddenly an immense amount of energy seems to be chanelled into it. It was naturally occurring energy, a principle similar to Ki, or the powers inherent to Gods. It felt far from divine, however, as Logar realized that this power was equally far from natural. For the power that gathered in his hand held the distinct power of billions of worlds, drained of all life, absorbed into this continually evolving biological construct. The epitome of power and offense, with the powers of every being it absorbed, growing only stronger with every moment of omnicide.

Then, he punched.

The first explosion was that of the sound barrier being shattered. The second was the roll of thunder as the air burst outwards explosively, the mere shockwave of the attack ripping through the air and ground. Hurricane winds tore through the ground, an unending wave of kinetic force that would have made Toguro proud. The water in the swamp was thrown into the air, the trees uprooted and the ground cracked open as a massive crater formed. Logar himself was flung backwards, flying a good 100 meters and through many tress before he finally came to a stop.

The entire area had been devastated. It was as if it had been hit by a high-powered missile, not a single tree was left standing. The sheer power of the punch had annihilated part of the swamp.

"Perhaps you should retreat. After all, you're outnumbered a billion to one."

[kishin asura]

I hack away at the tentacles. "Not gonna die today." I mutter, all the while flicking a signal light on and off.

"Showtime." A tall figure whispers. Seeing the signal light. With almost superhuman speed, it runs toward one of the mouths and leaps in. Thorns appearing everywhere on their body.

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
It was a pain, of course. 5 felt the peace enveloping him, even as Leeroy sucked the magic out of him. Normally, in this state of power, such attempts would be futile. But Leeroy was buying power with his own life, spending the very magic that kept him animate in order to empower this attack. It was a suicide strike, and - to 5's great annoyance - it was working. Of course, he couldn't allow that. Even as the roots grew around him, his body began to break apart into a cloud of nanobots. If he wasn't stopped, he would escape from Leeroy's grip and as such make his sacrifice pointless.

Cosmos stepped back as Clayman rushed at him again. He waved his hand, and the lava animated beneath him, a golem forming instantly and standing between them. It was hastily constructed, but even as it flowed from the pits on an interception course, it was growing in stability, it's movements becoming more rapid and coordinated. Each arm formed into a hammer of half-molten rock, blazing with heat as flames flickered along it's edges.

And as a series of hardened clay spikes struck Cosmos in the shoulder it fell apart, reduced once more to a puddly.

Cosmos fell back, screaming, wings flapping as he desperately attempted to use them for flight. Unfortunately for him the wings of an angel were mostly decorative - without magic they didn't hold the power to lift the humanoid form. And the spikes that even now were embedded into his flesh were messing with his magic, a cold numbness spreading around the impact points.

The clayman closed in on his opponent, several attempts at fireballs and lightning bolts simply singing his 'skin', if you could call it that. The blade was raised, ready to strike down. One of the two Supports who granted the Omegans their much-needed versatility, and prevented their powerhouses from falling. Cosmos was helpless.

Of course, it was then that Clayman noticed the scalpel placed at his neck. The thin blade seemed to shimmer, and as his through touched it, he could feel it singe his soul. This blade was unique, a very special piece of work. Imbued with special powers many years ago by a madman, a weapon that can only be used by those who have mastered Soular manipulation. And it would kill Clayman, if it ever got the chance to slice him. This weapon was one of the few that could.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, darling. I know, he's full of himself. But just for the moment, I need him."

The shadows parted, as the last member of the Omegans was revealed. Tall and slender, she smiled as she held the blade, bright green eyes framed by pale skin and black hair. A long black dress, which seemed to blend around her form like living shadow. A strange, cut-throat elegance, with eyes filled with infinite cruelty.

Smiling, Mia tore the blade across the Clay Man's throat, as he felt his legs to numb and fell to the ground. Not a lethal wound, but he wouldn't be able to move his legs for a while.

"You just sit down there, alright? Don't worry, I won't kill you. I have better things planned."

[Akihisa Yoshii]

@thewizardguy

This probably would have worked, had Kevin not put his mind together and decided to be a total asshole to 5. Clinging to the last bit of soul he had left, he used that small bit of soul with amazing efficiency, using his remaining magical power to trap 5 in a form, his form. Kevin's soular piece began falling apart slowly, but he clung on for dear existence as he focused any energy left into screwing the machine over. "YOU WANTED A PIECE OF MY SOUL SO BADLY, NOW YOU GOTTA PAY FOR IT!" Kevin was rejecting all notions of anything, drawing on any resource he had to keep 5 anchored into a solid form. Even 5's own reserve of soular pieces, if he could, willing any power he could with what remained of his will, his soul. He was extremely annoying and stubborn, even in death. Whether this would even work was up to whatever bullshit ruled this situation. Kevin was just doing his best to help. He would not go down until this bitch went down with him. This was basically the inside-5 equivalent of staging a mutiny. A soular coup d'etat. Revolt puns.

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy

The emperor stands, and coughs, blood covering his rather large fist, as his armor regenerates, slowly. He began to speak into his gauntlet, and what he said may confuse Alucard.

"Prepare the Moon's shadow...." He states, and soon, him, Kishin, Asura, Blood seeker, Genocide, the clones, ect ((Pretty much everyone except Alucard.)) are warped onto the ships above, as a moon sized space station appeared, oddly looking similar to Odin...it powered up its main gun, and fires, but does not destroy the planet. No, the empire didn't have the resources to fire such a blast of pure energy, so they did something different....

They used a rather large tractor beam to send the planet hurtling though space, in a collision course with the sun, the tractor beam oddly messing with portals, and teleportation. Not something impossible to get past in the slightest, but still something to cause a bit of time to be wasted......

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In the bowels of hell, a fight still raged, but slowly, it tempered down......

"A one, a two, a one two three!" A female voice starts, before suddenly, a song breaks out, a swedish metal song, with a female lead, and in a bust of magic infused adrenalin, several things happen.

Drac leaps backwards, forcing the Dragon emperor into a few spikes on a near by wall, and he repeatedly rams the emperor into the wall, even if he gets impaled himself. Clayman gets up, despite his numb, useless legs, and scrambles towards Mia, growling loudly, as the outter layer of his body hardens to hopefully keep the blade from cutting him..and a clump of clay that used to be his head regrows, and turns into another Clayman, which attacks Cosmos.

As 5 began to disperse, around the tree is surrounded by a powerful flame, which catches a few of the stray nanobots, melting them. Lisa stands tall, fire spewing from her arms.

The bounty hunter rushes miss void walker, throwing out many different woven spells, and pellets, moving extremely fast for this form..which may be on par with his normal form. He goes rather berserk, roaring as he attacks.

[Teoinsanity]

@thewizardguy

"What Kind of improvements?" Brown would ask ,he did not trust Gorgon , neither did Melody ,they both were wondering why Teo came to her in particular.

"Just put this in my chest" Teo would say while handing her a purple orb about the size of a softball ."Dimensional distabilizer,stronger version of a spacial distabilizers ,would allow me to create portals and jump around thru dimesnions "he would weakly say ; Teo would then hand her another D.S. and some a butler bot would bring a huge glowing crystal ,"Consider this payment" Teo would say as a group of bulter bots carried him behind Mia.

Brown and Melody followed uneasily , they sensed that Mia's intentions were not crystal clear(Melody is a crytsal ,hardey har) ,but they followed anyway , they did not have the tools or materials to fix Teo in the time that he would need to be up-and-running , Teo did have a lab ,but it was , messy due to a party he had last week , the butler bots need to clean it.

[supertinyking]

((As of right now, I'm enacting the time line fuckage policy....if you want to rp with a character, just say it was at a different time...and go for it. Timey wimy shit abounds!))

[Wraithblade6]

Blackness. Blackness, blackness...

A pause of time, undetermined amount.

The leathery sound of wings, a burst of air and a soft thud of something landing.

Two red slits of light pierce the blackness. Nothing else is visible. A soft breeze blows, a long purple, ethereal sword grows into existence in the being's right hand, glowing softly in undulations like flames.

The sound of wind occurs again, a short distance away, as the red eyes remain motionless. The softer sound of feathers occurs in a multiple bursts like a landing bird. Blue eyes glow, illuminating beautiful white locks beside them as the other being faces the first. A white sword lights up out of nowhere, making the two opponents visible as it is lifted straight up in a formal salute.

The purple ghostly blade lifts up in a mirror salute to the blue-eyed being. Mithias is now clearly the one, demonic in form. "Hope." He says.

"Love." Says the armored angel, Elcipse.

They both smile.... and clash blades.

[Teoinsanity]

Teo would run over Eclipse with the Tetris going nearly the speed of light

[supertinyking]

@Akihisa Yoshii

As Minx began to fire her attack, Riki stabs his cane into the ground, leaving the shield, as he rushes out, and he tackles the blast, vanishing in a moments notice. Minx laughs, seeming to have reduced Riki to literally nothing. She lands on the ground.
"Now then, time to kill that little red headed roach..Erza, be a dear and move please?" She asks, and oddly, Minx's voice would be having a..rather powerful impact on Erza. It was obvious to anyone who had experienced any sort of mythical mind control before would know it to be such....

It is at this moment, Blood decided to go ape shit. Leaping over Erza, Blood landed, doing a hand stand on Minx's shoulders, as he then does a back flip, so to be behind her. Both of them grip each other's head, and a battle of wills, and mind control began.... Minx trying to resist Blood's influences, while streaming electricity though him, while blood just attempted to maintain his mental assault on Minx's very mind, his flesh beginning to smoke, and cooked meat being smelled by all near by. Darkside appears out of the darkness of a shadow, and watched such events unfold...the nearest to him, most likely being whoever was in the back of the crowd.

[Akihisa Yoshii]

@supertinyking

Erza stood firm as her mind was assaulted, having experienced this kind of influence before, yet as she focuses she sees Blood charge Minx. She went to help, but instead stopped herself and held her ground. If Blood failed, she'd have to protect the guild... With her own life. She came to terms that they might be completely and utterly without hope...

It was then that they awoke. They both sat up with a start and looked at each other, bewildering themselves at their sudden awakening. Creed stared into Kevin's eyes and Kevin stared back, except they were also staring through each other. They looked at themselves and their bodies were very dim... see through. "It's about time the two of you woke up." Mavis smiled, swinging her legs on an old stone that she liked to sit. "W-We died?" Creed asked her. The voices were... gone... The souls had been used up. "That's right! Luckily, your souls held themselves together and you got back here in one piece. Well, almost one piece... Kevin, you're missing about one-one hundredth of you. Your soul was shattered, and a tricky matter to sweep up."

"Now, if you would like ethereal bodies, just... focus on touching something. Your magic should do the rest." She wasted no time in showing them the ropes. It would be nice to have other ghosts around to chat with. The two men did, and at first they failed a few times, before Creed was picking up small rocks and Kevin got to the point he was juggling them. Mavis watched this all, amused at the two souls. They were conjuring up ethereal bodies, and it would take a while to get to the point they could cast magic from them, but it was a start. "C'mon boys, the guild is in danger!" Mavis then flew off, leaving the boys to scramble behind her, learning how to fly... well on the fly. "Wait, WHAT?!" They yelled in unison. "DON'T LEAVE UUUUUUUUUUUSSS!" Mavis's giggling could be heard far and wide, within the ranges of that small island.

[supertinyking]

@Akihisa Yoshii

Among the souls gathered, another one was left behind...one soul, closer to nature than all else found a peace on the island. Leeroy, who had apparently gave his life to destroy the monster 5 had found a resting place on the small cozy island, but he heard once again his friends were in danger.... Quickly possessing a branch, the powerful might of nature turned that which was once a mystical branch, into a mighty, powerful body for the treant. Quickly running, over the water, Leeroy bolted under the flying souls, making a b-line for the guild, his eyes glowing green, and him ready to kick some arse.....

Soon, Blood's powers faulter, as he collapses to the ground. Minx laughs, but quickly goes silent, as she draws her light saber.
"Now, you die....tell Kevin I am sorry.." Minx begins, before energy blade clashed with energy blade. Darkside had moved, faster than any of the guild could truly tell, and had blocked the finishing strike. Then..he confessed something.
"They did not let Kevin die..I did." Darkside says, and Minx scoffs. "I know you like these..vermin, father, but how can you lie to p-" "I am not lying....I was there...no one could tell, but I was there..I watched Kevin die by 5's hand...I saw the shattered mask fall to the floor." Darkside says, regret in his voice. Minx slowly goes to a look of horror...to a look of rage. Quickly, and repeatedly, Minx struck out against her father in a fit of rage, surprising even Darkside. In the quick flurry of attacks, Minx manages to grip onto the side of Darkside's head..

What she does next may shape the course of history of the multiverse itself.

Darkside began to scream, as darkness was expunged from his being, down to his soul. In her rage, Minx began to pull the darkness from Darkside, blinding him to the darkside of the force, and pulling that power..that destructive ability into herself. She absorbed all she could muster, and left her father powerless, and weak, as he passed out...being thrown to the guild.
"Do with him as you please.....he should live a long, happy, normal life now.....a punishment, and repayment for all he's done for me..." Minx says, a mix of anger and sadness in her voice. She then opens a portal, and leaves, Darkside...who, now, was no longer Darkside, but who he was before..Saeid Robert, was there before the guild..powerless. Totally powerless...a single strong boot to the head would end his life. A blade swung.... a flame unleashed..an ice shard drove into him. Any of the guild, even the weakest amoung them could end Saeid's life. The notorious murderer, omnicidal tyrant of life itself...now brought down to a mere man before them. Would they end his life, to further him paying for his crimes, or would they forgive him, now that he is no longer the monster he was.

What they did now, would shape the fate of far more than themselves....nigh, more so than they could ever know.

Life....

Death....

Forgiveness....

Punishment.....

What would those there choose? And what would those choices lead to? Time..to find out.

[Akihisa Yoshii]

@supertinyking
The guild members stared at Darkside, and most of them simply returned to the guild building, not really... knowing what else to do. Natsu went over to Darkside and checked to make sure the man was just unconscious and not dying or something, while Wendy ran over to heal Blood. It seemed nobody was interested in any kind of revenge against Darkside, instead the idea didn't even seem to cross their minds. Natsu tried to wake the man up, as best he could.

Creed and Kevin were still getting a handle on the whole flying thing when the three souls stopped above the guild building, surveying the scene. Mavis tilted her head. "Seems like whatever was going to destroy the guild is gone... No, it's still there... Something very deadly is down there..." Creed blinked, recognizing the energy. "...Clarent?"

It was then that Minx realized that Clarent was no longer on her person. The sword appeared to have vanished into thin air. Clarent, human form having been taken, stood amongst the guild members, unnoticed until he spoke up. "Now, which of you am I gutting first? I'm still hungry, and that bitch wouldn't feed me..." Everyone froze. Nobody responded, except in a type of fear... they feared the sword-boy.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Asura portaled in and looked around. He saw saeid and said nothing "........hey uh.........do I know you from anywhere?" He finally asked

[Wraithblade6]

Teo would run over Eclipse with the Tetris going nearly the speed of light

@Teoinsanity

The two combatants fought fiercely, yet it was like a beautiful dance. Suddenly, they parted, and something called a Tetris passed swiftly between them, having been dodged like any other environmental object. The angle and the vampire both landed and looked in Teo's direction, no longer fighting each other.

[Teoinsanity]

<Snipped quote by Teoinsanity>

The two combatants fought fiercely, yet it was like a beautiful dance. Suddenly, they parted, and something called a Tetris passed swiftly between them, having been dodged like any other environmental object. The angle and the vampire both landed and looked in Teo's direction, no longer fighting each other.

@Wraithblade6

"Sorry , had something on the windsheild"

Teo would say as he removes a dead Dalek from the roof of the car

[supertinyking]

@Akihisa Yoshii

As the three spirits above arrived, so did Leeroy, running below. Skidding to a halt, he looked directly at Clarent, and with a look of determination..

Or, the closest Leeroy could manage with his blank face...

He decarled to the sword boy "If you wish to fight anyone, it's me who you will fight."
Blood instinctively moved between the others and Clarent, ready to shield them with himself if need be. He had seen clarent a few times..but never like this.
Minx growls, and begins to walk forwards. "Now, Clarent, you obey me..if you wish to kill any of them, kill the redhead without the cans...." Minx growls, looking at Blood...but then smiling a little sadistically.
As Minx walked forwards, Natsu saw something in the distance...a small glow, as if a light had been left on, or a fire were burning. Slowly, it got larger, and he could decern its color...Blue.

@kishin asura

When Saied saw the Kishin Asura, quickly he bolted, panicking. "Demon god, please, don't kill me!" He shrieks. Without his powers, without his madness...the fear of death was all consuming in his mind. The fear for his own life. stumbling into the building, he pulled his blade, and used it to cut open doors, and though walls, as he made a straight line away from Asura.