[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"i would suggest fucking off" the captain replies tersly, the cover sailing over her head as the transport is teleported out while she puts her pistol away and moves a hand out towards the guard, causing him to lift as if he were being choked, sailing into the other guard and off the platform they were on.

"kill me and this planet is space dust" the sergeant says evenly, relaxing on the ground as she seems to be done with the fight.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
The two guards are sent toppling, before Malice laughs. "Feisty! I like it." She says, drawing her blade, and with a swing of her hand, knocking the sergal around. "Hehehe. Tell me, is all your race this fun?" She asks, treating it less like a fight, and more like a sparing match.

"Kill you? No no no..." He says, leaning down, and taking off her bracelet. He looks it over, before crushing it in hand. "You're going to be my personal trophy....For your assault on the high leader of the clone legion, I sentence you to reprogramming..." He says, before grabbing the side of her head, and rapidly wiping her mind of memories. As most likely the sergal fleet would begin to move in on the planet, the clone armada, a large number of powerful ships, blocked their path. They would refuse to move, but wouldn't shoot first, forcing the sergal fleet to either fight, or stay where they were. The three moon planets that would no doubt have weapons primed at the planet are bombarded with e-mmps, frying their tech, but leaving them all unharmed.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the captain actually pulls malice's lightsaber away before using it to slash at her hand, cleaving it off before she's teleported away with malice's lightsaber.

shepard is rather shockingly treated to nothing but the feeling of rapid ball punches when he tries to invade her mind, her bracelet reforming as she picks it up and slips it back on, teleporting back to her office after saying evenly "was a good fight. i'll have some goods shipped over to handle the damages. mayhaps we can settle on a trade agreement some other time?".

[supertinyking]

@Tyki

The sergeant finds herself unable to teleport, as though she's kept bound to the world by some other forces. Her attempts at retching the saber from Malice's grasp would fail. "Hehehe. Nice try, but you showed your hand a little to soon for that to work..." Malice says, before flinging the sergal backwards, into a pillar.

The High Commander sighs, as he just returns home to relax. Soon, the sergal sergeant gets a letter from Shepard, inviting her to a sort of feast.

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
Alucard notices as his form is turned corporeal, his movements dragging heavily at the air around him. Looking up, he could see a sorceror clad in green, surrounded by bright green energy. Clearly a dude with a theme. Of course, there was only room for one genocidal maniac in this city, and Alucard just happened to be the biggest monster around. Furthermore, this matter was rather more important than his daily rampaging and slaughtering. "Dude, dude, dude...."

With a flash of ethereal lightning, Alucard disappears, even as Rinak feels the waves of heat hitting the back of his head. The orb of flame that Alucard had been holding was now leveled at Rinak's back, the heat setting the tassels of his cloak aflame. Had he been a normal human, the mere proximity to such heat would have burnt his flesh off.

"I was having a moment."

The life force of hundreds, drained from this world and many others, focused into a single blast of blinding flame. A burst of fire launched itself across the sky, consuming everything in it's wake, melting metal, bone and flesh into one. Bright glowing buildings begin to collapse around the softened walls, those unfortunates within them fused with the furniture. Rinak, of course, would have taken the blast in the face had he not managed to evade the sudden attack. It was certainly not an attack to trifle with.

"I don't have much time for Power Rangers."

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"i'd suggest stopping or any further action will be considered an act of war" the captain says warningly, focusing more on dodging rather than attacking even though she still pulled cheeky shit like taking a pot shot when she could or causing surrounding rubble to strike the sith from behind.

The sergeant shows up after a couple days, supplies being sent to replace the ones destroyed in the fighting while the sergals seemed to be launching more ships from their lunar bases, creating quite the fleet just from the three moons which speaks of their production processes as a whole. "what did you wish to speak of?" she asks evenly, still wearing a bandage

[thewizardguy]

A portal opened as Mia walked through, casting a glance over the surrounding buildings. It was a small village, clearly medieval. It's inhabitants didn't seem surprised to see someone teleporting in - clearly magic was common on this world. After following the trail to a number of other planets, it seemed most likely that Darkside - Or Saeid - was somewhere around this area. It seemed strange that after losing his memory he would travel to a place such as this, but the actions of someone with no memories were hard to predict. There was no precedent to work from.

As Mia sorted through the Souls of the villagers, looking into each of them, she scanned for Darkside. In doing so, however, she nearly missed him. His soul had been changed along with his mind, altered almost beyond recognition. But it remained immensely frail. The damage that had been dealt to it had not been healed by whatever process stole Darkside's powers.

Having caught the metaphoric scent, Mia quickly made her way to Darkside's location. At any other time she would have taken some time to play with the locals, but she didn't want her prey getting away from her. If daddy could unlock the secret to Darkside's power, it might open up a whole new world of possibilities. A merging of Force manipulation and Soular manipulation, a doorway to immense power. There was no doubt Darkisde was a useful specimen in search of the merging of these schools of magic.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"Oh really? A war of me v.s you, or would you have some friends join?" Malice asks, but it was obvious she wasn't trying to hit the sergal. It seemed a lot more like Malice was just enjoying the fight, before suddenly putting her blade away. "...Ok, you can leave." she says, sorta just walking off. Most of her fellows sorta just have to pick their jaws up off of the floor, slowly.

"First off..." He says, before gently poking her, the wounds under the bandages healing rapidly. "Good fight...I didn't expect so much out of one person. You impressed me..." He says, passing her a drink. "...When that scout refused a sparing match, I'd taken your kind for a money grubbing empire. You, happily, disproved that..." Shepard says, swirling around some booze in a mug, the sloshing sound bringing a smile to his face.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"i suppose some proof is in order" the captain says evenly, tapping away at her bracelet before a rather large armada of frigates appears, blotting out the sun over the city before a mass of holo-pods are dropped and quite a few holograms pop up asking, in short 'dafuq bro?'

"bah. that particular scout that'd discovered you was a bit of a hard ass, too set in her orders to have a bit of fun. Don't get me wrong, we are largely traders as of current, but that's mostly because we don't make wars. we end them" the sergeant replies, getting a milkshake rather than some food, seeming to enjoy the frozen treat, saying evenly "ooooh yessss... my home planet was one of the winter planets that my people colonized, but the sergal home planet is desertous so ice cream isn't in the rations outside of the winter planets"

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
The former sith lord looked entirely different. One a walking corpse, he now was a rather physically impressive warrior, lugging around a large blade that would be comparable to a zwi-hander, but thicker, but from the looks of it, entirely blunted. A training weapon, but as Mia would quickly see, still effective in combat. As he wandered, several men appeared, each drawing a weapon. One a bow, one a energy pistol, and another a bladed shield.
"There's the maggot who robbed us of our payday..." The one with the energy pistol says, as he moves to fire. In a blur, Saeid closes the distance, his blade passing though the center of the criminal. After a moment, the pistol wielding lowlife crumples, torso ripped from his lower body in a single strike. The bow wielder fires an arrow, it being deflected by Saeid's blade with ease. The shield barer rushes forth, and tries to slash, while blocking. One sturdy blow leads to the shield busting in two, along with the dirt bag's arm. The bow wielder backs up, as Saeid approaches him, and grabs his bow, snapping it with his hands.
"Leave." Saeid says, and the criminal, leaving a urine trail, runs off, screaming. Saeid walks over to a tree, and rests beneath it, using a rag to wipe the blood from his weapon. In the short time he had lost his powers, he'd gained physical power above most normal men..for Mia, he'd be no problem to capture if she wanted to do so by force.

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
The beetle keeps watching, intently....

Gunner's embrace fills her with warmth, before he steps back, and thinks.
".....HHERRRRRHGGGGGGGGGGGG!" He starts, as if trying to force something. Soon, two tendrils sprout from his back. "...Holy shit that worked." He says, the new appendages moving around.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Asura walks into the spot, quite literally, and from what the beetle can tell, leaves the dimension

"Nice." Theta says "it took me a few months before I could do that."

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
The beetle scurries over to the spot, looking for any trace of him. It clacks its mandibles, as if annoyed.

"I one time was a squid for three weeks.....It was....a strange experience. That may be why I can manage it." Gunner says, as his new appendages end up getting tangled in one another. "Damn it, these things act like headphone cables." He says, trying to untie them.

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
A soft clapping can be heard as Darkside cleans his blade. Smiling, Mia walks forward slowly, her black shadowy dress trailing over the ground behind her. Looking at her, the former sith lord found his body getting ready for combat almost without his consent, as every nerve in his body told him that he was facing a predator. "My my, that was quite impressive. Your physical strength has far surpassed human limits, and that in such a short amount of time. But then, that wouldn't surprise me much. This body was designed by one of the greatest minds of our time, after all."

Mia gestures, and two figures jump down, having previously hid on the roofs. Covered in blood and ripped flesh, held together with leather straps and iron spikes. Tortured beyond recognition, insanity gleaming in their eyes, as they hold their blades. Their mouths have been sewn shut, their fingernails pulled, and even now drops of blood drip from between the seams. They would have died long ago, had it not been for Mia's work on their bodies. Twin blue capes had been bolted to their collarbone, bearing a bloody crest from some unknown land. A mockery of the heroes they had once been, turned to bloodthirsty monsters with no will of their own.

"My daddy wants you in his lab. Thinks you're worth.... helping. But I have so many fun toys already, and my labs are filling up. I don't think you're worth the effort, honestly." The two figures dart towards Saeid, but a simple hand gesture reigns them in as suddenly as if Mia had pulled a chain around their necks. They trembled and grovelled on the ground like animals. "So I'm thinking I might just turn you into another little puppet. You're tough. Imagine what a pretty puppet you'd make!"

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
"Leave me be witch. Or else, you'll end up like that scorpionness....." Saeid says, still cleaning his weapon. "Shaula....yes, she didn't last to long now did she? And by judging your apperance, I can tell you're related to her sister..Medusa? So who are you then....arachne? No...she's spidered themed....maybe a parasite witch?" Saeid ponders, as he cleans his weapon....

In a flash of movement, he strikes out, aiming to cleave one of the undead in two, as he would rush to escape. Something was not right with these creatures. Not normal undead at all....

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

The beetle doesn't find anything related to how asura did what he did

"Yeah that'll happen the first few times." Theta says

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
It hangs about, as if waiting for him to reappear after a bit.

"As I can guess..." He says, as he manages to untie them. He then scratches his chin, before grinning evilly.... With a quick movement of the tendrils, he starts to tickle Theta. "Ya ticklish?" He asks, grinning the grin that would grin the heavens.

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
The blunted zweihander struck it's mark, but stops. It's as if he had struck a brick wall. Looking up, Saeid sees the blade caught into his opponent's hand, ripped apart muscles straining with immense, inhuman strength. With a burst of movement, the second Puppet launches itself forward, and Saeid is barely able to dodge the fist aimed at his face. These beings did not have the strength of ordinary beings, much like himself they had superhuman capabilities. And as the first Puppet launched a barrage of punches, Saeid found his large weapon simply wasn't capable of blocking them all. Furthermore, those punches that did strike the metal were beginning to bend it.

"Meet the Heroes of Erua. Did you know? They were blessed, granted divine strength by the God of Justice. They kept the peace on Erua, protecting it and it's people from the demons hordes that would conquer it. Half man, half God. Isn't it a beautiful story?" Mia laughs, as black blood seeps from her fingertips. "And then I came to play with them! We had so much fun! I took them apart, and I sliced them and diced them and skinned them, and I added so much new parts! I killed their friends, their family, just to see the look on their faces! Have you seen it? The look in a man's eye, when they see everything they ever loved die?"

The Puppets were relentless, and yet always attacked one at a time. Whenever Saeid were to strike one, knock it back, or gain any form of advantage, they would simply switch places. A relentless, unending assault from the inhuman warriors, with the strength of 50 men. Their eyes were filled only with inhuman hatred, but the eyes were focused. "Oh dear, did you think you were fighting undead? No no no. That wouldn't be nearly as much fun...."

"They're still very much alive."

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
Saeid is battered, bruised, beaten, and broken by the two demigod warriors. They overwhelm him with brutality, and sheer force, up until one point. As a punch is thrown by the puppet he had struck at first, Saeid catches the strike with his own palm, his breathing getting a bit heavier. "...You...did such horrible things to them....I used to be a monster...but...I never would of done that...That kind of monstrous action is...unforgivable." He says, as slowly, his grip would start to break the creature's hand.

As Seaid looks up, his eyes would appear red, and the veins in his face would pulsate. "I'm going to make sure...you don't hurt anyone else again." He says, before throwing the hero into the tree he had been resting under. As no doubt the other would pounce on him, he'd grapple them, slamming them into the ground. Mia wouldn't see what was making him exceed his limits in his soul, but in his mind the answer was clear. He was having a massive adrenalin rush, one that would kill most normal people. This was pushing him past his limits, and letting him ignore pain for the most part, as he continued his fight unarmed, his sword warped beyond use.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

He walks out holding something large and in the shape of an uppercase l. What it is may be pretty easy to tell.

Theta starts rolling on the floor laughing