[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
With a deep breath, and a bit of focus, the emperor lets out a blast of wind, sending the rifle rocketing into the back of Matt's right leg, as he rushes forth, before Delta uses a vector plate to trip him up, clones forming a line between the two.
"Stand down." Delta orders Rogen, but Rogen simply begins to get angry. Honey cowers behind a tree, shaking, as Rogen begins to approach the line, hostile intent shown clearly. Several clones fire on him with their laser weapons, which only seems to cause darker marks on his skin, with a bit of smoke. The first clone he gets within arms length of, Rogen lobs him into the pilot seat of Matt's mech, entangling the poor sod in his chair. Delta orders a retreat, but grabs Matt, using her vector pads to out speed Rogen, who does go on a rampage esq pursuit of the man.

[supertinyking]

((Opening a story line here for anyone to jump in on.))
With Drac's apperent capture, the realm of the forsaken goes into a lockdown. It's boarders are guarded, and any who would dare attempt to force their way into the realm would be swamped by the legion of undead, Bug, Ozzy, and Lisa.....and after the lockdown ends, it is apparent as to why. The impossible has happened...an event thought to be truly out of reach.
Eruka falls pregnant, her rotten body housing a living child. This child is Drac's, and when the lock down ends, a wave of power rolls though out the universes, and all sense the same thing. This child is of immense power, and is most likely an important target to many people. Some may seek to take the child, and forge a weapon with it...or, maybe to stop a powerhouse before it is able to use its power. Some may seek to protect the child.

Let the games begin gentle men, ladies....and make it a fun one.

[thewizardguy]

@Tyki
@supertinyking
Even as Minx fought off 5's domination of her mind, he seemed to simply stare her down. "You're becoming quite the nuisance. Allow me to give you a reminder of who the most powerful Sith in the Multiverse is." And even as she felt the Force move around her, Minx was suddenly frozen in fear. It wasn't fear of the technique, despite her recognition. It was a fear of what it meant. What it implied. For the move he was executing was unheard of among the Sith, knowledge of it had been wiped out. There was only one Sith who had mastered this move, only one Sith who would have been able to teach it.

Only Darkside.

It was an almost familiar image. That power she had previously thought could never come from another source, that move that had been wiped from the face of the world when Darkside had had his memories wiped. "This will be the end of your interfering." For the power that was seeping through Minx was ripping at her Soul. It was seperating it, sundering it, with extreme precision. A technique that was cutting straight through all her defences. 5 wasn't simply attacking her. He was ripping her Force powers out of her, obliterating her capability as a Sith.

It was then that an explosion struck. A massive wave of energy surrounded both 5 and Minx, as metallic screams echoed through the air. Emotional energy projected into a weapon of mass destruction, a sensation that could only be matched by beings such as Bob. The weapon tore at the Force barriers that protected 5, and tore apart a large part of his body. Thousands of tiny devices had dropped to the floor, crushed underfoot as the Omegan stumbled around. He had been caught by surprise.

Stein dashed forward, making full use of the opening that had been created. Shooting through the dust, scalpel in hand. A Vector Plate appeared beneath him, propelling him forwards like a rocket, as he shot past 5. A precision slice with Shirotai, a masterful dissection, a seperation of souls. A strike not at the being's core, but rather at the energies keeping him together. Even as the razor seered through metallic flesh, and 5 turned to react, his massive collection of souls was shattered.

Screaming, he dropped to the ground. Energy burst off of his chest and from his eyes, his souls going berserk inside of him. Lightning crackled uncontrollably across him, the revolt of his own mind and soul. After moments he rose once more, practically in shambles. The collected attacks had worn away his defences and ripped his core to pieces. Stein and Mia stood besides him, and everyone knew the fight was over. 5 would no longer be able to fight back.

["Cease fire. We've got him. It's over."] Stein looked over his prize, even as he stood between 5 and Minx, if she was still alive. "So, you've got what you wanted. However, I'm afraid I will be taking him now. Don't turn this into a situation."

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
Matt cries out as his leg is crushed by the sudden impact, dropping him to the floor. However, he wasn't planning on giving up easily. Even as Rogen charges towards Matt, and Delta moves to assist him, Matt himself pulled out what appeared to be a button. "I've got 500 megatons of explosives on me! That's enough to kill you guys, the chickmonster, this jackass, and every other being on this planet that likes to breathe. So everybody shut the F*** up and sit down before I blow this planet out of orbit!" Even as they calm down, Rogen concerned with Honey's safety, Matt looks over the people present. "What the shit was that? Who the shit are you?" He points at Rogen accusingly, even as a small drone begins tending to his wound.

[thewizardguy]

@supertinyking
Moments after the birth, the room was suddenly filled with unwelcome guests. Voidwalker appeared, bringing with her Mia and Cosmos. The new group smiled, even as Bahamut appears behind the Drac family. He seems to stare around at the gathered people, clearly confused, before he realizes the Drac family is here. Mia in the meantime is already scanning the place, Voidwalker already preparing her portals for battle, and Cosmos already tearing at the magic of this world. "Ozzy and Drac are already gone. It's a shame I have to further separate this family, but we'll be taking the child. Don't try to fight back. We both know that you'd die."

Bahamut prepares his katana, as he smiles. "What, so the old bastard croaked? Tsh. It seems I'll have to take what I can get then." He points his blade at Bug. "I'll rip you to pieces, kid."

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy

The sergals do cease fire, returning the hail from stein and saying [thank you for the assistance. if you've means to salvage him i wish you luck, the fuck you cannon's a bit on the... obliteratory side] as ships carrying troops fly up and corvettes seeming a bit on the smaller side fly down, landing a fair distance away before the cylindrical sides of it open up with a bit of steam, smaller cylinders coming off of it as even a cursory glance from stein'd be able to tell that they were algae colonies, though their function appeared to be unknown. The pilot hops out soon enough, appearing to be male, as he goes over with pretty much a giant vaccum and starts cleaning up the busted nanites without really messing with stein or minx

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy

Minx held to her the shard of Kevin's soul, her form distorting, and reforming, her connection to her powers disrupted. Even if she wanted to, she couldn't resist. She just held this fragment, but then she looks up. She senses something...a wave of power, something Stein would feel too. The birth.
"......" Standing, Minx vanishes though a portal, a wicked grin on her face.
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Rogen tilts his head, confused. "..You don't remember? You have to. It has to be you..you look....." Rogen starts, quite confused. "...Do you not remember waging war against my people, leading to their destruction at the hands of the great sith lord Darkside?" He asks, but then everyone would freeze, as a great wave of power would pass though, telling a sign...the birth. Delta looks to her men, and nods. Then, pulling out a strange box with a spray handle on it, she approaches Matt slowly. "This is to help rebuild your leg faster, just hold still.." She says, gently spraying his leg, the wound regenerating rather quickly. She then looks at him, and then back at Rogen. "Rogen, I think this isn't the Matt you had beef with. There has been parallel universes leaking into this reality..so..this is a different Matt." She says. Rogen scratches his chin, and sighs, walking over to Matt. He holds out a hand, to help him up. "Sorry....There is a man who looks a lot like you who is an absolute scum bag." He says, sorta sweating. Delta sighs, seeing everything is ok, but then she runs off, and ships can be seen taking off and flying away.

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Appearing between the two parties gathered at the forsaken realm, a dark portal opens, and from it steps Raiden, and to those who could see specters and spirits, Minx, now bound to him. The way it looks, some could draw a parralell between them and Chrona and Ragnarok. Bug, Lisa, and Eruka got into fighting stances, Bug staring down Bahumut.
"..My...my...my.....Lookie here. A big gathering, and no one invited me? I'm almost hurt.." Minx says, almost purring, and she then looks over at the child. With a wicked grin, she hisses this. "I wonder what that child would look like inside out?" She says, and laughs. Raiden is pointed towards Mia, Cosmos, Bahumut, and the void walker, and Minx is pointed the other way.

But even then, another portal opens, not one of magic, but one made via forcefully ripping open the walls of the universes. Stepping forth, Tsubaki, along with Kilroy.
"So, where is my newest battery at?" She chuckles, and Kilroy looks at her with obvious dislike, but does not take action against her. "...We're here to save the child." He says, elbowing her in the side, making her growl. "..Yea...Yea...that." She says, halfheartedly.

Then, forsaken troops burst though the doors, holding most people at spell/gun/blade/bow/whateverthehelltheywereusing point.

Then, more people appear, as for a moment, Mia could feel a flame lap at her neck, as right in the midst of them, a demon would appear to be there.....
Nathan would be right in the midst of them, a hand pointed at the back of Mia, and Cosmos's head. "My boss is quite pissed with you people, fucking up his day...and his body." He says, primed to attack. Everyone draws their weapons, and it becomes a sorta..Mexican stand off.

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy@supertinyking

As the omegans show up and begin their shpeel, there's a familar creaking of wire snapping and cracks of bone moving as the monster ozzy's corpse had became, mia turning around to be launched through the wall by it's fist, wires coming off and pinning her in place where she lands before bahamut's sword blow at the hostile intruder is caught at his hand, the creature's movements too unnatural and erratic for void walker's defenses to work appropriately despite the fact that she tries. After having his sword caught, bahamut is tackled and wrapped up in wires and the Creature's limbs before being constricted and torn apart, his resistance only causing the process to be expedited. However, he's freed rather quickly by cosmos no doubt, though mia's a bit more difficult to accomplish, as the creature goes limp on bahumat, keeping him tied down and heavily constricted but he could at least struggle his way out of it if given some help.

The assault doesn't end at that though as a cloaked man with his face hidden shows up, seeming not powerful enough to really care about up to the point he knocks out the void walker with a surprisingly strong pommel strike to the back of the head, leaving cosmos to face the mysterious swordsman alone or try not to die while he frees the dieing bahanmut.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Camilla nods and says "he won't see it coming."

[thewizardguy]

The place was growing more and more crowded. Unexpectedly, however, hostilities were first opened by the revived and puppeted corpse of Ozzy who appeared besides Mia, aiming a blow for her face. His fist passed through her, blasting aside a host of shadows with the force. And yet, whatever his follow-up move was had been disrupted by the fact that the not-Mia was pissed. Because she knew she was going to have to kill Nathan now. And killing Nathan would piss of Logar. And she did not have time for this shit.

There was an explosion of force, as Ozzy was launched backwards. Speared onto a lance of darkness he shot through wall after wall at near sonic speed, flesh torn and burnt away as he was fired out of the palace itself. Like a cannon, he was flung away. The wires that gripped at the walls found the very ground and walls torn apart by the force of the attack. Had he survived the attack, it would take him quite some time just to make it back.

Where Mia had previously stood, was now a furious figure forged from liquid darkness. Shadowy blades orbited it, tentacles emerging from it's back, it's form constantly shifting according to it's will. White lightning played over it's form, a constant reminder of the Soular Powers this being possessed. The air seemed to tremble, superheated by random bursts of power, as the being looked around. A pair of glowing red eyes conversed it's rage to the world. Those who could sense souls would sense a truly unique Soul, a Soul constructed from millions of lesser Souls. As if this being had devoured the population of entire planets, somehow assimilating their Souls. Unlike 5, she had not enslaved fragments of their being, but rather was made up of these beings. A Soul Golem, almost.

The voice that emerged from it's mouth, surprisingly, was a girl's voice. But it did not belong to Mia, nor to anyone the present crowd would recognize. "You know, the last time I took this form I didn't even kill anyone. It made me feel a little empty, you know? So I think I'll call dibs on all the fleshy ones. You guys can kill the rest."

Cosmos chuckled. "Always quick to anger......Kihaku." He held up one gloved hand, his eyes cold. "I had originally designed this spell to kill the one known as Drac. It never quite reached the potency I had wished for, but it will deal well enough with the rabble." He snapped his finger, and a wave of energy seemed to travel through the room. A sudden chill, a tug at the soul that, for the living, did nothing but mildly annoy. But the Forsaken Troops gathered felt themselves dissipating. The magic that held them here was torn apart, as their souls dissipated back to the great stream of life. Their bodies fell to the floor, instantly decaying to their mere mortal forms. Decayed corpses and skeletons, robbed of all life in an instant.

Had Minx been a being of the ilk of the Forsaken, she too might have been taken. As it was, the spell certainly wasn't a pleasant sensation. It was a reminder that however firmly she bound herself here, if she could not find a permanent form, Cosmos might one day find a spell to wipe her away.

"Voidwalker. Deal with the cyborgs and the stranger in the cloak. Kihaku, kill anyone Bahamut doesn't kill. I believe I will work on combating the tricks of our friendly neighborhood witch."

The strange cloaked figure was already bounding towards Voidwalker, but she simply moved herself across the room before he ever reached her. The air seemed to be filled with tiny, purple, ethereal threads. Any attempts to get close to the Voidwalker or surprise her seemed nearly futile, as she rapidly teleported across the room. She stayed outside of melee range, and waited for somebody to perform an attack she could redirect. As long as she was here, nobody would portal in that the Omegans didn't want portalling in, and nobody here would escape through teleportation.

Bahamut laughed down at Bug. Flames surrounded him, as great dragon wings spread from his back. His blade was covered in brilliant light, and a single gem seemed to burn brightly in it's hilt. He was going all-out from the get-go, at full power from start to finish. He had every intention of wiping out the Drac bloodline, starting with the impudent whelp in front of him. "Just like your father before you, I will make you see the true meaning of my power!"

A punch like a blazing train, flames filled the interior of the room. Everything not shielded was burnt to a crisp, as the sheer shockwave blew the room to smithereens. A pillar of flame arched up into the sky, a force capable of melting stone instantly, anything combustible for almost a kilometer around spontaneously bursting into flame. The blade would come next, aimed to cleave Bug in two and burn his insides. He would annihilate every last insect in the Forsaken realm, burnt to a crisp.

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy

there's actually a rather sudden tug at the walls before the wire creature launched back into the room with a conplete reverse of the momentum that mia had launched him out with and straight into bahamut before rising and launching a hand at void walker, the hand most likely dodged or redirected, however the creature continues launching attacks despite the futility as cosmos would find a familar sensation he'd thought he'd snuffed the life out of. Bahamut's great explosion of flame and heat only seemed to go so far before streaming into a specific spot as though the uncontrolled explosion were given force and direction. Said direction being the cloaked swordsman's palm, gathering and coalescing into what looked like a miniature sun (due to the nature of the flames, it's not actually a miniature sun) before he seems to blur, planting the miniature sun into voidwalker's back, her strings having failed for some reason. With the teleportation out of the way and cosmos's shock dissapating, the fireball was most likely released though not in the intended direction, the very nature of the man's magic making it hard for cosmos to counter but not impossible as kihaku was actually the one subjected exclusively to the inferno.

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
As Cosmos would begin to call upon such powers, pulling his arm back in order to wave it to cast the magic, a hand grips it, and already, Cosmos would be alarmed. A metal gauntlet clasped around Cosmos's wrist, but it was warm to the touch, rather than the normal cold.

"You know...you all are wearing on my nerves already." A voice says, its hand clasped around Cosmos's arm, but the shadow creature sensed no soul within the body...wait...there was no body. Drac's gauntlet was floating in the air, and Bug grinned slightly, as in a wave, another him appeared, wielding the mystical artifact. In several points, Bugs appeared, and the flames spewing forth from Bahamut rolled over them, singeing clothing, but not skin or flesh. In a split second, Bug's soul lept to the him with the gauntlet, activating it, blowing apart Cosmos's arm, turning the spell into unstable magical energy...a mystical explosion. "If I were you, I'd not try that spell again. It will have consequences either way." Bug warns the mage, voice holding a dead seriousness.
Many of these clones draw blades, Aono Centipedes, and rushed Bahamut, slashing, all the blades glowing with the Jigen tou, aiming to slash him apart. Their acidic blood had an odd orange tint as he would no doubt crush and smash them, sizzling, and burning that which was not fire proof.
Many of these copies rush down the void walker, and the shadow mia look alike. Nathan, seeing this, rushes off, down a hall, his legs carrying him as fast as he could go. To Cosmos, he knew right where he was headin, he was running for the child.

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
"Hehehehe." Rinack says, patting her on the top of her head. "Thatta girl."
"I have a feeling we'll regret this quite quickly.." Hunger thinks, but sighs. "Shall we get started?" He says, opening a portal to outside Death City.

[Teoinsanity]

Suddenly ,the area around the child would be impossible to do soul manipulation in ,as Teo stole some stuff while Stein was not looking and left an I.O.U ,Teo built an machine out of the stuff he stole Borrowed,that would stop soular manipulation around it,and he built it into the Tetris .

The Tetris would drift in around the Infant. Teo would walk out and attempt to grab the baby and go back in the Tetris

[supertinyking]

@Teoinsanity

He would find himself to be in a room that's color theme oddly was of heavy blues, and purples. However, the crib where the child would be is surrounded by an odd sphere, power generated by the child...and when Teo arrives, and places the limiter, this sphere expands, threatening to engulf him, and the entire house. However, it suddenly stops, inches from Teo, and retracts almost violently. Left now in the crib, a small baby girl with a few thin purple hairs on her head rests, gently rolling around. She would then open her eyes, and begin to cry. This cry would shake the house, most likely sending Teo toppling over.

[thewizardguy]

@Tyki@supertinyking
The zombie shot through the hole once more, finding itself a rather comfortable landing position on Bahamut's fist. Smashed into the ground, he formed himself a crater the size of a large car. Reflexes were unimportant, an airborne being without the capability of flight was an ease to hit for a seasoned warrior like Bahamut. He simply grinned. "I'm taking them on. Get the child." The Bug clones that ran at him found themselves struck by beams of plasma, their heads and limbs incinerated instantly.

"Are you certain?" Cosmos seemed to hesitate, and even Kihaku halts her attacks.

"Yeah. I've had a good run. When you see that unholy bastard, give him the finger for me, eh?" Flames seem to be leaking from Bahamut's eyes, and even as the enemy charges, he seemes to blur. An explosion sounds as he breaks the sound barrier, his blade striking a clone with such force his body is pulverized by the shock wave. Wind travels through the room, as Bahamut begins glowing brightly. "Let's see how many of these bitches I can kill before I go down!"

An inferno of flame shoots past, blasting towards Cosmos. He simply extends a hand, and with a flex of the fingers douses the flames. Then, Voidwalker teleports the entire Omegan team to the child's room.

Teo and Nathan find themselves face to face with Kihaku, Cosmos and Voidwalker. And each know that this is not a fight that they can win. Nathan feels his strength fail him as Cosmos simply glares at him, his arcane powers disrupted by waves of calculated arcane interference. Kihaku simply stands in front of Teo, glowing with white lightning, shadowy blades extending from her fingertips. The Voidwalker simply held the child, lifting it from the cradle. Cosmos smiles at the two warriors. "You are free to throw your lives away. But know that there is no honour or recompense to be found in suicide."

A host of enemies, gathered around the Dragon Emperor. He stood between them and the cradle, sword in hand, flames covering his entire body. Anyone with any magical proficiency could see he was channeling more than he could handle. This was 100% for him, but his body just couldn't take the strain. After 2 hours of this, his body would fail him. He didn't intend to live past this day, and was releasing his full power here, all at once. The very ground shook, as a thousand dragons took to the sky. Pillars of flame erupted from the ground, as his mere presence melted the stone beneath his feet to liquid magma. The walls began to collapse, and the air shimmered. Tsubaki would find her skin shriveling up, and Bug would be forced to coat himself with his defensive fluid to prevent himself from being incinerated by the waves of heat emanating from Bahamut.

"You better turn back now. I've got you outnumbered." Bahamut chuckled, as he alone blocked the path to the child, guarding his companions with his life.

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy

There's a brief moment of quiet before bahamut's own hand clasps around his throat, the zombie contorting to it's feet and launching at him, most likely to get punched away before simply launching at bahamut again and again, draining the Dragon master's magic slowly just through sheer contact, though the controller of the corpse doesn't seem to realize this as it launches at him again and again, trying to land attack after attack with endurance befitting of a rotting corpse stitched together by wires, it's flesh peeling off continuously as it attacks until finally, it's nothing but a humanoid mass of wires. Where the eyes had once been, black voids of highly condensed wires stares at the dragon emperor, though the puppet does something rather unprecedented: it's arm contorts into a blade at insane speeds, striking not at the dragon emperor, but at the strings controlling it, freeing it to move of it's own volition.

As the creature falls into a puddle of wires on the floor, bahamut's hand falls away from his throat, the creature contorting and rising slowly to assume a new form before rushing at the overloading warrior at insane speeds, it's face parting to avoid the punch as it buries it's claws him his chest, wires flooding into his body painfully, draining the magic surprisingly rapidly, causing the fail state to grow ever further away but also draining him of the power to sustain it.

As the autonomous puppet entwines bahamut in it's birth throws, the cloaked warrior remains motionless briefly before blurring and being stopped by the creature from passing via a strike with it's claw, flinging him through a wall with rather exorbitant amounts of force

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy

Nathan grins, as he looks over the group before him. He knew he wouldn't win this fight if he started it..but maybe he didn't need to.
"I'm surprised...stealing a baby....you all have no morals.....I wonder what my father would say about the shadow bitch if I told him she was trying to steal a baby......it might be enough to drive away that odd attachment he has for you...but I'm sure that's only because of the mask you wear." Nathan snickers, before looking at Cosmos, and then around at the other two. "...I'm also surprised someone so mystically gifted, with such...high opinions of himself is working to destroy all reality. Sorta took you for the taking everything over type." Nathan also remarks, grinning. He then glances at Teo, and nods, looking over at the Tetris. In a burst of movement, he kicks Kihaku in her center mass, his leg most likely passing right though her.

Before Bahamut, it being attacked by the evil doll wire thing, Bugs begin to rush past, heading for the child, and the remaining omegans...but one is among him, Raiden, with Minx rooted to him. four blades glow red among the many glowing white swords. She grins, a wicked sickening grin, as she makes a b-line for the void walker. Dodging the many portals no doubt being opened, Raiden and Minx moves to strike her, in such a way to slice though the void walker, and the child. But from the distance, a helper fired several shots, forcing Minx and Raiden to alter their strikes, making them far easier to dodge. Tsubaki has moved farther away to avoid the intense heat, and is using a rifle to fire energy blasts at Minx. Kilroy is on the approch, aiming to take on Cosmos.

The child begins to cry more, energy starting to crackle off of it, one bolt of power striking Nathan, sending him flying into a wall, busting though it, and another strikes the void walker, but...it does nothing. Or, seems to do nothing. Cosmos would sense oddities in these bolts, as they would hold an odd form a magic...chronomancy. A complex, and difficult to master school of magic, and this child was slinging bolts of the energy with ease....odd.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki

As this thing attacks Bahamut, Bug sees an opening. Leaving vengance to instead carry on an objective, his clones rush around the thing, making sure to stay out of it's apperent reach, and making sure to leave it to Its....exploration. Lisa and Eruka recoil at the sight of this thing, both of them pulling back slightly, sensing its magic draining effects. Lisa seems far more worried, hiding behind her mother.

[Teoinsanity]

@thewizardguy

Teo gives Bahmut the middle finger as he teleports on to Cosmos's shoulder ,Teo would have found time to change in his teleport because he is now dressed like the Red Scout but with goggles.

"Yo ,Whatsup?"

Teo would smugly say to Cosmos as he would dodge a bolt of lightning from the baby. Teo would sense a huge amount of time warping ,something he can only do with a distabilzer ,and only for a few seconds ,"This infant is a powerhouse" he thinks to himself[