[IC] Journey Through The Multiverse: Just Live More

[VitaVitaAR]

Shiori, with Rikka, facing Tanaka

For the briefest moment, Shiori's eyes widened in surprise as she watched the black-armored figure drive a spear through the Nanashi before it could scurry away. Then her gaze hardened, her eyes narrowing at the figure. It had died like the trash it was... there was no reason to care about such a creature. No, Shiori's attentions were on the figure. Their armor vanished, revealing a green-haired young woman. Talking about bills, civilians... so, was this that 'Zyguard' she had heard of? How pathetic. Such a fool, so concerned with money, and idiotic enough to think that Shiori would have been in danger even if the creature had been her enemy...

"Ah, yes..." Shiori began, taking a step forward. "We're... just fine."

All obstacles to Shiori's goal had to be destroyed. And Zyguard and everyone in it was another obstacle.

The black-haired girl thrust her fist forward, her arm blurring as she aimed it directly for the center of the green-haired woman's chest.

[Rin]

Tanaka from Accounting, with Shiori and Rikka

"Ah, that's great, great!" The green haired woman smiled as the girl in the trenchcoat confirmed that they were okay, and the smile remained plastered on her face as she casually leaned to the side, dodging the punch. "Oh my, so violent... You wouldn't happen to be one of those Black Cross people, would you?"

Swivelling behind Shiori, she skipped beside the dumbfounded Rikka and bowed politely at the two girls.

"It would be impolite to not introduce myself... I'm Tanaka, from Accounting! And unfortunately I'm going to have to take our surly friend in. Those Black Cross types are always causing so much property damage... You would not believe how much paperwork they cause us!"

[VitaVitaAR]

Shiori, with Rikka and Tanaka from Accounting

Shiori's punch... sailed through the air and didn't touch anything. For a moment she was surprised, but then her surprise gave way. Of course. They wouldn't employ just anyone in Zyguard. But she... she knew she was more powerful then this fool. Her eyes following Tanaka, she spun, swiftly. So she was fast. That didn't matter. Shiori was fast as well. All it took... was the flare of dance.

"You intend to arrest me?" she asked, "Someone like you has no chance."

And then... the black-haired girl dropped. She swung one knee back and thrust her leg out, spinning her body as she fell. Landing on one knee, she thrust her leg around in a bid to catch Tanaka in the stomach. Her odd method of attack, which should have been slow and noticeable... was in fact much faster then it should have been. But that was her power. The power of Shiori's Goku Uniform.

If not for the circumstances, it would have looked like she was breakdancing.

[Tachi]

Rachel

"H-huh? Magical girl..?" Rachel parroted, looking up at Yuuka. She was a magical girl now? The brunette looked down at her outfit and to the Pokegear, which had somehow attached itself to the costume at roughly hip height. Well, it sounded about right at least, a strange device that put her in a ridiculous outfit to fight against weird monsters. There was only one question left: Did it come with powers or was it just an embarrassing get-up?

Rachel closed her eyes for a moment, thinking about what Hitmonchan could do. The first thing that came to mind would...probably have been rather impractical. Using an attack that could punch birds out of the sky inside a building couldn't end well for her. Next, the elemental punches. After a few moments of thinking about them, she opened her eyes and brought her fists up in a boxing stance. Soon, electricity began to crackle around her gloves. The brunette's expression went to one of awe, to a grin. She...actually had powers. That Pokegear had made her into an actual magical girl. This was...This was amazing!

"I'll fight." She said, smiling at Yuuka. "Oh, and maybe one of the others has more pink. Um, I'll check when we're not getting attacked by hideous monsters."

[eemmtt]

Ignace rolled out of the path of the blade rolling to a nearby wall, using it to support himself he made his way back onto his feet. ‘Damit, leg is still dead,’ he thought firing another burst from his lasgun as he limped away from The Bakeneko trailing some hydraulic fluid, after putting some distance between him and Bakeneko. “Why are you are here Xeno?” Ignace asked leveling his lasgun at Bakeneko propping himself against a wall.

[Raineh Daze]

Chris

"I'm only in it because I owe him one; this is just passing the time until I can repay the debt," Chris answered, pausing by the vending machine, and slamming her knee into the Nanashi that got in her way. Predictably, it went flying. Not so predictably, when it slammed into the wall, it wasn't the fishman that cracked: the monster smashed its way through and kept going, potentially right across the next corridor and through the wall after that if nothing got in its way.

And then she shoved her hand through metal, apparently not fazed by the sharp edges this presented, and pulled the iced tea Raiko wanted out, followed by something disturbingly sugary for herself, and passing the drink to Raiko.

"Anyway, I know where to get the egg thing he wants, so..."

The tan martial artist lead the way towards the egg.

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Yui

The unfortunate former-dopant was... well, pretty much doomed. His rescuers had been dealt with, and now he was on the floor with no way out. Of course, this was the exact same thing that stopped him from "accidentally" getting a sword run through his body at high speed. No; instead, there was a sickening crack as the blur came to a halt, with one foot planted firmly on the man's back. With the speed Yui had been moving, there was no real indication of whether this was intentional or just the result of moving at high speeds.

It was intentional, though: leaving an enemy in a condition to potentially fight you again wasn't something she had any plans on doing, but there was no time to finish him.

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Rain

"Uh... I'm not Sokichi!" Rain said, waving her hands and dispelling the illusion that she could have ever been the hardboiled detective, "Too tall! And this is kinda restrictive around here..."

The waved hands indicated that Rain felt it rather... hard to fit into the moulded chest region of the suit, which probably wasn't the best idea with her friends' physiques.

Standing around like this was rather awkward, and as a result, the transformed girl started on a joke that she had no idea how to finish: "Two Kamen Riders and a magical girl walked into a bar..."

[VitaVitaAR]

Katsumi, with Yui, Roxy, and Todoroki

Katsumi winced. She heard the crack, it was all too loud. The black-haired girl tossed her remaining sword to the side and hurried over to the former dopant and OOO, frowning. She wasn't a medical expert but that had sounded pretty bad. And the dopant... looked pretty bad too. She could only guess that being hit like that would cause some pretty terrible damage to the human body. She folded her arms.

"Team Zyguard isn't so careless!" she declared, frowning. It looked like an accident, but still... he was defenseless. Katsumi had no problem beating up and even killing enemies... but if they were defenseless and arresting them was an option, well... "But at least he's alive, even if he'll need some kind of medical attention while imprisoned..."

The best option now was to contact some help to take him in... Katsumi still had to handle the situation on the island. Snatching her MPS out of her jacket, she quickly dialed the number for backup.

"Hello? We have two prisoners, one heavily injured!" she said, "We need someone to take them in and provide some medical attention!"

Moments later, a series of gray walls opened and dozens of black-armored troopers stepped out. They were Kurokage, apparently. Katsumi didn't pay much attention to the origins or the armor or anything as long as they helped out and all. They carried with them a stretcher. Soon enough, the former dopant was hauled onto it, and the pegasus monster was hauled to her feet as well.

Katsumi, after all, still had to make sure no bad guys did anything in the museum!

[clanjos]

With the ribbon snake recovered, John thought they'd be safe from the fishpeople.

And then one burst through the window, sword overhead. John made a grab for the nearest objects, the black-and-gold doll and a dagger. However, upon touching the dagger, John could feel a stinging sensation on the back of his hand as he brought the dagger up, the small snake in the other hand.

That wasn't the thing to focus on right now though. There was a kid and a... guy? Girl? It was kind of hard to tell. Either way, they were in trouble from this thing. As he prepared to throw the snake, he could swear he heard a voice.

Merde... you still can't hear me, can you?!

[Dblade26]

As a fishperson burst through the window with a sword flailing over his head, August near-unconsciously decided to do the sensible thing for once in his young life. That being of course, to get the hell out of the way. He dived behind John and rolled to lessen the impact of the necessary fall, since John seemed to be having enough trouble protecting him and the guy with him without dealing with August accidentally injuring himself during his injury avoidance attempts.

Unfortunately, his roll took him directly in the way of a very sharp shard that had been flung to the floor in the general ruckus, which proceeded to stab him neatly in the head as his momentum carried him towards it. Fortunately, the shard was something much more unusual than a sharp bit of metal or glass, and rather than injuring or killing him it sank in neatly and left nothing but a slightly painful memory behind. Well, a slightly painful memory and a sudden, odd feeling of being comfortably coated in warmth that he could feel surrounding him and slowly leaking away into the atmosphere at the same time in all directions.

Seeking to soothe the pain in his head with the new, pleasant sensation, he tried to sort of mentally hold onto the warmth fading from him and wrap it around himself more and more, finding that it did the trick after a minute or so. He stood up, taking a moment to notice that he wasn't nearly supporting himself with his cane half as much as he had a minute ago.

"Wow, so today's been pretty interesting so far. Need a hand Mr.John? Or maybe you Parker, since there are monsters and stuff around and you don't seem to have a whole lot of throwable snakes. I guess I don't either but I suddenly feel great!"

[Psyga315]

Nanashi
The Nanashi easily flew out of Shiori's hands... It cowered away, only to be killed by Tanaka.

The Nanashi fighting against Rachel and Nepeta were unfazed by the fact that Rachel transformed. They just ran after then and swung like normally.

Meanwhile, Lili would have two of the Nanashi swing their swords at her, while two others prepared to swipe at her should she dodge the first two.

The overall number of the Nanashi began to wane. However, there was still a good number of them. Most of them were around the area where Ignace is fighting the Bakeneko Ayakashi, and those that aren't were either too busy defending the Egg from non-Black Cross members or rushing to protect the Ayakashi.

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The Ex-Dopant, Pegasus, and Shane Sparks
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" The Foundation X member roared as his back broke. The Kurokage unit came in and dragged off the Foundation X member along with Pegasus.

"Heh, and people say I'm a brute." The Phantom said as she was dragged by the Kurokage. The Kurokage ran past a figure who stood out from the Kurokage. A man dressed in blue ninja garments with a pink scarf. The members of Zyguard would recognize him as Kouga Greninja, captain of the Kurokage Unit. Kouga gave the group a nod and headed off to follow his members.

"Excellent work." Shane's voice rang through the GPSes of the Zyguard members at the beach. "There's an outbreak of monsters in the museum, however. Some of our members are already in there fighting them off, but we need more help in eradicating the monsters and rendering the museum safe." Shane said.

[Weiss Schnee]

Lili:

"Woah. I was not prepared for this..!" Lili said barely dodging. Maybe she made a mistake and she had bitten off more then she could chew.However she did not count on the other's that took a swipe at her and she was hit by the swipes flinching as her arm that was swiped bled a little. "What am I thinking..I am Lili Rochefort..I can do this..' She shook her head and getting a hold of herself she lunged at the nearest Nanashi intent on knocking it down...

[RolePlayerRoxas]

Yuuka

"I'd love to see the full extent of your wardrobe," Yuuka replied, quickly assessing the danger Rachel was going to put herself in. An untrained, previously non-combatant young girl using powers never before used versus fish-faced mooks that Yuuka would normally never even have noticed. How sad, the wannabe villains were horribly outclassed already.

Nepeta seemed capable enough to the flower youkai as well, so she wouldn't need to dedicate as much energy to staying within protection range, and instead just focus on eliminating the nuisances. With an almost casual wave of her arm, Yuuka brought her umbrella down upon the skulls of any Nanashi within reach.

[mattmanganon]

As soon as the bad guy stated that he wasn't going to come quietly, Jan swung his cutlass around his head, energy building up in the blade "STARFORCE SLASH!!!" he yelled, then the bad guy disappeared, leaving behind one of his minions. Jan quickly changed his target to the new monster, bringing the cutlass down in a vertical slash, an energy wave shot out towards the new monster. With any luck, it would cut it in half, in any case, it would at least distract the monster long enough to give him the headstart he needed, he was falling back to plan B and immediately ran off at a charge. towards the closest building, putting his Morpher to his lips "Ptera, execute TDP maneuver 3." he said into it. Getting inside of the building, he rounded a corner, out of the monsters vision and the Pterazord, in its miniature form, flew in, creating a holo-projection of him in his Starforce form, before showing him running off. Jan then charged at his holographic counterpart, the Pterazord hiding up in the rafters, beaming out the hologram, as the Monster entered, it would see Zen-Aku fighting the Starforce Ranger.

[Lost Cause]

Jon - somewhere in the Museum

Jon sighed to himself as he staggered through the halls of the museum. He was out of ammo for his P90, which now hung uselessly from his chest on its sling, and since it had singularly failed to work on the creatures he hadn't bothered switching to his handgun. His jacket was torn, and a bloody gash could be seen underneath through the field dressing he had tied to it.

And then he spotted it.

In the detritus was what looked like a silver and black padlock, with a stylised red strawberry on the front, emblazoned with "LS-06". Slowly, he reached down to pick it up, and wondered what he was supposed to do with it. It looked a lot like the things he'd seen with that Orange-slice sword, so maybe he needed a belt like that to put it in.

[Rogue of Void]

Nepeta

The cat trolls bent her knees into a crouch, keeping a wary eye on the Nanashi. She was waiting oh so patiently for her prey to get close to her and when they did, she lunged! She swung her clawkind down in a ferocious swipe. There was no holding back and 13 years of growing up in a world where everyone wants to eat, kill and/or maim you taught her everything she needed to handle bunch of simple mooks. Even if their numbers outnumbered her, she was prepared to take anything they threw her way.

While she fought, she stole a glance towards Yuuka and Rachel. It seemed they could take care of themselves, but that didn't stop her from being ready at a moment's notice in case they ever needed her help. She was a great and mighty huntress after all! And great and mighty huntresses always help their friends! Even if the friendship was implied and not officially stated.

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Roxy

Roxy landed back down on the ground, tucking her hoverboard under her arm as well as putting her riflekind back away into her sylladex. As she approached Katsumi, the only person she was really acquainted with since a certain person who shall not be named ignored her repeatedly, she overheard the message from the girl's GPS. "Ohhhh shit, all kindsa hell is breakin loose. Is it national fuck shit up day? Because I seriously need to rework my internal calender. I was positive fuck shit up day was last Tuesday."

"Welp, since its apparently the national fucking holiday to tear shit apart, let's go be all celebratory by embracing the holiday spirit. In other words, let's go fuck their shit up."

[Psyga315]

Nanashi

Lili was successful at knocking down the Nanashi. The other Nanashi stood back and held the line.

Meanwhile, Yuuka succeeded defeating a chunk of the Nanashi. There were several Nanashi straying about though. Six of them ran to Nepeta and Rachel and tried to slash at them with a sword.

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Debo Hyogakki

The Debo Monster held its claws up and blocked the slash, though it irreversibility damaged them, shattering them into pieces and leaving behind only arms. It growled and followed the Black Starforce Ranger.

It found him near a warehouse where it was holding several large and damaged robots. Some of them the Black Cross King could recognize if he was there. He saw Zen-Aku fighting the Ranger.

"Ah, Rouki! I see you're taking care of this warrior! Allow me to help you!" The Debo Monster shot a beam of ice towards the Black Starforce Ranger.

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Danny
"Wooow, you utterly owned them... That's what you kids these days are saying, right? Owned? Pwned?" Danny said. Just then, another tour guide came in.

"Guys! Come with me! We're gathering in the safe room while security gets here to take care of the infestation!" The tour guide told them, insisting Mikoto, Mio, and Danny to come with him. He stopped when he noticed Mio. "Oh, wait! You guys can handle these guys, right? Help us clear them out! There's a lot of them in the main hall!" He said.

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Nicholas
Nicholas stopped in his tracks and noticed Jon picking up a Lockseed.

"Awesome! It looks so real! Oh! Maybe we can find a Sengoku Driver as well..." Nicholas said. Just then, a Tour Guide came in.

"Guys, ru-" He stopped when he noticed Jon. "Oh! Hey! Y-you can help clear up this threat, right?" He asked. He noticed the object in Jon's hand. "Ri-right! Let me see if I can help you with that!" He ran off, away from the others. The sound of glass shattering could be heard in the distance followed by a ringing alarm and the guard ran back with a black belt buckle and a rusted sword in hand. "Here! Take care of the monsters! I'm gonna go take care of the tourists!" He said, sliding the buckle and sword across to Jon's feet. "Good luck!" He ran off.

"Well, that was easy..." Nicholas noticed the sword. "Wait... That sword..." Nicholas picked up the rusted sword and noticed a wolf's head on the hilt. "Yeah! This is definitely the Shadow Saber! We're gonna kick so much ass now!" Nicholas said.

[mattmanganon]

Zen-Aku looked around as the monster attempted to intervene, Blocking the beam with his cresent-moon blade, he deflected it towards the wall, where it froze solid "THIS QUARRY IS MINE!!!" he roared. The hologram behind him looked between the monsters as though to simulate sizing up the situation.

"Ptera, retreat for now!" It said, before the Pterazord swooped in and they both disappeared in a blob of black light. Zen-Aku lashed his hand out, sending a bolt of lightning at it, but he timed it right and they disappeared just before the attacks made contact. He then turned around and growled at the monster.

"You made possible my enemies escape, you worm." he marched towards it and shoved the creasent moon blade to its throat "I should take your pathetic head instead... Although at the moment, i'm considering if your head is worth more than the pittance of my energy necessary to take it." he said. "Who sent you to intervene?"

[Weiss Schnee]

Lili grinned as she saw she had managed to knock down one of the so called fishmen. "Now then who else wants a piece of me?"She said and blinking at what she said sighed. "Great that unrefined girl is rubbing off on me." Seeing the Nanashi begin to back off she rushed them again knowing they probably would not be prepared for her second attack.

[Lost Cause]

Museum Corridor

Jon reached down and picked up the belt buckle, and that's when it hit him.

"Of course! It's a Lockseed!" He shouted to himself, with a snap of his fingers.

In one fluid motion, he slapped the buckle to his waist, causing a silver belt-strap to appear, holding it in place. He then hit a button on the side of the lock, making it pop open.

ICHIGO! The lock announced. At once, a circular zipper appeared above his head and opened, revealing a strange looking forest, and a giant strawberry, which hovered over his head.

"Henshin!" He called, pushing the lock into the octagonal recess on the front of the buckle, and pushing the bar down, locking it into place.

LOCK ON! the Lockseed announced as a rock guitar riff looped from the belt. Jon held his hands together in what looked like a stereotypical ninja hand seal, before quickly dropping his right to push the blade on the belt buckle down and returning it to place. The blade cut the strawberry on the front of the lock, revealing what looked like a brace of kunai on one side, and eliciting another guitar sting. On cue, the strawberry dropped down onto his head, causing a metallic pink suit to materialise over his body.

ICHIGO ARMS! SWOOSHING SPARK! The lock announced, and the strawberry folded down, forming a breastplate and shoulder pads on Jon's suit. What looked like a cross between a pistol and a sword was sheathed across his back, and several strawberry themed kunai hung from his belt on his left hip.

He paused for a second to look down at his hands and indeed the rest of his body.

"OK, this is getting seriously weird now. Although I just wish the others could see me now." He paused again. "...I can come up with a catchphrase later. We've got work to do now."

[Psyga315]

"That would be the Black Cross King. I was sent to take care of that pest, but it seems he ran off." Debo Hyogakki said.

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Predictably, the retreating Nanashi didn't anticipate Lili's attack. Some were prepared for some sort of attack, though, and they prepare to charge in and encircle Lili.

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"Ah hell yeah! THIS IS OUR STAGE NOW!" Nicholas rushed down the hall towards where Hibiki was fighting.