Being the group that could fly, Blazermate and Susie were the first ones to arrive at their destination in the trade depot, trucks they'd use to get into the city proper. The two robot girls sat and waited on top of their truck for the others to make it there, with the others running at full sprint and making it in time, being chased by the G men. As they got onto the trucks, the trucks left the depot after some weird mumblings from those loading the trucks. This left the G men in the dust, at least, thats what should've happened....
But once they were on their way, the boss of the G men appeared as a group of G men came driving a school bus(?), and commanded the G men to transform into their REAL forms. Susie had thought these things were just stupid, but they apparently were playing stupid which was... better? worse? Still, considering what these demons looked like, Midna and pit commenting on the one riding a toilet, that wasn't here or there. And much like Midna and Pit, Susie and Blazermate were disgusted at that thing, but unlike Midna, hid their disgust behind getting ready to fight these demons with Blazermate summoning her engineer striker so that he'd make his buildings while she began to overheal everyone and charge up her shield and uber. Blazermate's engineer able to make his sentry and beginning to make his dispenser before he upgraded the sentry to level 2 and 3. Susie meanwhile summoned her business suit, only realizing afterwords all she could do was use it as a weapons platform as the suit would be left in the dust as the trucks drove along. At least Susie had her cow mangler that let her fire energy rockets alongside the baseline rockets found in her business suit.
"Does anyone have any elemental like effects that would be stronger against these demons? Haltmann Works Co. technology has the feature of absorbing the elemental properties of allied attacks and reusing them in their own way." Susie said, informing those around her of that ability of her business suit. Sadly Blazermate didn't have anything like that she thought... but maybe someone else did?
Level 9 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) - (44/90) Location: The Ruins Word Count: 509
With the fight over, and all of those ugly, hideous monsters gone, Sectonia and her allies could only get a little bit of rest before a few more monsters came wandering up. These monsters however were... Weak. Like, super weak. So weak that Nadia just ignored getting hit by one and she wasn't the most durable one here. With Bowser and his family healing up, and Nadia having dashed off to intercept the one mosnter that was apparently calling their 'boss', Sectonia moved to deal with these little monsters.
Summoning her Chaos Shield, Sectonia went through the monster's weird attacks. She noticed pretty quickly however that she didn't need her shield, as these attacks barely even registered on her carapace without it, and with it? Well, she did have an idea... "You know, I think instead of destroying these monsters, perhaps since these ones can talk, we could get some information from them instead. They aren't as hideous as the other ones after all." Having said that, not even paying attention to the weak attacks of the other monsters, Sectonia grabbed the Loox and Astigmatism and summoned her striker, Natashia.
"Yeah boss?" The blue secretary said, fixing her shades. "Do your thing to these two, lets see what information they have.", Sectonia commanded, with Natasia giving a simple "kay" before moving to each monster that was being held by the Queen bee. As she touched the monster, it screamed in pain as a red ring appeared around it, and while they tried to struggle free, Sectonia kept them pinned while Natashia did her work. Not even half a minute later, both creatures were under Natashia's mind control, and with them under her control, they stopped struggling. With her job done, she said. "Right. You'll now serve Queen Sectonia. Be a good team player, k'ay?" before disappearing and with that, Sectonia let both monsters go who ceased their attacks saying. "Hail Sectonia!"
Gesturing to the rest of the group, Sectonia said. "These are also your new friends. Be delightful little serfs and answer any questions I or they have." With that, Sectonia flew back to the group, her new two monster minions following her. It was clear they wouldn't disobey the bee queen, but besides that, they seemed to be their selves.
And with that combat was over, at least for now. Sectonia asked her two new little serf monsters to explain themselves and why they attacked the group, and where there little frog friend was going and who their 'boss' was. Those creatures answered, saying that they attacked only because the seekers attacked the other monsters and this is where they live and following up explaining Toriel was the boss of the ruins they were talking about.
With that all sorted Sectonia pulled out her Mark of Avarice, telling those who didn't know about it what it did and the rules involved with it. Although since the koopa troop weren't her minions, she made special rules for their group where they'd have to pay with something upfront as they weren't her minions. Sectonia also put the scythe she had claimed from her journey above to the pile of spirits, offering it to any of her minions who could make use of it.
Location: Outside Dystopianscape Word Count: Less than 750
When the two girls got inside the petshop, what they saw wasn't what they were expecting. Both bots hadn't seen any of these people, but apparently a few others that had gone to the desert did. This new group of people, at least to the ladies perspectives, were quite strange overall, talking about what was going on and about the G men and everything. Blazermate was way out of her depth with this whole 'conspiracy' thing. Couldn't they just beat up everyone til they won? They would have to beat up the area boss anyway, so all this 'what is what and what is this' really went over the battle medibot's head. Blazermate could be seen visibly confused about all of this, just wanting to go beat up the big bad since that'd fix everything.
Susie meanwhile, having been mostly uninterested in what she had been seeing so far got really into it though. She didn't know what was going on either, but unlike Blazermate she knew what conspiracy and espionage was about, having tried to play a corporate spy herself at one point in her life. But the coolness of that idea was drowned out by the whole lameness of these 'G Men' who just seemed to be really, really stupid from what she could understand. Dangerous, but stupid. These 'turks' though sounded like they had a bit of brains that some basic acting couldn't get the group through.
Either way, with a plan set in motion, Raz and Roxas volunteered to lure the G Men away so the rest of the group could escape. Geralt and Bede also did what they could to distract the ones that were entering the store, which meant... Well, they all did have a place to go, so the lady bots got into the air, flying above all the bothersome stuff on the ground heading to their destination they were told to go at the trade depot. They could probably fly over the trucks as well, but it could be more fun to ride them.
The two girl bots made their way out of the store with the two distractions going on. Blazermate carrying anyone who needed it."Ugh, this sucks. Why can't we just beat them up..." Blazermate complained as she flew over the streets of the city, watching Raz and Roxas being chased by the G men and doing some... shenanigans to lose them, Susie giggling to herself as she saw how they outsmarted the perusing G men, one hand holding her transporter as she flew besides Blazermate. "You don't care much for spy stuff do you Blazermate." Blazermate replied, a bit flustered. "I mean, its cool when your watching, it, but not when your doing it. You'll be beating up a big bad in the end anyway, so why do they have to make it so complicated?"
Level 9 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) - (32/90) Level 10 Nadia (42/100) Location: The Ruins Word Count: 5347 (+6)
Sectonia, having gotten her chunk of gold from that worm which she crushed, getting a
Insect Scythe A two-handed polearm, made unwieldy by the large, heavy blade at the end. In exchange for its low attack speed, however, it boasts good reach and high slash damage
in the process. It seemed that the others who were having their own fun exploring the area were also done and ready to head down into the unknown depths. Still, while she could have her antillions carry this large nugget of gold, there wasn't really a good way for her to bring it with her all things considered... Plus it'd have to be made usable. Well, she had antillions to do things, so maybe she could work something out with them...
Well, besides the bandits and maybe some of the wildlife, perhaps she could leave some antillions in a spot to guard it with a few signs and whatnot. If anyone stole from her they'd be in quite the bit of trouble, but she figured her antillions could deal with most of the lower level riff raff out of sheer intimidation anyhow and she did just that; summoning a a group of 1 blue, 3 green and 2 red to guard her little gains there until she could come back and claim her little prize here. Finding a landmark area that was in a spot that would be difficult for anyone but her (Or anyone else who could fly) to reach, Sectonia left her nugget with her antillions and would need to pick it up later. She mused to herself that this wasn't her area of expertise, but they had just gotten someone who was good at the monetary sort of thing, so perhaps if that person was to take a look at this... She wasn't too adverse to her minions taking a slight cut for getting the best deal after all...
With that done, she made her way back to the group, meeting the rest at the crane where they had to descend in order to go down into the Chasm, at least those who couldn't fly. Sectonia summoned a single blue antillion to operate the levers, as she had already a fair chunk of her minions guarding what she figured would be a couple magic items at the very least. It seemed like she'd have to make use of mostly blues down in this chasm... Well, that was fine. She had her actual minions around so they could bring up the difference.
”Your sure this lift will be safe for the vast majority of you?” Sectonia said, eyeing the lift as the group descended, herself lazily flying next to the descending group. With her having an antlion operate the thing, at least none of the others had to stay back and wait, but that also did make the platform quite heavy with the likes of Bowser not helping matters and the sounds coming from it didn’t help matters either. But after descending a few more meters it looked like the platform would hold.
That was until they were ‘ambushed’ by someone that made their home in the Under? Sectonia didn’t recognize him, nor did anyone else. But with those magic bullets he cut loose the already fairly rickety transport, causing all of her minions to fall into the chasm. Considering a few of them were tough, they’d probably survive a fall like that, especially since they had all gone down quite a distance already so the bottom couldn’t be that far down… but it would be best for her to check.
Still, that left this fellow who was laughing at the situation he had caused. Now, Sectonia could fight this person here and now, but she wasn’t sure of how long that would take and that time could be used making sure her allies were ok. So with that in mind, she pointed at the armored person and said. ”You had better hope we do not cross paths again.” before hitting him with a cast of Slow and descending down with the rest of her allies to try and at least make sure most of them survive.
His reply was stretched out by the fluctuation of time. “Ohhh, I hooope weee dooo…” He snapped his fingers with a brief yellow flash, and suddenly teleported to a spot farther up, his status purged as if it never existed. The echo of his mocking voice chased Sectonia down the Chasm“...’Cause it’ll be fun for the whole family!”
After descending a fair distance with that armored man not following Sectonia, the bee queen found the rest of her allies, with basically all of them knocked out from the fall. At least they fell on some soft vegetation that surrounded what looked like ancient ruins of some sort, so that helped them. Did those flowers really cushion their fall? Well, there wasn’t much she could do besides wait for them to awaken as she watched them, her pipe of insight at least giving everyone near her a bit of extra help in healing any wounds they suffered.
When everyone began to wake up, Nadia being the first of them to do so thanks to her fast regeneration, the things that lingered in the darkness outside of Sectonia’s view began to move onto the group and they were… extremely hideous. Sectonia could only feel rage at seeing such ugly creatures and began to charge up her reality shatter to wipe them all out.
Almost as affronted by the ghastly horrors as Sectonia, Nadia jumped to her feet. She sharpened her claws and bared her teeth, her eyes quickly shifting between the various monstrosities to size them up one by one. These things were freaky enough to give the Orphan and other nightmarish denizens of Carcass Isle a run for their money. That hideous frog-mouthed gorilla in particular, with its gaping acid-green maw full of gooey, googly eyes, made her shiver; hopefully someone else could take care of that one. But with the nasties crawling, tottering, and talking every closer, she couldn’t spend any more time deliberating. She poured water pressure into her arm for a long-range punch to get the party started.
Right then, she heard a crackling thrum as Sectonia began to charge nearby. The sound and sight of potent magic instantly drew the six-eyed gaze of the wretched Dark Horse. Its eyes, both fiery and drippy as molten lava, fixed upon the insect queen with killing intent, and like some sort of twisted turret it straightened up with its sucker-like maw aimed like a fire hose.
Nadia’s eyes widened. “Look out!”
Rather than attack, she thrust her arm out sideways and launched it past Sectonia to sink her claws into a stone pillar. She jumped and retracted her muscle fiber, flying sideways to skid to a stop in front of her new acquaintance with two Copycats summoned, and just in the nick of time. Dark Horse unleashed a torrential beam of ghostly blue flame that slammed into Nadia and her doubles’ guard, blowing them backward in a blast of steam as the fire and Hydro reacted. For her attempt to save her ally’s bacon the cat burglar now flew on a collision course straight for Sectonia.
Sectonia didn’t have the time she needed to fully charge her reality shatter as while Nadia did defend her from the counterattack, the catgirl was thrown in Sectonia’s direction which forced the bee queen to unleash what amount of shatter she had charged. Not as devastating as the fully charged version or nearly as big, but space around the Dark Horse did shatter, leaving a white void where it stood, the creature clearly visible to all with its figure juxtaposed by an area of pure white. As she unleashed her blast, she had to then focus on catching the steaming flying kitty heading her way.
Figuring she could catch Nadia with one hand, Sectonia was taken aback and thrown off balance for a moment as she wasn't expecting that amount of weight to come from Nadia, slowing down her speed but ultimately dropping the cat girl as Sectonia herself spun around a bit before correcting herself. ”Fire… Hm that could’ve been a problem…” Sectonia mused to herself as she recovered, thinking of what to do next. Seeing as she was fighting this thing directly with Nadia, she helped the catgirl back onto her feet.
”I don’t think I’ve seen you fight yet. Show me what you can do.” Sectonia said, giving herself and Nadia the shield from her Pipe of Insight that would block some of that creature’s fire damage, then giving Nadia a touch of Haste while sitting back and throwing small rings of light at the creature.
Nadia snickered. “You got it, bwoss,” she said, mimicking the voice of Zelmer’s cat crony from the Metro. As Dark Horse, lightly ravaged by Sectonia’s spacial rend, sucked in air to unleash another spectral firestorm from within the void, Nadia sprinted toward it in all fours. With Sectonia’s haste she dove into a slide below the horror’s despicable head, then burst upward with a flip kick. The blow to the underside of Dark Horse’s jaw caused it to reel back, which in turn forced it to adjust its footing to not fall over backward. Its stream of flame went high, terribly bright but ultimately in the upper reaches of the cave.
Grinning wildly, the feral landed and revved up her arms to drill into her foe’s exposed stomach, only for a long, sinewy tongue to wrap around her neck. “Mrrow!?” she yelped, forcibly wrenched off her feet and dangled before the veiny, throbbing faces of the looming, seven-fingered, seven-headed giant Idea. For a moment their eyes locked, sharing a mixture of instinctive revulsion and hatred, before Sectonia’s light ring cut into Idea. It looked her way for just a moment, but that was enough. Clenching her teeth, Nadia reached up and sank her claws into the slimy tentacle to pry it loose, which sent the twisted creature into a thrashing frenzy. It whipped her around and hurled her into the floor.
As she rolled its pulse quickened, pumping blood brighter and faster through its body, until a bevy of tongues burst out from its seamlike mouths to lash sanguine projectiles toward her. Nadia braced herself for the worst, but the Pipe of Insight barrier protected her from the arcane blood. Once she realized the feral spring to her feet and stood alongside Sectonia as Dark Horse and Idea stood opposite them.
“Careful with those rings, unless you’re spoilin’ for a battle royale,” Nadia warned.
Sectonia shrugged, since really she couldn’t control the direction of some of these light rings. ”Very well…” Pulling out her swords, she joined Nadia in fighting this thing in melee combat instead. While Nadia seemed to be someone who used fisticuffs and some strange abilities, Sectonia relied on magic and her own swordplay instead. Casting her Chaos Heart shield on herself, Sectonia got in the way of this Dark Horse, grabbing its attention as she began to rapidly stab and slash at it with her, frankly, huge swords. She would occasionally do a short range teleport to its side to get a flanking strike, but more or less got its attention and thanks to that one magic item she consumed, her attacks were really fast.
And the Bee Queen, keeping the Dark Horse's attention so Nadia could get behind it and do her thing, forgoed a fair bit of her own defense in the process with the Dark Horse spitting its flame at her or getting the occasional hit in that she didn't parry. That was what her chaos heart shield was for however, and thanks to her pipe of insight, she took even less damage from the Dark Horse’s fire breath than its melee swings, but the creature wouldn’t notice that as it struck at the large bee boldly attacking it from the front. Nadia could notice Sectonia was not doing this for fun or anything, but was going for whatever openings she could that would utterly destroy this thing.
Unfortunately, Nadia couldn’t spare any attention to Dark Horse, for its gaunt counterpart demanded everything she had. With its lithe limbs, the splashes of accursed blood, and the array of tongues that swung and writhed like a gorgon’s serpent crown, it confronted her with a non-stop barrage of attacks from any range. Limber and light on her feet, Nadia kept herself in constant motion as well, dashing in and out of range and through the air in a madcap effort to open her opponent up, but Idea just controlled so much space. For every few slashes she landed on its rubbery, plastic hide, it did the same damage with a grab.
“Nya-HAH!” the feral cried, springing off a pillar to come in with El Gato. With a disjointed right claw swipe she batted away the tentacles coming in from the left, then with her left paw swatted off those to the right, allowing her to somersault into the air and crush Idea’s guard with an axe kick. “Chop-chop!” she called as her X-Scrape Claws carved across its upper torso. Idea reeled for a moment, then wordlessly brought its tongues back to close around Nadia like a flytrap. Just in time she kicked off its gut, but as she landed Idea stepped forward and delivered a football kick that dodged so narrowly she could feel the air pressure pulling at her hair. “Holy-!” Her foe advanced with a walloping slap, and Nadia began to block. She defended herself as Idea threw out blow after hefty blow, following each one with a couple rapid jabs from its tongues to keep Nadia in blockstun. Just when it seemed poisoned to bring down a massive overhead slam, however, the monster grabbed her. “Dammit!” she groaned as it brought her close to its odious heads, only to be silenced as Idea delivered a brain-rattling psychic shriek that left teetering on the edge of unconsciousness.
At that time Sectonia’s offense against Dark Horse got just a little too lax. Though pierced in a dozen places, the monster pivoted its enemy’s way and lifted its leg to plaster Sectonia with a stone-shattering kick, strong enough to create an air wave with plenty of impact all on its own. Even if not struck by it (and shortly thereafter whatever wall lay directly behind her) she would need to step back a moment to rethink her strategy–and in so doing, catch wind of the pickle her partner was in.
Sectonia was knocked back by the Dark Horse’s attempt to get it off of her. Thanks to her Chaos Shield, the damage was greatly reduced, but this thing was annoying and tough. At that time Sectonia got a look at Nadia having difficulty with the other creature. Seeing her minion was in trouble, Sectonia blinked over to free the feral from the grips of this horrid creature by appearing behind it and giving it a nasty uppercut slash with both of her rapiers, which caused the creature to drop Nadia.
Much to her annoyance, Sectonia saw that her minion wasn’t doing so well, yet there really wasn't any way for them to retreat. Knowing this, Sectonia dropped her own Chaos Shield and gave it to Nadia, before removing her haste effect and instead inflicting both creatures with the Slow condition. ”You should be more careful. This will help but it will not be nearly as durable as my own.” Sectonia said as Nadia felt the pure darkness rainbow shield surround her.
Panting, Nadia wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. By now, nothing remained of her new hoodie’s sleeves. “...Yeah. Thanks.”
Sectonia then looked at the Dark Horse and decided that she’d help her minion with her foe before dealing with that thing. Sectonia summoned the remaining antillions she could, 1 red, 1 green, and 4 blue, to fight the Dark Horse or at least distract it while she helped Nadia with her foe in the Idea. At least Sectonia could make sure her magic didn’t zap Nadia as she despawned a sword and pulled out one of her staffs to barrage the creature with her dark lightning as Nadia recovered. Meanwhile the antillions, having been commanded by their queen to take out the foe in front of them, began to do what they could. The red one soon found its fire did very little, deciding to hit it with its mace while the others did what they could with their electric and ice elemental attacks.
As the Antlions moved in to keep Idea busy, Nadia quickly reconsidered her opponent. “Damn thing’s attacking constantly, but the second I guarded, it grabbed me…” She blinked, realization dawning on her as she watched the horror fight the Antlions, disadvantaged on offense but easily thrashing any that went on defense. “Wait, this thing’s a grappler?” The feral remembered her bouts with that bouncy Medici legbreaker, Cerebella. Anyone who dished out tons of punishment with big throws relied on a high-risk, high-reward playbook, and Nadia knew just what big shots like that hated. She pulled off a Nyawn to kickstart her healing, then narrowed her eyes. “Alright, I’m tired of thinkin’,” she declared, crouching down as Idea scattered the Antlions. “Time for round two: non-stop purr-essure!”
She charged forward, and Idea whirled around to face her. Its tongues lashed out, but Nadia skidded to a stop just outside its range and threw her head like a bowling ball once the icky appendages whooshed by. Her head bopped Idea’s ankle and she sunk her teeth in, which instantly turned her expression from fierce to nauseous. “Bleh!” With the monster distracted, however, Nadia leaped into the air. “Knock knock, time to block!” She fell with a jumping Shock and Paw into a three-hit combo before she touched down. In an instant she sprang up again, but as Idea brought up its tongues to block high she soared straight over its heads to cross it up with Claws for Alarm. A meaty tail slap to the noggins spun her around so that she could pull off a ten-claw Curtain Shredder all the way down Idea’s back to the ground. Her body then backflipped away to avoid a retaliatory slash, which Idea immediately followed up with a seven-tongue headbang to crush Nadia at the end of her dodge.
Luckily, her head -being on the ground beneath Idea still- saw it coming. “No ya don’t!” At her command her body went the extra mile, dodging again to avoid the tentacle smash. Seeing herself also reminded Nadia of that little drum on the back of her waist, courtesy of Massachusetts. “Oh right! Anchors, aweigh!” Her body grabbed the anchors and pulled them from the sides of the drum on lengths of chain, then began to spin them like lassos. Idea attacked with both tongues and blood magic, but Nadia powered through thanks to Sectonia’s shield to land lash after lash. Enraged, the pulsating monster charged, but Nadia’s body leaped to perform a triple somersault slam with the chain anchors. Once doubled over by the blow, Nadia sneezed to add insult to injury with a head-on collision. “Right back achoo!”
As it bounced off, her body reattached her head, only for Idea to grab her again the next instant. “Uh oh.” It pulled her into the air above it with all seven tongues wrapped around her limbs to make sure she couldn’t escape this time, not before it obliterated her psyche with another psychic screech. Nadia, however, looked nonplussed. “Oh no, it got me, whatever will I YAH!” She let go of her own limbs, effectively allowing Idea to pull her apart so fast she launched into the air, where she used her spare blood to replace her lost arms with Copycat limbs. As her chain anchors flailed around her new arms grabbed them, and with a grin she triggered blood rockets from the stumps of her legs. “Here’s some food for thought…EAT IT!” She came down with her three hundred and sixty four pounds of effective weight behind a double plunge attack. The anchors pierced through two of Idea’s heads like rotten grapes, sinking so deep into the torso that when Nadia jumped off and yanked on their chains, the heads exploded off the monster’s body like shredded chicken. “Poultry in motion!” she sang, all too happy to use the line she thought of while looking at I’m Stuffed.
She landed as her foe collapsed, and lifted her head to see Sectonia still fighting Dark Horse. The other monster seemed almost as durable as the wasp queen herself, and while Nadia doubted that Idea was down for the count, she wanted to pay Sectonia back for her help earlier. After reattaching her limbs, the feral bolted Dark Horse’s way. “Here to help!” With its ring of eyes Dark Horse saw her coming from behind, but as it went to kick her she split at the midsection. Her bottom half slid low to slice at the monster’s other ankle, while her top half flew into the air. “I’m rubber…” The feral spent her Dramatic Tension to form and throw down a ten-foot-wide ball of water. “You’re glue!” Dark Horse shrieked as the torrential orb exploded on top of it, bowing it over and applying Hydro to it as Nadia fell back.
While Nadia was dealing with the Idea, Sectonia was dealing with Dark Horse. Without her chaos shield, as she had given that to Nadia, Sectonia was being more evasive than before. This didn’t matter too much though as her large size still made her easier to hit, but Sectonia was getting hit mostly with the fire attacks of Dark horse, using her time to deflect its melee attacks. This is mostly because Sectonia couldn’t really dodge the fire attacks very well, and her pipe of insight made them do reduced damage anyway.
Still like Nadia, Sectonia was doing her own ways of attacking Dark Horse, with a combination of blinks and spawning rings of Light around herself to cut into the creature like buzzsaws. (But not throwing them.) alongside her swordplay. Either way, Sectonia was angry at this creature for how hideous it looked, and if she could avoid an attack she would, often with a counter swipe from her blade. And whenever the creature landed a hit, often using its own cunning to block one of the Bee Queen’s swords before spitting fire at her, Sectonia would blink around the creature to confuse it before landing an overhead swing with both swords at its blind spot. Even so, this thing seemed as durable as she was.
Nadia, thanks to Sectonia’s buffs and antlion distraction, managed to finish her fight from the looks of things. Or at least cause the monster to stumble. And as to repay her Queen back for her help, Nadia blasted Sectonia’s opponent with a large orb of water, causing it to be completely drenched and putting out nearby fires caused by its fire breath. The creature was incredibly soaking wet, far more than what would be caused by just water, so Sectonia figured this was one more of her weird water abilities. Still, this gave the bee queen an idea, and as the creature reared for another attack, Sectonia pulled out her staff, teleported above it, and bombarded it with her dark lightning. Thanks to Nadia’s Hydro, this caused the creature to howl in pain as it was electrocuted to the bone, its skeleton showing as it was zapped by the dark lightning. When Sectonia’s barrage of lightning was done, the creature twitched a bit as electricity surged through its body before snapping out of the paralysis and coming at the Queen with newly invigorated fury, landing a few blows that greatly annoyed the queen. ”How dare…” Sectonia said, pulling out her rapiers again and hitting the creature with an equally as furious barrage of sword stabs with a finishing slash that sent the creature hurtling towards its collapsed brother. ”Careful Nadia.” Sectonia said as she launched the creature over to where the feral was.
“Better bee-lieve it,” the feral quipped, dropping into a feline crouch to avoid the tumbling monster. Sectonia’s speed and dexterity really impressed her, and to send a creature of that size with a slash and not bifurcate it spoke of remarkable strength and precision, too. This battle wasn’t over just yet, though. Covered in electric burns and holes that eked out red-hot ichor, Dark Horse got to its feet in an ungainly fashion, its bizarre anatomy swaying back and forth. Idea pushed itself up too, two of its seven heads reduced to pulp. For the second time the monsters stood beside one another, and together Ms Fortune and Sectonia opposed them. It looked like their fight had brought them to a section littered with ruins, away from the others. Elsewhere in the cave the battle raged on, but Nadia felt pretty good. “That went a lot better,” she told Sectonia. “You up for round three?”
”Yes, these things must be purged, they are too hideous to live.” Sectonia replied.
“And, y’know, ‘cause they tried to kill us,” Nadia reasoned. “Let’s do it!” With that she detached her limbs and extruded a huge mass of muscle fiber, packing it tight into the shape of a giant yarn ball with her constituent components poking out. “Throw me!” she commanded.
Sectonia looked at Nadia with a look of ”What did you just say to me?” but thought about it for a second. ”We should make sure they are truly gone.” and with that said Sectonia pulled out her staff and zapped Nadia with her dark lightning, making sure to charge her instead of damage her so that her giant mass of…. Well Sectonia would put that at the back of her mind for now otherwise she wouldn’t go through with her idea… with a surge of dark lightning and as the dark electricity arced around the feral, Sectonia did what her minion suggested and began to move the large… ball… towards the other two creatures.
At first Sectonia wasn’t really sure how to do anything with what Nadia had turned her into, but soon she figured she was very, very bouncy and that made things much easier with moving her around. Like some horrifying basketball, Nadia was being dribbled along the ground as Sectonia passed from herself to herself, rapidly blinking towards the pair of creatures as they tried to strike the queen with their ranged attacks, failing as they would only hit her after images and once Sectonia got close, she slammed the electrified… ball… into the creatures She then finished with a blink behind the creatures and began charging another dimensional break to finish these things off.
The moment the slam dunk hit the ground, both monsters disappeared in a bloody, electro-charged explosion, lashed again and again as Nadia unwound and retracted her limbs. “Woohoo!” she yelled, a little discombobulated from all the bouncing around but having the time of her life. With the grace of an acrobat she landed between Dark Horse and Idea, where she took a bow. “Now that’s what I call a Lightning ‘Strike’!” she quipped dazedly, her mind still on bowling terms
As her head stopped spinning, Nadia noticed Sectonia charging again. Though jolted and reeling from the Lightning Strike, the monsters could still galvanize themselves into action and stop her, unless Nadia stopped them first. A quick look around informed her that among the nearby ruins was an old archway, still intact. Thinking quickly -or as quickly as she could, given the circumstances- she pulled out her anchors and snared both horrors’ feet, then with the chains held tight took a running jump over the archway. Her effective weight, strength, and blood-powered downthrust combined allowed her to pull the creatures off their feet for a chain and hoist them up to dangle below the arch like meat in a butcher’s shop. They flailed wildly, but couldn’t break free, and after just another moment Sectonia finished her charge.
Being able to get a fully charged Dimensional Break on these weakened creatures did wonders. Nadia was caught in the attack as well, but unlike the creatures she wasn’t damaged. She still got hit by the disorienting sensation of hearing and seeing space around her shatter like glass and be left in a white void that echoed a distant flat-line sound as she stood in it, but the creatures she was holding onto, having shattered alongside the very reality she was standing in, appeared as nothing more than spirits hooked on her anchors. Eventually the space would recover like it always did, but those creatures, they did not.
With both creatures dispatched, Sectonia had time to process what she had just done and looked down at her hands. Well, they weren’t stained with blood or anything, but… ”As a minion, I can’t deny your idea was effective, but… I don’t even know how to go about making something like that beautiful. But I suppose you did your best to work with what you had. ” Sectonia said. It was clear Sectonia didn’t approve of how Nadia used her own body like she did, but more out of the gorey aspect of the whole thing than the results. ”But you keep yourself clean and organized somehow, so I can tell you're trying your best to make yourself presentable.” Even saying this, Sectonia still gave a slight visible flinch before regaining her composure. How that didn’t hurt the feral was another question entirely.
“Presentable?” Nadia scoffed with a smile, putting her hands on her hips after she retrieved her anchors. “Maybe I don’t look like much to some high-falutin’ bug, but to humans I’m the cat’s pajamas!” Having worked up a sweat in her hoodie, she unzipped it down to her belly button as if to help illustrate her point. She then put her hands in her pockets. “Still, for a high-falutin’ bug you’re a pretty good fighter. Somehow didn’t hurt me with that giant explosion, either. So…thanks.”
Sectonia looked at Nadia, not really used to people like her but trying to get a read on her either way before saying. ”Before all of this, my plan was to take over Popstar, then the galaxy with the star warrior taken care of. You can’t have such grand plans of beauty if you are weak. And of course a Queen would make sure her minions don’t get destroyed in her own attacks.” Sectonia then paused for a moment, almost doing a tsundere move herself with her continuing, looking at Nadia at the side of her eye. ”Good minions are hard to find.”
Such an out-of-touch response, at least from her perspective, left Nadia a little puzzled and deflated. Did Sectonia mean to say Nadia was or wasn’t a good minion? Did she even want to be a minion? Still, even if the two minced words, the results spoke for themselves. The feral shrugged, a resigned smile on her face. “Whatever ya say, Sec.” After taking Idea’s spirit she tossed the other monster to Sectonia, then jogged back toward the flower patch where everyone had all fallen.
Location: Outside Dystopianscape Word Count: Less than 750
While a few gave Blazermate's ideas to look at the schools some credence, most didn't and with a vast majority of the party wanting to explore the bigger, wider city in front of them Blazermate had to relent and go with the party. Apparently only a few people even got what she was talking about as if their worlds had nothing even remotely close to what she was talking about. Considering how most of them looked at her when Blazermate first appeared before them, it made sense, but still... Susie meanwhile was with the group that wanted to move forward. After all, maybe this large metro had some worthwhile tech, but she doubted it.
As they made their way into the town proper, things were wrong almost right away. G Men, all sounding weird and being... really suspicious were everywhere. All while having this feeling of being 'watched'. Susie didn't give them too much mind, finding them weird, but otherwise not that big of an issue, while Blazermate questioned. "Wait, is this America?" Raz then explained how they were from his world, and that if you played along with their game, they didn't really bother you. Weird.
That was until they eventually found themselves walking down an alleyway next to a pet shop. Roxas, having been very nice in holding her hand, pulled Blazermate into the nearby pet shop at Raz's insistence as they were all cornered by these G Men, Blazermate herself fine with a fight but Roxas dragging her putting a damper on that plan. Susie, seeing the others go into the store, shrugged and went with them.
Sectonia looked over her allies and the various stuff they were doing. Some entered the shop which did interest Sectonia, but she decided that it wasn't worth it much when she glanced in and only saw basic stuff and nothing magical. It seemed that as she looked around dirtmouth, she saw some bugs like herself, although much less beautiful with the rest being scavengers. Much like a few others, she found herself looking at what was around town. A few of her allies were dealing with some bandit camp thing, something she'd aid them with if they needed it but considering who was there and how weak these bandits looked, she probably wouldn't need to help much. Bored, she decided to look around to see if anything got her eye.
As Sectonia surveyed the territory, something caught her multi-faceted eye, attuned as it was for anything exquisite and shiny. On one of the looming crags at the uppermost portion of the Chasm's spiral valley, she spotted the telltale gleam of gold. Unlike many of the other mineral deposits around the area, this one seemed unclaimed, as well. While the others rooted around in the rocks and dust for supplies, it was only fitting that the queen help herself to the bounty of the heights.
Up she soared, making a beeline for the concentrated vein that glittered at the end of its arched promontory, distant and dazzling as an unattainable dream, at least for anyone but her. Once she arrived at the upper tier of mountains, more ordinary than the rugged terrain that constituted the Chasm's immediate surroundings, she soon learned why few came up this high to get at the resources. A steady rumble and the low roar of shifting stone beneath the earth warned Sectonia that she wasn't alone up here, and after a few moments a monstrous Thresher Maw erupted from the earth not far from the gold. The giant alien centipede waves around scythelike legs, a vivid blue tongue, and a horrid mouth large enough to swallow a goat whole. Having sensed the vibrations of an intruder too close to its favorite source of food for comfort, the Thresher shrieked, warning its fellow insect to stay away.
Well, considering the sheer amount of gold in those rocks would mean Sectonia wouldn't be a 'mercenary queen' anymore, she got to work on getting rid of this pest so her antillions could get to work. According to its body language it wanted to devour this gold, so she would have to stop it from doing so while she destroyed it. And to that end she hit it with her Slow spell, slowing down all of its movements by quite a bit before she unleashed ring after ring of cutting light at the creature, one of her items greatly increasing the amount of rings she threw even if they were a bit haphazard in their trajectories at times.
Thanks to the slow motion of the worm and its lack of ways of even reaching Sectonia as she unleashed barrages of large light rings at it, even some of the more off course rings could clip it due to its hampered ability to dodge. She made an attempt to get around the creature as well, in an attempt to herd it away from the gold rock with her barrage of spell attacks.
Those down below would see the glowing light rings Sectonia launched from atop the cliff face going off into the distance, or at least those that missed, going a fair distance before finally dissolving into particles. The creature, offended that this large colorful bee was both peppering it with bright hurty round things and was trying to steal its meal made an attempt to defend itself by gobbling up nearby rocks and spitting them at the bee queen. This... didn't work like it would expect though as Sectonia's light rings collided with a fair amount of the rocks, destroying them and the rocks that did hit the bee queen... didn't look like they did much at all.
The few rocks that hit Sectonia did in fact do damage, but she was far to regal to show that she had taken any damage, especially to such a stupid beast. A few more barrages of light rings later, the creature fell and Sectonia could claim her prize. At least her Pipe of Insight would let her heal up on what damage she took. Not as good as Blazermate, but she hadn't really been with the medabot for that long. And with this extra wealth, she could have more bargaining power overall. Especially since she didn't have access to Floralia... All that was left was to summon her antillions to mine the rock for her, collect her prize, and make it back to the group.
Location: Outside Dystopianscape Word Count: Less than 750
Blazermate wasn't the first one on the train, but she wasn't the last. Apparently Roxas had gotten smacked real bad out there... How did an anime boy that was former org 13 beaten so bad? Good on Geralt for bringing him to safety, but... What hit him? Hopefully this wasn't going to be a sign of things to come...
Still, Blazermate made her way over to Roxas as Geralt friend hearted him. Susie observed this and noticed it was something very, very similar to what Pinkie did that one time. Go figure that monster of a creature had techniques that beat up something a light god did... Blazermate knew she didn't need to heal Roxas, but was over there either way shaking the poor boy awake with words of "You ok?" and "What the heck did you do?"
Susie meanwhile was looking over the area. Hm... looked like your average megacity. Schools on the outside, probably extremely shady and primitive busiensses inside the city. But where there were wealthy people, there was a deal and money to be had and potentially technology to be had as well.
Blazermate after getting over her little exchange with Roxas, held him loosely in one of her hands as she looked at the schools nearby. "Oh hey, we're in an anime! Look! Universities! Wonder if we're going to have fun or terror if we go in one. Maybe we'll get superpowers? Or it could just be normal school... Hard to tell at a glance!" Blazermate then pointed at the Blackwell acadamy. "Yeah, these aren't really Japanese looking, but it can't hurt to go look in one to see if there are supoerpowers or something inside them!"
Location: Entrance to The Under Word Count: Less than 750
Sectonia gazed over the grim, gloomy looking Dirtmouth town. She didn't know what she was going to expect, but she figured it was going to be an area that needed some beauty to it. But in a way, the gothic gloomy look had its own beauty.... she'd just need to touch up a bunch of places. The crack that lead down to the Under might have some interesting magic. It was either that or something disgusting that she'd need to eradicate from this world. Speaking of something that wasn't nice to look at...
Sectonia had joined the group with Bowser. He looked much, much cleaner than the last time Sectonia saw him, so at least he was being weary of that aspect of himself, but that didn't help the whole... 'dry scale' look he had. But that was contradicted by Kamek being on this team with his Snackivator, which would let Sectonia prioritize powerful spirits over beautiful ones as long as she could make that spirit look beautiful in some way. No more omni spirit fusions, and to her knowledge she had unlocked all the power this Count Bleck had. Well, besides the true power of the Chaos heart, but she felt that would cause more harm than good as it felt that once it was released, it wouldn't stop until everything was erased.
Another thing Sectonia noticed looking over her team, they had all the magic casters here. Perhaps they were all drawn to the potential magic here, or something else? Could that be something that could be an issue? Well either way Sectonia could see what some of these newcomers did. Rubick for example seemed to be able to copy any ability Sectonia used, or rather, the last one she used, so that could be interesting. If he could at least keep his magic from hurting others.
After the trio of girls, there were a few others that went. Some that Blazermate knew, some Sectonia knew, and most Susie had no clue about. When it came to Pit, Sectonia and Blazermate knew a little about him, but not much. They knew Geralt more, but Sectonia did notice his new upgrades. Sectonia didn't know Sakura's friend, a person Susie was surprised about being a business person like her. Then that was concluded by a kid who could control some kind of emotion power (Something that was a weakness to Sectonia's Chaos shield, but she didn't know that.), then another person who just seemed to be good with a gun and move stuff with her mind, and fianlly a boy Blazermate thought was a girl thanks to how androgynous some anime looking people can look who was into the same pokemon things Jr. was, but he used them exclusively.
With everyone introduced, there was a bit of mingling and discussions going about as everyone ate their food. Blazermate being unable to eat food, just sat there and enjoyed the company of others while Sectonia ate and Susie did more business stuff on her PDA. While almost the size of Bowser, Sectonia didn't have his appetite, although that being said her size did make her eat quite a bit. When chilling at dinner, Blazermate remembered something she had, and pulled out the single pokeball she had picked up a long, long time ago. "Hey Bede, do you need this? I still have it but I haven't found any of these 'pokemon' I like. As I've learned about them, I don't think there are any medabots among them. You need these to hold onto pokemon yeah?"
Sectonia overheard Blazermate talking about this, although unlike her and Jr, Sectonia didn't know what a pokeball was until now. That reminded her of a cute cake monster thing she kept under her crown. Something she rarely took out as the fights they had all been involved in have been quite rough and really Sectonia had no idea how to command the little thing. Pulling the Alcremie out from under her crown, Sectonia asked "Is this little thing one of these 'pokemon'?" Blazermate wasn't too sure, but just shrugged and said. "Well, only one way to find out. See how it reacts to the pokeball!" Sectonia agreed, and took the pokeball offered to her from Blazermate and gave it to the cream monster, which began to play with it until it hit the button on the ball and went inside it without issue. "Well, I guess it was! Good to know." Blazermate said with a smug look on her face. Sectonia held the ball and thought a bit... She really didn't want to have this thing get destroyed by battle, as she wasn't someone who understood whatever this 'pokemon' stuff was. She then came up with an idea. While she wasn't fully familiar with the stuff in this new world, there were brands of magic that had been unseen. Perhaps this 'pokemon' trainer was one of them? Probably not, but perhaps Bede had some skills or something that energized well with these 'pokemon' similar to what Jr. had. AFter all Jr. had been able to keep some, and lose others as he wasn't a part of that world, but perhaps...
"Bede was it? I'm curious as to what you could do with this little one, if it comes from your world I'm sure you know much more about it than I do." Sectonia said, giving Bede the pokeball containing the Alcremie. "Show your Queen what you can do with such a creature. I'll be watching." After all, if one of her minions could use something that she had little experience in much better than she could, it'd benefit her in the long run. Yeah thats it.
Susie tried to talk with Karin to get an idea of what business she ran, but to be frank, it was more a formality as Karin wasn't the most civil person. Other than that, not much else happened at the picnic. Soon after, everyone made their way to the metro, this being Blazermate and Susie's first time there. "Cool! Its like a drab cat laced Tokyo!" Blazermate said. Susie wasn't as awestruck, but seeing something a bit more industrial instead of rustic was somewhat nice.
When it was suggested that everyone go around to gather their pons for their train rides, Blazermate flew up and started to collect some. This was put to an end shortly though as a voice came on the loudspeaker, which ended with every seeker getting a bounty on their head. Big or small, it didn't matter as each one had a bounty, and the opportunistic cats of the metro, at least the non civilian looking ones, all gathered up in giant hordes to attempt to get a hold of that sweet bounty money.
"Hmph. A Queen having a bounty put on her by a Baroness? Sounds like shes trying to move up in the world." Sectonia said, annoyed and amused at the state of affairs. Seeing the sheer amount of cats though, slaughtering what seemed like an endless ocean of enemies might take far, far too long, so the idea of just getting on their trains if possible was for the best. Conjuring her Chaos heart shield, Sectonia made her way for her stop, while the two bot girls made their way to their stop.
Sectonia, thanks to her Chaos Shield, had little trouble with the multitude of cats. She could fly over the hordes below her, and while the occasional sniper took a shot at the big bug which they couldn't really miss, the shot would just bounce off her glowing shield with Sectonia not even really noticing the shot. After a few snipers tried this and found the bee queen was far, far too tough of a target to take down, many swapped targets onto other, less squishy targets. Still, it wasn't too hard for her to get t o her train as she'd only need to occasionally blink to get past the giant cats pulling trains when she was forced onto the tracks. Why this place was so weird to navigate was beyond her.
Blazermate and Susie meanwhile had a much more difficult time of it. Since the two bots were together, Blazermate could keep Susie healed and overhealed, as well as any other member of team City that was nearby. Susie meanwhile made the cat crowds scatter when she got into her business suit, the mech's armored bottom being nearly impossible for the cat hordes to even put a dent in. That and Blazermate's flight made the crowds of cats not an issue. The real issue came from their support, the snipers up top. Susie taking the first hit due to her relative slowness in her business suit. Thanks to Blazermate's overheal, she wasn't too badly damaged and could be healed back up, but this made her more weary and forced her to 'hop' through the crowds of cats instead of just pushing them all away with spinning arms as she had to have her arms guard her cockpit.
Blazermate meanwhile didn't have the luxury her partner had, and had to rely on her agility and ability to mark out any sniper that appeared. At first she could handle a few of them, as she could dodge or deflect shots as she knew where each sniper was. This eventually got much more difficult however as the snipers that gave up on shooting at Sectonia joined the crowd, causing Blazermate to really, really slow down as she had to jump from cover to cover. Susie had a much better time of it for sure, but Blazermate could only really advance to a new spot when her shield was ready, slowing her down considerably. At least the snipers didn't follow the girls on the tracks, but on the tracks Susie had to use her transporter to move around, as the business suit was too slow to dodge the trains being pulled by giant cats.
All in all, when the two bots got to their destination, Blazermate was hurting while Susie was more annoyed that hurt thanks to Blazermate's healing. Blazermate could heal herself of course, but it'd take time. At least they were on the train heading for their destination with the rest of their team...
@Omega Man Yeah, not sure how I'd make her more DC. She'd be where some of your darker storylines come from, but yeah I get if she doens't fit here. (The game the character idea comes from is a grim dark horror kinda game.)
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