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Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

One last escape for Sign Master before things come down the the first monster climax. Cheers!

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

Alien Command Deck

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The alien commander tapped a finger on her armrest in annoyance as she watched the battle unfold on the screen. Was the monster strong? Yes, it's abilities to ignore physics and bend reality to its will through the use of signs was quite the ability; however, the monster had some severe limits. The signs were useful to be sure but they were also quite limited: First, they could only be used with a sign that actually existed. Second, the signs were limited to ones that one might actually see on the road that were used to inform traffic, third, the range was limited and the time was limited. The monster made good use of its options but there was really only so much it could do.

Every monster was equipped with a microchip at conception that gave a direct line back to the ship, meaning they could view what the monster was viewing, plus their telescoptics could easily view anything on Earth from above with perfect clarity. The monster had done some clever maneuvering and achieved some success on the battlefield, but it was nowhere close to taking out even one of its assailants as of yet. It had knocked the woman around a bit and iced the mech's leg but it was painfully obvious the monster was getting cornered. It was boxed in and despite its speed would soon lose the area needed to dodge.

With a click of holographic touch screen, an electric impulse was sent to the monster, to prioritize finding the barrier's source over combat. She had seen enough of the monster to know that this first one was indeed a failure. There was a reason this planet had yet to be conquered, clearly sign master was not up to the task but it could still prove to be of some worth if they could narrow down the barrier's location in the meantime.

Earth - Coral City - Currently Cubed

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For a moment it seemed like Sign Master had been making some progress in the fight, but the butterfly guy had started taking direction action and had prevented him from getting a clean hit on the manhole man. The water lady was also proving to be rather slippery and suddenly everyone had decided to counterattack all at once! It wasn't fair!

An electric jolt later and Sign Master suddenly knew what he had to do, continue the mission and abandon the fight if he could, but how? He was currently cubed, a water strike was coming in, the butterflies suddenly turned into a swarm of killer locusts, and Mech had a bunch of nasty missiles getting into position to turn him into a slab of metal! Sign Master was in quite the pinch! Then he realized something, manhole man had come up through the ground which meant the 'perfect cube' was not so perfect.

"Alright you obstructions have put me behind schedule long enough! Time to jump this joint! Well, tunnel actually!"

Creating a tunnel sign, he angled it down and instantly a tunnel appeared for him to slip down into. He quickly jetting down into it as narrowly missing the water strike and the barrage of light threatening to cut him down to size, unfortunately the butterflies kept coming.

"The heck are you, a swarm of bees!?"

Sign Master complained as he made sure to tilt the sign back up, changing the trajectory of the tunnel ahead to make into into a sort of U-shaped tunnel to slip out from under the cube's wall. As soon as he exited the tunnel he quickly got rid of the tunnel sign , causing it to vanish, trapping most of the butterflies underground, but a few managed to get through in time and strike him in the back.

"Ow, ouch! Sheesh those things sting, good thing I avoided most of the swarm! Well I have to get back on schedule or I'll be stripped down for parts! See ya losers!"

His chest sign having given out he fashioned a new one and put the plate on his chest for extra speed and bolted for the city. He needed to get some better readings and fast before he was intercepted again!

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

As a fight progresses, at times I'll add additional information to a monster's bio so feel free to hop over and check up on that information. Usually it will be about the abilities that have been shown, or sometimes just an interesting fact.

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

I'm leaving some of the attacking open for interpretation here so I don't have to write out every single attack, but basically Sign Master is employing bike gang tactics here, drive by and hit hard with a blunt object type of attack.

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

Earth - Coral City - Currently Cubed

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The boulder attacks were proving not to be all that effective. The main problem was the water gal cut down all the big one's little bits, turning what could have been a crushing defeat into a small nuisance for everyone involved. The problem with the falling rocks sign was Sign Master couldn't actually make all the rocks big ones, it was completely random and therefore just didn't have enough...'gravity' power to do much with all the big rocks being chipped down by water.

"Well fine, slosh away all my hard work why don't ya!? But at least with my 'no trespassing' sign you can't do much-"

That was as far as Sign Master got as the giant mech did something very unexpected, it roared like the loudest, most obnoxious bear you could imagine which itself become a sonic cannon. Sound was not something that a no trespassing sign could stop, while a person was not supposed to cross past it, you could still yell at someone across the way, like the machine was doing right now. The Sonic blast smashed into Sign Master, his helmet head not really helping matter, causing it to fall backwards, holding its head.

"Gah! I didn't realize I'd need hearing protection at this worksite!"

Sign Master grumbled as he forced himself up, but the disorientation from the sonics caused him to miss the approaching shockwaves from Gou. The three shockwaves slammed into him, forcing the monster back and making it grunt in pain. Sign Master glared at the group in anger.

"No one gets away with messing up my work schedule! Ya got that! HUH!? Guess I should have known this would be a bit more of a hands on job."

As the 'no trespassing' sign started to disappear he materialized his next sign, this time an 'Ice Warning' sign with a blinking light included. Slamming it into the ground instantly the ground was covered in a layer of ice. Next he materialized an 85 mph sign, ripped off the sign part while leaving the pole in hand. He slapped the 85 on his chest and instantly bolted forward, skating across the ice with ease while wielding the metal pole like a club as he passed Gou to knock him out of commission, as soon as he passed he materialized a U-turn sign with his free hand, instantly turning around for another strike, intent on fully paying him back for the earlier shockwaves.

Once past him again, another sign would appear such as a left or right turn, allowing Sign Master to effortless skate across the icy ground at breakneck speeds. As he sped around he mostly aimed for Gou and Luna, trying to knock them out first before turning on the butterfly man and the robot; while the butterfly guy was a little hard to target, the robot was a big target and so Sign Master threw a sign plate like a shuriken onto one of its legs.

The sign that attached itself to the Grizzly-1 was yet another ice-warning sign, this time instead of freezing the ground tried to freeze the Grizzly-1 from the left-leg up. In the meantime Sign Master continued its assault on the 'ground troops' with its vehicular speed and deadly metal pole.

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

I love how this monster underestimates everyone and the power of the cube itself. This should be fun.

@WindsOfFate

Well it as only about an hour or so old. It is you guys who are gaining up on a newborn monster! It'll learn quickly though.

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

At first I was like, dang that is a lot of people all of a sudden! Then I realized, Ah, now I don't have to hold back at all. :)

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

Earth - Coral City

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The first road block to appear was that of a giant robot blocking the way, forcing Sign Master to grind to a halt to prevent a head-on collision. The giant robot greeted it with tried and true killer-robot fashion, essentially announcing the monster's imminent destruction. The robot was actually fairly impressive, given the average technological level of the primitive Earthlings.

"Rather impressive piece of construction there. I wouldn't mind meeting the engineer sometime and give them some tips!"

Sign Master taunted as the massive machine raised an arm to fire a laser. Sensing the oncoming attack, sign master quickly spun his sign around and it quickly transformed into a round-about sign, with the lack arrows starting at one end, going around in a circle and flowing out the other end. Due to the sign, normal physics was completely ignored as the laser got within a few yards, then was forced to bend around, like a car getting into a round-about, and exit out the other side, smashing into a newly constructed perfect cube.

Three other humans appeared and soon it was a 4-1 in somewhat cramped conditions. Sign Master whistled at how the perfect cube seemed unfazed by the powerful laser.

"We got ourselves an actual builder on hand I see. Also two weirdos."

The builder was of course the newly arrived butterfly mage and the two weirdo's being the oar girl and manhole man. They were unknown factors at the moment, but what was quite apparent was butterfly guy's attempt to limit the battlefield. This was a decent strategy, however not against Sign Master.

"I want to thank you for this wonderful construction work of yours human, I'll be sure to use it to the utmost!"

With a laugh, he spun his sign around again, changing it to a 'no trespassing' sign he planted it in the ground in front of him, easily piercing through the asphalt of the road. The 'no trespassing' sign had the very strong effect of preventing anything from going past it however the area was limited but because of the cube that limit wouldn't really be a factor. With a step back a new sign materialized in hand, a 'falling rock' warning sign. The 'no trespassing' sign wouldn't last long, but as long as the cube remained there would be nowhere to dodge.

"Maybe I'll be able to scrounge a few parts for when the real construction project starts!"

Sign Master chuckled as rocks suddenly started to materialize above the everyone's heads, from small pebbles to giant boulders, the rocks started to come down like an avalanche, threatening to crush them all.

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

Intercepting the monster is the name of the game. Already intercepted by a giant walking toaster after all.

Target Earth! [A Monster Marathon]

@Searat So at minimum, character name and about how many monsters you think they'll be around in character tab, just so I can keep track of what characters are currently involved.

Federal Department of Normality...nice. :)