Nimda

Myriad Reality

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*Stuffs the palm of my hand over the barrel of your gun, stopping the bullet in its tracks as smoke flows from the barrel under my hand, while the knife itself is caught short of landing by a ring of energy solid enough to catch it where the blade meets the handle, stopping it in its tracks*
What purpose? A nice quote for your epitaph?
*My palm glows and then releases a burst of light outward, launching a shard through your gun itself and blasting through it and your abdomen like a shard of shrapnel*

@Nemeses

*Arcs the corners of my lips knowingly when you stop both weapons, preemptively releasing them and repositioning my arms*
Building ourselves the tools to take you down.
*Mid-destruction, both weapons detonate in glorious explosions, and I burst from the emerging plume, dragging you by the side of your face and slamming it into the edges of the arena, grinding you down against the universe-facing boundary of the still-traveling Greater Gate spell like interdimensional sandpaper*

Myriad Reality

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*Stands still amidst the chaos, unharmed and seemingly unperturbed*
It's a job to you, and a point to me. I'll do the grandstanding, and you two can do the failing.
*Flashes a smirk and a glance directly at your current position as I finish my statement, and an invisible pulse creates a shockwave through your position and blasts you out of your current trajectory*

@Nemeses

*The blast send me spinning backward directly into a newly-spawned platform, where I land cleanly with my knees bent*
At least our grandstanding had purpose.
*With a thunderous boom and enough renewed velocity to shatter the platform behind me, launches forward to close the distance between us, jutting my knife directly into your neck and firing my pistol into your abdomen*

Myriad Reality

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So eager to repeat how someone else is to blame for all the problems you’ve caused.
*Brings one leg back before jetting forward directly into the asteroid, emerging in a beam of light and an explosion on the other side with a scowl*
If you’re worried about how well you’ll sleep tonight in the face if your guilt, I can assure you that you won’t have to worry about that ever again.

@Nemeses

*Holds both of my hands out toward the chunks of rock barreling toward me and as they draw near, one crack forms, and then another, before finally the remains of the asteroid crash into celestial rubble, filling up the area*
Enough of the grandstanding, both of you. We have a job to do, and we're going to finish that job.
*Magic circles form in sequence above me, and I rocket into the air, ping-ponging between unpredictable points in space as I spiral toward where you stand*

Myriad Reality

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*Disappears into the smoke and flames, but emerges in a slightly different spot looking none the worse for wear*
It’s annoying that I never figured out how to get my hands on you, but I suppose it doesn’t matter much if this is all.
*Pulls out a communicator-esque device and simply glances at its screen*
Something tells me it’ll hurt when you learn none of you are getting paid.

@Nemeses

*My eyes widen*
W—

Myriad Reality

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*Explodes from the ground beneath you, bursting it all into rubble and grabbing your ankles in my rapid upward ascent*

@Nemeses

*Your emergence triggers a trap, causing the ground to rip upward and crush you like a giant maw, and I sink into its surface*

Myriad Reality

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Planning, but it requires some action before hand from him.

@Zeal

That's better than nothing, I guess...
*Pulls another few metallic orbs from a void that spawns near my hands*

Myriad Reality

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If only I had more time to get a read, but we don’t have much of a choice.

@Zeal

Is that you planning something, or giving up?

Myriad Reality

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Hm, that sounds problematic.

@Zeal

You have any ideas, pops?

Myriad Reality

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Like his abilities?

@Zeal

Individually, sure. All together? Probably not.

Myriad Reality

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I’m sure I know the answer, but have you ever encountered someone like him?

@Zeal

What’s “someone like him?”