Nimda

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Session>

*Floats in place amidst a void and looks up*

@Nemeses

*Lands in the midst of a barren tundra on a distant planet*

Myriad Reality

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*The light grinds with sparks against the aura that envelops the both of us, while I stay anchored to my position relative to you, moving with you*
In the face of travesty, you chose to continue interfering with an official agency's affairs. Innocent of one crime, maybe. Certainly not of others.
*The radiant glow warps and wobbles until it splits off from itself, now acting as two separate emanating forces from each of our bodies. Mine begins to dim down, while yours flares up and begins to continuously evaporate your body from the outside at all points*
I hope this is enlightening for you.
*Reaches up in the moment the light breaches through to my face with each hand and strikes the beams away in one swift, confident motion*

@Nemeses

*Grits my teeth as my own aura flares in attempts to keep up with the corroding effect*
Li—

Myriad Reality

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You let a wild animal run loose, and it wreaks havoc on everyone. A far cry from mass murder.
*The shot vaporizes against the aura very nearly to the moment it crosses through it, and I whip around to face you in the air, suddenly shift my position to inches from your face. My face strains as the aura seems to be forcibly stretched forward so as to envelop you within it*
Not the only thing that needs to be leashed.

@Nemeses

*Grits my teeth and gets sucked back into the cloud*
Add accusing the innocent on top of that.
*Sporadic points in the space around you light up with the haze of refracted colors like the glow of fireworks and shoot intense multi-colored beams that bounce over and around obstacles to reach your eyes*

Myriad Reality

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*Erupts from my current position, rocketing straight upward over the projectile and its area of influence*
Even you lot might recognize Ona as a powerhouse. Let me show you exactly how I keep her afraid of me.
*Clenches my fist as arcs of energy begin firing off from a black-and-white aura that just barely emanantes from my person, and though they catastrophically annihilate anything they touch, they are clearly more of a byproduct of another action and less of an attack directly*

@Nemeses

*Emerges behind you from within the cloud as Lily flashes a red circle in front of my eye, warning me about the aura and tracking the arcs*
And you have the guts to call us morally bankrupt.
*Magic circles of decreasing size emerge from my pistol like telescopic lenses, accelerating a shot into the back of your head at blinding speeds*

Myriad Reality

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*Holds one arm out before impact, resulting in it digging into the surface and sending multicolored sparks flying as we skid across it*
You cannot hide a single thing from me now. No action, no feeling, no intention.
*Kicks my legs up vertically to the surface and spins around rapidly, flinging you free from me, then flips up and skids on my feet against the surface to a rapid halt, throwing my hands in front of me in such a way that my index fingertips and thumbs touch before firing off a widening beam of intense light directly into your face*

@Nemeses

*Shatters another spawned platform above me to rocket downward out of the way, aided by gravity, then hits a second at an angle to shift my trajectory toward you*
Then you'll have no one to blame but yourself when it's over!
*Flings one of my bearings at you, erupting into an enormous cloud of inky smoke*

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*