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Post by phantom on Jan 23, 2015 23:47:34 GMT
A hand motioned forwards expanding black digits as Aether flooded over its metallic frame; the hand led to an arm, the arm led back to mechanized humanoid 45 meters tall, weighing in at 15 tons. Its black frame was designed with the hands of an artist, giving it only the most peculiar design, its visage was demonic, truly a monster to behold.
“Is that power you seek?”
“No…”
“Is it death that follows in the wake of your steps?”
“Sometimes.”
The mech was effectively named Inferius, its head had a horn like appendage attached to its head that shot straight back at a forty five degree angle. Its body wore holes in various places that served no purpose at all. Its legs were long, heavy and served the purpose of dealing heavy damage in close combat scenarios, and on its knees were blade like guards. Feet were large used for high impact kicks.
“Is that why you came here? To destroy and lay waste to your enemies?”
“No… to wait till the end of the world.”
“What if the world will not end?”
“Than... I will destroy it with my own two hands.”
--Scriptures from the Destoyer
Gaiken was still looking down upon the flying fortress waiting watching . . . His timing had to be perfect. Inferius’ left hand moved forward glowing with Aether, what was he planning? Inferius’ systems locked upon that fortress by Gaiken’s command. Orbs began to form around its visage, spinning around the mech as if it were some kind of atom. The core, the Aether Assimilating core was pulling in the surrounding ambient energies, things that were not spent but ripe to be used for something else. The result? A second formation of orbs took hold around Inferius’ frame. The mech’s arms drew back wards, bending at the elbows and snugging them against its ribacage. The two formations of orbs spun about it rapidly, moving around the mech as if it were some planet. They spun leaving traces of light behind in its wake. Until finally, Inferius moved its hand up and brought the energy to a single point: The Right hand. The Palm opened; this was a source of power, a source of massive strength. It was in this very moment, that Gaiken’s allies could draw upon this godly strength to buff themselves.
“In my hand is a mighty power.”
“What kind of power…?”
“The power to save this world…”
--Scriptures from the Hero
Gaiken commanded Inferius to plunge itself into battle, and so it did. Those Aether wings sprouted from its back, flapping majestically. Inferius was removed from the sensor grid, traveling to fast to be seen, but this was not true, it simply displaced its matter to simply disappear from the grid. Though it was true that it had gain an ENOURMOUS amount of speed in a short amount of time. The beast was closing in, fast currently in the stratosphere, in front of the mechanoid was a large flame gather from its rapid descent. “Look out… CAUSE I’M COMING IN.” Gaiken spoke towards the fortress whether or not this heard mattered little, it was an open transmission everyone could hear it. “Gaiken, God’s hand has reached its maximum strength.” Gaiken smirked in anticipation. “Good. Reroute a fourth of that power to empower the allied front. Than a fourth of that power to fire the Shield Disruptor Pulse.”
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Post by Dirge on Jan 27, 2015 22:31:29 GMT
“… Really? You’re just going to go off and charge directly into the enemy carrier? Geez. At least let me give you a hand.” Vincent did not need clairvoyance to understand Adell’s intentions the moment his raw power started brewing in a perfectly controlled maelstrom around his body. They were as clear as the magical energies coursing through his flesh and bones; Adell was going to head into the frontlines. By himself. Without any sort of backup. That was something the Fiorelli simply could not allow, and it showed in his every gesture.
The power possessing both positive and negative signatures – Yin and Yang – around the proficient martial artist was gently tapped unto by Vincent’s fingertips. Attuned perfectly to the energy signature, given that he had witnessed it in a previous encounter they’d had, the Fiorelli was practically unaffected by its pull and push. The pressure radiating from Adell managed to cause Vincent’s robes to flare and his silver locks to wildly flail about but that would not hinder him one bit. A very small portion of the chi surrounding him was plucked away by the magister and stored deep within the back of his right hand. It was going to see use in just a moment.
For the most part, the proximity allowed Vincent to tap Adell upon the middle of his back and mutter a tiny incantation in order to place a minor catalyst upon the man. It was a delayed spell with an activation phrase that would undoubtedly help the martial artist in the long run. A spiritual tendril appeared to be visible for all but a few seconds between the two of them before it vanished fully. Support spells had been in development ever since the beginning of his ‘career’ as a magister, employing the secrets of an ancient magic school that had been rediscovered by a close friend and himself. There was little doubt Vincent had more tricks up his sleeve than the hundred spells shown to those who inquired about the magic school.
The sonic shockwave produced in the wake of Adell’s dash forced Vincent’s form a few feet backward from his previous location, and a low chuckle passed through his parted lips. Ah, Adell. There was no changing that man. He had been bullheaded even in their previous encounter, where he assaulted the magister with all sorts of martial arts only for each and every blow to be either deflected, evaded, or met in kind with similar force. Patterns were easily recognizable by the human mind; for someone like Vincent, whose job was to recollect, manage, and utilize valuable information… It was a piece of cake. Of course, that didn’t mean Adell was a weakling. The truth was far from it. But that was neither here nor there and they both had their jobs to do. While the magister’s role was to ensure nobody got hurt unnecessarily at the moment, there were more things to tend to. With a nonchalant flick of his wrist toward Arcaeus, the magister returned to the empty wards that his Aspects had drawn upon the ground. Some of these were already brimming with magical power, pulling from the forces of the Ward, the air around them, and even the leylines of the planet underneath.
The moment this raw power touched the countless symbols and runes written along the extent of the bounded fields, it was purified – separated from any sort of outside influence and returned to a pure state – before empowering the drawings. The method was simple and effective, just the way the magister wanted it.
While Vincent’s attention remained firmly fixated to the current events at hand, a small portion of it focused on the single entity descending from outer space into the barren planet where the Ward had been erected. It was a mechanoid, enormous in size and well-built from the looks of it. It looked to be extremely light considering its size, which raised questions about the materials it was constructed from. The magister was naturally curious about new toys to play with, and while the Nethuamamagos offered various interesting tools on their end, the mechanoid was sure to put on a show. “Well, well… Looks like things are starting to perk up, boys. I want you all to continue focusing. Assault squad, ready up those bounded fields. Ground squad, finish the rest. I want those six circles on the ground at full power by the next minute.”
The magister ordered his Aspects around effortlessly, without even needing to change the usually nonchalant tone of his voice into a more stern one. They all followed his orders without question and without hesitation. They were the perfect tools. The two circles Vincent had taken control of were shimmering vibrantly, giving off an iridescent light that soon began to spread out to encompass the area a hundred feet around him. They bathed the area in a translucent glow, thus expanding the influence of each and every single circle.
Whereas the bounded fields still existed within the ‘dome’, their power had conjoined in order to erect a larger circle upon the ground. A similar dome – taking on the form of a sphere in midair – formed above it, thanks to the eight bounded fields in midair.
No matter what happened, the magister was ready for the backlash of Adell’s actions.
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Post by prophet on Jan 31, 2015 20:51:27 GMT
[ BGM - Girls on Drugs ]
So, sometime after he had finished losing a fight to a girl (because how do you win against a woman anyways), Elijah finally made his much needed journey to the battle occurring in a dimensional space outside of Bablyon City at the instructions of Ark, his advisor. Nibiru had a habit of asking their agents in the Horizon department to do all manner of ridiculous things, then again, what was ridiculous in the face of something as preposterous as Elijah to begin with? What a fucking insane guy. Nothing made sense when you were dealing with someone who interaction with the Flash Force wasn't unlike a mother and their bastard child. Sometimes kicked out of the house, beaten, and grounded, and then other times given all the video games, candy, and Spaceboy magazines he wanted (alien women are hot). Nothing and everything applied when you were facing someone who's notion of ridiculous was the complete opposite of reasonable. In short? A nutcase.
Elijah was a fucking nutcase. Though unlike before, he didn't make the fatal mistake of showing up drunk and completely fucked. Instead, he appeared behind Pankraz, playing with with his keys in an attempt to get one of his keys off of his keychain. Oddly enough, he'd stumble in Pankraz, who would like back in bewilderment, and aim his gun at Elijah's face. Elijah would ignore him and keep walking because who the fuck is he anyways? He certainly didn't match the description of a crazy-white haired magician, huge-tall and sexually-frustrated fist-fighter, or a lolicon, so he probably wasn't part of the targets of interest.
"Hey, do you like grape juice?" he asked a random soldier in passing, walking below the destruction happening above. Things were getting interesting up there. The soldier looked at him in confusion, prompting Elijah to stop.
"I said, do you like grape juice."
"What is a civil-"
"ANSWER MY GODDAMN QUESTION!" he snapped in anger, slapping the living shit out of the Aesir Empire soldier. He spiraled off into a group of soldiers, prompting the soldiers to take up arms and suddenly declare him a threat. Elijah's face was hardly serious, it literally bled ignorance and childishness. Between his slicked blonde hair and light-hearted civilian attire it was hard to tell just who he was or why he was there. All he wore was a graphic t-shirt that said "Get Money", matching black jeans, and black boots.
"Yea, I wore all black so that it's harder to get it dirty, get it?" he smiled, pointing to his chest that had a barrel shoved into it.
"Hey no pushing!"
"I said no pushing!"
Elijah blinked and all of the soldiers suddenly collapsed. In Elijah's left hand was the ZXGFF-HG HALLELUAH, Pankraz's custom pis-
How the hell did he get that.
Pankraz just so happened to be approaching as the commotion exploded and his eyes widened in disbelief when he noticed Elijah was holding his precious weapon. Before he could actually say anything? Elijah was gone, without a trace, without so much as an indication of movement. Pankraz, dumbofounded and left in the blaze of dust yet again.
And Elijah? Who knew. But needless to say he was watching, very, very closely. He had a mission after-all, and the Power Elite never failed!
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Post by Anshin on Feb 6, 2015 20:53:49 GMT
”The evacuation of Babylon City continues to go smoothly, Tom. Meanwhile the Vernichtung Sektor have yet to launch a counter offensive. True to their word they appear to be waiting for the Crimson Knights to take the battle to them as a part of their twisted games. Wait, I’m being told we have footage from inside of the Ward, please hold for one moment nya.”
Too-small televisions strategically mounted in every corner of the bar lit up the dreary room with an omnipresent blue glow. On every screen excitable Felesian rookie reporter Miss Katswell babbled about anything and everything that passed between her fuzzy blue ears. She stood in front of an indistinguishable evacuation zone and was surrounded on all sides by a writhing sea of civilians who seemed more agitated by the whole process than legitimately worried about the state of their homes. Most Babylonian citizens knew well enough to listen when martial law had been issued though and so as one thriving mass they retreated to parts unknown.
But even in the heart of the Aesir Empire amidst a heated invasion the demands of the twenty-four hour news cycle had to be met. Even when the audience was a grumpy eight, half of whom were foreigners overwhelmed by the sight of one of the mightiest empires in the Omniverse mobilizing for war and the other half who were grizzled veterans who saw no threat in this most recent alien incursion, rounded out by a the ninth. A surly Draconian bartender with one arm and a body chiseled from granite, she was a veteran of the Daemonium Wars and that’s all anyone ever bothered to ask when they met her fierce gaze, and she was looking to close up shop.
The television sets flickered to a grainy view of the Ward. The helicarrier that had promised death to this world hovered front and center, as much a living breathing entity in its own right as it was a vehicle for their invaders. With the way time slowed within the Ward the helicarrier moved so slow that it almost didn’t seem to move at all, and on the edges of the screen one could see the many brave Crimson Knight vessels that flanked it. Frozen in the altered flow of time it didn’t seem much of a threat at all.
“Like shooting fish in a fucking barrel.” Mazoku slammed a half-empty tankard against her table, drawing a frustrated glower from the one armed Madame Armstice, no doubt she would have to clean that particular table later. Or maybe just light the damn thing on fire and buy a new one. Mazzy wasn’t known for her cleanliness.
“Mm…” one Lucia N. Heterodyne couldn’t be bothered to answer. Her fierce red gaze was turned away from the television and angled down towards table, through the table and through the film of filth her companion left in her wake, fingers wrapped together to cushion her chin while her already thin lips had pulled into a taught line.
“What’s with you Barbie, I thought you of all people would enjoy a show.” Mazoku, the first and only person to sign up for the Neo Arcadian pirates aside from their intrepid captain, was a short girl whose body type was best described as square. She had broad shoulders and more than a little meat on her bones, in other words Maz was fat and she had a tendency to wear tight dresses that would have been racy on a woman half her size, but she was also built like a linebacker beneath that beef. She may not have fit the feminine stereotype but she could have every easily broken that stereotype in two, which she never neglected to mention. A pair of thick rimmed glasses rested on the bridge of her nose and her head was full of frizzy silver hair topped off by one obnoxious ponytail that shot straight from the top of her skull and seemed to swing about with a life of its own, like the antenna to a submarine constantly tracking activity, danger, or food.
It was worth noting that Maz had slightly red skin and green eyes. Certainly not the standard for a human, perhaps she was an alien, though Lucia preferred not to look at the world through that lens.
“Oh, nothing,” Lucia shook herself from her reverie just slow enough to be suspicious and lounged back against her chair. Her arms splayed out against the back and one foot looked to keep the thing balanced to the floor, “I just thought that the Crimson Knights looked like they could use some help and was wondering how I’d handle the situation.”
It was a well-known fact that the Aesir Empire had been ravaged by the Daemonium Wars. It was a lesser known fact that the people of the Aesir Empire were just about fed up with the idea of war and while their new more peaceful mentality was appreciated by their neighbors the Aesirian people had failed to reinforce even their highly decorated elite unit, the Crimson Knights. There was a severe shortage both of manpower and of trained veterans in the Aesirian military, they covered it up well but Lucia had the resources to see through the cracks.
“Bullshit, you’re looking to crash the party.” Maz offered a short barking laugh in honor of a bad idea, “Good luck getting out of that mess alive.”
“I’m more worried about what would happen if the Arcadia went rampant so close to Babylon City. Pirate or no I’m not too keen on adding genocide to my rap sheet.” Lucia said rather matter-of-factly before falling back into her old I’m-thinking face.
“You’re pretty confident about our chances of taking out one of the biggest empires in the Omniverse.” Maz grumbled.
“Not my chances, Mazoku, the chances of one of the most powerful vessels in the Omniverse. If only we had a smaller ship my control over it would be more secure…” Lucia rolled her head to one side, spying a strange old fellow approaching them in a hooded cloak a few seconds before the tell-tale sound of his boots tapping against the floorboards reached their ears. Well, he wasn’t all that old, everyone in this fantasy wonderland had stopped their aging one way or another and looked about twenty or so but Lucia could see the signs of eternity building up around the edges of his eyes and in the corners of his lips and in the way he moved from place to place. Maz caught on a second later as her ponytail whipped in the man’s direction and began to undulate back and forth with a life of its own.
“Couldn’t help but overhear your conversation, girls.” The edges of the old man’s old lips plied into a smile that spread all across his ageless face. “What if I told you I knew where I could get you a ship?”
“We still don’t have a crew.” Maz said hesitantly, sensing the coming storm.
As if right on cue a pair of braggadocios young off-worlders tore through the door. One of them was tall and dressed in a martial arts uniform; he had a calm personality that was currently pressed on the edge of desperation. The other one was slightly shorter and a good deal wilder; but he clearly knew how to back up his words. Almost immediately they found themselves swept up in an argument with the one-armed Draeniea Armstice, accosting her for information and demanding that they needed to get into the Ward this very moment. The very fate of the world could be at stake. Draeniea to her credit didn’t automatically club the two would-be heroes over the head and toss them out on their asses, but only because she was certain that the two would get themselves killed as soon as they left the bar.
Sometimes fate worked in mysterious way.
“Ah what the hell, I’m in.” Maz shrugged her shoulders.
“I’m all ears stranger. Where is this ship?” Lucia leaned forward expectantly.
***
No less than fifteen minutes later five people stood had slithered their way through the Aesirian supply line and into a shipyard for decommissioned ships. These vessels were the hardiest and the bravest that the Aesir Empire had ever seen, having survived the Daemonium Wars intact, but now their time had come. They awaited that fateful moment when they would be disassembled by the machine priests and transformed into scrap metal so that the next generation of Aesirian battleships could carry on their legacy and perhaps even a bit of their wisdom.
The largest of this ships that could be contained on-world without collapsing upon itself was Her Majesty’s Ship ‘Burning Courage’. A veteran of the Daemonium Wars that was simply too large to be decommissioned in a timely manner. But even in her state of disrepair she was an impressively majestic beast that was a solid five hundred or so meters in length.
“Well, it certainly is a pretty vessel. But what exactly are we to do with a decommissioned ship whose machine spirit has already been laid to rest.” Lucia folded her arms and passed the mysterious stranger a curious glance.
“How am I to know what mysterious tricks the Princess of Pirates has up her sleeves.” The old man pulled down his hood revealing a head full of blowing dark-blue hair and offered her a sly wink. “I’m sure you’ll think of something.”
“Okay. So you know how to read bounty posters.” Lucia rolled her shoulders in a shrug, refusing to appear surprised. “I wasn’t trying to hide anything. It’s just not something I bother to advertise.”
Lucia N. Heterodyne, the Princess of Pirates, had been crowned something as such when she stumbled upon the aforementioned ghost vessel Arcadia. The real title had been much grander but when Lucia happened upon the knowledge that the title Queen of Pirates had been taken a dozen times she gladly assumed a lesser role in the scheme of brigand royalty because she knew it came with the implicit threat that she would someday come for the real thing. She was a tall girl with a willowy figure, all long limbs and lean muscle with skin as pale as a ghost, but she was hardly the Barbie Doll that Mazoku had accused her of being earlier. Lucia had very little in the way of curves, her figure was such that she straddled the line between male and female, androgynous if not for the extra steps taken to appear feminine. Her face was lean and her hair was long, a sleek raven black, and frayed at the ends in whatever manner it pleased.
Lucia dressed to her profession. Let none of the four who had assembled with her on this day say they didn’t know exactly who they were working with. Her black captain’s coat fell all the way to her knees, gilded in a trim of neon blue that seemed to radiate with a life of its own in dimmer lighting. The coat was buttoned up tight and the high rising collar could have easily hidden her face, her hands were covered in black gloves, and beneath that simple black pants with knee-length black boots (not a significant heel to be seen). A thousand different trinkets and tokens lined her too-many belts and pockets and fingers in a fashion that could only be attributed to a kleptomaniac. And then there was the hat, broad and big atop her head, but at least she had shown restraint by not stabbing a feather into it.
Without another moment to waste Lucia began to sing. She sang a song that could not be articulated in the tongue of men or anything on the material plane for that matter. It was the sound of an ocean and of space, vast and lonely, not a gentle place but a dark one, far away from prying eyes where the light of stars never quite reached and where old ships slunk off to die with some dignity, she sang a song of things unseen since the beginning of time and of an unexplored Omniverse better left to the brave and suicidal.
Lucia sung and the sky darkened within that shipyard. In the fading light visions of sprites-amalgamations of the long since dead-could be seen drifting upon the decks of ships going about their daily routines. The little machine spirits in their basic geometric shapes tinkered away lovingly at their charges, unaware that their time had long since come and gone. They all paused and turned their head as a spiderweb of blue ether surrounded Lucia’s body and the magic awakened in her soul by the Ghostship Arcadia spoke to the HMS Burning Courage.
Then the song was over and all that was left of it was a chill down four spines. Then after several moments of silence the engine of HMS Burning Courage began to hum with life. She was a salty old dog but in the end she had accepted her final mission to save the Empire, even if it meant that her legacy would never be passed on.
Lucia brushed off the last of her Pirate Princess Magic and leapt aboard he deck in a single bound.
“Well, what are you waiting for?”
***
There sure were a lot of benefits to trapping your enemies in prison dimension with an altered flow of time. It meant that for everything that had just happened the Nethuamamagos had yet to fire a shot and the first wave of Crimson Knights and their assorted allies were still struggling to get aboard the Helicarrier. It was like they hadn’t missed a beat!
Which was good, that meant everyone was going to pay attention to them, which was exactly what a narcissist like Lucia N. Heterodyne wanted.
Pankraz would receive a number of rushed messages. Depicting a blow-by-blow as decommissioned battleship HMS Burning Courage came to life, snuck into their blockade line, and then promptly accelerated out of it. The last report from Petty Officer Magdalene reported that the Burning Courage had warped away to an unknown location, but for Pankraz the location wasn’t unknown at all.
A mere five hundred or so feet above the Sektor Helicarrier was where the Burning Courage would appear. Flying at speeds so intense he almost didn’t have time to realize what had happened at all and certainly wouldn’t have if it hadn’t been for his keen vampire eyes. The Burning Courage flew like a spear of justice, hammering straight through the energy-dispersing field that surrounded by the Magos helicarrier, ignoring whatever ordinance the Magos threw its way and shrugging off the heaps of damage were sure to be laid upon her, while opening fire with her own solid rounds from a dozen different mounted turrets that would look to pepper the flat of the carrier and soften it up for the coming impact.
And impact was inevitable. The brief exchange of fire was just a bit of icing atop the cake of massacre before the Burning Courage would hammer straight into the hull of the Helicarrier, looking to split the fascist helicarrier clean in two. Her hull had been designed to survive combat with things far more terrifying than enemy vessels and thus it was quite possible that she would burst out the other end with her frame intact if the helicarrier was as flimsy as it looked.
Somewhere amidst the battle a pair of launch pods had been ejected. The two would-be heroes were booted unceremoniously from the battleship, their names were Loki and Riku, and the hodgepodge pods had been assembled at the last moment and would be only just enough to keep them alive for the ride of their life and that was assuming that the enemy didn’t think to fire on a pair of dud torpedoes being launched in the middle of a ramming maneuver. The two were aimed at what Lucia had approximated to be the command center of the ship in hopes of penetrating deep into the armor and ejecting them into the middle of the action and the enemy.
But where was Lucia?
Right on the tip of the ship, laughing like a madwoman as gunfire and ordinance seemed to magically divert away from her person, sometimes by mere inches. But the air around her body shimmered with an unseen but very real force that turned away every attack at the last moment. Her coat flapped around her body and her hat remained magically rooted in place. Her face however was now covered, the armored surcoat having spawned a small faceplate that glided over her mouth and nose, for now.
“It’s a good day to die, Mazzy!”
“A good day to die indeed, captain.”
Then just as the ship hit, whether it succeeded or failed in slaying the Sektor Helicarrier, they would leap.
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Post by Loki Beoulve on Feb 8, 2015 15:52:04 GMT
"No, I do not want you participating in this one."
"But, Adell!"
"No butts, Loki. This group is much more difficult Suza. You can't rely on people bailing you out. You must grow stronger."
"How am I supposed to do if I don't fight? What if you're not here one of these days? Then who saves the people?"
"You will get killed!"
"We don't know that! My skills are getting better, you've even said it yourself!"
"You are not ready. My decision is final."
And without a word Loki walked out of Adell's office, not wanting to disrespect him and cause a scene, like a good disciple would do. Loki walked out, and a normally calm warrior would smash his own fist into the other. Several people looked at him and were taken aback. He walked out of the building square in the middle of Babylon City. He saw televisions and heard the radio stating to clear Babylon City. He walked along the opposite path of the civilians, heading the complete opposite way. Many panicked, and were looking to places to go to. He ended up going near a bar, resting against the door, and looked through the window the telecast once again. The enemy was creating chaos and here he was, not being able to do anything about it, all for risk of his own safety. He did not care about that. He moved his hands to curl into fists,punching the wall to the building, creating a small tremor inside. It was there that he encountered a strange old man.
"Where you going sonny?"
"I need to find a way to get onto a ship to get to the battle."
"I see. What's it to you?"
"I need to prove that I am strong. I need to prove that I can protect people, too."
"What's your name?"
"My name is Loki. Loki Beoulve of---"
"Disciple of Adell Laemington, I know. Look, I can get you a ship if you keep quiet.."
"Really?!"
"Yes....follow me."
And that was when he was brought to the same exact ship another male by the name of Riku was on. It was rather intriguing indeed. The old man went on to explain how it was admiral for a young man like himself to be able to risk everything and knowingly would die for his cause. It was very impressive, hence why he was able to come aboard.
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The white martial arts uniform certainly had gotten him his reputation. It was now time to live up to against this new enemy. While preparing himself, and being introduced to Lucia, the male would find himself in the storage department of the ship. He was able to get two Crimson Knight battle suits. After hearing about all the adults from television and from his superiors, including his mentor Adell, he was not going to allow himself any room for error. In the dressing room there, he had put over his uniform the standard Exo-Battle suit to help him protect against projectiles and magic to a degree. He was finished then with the preparation he needed, having his sword cast about his back. The battle suit had armor thick enough to withstand multiple hits and he did not want to risk it and was taking all the necessary precautions. The suit was also very relaxing on the body, being a type of heavy armor that had a light composition of alloy around it. It also would be able to greatly enhance his combat capabilities, especially the ones he wielded. It was then that he was instructed to go into the pod area.
It was at this moment, he began to have flashes of Adell telling him no. He knew he would be able to see him, or at least he had hoped so. He was going to show that he was a capable warrior, too. Last time was a disgrace, this time he intended to make a great deal of amends for what had happened. His ambition would not be denied and the entire time he was silent aboard the ship as they prepared and was formally introduced to Lucia and Riku. Eyes narrowing as he was in the pod, he liked Adell greatly, but he wanted to have his way and enter the battle. It was at this moment, the pod was launched and the propeller system shot the pods towards the enemy ship, rocketing towards it at record speed. One eye looked behind to see Lucia attempting to crash the ship, but he had hoped she would create enough of a distraction for Riku and himself to get aboard and start everything. Loki began to prepare himself, curling his fists together as a frail of energy began to light up his body before internally it rushing the courses of his veins. Soon afterwards, the two pods would crash right through the ship; as they crashed, causing a small explosion because of the pressure of the pods, Loki would emerge, seeing several people on the floor. He got out unique fighting claws that came with his suit, looking around, keeping his senses up. It was about to start. The beginning...he felt it.
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Post by tenguknightmare on Feb 10, 2015 18:26:46 GMT
"Son of a bitch!! Meebu!"
Snatching the patty from his burger, Meebu hopped over the table and managed to screw Riku over of his meal. Glistening black scales rushed past his face and he shook his head. The dragon looked over to him, and swallowed hard. He swore Meebu was grinning behind the furrowed ridge on his forehead and right lips slashed across his face. For a moment in still time, they looked at each other, reflecting eyes of emerald shining furiously.
Riku gave up, dropping the empty burger back onto the plate to go cook himself a new one.
The sizzle of meat popped with the oil, and Meebu propped his claws up on the hot oven looking over to see his next prey be cooked. Riku shoved him aside by the hips and sighed. The smile on his face spoke the many volumes of his content for Meebu being so lively. Their time apart felt lonely.
Ring ring.
"Fuck," he groaned, walking to his phone on the table. "Hello, this is Riku. How can I be of service," he sounded sarcastic.
"You need to be here," said a mysterious voice. He looked at the face of his phone.
UNKNOWN
"Who is this?"
"My name matters not, I will give you coordinates and you shall come this instant."
After cursing at the man on the other end of his phone, numbers were in abundance across the screen. They flew around and organized themselves.
THE SHIP
"What the..."
The phone dropped and the oven was turned off. Meebu reached up and snapped his jaws on the burning morsel of meat.
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He found himself at a ship, where eventually he saw Loki. Briefed on his job, Riku kept complaining. "How am I supposed to fight on an empty stomach?!" He bitched. "Lemme tell ya' Loki, you should've had somethin' to eat. Otherwise we're fucked."
If Loki looked, Riku wasn't suited up at all. He shrugged off the battle suit, because he never liked to wear armor. Instead the black jacket was draped over him and he casually sported a plain black shirt. He tapped his boot while stepping into the ship, and awaited Loki. Situated into the hollow compartment of this pod, a tendrils of shadowy smoke crawled along his arms all the way up to the shoulder. Smoke built after running over his shoulders and sunk into the fabric of his jacket. "Let's get this go-" he was launched and he was sent crashing into the ship and flying out. He managed to catch himself next to Loki, with a big smile slashed across his face. "You know, I had a catchphrase for this, but... Let's tear this shit up!!"
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Post by Anomaly on Feb 14, 2015 9:37:07 GMT
–[Wounded Warsong.] Eager protectors of the worlds and universes became common to the Vernichtung Sektor’s journeys. Their sole purpose was simply to clear, or cull, the targeted area for subsequent terra-mining. Upon countless surfaces, there was at least something of value to the Fourth Reich. The matter expectantly brought protest even by those considered generous. It was only necessary after the first bite many years ago. Indeed the Nazis had few allies outside of convenience, having befriended only those (somewhat) like-minded within the infinite factions. Perhaps this was to be one of them? After all, they knew little to nothing about this place and its denizens; a ship in a glass bottle, for now.
In this world, it had taken a bit longer than anticipated to detect a welcoming party. So respectable their (presumed) military was, to grant such a large window. That chaotic sphere surrounding the ship had grown rapidly overtime like a cancer. It now stretched but a mile or so outward before its density took quite the reduction. Minor separation in the seeded field occurred every few meters across the vast space, mapping out the many layers that built this universe. Fragments of information were relayed back to the many sources, cycling through at nearly one trillionth of a second (perhaps diminished slightly with the lessened exposure to the first two dimensions). There was no hiding one’s consciousness within the infinite, only running. The very forces that they themselves manipulated governed their very existence. Absorption (from the target) carried its own method of detection; gaps within a harmless swarm of particles. It touched the bay in a harmonious rain but only so much could reach. Faint signatures likely to be amassing troops or the Magister’s own through the wards. Identifying the parties was imminent, but picking up names was arbitrary; they truly knew nothing personal about them. There was only the entity and through the consciousness the dimensional energies are woven into their hands.
Each Nethuamamagos would sense the first stone thrown, in the form of a charging man. Although this hubris approach was closely monitored, most of the group did little against it. Those bursts of speed would bring him deeper into the sea of particles, the polyps’ interacting initially with the resonance. They analyzed it, whether it was accumulation, repulsion, etc. Simply the levels of these various factors revealed what was needed. Passively this distortion permeated the space, even the Magister would feel this in the link to Adell. Meanwhile, a fraction before the man would suddenly stop, Eisenwald’s peculiar staff would act. Its body snapped back whilst swiftly fanning out its tiny limbs, energy spilling forth as blinding pulsations of light. This influx came into view almost a quarter way into Adell’s second boost. Vumvumvum-eeeeaaah! The mighty war drum rose from beneath the cry of the engines. Small but condensed digits of static rose and danced above the fading, plasmatic cascade – etheric claws scratching at the infinite, infected by the tumorous facilitators.
The man’s speech was heard through mirroring radio-waves, continuing to watch his actions in extremely small increments. The outline of his fist was drawn within the hosts, knowing Adell was to discover the true nature of the field. Adell’s fist would simply pass through the field’s threshold without resistance, but there was consequence. It had never been solid, the pulses’ instability and recurrence working their advantage. The energy would slowly slip (if not focusing intensely) from whatever had submerged, the very influence allowing one to harness and contain was attacked. A presence inflicting but a tap compared to what was to come (read blow). One of the polyps among the crowd, clinging to the Nethuamamagos, had targeted him. Despite it being not truly threatening, he would not acknowledge this revelation in time. Almost midway into that powerful thrust of brute’s fist, a single but large flux whipped forward – attracted to one of many outer-mundane forces presented. It accelerated through the anomalous bubble, tainted and pushed just fast enough to meet the punch once it was a thread toward completion. It was not half-hearted, after all, so contact was inevitable. The charge was amplified exponentially by the intrinsic fields of the Nethuamamagos, rivaling (or possibly surpassing) that of the brute’s own. At the very least the two equal but opposite forces would collide, ultimately canceling one another out. What Adell had gathered thus far was to escape through the arm in a violent scatter of meta-galvanized radiation. His own chi (and others passively intertwined) turned raw, surging up the pathways and damaging the structure down to the very energetic foundation. A spreading immolation that was determined through the man’s (energy) levels; whatever Adell had put in was used against him – Which was respectable, as quoted ‘physical force would probably prove powerful enough’ for what he thought was a shield. Even if there was a subsequent projection, it too would lose that control, leaving only momentum to carry what it could before eventual dissipation. The backlash upon the host appeared to be a light rippling from the singular polyp through the others surrounding it, distributing the excess to the masses. Effectively one would destroy a tank from the inside if they did not wish to chew away at the outer shell, or rather the dermis in this case.
"Velkommen indeed," Eisenwald was of course being jovial in his own way, low and somewhat off-putting. Indeed it was Adell that had dug his own grave. Close to a second after the arc, a few of the forward defenses would aim in the brute’s general direction. Blam-blam-blam! The reaction was unnaturally quick, unleashing a hell fire of high-caliber ammunition that lit the sky like fireworks. Sabots of an unknown mixture sped forth from recoiling barrels, each shell protecting a depleted-uranium core. But this was no show without the induction cannons whose stake-like rounds then tore the air asunder, an inferno pouring from their ever-sharpening tips. Normal soldiers manning the others took this cue to pepper the brute of a man as well. There were intervals with the rail weapons, the alloy barrels heating up with the charged coils they encompassed. The Nethuamamagos did not join directly, waiting for the right moment and target. After all, a general was not a shock trooper.
This initial whip of dangerous energies was only the beginning, more shooting forth instantly after the (more than likely) connection. Their direction was more randomized, now, but in overwhelming numbers – Striking areas several times to create a near-constant. Twisting (and seeded) branches of white traveled past the field, to the skies and the sea below. Kiish, kiiish, kiish! They flashed through the heavens, sapping the very heat from the sky. This abrupt cold in correlation to the current temperature rapidly generated clouds – growing as they were gently pushed toward the shore by natural winds. Particles within scraped against one another in the unrelenting commotion, brief eddies brimming with visible sweeps of energy. It was only right to assume that these ‘entities’ imbued the very storm brewing.
The wall thickened and thunder roared, often superimposing one another with little pause between. What seemed to be that same crackling lightning rolled over the tumbling clouds through their advance. Oi, this moisture, you should have gotten that cream you Germans advertised on your televisions. I don't need it, it would be nice, There would be no rain hitherto, Asher simply proclaiming his suffering and wishes to the group. It encouraged the others to speak, starting with Oscar whose banter was predictable. Ever had sex in the rain? Ho-ho! I haven’t, but I have seen it, a lot. Like right up in there. Eisenwald’s had its own remark to the conversation, Oh you fellas, Slow and drawn out, it placed a period at the end of their back-and-forth until the remaining Lanugeists chimed in.
Eisenwald had finished the second sigil during the Adell encounter, but that hand was not free yet. He began another with those two digits extended, its curvature akin to the first letter that had manifested. After the second, another polyp dangling from the back had lost its radiance after a strange membrane slid over its shape. The initial symbol would transition to the left shoulder, as the second would move to the opposite. Klaus and Hans had did so as well, including the starting of another.
Eventually others piled into the fray, wishing for blood or perhaps guarding the land. These parties came consecutively it seemed. One was observed through its shape, the high exposure of quintessence making it a virtual beacon – The other was unsolved, presumed to be a massive object or a large force. Displacement or the quantum rain would herald the woman’s vessel depending on how she appeared. If she were utilizing a form of non-locality, formation was to be compromised, pushed outside the field. It was merely relocation just outside. Still the response to the latter was the same. A plan had been in motion whilst the enemies had prepped for arrival.
The Nethuamamagos were already warned ahead of time, but this time Hans would perform. There was sudden jerk that rushed through the helicraft, its structure moaning as the woman’s derelict craft was just beginning its path. Invisible but dense waves pushed at the air, compacting it for the needed heave. Those who had not anchored (or fastened) themselves were tossed aside. Controls at the helm rang, warning of cycle adjustment within the engines. The men at its command did little as they braced themselves, desperately grabbing at whatever they could. Carts and loose cargo tumbled to the right of the runway. The Nethuamamagos were likely inflicted with insignificant bump, except for Hans of course. Their massive craft strafed to the left at an abnormally high speed before its nose would turn approximately forty five degrees. All this happening the moment it was too late for the woman’s craft to cease its swift linear approach. “Yes, yes! Can you feel zat? I am so hawd right now,” Hans had exclaimed yet what one could distinguish as a mouth opened very little, only to let out tiny hisses. His initial words came out as feminine shrieks conveyed by a bellowed tone before then announcing his pleasure in the situation. Asher expressed disgust and ranted on, somehow working the skin cream into the subject. This single craft of the Nazis had been moving at an unhurried pace for a reason, why it still was above the ocean and far from the shore; easier to move and the abundant moisture. As for the option of relocation, it had changed part of the plan, Hans repulsing the ship forward instead.
The actions Hans took were also for the incoming mechanical giant at the rear, the ship's right corner now facing it. Once it had entered an adequate range, guns on the opposite corner and the remaining at the starboard bow let loose a barrage of anti-air. Tracers fired in beautiful curves with any change of location, maintaining the triangular volley with their sights on the mobile suit’s sides. Each one more than capable of tearing (or severely denting) most plating, beyond mundane standards nevertheless. There was another surprise waiting, but something had to ease the machine into the situation. If it had entered the field, it was to also find itself among interference. Its blinking from sight did nothing to conceal it within the area, need I explain why? The puppet was to lose its strings if the pilot himself was not inside to man it (or possibly through a different method), forced into dropping like a rock lest it devolved. Restrictions and controlled flow removed, meta-capable capacitors would fail; the power of the dispersal dependent on how much output there had been. Likewise to Adell, its energy-induced acceleration was stated to be quite excessive.
The woman’s ship was to emerge just as the center engine along the right side was to move into the path. There was really no possible way for this craft to fully evade such hasty offensive, sacrificing what they could. Many crewmen cowered at the sight while others focused on the task at hand, having outfitted several planes in the duration. The very instant the individuals and their ship had arrived, they were to notice what had occurred to Adell. A vacuum of this pandimensionally-charged radiation indirectly attacked their technology, preventing any radar from leaving the ship. This was due to the very nature of this zone, which in turn would affect whatever guidance system existed. Everything was to be reduced to the manual function within the disordered bubble. The helipads systems had been integrated to prevent this on themselves – each Nethuamamagos having spent days prior living beside said systems to achieve this. It was too late to change the descent through the woman’s trajectory, gravity and possibly its shape contributing. The reactors (if this was the case) that had propelled this battering ram were too assaulted, attempting to rip at the stability save for the probable protection for the system. Through either method of arrival into the sphere, an odd signature captured the attention of the Vernichtung Sektor director. Eisenwald found himself intrigued, concluding it and the universe they were in shared very similar traits with a slight tweak to its aspects of movement and separation. He wished to seek further information but was limited by his current form, relying on some gradual experimenting. The Gatemagos’s free hand was already in the process, channeling through his fingertips that stood like pillars around a small photonic ball meant for a prospective journey.
The torpedoes she had fired were to act as any other projectile without control: a subtle curve before a prompt dip down. It was unfortunate for the payload seeing as helicarrier had angled its engines in front of their route. Each enclosed fan created a cone of intense pressure through their design, funneling directly to the layers of tilted blades that whistled and whined. The planet’s own fundamental force added to the problem; only a second was to pass before the inevitable meeting of the first set. Their material was like that of the ship, an unknown alloy phase-hardened by the Nethuamamagos – Capable of withstanding tremendous amounts of abuse from even preternatural assaults. After all, it was not meant for space-travel, thus built to not vaporize from each jump. Anyways, these fans would be more than able to shred the pods and the stowaways without harm to the fans themselves. Ejecting these meant further consequences, the men and the cannons awaiting. But even escape was extremely difficult, the compression pulling upon the occupant just as well. Timing was against them. Avoiding the grasp would prove equally difficult since the distance between the two ships was limited and rapidly decreasing. If they managed to miss, the stirring waters below were there to embrace them. The woman standing at the bow was too in danger of being sucked up into the vicious fans unless otherwise secured. Cannons on the deck would fire on her, but the magick she relied on for protection was to rendered useless. Magick was an epithet to the behaviors and interactions of energy.
A polyp had focused on her upon crossing the field’s rim, ramming its entirety into her own to threaten the influence upon those many energies. Structure and its hold to be eliminated in an intercepting fashion (explained above). Its consequential reaction was negligible compared to her and her crew's comrades seeing as she had and they (as observed) utilized little of their powers. It was a tingle in the body to those touched, a funny sensation that the remaining could have experienced. Projectiles coming the woman's way ultimately were to not be deviated but rather kept on a natural course, maybe she was just lucky enough to not worry with the obstructed accuracy. The ship getting most of the brunt if the nose provided some cover. Any return fire was somehow drawn to the Armormagos, his inverted field drawing upon whatever it could but it was all something to witness for one's self. The polarity of random polyps constantly shifted based on the attacks – the only Nethuamamagos to effect solid objects as well.
Booom! The engine was no match for the falling spacecraft. It blades shattered upon impact as its inner-workings exploded and crumbled against Burning Courage's bow. The material was likely to cause some damage to said bow, just as if it hit something just as hard. The unpleasant grinding and bending of metal sounded, debris flying in all directions. The collision caused the helicarrier to tilt, the crew scrambling about the runway pushed once more to the floor. Many held their balance but others found themselves sliding to the right side. Those closest to the edge met a most tragic demise, frantically grabbing at whatever. It still ended with them plummeting to the concrete surface of the waters. Their screams snuffed by the engines that were intact and working overtime, the loss of crewmen overshadowed by Hans' continuous yelling: "I cawn feel zee powah in mein butt!" They endured the slanting until the engine was completely broken off, the command center’s systems reporting with red screens and running diagnostics. Although it prevented a deleterious outcome, they could not afford to lose another engine. Feuer Frei! The sponsons at the starboard would ferociously blast at the woman’s ship once its nose passed through the wreckage that now rained down. Who knew if this would hit their command center? All they knew is that the ship was now to be pulverized before heading to the ocean beneath them at an accelerated rate. The pilots did their best to equalize the craft after such a devastating blow, aided by Hans. Meanwhile, Klaus still stood idle amidst the first steps of battle, that sentient mortar now vibrating to the point it was visually nothing more than a dark shape whose edges feathered into into the ambient.
Ramstein: [ N ] [ A ]
Eisenwald: [ N ] [ A ]
Zerstoren: [ N ] [ A ]
[Will be correctin' some grammatical and English errors if I find them, or if there are any redundancies. Think I got them all. Nothing at all was changed, just made it look like it wasn't written by an elementary schooler.]
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Post by Sturmfeuer on May 8, 2015 21:21:15 GMT
[-The tables turn-] The carrier's defenses and awareness were considered off the charts. As aforementioned the carrier had been surrounded with an aura expansion of roughly a mile. These aura's act as a radar, awareness was all that was needed to prepare for the war just begining to kick off.
Araehn had waited for action to occur and now it has. In fact each Nethuamamagos had done a violent act as to reaching this moment. "Vat zee fuck!?" Araehn pondered loudly as to seeing this other ship, and the most importantly seeing the invaders from the opposing team attempt to board the carrier. The Nanaeel's vibrations faded not, rather becoming only most aparent. It's motiones seemed as if it were overloading on ammunition, as if it couldn't hold any more power, however this was not the case. The polyps constantly cycled the energy through one another, keeping it balanced and greatly lessoning the chances of overloading. Also as another factor to this amazement is that these polyps naturally take in massive amounts of the energies, from all around.
Xytaire's tone seemed almost transparent, the huskiness was gone from his voice. "Vov, you ahre beginning to regewlate." The suit seemed confident with Araehn's actions as if it's perception lit as a lighthouse in the fog. "Yes I ahm." Araehn yelled forth. His voice seemed to crackle from beneath his mask.
The Nethuamamagos's augmented vision had constantly carried promise scoping out the area. Normally eyes could miss a potential threat. However The carriers near perfect awarness set up allowed Araehn's augmented vision the exact locations of these invaders. Loki and Riku aimed in torpedos directly for the carriers engines and it would suck them in and scrap through their torpedos and of course graid right through them. Of course with this a bloody mess shal fill the engine room. THe carriers engine would seem to stutter for a few brief moments, signifying that something indeed hit the engines. Though of course the engine would regulate once the hardened materials had been completly deteriorated. This shall occur Unless the two found a clasp to escape, wich was highly unlikely since they practically ran right into it.
Araehn's perception hadn't changed, he seemed more on the mutual side of balances. Before his clawed fingers appeared yet another of those hallowed letters, this one emmiting a similar tone to that of the first. Vuuuuuuum! The second hallowed letter circled in motion and appeared as a side ways 'A' that redirected itself into a straight posture. One could notice glowing particles of energy cycling between the azure sacs. The Nanaeel tilted and took aim among the torpedos and it could appear to one that fire was about to come fourth. However to one's suprise, nothing additional happened! [ N ] [ A
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Post by Anfallen on May 9, 2015 4:05:43 GMT
-[Genesis of Annihilation.] Entrance through the blazing ionic portal was an anomalous event of incredible magnitude and fearsome awe, undoubtedly soon drawing attention to the peculiar intruders. The elite of the eradication division had gathered upon the deck of behemoth construct at attention on the eve of conquest - and likely bloodshed - after emerging from the torn fabric of this universe. Unremitting and discordant pulses from the sentient multitude hummed across the deck, filling the atmosphere with dimensionally augmented energies. These chaotic notes deafened in the roar of the immense engines around them. If any had been unaware of their hard-to-not-notice arrival beforehand, then the radio-wave bombardment of the distant coastline would state their intents and purposes clearly enough.
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"Verstanden," Maximilian (Anfallen) complied tersely - but respectfully - in the tongue of the abandoned realm. His sunken eyes were trained on the Kommandant as he had relayed orders to each and they remained focused as such until after a disengaging salute. He twisted towards the largest and most armored of them all. "You vhine like zee Jude, Cripple," A rebuke at Hans' protests, scarcely acknowledging his status as athlete - let alone as an agent.
A pre-adolescent voice belonging to the Childish manifested on the permeating waves attempting to calm down the situation. You've got what it takes, Hansel. Find the 'candy' house and all will be right. Maximilian ignored his suit's nonsensical babble and also gave no further regard to the brutish Armormagos. Meanwhile the 'child' continued to banter on with its fellows in an odd tone that had seemingly innocent connotations. Poppy is my favorite. Maybe that will help with your sinuses, Asher! It chuckled happily before starting to hum.
The entity swathed him in a grown carapace: dark, ridged plate sprouting prominently whilst the smooth, tan counterpart grew over the areas with shallower growth and formed segmented covering over portions requiring flexibility. Blades honed to a deadly edge extended parallel from the forearms and planed shell on the shins provided additional offense. There were a number of armored maws embedded within the suit's ecosystem with jagged teeth clenched tightly together. Fwuuup-click! At once they all opened and drew air internally, the Nethuamamagos' body expanding in the process before all snapped shut. The segmented areas of armor and the joints appeared to puff up for a moment, but then suddenly returned back to normal as gasses within were condensed.
His harness was customized, requirement due to the configuration of his suit; straps of Kevlar woven nylon secured to his torso, given appropriate holders for his weapons and ammunition (along with extra pouches for various needs). Long, cloth tassels with small, faintly luminescent symbols of sacred geometrical origin aligned vertically either side of the notorious symbol of Nationalsozialismus; crimson-stitched Swastika pronouncing his loyalty displayed swaying over shoulders and front and back of thighs. A metallic badge clipped to the belt bearing the insignia of Vernichtung Sektor. Kept securely sheathed upside-down on the left pectoral a double-edged combat knife (11' phase hardened steel alloy). Held across the lower back a dieselpunk-esque semi-automatic rifle compacted to fold in on itself, and a massive broom-handled pistol holstered on the right hip. Ammunition listed accordingly: 2x 11.43mm lead magazines, 1x depleted uranium sabot, 1x nitroglycerin; 2x 12mm lead clips, 1x hollow point, 1x neutral rounds.
Vuuum... As ordered, the Assaultmagos swiveled (180°) to face the stern and raised his right hand in front of chest, arcs leapt through the array while an intense ionization took place at the ends of two extended digits. A counter-clockwise stroke drawn curving down left a shimmering trail in the air, subtly growing in definition as peculiar influences seeded the stroke. The jaw of the sentient blade buzzed as it peeked out from its limb-bound lair, a trio of thin, fleshy tongues waving lethargically from its throat before plated claws pulled its body far enough from Max's elbow to expose the two membranous forms which joined in with the chorus. Energy pooled during its exposure, the jutting hilt passively cycling into the field that its cohabitors propagated while it drew from the ambient.
The engine of a distant vehicle roared to life from the carrier's port; focused pulses easily carried across the enriched span between to spark the ignition by means of outlandish technomancy originating from the humming azure beacons. Each flared bright as they shared the load of energy that coursed throughout the hovering warship, their influence reached further than the usual ten foot radius (inverse-square affected) due to the cancerous reach of the collective and the metaphysically-conductive nature of the very ambient along with every piece of equipment aboard. It jolted through the vehicle easily and began the engine with as much as that.
Max began to walk towards the side of the carrier the plane was located. In front of him the sigil remained while he strode, harmonized with his casual pace so that it could continue siphoning from the communal perpetuation. Along the way a cylindrical kiosk rose prominently from the flat plane of the deck, jutting outright as the machinations were activated from afar, contained within the compartment were several rows of bulky metallic canisters with a dragon in the center of a triangle engraved into each. Some of the polyps reversed their polarization, as easily as a child taking candy from a shelf four of those were snatched forth with invisible hands to clip onto the harness.Though weighty in appearance, he showed no strain or fatigue from the objects which hung from four-tiers (higher and lower) and there was also no question as to the precision of balance he took while continuing on.
Klaus' announcement was voiced across the ship, in quick action the plane that roared was addressed quickly with the packages attached. The mundane among them had acclimated the nature of their superiors and understood full well what was required.
As he grew closer to the vehicle all who were near came to immediate attention and near-reverence, the abnormal sounds emanating from his form announced the biological soldier's approach clearly despite the already present clamor. The field increased to an all new density and the crew could feel the tingle in their skin as they were showered in a cascade of harmless particles which glanced back to the sources carrying information from every direction. Vuum-vuum-vuum! A cry of completion as the first construct was complete. He reached to swipe down the center, then a light of great intensity shone from the arcing azure mark as it manifested, thereafter gravitating to position itself hovered just above the upper left shoulder between a maw and set of soft, larger mandible (vaguely similar to Klaus') - above the three tassels hung from the shoulder which split apart for the polyps at the attachment to the harness. In correspondence a skin covered polyp extending from his back lost the glow from its tip as it animated the plasmatic mark with the ability to unlock higher dimensions through such sacred geometry. With renewed intensity the chaotic pulse field overtook nearly all noise with the constant hum of many. Immediately following in succession with this his left arm bent at an awkward angle to draw yet another stroke, arcs streaking towards his fingertips once again, this to be shaped into the form of a cocked, upside-down 'L'. The faint glimmer increasing steadily as a portion were devoted to its sowing.
Before him was an aircraft of advanced design, though aesthetic seemed as if outdated by the standards of many places throughout the infinite. The vehicle was roaring with a life mechanical, he began to step towards the cockpit and with the plane so integrated, it was simple for the polyps to manipulate the machinery to flip the hatch open revealing a set of mechanical controls and a single seat. He had arrived in time for much of the work to be near completion, the swiveling turrets attached to the underside of each wing held devastating ammunition while the missile-tubes set closer to the underside contained one missile in each with the same dragon mark encompassed by a triangle etched into the head. There were still preparations to be made, for but a little while longer those packages were attached until the plane had rows with interconnected wiring that was being riveted with metal plates over-top.
The unmistakable information of the initial vanguard Look at the fool man! He attacks at the air. How does he think he can do that with us here, big brother? Oliver addressed Max, though only received a scoff one could almost interpret as a short sardonic laugh. Adell approached and once within range he would be targeted for utter and total obliteration, let alone the sudden shock of having all the energy contained within oneself suddenly lose control from a violent flare of energy reaching to strike, but the following onslaught of munitions let loose upon the vanguard would (possibly) turn there into little except a scorched, hole-riddled corpse. This defensive extermination was to be followed with the clouds of a storm artificially produced from the variance in temperature created by the maneuver. "DAS ENDE IST NAH! NAH! NAH!" A voice full of fervor shot across the ship in that moment after the release of both metaphysical and physical might. From the bow and across the deck the mundane soldiers repeated in equally crazed shouts, "NAH! NAH! NAH!"
High above in the troposphere the gigantic mechanoid could be vaguely sensed with the very extent of the mile-wide diameter of galvanized radio-waves, though its aetheric capabilities would be reduced the further it plummeted into the field once it reached the threshold that radiated from the slow-moving vessel. The closer it came, the clearer defined. It was indeed a beacon to them all with the energy it was broadcasting. Max had been waiting for something of this caliber to shunt itself into the battle; its colossal size made it pronounced in the tainted atmosphere. If a pulse were to be engaged in a futile attempt at disrupting the field as if it were a 'shield', one of the entities would analyze the frequency and hurl itself across the field to shock the system, unleashing the energies contained within the engines so they surged with enough power to bring about a likely overload. As it was to proceed (unless somehow halted), the potential meta-energy the massive robot carried within itself would be set free of its influence and cause damage from within. Of course, this only taking place if it were to descend into the denser portion, though its speed and momentum would carry it quickly within range.
Vuum-vuum! Another call echoed from the Assaultmagos, in a dazzling flash of light the second sigil was brought to completion. It vibrated intensely before moving to rest on the shoulder opposite of its predecessor; this came about the time that those workers had finished their outfitting of the vehicle. A brisk walk to the left side of the plane and he easily leapt forth into the cockpit, the glow from the marks danced upon his armor's surface as they raised to hover down and rest anchored centimeters in front of either pectoral plate. He closes the hatch with a heavy thud while seating himself before the personnel back away, a path being cleared for the aircraft to take off down the runway.
Suddenly the vessel was yanked through the sky to angle itself in a less destructive path. From directly above the large ship materialized with the woman at its bow, all the fire either being drawn towards the Nethuamamagos responsible for causing such upset aboard or simply being vaporized by the turbines that it was imminently headed for. Though the men who were about had been thrown to the ground, the scout plane remained stable due to locking mechanisms holding the wheels to the deck. The conductive materials easily carried the influence from the polyps to unlock the mechanisms. Both turrets on the underside of the wings began to tilt up-and-down and side-to-side in a diagnostic manner. He taxied forward and gained velocity quickly across the deck towards rear starboard, around quarter-way from where he began, the wind caught under the wings and brought lift. Max drew back on the yoke to gain additional altitude. It continued forward and upward as the ship came crashing down from above; finned ammunition streaked through the air, tracing towards the side to send depleted uranium cores penetrating into the deck and up as the turrets snapped to focus and began to unleash a line of the large rounds on their own. Anyone caught aboard the deck would be peppered with the salvo of high-caliber rounds. This was but a glancing assault, yet the damage was potentially great to the vessel. Altitude was being further increased as he passed by, upon reaching the angle towards the fast approaching automaton (two miles by this time and fast closing to the point where it could no longer slow down in a practical manner) there was the whipping of harsh wind outside the left side of the reinforced hatch. A pillar of twisted wind reached forth into the sky to that side where the turbine lay, whereas on the right was the towering command structure. His ship was to pass several hundred feet above the deck, high enough to reach adequate escape, yet low enough to avoid being drawn into the great column and shredded by its source.
Were it to continue and lose its control, venturing within the radius, the tracers fired from the port rear of the warship would maintain bombardment to the side of the mechanoid. Meanwhile as Max continued to ascend towards it, another volley of munition flashed across the darkened sky from those turrets to impact the joints of each shoulder, converging the firing line onto the head before it spread back to soften up the shoulder. The plane's course would be centered even with the giant and auto-adjustments constantly took place to ensure it was not lost. A hail of the anti-armor bullets would be continually streaming from the barrels of the large guns. If it were to in someway break its descent before pushing past said field, Maximilian would proceed to fire the missiles emblazoned with the same dragon symbol as on the canisters attached to his harness. Once launched they would spiral towards the flying hunk of metal, fins akin to the sabot rounds extending to aid its flight. The tips were attracted to the metaphysical nature of the robot, should evasion be attempted, they would arc unnaturally towards the shoulders.
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"Heilige Brüder," The Eighth addressed the gathered congregation as he walked up behind them. Within the confines of the behemoth vessel Joachim (Zeuge) had been at work performing a ritualistic ceremony to sanctify and integrate further with the ship. He passed a low chuckle while peering out over the waters with that single, large eye as he approached to stand beside the rest, giving an honorific bow to Klaus yet still peripherally keeping Eisenwald in sight. "Zee preparations haf been completed vithin. Commune vith zeh awhk vill come easy." The creature clinging to his head formed a hood with armored segments that framed the abnormally large eye, legs wrapped around his face and neck, they tightened momentarily to pull the tail-like extensions that hung down his back, the odd dermal layering appeared to ripple before falling slack against his body.
Gnashing words cut into his mind, That was pathetic, you couldn't appease me with that poor excuse of ritualism. Sandraudiga barraged into his thoughts, though displayed no outward attempt at joining into the others' conversation. Prepare the meat for this slaughter, murderer, The feminine voice relayed his orders condescendingly, but he took them with calm despite the less-than-pleasant memories brought to mind by them - dead and gone.
Fwush-fwush-fwush! Not far behind the wing-like limbs of the living bow flapped in intervals before gliding along the pulses of his field and veering downwards to hover horizontally in front of the Reconmagos' left hand. The weapon engulfed his hand to the wrist and seemed to unify with its host's suit, both limbs drawn taut to recurve by a muscular cord with a dark veneer. A glowing eye rolled open as his left hand proceeded within the cavity, providing a feed to share its sight whilst clung to his arm, those polyps embedded within the bow pooled with the rest of the system.
His armor had around the same degree of protection as Maximilian's suit provided, although his was leaner and had portions that were covered in translucent feathery branches. These when shifting only slightly would cause light to be warped and minute changes re-emitted it to blend the Nethuamamagos better with the surrounding background, hitherto they only appeared to faintly shimmer with the metallic hue of the deck around. The harness he wore was standard issue, with a Swastika-stamped leather pauldron on the left shoulder which attached to several thin strips of cloth dangling with writ of sacred geometry. A ritual knife with waved blade and dark handle was sheathed on the front of his right thigh (13' phase-hardened steel, kris-patterned blade), the only other weapon being a Luger pistol holstered on the right side of the trunk (1x 9mm lead clips, 1x hollow points).
A pair of small limbs abode in his torso; they extended from the inlets formed in his chest while static current began to generate arcs at the tips of those thin, bony digits whilst they scratched at the air. In the wake of these fingers brought down in a half-loop a ghostly semicircle materialized in a luminous spectacle etched into the shimmering air before him, the seed was planted, now its form buzzed as particles were drawn in from the surrounding, galvanized in the process by energies beyond mundane perception. The mark hovered with barely any space between it and his body, giving the aesthetic of being written ritualistically upon him. In the meanwhile there was something amiss beneath the odd skin of the elongated organ attached to his right hip, it expanded and contracted rapidly, a dim glow pouring from the multiple holes arranged in a hive-like manner. It began to convulse and shudder as glands within released a number of compounds into the internal columns. Those holes tightened while inside things came to be guided in their creation, save all except the central - where there appeared to be something else in the process of development with those spasms.
He turns about-face and approaches the steps leading to the middle of the bow. At their height he pauses and surveys the carrier's surface, all whom are near seem to be swayed by the presence. "Das ende ist nah.." His voice carried amplified over the expanse, though the words were slow and dull in the ears of those aboard. "Zeh light shall bring salvation, und it shall reach to smite all who defy. All resources vill come undah our dominion! Zey vill take knee before our might and be shown no mercy!" A free-hand he raised to gain their attention. ..skritch.. skriiitch... skrk.. The hood relinquished a measure of its hold as a strange flat bug crawled out from underneath and simply took to orbit so it was situated above one of his shoulders, vibrating intensely, so much so that it released a low hum as legs that had extended took on a sort of resonance. Along with this a being that fluttered from the opposite side appeared, an eye staring forward from the living thing as it hovered above the other shoulder, a faint shimmer hanging in the air where its wings had fluttered past. "Das ende ist nah!" It reverberated across the entire ship as that skittering creature amplified the impassioned tone carried over the pulse field they rode. "Sacrifice is requiahd for zee cause!" The men erupted in shouts as he continued and raised both bow and free arm skyward. Vuuummm! The slender forefingers of an arm clawed across the mark's surface, it released a flash of light before affixing itself behind his left shoulder, those arms immediately took the task of beginning the angled outline of yet another.
The air twisted around the arc as it sped for the brute, deafening fire mingled with the intense buzz of the whipping arm of energies. "Vernichtung! Vernichtung!" Joachim fervently shouted as the humanoid form was to be bathed in destruction. Mundane soldiers and deckhands alike joined into the chanting, preparing their resolve for the oncoming battle. "For Hitler und zeh Fourth Reich!" The eminent approach of the crash-course vessel was indicated and perceived by all the Nethuamamagos. The thick-skull is readying to move us. Brace for impact and finalize integration.. Once again Sandraudiga addressed him mentally, not quite as harshly - at the least it could be described as indifference. "DAS ENDE IST NAH! NAH! NAH!" As the Schamane des Okkulten raved that 'the end is nigh', across the ship men lifted their voices following his, "NAH! NAH! NAH!"
Whilst they began to elevate their chants the scrawny fingers raked at the glowing symbol to bring it into manifestation. The area surrounding was illuminated by the living plasmatic entity. With this completed it moved to rest opposing the other over the right shoulder. Be prepared... 'She' whispered into his thoughts. At this time Hans began to lurch the gigantic carrier from its original path, those who were unable to prepare themselves were thrown like rag-dolls across the deck. He however, like the other Nethuamamagos, would remain firm where he stood; unseen tethers to the deck kept the tumultuous ride to a minimal bump.
Quickly succeeding the lurch, he reached to his hip with enlarged right arm and withdrew three seamless stakes between his fingers from the yet shuddering quiver, each tipped with a tapering mass with small spikes jutting every which way. They were nocked on the Nanaeel's hyper-tensile string (the earlier 'laquer' having hardened around the fibrous cord to form a protective coating) and immediately brought the weapon even on a horizontal plane; its claws holding the shafts to the fuller. He turned to face starboard while continuing to draw back, muscles within its limbs contracted to allow maximum draw. TWANG! With pinpoint accuracy each flew in an arcing path that spread them so they impaled into the metal of the deck (fore, aft, and middle), the minute adjustments beforehand calculated so every variable in place was met for them to land as desired. A deckhand positioned towards the central edge, who happened to have fallen to the floor when the vessel had been pulled was sliding feet-first towards the waters below, he released a scream of pain as one of his hands was impaled, he soon discovered the initial nature of these projectiles. The head exploded into powerful roots that entangled themselves with the flesh, sinew, and bone of the poor creature's limb, reaching to branch out within the metal underneath. In turn the others (who hadn't met this occurrence) rooted within before the shaft split open at the base to reveal fronds that waved and jumped in their environment, they fanned out as the biological casing fell aside, steadily increasing from a simple wave to near-invisible undulation as the meta-physical radiation passed through the woven comb with renewed vigor. Meanwhile the man who's hand had been mangled tried to pull free, but it was too late, he had been trapped and with this new source of nourishment the node began to snake its roots up into his body. Blood vessels were invaded as it leeched away at the organic matter, exsanguinating him until there was a dry husk prostrate beside it. It obtained gradual growth and continued to meld into the carcass subsequently. Those roots would pour from the body's orifices, seeking to anchor into the deck. Joachim proceeded to fire the remaining three, repeating the process towards port, though none were skewered by this volley.
In the air above the woman's ship had materialized just beyond the abnormal bubble around the airborne fortress and began to rapidly descend. With an upturned gaze that massive eye focused on the lone figure at its prow while one of the aircraft flew by headed towards rear-starboard at tremendous speed, unleashing fire upon its deck en passant. The final, center hole on the quiver enlarged to release a bony shaft with fletchings of thin plate. He reached and drew the living arrow out of its birth canal, there was a hook within his palm that clamped onto the shaft just in front of the nock so it was anchored. It was tipped with a sharp taper; long, jagged spikes shooting out from the head before retracting back into the shaft. Once it was nocked, he would bring the Nanaeel at rest in front of him while continuing to bear witness as the craft would be sucked into towering column of wind and the turbines generating it. The living weapon's eye rolled its stare towards the vessel, its polyps ablaze as energies were streamed from the rest. Joachim watched and waited, those little limbs preparing a third ionized body just in front of his chest. His reaction hinged upon the events that would be taking place soon afterwards.-|
Anfallen: [ L ] [ A ]
Zeuge: [ N ] [ A ]
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Post by Hero on Sept 23, 2015 16:25:05 GMT
Adell and his belligerent disposition was a contentious issue that had been brought to light since the Vestusio War. Dancing with the Apex of Destruction, Malphisto Ciphol, he entertained himself with an anomaly that could impose their will upon reality in virtually any form of fashion - and could have defeated him as well, were it not for Dias Blade's intervention. But Adell couldn't blame the blue-haired hero, Dias' history with MERKAHBAH was long and drawn out, while The God Dragon wanted nothing more than a challenge that could satisfy his insatiable hunger. His leadership ability and his true intentions had been called into question as a result of his voracious bloodlust and most importantly out of fear of his true potential.
"Don't make me laugh..." Ace grumbled from above in a world far out of reach, one outside of the boundaries of any true reality. "If your counterpart is strong enough to be destroyed by these invaders then he's absolutely no match for the Council or the Breakers..."
Dist didn't move, in the darkness devoid of any light but that of the battle happening below there feet, only viewable through the Eternal Sphere, Dist didn't bother retorting in the least bit. As Adell charged headstrong and was bombarded by the enemies of the ship, Ace smiled sheepishly. The God Dragon would only be interesting to watch if pushed to his absolute limits, and there was no point to date that had come even close to doing that. Would the Nethuamamagos be the first? There were a few problems in their would-be counter to Adell's sudden assault, but none outside of simple misunderstanding. While the Yin and Yang chi Adell had coalescing through Adell was released in a torrential burst of raw energy; the effects that the polyp had hoped for by ramming its consciousness into Adell may not have been what it was expecting. As the recoil snapped back and released dangerous power through the surrounding area only Adell's opalescent eyes could be seen in the shimmering light above.
It just so happened that the active physical backlash associated with the energy's release was a domain Adell had all too much associated himself with. Devouring the physical recoil like the wild beast he was, Adell scrambled in his temporary daze - bare-handedly grabbing hold of the polyp's consciousness with his own two hands. The maddening rage in Adell's eyes translated to his undulating strength, and before the energies had completely scattered across he sky Adell acted on instinct.
Regaining his composure almost instantly he opened the Gate of Taiken in the center of the consciousness itself, an insidious purple flame opening from within the consciousness that would consume all that made up the pandimensional container itself, burning it and reducing it to metaphysical ash. Reminiscent of Dias' Ether Burn (as learned from their brief time training among one another), the Taiken Gate was one of the many abilities within Adell's library that allowed Adell to combat the metaphysical, supernatural, and beyond with his limited skill set. If Adell had observed accordingly, the Gate of Taiken's sudden exposure within the polyp's consciousness itself would devour it, and being linked in a string to all of the others in the lattice that was the barrier around the battleship; it would spread like wildfire across the entire barrier until they were all devoured in a matter of seconds.
Which left Adell temporarily vulnerable and unable to use any of the conjugations within Taiken itself (elemental or otherwise). Grunting, he allowed the polyp's consciousness to dissolve before him just as the bombardment from below screamed heavenward; aimed to dig Adell a grave before the battle had truly begun.
Massive explosions consumed the sky above where purple flames battled with a monsoon of heated coils and the inferno that ensured when the ground troops fired above at where Adell had appeared. Fighting through the massive bombardment it's hard to tell what struck Adell and what hadn't. As they were aiming at such a small target, and the initial impact against the polyp before gave him grounds to make adjustments as necessary, his feet smashed against the air at such a critical velocity that it propelled him in any which direction he chose, an alternative to his usual movement in the air which was prevented by his lack of Taiken (which was used to regulate and control his chi).
His reflexes as sharp as a diamond, his body disappeared from the sky to anyone with normal vision, and while some shells exploded, it'd be hard to tell what struck Adell and what didn't, atleast until he landed below with a massive explosion that'd likely shake the entire ship and everyone on top of it.
"Finally..." Adell spat, flicking the blood from his eyebrow. "The trouble I've gone through to get things going..."
Blood could be seen soaking through his gi, and the overcoat he'd been wearing was lost in the inferno above. The air around him was stale and intense, and rising from his crouch below he glared ahead with excitement and animalistic rage. It seemed that only his left shoulder and right calf had sustained any damage, though obviously not enough to change the strength that offset the world around him from within.
"Are you guys done? Or is it my turn?"
Taking giant steps forward the brute clenched his hands into powerful fists, the Tenchi Mushin Ryuu beginning to manifest in its corresponding vectors. The world around him shifted so carefully that only the most acute eyes would notice just what was happening around him. This wouldn't be like his other battles, and temporarily lacking Taiken, he would have to make up for Taiken's recovery with pure skill and strength.
"No more games, let's get things going."
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Post by tenguknightmare on Oct 5, 2015 21:29:09 GMT
He put his feet in one at a time and hung off the rickety opening of the small pod’s door frame. It moaned with a pathetic metallic squeak. The man in the black coat and heavy boots thumped right into the seat with a smile.
“Well, close the hatch. We’re movin’ down,” the man said. The door shrieked as it closed, metal scraping metal. The hatch locked and there was enough space for him to move about if need be. He settled himself comfortably on the large torn and stuffing-spilled seat, pulling at a tuft of the orange, sponge-like substance.
“God this’ll be Hell,” he groaned.
Out of the blue, the entire pod began to quiver and rumble, loose screws shaking with the beginning of the ignition. There was a tap at the hull and he screamed out, “I’m ready!” And he was gone. The ship shot both himself and his partner right for the engines of the ship, and with his mind’s eye, he saw nothing but the spiritual energies across the battlefield, and Adell’s was burning passionately. Though he remained blind to the engines, the man was as boisterous as ever with the ongoing battle ensuing on the outside of his little pod.
Darkness crawled from the shadows beneath his seat and the loose opening of his clothes like a wispy fog, crawling up his body and around his shoulders. It spread thick like an added layer of armor, collecting faster and faster since the initial projection of his wishy-washy pod. The miasmic darkness progressively coagulated, turning almost liquid in substance, then hard like a shell just around his body. He moved his arms and joints were formed for his shoulders and elbows, and eventually it covered his face, with the last glimmer of courage shining in his bright, green eyes.
While the armor of darkness hardened around the man’s body, he brought together his hands, which had not yet undergone their protection. He rolled up his sleeves a little, tapping the runic language crawling up his skin; a light flared in his little pod, creating a bridge between the gaps of distance, from the small Demiplane of Existance aptly named “The Study”. From it, a katana locked away in its scabbard began to vibrate with mystical spatial energies wrapping around the hilt of the blade and drawing it from its slumber. Black scrawl ran along the surface of the silver-coloured blade, and at the very base, nearest the guard, the black marking radiated the same purple-ish energy that the man’s wrist did. Folding together the space and creating an opening wide enough only for the blade to escape, it shot through into the pod, more specifically, into his hand.
Holding his sword, Vinculum, he reared a single hand back and began channeling the etheric energy around his person, giving it presence. The aura around the man began shifting, changing, and glowing strands of azure. The azure energy ran along the blade, from his person and energizing it with power and sharpness. The blade’s reach far surpassed its 2ft reach, extended meters and meters. It pierced the makeshift door of the pod and continued growing in length until he thought, “Let’s go!”
The blade’s blue sharpness began tearing through the poorly made pod’s hull, and the darkness overtook his body like an all-impact and thermal suit. It cut clean through metals and during the final moments, where the space between the pod and the engine’s funneling pressure, the blade bit into the whirling fans and through the engine’s turbine, leaving energy to slice through the metals even though they may have been super-metals, incapable of being destroyed through natural means. It was no match for the super-cut he’d preformed. Though in effect, the engine would have exploded, and the man was prepared for such a thing. The explosion would have radiated a large concussive force and flames that ate away at everything. The pod was returned to the scrap it once was. For the man, he was blown into the air and left somewhat unharmed from the explosion itself. There were small punctures in his black suit of armor, with the tips of metal just barely poking into his skin, letting nothing but a single drop of green and black blood to bubble at, yet not drip. He soared through the air until he skidded across the earthen ground, letting his blade fall next to his head and piercing the ground. The darkness faded from his body, and all that was left was Riku Hell Kaiser Nightmare on the floor with a nasty cough.
“Holy crap THAT WAS FUN!”
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Post by phantom on Nov 4, 2015 21:08:48 GMT
Lay it all to ruin.
Infernius had flown through the air, Aether wings in full bloom with a two-mile long wing span. The wings fold back to promote growth in speed, the sound barrier breaks. Beams of light trail off of Infernius’ body as it travels, the arm of the mechanoid beast emulates a light that was reminiscent of void light. The energy of creation, soon the light devours the mech in its radiance. Gaiken, don't do that it is dangerous! Tonya called to him, but Gaiken ignored her. He continued, Infernius' visage collapsed fading from everything. This existence, this reality, however, he was still in this spatial existence. All things existed across separate dimensions, this plane, this battlefield this war, may have existed here, but did not exist in another. All those weapons missed their mark while Infernius fell without resistance from their assault and or defenses.
"Heh, sometimes it's too easy."
Now there was a blip, a blip where? A blip on the Nethuaguamos' radar but it was in the center of them. But what did this mean? Well, it was simple, Infernius was going to emerge here but how? This 'blip' was Gaiken's entire existence, his Aura formed in the center of the carrier, projecting itself through the entire span of the barrier. This field which attempted to place a damper on Gaiken's movement was denied entirely. Gaiken's presence upheld order, and this barrier tampered with the balance.The O.B.A(Outer Body Awareness) Aura allowed energy for all being's in the immediate vicinity of the carrier to flow without fail. From within the aura, a deformity in the fabric of reality had risen in the form of a spark, this spark grew and grew and grew until it forty meters tall, the spark destroyed anything and everything that it came in contact with. Bolts of reality bending energy tore through the carrier with cataclysmic results. And from this spark Infernius emerged tearing through the Helicarrier with the almighty strength of the Godhand. From the surface, the outside, one might notice the explosions and the ground shaking force as Infernius moved through the carrier with little to no resistance. The hand collided with the engine room, Infernius' ignited hand took hold of the engine and simply crushed it. The energy passed through the fuel lines and the aether ignited the fuel the result? The engine room went up in aether born flames, the mech emerged from the top of the carrier with a pillar of purple flames following in his wake.
The carrier would collapse crumbling sending bits of itself in every which direction. The Aether continued, moving through the ship with its cataclysmic aether born flames. They traveled through the ship, purifying most if not all with a conflagration, Gaiken could hear it the screams as the crew was burning, there was nothing from him. The carrier exploded sending a force and blinding light in every which direction as a mushroom cloud soon filled the sky. He waited for any signs of life from the crew, anything, should something emerge Gaiken would be ready to strike.
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Post by Dirge on Dec 13, 2015 4:35:28 GMT
The fact of the matter was that while death and destruction were raining down on the Nethuamamagos' carrier, Vincent was still watching the scene unfold from afar at a distance close enough to feel the lingering heat from the explosions and yet far enough to be unaffected in his entirety by their impending shockwaves. It was partially because of the bounded fields he'd created inside the Ward - a stacked pair of which were surrounding him at the moment - but also due to his own resilience and the properties of the velvet-like attire he often sported. Each and every single ward was beginning to look the part, with multiple sigils and symbols surfacing upon their shining surface and with defined borders that only grew in intensity with every passing second.
Lucia N. Heterodyne, from the looks of it, had seen it fit to join this particular battle, and while she wasn't really a heroine, she was probably seen as one here, subjectively speaking. The bounties on her had only risen through the last few years and she was enjoying one of the all-time highest on the list of criminals throughout the Multiverse at the moment. She was easily a top five, according to the magister, and while he didn't know all her feats, what he'd heard about her was good enough. What he was currently witnessing, however, made him grin like the head of the boss being informed of their biggest shipment up to date arriving into town... Which wasn't all that far from the truth, really.
That enormous battleship she'd brought into the Ward was sure to deal enough damage to the Nethuamamagos' own toy, despite their fields and defenses. Surprise strategies were the best, and the bigger the surprise, the better the outcome. Aside from that, the Havoc elite troops were mobilizing quickly albeit in a disorganized manner. Chances were that most of them were going to die today but they didn't know it just yet. Blinded by their own fanatism and the desire they had to defeat the opposition, the vast majority of them were going to end up throwing their lives away for a cause that was greater than their feeble bodies and minds could comprehend.
Out of all the people the magister knew, Adell appeared to be the most apt to make use of one of the wards, and so it was that he'd be the first to receive some of Vincent's supporting power. One of the complete circles on the ground disappeared completely from view and transcended from point A to B in the blink of an eye before making it to the Fiorelli's palm. A moment later and that very ward was traveling through the spiritual chain Vincent had wrapped around Adell. The sigils and symbols flashing vibrantly on the chain once the ward was traveling, and it ensured that said chain wouldn't be disrupted or broken through keeping their spiritual bonds locked together. The bounded field surrounded Adell's silhouette and created a translucent field of light that actively worked to shrug off external foreign influences and to act as a defensive barrier against these. It worked in a similar way to Vincent's magic circles, which meant that if the enemy knew how to work around them, its defensive power would be as good as a bedsheet being worn into battle.
But each and every ward was drawing from the power around them, purifying the energy so to separate any external influence from the raw product and taking the latter in just to grow like a hungry elemental entity. The way Gaiken issued forth raw aether into the air from the right hand of his mechanoid also served for the weaker wards on the ground to complete themselves, and to grow even more in terms of the energy they possessed. While Vincent remained protected amidst these wards, their purpose was evident with the way he'd aided Adell; he was free to utilize them as they were, or pull from their energy to cast his own spells.
Since there was little need to do much in terms of offensive power, he'd merely pronounce a few words while tapping upon the energy of one of the wards, which was fully depleted on the spot, leaving five more on the ground with only four conjoining together in midair...
"Oh, Tartaros keimenon Basileion necron... Phainsastos hemin!"
The result was nearly instantaneous in that once the energy was spent, enormous pillars of an unknown kind of stone appeared nearly a hundred feet above Vincent's head. In the little island that the magister stood, large chunks of stone were missing and the patch of land was beginning to sink into the vast ocean around it. It prompted the magister to order his Aspects to keep the circles alive through separating them from the ground, causing them to become aerial magic circles the likes of which the first squad had drawn.
Five pillars had been summoned and crafted with all the magical energy that had been used up as fuel for the spell and the dirt and rubble that had been used as a base material. All five were completely black and possessing a sleek surface, and all five were approximately the size of a small skyscraper. The spell incanted was the 'Stone Pillar of Hades', an offensive spell which summons these enormous physical constructs. While summoned by magic, the pillars cannot be defended against via anti-magic barriers, and the mass of the constructs themselves usually means that it is almost impossible to block them with anti-physical barriers as well. Their driving force is usually telekinesis and psychokinesis, though the magister has also managed to direct each and every single pillar through commands, hinting to the spell creating 'living' constructs with a conscience of their own that, while unable to process complex commands, is capable of understanding basic commands and acknowledging only one master.
And the five of them were launched at neckbreaking speeds toward the Nethuamamagos' carrier, which further added to the massive force behind them as they tore through the air. While he had no idea where the Nethuamamagos were within the carrier, he made a few wild guesses and aimed for vital points along the surface of the vessel. One for the bow, another one for the main deck, another one for the middle of the ship, and the last two targeting a pair of engines in strategic points.
All that was left for the magister to see is how the Nethuamamagos' carrier dealt with the full brunt of Lucia's surprise attack and what else they had up their sleeve. If they wanted to stop these massive pillars and whatever else came next, brute force wasn't probably the best strategy to use, as Adell would've come to understand at some point. The war was slowly inching toward its apex.
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Post by Anshin on Feb 3, 2016 22:59:50 GMT
Lucia N. Heterodyne was in the thick of it now. As disorganized as the Havoc offensive was the Vernichtung defensive line was even worse, almost as though some enterprising individual was looking to obfuscate the battle so that they could safely deliver a knife to the back, but who could be so dishonorable?
Nazi’s that’s who.
Luckily the Princess of Pirates was a lone bastion of sanity amidst the sea of chaos, not because she was so vastly clever that she was able to see through the enemies plans or at least not solely because of that, but because she quite simply did not care what tricks the enemy threw her way. Why? Because she was superior that's why. Because equality was, is, and always will be a lie; a noble idea to pay lip service but one that could not exist in the ‘Verse and would ultimately render the ‘Verse a bland boring place in the impossible scenario where those who championed it finally succeeded. Because the flag of equality was invariably hoisted by those weak cowards who thought to use it for their own gain. When we speak of equality we are of course speaking of the Magos and their anti-magic tactics but more specifics of their Polyps, those half-born psychics bred to defend the Magos against the wiles of wizards, and currently trying and failing to impose their will upon Lucia.
On an astral level they were bubbles, voluminous but ultimately empty; Adell’s mistake had been trying to play their game and create a domain with which to match theirs when all he really needed to do was ignore them. Whether they liked it or not the Polyps parted for Lucia and the Burning Courage on a physical and a metaphysical level because they literally had no choice in much the same way the ocean had no choice but to make waves when the earth chose to move. Of that single Polyp that dared to stand up to her; well what do you think happened when a wave crashed into a mountain. It drove all of its weight against Lucia’s will and she did not budge, letting its consciousness batter itself weary against her barrier before it had to suffer the blowback of its own metaphysical momentum and thus broke, somewhere deep inside of the carrier a single tumorous Polyp popped like a zit and left the others quaking with fearful knowledge that here was an opponent who would not bend before them.
All of this without so much as pausing Lucia's machinations who in turn remained as stoic as ever, feet shoulder width apart and hands clasped together behind her back, hair whipping through the wind. The bullets continued to divert course, each one meeting her invisible armor and being shunted off to the side by the purely natural forces that it used to shape its barrier, the same thing went for HMS Burning Courage whose titular fiery will had anchored to its hull and plowed right through the formless Polyp barrier, the inside of the Magos carrier was beginning to look like a highschool bathroom with all the puss filled zits popping inside it. Mazoku on the other hand was not so silent, despite her red skin and her tiny horns she was by all measures an average overweight frizzy haired girl in a too tight dress, and in theory she was quickly going to evolve into a block of Swiss cheese. Every bullet that missed Lucia homed in on Mazoku, dimpling her fat flesh and sending ripples through the rest of her body, some even going so far as to rudely detonate and ignite the atmosphere around her, but for all that effort her skin never once broke. The kinetic energy and explosive heat soaked into her flesh about the same as it would have for any other organic, it also caused her a great deal of physical pain and would have left her screaming if Mazzy wasn’t also sadomasochistic bitch, but once therein it was to be harvested for all that it was worth and twisted with her pain to become fuel. For a brief and hilarious instant Mazzy ceased to be and in her place was a formless bullet beleaguered blob and then like that it was gone.
With every passing second Mazoku gained more mass, her fat burned away and in its place muscles formed like thick cords around stretching bones, all of that damage was exactly what she needed to fuel her transformation from Betty Ross into the Red She Hulk. When the transformation was done she stood nearly fifteen feet tall with blood tinted steam pouring from her pores. She was built like a Greek God with long limber limbs, a massive upper body and generous breasts, but a thin waist and shapely abdomen and at least a dozen abdominal muscles clearly defined crimson flesh. Her face was beautiful but cruel and the horns atop her head had become sweeping onyx antlers. Her dress was not ash and her hair had lit into a bonfire. But for all the ferocity with which the flames licked at her they never seemed to exhaust fuel or go out, it was a recursive loop, the more intense the heat they let off the more she regenerated and the more intense the fires in turn became. In the end she was like a miniature titan with head whipped back and booming laughter filling the air, blade filled mouth hung open and eyes on fire.
The Assaultmagos had not been forgotten he had merely been brushed aside as his strafing run had been ineffective against both women. Now as he wheeled around for a second run he would find Mazoku already upon him. She'd spun on her heels and launched herself from the battleship as nearly five thousand miles an hour, enough shatter the sound barrier six times over and to also place an incredible amount of pressure on her as the atmosphere sought to rip her limbs off, and yet as we now know Mazoku only grew stronger from the effort. When she struck the aircraft the steel peeled apart before her, those missiles within loosed their payloads and coated both parties with purifying flames, only for a sweeping meaty limb to drive through the curtain of fire and grasp his face. Any sharp alien edges that he might have were dulled against the sheer thickness of her flesh, unless he was actually capable of rooting himself in place and providing a serious attack he would be running his blades against an organic suit of armor with absolutely no leverage, and she would laugh in his face.
But that's not at all. There was an attack incoming as Mazzy reached the apex of her leap and came crashing down one of those whirling engines that the Magos were so darn proud of. She fell with such speed and force that the metal blades would already be bending by the time she landed but she made sure that the Assaultmagos was first in line to kiss them with his face. More blades, hammering into her body and dimpling her flesh inwards before shattering to the air, followed of course by a raucous explosion of force. Combined with the falling starship and Riku Nightmare's sword slash the Magos were down to two half hearted propellers.
“You have no subtlety…” Lucia said with a grunt before Mazoku leapt and the Princess of Pirates enacted the second part of her plan. Their methods were different but their path was ultimately the same as was the fate of any good crew. Just as Lucia left the HMS Burning Courage with a leap she’d finally press that little red button on the neat black trigger she'd been holding this entire time. Trigger to what you ask? Well to all the anti-matter explosives, atomic bombs, and old fashioned dynamite that she’d stuffed inside of the HMS Burning Courage. After all this was to be her final mission and Lucia wanted to guarantee that the old girl went out with a glorious bang. Now remember that HMS Burning Courage was fully two miles long and was packed with the kind of explosives that would make the Tsar Bomba look like a child’s wet fart. A miniature sun was born in the middle of the battlefield, it was not just enough force to split the Carrier in half but to vaporize the Burning Courage and anything unfortunate enough to be within a half mile radius, those soldiers who were not caught in the immediate blast zone would liquidate as shockwaves moved through their body as would any Polyps remaining. Any brave champions remaining would be sorely put to the test whether they be Havoc aligned or Sektor aligned...
Of course Lucia, well she did not even bat an eye. The wave of heat and force washed over her and was once more deflected by the Sword of the Stars, but the wave did serve to highlight the angles of the invisible armor that she wore, hidden to the eye but as capable as any mech or power armor ever had been. An instant later, riding on the wave of force and moving at speeds the mortal mind could hardly comprehend, she landed on one of the last remaining segments of hull a mere fifteen feet away from the Reconmagos. He had been eyeballing her the entire time and if he dared to loose an arrow to stop her well she’d react, if not, she’d at least acknowledge her newest fan by greeting him face to face. Hopefully he wasn't too busy dealing with injuries to acknowledge her.
“So tell me, do any of you Magos know how to fight or do you just rely on tricks to win the day for you?”
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Post by Dirge on Jun 11, 2016 10:33:14 GMT
“Children of the land transfigured by their greed By an extraneous hand were they finally freed Of their weak bodies and feeble minds Onward to the Multiverse and beyond did they fly Clashed against friend and foe alike Yet the legends never speak about the dark They say fame and fortune go hand in hand The war was over before it truly began…”
The words rolled past Vincent’s lips with a tinge of disappointment. It did not take a bard or a poet to assign meaning to the battle that unfolded before the entire Havoc unit’s eyes, underneath Lucia and in front of Mazoku, and witnessed even by the mech-wielding Gaiken. The enemy refused to leave their cage and so a free bird ensured their release. The sea of clouds in the Ward’s skies had parted much like the defensive field surrounding the Vernichtung Sektor’s carrier in the face of a superior force; the HMS Burning Courage was the drill that pierced through the heavens, and also what brought their fall with it. Like the Spear of Longinus it fell, its descent a testament to how crafty pirates were in the far corners of the Multiverse and how far they would go to get what they wanted. They would sacrifice everything for the ultimate gift: beauty in all of its forms.
Torrents of languid crimson slowly made their way out of the creases and crevices in the hull of the HMS Burning Courage right as the ship’s bow tore through the middle of the Magos’ carrier like a hot knife slicing through butter. The polyps had been as effective as ever against physical matter, which further convinced the magister they did not do anything, and their presence was fully eradicated in a matter of seconds. A vibrant flash of light coming from the Burning Courage signaled the brunt of the explosives packed within finally growing afflicted by the flames, and the once blue skies became crimson and gold. The pentad ‘Stone Pillars of Hades’ soon buried themselves deeply within the Vernichtung’s signature ship, pummeling the hull before breaching it. Two of the pillars slammed into a pair of wayward Magos who had not been able to see the constructs coming and pinned them to the opposite wall of the ship, their attention solely focused on Lucia’s first - and presumably last - act in this battle.
Things got hot around this point in time.
The heat and the concussive force coming from the detonated mass of explosives descending from the skies expanded outward to create something akin to a miniature sun, and its force ripped through the enemy carrier. Ceramic, metal, polyp, and flesh alike sizzled and charred underneath the onslaught of the Burning Courage. The magister’s pillars shared in the collective inferno, myriad runes lighting up along their sleek surface as they absorbed a portion of the heat generated by the core of the Courage’s sun. Slowly but surely, the build-up of energy culminated in an inevitable burst that finished Lucia’s job, splitting up into countless razor sharp shards and tearing the carrier limb from limb, ensuring that the crew within was fully exposed to the kinetic force and the growing wave of infernal heat.
The consequences of this afflicted both friend and foe, and the magister was ready for this.
The first thing Vincent did was issue a slight tug on the spiritual chain binding Adell to him, which pulled the rash individual out of the jaws of danger and into the embrace of one of his magic circles, out of which several remained. The magister knew that the protective field around Adell wouldn’t protect him from Lucia’s surprise. Each and every single aerial magic circle the Aspects of the magister tended to soon merged into a singular boundary, their energies combined and arranged into a perfect pattern. This ensured no energy would be wasted as the magister channeled it all to defend his ‘children’ and himself. The shockwave of the miniature sun crashed hard against the sleek surface of the shining dome the boundary soon projected, causing the little island twenty feet underneath the magister and his Aspects to finally submerge underneath the churning waters. While this barrier would hold against the forces that assaulted it, the same could not be said for the members of Havoc, who saw it fit split throughout the battlefield without any sort of protection. Chances were they would be charred and consequently disintegrated along with the enemy; the magister did not see many other options there.
Ultimately… There was no war.
There was no conflict.
There was no fighting.
There was a massacre.
There was a slaughter.
There was a sheer display of raw physical might combined with strategic intellect the likes of which neither the Magos nor Havoc did possess.
As Lucia stared into the proverbial eyes of the Reconmagos, having finished her question, one last pillar of Hades slammed down atop her latest fan. It possessed the mass of all five pillars combined, the shards having reformed after destroying the carrier and diving down toward the last piece of - mostly - intact hull. The behemoth of a construct split the seas underneath open, never losing its momentum until it finally crushed the Reconmagos against the planet’s crust. Armor and skin, flesh and bone, all trapped underneath the black pillar with no respite and no recourse for the fallen. The flames of the Burning Courage dimmed out, smoking hot pieces of metal falling down from the skies and into the vast seas, lining the water with shards of floating metal as the heavier debris graced the ocean floor. The boundary Vincent held together soon dissipated, with any excess energy returning to both Aspects and himself, and he glanced intently at the final outcome of the battle.
“… What a pity.”
The Nethuamamagos had finally met their match underneath the heel of a superior force, leaving the magister, Lucia, Mazoku, and possibly one or two remaining members of Havoc left to analyze and document the aftermath.
The battle was finally over.
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