JTTM: Beyond Beyond The Impossible (RPG)

[dblade26]

August came out of hiding and visibly relaxed as the cube was dropped back into the bag. He turned to John and tilted his head curiously, but with a grin on his face.

"Umm...sure! What is it you need? I accept payment for favors in hugs, cuddles, sweets and unmarked hundred dollar bills or gold bullion."

[Flanker]

Flanker, Amestris Sewers

Still recovering from the after-effects of the blast, Flanker plucked the beamsabre from the wall and stumbled after Nicholas, hoping that the trail wouldn't have gone cold by the time he caught up. Hesitantly, he activated his armour's boost function, hoping that he wouldn't end up smacking into a wall or some other obstacle.

The last thing he needed was blunt force trauma.

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Elpizo, Gotham Bank

Elpizo may have had inhuman reflexes, but he was not expecting Joseph to manifest his abilities (or, in fact, for said abilities to be super speed of all things). This was not a situation helped at all by the fact that he was distracted. As a result, by the time he had noticed the impending threat and his beamrapier was being raised to deflect the blow, it was too late.

A fracture appeared across the Dai-Shocker general's helmet; only the fact that it had been reinforced during Elpizo's service to Dai-Shocker prevented more serious damage being inflicted. As it was, Elpizo staggered backwards from the force of the strike, stunned by it.

Shaking himself off, the reploid's expression of surprise contorted into one of anger. He would crush this interloper like a bug! Elpizo almost triggered the Dark Elf's powers when he remembered that he had other methods to attack. Settling into a ready stance, Elpizo concentrated. A moment later, his shadow stretched until it was behind Joseph. Peeling itself off of the ground, Elpizo's shadow unexpectedly became solid and tried to latch on to Joseph, trying to run him through with its' facsimile of a beamrapier.

It works! It actually works! A wolfish smile spread across Elpizo's lips as he prepared to attack Joseph (a prospect that would hopefully be aided if the young man was caught off guard by his shadow). He knew, however, that he would need to be quick about this - Doomsday probably would not last forever against his other opponent.

[Mahou Moerin]

Jolokia - Gotham City, Docks

"Heh, so he copies powers, huh?" There was no hiding it; Jolokia was practically giddy at the prospect of fighting such a powerful opponent. "Well, I copy swords, and swords are better than any power, so I clearly have the advantage! Leave this to me, guys!"

After a nod of thanks to Toph, the Kensei sped off towards Amazo once more, ready for a battle that would shake the foundations of the city and would be recorded for centuries to come in legend and song. For this would be a fight the likes of which the world had never before seen, a truly epic confrontation between two unstoppable titans; like the war gods of old meeting for one ultimate contest of skill and pow-

"...Hey, wait a minute!" Jolokia skidded to a halt mere meters in front of the android. "Why's he all chained up? I wanna fight him!" Her eyes quickly turned to April, and for the first time ever there was a flicker of annoyance within them. "September! Get rid of the chains! Then I can fight him one on one! There's no way he can be a match for a master of all twelve schools of Zodiac Kenshido!"

Maybe it was fate, or just coincidence, but at this moment she remembered the words of her fellow pupil under Master Vargus. That he was wrong for thinking there were twelve schools of Zodiac Kenshido. She still couldn't understand how that could be, but...

...Am I really a master? Or am I overlooking something important?

And again, just like when she was sparring with Valvatorez, that strange voice echoed in her head... I am the bone of my sword... Was that card trying to tell her something?

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Anise - Gotham City, Bank

She was supposed to be the smart one of the group, after all. Because of this, Anise had some idea of how the raging beast would respond to Anno's attack, and thus had no qualms with casting a stronger spell on it. She knew Anno wouldn't be so close to it for very long, after all.

...And even if she was, she had magic resistance, right?

"Stream of life that flows through all... Great current of Gaia that suffuses all..." Her staff glowed with a pure, white light as she began the incantation. "Cast the light of purity and erase all darkness... Lend us your strength and let us protect the planet together! Holy!"

Even though this was the third time she had cast it, she was still amazed by how much power was packed into a white magic spell. And that light! Once more she had to avert her eyes, lest she be blinded by its brilliant radiance. Like some kind of angelic warhead, the orb of pure holy energy rushed towards the Doomsday monster...

[Vinestar]

Police Bank

Quirking an eyebrow at the power and form copying, Grey's face let itself settle for an irate grimace. This could get annoying. Although the clone didn't know it could copy her magic, Grey herself didn't know that the clone didn't know. So she responded with the best strategy against such a user. "Attack with your strongest technique before it figures out how to fully use your abilities... Get it over with quickly and return to Moe's side..."

Aligning herself in a position that allowed for easy flow of Mana from the Abyss, the mage drew her right fist back with the digit covered by a ghostly blue light and brighter swirling runes. She then released a single shockwave of intensely chill winds out into the world. Dust particles floating about in the air was flash frozen and shot forward by the turbulence at high speeds. The result of the action was an incredible razor wind that was sharp enough to bite deep into the surrounding concrete of the street in the mad dash towards the clone.

It was only then that Grey figured out that in her anger, she had expended too much Mana. Already, the familiar intense pain coursed through her body as her frame bucked against her misuse of magic. Chastising herself mentally, Grey tried to bluff and continue standing on her two legs against her opponent even has her legs knocked against each other and threatened to collapse.

[Krautman]

John smiled and rustled August's hair. He'd promised to take care of the boy, and now he needed to start backing it up.

"Well, I can promise you all the hugs you want after all this is over, okay? But for now, I need you to take Alicia and the baby somewhere safe and make sure nothing hurts them."

[dblade26]

August frowned for just a second. He recognized John's tone and the general scenario that was unfolding here from the times when Kios used to tell him to take care of Nanabey even though she'd been the older sibling. He wanted the small boy out of the way and was trying to spare his feelings about it by making him feel brave and important.

Still, Achilles was too burned out right now which meant his control over metal and his various swords was shaky at best. Besides that, he did really want to be useful to his new family and liked spending time with Alicia. So, his expression brightened and he smiled up at John.

"Okay! I'll make sure they're happy and safe no matter what!!" He took hold of Alicia's hand and leaned against her leg, grinning.

[stratofarius]

Amazo at the Harbor

Toph replied to Jolokia's nod with a smirk, and then raised an eyebrow at Knight's statement. "That's an understatement, Shining." She said, slightly irritated. "I don't think Metal Heart over there is going to let us have a little heart-to-heart."

The group could hear the sound that came after Amazo changed powers, and he quickly returned to his normal form, abandoning Plastic Man's powers. This, of course, meant he was soon covered in chains. His new powerset (that of Superman) was revealed as he began to roar, easily breaking the chains that covered him (since he wasn't a divine being and just a normal robot) head to feet. However, thanks to the infinite length of the chains, he was quite busy, getting rid of a set on one side and having to get rid of another set on the other side.

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Doomsday at the Bank

Anno managed to actually stab Doomsday with Excalibur. However, as the massive beast groaned thanks to the pain, it grabbed Anno by the arm before the sword could do any substantial damage. He gritted his teeth, using all his strength, attempting to hurl the girl and her sword far away from him as possible.

Even if he didn't manage to hurl Anno away, he did manage to remove the sword from his chest. Once the sword was removed, the hole it created quickly healed up, and it was quickly followed by another surprise: a thick layer of a material that looked like diamond (and that was already covering parts of Doomsday) sprouted from his chest and covered where he was hit and the area around him. Since he was too focused on adapting his body to what just happened, he didn't have time to focus on dodging Anise's attack.

And so, Doomsday only stumbled back, unsure of what the white magic did to him. It was painful, yes, but not that painful. So the beast simply roared, the layer of diamond now spreading to cover all of the uncovered parts of his body as he ran towards Anise like a giant gorilla, trying to grab her by the arm and just slam her on the ground like a ragdoll.

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Composite Superman at the Police Station

The invisible clone dodged Caladbolg with no major problems, but when it came time to dodge the icy spear, he couldn't do that. So Rain got to hear the squish sound something sharp makes after penetrating human flesh, although not for long. The clone quickly became visible, but it's eyes quickly glowed, as it began to heal itself.

But in order to heal itself, the clone needed his other parts. And without any warning, the clone fighting Grey disappeared, turning into a cloud of dust that was sucked by the impaled clone. Another cloud of dust was sucked by the clone, and Composite Superman was back to being just one threat. He quickly sent off a powerful laser beam in Rain's direction, but he expected the girl to dodge it.

They would have to do more to defeat him than just impaling him in an icy spear. The laser beam was meant to give Rain something to dodge as Composite Superman grabbed onto the icy spear. A small wave flew through the icy spear, onto Rain's hand and onto the motorcycle, and the girl could feel she was getting very... very... light. It was then that Composite Superman, using his super strength (and the fact that he had just made Rain, the motorcycle and the spear all combined weigh less than a grain of sand- at least while they were in contact with him) held onto the spear, attempting to hurl Rain and into Grey.

"Listen, little girl." Nightwing said to Jenny, placing a hand over Moerin's wound. "I'm going to remove the bone from inside her- that's the only way you can actually heal your friend. But it's going to hurt a lot. So the moment I remove it, I need you to use whatever you're going to use and heal her. Can you do that?"

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The Rooftops of Amestris

"Shouldn't you say I should find a safe place for August?" Alicia asked with a smirk as she ruffled August's hair. Her smile disappeared as she turned to John. "Listen. I know you're going after Masjora, and it's important that we end him before he gets to Greed, but please, for the love of the Spirits, don't do anything stupid. Don't do anything that might get you killed." She placed her hand on his chest. "I want you to come back in one piece, alright?"

She then turned to Mary, her smile returning to her face. "And since I know you'll most likely follow John, even if I tell you not to, and give you multiple reasons as to why you should stay with us... don't do anything stupid. Especially because..." She looked at Mary's stomach, frowning. "Just... don't be blinded by your rage, alright. And don't try to get the mask back."

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Amestris Underground

As the group ran to the sewers (Lan Fan having stayed behind to take care of Fuu, possibly taking him back to the surface), they would be able to see a light at the end of the tunnel, and the sounds of the silent conflict happening.

"Give us what we want, Colonel." Daishuryou said as the shadows moved closer to Hawkeye's throat.

Roy... smirked. "You won't succeed Daishuryou. And this isn't a cliche'd speech... you don't have enough sacrifices." He pointed at his head. "Thankfully, I retained the memories of the previous owner of this body. I know your plan. And your lacking two other sacrifices. Which means that even if I perform human transmutation today, you won't get a chance to regain your strength. Also, you are missing another key ingredient: who will I perform human transmutation on?... face it, Daishuryou. You've already failed."

"So you say, Colonel. But even if I fail, I'll still see the look of desperation and fear on your face."[/color] He said, turning towards Maki. "And if you won't perform it willingly... we can always force you.[/color] He said, adding a nod that signified Maki could go ahead with forcing Roy to perform the transmutation. It shouldn't be hard. Father's memories showed him one of his homunculi could do it, so his faithful servant could also do it. "Use our fish bait. He has outlived his usefulness."[/color]

It was at this point that Roy looked over at Griga, and then at the ground. The Dai-Shocker commander was standing inside the circle, unlike his comrades. "No." He said, raising his hand in an attempt to warn his enemy. "Griga! GET OUT OF THE CIRCLE!"

[Psyga315]

Dr. Maki smirked as he walked to Griga. He stabbed his Keyblade into the ground and summoned more dark shadowy chains to restrain Griga. He then intensified the grips of both the chains on Roy and the chains on Griga. Roy now noticed his arms were moving to preform the transmutation against his will.

However, he soon noticed the whinnying of a horse. He turned around and noticed Nicholas riding in on Rider's Horse, carrying his Sparda. Dr. Maki focused on other things and attacked Nicholas, locking swords.

"I see I picked the wrong Servant. A shame I didn't have Berserker with me... He would have put you out of commission for good." Dr. Maki said.

"Yeah! You just made the biggest mistake in your life! Oleg has the other three shards, and we just became more powerful thanks to your error! I HAVE AN ARMY!" Nicholas said.

"We have an extractor." Dr. Maki said as he pulled out his Shard Extractor. He then pointed and fired at Nicholas.

To his surprise, he wasn't dead. It turned out that Rider's Shard was taken out of him. Soon, the horse and the Sparda disappeared, putting Nicholas to the floor. Dr. Maki then took Rider's Shard.

"You made a pact with him then? Correct? Would it be fair to say he is your friend? Then... in this case..." Dr. Maki then clutched the Shard. His intent was to crush Rider's Shard in his hands, and if nobody stopped him, that's what he would do.

[Deleted]

Gotham Bank

Anno wasn't prepared for such a quick reaction after stabbing the huge grey monster. With a cry of shock, she found herself hurled through the air. For a moment, she panicked. The stabbing hadn't killed him?!

She hit the ground with crash, landing on her back and skidding several feet, the metal armor providing her protection, but not from the pain. She could still feel the impact of hitting the ground... She came to a rest against the wall.

Anno panted. The stab wound hadn't killed him... and now, she could see that Anise's Holy spell hadn't done anything permanent, either... his regeneration was powerful enough to heal even lethal injury... and now he was going to attack Anise!

Anno shot to her feet. No. No no no. She wasn't going to let him get there. Anise couldn't take the hit... it was obvious that the monster needed something more powerful to take him down.

Anno positioned Excalibur behind herself, and suddenly it took on a brilliant golden glow. The glow grew in intensity, becoming a miasma of brilliant gold, and then an inferno of light. The outpouring of power carried Anno off her feet and incredible speeds, rocketing her towards the creature. The moment she was in range, she brought Excalibur forward in an attempt to slash clear through the hulking monstrosity.

[Rain]

Rain--The Police Station

Eternal Arms Mastership: A+: Mastership of combat arts has reached the point of being said to be unrivaled in one's era. By complete merging of mind, body and technique, it is possible to make use of full fighting skills even when under the influence of any sort of mental hindrance.

Knight of Honor: "... is able to naturally control any weapon that he wields as if it were an extension of his arm and a favorite weapon with which he specialized in and polished his skills for many years."

Had Composite Superman been trying to disarm anyone else in such a manner, it might have worked. When trying to disarm someone who could turn anything they got their hands on into a weapon, even the motorbike beneath them? It was less than effective. The instant that the spear ground to a halt forcing itself through the amalgamation's body, Rain released it and stymied his attempts to toss her away before they'd even begun.

Then, still on the offensive, she leant to the ground, dodging the laser as she did so, and flung the bike with her legs straight at his stomach and crotch. In addition to the already ridiculous speed it got from being a Noble Phantasm, it was now a designed weapon (intended for ramming, obviously), and got another speed boost from the fling.

The result, though not in the manner he had been after, was still Rain's disengagement, rushing into the police station. The alien intellect that ran Eternal Arms Mastership could still identify things with the potential for weaponry, after all... and the damaged building contained so very many viable things...

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April--the Harbour

"I guess..." the white-haired girl said, ceasing to replace the chains as they were smashed and instead hopping off to stand beside Toph; probably the first strong indication the blind girl had that she was even there, due to her distraction. The Vimana sank back into a portal as this happened... and April, giving the enemy another consideration, decided putting on the armour might be a good idea.

She didn't want to go the same way as Gil did in UBW.

One piece at a time, Gilgamesh's armour emerged from the Gate and was equipped as the tall girl stood on the sidelines.

[EldritchMermaid]

"Yeah, I can do that." Jenny tried to force herself to stay calm, and drew the first item she'd need from the medikit.

(OOC: No, I won't be going into detail because I don't know what's in the box and what I'll need.)

[Flanker]

Flanker

"Not so fast!"

A purpleish orb of electricity lurched toward Dr. Maki, clearly intended to either strike him or at least force him to stop concentrating on the shard. However, it moved erratically, and its' speed could be best described as "sluggish".

Hot on its' heels - if a bit unsteady - came Flanker, pointing one beamsabre at Dr. Maki and another at Daishuryou. "Nicholas, are you okay?"

He felt his blood pumping hot through his veins; if they got lucky, they could end the threat posed by Dai-Shocker once and for all. But it wasn't going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination, at least if previous experience was any indication. And he still had yet to recuperate from the blast. If a fight was going to break out, then he was hardly in the best state to take part.

(OOC: Assuming here that Flanker was given Nicholas's name off-screen during one of the travel sections)

[Krautman]

HAAAAAAAARD MAN!

There was a loud sound, like the ignition of a rocket, as the Cait Sith phantom was propelled by Murray's launched fists toward Maki. However, behind this, came a powerful drop kick from the combat robot.

"And I have a rocket punch!"

---

John took Alicia's hand with a smile and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Hey, a beautiful wife, two kids, and eventually a house waiting for me? Of course I'm not doing anything stupid."

[Psyga315]

Before Maki could crush the shard, he was attacked. First by a blast from Flanker, then by a thrown Cait Sith Phantom, however he took the Phantom out by cleaving him in half with the Keyblade. The dropkick on the other hand... Yeah, he didn't have time to block that, and thus he was knocked into some computers.

"Nicholas, are you okay?"

"Y-yeah..." Nicholas said. He then saw Rider's Shard, still intact. He ran to it, then picked it up with his hand. He was about to stab it into his arm like a hypodermic needle, but then Maki chuckled.

"Why are you so quick to put him back inside you?" Dr. Maki said.

"Be... Because..." Nicholas stammered.

"Rider is safely in your hands. If you view him as a friend, then why do you treat his soul like some sort of enhancer? I can see that gleam in your eyes. I know the reason behind that behavior.

It's desire. The same kind that boy had. A desire to protect people. However, as you might know, you can't save everyone, right? There are just somethings you can't defeat... And so, in order to save everyone, you desire something greater than protecting... You desire power.

That's what you see Rider as, correct? He was one of the, if not the strongest Servants I had in my hands when I forced him into you. Of course you'd see him as a means of being stronger. Though... I can't blame you. We all have a desire to be stronger. For our forces to be stronger. We make deals, we kill people, we even create monsters in order to achieve this power... That's why we're opening the Gate of Truth. So that we can achieve more power. So that no one can oppose our rule.

Daishuryou told me about how you used to be a member of Dai-Shocker. His first recruit even... But you betrayed him. You went over to this ragtag team of idiots. Daishuryou may not forgive you for your treason... But me? I am never one to hold grudges. Especially since I discovered your true desire. Join me, and I will make you stronger! Better! You will be able to protect everyone you love! Everyone you know! What do you say?" Dr. Maki said. Nicholas held in the weight of what Dr. Maki said. He kept looking to the shard. He admitted that he was thirsty for Rider's power, but he didn't realize it until Dr. Maki called him out.

Everything made more sense now to him. His anger towards Puddinghead for what he did to his daughter... He wanted to eviscerate him, but he only had his daggers at the time.

The disasters that went on in Mitakihara and Yamaku... He wished to save them... but he couldn't. He nearly died back at Mitakihara.

And now... Now he had the means of summoning a realm containing an entire army in the palm of his hands. Something that would have been destroyed so easily. In the end... He never saw Rider as a friend.

He saw him as a weapon. Nicholas trembled, unsure of what to do next.

[Krautman]

" 'Oh, you're evil and bad and blah blah blah!' That's seriously where you're going with this lizardman?" Murray asked, his arms reattaching. "Folks like you make me sick! Going on about how horrible others are, and how you can help them! How many people did you kill on the way here? How about your creations? Kid, this guy's full of it. He'd turn you into a weapon, just like he did to this Rider guy! So stand back and let me handle this!"

The robot took out a red key, looking like Kamen Rider Kuuga, and brought it to his wrist.

"THE SEVEN LIGHTS OF JUSTICE STRIKE OUT AT THE DARKNESS!"

PRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISM RANGER!

[22myguy]

He had done it; Joseph had actually being able to hurt Elpizo. Sadly this moment of triumph was cut short when Elpizo's shadow started to move. Joseph moved at super speed just in time to avoid getting impaled through the stomachic, but not enough to avoid the attack completely, so he end up getting nasty starch across the side. “Ahhh” Joseph yelled in pain, he looked around notice few tiny piece of rubble left from one of the building Doomsday smashed. He gathered up the tiny stones and tossed them at Elpizo at super speed. Normal the stones hit their mark they would though a person like a buck shot, but Elpizo was robot so it would probable only causers a few dents and starches.

[troydenite]

Understandably, Knight seemed unperturbed. "I thought as much," he replied. "Perhaps later, then."

He wasn't the only one fighting here, he noted, with a clarity that felt rather... unusual to him, given his usual detached manner. The girl in the golden armor beside him looked like she had a good grasp on the situation.

Perhaps he could help buy her a little time.

Turning to look at Amazo with calm eyes, he swept his right hand outwards in a dramatic gesture, holding it parallel with the ground.

"Legend Access."

<<LEGEND ACCESS: MAGIRANGER!!!>> the Brace echoed, in a clear, ringing male voice. Writing themselves in trailing flashes of white flame, five runic circles appeared in miniature around his hand in an atomic configuration, colored red, blue, green, pink and yellow - then they collapsed inwards, molding themselves in his clasped fingers to form a golden cellphone, back engraved with a stylised 'M.'

Flipping the clamshell open, Knight pressed the '6' and '7' keys, eyes still fixed on the struggling android, before snapping it shut with a flick of his wrist and pointing the end at Amazo.

"Magiiro Magika," he stated, in the ancient language of Magitopia.

A chime. As the spell worked itself on him, Amazo would feel a sudden expansion of his already-prodigious super-senses, everything swimming into impossible clarity - then the white-coated youth made his next move, fingers having tapped on '9' and '2' even before the first enchantment had finished.

"Majuna Jiiruma." A disorientation spell.

With an ear-splitting detonation of sound, a blinding flare of light would burst into the android's field of vision (assuming the spell was successful), turning the entire world around him into a spinning, heaving blur that his super-senses would only amplify. It was no outwards attack, but a direct assault on his brain, one that no amount of flailing would overcome.

Knight flipped the MagiPhone open again, ready to dial the next sequence that came to mind. With any luck, this would make his attempt at breaking free harder, turning him into an easier target for the others. It would pass away in about thirty seconds.

Then again, you could do a lot in thirty seconds.

[Falkon]

"WHAT?!" Griga screamed, as the electric aura pulsed through his body, brighter then ever before.

He turned around as best as he could in his restraints, and hurled his fins, sparking with electricity, towards Maki.

"YOU ANIMALS THINK YOU CAN KILL A ZORA?!" He snarled, "I'LL KILL YOU ALL! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!"

Meanwhile, Falkon charged into the room, going straight for Doctor G(or was it Z?), he attempted to finish the job that he had apparently failed before.

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Fusion's force push was probably not that powerful yet, if Pleasure's spider-like bones being moved back a couple inches before getting right back to work was any indication.

Meanwhile, Joe's plasma rifle was starting fires whenever it hit, burning- although at extenely slow speeds- through the bone. The SHIV's plasma cannon had a very noticeable effect as well, completely destroying Pleasure's right arm. Sadly for the SHIV, this had a side effect of attracting a mass of bones, rapidly stabbing at the SHIV over, and over, and over again.

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Mary put on Rage's belt, and looped Falkon's pouch on it, after placing the arm band and the shield inside.

"Sword Shield had a lot of goodies." Mary said, "Stuffing here'll be fine."

[Flanker]

Flanker

Flanker's expression darkened even as he started scrutinising his own reasons for taking on the power of the Biometals. Attempting to push it out of his mind, he replied, "We're not doing this for power! The only reason we want to use this power in the first place is to help others and to stop madmen like you. As soon as that is no longer necessary, I know that I at least will relinquish my Biometals. I won't let power become a means to an end. You can take your offer and -"

The Mega Man was cut off mid-sentence by Griga and Murray. Floating into the air, Flanker let charge collect on his beamsabres once more as he tried to figure out what to do.

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Elpizo, Gotham Bank

Elpizo was forced to release control of his shadow as the rocks came toward him. Slicing wildly at them, he barely managed to avoid getting hit. It would be plain as day to Joseph that the reploid was still getting used to the new abilities he had manifested.

Scampering away from Joseph to gather his breath, Elpizo stared down his opponent, keeping his beamrapier pointed at him at all times. "My, you certainly are quick..."

[dblade26]

August snuggled against Alicia without thinking about it and stared up at her and John with an almost ridiculous amount of affection lighting up his face. He'd been more than a little worried once Alicia said that they were planning to go after Masjora considering the abomination was the source of almost all of the bad memories in his short life.

But John had promised to come back and Alicia said she would find a safe place for them to wait. That meant everything was going to be okay. Even better than that he was definitely sure he was included in the "two kids" part of the promise and that meant they were finally gonna have a house that didn't move around!

"Bye Daddy, bye Stuffing! I'll keep everything safe for when you get back!"

[Psyga315]

Doktor G smirked and fired several lasers towards Falkon.
Dr. Maki was more focused on Nicholas, even nonchalantly sidestepping from Griga's attack and attempting a back hand on Griga.

"It doesn't matter how many innocents we squash under our boots. I personally like ending everything." Dr. Maki said. Nicholas glared at Maki and put Rider away in his pocket.

"That's the difference between me and you. You don't care if innocents are hurt. I, on the other hand, do! My desire is to protect others, because I care for them. I've told this once to a god, and now I will say it to you! Their lives are worth something! To their friends! Their families! They may be worth nothing to an outsider like me, but their character is what makes me care!" Nicholas said. As he said this, Homura arrived. She only caught the last sentences, yet she knew full well what he was talking about. "You think I want power? Well... I already have power!" Nicholas said.

"Oh? And what would that be?"

"My friends... MY FRIENDS ARE MY POWER!" Nicholas cried out. He then took out his Sluggers and ran towards Dr Maki. He swung his Keyblade at Nicholas, who blocked it with his Sluggers.

[Krautman]

"Oh, no way I'm letting you steal the show here!"[/color]

Murray took another key and placed it in his other wrist, his eyes lighting up before swicthing to "OK".

CYYYYYYYYYBERRANGER!

"Now... Like I was saying! THE SEVEN LIGHTS OF JUSTICE WILL VANQUISH THE DARKNESS!"[/color]

Murray brought his hands back before slamming his fists together, rainbow bolts of lightning appearing as the powers Kuuga had given him earlier circled the Cyber Ranger key.


PUUUUUNK!
KIIIIING!
YEEEEELLOOOOOW DEEEEEVIIIIIL!
TEEEEERRAAAAA
EEEEENKEEEEER!
SUUUUUNSTAAAAAR!
BAAAAALLAAAAADE!


Murray stood ready, bringing his fists back for a brief series of punches before raising them up. "PRISM/CYBER: BATTLIZER!"[/color]

Suddenly, rainbow-colored smoke shot up behind him as he cracked his mechanical knuckles and began advancing on Maki as well.

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John smiled and kissed Alicia while rustling August's hair again.

"See you soon, son. And you too, Alicia."

[22myguy]

Ok, Joseph had to stopped Elpizo counter attack, so now what? It seemed like using his superpowers in different ways was catching the robot of guard so why not keep,doing that. Joseph’s mind quickly scanned various super speed tricks The Flash could do; he chose to settle on one of the classics.

Joseph began to spin arms around in motion cycler, slowly building up his speed until they vanished in a sliver and Maroon blur, creating a mime tornado and sending it straight at Elpizo.

[Laserface]

Oh good, Fusion was being attacked less now. Could this actually be considered progress now that it was Joe's ride facing the stab-o-thon instead?

"OhcrapwhydidIevenridethatthing?" Joe rambled as he leapt off the back of the Alloy SHIV, flying back and into the air. Meanwhile the tiny weapons platform got off a few more shots before succumbing to way too many sharp objects through it's weapon housing.

"Goliath-5, he was alive. Emphasis on was." Joe looked to his fellow newbie, "Fusion, it doesn't matter if you can't lift a monster or an X-Wing. Just blocking her strikes is enough to do some damage with. Or practice with something that puts up less of a fight and throw it at her I don't know."

Speaking of Star wars, small snowspeeder constructs started swooping around hoping to cause Pleasure complications via tow cables... Oh wow one already crashed, maybe he made them too authentic. The lantern facepalmed at himself, upgraded his personal armaments to more of the Gattling Good variety of lasers.

The target was Pleasure's general (above human height) direction, the intentions was to keep her more pissed off at him than the kid who couldn't pull body armor and shielding out of their ass if things went bad. Well, that and maybe hitting her in the face... Not that you could tell even if it happened with THOSE looks.

"Hold still, I need to improve your atrocious looks."

[stratofarius]

Amestris Underground

"FLANKER!" Roy yelled, using all of his strength to stop his hands from performing the transmutation. "GODDAMMIT! GET GRIGA OUT OF THE CIRCLE--" But the fight that began took his attention for a moment, as Ty Lee jumped into action, also attempting to chi-block Doctor Z to facilitate Falkon's attack, while Ling attempted to tackle Daishuryou while he was distracted by Flanker's blade.

Clap.

"COLONEL!" a voice yelled, and that's all that Roy heard before the light filled the room.

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White.

Everything's white.

No. No. No no no. This isn't supposed to be happening. He's been through this before. This time, it was supposed to be different. He couldn't have done it yet again. He couldn't have. He couldn't have.

"Welcome back."

The same haunting voice filled his ears, the memories surfacing to Roy's mind as he spotted the thing that most people referred to as the Truth. It looked at him, even though it lacked eyes. A grin appeared on his face, and the ominous gate appeared right behind him.

"No." Roy muttered to himself.

"You just can't learn a lesson, can you?..." The Truth asked him, chuckling. Roy took a step back, shaking his head. How. How did he do it again. The memories were coming back to him: the gold-toothed Doctor, Pride, the horrible feeling as the light blinded him... but... what happened to him? Why couldn't he remember it? Why were those memories resurfacing only now?

What did the Gate took from him the first time?

"... Mister Alchemist."

The question puzzled his mind, and he only returned to the real- if you could call this real- world once the Gate opened. He wanted to run, but his legs didn't move. Those... things wrapped around him, pulling him into the Gate. He tried to fight back, he kicked, he struggled, he didn't want to go through all of it again. And then, it dawned on him. What the Gate took from him the first time... and what it would take from him a second time.

The sight of the Truth grinning at him, his own eyes glaring down at him was the last thing he saw.

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The light disappeared, and the fight resumed. Ling quickly attempted to attack Daishuryou, oblivious to what happened. He blocked his attack, throwing Ling back, and allowing Hawkeye the chance to stand up and run over to Roy. The colonel was on the ground, his face covering his head, and right besides him... was what supposed to be Griga. Instead the Zora had been transformed into a demented ball of inside-out flesh, with small arms, legs and fins coming out of it in the wrong places. It just looked wrong. It felt wrong. It was wrong. And as Griga lived his last moments, he lived them suffering, not knowing what was going on, or why did it all feel wrong.

"Colonel." Hawkeye said, placing a hand on Roy's shoulder, trying to get him back on his feet. Alphonse approached the Colonel, ready to help him, but Roy's unusually weak voice made him freeze.

"Hawkeye?" He asked slowly raising his head. "Where are you? Why is everything... black? The lights? Who... who turned out the lights?" He turned to the direction of Hawkeye's voice, revealing his gray eyes. "No... no no no... why... WHY?!" He yelled, attempting to stand up. "Not my eyes. Not again. Why couldn't it take something else? Why? Why?!"

"And so, even if I fail, I will live with the satisfaction given to me by this moment."[/color] Daishuryou said, ready to attack Flanker with his shadows, before he fell to the ground, groaning. The real Daishuryou... it was taking back the control over his body. Not now- he still had time, he could still regain his power! Daishuryou stood up, raising his hands, sending a barrage of shadow blades towards Flanker and Ling.

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The Rooftops of Gotham

"Take care. And give him a nice beating for me" Alicia said, before taking August's arm and stomping her foot, opening a hole in the roof that would take them to the inside of the building. "Come on, August. First step is to get to road level, which means we're taking the stairs." She then stopped earthbending, and looked back at August with a half-smile, half-jaw dropped.

"Did... did you just call him daddy?" She asked, the smile getting wider and wider with every minute. "A-August... did you call him... d-daddy?... I don't know why... but t-that makes me feel... warmer and happier."

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Amazo at the Harbor

Whatever Knight intended to do with his long Magitopian spells, it didn't work out, mostly because they were designed to attack a human's brain. Amazo wasn't human, he didn't have brain, and his super senses worked in a completely different way, so when Knight finished his spell, the robot simply shook it off, glaring down at Jolokia. He began to march towards them, still using Superman's power set. His eyes glowed red, and lasers flew out of them, attempting to fry the swordsman on the spot.

"Huh." Toph said, distracted by the fact she could finally associate a body to April's voice. To say the truth, she imagined April as a massive woman who just happened to have a tiny voice, considering the amount of things she could do. She also imagined she had the longest ponytail in the world and hair-loopies similar to Sugar Queen, and that her fist was the size of a trash bin. Maybe she did have an exaggerated image of her... "So that's what you look like... I like it. Uses the element of surprise, like Snoozles once said."

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Doomsday at the Bank

Anno once again succeeded in attacking Doomsday. She slashed him, yes, but his newly created armor managed to keep the beast together. The gigantic Doomsday stopped running, and he roared at the skies, his wounds regenerating. Even if the creature looked like nothing had happened to him, Anno could feel it: he was in pain, and said pain made him even more angry. Another protective coat of armor appeared around the area where he was slashed, and Doomsday stopped roaring to glare at Anno.

That's where the girl could see it. Eyes filled with complete rage. Eyes of a being who now had one mission in his entire life: to see the girl in front of him dead in a pool of blood. To break all of her bones and throw her at the ground like a small doll. To destroy her life, and everything she loved, and everything she hated, and to squash her head under his mighty foot. What Anno felt could easily be summed up in one simple phrase: Doomsday's life quest now was to kill her.

And he began his attack: now faster , he pulled out two boulders of concrete, throwing them at Anno at amazing speeds. He knew Anno would slash through the boulder, so he didn't end there. He threw a car at her, then another car, all while walking towards her. He kicked the ground, throwing blocks of concrete in the air, punching them in mid-air, sending them flying towards Anno. Once he was close enough, he slammed his hands on the ground and pulled it, his strength treating the entire road like it was a simple carpet, as he tried to push it from under Anno's feet to cause her to lose her balance, as he delivered the final blow of his massive attack by bringing down his fist upon her, trying to squash the little girl.

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Composite Superman at the Police Station

"Alright, one, two, go!" Nightwing said, before pulling out the bone from inside Moe, holding her down in case she started having an attack thanks to the pain. "Go on, quick, heal her, heal her!"

And so, the motorcycle did ram Composite Superman in the crotch, throwing him through several walls, his roars of pain filling the air as he flew away, before finally falling to the ground. As he took a moment to recover, Rain could spot various objects: cabinets, desks, chairs, umbrellas, and just about anything that you could find at a police station. On the far end of the building, far away from her, she could spot Composite Superman standing up and removing the ice spear from his body. The hole it created closed up, but that didn't matter because of one interesting fact.

Composite Superman was bleeding. There was blood coming out of his mouth, some of it coming from his hand and some of it from his chest, turning part of his suit red. Whatever regenerative abilities Composite Superman had, they weren't strong enough to keep up with Rain's attacks. Her recent attack had just dealt a major blow against Composite Superman, and if she didn't tell that by the fact he had been severely injured, she could tell it by his next attack: he touched the walls of the police station, and a blue wave flew through the half-destroyed walls, eventually reaching the spot where Rain was. When they did so, two giant spikes came out of the wall, attempting to impale Rain from two directions at the same time. If that wasn't enough, he not only started firing lightning bolts again, but he started to grow on size. Each minute that passed, he seemed to grow bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until in the end, he was the size of one of the nearby buildings, and he quickly attempted to kick Rain away.

[StarSketch]

Sam ran into the room at the beginning of the fight, but was distracted by MAki's comments about power and such.

I didn't want power, It just...happened.

Part of her though, felt otherwise. It was cool to be able to waterbend, but that power wasn't hers to use. It was Katara's. And Katara hadn't even talked to her since the Avatar world, and that was pretty much the only time she had, too.

Why am I even trying to help, Didn't I just want to go home?

Sam got distracted by her own thoughts and just stood there for a while.

Sam smacked herself on the side of the head.

"Gah, focus!"

She created a blade of ice around her right arm, and charged towards Doktor G, aiming to strike him in the chest.

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Gotham Bank

There was this... oppressive feeling after that successful slash. Anno could tell, though. She had hurt the creature, even though it regenerated. But perfect regeneration... what could she do about that? Even with the power behind Excalibur, she had failed to kill him... and he'd just regenerated perfectly...

Anno immediately backpedaled out of the hulking monster's range, the moment it began to tear the chunks of concrete from the ground. Skidding to a halt, she swiftly raised Excalibur and swung it in an arc, cleaving cleanly through both boulders and sending the chunks rolling off to the side. The moment she had begun to raise Excalibur again, she saw the car hurtling towards her. Instantly she threw herself to the side, only to see a second car hurtling towards her.

Anno took a deep breath, and leapt. She carried herself into the air, and as she fell, she thrust one foot down. It touched the metal hood of the car, and as she landed, she pushed off with all her strength. The car slammed into the ground front-first, and Anno was lifted higher into the air, preparing to utilize a strong downwards slash on the monster.

She was not, however, able to avoid the hail of concrete that followed. One chunk struck her in the legs, and as she fell, a second hit her in the chest with a resounding crash. Anno's eyes widened as she felled back and hit the ground. Pain.. it was more then before. Horribly intense pain. The armor held out and protected her from damage, of course, but how much longer could it do so? It hurt, it hurt so much...

Anno began to realize that ears had welled up in her eyes. This thing... it just wouldn't die! And... it hurt so much...

As she attempted to get up, the ground shook and sent her to the ground with a thud. No, no no no, she wouldn't let it get close. If it could regenerate from everything she had thrown at it so far... Anno had one more attack.

But she couldn't use it here.

When she saw the monster attempting to bring his huge fist down on her, she rolled out of the way and sprang to her feet, bringing Excalibur up into a defensive position, prepared to block. She didn't need to attack again, not yet. She needed a little bit of time...

Now... what was the tallest building that was nearby?

[EldritchMermaid]

(OOC: OK, going to make up a tool for this.)

Jenny slammed the needle in next to the wound, before pulling the switch from her belt and sticking it into the other end. At once the energy in the switch flowed down the tool into the wound cavity, and began to close it, mending flesh, knitting bone and replacing blood. By the time she pulled the needle out, there would be no trace of the large hole that had been there before.

[troydenite]

Knight lowered the phone, raising a single eyebrow as he looked up at Amazo.

That hadn't worked. He would need a change in plan. Something more effective against androids. A different powerset. Maybe...

You know, you could ask. The errant thought came into his mind almost as an aside. He managed a shake of his head, faintly exasperated at his own obtuseness. It seemed that mastering his newfound emotions would take quite a while.

Knight turned to the girl in the luminous golden armor beside him.

"It seems that we might need a more concentrated effort to put this one down," he stated, noting the awkwardness of his own speech with some chagrin. He had spent far too long... not talking.

Get to the point.

"I can't do this by myself. Do you have any plans?"

[serendipital]

Ed screamed out Mustang's name, and punched the floor with his left hand. Blood spilled out of his knuckles. What would he have to pay? For all Ed knew, it would be his life.

He was immediately relieved once Mustang appeared again, but also highly suspicious. He stepped forward, and seeing that Mustang was once again blind, darted to where the group had gathered. "Bastard..." He growled, though it wasn't directed towards Mustang this time.

"We'll fix this," he said firmly. "Somehow."