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Assault on World of Ruin
Date of Scene:	25 June 2006
Location:	World of Ruin
Synopsis:
Cast of Characters:	Asteroth, Isamu Dyson, Duo Maxwell, Kefka, Amuro Ray, Julian, Rachel Grey, Xander Phoenix, Kuunvalo, Gideon, Shannon, Ivolt, Atma, Maya, Richard Stadler, Shana, Solid Snake, Stephen Vandal, Cecilia Demonflame (Thionoxial), Amelia, Omega, Black Arachnia, Superion (Optimus Prime), Winry Rockbell, Minerva, Inutaisho, Neclord, Niv-Mizzet, Freya, MewTwo Alpha, Sonia Belmont, Rhode Kal'daka, Haywire, Shade Man

World of Ruin - <World of Ruin> (Location #0)

   The World of Ruin - A dead and dying world, one that you know that you've entered immediately almost as much from the feeling of despair in the air, and the sweet smeal of decay and death... The closer you get to the World of Ruin, the stronger the aura becomes, and the less life there is. Even the grass, the trees and the plants, of this world seem to be infected by the aura, and many of them are dying or dead, there's next to no animal life, and a constant howling dusty wind scours the landscape.
   In liu of animal life, monsters have taken over almost all of the world, and encounters with large packs of them that prey on humans, monsters and visitors alike are very common here - in fact many times the groups of monsters come howling and tearing across the border to decimate nearby towns, wildlife, and just about anything else that they can claim for food.
   In the center of the world of ruin is a giant tower made of ruins and debris, the shattered remanants of cities, and the remains of a large continent.

       Across the World of Ruin, a tension is growing in the air, A hunger, A desire more felt then sensed ... And Undead in their crypts begin to stir, monsters beneath the sea slowly float to the surface, dragons throw themselves to the heavens, and entire armies of monsters begin to march to the tower of the Mad-Pseudo-god.
       Magitech sky armors, and a skyfortress once thought lost slowly begin to phase into view, as do several contingents of airships, some nothing more then skeletal forms that hang in the air.
       And the tension, the hunger, the need in the air only grows worse. A void that can only be filled by mutual annihiliation.

Julian enters the World of Ruin. Julian arrives in: World of Ruin.

Solid Snake has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 70 Shannon changed her armor mode to Dragon. Stephen Vandal changed his armor mode to Shark Chopper.

Not long after the defensive force of monsters has fallen into place around the tower of the dark 'god', the horizon begins to darken, as what seems like a haze begins to obscure it. But as minutes pass, the 'haze' grows darker, and closer, and it becomes gradually apparent that it's no haze at all. Specks of every color, weaving back and forth and glimmering in the sunset light of the twisted world, heading steadily forward in one large multicolored swarm.

It's a massive, massive wave of airborne fighter craft.

Everything you could imagine, from steampunk craft to F-16s to X-wings to a few flying superhumans. Hovercraft, helicopters, odd-design fighters, mecha, everything. Each and every one of them, however, bears the gray and blue insignia of the same military supernation - the Union.

As the front of the wave draws near, a few of the longer-range attack craft are already beginning to open up with missile-like weapons.

Rhode Kal'daka enters the World of Ruin. Rhode Kal'daka arrives in: World of Ruin. Haywire enters the World of Ruin. Haywire arrives in: World of Ruin. Shade Man enters the World of Ruin. Shade Man arrives in: World of Ruin.

       Into the front of the incoming armada of crafts, the Light of judgement falls - A beam of light the size of a small city, not just once ... But again. And again. And again. Almost everything it hits is vaporized instantly, then first wave of monsters hits the Armada ... Literally.
       Thousands and thousands of monsters are teleported en-mass directly into the Union formation, slamming into the formation bodily, crashing through wings, windshields, and being sucked into engines ... It doesn't take too long for the monsters to get over their initial suprise, and send waves of fire, ice, lighting, lastes, and claws back at the incoming force. On the far end near the tower, remain the ruined airships, and the flying armors, along with a group of the more powerful dragons.

       Missiles slam into the monster formation, slaughtering a few of them outright, but fire is returned gradually at first, and then in massive waves.

Shade Man leaves the World of Ruin. Shana changed her armor mode to Dragoon. Omega enters the World of Ruin. Omega arrives in: World of Ruin.

And with the front of the charge suddenly vaporized, several of the squadrons begin to panic - but the panic is quickly crushed, it seems, as they hold steady, right up to the point where the mass of enemies is teleported right into the Union line.

At that point, the battle is well and truly joined, and every ship in the mass begins to open fire.

The sky fills with bullets, blasts, and other sundry projectiles.

A group of five planes, all wearing the Autobot insignia, bank hard at the massive burst of the Light of Judgement. The group, however, seems to change it's course... towards each other.

Instead of crashing, however, the five begin to merge into one craft... which shifts and churns and moves...

And forms into a massive single leviathan, a single robotic unit of destruction. Superion.

"I WILL DEFEND." the monsterous transformer booms, as it moves to fly STRAIGHT INTO the Light. The blast smashes square into his chest armor, the e ntire robot shaking - but managing to preserve some of the fleet. Not terribly much, of course, but nevertheless, that's a few more people that'll be going home today.

Superion roars, a massive sound audible throughout the battlefield even above some of the explosions and bursts of energy releases as it absorbs the hellacious power of the Light, it's very core shaken as it's armor peels away as white-hot burning flecks of what was once hyperdense Cybertronian alloy.

Haywire has changed her stats. Omega changed his armor mode to Nightmare. Amelia changed her desc to Military.

       Somewhere in that massive pile of fighters and transports is the YF-19 flying in GERWALK form with it's legs tilted right back to be able to maintain proper speed as it can't transform into fighter mode with the freshly painted Heavy Weapons pack on it's right arm. It fired on that opening salvo of missiles. Now with the sudden influx of OMG Monsters, Isamu grits his teeth and transforms into Battlroid mode, dropping below the incoming swarm and leveling the heavy weapons system at group of bat like things, activating the dual pulse lasers on the top of teh arm to cut through their ranks like tissue paper... The big Pulse cannon however, is in reserve.

-- Red Squadron is here, and the X-Wings are all lineing up as they make attack runs. The 24 fighters are there, as well as 6 Y-Wings and 6 B-Wing fighters. The X-Wings come in and the first third are hit by the Light of Judgement and the next group bank away as they open up witht he Laser Cannons from the wings. As some fire with lasers, the rest of the X-Wings all release there load of Torpedos. 12 streaks of light are seen flying as the first wave is released. 2 minutes later, 12 more are seen released and the torpdeos are heading for the monsters to try to take them out. They Y-Wings and B-Wings hang back and wait as the X-Wings weaken the defenses.

Shannon is already waiting near the battlesite for the Union air forces. When they arrive she rises out of the shadow and flies up into the air to join them. Considering the size of this attack, she decided to use the good stuff right from the start so is already in her dragon form. She stays back for the moment, near the transports so she can protect them. Her red eyes clearly see what happens in the first attack... She doesn't react much to it other than one word, "Ouch..."

       Sure Shana had been taking one of the flying transports. But she had bailed right in the midst of the battle, falling through the air. But she gripped at something near her chest and a bright flash of light pulsed around her. When the light died down, Shana was clad in White-Silver Dragoon armor, wings trailing golden light as she swooped through the sky. She was lucky to be small enough to evade the Light of Judgement at least for the moment, but it was the monsters that were the problem.
       "This is...this is pure insanity!" She yelled, drawing back her bow to launch an arrow into the mass.

Isamu Dyson missed Kefka with his Dual Pulse Lasers! strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Omega changed his armor mode to Absolute.

Duo Maxwell hit Kefka with his Laser Cannons and Proton Torpedo spread strong attack! <New Mechanic>

       Over the carnage a giant flash was noticed...it was red and black, reminiscent of Zero's teleportation...but not.  In the air was what one would describe as slightly demonic.  Large black wings, large talon like hands, and wild hair flowing around his back.  If the Nightmare armor was frightening, then this was absolutely horrifying to be on the opposing end of this.  However, to those defending it was more like an avenging angel...

               A dark angel.

       It appears, Omega was on the scene.  Yeah.

Well here coes Maya, she's with many other attackers, mecha of various sorts, and even an Ankaran Battle Crusier has joined the battle and fires off its primary weapons. As for Maya in her Alpha? She's keeping up with the rest of the unit. She now heads after Isamu and the others and opens up with her gun pod into the enemy ranks. Maya missed Kefka with her Open fire!! strong attack! (New Mechanic)

And, leaping boldly into the fray is Richard Stalder and his unit! Ready with...

Nothing.

In actually, the main body was loaded up in two large Chinook transport choppers, staying back, and low. Even the Apaches who could strike are sticking close to the group, ready to repeal fire, more than anything else. It was this part of the battle that was hell. You never knew when an enemy fighter could get lucky and knock you out of the sky.

So Rick waits, and waits, and while the rest of his unit gazes nervously at the sounds of battle around them, he's reading Mary Shelly's Frankenstien. In between equipment checks, of course. Shana missed Kefka with her rather weak arrow :O moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Stephen Vandal's already been through the end of the world. This place is just like back home to him.

He barrel-rolls and dives, executing aerobatics that out to be outright impossible for something of his design. The beam only sizzles the air next to him (...well, as well as all of the other Union airfact unfortunate enough to be in it's way).

"Monsters, huh? Good thing I swapped weapon configs, then..."

Because that meant what he was packing now? Was TAILORED for killing monsters - and ones much bigger and nastier than anything this wannabe deity could conjure-up.

He gets a bead on the center of the airborne monster formation confronting he and his allies, narrowing his glowing eyes and morphing-out a number of exotic-looking missile pods and gun nozzles along his nose and fuselage...

Up at the front of the first wave had been orbital frame Jehuty. The Frame was a pinprick of aqua light on the darkened sky that was formed by the Union armada.

Inside Jehuty's cockpit Julian had been getting himself ready mentally for the task ahead. They had to defend the transports til they got down then push all these monstrosities back til the others got in. He figured he might have an easier time at it, but...he was wrong. Very wrong.

-High energy output detected from 12 o'clock,- ADA warned as warning sirens blared in the cockpit.

"Damnit!" Julian hissed, instinctively starting to dodge until he remembered what he was doing up front anyways.

Jehuty shifted right back in front of one of the transports and formed it's MUmmy shield just as the first blast struck. The force was so strong it spun Jehuty in spite of having the Mummy out, striking the frame along it's side and shearing a good chunk of it's upper layer of armor away.

Warnings blared louder as Jehuty spiralled towards the ground. Julian had his eyes shut tight as he fought for control, voices screaming over the radio once more. Just like that time. It was going to be just like that time. Damnit they were all going to die and he couldn't do a damn thing to stop it!

As the darkness threatened to take hold Julian felt his heart rate slow, breathing become raspy, and all of a sudden the world around him expanded into view again. Verniers flared a bright near-white as Jehuty regained itself near instantly before Julian brought it to the ground hard, breathing still a little raspy.

"No more," Julian murmured to himself, "I won't let this happen again..."

Jehuty thrust it's arms into the air as a massive canon assembly began to materialize on it.

-Switch to Vector Cannon Mode,- Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-v.cannon.

-- Duo Maxwell is flying with the ground units, providing the cover needed to them, his Gundam covering many as the wings are out to give additional protection. In the gundam's hands is a massive looking weapon, a Beam Cannon that is as tall as a Deathscythe, and as big as the Gundam is wide, shoulder to shoulder. Duo looks at everything that is going on and sighs. "Looks like Hell," he comments as he flies along and will set down a head fo the ground units and provide cover fire to them with the Beam Cannon and then will get up close and personal. <No Attack with D-Hell, attacked for X-Wings already>

Staying closely with Rick and his unit inside the transport choppers, is...

Private First Class Amelia wil Telsa Seyruun. And this time, she is in her new military uniform.

Cue the wolfwhistles.

Pulling down her cap, with her shotgun locked, loaded, and ready to go, Amelia holds her new weapon close to her, and patiently waits with her commander, her big eyes empty and not shining their usual light. Instead, they are laced with a fiery and fierce determination

You could barely recognize the mage, as she looks totally different like this.

       Monsters and magitech aircraft are shredded in the counterattack, Or rather furball from hell. And to say that there isn't going to be friendly ... Or unfriendly fire from both sides would be some kind of a high ranking miracle. ... The gods are on the wrong side of the table tonight. And the monsters continue blasting at the incoming armada, with blaze, blade, claw and spell. Hell. Some of them are shooting at each other.
       Across the formation the Light of judgement continues sweeping, again and again - And it sure as hell isn't paying attention to friends.

Kefka hit Julian with his Wave of destruction. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Duo Maxwell with his Wave of destruction. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Isamu Dyson with his Wave of destruction. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Stephen Vandal with his Wave of destruction. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shannon with his Wave of destruction. strong attack! <New Mechanic>

And clinging to the *side* of one of those transport choppers is a certain large cybernetic spider ... a little too bulky to fit inside the transports and only take up a single person's place.

On the bright side, hanging onto the outside is one of the best ways to see what's going on ... and information, as always, is power.

Kefka hit Shana with his Wave of Destruction. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Omega with his Wave of Destruction. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Maya with his Missed you. strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Shannon has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 86

Richard gives a look to Ameila, and nods approvingly. People say it was the training that made the soldier. A good set of camo and a gun could work wonders, though. Creates Warriors of Justice, it seemed.

Of course, one person in this chopper isn't contempalting quietly. Specalist Fleece looks scared. "Sir! Sir!" She whispers, loudly. "Are they aiming for us? Huh? Are they?" She would be almost pathetic, if not for that AK-103 and the knives upon /knives/ she seems laden with.

Someone needs to make better maps. That's all we're saying on the matter of taking too long to get to this place. Just be glad you didn't have to listen to the argument in the process of doing so.

       In the end though, a transport does finally chug its way onto the field from the Confederate side, belching large clouds of putrid black smoke out of its exhausts. Just to find itself right in the middle of a fight already going on and raining destruction all over the place.

"..." Haywire turns from the windshield to peer aside. "Are you sure this is the right way?" Nightmare's hologram standing next to her slaps a palm to his face. "What do I look like, a GPS?"

Most of these soldiers are dressed in green and sit at the front of the crowd, wearing light armor but certainly not piloting machines, save a few who are in incomplete machines lacking much to cover their internal mechanisms. Some of the grunts are accompanied by vicious-looking dogs, but not a terribly great number. Aerial units begin to flash into sight not-so-far off the ground, a pair of arms with weapons equipped at the center of them hovering there -- they're the first ones to set off without need for order, taking to the skies to engage anyone unlucky enough to catch their attention, and not really being skillful so much as random and in excessive numbers.

Some are more like tanks, with two massive cannons to either side and a hatch, and others are spiderlike with mounted guns along the front.

At first, the ground forces do not move. A low hum can be heard at the rear of the massive assembly, and a glow like a glimmering star in the night sky can be seen before something materializes. From the light, the biomagical monstrosity known as 'Atma' comes into sight, casting a shadow over the ground forces ahead of him. A beastly snarl escapes the creature, red magical energy pouring from it's mouth and nostrils as if exhales.

The few black-clad armored soldiers raise their hands and motion forward. First go the grunts, drawing their weapons -- mostly swords, accompanied by those in less-than-optimal magitek armor.

The Officers riding in their armor unfold into a massive, but somewhat inconsistent line from which they can all fire their weapons without much threat of friendly fire... but where they also cannot be targetted all at once by a spread-out attack, at least not too easily.

Atma Weapon himself follows after at a leisurely pace, massive tail thrashing about on the ground behind it as if this were merely a distraction to end the consistent boredom garnered ever since Kefka effectively blew up the world.

With the Light of Judgement coming down again and again, the battle is getting bloody, fast. So as the enemy engages the air presence with predjudice, as more and more fighter craft pour into the area in a ridiculous show of numbers, different sorts of craft are arriving at this point. Splitting off to go over, under, around, and some especially daring souls pushing right through the massive aerial battle, the bombers are arriving. It seems like there's about half as many of the bombers as there are of the fighters, but they're exceptionally tough craft, and some of them are surprisingly agile. As many of them as can, once they're through the furball, begin to drop ordnance on the creatures below, to begin the thinning of the herd, so to speak. Meanwhile, the fighters are doing their best to clear the air in much the same way. Isamu Dyson has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 92 Solid Snake missed Kefka with his Bombers and Fighters and Monsters, Oh My. strong attack! (New Mechanic)

       Omega was not quick enough to avoid the blast from the light of judgment.  This ANNOYED the hell out of the warrior, flying higher to try and shake off the blasts and then dashed down, ripping through parts of the air force.  Literally ripping through magi-tek suits, armor, and monsters like they were made of paper.  Then, on each arm, two beam sabers ignited, making his work that much simpler.  The second assault of air attacks meet Omega's blades, which harmlessly send them to the side and all around him.

       Shana is slammed hard by some of the attacks from the monsters and hit by the backwash from one of Kefka's giant beams. She was sent tumbling through the air with part of her armor nastily nicked. It took her a good fifteen seconds to recover from her tumble through the air. Shana took in a deep breath and gathered her energy, which swirled up around her in a way similar to a pillar.  "Star Children!"
       She spun around in the air and pointed her bow straight up with both hands. Immediately, all over the battlefield in the immediate area around Shana, hundreds, possibly thousands of yellow stars flew down to impact and explode against monsters, though if they somehow hit an ally they would have no affect and pass right through. She held both hands out, and her own massive beams of light struck down from the clouds to tear into the mass of monsters.

Shana missed Kefka with her Star Children! strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Atma missed Omega with his AirForce weak attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Shannon with his AirForce weak attack! (New Mechanic) Atma hit Amelia with his AirForce weak attack! <New Mechanic> Atma missed Richard Stadler with his AirForce weak attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Isamu Dyson with his AirForce weak attack! (New Mechanic) Omega missed Kefka with his What's that technique called? It's called Wailing on them moderate attack! (New Mechanic)

Oh, why did she have to bring those knives?

The young private nervously glances to Fleece. While the mage in uniform is clad from head to toe in military wear and dangerously armed, she still has one weakness. It's not the specialist, but the weapons she carries.

Amelia swallows hard, and looks away, trying to stay focused on the mission at hand, and clutching her shotgun, which will soon be her new best friend.

This is no time to get the jitters. A gasp escapes her throat when they are suddenly attacked, and the chopper gets hit.

"SIR!"

The YF-19 may not have killed a whole lot of bats, but a barrel roll and a conversion to GERWALK mode lets it jet out of the way of the incoming light of judgment, letting /that/ vaporize the enemies for him. Jinking left and right as the hybrid-fighter climbed higher, It converted to Battlroid mode again next to Jehuty and keeps it's forearm shield held up to block incoming shots "This time, I got your back." the dual pulse lasers fire again try to sweep the enemies from the skies. Stephen Vandal is sent spiralling out of control as the ray of light sweeps over him, vaporizing his rotor blades and cooking his armor. He stabilizes before dropping more than a dozen feet, however, reforming his lost parts and smoothing-out his charred surface - looking rather unscathed at the end of it.

"My turn."

The 'chopper fire a single missle from one of it's pods into a nearby cluster of fiends, only ricochetting-off the beast it hits - bouncing erroneously around in the air for a few moments. It then splits into three canisters, each beginning to disperse some sort of low-density petroleum gas while firing-off diamond-tipped hooks on high-tension wires in random directions - hoping to 'anchor' themselves into the midst of the pack... Isamu Dyson hit Kefka with his I -will- hit you with this eventually strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Stephen Vandal hit Kefka with his Tickticktick... tag attack! <New Mechanic> Experianced men and women are on the floor as fast as they can, presenting small targets as gunfire rips through the cabin. Well, there goes Shelly. God, how much longer unti they landed!?

Rick starts yelling orders. "Alright, gentleman an' ladies! I want th' Crew Cheif ready t' flick th' ramp down in case we need t' do an' emergency ditch!" To Amelia's probable relief, "Fleece! Get on the window Two-Forty an' stay there!" And, as Fleece deploys, Rick heads to Amelia. "You hit, Private?"

Shannon's head swings left then right, scanning along the force of transports to make sure that none of them are in danger yet. A monster or two had made it through the massive battle to go after the transports near her, but they were easily blasted away by a couple of energy blasts from her mouth. She continues to hold back, watching the battle rage on ahead in the distance. She does kind of want to go in but someone has to protect the transports afterall, no point in them getting shot up before deploying the troops.

-All energy lines connected- ADA notifies.

A second assembly forms around Jehuty's waist, a large brace which the frame rocks back against, energy tendrils reaching out and latching into the ground as wel.

-Landing Gear and Climbing Irons, locked,-

Energy starts pulsing along the cannon assembly, gradually pulsing faster and faster along the length.

-Inner chamber pressure rising normally.-

Julian looks across to the horde of monsters along the ground as six hexagonal plates form in front of the cannon assembly. Slowly they start to spin.

-Life Ring has started revolving,-

The plates spin faster and faster until they're a solid ring of light. There's a brief flash of light as the cannon stops pulsing and now becomes a steady glow.

-Ready to fire,-

Julian turns Jehuty to the far left of the sea of targeting reticles that appeared before it. Electronic warnings were sent out to all friendlies in the area to get clear just moments before Julian opened fire. There's the sound of space being compressed torn and distorted as a massive energy beam is swept in a swath of destruction across the terrain of monsters and assorted baddies that were lying in wait.

Julian hit Kefka with his Two round epic=not a hope of working! epic attack! <New Mechanic>

Maya's suprisingly agil to day she's learned well from Isamue's lessons and others who have taught hr. Maya now. She looks at the ATMA weapon ass it appears in it unholy glory it's like a Chosen black project that got finished she can only stare for a a second before a near hit shakes her out of it. She dodges aas attacks are tossed her way. All sorts of things comming every which way. Maya's going to stick with air force and lets lose missiles all over the place as she weaves in and out of the enemy fire and she makes to follow up on Julian's effort. Maya missed Kefka with her Fire zee missiles strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-full_harmony.

This is it. They're almost to the battlefield. Amelia grits her teeth, still clutching her shotgun, her eyes blazing in flames.

"No, Sir!" She responds to her commander. She's fine, but it's Fleece whom she is worried about.

Even beneath her cap, her raven bangs get blown against the evening winds. The more they get closer, the more excited and pumped up she gets.

       Blaze, Blade, Claw and Craft. All of them continue tearing into the Union formation - and taking it badly in return. And of course the Airships, and the much larger 'airforce class' ship, start to open up on the Union formation now. Lambasting both sides with missiles, lasers and even more fireballs. To make things a bit worse, Kefka's monsters don't seem to be at all burderned by the idea of having to hold fire or hit an ally.

       Across the battlefield, the wave of hunger grows, spuring the monsters on even more furiously then they were before.
       This time however, Julian is directly targeted by the Light of Judgement. Isamu being next to him, is probably also going to be a bit unhappy shortly.

Kefka hit Julian with his Bring your sunblock! epic attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Isamu Dyson with his Bring your sunblock! epic attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Omega with his More Incoming. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Maya with his More incoming! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Stephen Vandal with his Yes. You know. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shana with his yeah. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Go gumby! Go gumby! Go go! strong attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 18 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his some for you too! strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...we're assaulting that monster Kefka, miss."

       The X-Wings, Y-Wings and B-Wings open up on the ground units with there Torpedos, Laser Cannons and the like as the shots go out to clear the ground and anything else that gets in the way.  <OOC: was to go before Kefka posed and attacked.>

Duo Maxwell missed Kefka with his X-,Y- and B-Wing combo attack strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Maya's luck gives out as the Alpha takes some hits from the attacks from the various monster,s this time the alpha transforms riding its thrusters now, darting between the enemy and letting the Auto Cannon do the work as she lets the shots rip into Kefka's minions. She's going to have to go after that Airforce class ship soon... Maya hit Kefka with her Auto Cannons wiffing likely strong attack! <New Mechanic> Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-mummy. Black Arachnia continues clinging to the side of her chosen carrier-chopper, watching the unmitigatedly chaotic fracas which is a huge-scale battlezone. . o O ( The Beast Wars were *never* like this, ) she thinks. ( I wonder if the Great War saw anything like this, though ... ) Something she might have to ask Prime.

Later. Rick gives a nod over to Amelia. "Good. Okay, here's what I need ya t' do. Once we hit th' deck, we're gonna scatter int' squads, an' from squads int' fire teams. I'm treatin' this like a nuke zome. We /can't/ be too close together. But I want you t' stay with me an' Fleece, got it? I'll be leavin' first, an' Fleece will be leavin' when she can't be a' any more use on the MG."

Fleece, meanwhile, is at the window gun, looking widely for targets. She yells back. "Sir! Sir, I don't see anythung! Except for a big spider on the other chopper! But I think she's a /good/ spider!"

The canisters tied to the lagre cluster of monsters are only hauled further into the core of Kefka's flying armada, spreading the gas further. Then, after just a precious few moments, the canister nozzles run dry.

"Bang."

The canisters break-apart, each throwing two-dozen minelets into the air, and just as many compressed casings of nearly molecular-sized adamantium circular saws.

Just a few fractions of a second after being ejected, the minelets detonate. Their explosions aren't tremendous - but the one that comes with follows the ignition of all that airborne fuel most certainly is.

The shaprnel canisters disintegrate in the resulting firestorm, couple an already sky-shuddering explosion with extraordinarily dangerous high-speed projectiles, scattering in every direction and making mincemeat out of whatever they happen to pass through.

There wasn't enough time for Jehuty to evade the light of Judgement, the Frame still stuck in its cooldown phase from firing the Vector Cannon.

Inside the cockpit Julian lets out an agonized cry as it feels like the skin's being peeled from his body as Jehuty's relieved of more of that pesky metatron armor.

"I won't..." Julian mutters, "I won't back down!"

Jehuty forms it's mummy shield once again, sparkles of light form over the frame as the energy starts to allow Jehuty to repair it's damaged body.

-Shield open. SSA Lock, reverse,- Julian restores Julian. Oooo healing sparkles.

       Omega once more took a face full of spells, grunting as his armor was slowly starting to crack under the magical assaults.  His eyes narrowed, as his attention was stolen by the light of Judgement smashing into Julian's MS.  Growling, Omega released quite a bit of gravimetrial power, focusing it on the air forces all around him.  Without warning, these forces would either be crushed beyond recognition, or dropped to the ground to face horrible fates as their bodies would be too heavy to fly anymore.

       "Out of my way!" he roared, wanting nothing more then to get to that tower and topple it.

The first wave of bombs didn't seem to have any effect. So, as best as they can, the bombers that haven't already taken hard hits and gone down are wheeling back around, and trying to form up in a closer formation. To what point or purpose? Well, carpet bombing is always fun.

Meanwhile, the fighter pilots are giving as good as they get. Many of them are going down, but many many more are still up in the air, shooting at anything without a Union insignia. At this rate, the battlefiel below is probably going to look like a junkyard.

Omega hit Kefka with his By the power of Leeeeeeeeeeeroy Jeeeeeeeeenkins, GRAVITY WELL strong attack! <New Mechanic> Solid Snake missed Kefka with his Carpet + Furball = High Cleaning Bill strong attack! (New Mechanic) Haywire has... no idea what's going on at this point. Just that people are trying to blow each other up, it seems. ".. Do you have any idea who's fighting who?" "Nope. You?" "Nuh uh." Haywire pauses for a few moments. "Fine, we'll just blow up them all then." Nightmare glares after her as she gets up from her seat. "And just where are you going?" "To activate the weapon, of course." ".. I can just turn it on from here, you know." Haywire snarls, jabbing a metal finger to her chest. "Oooh no you won't! I'm the evil super villian, I. Fire. The. Superweapon!" Then turns and storms out of the control cockpit. Nightmare sighs, hologram slumping against the control panel and burying his face in the palm of a hand. "This is so not going to turn out good...."

Amelia nods as she listens attentively to her commander's instructions, still in ready position. "Yes, Sir!" It's like nothing else can possibly distract her from the mission.

Until Fleece points out something about a spider attached to their chopper. The mage blinks and sweatdrops. "..../spider/?"

Oh, it's a good spider. Whoever she is, she's in their side. At least she hopes. Holding her breath for a moment, the young private shifts her gaze back to Rick, and lets it out slowly.

"Ready to go, Sir!"

Shannon blasts a couple more gumby monsters that manage to break through and reach the transports. "So far so good, the air forces are causing lots of havoc and we still have our ground forces to throw in..." She hmmmms quietly as she does another quick scan of the transport force. "Not long now..."

The detatchment seemingly 'lead' by Atma in favor of harassing the forces sent out by Kefka is signalled by a rather loud roar and the jerk of the creature's head. Only a portion of them follow him off ... it's a fairly significant number, but the amount still making their way out to combat the likely and ongoing ground assault are still strong in number. A wide circle is formed around the creature, wide enough that a saturation attack would have trouble hitting the creature in the center as well as the magitek-armored troops, and a scant few aerial units hover around above, waiting for something or someone to attempt to disturb them.

A bright red spherical glow surrounds Atma Weapon, arcs of lightning building up on and around him before a number of robed men warp in near the 'circle', and begin their own similiar, smaller-scaled casting, assisting in giving their own power and targetting. Following up the vicious assault by Kefka's forces is a large-scale bolt 3, great bursts of lightning forming ominously in the sky and trying to strike down a great deal of elites targetted by the rest of the forces present.

In the meanwhile, the air forces commanded out by Atma seem to retreat from their random tactics and simply seem to go on 'escort' duty alongside the military-type airships, and the rest of the ground forces speed up their armor and vehicles as they approach the melee between monsters and Union forces.

Atma missed Julian with his MT-Bolt3 strong attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Omega with his MT-Bolt3 strong attack! (New Mechanic) Atma hit Isamu Dyson with his MT-Bolt3 strong attack! <New Mechanic> Atma missed Maya with his MT-Bolt3 strong attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Stephen Vandal with his MT-Bolt3 strong attack! (New Mechanic) Atma hit Shana with his MT-Bolt3 strong attack! <New Mechanic>

       And the YF-19 didn't get any further from the light of judgment then Jehuty did. Swathed in the corona of light the YF-19 falls to the ground, sizzling, but not yet defeated.

       Inside, Isamu pants "D-damn...." his mouth pulls back in a snarl "CLEAR LINE OF FIRE!" is heard over the radio.

       The heavy weapons pack on the back of the right arm opens up revealing the lenses and barrel of the high output Pulse cannon.

       With no where near as much fanfare as the Vector cannon, the pulse cannon is aimed right at the biggest representation of Power that can be seen, Atma. A needle thin beam fired from the Pulse Cannon as well as five of the long range micro missiles under the arm just to soften up the things around the massive beast.

       The beam seems tiny, insignificant... unless it hits something, then it just keeps going, leaving gaping holes in weaker units, the only thing that could stop it is the hide of Atma as this, is the UN Spacey's Top Secret Pulse Cannon, that one that can turn a Mk II Monster, the heaviest UN Spacey Combat robot into Swiss Cheese.

       Despite the fact that Shana was so small, that alone wasn't enough to protect her from the ravages of this combat. She withstood a variety of attacks up there in the air, all of them quite beyond her pain threshold, which meant she was SCREAMING. Quite loudly. But the battle insanity of the Dragoon transform gave her the strength to press on, despite the gashes to her armor here and there.
       She recovered her senses and flew a little ways away from the mass of monsters and flying destruction to get an idea on who was where and where she could best assist.
       "There!" She looked over in the direction of Jehuty. She pulled back her bowstring, a silver streak of light appearing. She aimed upwards...  "Mooooooooon /LIGHT!/"
       The arrow shot up into the air, parting the clouds...revealing a strange low-orbiting, glowing moon. The moon released a beam of glowing light down on Shana, and she gestured at Jehuty, aiming the healing energies at the Orbital Frame.

Shana restores Julian. Oooo healing sparkles. Isamu Dyson hit Atma with his Pulse Canon, Do not take with alcohol, other drugs, consult physician to see if pulse cannon is right for you. Do not ingest micro missiles under any circumstance. epic attack! <New Mechanic>

       So far the entire air armada is giving as good as it's been giving, but... There is a limit to the amount of fighting they've been ordered to do. And as the first and second of the giant airships starts to go down in flames.
       And here and there the occasional strike actually hits home against Kefka's tower ... sadly, they accomplish nothing. Not even scratching the rubble of the great tower.

Kefka missed Julian with his Blastboomsmashy strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Isamu Dyson with his Blastboomsmashy strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Omega with his Blastboomsmashy strong attack! (New Mechanic) You suffer 18 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Blastboomsmashy strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Maya with his Blastboomsmashy strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Stephen Vandal with his Blastboomsmashy uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Shana with his Blastboomsmashy strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Richard Stadler with his Stray battlefield fire moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Amelia with his stray battlefield fire moderate attack! <New Mechanic>

Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-support. Kefka hit Shannon with his Stray fire moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Black Arachnia with his Stray fire moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Thionoxial leaves the World of Ruin.

World of Ruin - <World of Ruin> (Location #0)

   The World of Ruin - A dead and dying world, one that you know that you've entered immediately almost as much from the feeling of despair in the air, and the sweet smeal of decay and death... The closer you get to the World of Ruin, the stronger the aura becomes, and the less life there is. Even the grass, the trees and the plants, of this world seem to be infected by the aura, and many of them are dying or dead, there's next to no animal life, and a constant howling dusty wind scours the landscape.
   In liu of animal life, monsters have taken over almost all of the world, and encounters with large packs of them that prey on humans, monsters and visitors alike are very common here - in fact many times the groups of monsters come howling and tearing across the border to decimate nearby towns, wildlife, and just about anything else that they can claim for food.
   In the center of the world of ruin is a giant tower made of ruins and debris, the shattered remanants of cities, and the remains of a large continent.

Contents (1 player not shown) Exits Amelia <Military> <A> Arena Amuro Ray <Jegan> <FT> Fanatic's Tower Asteroth <KT> Kefka's Tower Atma Black Arachnia <spider> Duo Maxwell <deathscythe hell> Haywire <Mecha-hyena> Isamu Dyson <yf-19> Ivolt Julian <jehuty> Kefka <Kefka> Mario <regular> Maya <Junker> Omega <Absolute> Optimus Prime <Standard> Richard Stadler <combat> Shana <Dragoon> Shannon <Dragon> Solid Snake <Thebox> Sonia Belmont <VampireKiller> Stephen Vandal <Shark Chopper>

Thionoxial enters the World of Ruin. Thionoxial arrives in: World of Ruin.

       Omega falls into a defensive mode, as the beam saber hands start to flash and spin as they deflect shots and magical attacks aimed at him.  Attack after attack is sent away from him, and a few force the deposed emperor to dodge.  With a 'Hmph' Omega deactivates the sabers once more, as his gravity generators start to reactivate, and send a stunning blast into the nearest forces around him.  Then, with the control of a surgeon, he aimed them right over the head of the larger magical assault and large obvious monster.  Then, releasing a large ice field, he attempted to freeze those units, and send them crashing into Atma and his group.

       "I said, OUT OF MY WAY!"

Omega missed Kefka with his Absolute Zero strong attack! (New Mechanic) Omega hit Atma with his Falling Debries moderate attack! <New Mechanic>

The Alpha now watches the Atma weapon is something more frimilar to her than one might expect. At least the basics of what sort of being he is. She manages to keep from getting struck but ire from the armda and now she sends a radio to Julian. The alpha now drops towards the ground in a free fall just to a point before the ground where she kicks in her thrusters and lands near Julian and Isamu. From there she opens fire with missiles on the fliers in the skies and to the Atma weapon. "Sorry I'm late boys." Maya hit Atma with her Missiles strong attack! <New Mechanic> Maya hit Kefka with her Missiles strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Another rake of gunfire hits the chopper, this one going in a diagnol pattern, bottom to top. Not only does it leave troppers screaming in pain and clutching wound, the cabin starts to fill with smoke.

From the cockpit, the sound of multiple warning alarms are going off, and the pilot yells back. "Hit to the front Turboshaft! We'll be going down soon, like it or not! I need to hit ground!"

Rick yells to the front, "Kick it up! Ruin th' goddamn engine if you have to, 'cause not all of us are ready for a /swim!/" He turns to the wounded Amelia. "Private, one last thing! You use your magic as /you/ see fit! Use it in conjunction with your fellow soldiers, and your fire arm!" And he's back out, looking over who was wounded, and what combat capability was lost. Thionoxial has set her Max HP from 160 to 200. Stephen Vandal plummets to the ground under his own power, lightning, energy blasts, surging maws and terrible projectiles alike catching only the sky he once occupied as he dives. He lands with a *SPLOOSH!* next to Dyson's variable fighter, becoming a puddle of shiny steel 'goop' upon impact.

The goo expands in size and shapes itself into a new, monstrous figure - multiple draconic heads and tank treads both aimed in Atma weapon's direction... Skirting to quickly avoid the incoming fire, Jehuty rights itself just in time for Maya to land down near the 19. This was gonna be tricky since Julian was risking keeping Maya, Isamu and himself near immobile.

Jehuty reaches out to place a hand on the shoulders of both mecha, shunting an aqua light into both mecha. By virtue of multiverse physics and the simple freaky properties of metatron, the energy does a surprisingly effective job of repairing systems and getting the two craft back in gear a little better.

Shannon stretches out her wings as she flies along with the transports, preparing for what's about to come. It shouldn't be long now before the ground force engages the enemy... But things are already getting heated at this point. Some stray fire from the battle ahead is heading towards the transports and are likely to make some hits. Shannon wont be able to defend the entire transport force from the fire, so does what she can. As the transport with Amelia, Stadler and Arachnia is the closest, she gets in front of that one and raises both her wings in front of her to defend from the fire. Some till makes it through to the transport, but atleast this way they werent blown out of the sky. Shannon opens up her wings again and moves out of the way, not particularily wanting to accidently hit the chopper.

Also, space distorts behind Jehuty as its phalanx weapon is ejected for Maya to use, "Take it!" Stephen Vandal changed his armor mode to hydra tank. Julian restores Maya. Oooo healing sparkles. Julian restores Isamu Dyson. Oooo healing sparkles.

This time, the chopper isn't the only thing that gets hit. Its occupants get hit next. Amelia lets out a painful scream as she gets sent flying and slamming into the wall. Alarms blaring, smoke coming in, troopers also screaming in pain, it's crazy!

Panting heavily, the young private nods and responds to her commander. "YES, SIR!"

Quickly grabbing her shotgun which she had dropped upon impact, Amelia grits her teeth and goes to healing herself and her fellow combatants.

White light shines forth from her hands as she gets to work while they're still in the air.

"RECOVERY!" Amelia restores Amelia. Oooo healing sparkles.

       Shana flung up her hands again, attempting to protect herself from the mass of attacks. ...it didn't work too well. The White-Silver Dragoon was hit hard by a nasty barrage and sent tumbling through the air. She recovered once again, barely maintaining her grip on the bow. She was taking far too much of a beating compared to the others, it almost seemed.
       She pulled her bow back again and launched the arrow towards the sky.  "Mooon LIGHT!"

Shana restores Shana. Oooo healing sparkles.

The battle up above is getting heated. With the air forces fighting tooth and nail so long, the enemy's numbers have been reduced badly. So have the Union's, but that just means that the air is clear. And the bombers have exhausted their payloads, so they're pulling back as well, clearing things a little further.

That, however, is when the next wave of aircraft begins arriving. Transports. Many transports. Up into the thousands, perhaps. All of them with the Union logo, and all of them tearing in to get as close under the the air battle as possible. And land they do, hatches popping open sometimes before the craft even hit the ground.

Not just ground troops are landing, oh no. Armored cavalry and infantry are landing as well. And there are several ships devoted to quick-assemble weapons emplacements, too. Everything from men to mecha.

-- Duo Maxwell is moving forward as he begins to sit down a head of the Landing Zone for the Transports. As soon as the Gundam Deathscythe Hell lands ont he ground, the Beam Cannon is brought up and it is aimed right at some of the Ground units. Duo pushes a button and the Beam Cannon switches to fire mode as Duo looks and the tip starts to glow a golden yellow. As it glows, little dots start to form that are pulled into the barrel as Duo looks at the targeting bracket and waits for it to lock onto a target. As he waits, the Beam Cannon continues to charge and Duo is heard over the Union frequency. "Beam Cannon is charging..." he says as he gets the lock. "Target Locked...." he says as he looks. "Beam Cannon charged to 100%.... Firing." he says.

       With that, Duo sees the lock and the trigger is pulled in the cockpit of his Gundam.  The hum is heard over the field as the Cannon has fully charged and is released and rockets forward on the field.  The beam is as wide as the Gundam, shoulder to shoulder and goes till hit hits something.  As the Beam flies, incenterating montsers that are hit and are int he direct line of sight and others are treated the same that are near the beam.  Duo then moves as he angles his Gundam and one of the wings close to provide him with cover as the Cannon begins to charge again.  This will take a full round before it can fire again.

       And the STAR WARS Fighters now move off to handle things as best as they can, since Duo is now with the Ground Units.

Duo Maxwell missed Kefka with his Beam Cannon uber attack! (New Mechanic)

Freya enters the World of Ruin. Freya arrives in: World of Ruin.

Solid Snake hit Omega with his KANCHO tag attack! <New Mechanic>

Not just ground troops are landing, either. In fact, what one might expect least comes off.

A semi-truck. Bright red and blue. Though patriotic, it certainly doesn't look like this was built with combat or camoflauge in mind.

This likely changes as the semi ramps up to about 300 miles per hour within a good twenty seconds, moving straight towards Kefka's troops. Swerving to avoid the bumps in the road, his tires screech LOUDLY turning about, making hairpin turns that no human driver this side of Speed Racer could pull off. Dirt and dust kick up behind it.

And one might notice, on the sides of the truck, an insignia. Red and white, a robotic face. An Autobot signal.

Optimus Prime is here. A loud whirr-click is audible - barely - over the roar of his engine as a pair of photon blasters click into place, and begin firing towards the monster hordes. Omega hit Solid Snake with his No means no! tag attack! <New Mechanic> Optimus Prime missed Kefka with his Heroic Entrance moderate attack! (New Mechanic) The choppers, once in sight of land, don't waste time, taking the most direct route in, the smoking one losing alttiude bit by bit. But, before it hits ocean, it's feet dry, and near the battle zone.

Both choppers present the smallest profile to the enemy, as the land, and the ramps drop down. Machine gun fire from the window and ramp emplacements start blasting toward any of the soft targets they see, Fleece's gun tearing thing up. The escorting apaches, though wounded, start lobbing rockets at the front line.

And then, the troops come out, yelling, screamning battle cries of the beserker, as they spread out to find cover. But they're blasting all the way. Inculding Rick, who starts off the match with a lobbed grenade. And Fleece, who's managed to get off the MG and start peppering people with her AK. The glasses she wears only makes it easier to see who she's killin'

Private! Let's go! Don't wanna live forever, do ya!? Richard Stadler hit Kefka with his Main fire! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Richard Stadler hit Atma with his Covering Fire! weak attack! <New Mechanic>

Shannon dragon-smirks as the order for the ground forces to attack is given. She pulls her wings in close and dives down towards the ground. She spreads her wings out and pulls up, flying along close towards the ground. She zooms towards the forces around Atma and begins to charge for an attack. Black energy starts to flow across her body and gather at her open mouth. After a few seconds of gathering, she releases the large sphere of black energy which flies towards the mass of Atma's forces. On impact, it'll explode with a big explosion of black shadow energy.

Shannon hit Atma with her shadow bomb moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Announcement: Nefarian shouts, "For all you people playing, just so you know: I let the dogs out."

M*

       And coming from the back drop in with the charge is everyone's favorite Italian plumber and hero!  And he's zooming in with firey power on his trusty durable Kart!  As he catches up with some of the others and leaps off the Kart, then begins to run with the crowd!  "WOO-HOO!"

       Ladies and gentleman... Mario's IN DA HOUUUUUUSW!!!

Black Arachnia leaps off of her chopper-side mount as it comes close enough to the ground for her to land comfortably, and immediately begins scurrying forward on all eight legs, her clawed grasping arms flexing a bit ... and then she shoots her mouth off.

Literally. Right at one of the nearest monsters, her mandibles snapping closed around its leg, and trying to haul it away from its brethren and into easy slashing range.

Not a conventional tactic, perhaps, but since when are Transmetal spiders conventional combatants? Black Arachnia missed Atma with her GET OVER HERE!! *clawslash* weak attack! (New Mechanic)

Once the shoppper lands, Amelia is ready to go. She had healed herself and the other troopers just in time.

So this is her first real mission with the military.

As the troopers spill out, yelling and blasting, firing away, the young private leaps out next, quickly landing on her feet, and begins firing off her shotgun while joining Rick. She's got the eyes of the she-devil.

The sounds of explosives conquer the air. With a smirk, Amelia shakes her head to her commander. "NO, SIR!"

Across the battlefield, the momentum is slowly shifting towards the attackers ... But then again, this is only the first phase... And It's very safe to say that the attackers have taken a LOT more casualties then they've decided on. For now the light of judgement slows it's assult on the air battle overhead, and begins sweeping through the incoming wave of transports again and again. Of course there are going to be a few transports with the Elite on them, when they land however, a literal sea of monsters of are waiting for them all. A hungry sea of undead abominations, dire wolves, behemoths, and just about every kind of monster that one can imagine in one single place.

Kefka hit Omega with his Bring Sunblock! epic attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shannon with his Bring Sunblock! epic attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 26 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Strafing run. uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Richard Stadler with his Sea of Joy. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Amelia with his Sea of Joy. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Shana with his Sea of joy. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Julian with his Sea of joy. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Maya with his Sea of joy. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Isamu Dyson with his Sea of joy. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Sea of patriotic joy. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Black Arachnia with his Sea of joy. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Mario with his Sea of joy. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Sonia Belmont with his Sea of joy. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Ivolt with his Sea of love, joy, hope and peace. strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Atma turns it's head up as something begins to approach it. It bares it's teeth and snarls, energy pouring from it's mouth as it readies itself for the oncoming attack. The beam rips through it's body, but the effects seem to be relatively minimal, and it's hard to tell if the explosions from the missiles really burned it. From the wound, more of the red energy begins to flow back against the beast's leathery skin, and it roars defiantly in response to the attack on it's personage. Even the persistent attacks by others, and the falling debris from Omega seem shaken off fairly easily.

The surrounding forces are much more bothered by the debris, however, and scatter so that they don't get caught up in it. The only ones who remain are the robed fanatics, who remain behind with Atma and begin to cast spells as the rest of the ground forces that had been there take off to fight the main battle.

Once more a great orange-red light surrounds Atma, as well as the fanatics surrounding them. Each of the fanatics is chanting some sort of otherworldly spell while Atma himself simply seems to pulse with power. In the very center of the battlefield, a hole into space seems to open up out of nowhere... for a moment is fluctuates and pulses, growing larger and larger. Neither Atma's, nor Kefka's forces seem intimidated by this, however...

And in an instant, meteors begin to fly with great force from the hole into space, striking out at aerial and ground units alike with great force. They pass harmlessly through or around friend as if they weren't even there. Foes, on the other hand, would find that they have a very large space-rock bearing down on them at extremely high speeds.

Atma hit Black Arachnia with his Meteor uber attack! <New Mechanic> Atma hit Shannon with his Meteor uber attack! <New Mechanic> Atma hit Julian with his Meteor uber attack! <New Mechanic> Atma missed Isamu Dyson with his Meteor uber attack! (New Mechanic) Atma hit Omega with his Meteor uber attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 20 points of damage. Atma hit Duo Maxwell with his Meteor uber attack! <New Mechanic> Atma missed Maya with his Meteor uber attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Stephen Vandal with his Meteor uber attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Shana with his Meteor uber attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Richard Stadler with his Meteor uber attack! (New Mechanic) Atma hit Amelia with his Meteor uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Solid Snake with his There's always someone else. strong attack! <New Mechanic>

By now, everyone probably forgot about that one transport just sitting there. Because that's all it's been doing is sitting there. Just sitting, sitting, and sitting some more.

BUT THAT ALL CHANGES! The machine's backside cracks open down the middle on the top, and then splits and retracts away, the entire trailer like compartment opening up. Gears and hydrolics screech to life at the same time, cranking up a launcher of one giganormous missile. "Nyahahaha... Ahahaha... AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!" Haywire goes through her usual maniacal cackling as she leans into the targetting viewscreen, watching the crosshairs as she works the controls to line up with the battle raging on. "Just a little more... little more... There!" She squeals gleefully as the crosshairs flash red, and slams a hand down on the FIRE button. "FIRE IN THE HOLE!"

Massive jet engines flare to life, sending up plumes of smoke and fire behind the projectile of doom as it powers up, the whole transport rattling from the vibrations as the mighty missile..... stays right there.

"... What the hell?" *BEEEP* Haywire turns to look at the different screen as it beeps and flashes. "The release locks are jammed? Oh, that is just shoddy workmanship!" "I told you to just let ME activate it." "SHUT UP!"

Another blast of flames erupt from the engines, even as the rocket can't get anywhere, bigger and brighter than before. A few small blasts erupt from within, shooting out smoking random parts as internal systems start to backfire from the strain of holding down a missile that was suppose to be flying head-on into destruction by now. Haywire's ears slick back as she emits a whine, eyes shrinking down to little spots as the console starts to flash overload warnings. "Oh sh--"

From the combat on the other side of the field, people can probably see the big cloud of smoke and fire that suddenly plumes into the air, tossing flaming debris all over the place. And as the cloud slowly spirals away upward, and a few bits of metal clatter to the ground, smoke drifts away to reveal Haywire sitting in some of the remaining rubble of her machine, her face scorched entirely black save for her optics, her mane still smoldering on a few ends, hands still in the positions of holding the controls. Which is where she sits for several minutes.

"..... ow ....."

Eventually she flops over backwards, scraps clattering from the remaining heap as she falls on top of it.

Quietly enough, and also keeping to herself as much as she can, there happens to be a certain lady Belmont who's also hopping off a transport as well. Though the wolves, behemoths, and other things are a sadly familiar sight to the young Belmont. She half-grunts in pain as a wolf tears into her leg, though she does manage to shake it off, regardless, stabbing it's head with a voluminous blast of magical energy being channeled from her hand. The rest of the monsters? Are about to get the same thing, as the Belmont uncurls her whip, and starts rushing into melee, lashing and snapping her whip furiously, though every time she does? She sends out ribbons of magical energy that are wholly destructive to the wolves, behemoths, and other assorted enemies, while at the same time, seem to not harm nearby allies. Some of those wolves, if they had survived from that assault on that elven village, might recognize this magical and physically based assault.

Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-full_harmony.

       The YF-19 smolders from the hit of lightening it took from Atma earlier. The Pulse cannon folds closed against the back of the arm as a counter in the cockpit lights up. 30:00...29:57 and counting down as such. Not only the pulse cannon, but /all/ of the 19's energy weapons are down while the capacitors recharge. It's looking pretty rough there, but Jehuty Magic Healing Sparkles! Restore a portion of functionality to the mech. With a grunt Isamu forces the YF-19 to stand up straighter. "This sucks."

       Blasting across the landscape as the light of judgment falls again, and even Atma starts blasting red light across the battlefield. The YF-19 lands next to Optimus prime as the FAST armor packs on the legs open up, firing a cloud of minimissiles ahead of the Autobot leader to keep his path cleared.

-- The Gundam Deathscythe stands there as any shots come towards it and will hit it, since Duo is not moving much as he lines up for a second shot with the Beam Cannon. Deathscythe Hell is hit by two strong shots and Duo grunts as he looks up. With the ground troops, he has to aim this just right, and so Duo looks aorund and gets a new target ont he ground as he steps up and waits for the target lock. acquiring the lock, the Cannon is fired a second time and Then Duo just sets lets the Cannon drop to the ground.

       As the Beam Cannon drops, and slams into the ground, cause a slight shockwave, the Beam Scythe is pulled and activated.  The green energy blade comes to life and then Duo moves forward, swinging at the monsters that are nearby as he moves.  "THE GOD OF DEATH IS BACK FROM HELL!" he says as he engages and does not hold back as he thinks of the battle with the Vayeate and Mercurius Mobile Dolls which had the reaction times and skills of both Heero and Trowa.

Duo Maxwell hit Atma with his Second Beam Cannon uber attack! <New Mechanic> Sonia Belmont hit Kefka with her Black Dragon Whirlwind strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Ivolt nods as his transport lands, time to get to work! He charges in with everyone else, drawing his sabre as he runs... and promptly gets swarmed by monsters "ACK!" Right, no time to panic, He swings his sabre around for a swipe at the nearest monster.

Ivolt missed Kefka with his Into the fray! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Isamu Dyson missed Atma with his Missiles for ze ground troops! strong attack! (New Mechanic)

       Omega noticed the transports moving...and then a beam on top of the Light of judgement starting to charge.  Growling, he dashed to intercept the beam, his sabers whipping out to try and deflect the beam and send it flying away.  Of course, this was damn stupid, but hey...he's a Zero technically.  The beam hit his sabers, as the pure force of his strength held it at bay for only a few moments...but for those moments were all he needed...the beam was stalled...before he couldn't hold it back any longer.

       His body again, absorbed most of the blast, and then, a meteor from above smashed into him, his armor was completely blown away, as the beam sent him crashing into the ground.  For a moment, nothing happened...the smoke cleared and there was nothing but a crater.  However, after those few brief moments, Omega rose out once more...his armor shattered and very very much gone besides his claws and wings.  He looked right at Atma, and dashed forward at him.

       Claws flashed with energy, as he attempted to directly assault the beast, tearing through any defenses and attempting to tear the beast asunder.

Solid Snake hit Solid Snake with his Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer! tag attack! <New Mechanic>

Maya lands and she looks over to Julian for a moment anf she says over the radio. "Thanks." She turns her weapon to the skies where the enemy units remain still standing but well she's able to get clear of Atma's attack by taking to the air this however. Eben as the tansports are under attack? Wel Maya's still firing off auto cannon rounds at the attacking forces looking to take down the big guns if she's able. Omega hit Atma with his By the power of the Jenkins:Final Strike! epic attack! <New Mechanic> Maya hit Kefka with her Gunning and running strong attack! <New Mechanic>

-- Duo Maxwell looks as systems start to go red, "Great," he says as he stops progressing forward and begins to fall back. "SNake, I'm having to withdraw, I cannot take another hit," he says to him.

And then, on the ground before the charge - a small flicker of candleflame appears on the ground, glowling brightly and trailing a small plume of smoke. It then grows to a foot in height, and begins to move - counterclockwise, until it circles upon itself. Then, the circle collapses - and the flame pours inwards before moving up in a tiny, 6 foot mushroom cloud - which collapses in upon itself in a tiny, almost comically small shockwave.

In its place is the lithe, attractive 6 foot tall figure of Cecilia Demonflame - a(currently) heavily tattooed tierfling woman with small batlike wings, a long demonic tail, and a forked tongue. 

"Zis eez not exactly what I was expecting. But then, ze Union eez always attacking ze evil no? Perhaps evil hes a place in ze world, too? Perhaps you need to be taught a lesson, no?" 

And then, her tail reaches into her left arm - and pulls off a tattoo - a small tattoo of a large minigun - which then grows in size into a massive 6 foot monstrosity. 

The minigun glows a fierce blue in color, radiating magic - and Cecilia begins firing it. And when she fires (each bullet at 100 ROUNDS PER SECOND) - crackling with magical energy, explodes in a 40 foot ball of fire when it lands.

A single, gray feather is taken by the wind and drifts across the battlefield until it lands on the ground and is crushed into the dirt by one of the multiple minions fighting on the ground. Soon a second feather floats through the air and lands next to the first one. This trend continues until ground where the first feather fell is saturated with the sickly feathers. A cold wind picks up the feathers and lifts them up into the air where for some reason they hang motionless. The feathers seem to form the outline to a pair of angelic wings that sweep backwards to reveal the presence of a large demonic creature holding a double edged spear roughly the same size in length as the creature. Thionoxial hit Omega with her 600 FIREBALLS PER SECOND FROM MAGIC MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial hit Richard Stadler with her 600 FIREBALLS PER SECOND FROM MAGIC MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial hit Black Arachnia with her 600 FIREBALLS PER SECOND FROM MAGIC MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Thionoxial missed Optimus Prime with her 600 FIREBALLS PER SECOND FROM MAGIC MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Asteroth has set his Max HP from 100 to 200.

Well, isn't this a nice little party? All those damned supernatural creatures just add to the fun. And while Rick's unit can deal with zombies in a strategically favorably, now the damn monsters are swarming, and the gunfight now favors knives and claws. Men start screaming, men start falling. But everybody keeps shooting, firing, killing.

The Meator strike doesn't do much. Rick's unit was spread out to begin with, trying to avoid a decisive strike by high-yield weapons. The gaitling gung wreaks destruction, though, and like that, half of Rick's Combat capability is wiped out.

But the firing continues, napalm and gasoline mixing in with the shots. And one very pissed off, bespeceled knife master.

Seems today is definetly not a good day for Shannon. Atleast her attack was successful, blowing away some of Atma's forces. However, as she was attacking them, she didn't notice the large attack heading her way. She's hit by the Light of Judgement, which is rather a pain to her. Her wings are scorched and pretty much gone and her armor didn't take too kindly to the attack either. With it, she also loses her concentration and with it, her flight. She plummets to the ground at quite a speed, slamming into it and probably squashing some enemies as she does.

If that was it, it wouldn't be so bad. But /then/ there's a massive asteroid heading her way. She cant really dodge after being hit with the light, so she just lies there as the rock impacts. If she had bones, they'd probably be dust right about now. As it is, her armor has lots of cracks all over the place and the asteroid has really flattened her. She manages to user her body to roll the asteroid off, then slowly gets up. Her armor fixes itself and her body returns to its normal shape. Her wings regrow and Shannon shakes her head to get over the confusion, "That was such a pain..."

Shannon doesn't bother returning to the air just yet, instead she turns her head to Atma and quietly growls, "Damn you." Black energy starts to flow across her body, assisted thankfully by the absorbing of the shadow created by the large asteroid beside her. All the energy collects at her mouth into a much large sphere than before. Shannon then releases it, sending it straight towards Atma. Explosion time.

Richard Stadler hit Kefka with his Main attack! strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Shannon missed Atma with her That asteroid hurt, damnit! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Richard Stadler hit Thionoxial with his Covering Fire! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Richard Stadler missed Atma with his Covering Fire! weak attack! (New Mechanic)

As the troops surge forward, as the battle rages on, a red and blue truck rides through the battle, firing and being fired upon. Sitting inside that truck as one particularly hard blast hits is Solid Snake, who takes a *hard* smack to the side against the inside of Optimus, and grunts. "Damn. We gotta get closer. I want to lead the charge up the tower." That said, the Field Marshal opens up the driver's side window and leans out; carefully situating himself so he's braced half out of it, the soldier then pulls out of his inventory the classic, trusty Stinger missile launcher. He's full up on ammo today, too. Snake sights through his Stinger's guidane system, acquires lock, and cuts a missile loose. Then loads another, and cuts that loose as well. And then again, and again and again. He's trying to blow up as many tight formations of monsters as possible, in as few rounds as possible. Solid Snake missed Kefka with his Does This Sting? moderate attack! (New Mechanic)

       A voice cried out over the battlefield,  "God...Give Me Power!" The voice was warm and full of hope. A soft rainbow light formed around Shana who was currently flying directly above Rick's mass of troops.  "GATES OF HEAVEN!" A beam of light descended from the sky in front of Rick's troops, forming into a large pair of angel wings that let loose with a brilliant beam of healing light that passed over Rick's troops and the Ensign himself, offering a powerful healing force.

Shana restores Richard Stadler. Oooo healing sparkles.

Thionoxial hit Mario with her 600 FIREBALLS PER SECOND FROM MAGIC MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial hit Ivolt with her 600 FIREBALLS PER SECOND FROM MAGIC MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Methos enters the World of Ruin. Methos arrives in: World of Ruin.

It's a war out here, that's what it is. Panic ensues when a huge meteor shower strikes the earth, attempting to cream Rick's unit like ants. Amelia can deal with supernatural creatures no problem, but even something like this is way out of her league!

The young private isn't fast enough as she tries to dodge the huge rocks, while still firing away her shotgun, and loading on ammunition at all possible speed.

Until she gets caught in the impact herself, and gets severely wounded amidst the chaos. The young private grits her teeth, her eyes flaring She places her hands on herself and goes to healing. Already been hit once and she hasn't landed a single shot on the real enemy.

Rick's orders were firm and to be carried out at all cost. NO DYING OUT HERE. Amelia restores Amelia. Oooo healing sparkles.

Jehuty shudders and rocks as it's assaulted by undead and meteors.

-Damage index is exceeding 50%- ADA warns as Julian tries to regain himself from the sudden onrush of pain that came from the savage beating he took yet again.

"That's IT!" He roars out as Jehuty is enveloped in an aqua aura, energy crackling along it as the Frame simply tries to blow the horde off its body before space at Jehuty's back distorts. Jehuty reaches inside to draw out what is quite possibly the largest minigun you've ever seen. A lock-on cursor pops up on the YF-19 as Julian shouts over the radio, "Heads up Isamu!" Jehuty rears it's hand back before chucking the gatling cannon towards the 19, putting just enough force behind it to get it to the 19' without risking damage to the weapon or fighter.

Then Julian turns his attention to the hulking beast that is Atma.

Finally Jehuty gets airborne again as Julian growls, "I've had enough of you!"

Jehuty raises it's right hand above it's head, forming an aorb of aqua light, WISPs spiralling around it as the orb expands until there's a brief flash from it. Jehuty drops the orb down in front of it and strikes the Orb with it's palm, sending it after Atma, WISPs trailing after it as they try and slash at the beast before returning back to Jehuty.

Julian hit Atma with his Hey doggy! Fetch! uber attack! <New Mechanic> Stephen Vandal weaves and 'flows' as the attacks come his way, becoming paritally fluid to slip past any injury. He then retaliates around the surging rocks with a fiery blast from one of his rifled cannons - shooting a strange, lance-ish projectile towards Atma.

The lance is adamantium tipped, and thrust forward with four miniature rocket boosters. Capable of penetrating through an entire column of conventional MBTs without slowing-down, it has little trouble punching right on through any monsters that try to intercept it's flight-path as it thunders towards the colossal Weapon.

Just prior to impact, four plastic explosives are jettisoned, coated in barb mesh design to latch onto even heavily reinforced armor plating - and go tumbling towards Atma.

Within the lance? Multiple high-explosive shaped charges. Enough firepower bundled together to remove a mountain's peak. The weapon is designed to lodge itself in it's target and detonate for maximum effect - triggering the external explosives at the same time to create a compound blast that can sear, shred and compress a skycraper-sized target into an interesting pretzel shape. Stephen Vandal hit Atma with his Anti-Ooznaut Gunz! uber attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial missed Sonia Belmont with her LOTS of fireballs from magic minigun strong attack! (New Mechanic)

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       Into the fray, Mario goes!  And just when you think they're about nail him, he jumps!  He jumps high!  He jumps long!  He jumps OVER some of the horde!
       Now, Mario begins to try and jump on monsters' heads.  He's going to stomp as many as he can one by one until that load of fire hits him.

And it BURNS! Mario clasps his smoking behind. "OWOWOWOW!!!"

Mario hit Kefka with his Jump-Stomping for 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 1-UP, 1-UP,... moderate attack! <New Mechanic>

SMASH!* The entire frame of Optimus Prime is rattled by the blast, flecks of armor being torn away as they absorb the worst of the impact. A few sparks go off from his side from one of the places penetrated. Braving the fire blasts, Prime drives right through, managing to avoid any direct hits, merely singing his armor as opposed to actually penetrating it.

"Easily accomodated. Hang on and don't fire for a few seconds!"

Prime's engine suddenly shifts into higher gear as he dumps raw energon straight into his engine, accelerating to nearly five hundred miles per hour. THe air friction begins to cause the air to smell slightly of ozone - and DEFINITELY rubber - as his rediculous acceleration finally plateaus. Weapons continue blazing, photon blasts ncreasing in frequency as they create an even spreadfire, some of which are aimed at the enemy - and others aiming at the ground before them, in hopes of using the debris as a weapon to those that might be energy resistant. Optimus Prime hit Kefka with his Photon Blast Spreadfire strong attack! <New Mechanic> Sonia Belmont hit Thionoxial with her Arcane Blasts moderate attack! <New Mechanic>

Thionoxial has been knocked out! Thionoxial has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was -8

Sonia Belmont hit Thionoxial with her Arcane Blasts moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Richard Stadler hit Thionoxial with his Covering Fire! weak attack! <New Mechanic>

Haywire leaves the World of Ruin.

Ivolt promptly dodges sideways at the incoming fire, getting his backside torched in the process... "AHHH!!!" Acting fast, he swings foward, his arm glowing blue for a moment, then suddenly fireing off in a high-speed series of punches towards the monsters in front of him. Is this accurate? Hell no! But in a crowd like this how could you miss? Ivolt hit Kefka with his Goblin punch strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Amelia says, "This would be easier if I used my magic..." (New BB message (7/34) posted to 'Daily Spotlight' by Maya: Mario!) <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Then don't focus on stopping them. Focus on stopping the source!" <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "Then /do it/!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Finally! YES, SIR!" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Get behind me, the YF-19 has enough armor to cover you." <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "I thought I gave you orders pretainin' t' that, Private!" <Union-IC> Mario says, "I'm-a trying to make-a my way to the tower. Who's-a with me?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I'll come." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Sorry, Sir! I misheard. Right away, Sir!" Black Arachnia is actually forced flat on the ground as a number of those mini-fireballs slam into her, scorching her something *fierce*. Fortunately, her abdomen has pretty heavy armor; unfortunately, it's not so heavy that she doesn't get hurt at all. "Oh, for the love of ..."

She's back on all eight feet in a split second thereafter, racing towards Cecilia at her top ground speed, leaping randomly in zigs and zags ... and then, with an eerie shriek of rage, one more leap directly at her. Potentially right into the teeth of that flaming minigun ...

But as long as she finds her mark, she doesn't care.

Time to try her cybervenom on an *organic* target. <Union-IC> Maya says, "We got to break through with the transports." Black Arachnia missed Thionoxial with her Do you realize how much that STINGS? strong attack! (New Mechanic)

       Monster meets hero in a blaze of glory, and quite the gory blaze. The explosion of combat outside the tower, prompts a laugh from within the tower that's so insane, so malavolent, so ... horrible. That it makes some of the monsters stop and shiver, not to mention many of the Union forces. "GO! WORSHIP AT MY ALTAR! LET DESTRUCTION RAIN!"
       prectably the monsters redouble their efforts, in a frezy of destruction - Despite the fact that a significant number of them are taking serious damage from just about every source of weaponry out there.

Kefka hit Black Arachnia with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Monster-ruin uber attack! <New Mechanic> Duo Maxwell has been knocked out! Kefka hit Isamu Dyson with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Ivolt with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Julian with his Monster-ruin strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Mario with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Maya with his Monster-ruin strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Omega with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Richard Stadler with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shana with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Shannon with his Monster-ruin strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Solid Snake with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Sonia Belmont with his Monster-ruin strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Stephen Vandal with his Monster-ruin strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Amelia with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> CECILIA DEMONFLAME....is hit by some stray fire from RICHARD, severely annoying her but only scratching her lightly. She's also caught up in some ribbons of magical energy from SONIA BELMONT...which tears into her magical leather armor.

The spiderlike figure of BLACK ARACHNIA leaps towards her, but the agile little Tiefling does a cartwheel backwards /with/ the massive minigun, and resumes firing.....

"Zis eez so typical of ze heroes, no? Zey come in ze swarms, zey raid all ze others, when a simple one on one challenge would do. So disonorable, no?" 

The minigun continues to fire. She doesn't even NEED to hit people - or go anywhere close. Each bullet creates a /40 foot/ fireball - creating a massive, raging inferno that blazes across her line of sight....

Thionoxial missed Solid Snake with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) Thionoxial missed Optimus Prime with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "So, uh, Nazis are evil no matter what world they're from, right?" Thionoxial hit Sonia Belmont with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial hit Mario with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Beside the Fallen Angel, another Demonic creature appears. Must shorter then Asteroth, the Demon is red in color and is currently wearing a bathrobe. Looking over to the taller Demon, he asks Asteroth, "See, look at this mess. This is why I told you that we should have come here. Pandemonium is goanna get all the strife and chaos it needs after we finish here. Look, there are a few of your friends here to."

The Demon points a clawed finger into the sky towards one of the units involved in the fight, a specific Orbital Frame. "See?" the demon comments.

Asteroth looks up into the air and sees the Orbital Frame Jehuty, "Julian" he says.  Then he looks back at the Demon and says to him, "Fine Brother, first I will help enhance the chaos for pandemonium to take. Then I will go after Julian."

Smiling, Asteroth's Brother kneels down and begins to draw a small outline of Demonic Symbols onto the ground. Asteroth moves up next to him and plunges his long spear into the ground.  Along series of demonic sigils begin to appear on the ground from the point that the spear made contact with the ground as the two Demons create a gateway to Pandemonium.

Smiling to himself, Asteroths brother stands up and starts chanting, "Now come forth my Infernal Rains and burn these fools with your bubbly goodness..."

The skies above the battle field begin to cloud over with jet black clouds and the winds begin to reek of brimstone.  From the clouds, a weird rain begins to fall. Resembling hail stones from a distance, closer inspections reveals that the clouds are actually raining small pieces of candy that bubbles and fizzes when it hits the ground or comes in contact with anything.  Don't eat it though, for it is the forbidden candy long banished to Pandemonium long ago...

Fear the Infernal Rains of POP-ROCKS!!!!

Thionoxial hit Ivolt with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Ivolt has been knocked out! Thionoxial missed Black Arachnia with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) Thionoxial hit Richard Stadler with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial hit Shannon with her FIREBALLING MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Asteroth missed Julian with his Chibi Shoulder Angel Asteroth whispers, "Submit to the Temptation, you must eat the candy! EAT IT, you know you will like it." strong attack! (New Mechanic) Asteroth hit Shannon with his Chibi Shoulder Angel Asteroth whispers, "Submit to the Temptation, you must eat the candy! EAT IT, you know you will like it." strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "I've had enough of this!" Asteroth missed Amelia with his Chibi Shoulder Angel Asteroth whispers, "Submit to the Temptation, you must eat the candy! EAT IT, you know you will like it." strong attack! (New Mechanic) Asteroth hit Maya with his Chibi Shoulder Angel Asteroth whispers, "Submit to the Temptation, you must eat the candy! EAT IT, you know you will like it." strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "All Union forces, mask, mask, mask!" <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "... hey, Duo, when are you expecting to get here?" Asteroth hit Mario with his Chibi Shoulder Angel Asteroth whispers, "Submit to the Temptation, you must eat the candy! EAT IT, you know you will like it." strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Shana says, "White-Silver Dragon!!!" <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "Asteroth, duke of T3H SP4M." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "(OOC: mischan)" Snake is hit by another hard attack, and now bleeding - for the moment, he's forced to draw himself back inside Prime for the moment. He's saving himself for a little later. Hopefully, one of the medics or healers will make it to the tower as well. <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Damnit! Of all the people to show up!" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Snake, I am unable to stay. I have to pull out. Sorry I could not be much help. I took some serious blasts covering the gorund troops. I'll be back in New Washington getting repairs. The Beam Cannon is sitting at the landing zone of the transports if you need it Isamu, Julian or Maya."

Atma WEAPON's forces are largely absorbed into Kefka's, or otherwise destroyed by oncoming attacks. A fanatic cultist stands in front of Atma and briefly erects a shield to block the attack from Deathscythe... although it is partly successful, it is only enough so to shield Atma, as the protection the cultist had conjured for itself fails and he is vaporized without a second thought.

Omega garners a snort from Atma, who literally swats one of the cultists assisting him in the way of Omega's attack, forcing him to shred the woman apart before reaching Atma, only managing to inflict a few cuts of questionable depth. Energy seeps out from the wounds, but he seems only marginally worse for the wear, drawing himself up to his full height and roaring. Attacks strike him and seem to simply bounce off of his body, from both Shannon and Richard Stadler. 
He is only finally given pause by Jehuty's attack, more magical energy flowing from his wounds by the second, especially when followed by Stephen's explosive charges, blasting a chunk out of Atma's side and causing another steady flow of power to leak out.

Though not felled or even knocked from his position if only because of ungodly ability to absorb damage, Atma is angered not only by the damage now caused to his body, but also by the irritating healers he can see working on the Union forces. Once again, Atma begins to glow brightly, flexing his claws, an intense, hateful look crossing his face. The air quickly becomes icy cold, anyone out in the opened easily able to see their breath and become -- however briefly -- quite uncomfortable if they're not dressed appropriately. At the same time, water conjured from nowhere gathers in a circle all around the fighting, rising up into massive waves held back only by massive amounts of magical energy.

Something gigantic can be seen riding in behind it... and suddenly, the waves all come crashing down. Although it loses much of it's force as it goes along, as do the magical glaciers coming down along with it... the intended targets would feel the full force, while the rest would get something potentially dangerous, but not nearly as horrible. As with all of the spells, it seems to pass harmlessly through Atma's allies.

Atma hit Julian with his Cleansweep - Glacier epic attack! <New Mechanic> Atma hit Amelia with his Cleansweep - Glacier epic attack! <New Mechanic> Amelia has been knocked out! Atma hit Omega with his Cleansweep - Glacier strong attack! <New Mechanic> Omega has been knocked out! Atma hit Mario with his Cleansweep - Glacier strong attack! <New Mechanic> Atma missed Shana with his Cleansweep - Glacier strong attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Richard Stadler with his Cleansweep - Glacier strong attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Stephen Vandal with his Cleansweep - Glacier moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Atma missed Sonia Belmont with his Cleansweep - Glacier moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Atma hit Maya with his Cleansweep - Glacier moderate attack! <New Mechanic>

       Omega was just too damaged to continue, as the glacier hit him, he was unable to function.  He landed on the ground, and fell to his knees, the systems starting to turn off as he shut down.  Save for one...his emergency trance system activated, and he was gone, sent back to safety for auto repair.

-- Duo Maxwell takes some strong hits and mutters as he starts to pull back and out of the battle. "Snake, I am unable to stay. I have to pull out. Sorry I could not be much help. I took some serious blasts covering the gorund troops. I'll be back in New Washington getting repairs. The Beam Cannon is sitting at the landing zone of the transports if you need it Isamu, Julian or Maya." he says over the radio as the beam scythe powers down and then takes flight heading out of the battle, and he slams his fist down onto his concole, "Damnit," he mutters as he looks and knows he will be working all night to get Deathscythe back to combat readiness, and so he heads to New Washington.

Shana once again was under serious attack from a huge massive of monsters and various spells which the Dragoon armor could barely handle at this point. It was horrendous, and the Dragoon armor was getting torn up in many places, large gashes all over it. Shana screamed in pain but stayed airborne, swooping away form the mass of monsters just in time to gather up a huge amount of energy. She was gathering so much energy that the entire sky started to change color, crackling with white lightning and swirling with huge white streaks and pillars of similar energies. Suffice to say, it was hard to miss this happening, even amidst the huge confusion of this battle.
Spears of light came down from the heavens to splash against some of the ground-borne monsters, though the light began to swirl around and form into a truly massive shape in the skies, several hundred feet long and wide. It was a White-Silver Dragon!
Shana pointed in the general direction of the monsters, and the Dragon took off at unnatural speeds, charging up the massive Light-energy lasers which were then fired, cutting through enemy formations and slicing across the ground causing huge explosions of white fire and lightning. Any monsters near the dragon would be bitten, clawed, blasted, rammed into or entirely ignored. This thing was on a rampage through the monsters and just about any other opposition that got in it's way, though it paid absolutely no attention to the Union forces. It knew its foes.
Another round of magical lasers slammed into the ground, causing a huge explosion if it landed right.
After all of this was over which may take some 30 seconds or so, the Dragon would disappear into nothingness and the sky would return to normal...

Shana hit Kefka with her White-Silver Dragon, DAMN IT HIT epic attack! <New Mechanic>

Well, that was entirely unexpected, for the most part; while she did originally expect the wolves, the incoming bulletfire is something else entirely different. Her blasts of magic are swirling around her in a whirlwind of blue-black fury, and by chance alone, she's able to not only cut down the incoming fire heading towards her? But also able to catch and disintegrate the chaingun fire that was heading towards the Council Chief, Optimus Prime. She couldn't stop it all, though she was able to reduce some of it, at the very least. Prime's armor had taken care of the rest of it, seeming to shield the Chief for the most part.

Infact, at this point, Sonia's about to become an utter maelstrom of magical energies. Those sensitive to it would see an outline of a burly executioner, axe held high, as it abruptly cuts into a monster that was able to tear into her--though it wasn't quite enough to deflect more attacks incoming from those chainguns, and even from the magical attack of Atma WEAPON, who now entered the game.

However, some people would find and see ribbons of bluish-energy tearing across the incoming chaingun fire, at least alleviating the potential for destruction otherwise. From Sonia arose even more-- twelve blades of gleaming light, that focused into deadly-looking blades as she unleashed a storm, no, a symphony of magical attacks. Her eyes flare with white-light, though at the moment She's still bleeding, and burnt from her upper shoulder from the impact of the chainguns, but she's now turning six of those swords into a deadly spiral of steel hurtling towards Cecilia otherwise. The remaining twelve? Well, they went onto a skewering warpath for the Atma WEAPON. Granted, at this point, she also looses a valkyrie-like cry as she unleashes the fury that she can, gesturing and sweeping her arms from side to side, occasionally lashing her whip down into some of the monsters she had encountered.

Sonia Belmont hit Kefka with her Magic Soul - Executioner's Edge strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Shana's radio crackles with magical power as she screams, [ansi(hw, "White-Silver Dragon, help us please!")] <Union-IC> Shana ooc whoops <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "(Fail)" Sonia Belmont hit Thionoxial with her Blade Soul - Deadly Steel Spiral strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Shana's radio crackles with magical power as she screams, "White-Silver Dragon, help us please!" Sonia Belmont hit Atma with her Blade Soul - Deadly Steel Spiral strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Poor Amelia. This was her mission with Rick, and she barely lasted out here on the battlefield. It was true. She just wasn't experienced enough under his command. And will need to be drilled. Hard. The young private wasn't quick enough to see the two incredibly massive attacks that came flying in, and crashing down on the earth. She wasn't fast enough to dodge.

When the dust clears, the private is seen lying on the earth. She had been hit from the sky, and is knocked out. Unconscious. Ivolt gets swarmed by monsters again... he barely manages to holds his ground... then the fireballs come. Ivolt get's torched by the incoming fire. He doesn't even have time to scream, he just manages to let out one final gasp, followed by a dull thud as he hits the ground. Well, so much for being helpful. <Union-IC> Amelia transmits only static. <Union-IC> Ivolt transmits a gasp, followed by a dull thud.

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       OUCH!  Pain from monster!  Pain from chibi angels!  Pain from all over the place!  After the hits he manages to roll out to the side.
       For the second he's clear, Mario quickly pulls a new power-up from his pocket.  This is a mushroom... a very large and woobly mushroom.  And as he lifts it up and invokes it, something nearly extraordinary happens!
       Mario grows... and grows... and grows... Holy smokes...

> Mario grows to five plus times his normal size! He's a behemoth! He's giant! He's... MEGA MARIO!!!! ()

       Mario now gives a very determined look to the tower in his new, massive, behemoth form.  And any foe in his path will feel the rumble of ground with every step Mega Mario takes, and maybe feel the hits of his enormous hands and feet in the process!

Mario missed Kefka with his IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE 50FT. PLUMBER!!!! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Mario hit Atma with his IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE 50FT. PLUMBER!!!! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Mario missed Thionoxial with his IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE 50FT. PLUMBER!!!! strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "What the hell's going on out there ... ?!" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I cant survive much longer... I'm gonna have to temporarily pull out and heal." <Union-IC> Amelia had no time to scream, either. Only static can be heard. <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "I haven't the faintest clue" Black Arachnia snarls in anger as Cecilia evades her attack, but somehow manages to stay out of the way of the ensuing barrage from that magical mini-gun. She's going to have to take magic more seriously from now on ... but a little more important than that is eliminating a specific and singular threat. "Black Arachnia, MAXIMIZE!!"

The spider returns to her robot mode, settling into a ready stance. "You want single combat?" she snaps. "I'll take you down, one on one, *right here* and *right now!*"

And with that, she charges straight at Cecilia, swinging away with her claws. She knows she's taken some serious damage, but damned if she's going to pull out without *inflicting* some first! <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "It's a slaughter Winry." Maya is once again fast on the stick as it were even as the monsters keep on comming. Maya heas the words of Kefka and something deep in her mind stirs. Something about Kefka, something that isn't right, something that shouldn't be. But for now she's got to keep alive long enough for that. Then Asteroth and his minions how up? this isn't good. She now looks to the Atma. She ignores Kefka's minions for the moment and jets up above the enmey with the energy gun Julian loaned her in hand and she then opens up on the Atma weapon it self. "Enough beast, back to what spawned you!" Maya hit Atma with her Palanx fire frenzy strong attack! <New Mechanic> Jehuty does a good job of evading Asteroth's delicious rain of death, but unfortunately while Jehuty was busy doing that it got smacked around by Atma's attack, sending Jehuty lurching off to the side before Julian could regain his balance.

Once again Jehuty has no choice but to whip out it's Mummy shield and try to restore some of the damage its sustained. Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-mummy. Black Arachnia missed Thionoxial with her Doing everything a spider can o/~ moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Julian restores Julian. Oooo healing sparkles.

       The YF-19 holds up on hand as the massive, oversized (even for a 50 foot tall mecha) gattling gun comes towards it, catching the back end, the other hand holds out to let the long 7 barreled weapon SLAM into it. It takes just a second to get it's hold on the grip and a tight hold on the strap from the top. This thing is so heavy that you 'technically' aren't supposed to use it in an Earth type gravity well.

       Won't stop Isamu.

       Spinning up the barrels, the 60 mm heavy assault weapon sweeps across the battlefield, it's fire is -felt- rather then heard across the battlefield, but the sheer mass of the barrels demands time to spin up to full speed. As it moves from side to side, Atma WEAPON just happens to be in the way(really it's a big gun and a little hard to aim).

       Inside the cockpit Isamu can only comment one thing "HELL YEAH!!"

Isamu Dyson hit Atma with his Thats a hell of a gun...if a bit slow to spin up strong attack! <New Mechanic> Atma has been knocked out! <Union-IC> Mario hollars, "OWOWOW!!! Ugh... I'm-a hurt bad..." Then he coughs. "That's-a it..." Then his radio transmits the sound of a very LARGE power-up! "Now I smash-a them!" Duo Maxwell goes home. Duo Maxwell leaves the World of Ruin. Rick's men thought things were looking up, at one point. There was Shana's Gates of Heaven, bringing some back from the brink, ready to fight...

And then attack after attack slam them down, one by one, The chattering of rifle fire is becoming less and less noticable, among the snarls and groans of beasts and monsters. But it's still there. What's keeping the unit together? Probably the fact that there commander is yelling orders into a radio, mircomanaging the slow disaster this is becoming. "Second Squad! Hold it together! We need t' give th' Field Marshal more time! Third squad, keep up th' goddamn fire!" And on and one. No one even notices the blood that starting to stain his BDU blouse, probably.

And who should come to Amelia's aid? None other than the knife girl! After firing a long chatter burst into the monsters around her, of course. She grabs the Private, getting her arm over her shoulder, and pulls back to the rear.

"You promised! You promised I'd get to see real magic, damn it!" <Union-IC> Jotaro Kujo whistles. "That's a nice trick. You show 'em." <Union-IC> Jotaro Kujo mischan. <Union-IC> Solid Snake whistles. "That's a nice trick. You show 'em." Ivolt leaves the World of Ruin. Richard Stadler hit Kefka with his Main Fire! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Richard Stadler missed Thionoxial with his covering fire! weak attack! (New Mechanic) The blasts crash against Prime again and again, bits of armor flying and his thick, armored glass being cracked.

"Snake, what's your condition?" Prime asks, tightening the safety belt around his fellow soldier and closing the window so as to better shield him from incoming fire. He swivels his weapons towards the horde again, this time switching off the photon blasters into explosive mode, firing off arcs of explosives to try to spread out the destruction over the monster troops, exploding just above them to maximize the damage.. Optimus Prime missed Kefka with his Bomb Drops strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Do you guys require any assistance...?" Richard Stadler hit Asteroth with his covering fire! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Freya leaves the World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Amelia is shaken, and can be heard murmuring, ".....sorry....Sir.....I.....tried....." <Union-IC> Shana is panting. "that...took a lot out of me. I can't do it again." <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "All I can ask! Fleece, get her to th' rear! Everyone else, KEEP UP TH' FIRE!" <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Get back, then. I'll bring all of my strength." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Okay. I know you guys are busy, but seriously."

Shannon hasn't moved from beside the asteroid she was hit with. She's hit by fireballs and growls some more, "That's it..." Her wings spread out, the tips pointing at a large force of the enemy ground troops. Black energy starts to flow across her body again, but this time, it not only goes to her mouth but the tips of her wings. She gathers and gathers and gathers. She gathers so much that her form is starting to lose it's shape. Her tail slowly disappears, followed by her legs and lower part of her torso. The black spheres on her wing tips and in front of her mouth are quite large now. Her entire form is almost gone by the time she actually fires. Three /massive/ beams of black energy shoot out from the three points of her body, heading towards the enemy and looking to wipe out a whole lot of them. Darkness also explodes out from Shannon as she fires, obscuring her from view. Once it dies down, Shannon's no longer there.

Shannon missed Kefka with her the final attack uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "I'm gonna take this flame-shooter out ... if it's the last thing I do ... before retreating ..."" <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Anybody know of a world where the Nazis use some kinda power armor instead of normal tanks?" Shannon missed Kefka with her the final attack uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Or...I dunno, maybe she is the tank, and that's not removable armor." Post-Laugh Warfare, 101:

"...Conventional military hardware is ineffective against present-day targets by virtue of their design. /Sufficient/ penetration, with warheads designed to damage internal components or kill standard, human crew. /Cost-effective/ weaponry. The M1-A's smoothbore 120mm cannon, for example, has proven to have enough stopping power to put rounds through Ooznaut cockpits - only to have them uselessly splash against their amorphic targets."

"'Cost-effective' and 'sufficient' are outmoded terms. You need to acheive /maximum/ penetration, utilizing both high muzzle velocity and super-dense alloys, as well as employ secondary and compound explosive tactics. Get your warheads to detonate INSIDE their targets, and throw-around the kind of shrapnel that we know /WORK/s against these monsters."

Stephen flattens himself to the ground, burrowing under the surface as the ice and fireballs ignite the region he was formerly standing in. When he erupts back out, it's with a pair of vulcan cannons that put Cecilia's magical minigun to shame. The area comes alive with tremors as they awaken, sweeping a storm of metal over both the monsters in the battlefield and the supernatural creature with the french accent.

The rounds being fired explode shortly after penetration of a target, sending diamond-hard, monofilament wire shrapnel ripping through it's interior... <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "I can't really tell." <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "No, but how about vampires? ...erm...okay, that is odd..." <Union-IC> Sol says, "Nazis with power armor? I've heard of it before" <Union-IC> Mario says, "Is-a anyone else out-a here who can-a do-a some healing?" <Union-IC> Rachel Grey says, "Never heard of a place like that." Stephen Vandal missed Kefka with his Metal Hurricane strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Shana says, "I think...I can do it once more." Stephen Vandal missed Thionoxial with his Metal Hurricane strong attack! (New Mechanic) "I think I got some cracked ribs," Snake replies to Prime's question, holding his side a bit. "My chest has a couple of nice cuts along the front. I'll be fine, but I need to take it a little easy until we get to the tower. I want to be doing as well as I can once we get there." <Union-IC> Inutaisho transmits the sound of a few clicks and a good slap. "Maybe it'll transmit now. Do you guys need any back-up, or are enough of you left standing you can handle it?"

       Omega, unfortunately, did not trance out, his emergency trance system failing.  Oh crap.  He is just unable to move.

<Union-IC> Shannon ughs, "I've retreated... Gonna be healing for a bit... I'll return as soon as possible."

Amelia murmurs a soft apology, while still unable to move, and gets moved back by Fleece... <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "I don't know! My intel's not the greatest, here!" <Union-IC> Mario says, "If-a you need it for-a someone else, then-a you save it. Otherwise, would-a you be so kind as to heal-a me? I'm-a the biggest guy in-a the battle right-a now. Red-a hat and-a shirt. Blue overalls. Big-a moustache. That's-a me." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Mr. Stadler, I don't have much more magic power left." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I'm out. I am in the Hangar at New Washington and will be here all night. I hope thye have enough coffee made for all of us." <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "Why do people need t' give /me/ excuses?! Fight t' the best of your ability!" <Union-IC> Shana says, "what I mean is...I can only cast one more spell." <Union-IC> Amelia murmurs a soft apology.. <Union-IC> Shana says, "then, it's all gone." <Union-IC> Mario says, "Okey, never you mind-a. I make-a do. You save for-a the big emergency." <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "I'm not your commander. But, if ya do cast it, fall back afterward, an' immedatily. I'm gonna have wounded." <Union-IC> Mario says, "Or whatever it is-a you commander says-a you do." <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler grumbles. "I'm gonna have t' talk with th' private about self-esteem. <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Private - you mean Amelia?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "I'd heal you all, but I don't have enough power for another Gates of Heaven." <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "Yes, Amelia." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell sighs. "If I have a chance to talk to her, I will. Kefka missed Black Arachnia with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Isamu Dyson with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Julian with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Mario with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Maya with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Monster-ruin strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Richard Stadler with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Shana with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shannon with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Solid Snake with his Monster-ruin strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Sonia Belmont with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Stephen Vandal with his Monster-ruin moderate attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "Bring a gun. This is a commited operation." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Okay. Mr. Mario? Here goes!" Cecilia is torn into by SONIA BELMONT's swords, deeply slicing into her, and causing her to cuss (the words arn't important) in soft french.

She then cartwheels to the side, giggling and laughing at BLACK ARACHNIA - smirking at her attempts to hit her. "Not very eskilled, are we? Eez zat ze best you can do?" 

RICHARD STADLER's fire is evaded altogether. 

Stepen Vandal, however - gets fireballs pointed at his rounds; exploding against them before more move on to hit the various foes beyond. 

And then, giggling - she DROPS THE MINIGUN - which begins to FLOAT, and FLY and DANCE - in midair, all on its own. 

"Zat will be all from me, no? Zis gun, eet can handle you for eetself, no? I will see you in ze tower!" 

And then she runs off, to let the gun finish things for her. 

"Au revoir!" (Goodbye)

Thionoxial missed Solid Snake with her MAGICAL DANCING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) Thionoxial hit Optimus Prime with her MAGICAL DANCING MINIGUN strong attack! <New Mechanic> Thionoxial missed Black Arachnia with her MAGICAL DANCING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) Thionoxial missed Sonia Belmont with her MAGICAL DANCING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) Thionoxial missed Richard Stadler with her MAGICAL DANCING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic)

       Atma vanishes from the battlefield in a hidious flare of bilous green light. The malevolence across the battlefield strengthens considerably...
       And A shadow of Kefka appears in front of his tower, "UWAHA! UWAHAHA! UWAHAAHAHAHA! Worship MORE! Destroy More! Turn this valley into a monument to DEATH! UWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" the shadow vanishes shorly after, and the monsters redouble their efforts, despite their mounting casualites.

Thionoxial missed Shannon with her MAGICAL DANCING MINIGUN strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Mario says, "YA-HOO! One down!" Now that his brother has summoned his stupid attack, Asteroth spreads his wings and takes to the skies, intent on hunting down a few individuals who have decided to come here and take part in this fight.

With the spear held behind him, the Angel of Despair flies through the air at high speed, allowing his massive wings to carry him along to his destination. In the mass hysteria of the battle, Asteroth locates his objective, the Orbital Frame that contains a Human that Asteroth in the past has battled with.  Finding this target, Asteroth flies forward and tries to plunge the spear through the Orbital Frames midsection.

Thionoxial has set her Max HP from 200 to 100. Inutaisho enters the World of Ruin. Inutaisho arrives in: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Keep focused." Asteroth missed Julian with his Spear Impale strong attack! (New Mechanic) Another SMASH rocks Prime's armor, the 'bot carefully moving to prevent further attacks against Solid Snake. Now at the front of the Union lines, he decides he needs to do something to help clear the path. And as so, he does.

The right side of the Autobot suddenly seems to come off. However, with a characteristic UR-UR-UR-UR-URT! sound, it reforms into his arm... which levels itself and materializes something large, and black. A rifle.

Set to wide-dispersion (AKA BFG mode).

He aims, and pulls the trigger, before transforming once again to protect Snake.

       Shana had been hit hard with another large bunch of blasts, but she wasn't going to give up yet. She was running out of energy at this rate. Her armor protected her from getting completely creamed, but she was still not able to fight much longer. The moment she recovered...AGAIn...from all of that, she looked towards Mario, and pulled back on her bow again, aiming skywards.  "MOOOOOOOON LIGHT!"
       The arrow shot up into the sky, parting the clouds to reveal one of the many moons visible in the night sky...one that was far lower than it seemed like it should be, but may not even be truly there, perhaps just an illusion. The moon blazed down with a fierce white light, and Shana drew a hand towards her chest then flared her wings towards Mario, reflecting the healing energies at him.

Shana restores Mario. Oooo healing sparkles. Optimus Prime hit Kefka with his Jury Rig BFG uber attack! <New Mechanic> Asteroth has set his Max HP from 200 to 100. <Union-IC> Shana says, ""MOOOOOOON LIGHT!"" <Union-IC> Shana FZHEEEEEEEM!

CRASH!* The spear connects with Jehuty, deflecting off the frame's shield.

Julian wanted to take some time to repair some more damage, but there simply wasn't time to do so.

Space around Jehuty distorts as the frame vanishes from view for a moment, it reappears behind Asteroth. At this point Jules isn't one to waste time and quickly brings Jehuty's blade down, trying to smash the fallen Angel straight back to pandemonium! Julian changed his armor mode to jehuty-full_harmony. Julian hit Asteroth with his Dirt nap! strong attack! <New Mechanic>

M*

       Oh, these annoying little monsters!  Some of them are scratching him up at the heels, perhaps shooting at his torsoe, and he hollars with a rumble in the are, "UUAO!  That-a smarts!"  And that's an understantement, considering the plumber looks to be in ridiculously bad shape.                But, Mario has one more round before his Mega size wears down, and by golly!  And he does!  More stomping and beating on the foes at hand as Mario's body begins to shimmer in a light green!
       In his punching and pounding, Shana's wonderful healing magic embraces his wounds and heals them some.  Just before the chubby Italian resizes to his normal self, he looks back toward most of the Union forces and winks.  "Thank-a you!"

Mario missed Kefka with his Mario angry! You no like it when Mario angry! MARIO SMASH! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Mario hit Thionoxial with his Mario angry! You no like it when Mario angry! MARIO SMASH! strong attack! <New Mechanic> > Mario changes back to his normal size and clothing colors and becomes regular, ordinary Mario again. Suprising. Despite the monster wave, and despite that damned magical minigun, causualties from the latest attack stay to a minium. And perhaps it's the lack of screaming, or the urgent, wet feeling he has as his uniform soaks up blood, But Rick is pulling together what remains of his unit.

"First Squad, move to the left, around that cluster a' wolves! Second, back up first! Move /past the-" A burst from his rifle at an approching enemy. "past the shamblers..."

Slowly, but surely, the unit starts to pull together, forming a ragged semi-circle, and supporting the heavier guns with rifles. And the death Rick commands increases, as the unit equals more than the sum of it's parts.

And then, of course, there's Fleece, who, after handing off Amelia to a stuck pilot, runs forward, aganist the minigun. She doesn't even bother to go with her AK, this time, instead pulling out a large, seven inch combat knife, and /hurling/ it at the works. Mario missed Kefka with his Mario angry again! You no like it when Mario angry again! MARIO SMASH AGAIN! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Richard Stadler missed Kefka with his Grouped Fire! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Richard Stadler missed Kefka with his Grouped Fire! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Black Arachnia snarls in anger, her optics flaring as Cecilia makes her mocking departure. Oh, if she ever gets her hands on that woman again ...

A fireball sears past Black Arachnia, forcing her to spin away from it or get some of her spider-legs toasted, and drawing her attention to the now independently-mobile firearm. "Handle us on its own, huh ... ?" She eyes the minigun, timing its movements .. then charges. Not with her claws, this time, but with a powerful roundhouse kick. Richard Stadler missed Thionoxial with his Knife in the works! strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Shana says, "I am going to pull out." Black Arachnia missed Thionoxial with her One, two, three ... Spider KICK!! uber attack! (New Mechanic)

Things definitely are going bad; but at least they have a chance of going at least somewhat better. The Belmont keeps herself from harm, backflipping away from a nearby monster, and lashing her VampireKiller whip into it's head. She does smirk grimly with satisifaction as Atma is dealt with. Not to mention Cecilia.. though the minigun remains. Sweeping her hand forward, she sends out another wave of magical energy up into the minigun's bullet, slicing into and rendering as many shells as she can either destroyed or inert, before directing her Blade Soul to attack the miniguns themselves, given that Cecilia herself has fled, using the swords to cut hopefully shred some of the workings of the chaingun again.

Of course, this still leaves the monsters in front of her. The Belmont brings her remaining six blades, that had been used to help fell Atma in a circle around her, slicing and cutting into the sea of monsters as she makes her charge forward, hoping to help pave a way for those behind her as she uses her swords to cut down swathes of enemies, the blades hurtling and spinning independently of one another.

Richard Stadler hit Asteroth with his Covering Fire weak attack! <New Mechanic> Black Arachnia hit Kefka with her Watch out for flying spiders weak attack! <New Mechanic> Sonia Belmont missed Thionoxial with her Blade Soul - Skewering Symphony uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Mario yells, "UUAO! That-a smarts!" Then, insert Shana's healing magic sound effects here. "Thank-a you!" <Union-IC> Shana says, "You're welcome!" <Union-IC> Maya says, "Looks like this fighter's about to come apart at the seems." Sonia Belmont hit Kefka with her Valkyrie's Charge strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Shana says, "But I'm out of magic now. I don't think I've got enough to keep this up anymore. I've still got my bow though." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Maya, if you want, I left the Beam Cannon there for you or someone to use."

       The YF-19 takes hits from the remaining gathered monsters and other forces of the Magic God.

       Inside, Isamu hnns! With a grin and pushes up the throttle of he the mech. Lifting it off the ground by it's back and leg engines while still carrying the oversized XS-06 gunpod.

       Tilting forward, partly from weight, partly from intent. The battle damaged roared forward over the battlefield as the now up to speed gunpod lays down fire.

       Again Isamu comments over the radio just one thing as the weapon fires.

       "ROCK AND ROLL!!"

<Union-IC> Surrounded by the sound of gunfire, Richard Stadler says, "Shoot away, then, Shana!" Isamu Dyson hit Kefka with his XS-06 up to speed running and gunning uber attack! <New Mechanic> "...These're too soft."

Stephen watches his rounds explode uselessly against the surface of their targets, leaving small burn marks at best.

His cannons morph into a series of mechanical arms with ended with circular sawblades and chainsaws, and a pair of jet turbines form on his flanks. His massive visage goes rocketing heedless forward as the jets fire-up, arms flailing, body twisting and jaws snapping. He's a whirling dervish of power-tool PAIN that hopes to cut a swath through the monstrous army before it. Stephen Vandal hit Kefka with his Chainsaw Dervish strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Black Arachnia hit Thionoxial with her One, two, three ... Spider KICK!! uber attack! <New Mechanic>

Maya's mecha is getting ripped up badly, she's still carrying a lot of missiles that could pose a big problem should they cook off in the mecha. So she opens the ports and lets the missiles fly towards the enemy forces, she hits the jets and goes airborn and lets her own autocannon open fire at the ememy as well. Maya missed Kefka with her Scott Benard Time epic attack! (New Mechanic) Asteroth is driven back a bit by the the offensive strikes by Jehuty and the covering fire that seems to find him. Asteroth recovers and dives fowards at Jehuty once more. On the next approch, he brings both his hands fowards and invokes one of the spells that comes native to him from his zone. A bright flash of blue fills the air around the Angel as several bolts of lighting are discharged from Asteroth and directed at the Orbital Frame. Asteroth missed Julian with his LIT40 strong attack! (New Mechanic) Maya missed Kefka with her Scott Benard Time epic attack! (New Mechanic)

       And the monsters, perhaps realizing that their defeat is inevitable, start to fall back - Dragons and Wyverns taking to the air, Undead sinking beneath the ground, Gigas and Behemoth breaking through Union lines to retreat into the surrounding mountains: And for a long terrible moment, it looks like they're going to make it to freedom : Unfortunately, they're too busy fleeing to notice when the sky shifts through a hundred different colors : All of them, notice the sheer wave of malevolent power and hate that rocks through the valley around the tower - and by then it's far far too late for them to turn back.

       In fact, it's far too late for anyone in the valley around the tower, as the wrath of the insane pseudogod Kefka manifests itself on everyone below.

       Now for those of you that don't know what's about to happen : We'll break it all down, play by play. As the monsters begin to rout, at the top of the tower, magic begins to gather explosively. It's not a quiet gathering either No : If anything it's about as subtle as reaching up a colossal sized dragon's ass to try and rescue the fair maiden that it just ate.

       As for the outside of the tower an ungodly eye searing column of light tears the heavens asunder, before it strikes deeply into the ground below. The ground beneath the beam simply goes molten and vaporizes, the ground around where the beam struck groans and tears tossing half molten matter around like it was nothing more then a toy from a child who was throwing a temper-tantrum.

       Then the thermal shockwave hits, blasting outward from the valley and slamming into the sides of the semi-molten mountain ranges - before the thermal distortion hides everything below from view. To say that it's both horrific ... and impressive ... is an understatement.
       Finally when the howling winds and the debris cloud clears up what seems to be an eternity later, all the remains of the shattered valley below is a molten sea of ruin, surrounded by half melted mountains.

Now I know at this point, you're probably all wondering, 'Well what the hell just happened to me with that'? ...Well. The answer is simple. You're all dead. Shoo. Go away.

BLACK ARACHNIA, with her quick flurries of blows, finally manages to hit the taunting, dancing gun - but SONIA BELMONT's blows go wide. MARIO THE GREAT PLUMBER, however,,,manages to stop and beat upon it, sending the poor dancing thing into the ground with a slight squeak, before it wearily floats into the air.

.oO (I need a vacation!) 

And then is COMPLETLY DESTROYED BY THE LIGHT OF JUDGEMENT

You're sure?

...Oh fine. What really happened was, everyone on the battlefield was given just a moment to look up, and soil themselves as the Light of Judgement began to fall. Then, those who fought well in the battle, be it monster, or hero, were teleported into Kefka's tower. The heros, (That's you folks with Main character aura.) Were teleported to the top of the tower, at a viewpoint where you could watch everything happen below - The monsters, were teleported ... Oh wait. That'd be telling. Now wouldn't it? <Union-IC> Solid Snake STATIC <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, ".. ...... what the /he-" Signal lost, however briefly." <Union-IC> Guile says, "Snake...? Snake? SNAKE!" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Is everyone alright?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Anyone still alive there? What happened?" <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal says, "...Oh, this ain' gonna be goo-- *STATIC*" <Union-IC> Shana says, "NO!" <Union-IC> Shana STATIC <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Something bad." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "What in- *STATIC*" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "This isn't good..." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "Got it ... - what the sla-- *static*" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "EVERYONE MOVE! *Zero Shift Sound*" <Union-IC> Optimus Prime's radio suddenly goes static. If you listen closely, you might, MIGHT hear half of a cuss word being said by Prime... but that would be crazy, wouldn't it? <Union-IC> Mario's radio transmits static. <Union-IC> Luna Lovegood says, "...Oh, this sounds unfortunate." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "So, uh.." <Union-IC> Kuunvalo... <Union-IC> Kuunvalo says, "...Now I'm /very/ glad I stayed behind." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "I guess this makes me the highest ranking not-dead Union officer." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "So.." <Union-IC> Amelia transmits static, followed by soft groans... <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Mmph..." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I should probably go back and see what happened..." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Someone get me some dounuts." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "I should have gone despite a lack of response. Dammit." <Union-IC> Luna Lovegood says, "I hope they weren't eaten by a pack of devouring egg-gurlocks." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Now now Xander, i'm equal in rank to you so dont jump to conclusions." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "Shut the hell up, Phoenix." <Union-IC> Red's Charmander says, "Char mander." <Actually I believe that would be Angela ALtena.> <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Oh, Sisko. Right." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "Prime, are you recieving? Snake?" <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Anyway, yeah. I'm sure they're fine." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Should I return to the site and see what happened? I can get there quickly." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime gives no response. IFF signal is gone. <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont ftzfzzle. No signal for Sonia. <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "So, is it me, or did they all just get Un-Unified?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Who knows... Not receiving anything from the battlefield." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Yea, I heard." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion radios in, "Superion reports. Systems at 26 percent. Massive light bombardment came and... they vanished. Not like the other blasts, though. Still analyzing data from energy." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion says, "Superion requesting instructions from headquarters. If we dismerge, we will not be able to re-merge without repairs." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion says, "Superion, forwarding data while awaiting instructions." <Union-IC> Androgynous Big Core ... [IT WILL AID IN THE ANALYSIS.] <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Sisko, want me to head out to the battleground and try to find...I dunno, something? <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal - Machinehead says, "...My. How marginally unimpressive." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "What the f-*fzzt*" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Julian!" <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Julian, what the blue hell happened?" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson static *fzzzzt* YF-19 IFF code... undetectable. <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "All operatives that were not taken by whatever it was out there, conduct search and data-retrieval. Sweep that entire area with sensors, I want to know EXACTLY what happened out there." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "Phoenix, you are permitted to perform reconnisance in the area, but do not engage." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "Roger." <Union-IC> Roy Folker says "Folker here, what the hell happened out there? I an the suriving skulls are going to look for surivors. <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "Do it." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Copy that, returning to the site... ... Or not... Jesus, it's like stepping onto a sun out there." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion says, "Superion, repeating. Forwarding data to headquarters. Requesting instructions Captain Sisko. We cannot dismerge and still be able to remerge due to damage. Estimated endurance time without repair and refueling 3.5 hours." <Union-IC> Androgynous Big Core ... [IF REQUIRED IT WILL ATTAIN ORBIT AND BEGIN SYSTEMATIC PINPOINT BOMBARDMENT OF THE TOWER.] <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion says, "We are unable to analyze data ourselves, but there were unusual energy signatures." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko hnnghs quietly. "Return to deployment zone, Superion. Starfleet escort will rendevouz with you and deliver you to a landing point to assess and repair. <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "I told them to take me with them. I friggin' told them..Damnit." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Suggest caution, the temperature around the tower is incredibally high. I doubt many things could survive there." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion says, "Acknowledged." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "I'll be fine." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "The suit's good up to about ten thousand degrees, according to Leonette." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Like I said... It's like a stepping onto a sun..." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Well, there's unlikely to be any survivors outside the tower." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "From what I could see, the tower is still intact and undamaged." <Union-IC> Roy Folker says "Roger. Ben, Max, Rick? Let's go." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I can bypass the outside and probably get into the tower by teleporting."

World of Ruin - <World of Ruin> (Location #0)

   The World of Ruin - A dead and dying world, one that you know that you've entered immediately almost as much from the feeling of despair in the air, and the sweet smeal of decay and death... The closer you get to the World of Ruin, the stronger the aura becomes, and the less life there is. Even the grass, the trees and the plants, of this world seem to be infected by the aura, and many of them are dying or dead, there's next to no animal life, and a constant howling dusty wind scours the landscape.
   In liu of animal life, monsters have taken over almost all of the world, and encounters with large packs of them that prey on humans, monsters and visitors alike are very common here - in fact many times the groups of monsters come howling and tearing across the border to decimate nearby towns, wildlife, and just about anything else that they can claim for food.
   In the center of the world of ruin is a giant tower made of ruins and debris, the shattered remanants of cities, and the remains of a large continent.

Contents (1 player not shown) Exits Amelia <Military> <A> Arena Duo Maxwell <Spacesuit> <FT> Fanatic's Tower Inutaisho <Standard> <KT> Kefka's Tower Inuyasha <Normal> Julian <jehuty> Kefka <Kefka> Mario <regular> Maya <Junker> Methos <formal> Omega <Absolute> Optimus Prime <Standard> Reliant Richard Stadler <combat> Shana <Dragoon> Shannon <Dragon> Solid Snake <Thebox> Sonia Belmont <VampireKiller> Stephen Vandal <hydra tank> Thionoxial <cecilia demonflame> Xander Phoenix <Firebird>

Type 'vrhelp' for help. Specifically 'vrhelp movement'. Duo Maxwell changed his armor mode to deathscythe hell. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "No, no point in repairing it only to damage it again." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "ooc: retcon me being back in New Washington on here." Optimus Prime sends, via local radio.

<<This is Optimus Prime. Is anyone else recieving?>> <Union-IC> Solid Snake fzzzt-static-synch. Omega manages to respond.

       <<Omega recieving...injuries are somewhat restored...I can move and function again, and my auto repair is working.>>

There's a click, and then the voice of Stadler.

"Sir, I copy your transmission... I'm with... Specialist Fleece. I can't see much." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Test, one two, this is Snake. Can anyone hear me." <Union-IC> Kuunvalo says, "...Snake?..." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Copy that, it's good to hear you, sir. What happened?" <Union-IC> Amelia lets out a soft groan. "God.....oh, my head..." <Union-IC> Shana fssssshhhht-blip. "-llo?"

-- Duo Maxwell is heard, over the radio.

"Yea, I'm here. What the hell was that?" <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Damned if I know. Huge blast out of the sky, then we're suddenly... wherever we are." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Yea, I'm here. What the hell was that?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "I thought I was going to die..." Snake, talking on his codec, stops for a moment. "Optimus. I have resynch."

"God.....oh, my head....."

Amelia wakes up, and groggily responds to her radio.

"....where am I?" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Squad leaders, please respond." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Hey, my suit is working, and fixed up, but not by much." <Union-IC> Amelia says, ".....where am I? Mr. Stadler?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "So you don't know where you are?" <Union-IC> Androgynous Big Core ... [IT CAN ATTAIN ORBIT AND BOMBARD THE TOWER.] ... [AWAITING CONFIRMATION.] Optimus Prime bobs. "Affirmative. Thank Primus."

<<Probably some kind of teleportation. I'm transmitting a new encryption code. Synchronize your local radios on it.>> <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont gnh.. "Yes.. ..let me try and sense.."

       Across the cave Kefka's voice laughs, "UWAHAHAHAHAHA! You live because /I/ choose for you to live. Continue to entertain me... Continue to worship! ... Continue to live. UWAHA! UWAHAHAHA! UWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Then all is silent from the Madpsuedo-god.

<Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Negative. We might be inside." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "NNng....I feel like I was under a few freight trains..." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Any an' all 2nd Platoon, please respond... Private! Where are you?" Stephen Vandal clicks-in.

<<Stephen Vandal here, readin' ya' loud n' clear.>> <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "..."

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       Click, click, ker-sync.

<<Mario here. I'm-a little bit-a hurt, but I'm-a here. That's-a my status. Over.>>

-- Duo Maxwell is heard again.

Hey Optimus, can you help me with repairs on my Gundam? <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "That clown...that fucking clown..."

-- Duo Maxwell is heard again.

"Hey Optimus, can you help me with repairs on my Gundam?" <re> Optimus Prime <<Once we secure the area, affirmative.>> <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Don't worry, Julian. I'm going to shove a Stinger right up his ass personally." <Union-IC> Amelia winces. "Ah, my head....it's pounding..."

       Shana stumbled upwards to her feet, and fell over. She was somehow still in her dragoon form, but that quickly changed as a white light came over her body. *FZEEEEm-Psh!* And the armor was gone. "Ow..." She rubbed at her tush and stayed sitting for now...

Maya is in her Alpha, which is sadly a mess, Maya now moves to slimb out of the cockpit and get a look around. "Where is this..." <<Hey anyone anle to pick this up?>> Rick clicks.

"Okay, we need t' regroup. Can anyone see anyone else?" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I got some first aid kits and some ration bars in my suit if people want or need them." Shana changed her armor mode to Normal. <Union-IC> Maya says, "No what should be done to this monster is what Marduk did to the fallen one." Inutaisho goes home. Inutaisho leaves the World of Ruin. Omega changed his armor mode to Nightmare. <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "I *pause, sound of vomiting* nnng...goddamnit..." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime - Superion says, "Sensor data unable to confirm survival of Stadler's unit. We are sorry." Optimus Prime turns on his headlights. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Damn it. If anyone else other than Private Seyruun or Specalist Fleece got through, they aren't answerin'. But thanks."" <Union-IC> Shana says, "I'm here." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell looks "Damn, my sensors are not picking up much, but it looks like I am in a .... Hallway.

Sonia picks herself up off the ground, frmo that attack, as she resyncs her telecrystal, with a faint pulse of magic. "<Sonia here.. I'm okay myself. We're.. I think we might be inside. I'm sensing others..>" She also provides a sphere of light from her fingertips, which shines a decent bit of radiance as well. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "The battlefield is basically an inferno now. Not many things could survive the heat. If you guys are inside the tower, I suggest you don't try to go outside." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "....I'm sorry, Mr. Stadler....I failed to do anything." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "We're inside, Prime, Snake." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "The tower.." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I sense some of the monsters we were fighting.. I.. hnnh.." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "So we're in there with them." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "For th' last time, private, ya did all ya could." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...yes, Sir."

-- Duo Maxwell powers up his beam scythe and the green light appears. "This will help us to," he says over the speaker.

       Omega stands up, shakily, as his remaining armor sheds off...what was left was his standard armor set, black in color as he rested against the back of the cave.  <>

Shana takes out her Dragoon Spirit, clasping it in her palm. The small white crystal starts to shine and pulse with white light. It would at least light her way and offer a beacon for the others to tell where she was. She fiddled with her radio, figuring out how to respond. <<ow, I hurt all over.>>

<Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Amelia, this is no time to lambast yourself. We're going to need your help if we're going to make it out of here in one piece." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "You're right..." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "AMelia, worry when we get out of here alright. Hey, lets try to meet up. Can anyone track where others are with our radios?" <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Concentrate on recovering and make sure you don't pass out again. We'll probably need you for some medical support, but take care of yourself for the moment. I believe you're the most badly wounded." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I will heal as I can. My magic may not work on machines, but it can work on those with flesh and blood, including Amelia." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "At least, that's managed to report in." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Do you guys need anything? I can bring in medical supplies, food, water, weapons... Probably anyway, havent tried to teleport in yet. I cant bring any additional people though." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I've got her, Prime. Ice Soul." <Union-IC> Shana says, "We cannot give up now. Let's figure out where we are and what happened." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Affirmative." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I'm going to try and use the Dragoon Spirit to help heal but...I think I used up all the power for now. I need time to use it again." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Shannon, if you can teleport in, some items form the Hangar would be good, and I cna use that to make some emergency repairs." Optimus Prime <<The magic is making my sensors unreliable. I'm trying to compensate. In the meantime, I'm switching my local beacon to full power. This may attract anyone who's looking for us, so be careful when you approach. We need to rally.>> Rick clicks on his sidearm's flashlight, and looks around, scanning the area. Fleece cracks a glowstick, illuminating her pouting face. "I didn't get to kill that gun! That isn't fair!" Rick looks behind him, and smirks. "We'll get another crack at it, Specalist. Do a gear check."
He clicks on his radio. "Okay, I'm lookking for any bright sources of light..." Optimus Prime <<**HOMING BEACON**>> <Union-IC> Shannon says, "If anyone's got an emergency beacon or something, I could home in on that and make my teleporting easier." Shana is currently creating a five-foot radius, pulsing sphere of light from an object in her hand. And walking towards Prime. <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "I'm broadcasting at full power, Shannon. If you can't detect it you're probably being jammed." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Ahh.....thank you, Sonia." Omega has reset his combat status to default. His HP was -12 Omega has lowered his current HP 62 points, from 100 to 38. Duo Maxwell has reset his combat status to default. His HP was -10 Shana has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 15 Shana has lowered her current HP 35 points, from 100 to 65. Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 40 points, from 100 to 60. Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 20 points, from 60 to 40.
Sonia chimes in as well, through her crystal-radio's functions. "<I cannot heal that which is mechanical very well, but I can, however, heal those who are mainly flesh and blood. I can sense all of you.. the magic makes it difficult, but I will direct everyone as best as I can.>" She begins making her way over to Amelia, a serpentine ice dragon phasing into view around her as she directs her healing magic towards Amelia, having crouched down next to her otherwise.
<Union-IC> Shannon says, "Lemme check... ... Yeh, i'm picking it up. Duo, send me a list of what you need and i'll do what I can. Same goes for anyone else who wants stuff." <Union-IC> Napalm Hawk, Xander Phoenix says, "I told you guys to take me along.." Julian has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 41 Richard Stadler has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 29 Amelia has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was -10 Julian has lowered his current HP 19 points, from 100 to 81. Richard Stadler has set his Max HP from 100 to 65. <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal transmits the sound of warping metal. "'M on m'way t' th' beacon." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Winry has the items that I will need in the hangar. And anything will work. Hey, I'm in the middle of this tower guys. And I got some bad news." Stephen Vandal has changed his stats.

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Mario eventually sits up and shakes his head. He looks about and notices some of the light... and the homing beacon. Lucky for him it's close. He wanders toward the light to eventually find himself in Optimus Prime's location. He smiles and nods.

Stephen Vandal changed his armor mode to Devil Truck.
There is, also another light near Sonia as well, a small, albeit faintly bright orb of white light that's giving enough for others to view near her, and presumably most of the humanoid-sized people.
<Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Somehow I'm not surprised. What is it, Duo?"
Amelia, who had just woken up, is wincing in pain, clutching her throbbing head. "Ow...." even thinking hurts. Until Sonia makes it over to the her, and she gets some good ol' fashion healing magic. <<"Thank you, Sonia....>>

Then getting onto her feet, she looks around, and casts a lighting spell, holding the hovering orb over her palm. <<Lighting!>>

Omega starts making his way towards the beaken, his blades in his hands just in case someone tried to attack him. His sabers light the way, even though he did not need light to see...the spectrums he could see were great. <<Alright, LRS set up, we have a semi secure frequency...I hope someone who can repair mechanical beings is around...my Absolute armor was totalled...>>

<Union-IC> Shannon says, "Copy that Duo, heading to the hangar now." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "If this is a maze or something, we should map it right? And I am stuck in the middle. I am activating my beacon also, and look for it and a green light, I have my beam scythe active. If anyone needs a first aid kit, head my way. Same with food." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm back on my feet. LIGHTING." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I could use some food." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Looking at the walkways, My suit is too big to move anywahere." Rick follows the beacon, homing in on the beeps as they get faster and faster. Gotta love radios. And soon, with a bit of walking, he and Fleece work there way to the truck.
The light clicks off, and Rick decides a little rout ceremony would be good for this occasion. He slames off a saluate to the autobot. "Sir!"
Fleece does the same, alougth a bit more gawky in expression. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "in other wards, I'm stuck." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I'll bring some food, water and medical supplies along with me." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Mr. Stadler, I'll try to find you. I have a lighting spell." Stephen Vandal rumbles towards Prime's beacon, driving cautiously around the awkward terrain and obstacles.
<<...Dark in here. Anyone min' if I fire-up some floodlights?>> <Union-IC> Shana says, "I'm using my Dragoon Spirit as a beacon, if anyone can see it." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "I've made contact with Prime. Head over there. That'll be our rally point."
-- Duo Maxwell is sitting in the middle or at least he thinks it the middle and he activates his homing beacon as well. "Well, this is nice," he says. "I'm stuck in this whatever and can't move. Man, why does this always happen to me?" he asks himself. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "My lighting spell can be used as a beacon as well. I'm on my way." Optimus Prime <<Considering I've already got mine on, it'd probably be helpful. but be careful not to waste your power.>> Mario has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 23 Mario has lowered his current HP 27 points, from 100 to 73. Maya has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 14 <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I can't meet up with ya Richard. Unless I exit my mobile suit." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Shannon, considering the nature of this, there's a good chance that you won't be able to get out if you can even succeed in getting in." Richard Stadler has set his Max HP from 65 to 79. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "... So what are my orders?" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Damn. Duo, can you lock down your suit?" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "yea, that's easy." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "This is a volunteer-only situation at this point, until we have something more organized." <Union-IC> Kenshiro says, "How can I possibly help, Prime?" <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "At the moment, stand by. We're trying to figure out just what we're dealing with." <Union-IC> Mario re-syncs back in. "Ah, there-a we go!" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I'm happy to do it... But it might be best and wait until you guys have a good handle on the situation, so you know for sure what I should bring with me." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Chances are a more organized operation will be taking place sometime soon." <Union-IC> Kenshiro says, "Good. Please, call me at once if you ever need my assistance." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Affirmative. We're rallying right now."
<My lighting spell can be used as a beacon as well. I'm on my way.>
Amelia carefully makes her way around, homing in on Rick's beacon, walking rapidly.
As her commander nears within her sight, she smiles wearily, and salutes. "I'm here, Sir!" Stephen Vandal morphs-out a pair of large spotlights on either side of his 'cab', as well as a set of heavy-duty headlights underneath his 'eyes', to provide a considerable amount of illumination to the area surrounding him.
<<Ain' possible fer me t' 'waste' power - but thanks.>> <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "ok, I am exiting my Gundam. I have this CRV armor still. Maya, does it have a tracking signal in it?" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm here, Sir!" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I'll work on getting those parts ready for you Duo." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Thanks. Why does this always happen to me?" <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "I'm going to need approximately 50 astroliters of energon in compressed cubes to make handling them easier, as well as some general-purpose replacement armor plates - you can double-check with Ratchet as to which kind. However, I'm in relatively good condition and can jury-rig what my auto-repair won't handle, so consider my needs last priority." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Excellent, Private." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Further my fuel supply will last for days if not more." Duo Maxwell changed his armor mode to normal. You have changed your desc to cvr-3
> Mario changes back to his normal size and clothing colors and becomes regular, ordinary Mario again. Optimus Prime would, of course, salute back. However, at the moment, he doesn't have any arms. Shannon changed her armor mode to Casual.

Omega speaks up, as he stumbles and nearly collapses into camp. He is very much worse for ware, as half of his face has lost the fake skin on top, showing mechanical parts beneath it. Armor is patchy at best, pieces here and there, and overall he looks in not so good shape. <<Yeah, I am here. By the way, Prime, remind me NEVER to try and deflect large beams of light aimed at large convoys again.>>

Optimus Prime << I'll keep that in mind. If you need any supplies, now is the time. We're going to be having some delivered. >> <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Acknowledged..."

Shana is also walking towards Optimus and Rick, still holding out her Dragoon Spirit to use as a light since it glowed brightly in her hands. She would be able to get to him unless something got in her way. <<I'm okay, guys.>> As she got up to Rick and Prime, she put her hands on her knees and panted, then standing up straight with a hand over her chest. "Phew...is everyone okay?"

The Lighting spell is an orb of glowing light. Don't get too close or it may blind you.
The young private keeps the orb hovering in the air to provide enough light for everyone. Nodding to Prime, Amelia smiles, and nods to her commander.
<<"Yes, Sir. I'm just glad everyone is all right. I believe I still have some leftover ammo.">>
To Shana's arrival, Amelia nods. <<We're all okay>>
-- Duo Maxwell powers down his Gundam and exits out of the cockpit, and lowers himself to the floor. He pushes a button and seals the cockpit and activates the security system. "Be safe buddy," he says. "I'll be back for you soon ok." and he pats his Gundam on the leg and grabbing the first aid kits, and ration bars he attaches them to the CVR-3 Armor and then his weapons. <<This is Duo, I am enroute to your location Optimis. I am on foot, and coming to your location.>> "Though it is cramped," says Prime, "If we need accomodations for a surgical bay, my aft compartment contains a bed." Gotta love semis - they've got damn near everything. Omega laughs. <<No no, I need a mechanic or a scientist...supply wise I have all that I need.>> Optimus Prime <<I may be able to accomodate the 'scientist' role, if not mechanic. What repair supplies do you need?>> Stephen Vandal rolls-up to the assembly area, feeling a little more at ease once he sees the Unionite gathering. He dims the lights a bit, given the multiple sources of illumination already present, and otherwise tries to make a bit of a wallflower out of himself. He's no much for the first-aid or field repair scene.
Shannon has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 6 Amelia has lowered her current HP 60 points, from 100 to 40.

Omega reads off a list of supplies...granted, its a bit more then he could get here, but a good chunk should be easily accessible. <<Also, how about a cherry coke?>> he says, obviously joking.

Shannon has lowered her current HP 35 points, from 100 to 65. Stephen Vandal has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 66 Optimus Prime <<I'll see what I can do.>> Richard Stadler puts his rifle down, and begins to take stock. He'd burned through alot of ammo, almost all of his flame grenades, and he only had a few clips of shotgun shells left.
Fleece was just livid, on the other hand, as she checked her rifle and clips, then began droping knives in a pile. One, two, three....15, 16... And she's grumbling. "Used my best Ka-Bar! My best! I should get more combat pay for this. My best one!"

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The Union plumber is here with Prime and waves to anyone who arrives. "So-a many people look okay! This is-a good! But..." And then he looks to Prime while stroking his chin, looking cocnetratingly. "It's a shame I'm-a not one of those-a mechanics for-a the cars or robots. But, is-a there anything you need-a from me?", Mario asks the Autobot boss man, retaining his smile again.

<Union-IC> Optimus Prime transmits another list of supplies intended to repair Omega - apparently edited out so that it's more managable. "Actually, yes," says Prime. "There's a roll of duct tape underneith my passanger side seat. If you could patch up some of the damage in the cabin with it, I'd appreciate it. If I'm going to be carrying passangers, it should be repaired, and my self-repair can be better used elsewhere."
Sonia, for her part, continues moving amongst those who were flesh and blood, and wounded, healing them as best as she can, the ones that are critical get her attention, of course. She was able to preserve herself, luckily enough, throughout most of the fighting, so that luck, of course, was turned towards the others.
<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Grab some Titanium armor, and circuits. The rest is ok and PRime. If oyu want, we cna hook you up to my suits power supply and give ya some energy. That is if you cna handle fusion energy." That name is not among your saved descs. Use +desc/list to see your stored descs. You have changed your desc to cvr-3 Duo Maxwell

Duo Maxwell is of American ethnicity, not pale, yet not dark, his skin tone is that of an average Caucasian male. He is well-built, especially for a seventeen year old, and usually has a smile on his lips, and a twinkle in his cobalt blue eyes. The yard-long chestnut brown braid that begins at the nape of his neck and hangs easily sights him down his back.

Currently, he is wearing the REF CVR-3 Cyclone Armor that is used by the Cyclone Units, although it has been modified slightly. The armor is black, trimmed with a dark gold, with black shoulders attached to strong looking arms. Dark gray legs attach to the hips, end with two feet of the same color.

A black helmet covers the white face, and a gold 'V' is set in the forehead, with some gold trim on the bottom of the helmet. Three gold vents are in place of the cheek and disappear into the white helmet. He even has his weapon on his hip and what looks like a collapsible staff at the small of his back.

-*- Duo Maxwell is looking at me. -*- <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "If necessary I can likely adapt." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Keep an eye out, cause I am enroute. This is going to be fun." Omega says, "Did you just say...duct tape?"
Watching her commander, Amelia follows suit, putting her shotgun down, as well as putting down her remaining supply of clips and ammunition. She hadn't used them all up in the battle, thankfully.
The young private sweatdrops to Fleece. It's a miracle she made it out alive. Sonia has the healing part taken care of, now Amelia focuses on her own task. <Union-IC> Shannon,apparently talking to some techs, then moving on, "Good thing i'm a shapeshifter, otherwise getting all this stuff there would be much harder..." <<Further, if any of you use weapons and found yours destroyed or without ammo, I carry a few phasers in my cabin.>> Prime states helpfully.
"That's affirmative, Omega." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "I should warn you Shannon, we don't know just what we're going into here. I want you to be certain you want to do this."

M*

With a nod, Mario replies, "Okey-Dokey!", and makes his way into Opti's cab. He manages to find the duct tape and begins taping over whatever tears in his seats and cracks in his dashboard. It'll take him a bit; Mario tends to get rather thorough. As he does this, he begins to whistle a rather cheerful tune. Those who know him as a video game hero might recognize the tune as the underwater theme from the original Super Mario Bros.

-- Duo Maxwell walks along, wearinfg the REF CVR-3 Cyclone Armor tht Maya gave him during the T-Virus incident and looks as he follows the HUD in the helemt. "Looks like I am a ways off," he says to himself. "I hope I do not run into anything down here," he says as he has a rifle up and ready as he walks down the hallway or whatever. "At least this thing is able to map," he says as he stops and looks. He keys the radio. <<Optimus, is your beacon still on?>> he asks over the radio Optimus Prime <<Affirmative. I'll amp the signal. **HOMING BEACON-PING**>> <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Dont worry about me sir, i'm a tough girl, I can handle it. And i'm not about to sit around at home while my friends and comrades are deep in enemy territory."

Omega laughed a little. "I can't tell if you are being serious or not.."

<Union-IC> Mario is heard whistling the underwater theme song from the original Super Mario Bros.

Shana digs around in her things, pulling out some healing potions and bandages and all sorts of things and sets them carefully on the ground, using one bandage like a large towel to hold everything else on. "Let's see...everything got through okay..." She stood up, and looked around. "I have some small medical skills if that can help right now."

Optimus Prime says, as Mario tapes his dashboard up, "I am, actually -- make sure you get the damage on the door, Mario, that's likely the most dangerous if we go into heavy combat." Maya has mae her way to Prime, she's not in her cvr armor that's in the stroage area of her mecha. She's on foot and in her leather gear a bit banged up bit. However she finds something in the rubble and she pulls it out. It's a pataining an she stares in shock at it, eyes going wide...
-- Duo Maxwell nods, <<Thanks.>> he says as he walks. <<Of all the ones, I have to get the furthest away from everyone. I swear I have terrible luck.>> he says over the radio. However, unlike Maya, Duo is not really able to fight much with a gun and well, he will take every help he can get. <<I swear, this is like being back on C00761. At least i knew where the mobile suit factory was.>> he adds over the radio. <Union-IC> Shana ruffle, rustle. She informs with a hopeful, helpful tone, "I have some medical skills if that will help anything." Amazing? How could she /not/ survive? Anyone who was crazy enough to carry that many knives into battle was surely blessed for combat by not other that the grey-eyed spear carrier herself. After she takes stock of her equipment (23 knives! Where does she put them?), she slings her rifle behind her back, and turns to Prime.
"Phasers!? Like, Star Trek Phasers? Which ones? Type one or two? Or do you mean the phaser rifles!" And yes, she wants one.

Rick, meanwhile, is truned away from the group, slowly undoing his blouse, moving armor, and slightly wincing at the rather deep stab wound. Damn it, last time he brought Kevlar to a monster fight. He reaches behind him, and begins to shake up one of the few First Aid Sprays he'd brought.

M*

Givng another nod, Mario looks to the door, makes his way there, and begins to spread some more tape. "Alright. But, you may need-a to consider something more then-a duct tape-a to make-a some better repairs once-a we get out-a this place."

Stephen Vandal swivels his eyes in Maya's direction as he sees her pick something up off the ground, then widen her eyes.
"...What's the problem, ma'am? Y' look like y' foun' 'The Las' Supper' or somethin'..."
He shines a light her way. "Of course," says Prime. "I'd rather have parts used for something else once we get them, however."
"-- yes. Two type two cobrahead phasers and three type one handheld phasers." Prime answers. "And they are similar, but do not believe they're nearly as foolproof as the writers make them."

Omega coughs a little. "Don't worry about weapons for me, figuring I am a walking weapon."

Optimus Prime <<I hope you didn't have to worry about hellish abominations programmed only to kill there.>> He sounds like he's (mostly) joking.

Shana drinks one of the healing potions for herself, since she had so many. And hey, thankful for Legend of Dragoon physics and OOC stuff, she regained 50%% of her HP just like it is supposed to do! Or something like that. Shana kept rummaging around with the things on the ground, then looked over at Rick. Now she might be polite but stupid she wasn't. So, she grabbed a potion and some bandages and started to walk towards him. He had to be hiding SOMETHING by facing away. "Mr. Stadler? Are you alright?"

Maya has been tarumized here muchly but the image before her of a well lets say think Beef Cake style but it's of the Late Emperor Gesthal but thin in speedo. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." <Union-IC> Maya says, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "You alright Maya!?" <Union-IC> Razia says, "...!! LADY MAYA?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Maya?"
Sonia also spreads a few more light sources around, helpfully, also shaking her head at Maya.. "Just close your eyes and pretend you didn't see it.." Granted, Sonia wasn't.. looking at it either. That, and she just winced otherwise in sympathy.

-- Duo Maxwell blinks <<Does trained OZ soldiers count?>> he says. <<That was a colony in the L4 Colony cluster that was a Mobile Suit Factory. When the We Gundam Pilots lost support from the Colonies, who sent us to Earth as a part of Operation Meteor. The five of us, were basically on our own, with no help from anyone. So we had to fight OZ on Earth and OZ who was on the Colonies.>> and he blinks and starts to run. <What was that? Is Maya ok?>> he says over the radio. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Ok, what happened." <Union-IC> Maya says, "... Painting in ruble... old man... in thong...." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, ".... Ewww" <Union-IC> Shana says, "Um. I won't look." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Thank god i'm not there..." Quickly finishes his work on the wound with a crossspray, quickly putting things back where they go, and covering the blood-stained shirt with an LBE. "I'm fine, Shana. I'm perfectly fine." Uh oh. Not fine. He feels faint. Before anyone can see, an autoinjector is in his hand, and /jammed/ into his thigh.
He grits his teeth, before his entire body shudders. "Neeegh..." It's a moment, but he stands up right after that, and walks back to Fleece. "Specialist! Don' bother th' truck!" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "...that's so wrong..." <Union-IC> Razia says, "..." <Union-IC> Maya says, "OOC It's Gesthal" <Union-IC> Razia says, "...And I thought it was life-threatening. *Sigh*" <Union-IC> Shannon growls, arguing with more techs, "I don't /care/ if you're gonna have to work overtime, this is high priority!" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Well...it can be?"
-- Duo Maxwell thinks as he slows down. <<Eeewwwww>> he says over the radio. <<Hey, is anyone there up to keeping a wondering Gundam pilot company while he tries to reach you guys?>> he asks.
Meanwhile, Amelia is nodding off as she is beginning to feel sleepy. "Ngg....Mr. Stadler, Sir, I'm getting awfully tired...."
She is having difficulty in staying awake, and yawns, covering her mouth.

The surrounding noises and conversations sound distorted to her ears.

<Union-IC> Sonia Belmont sighs, "She has my sympathies.." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "........" <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont nhs. "I've healed everyone I can, that were critical." <Union-IC> Amelia yawns. "Nng...Mr. Stadler, I'm getting awfully tired..." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I have a knot on the side of my head, and some bruises Sonia, but I am fine over all." Stephen Vandal takes his light off the unpretty picture as soon as it's revealed. /GROSS/.
<<...I can come pick y' up, sir. Be there in two shakes.>>
-- Duo Maxwell looks and smiles, <<Thanks.>> he says as he sends a beacon. <<Here is where I am? *BEACON*>> <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Some rest ought to help you out, once you get to us, at least until we get everyone recovered."
Stephen Vandal starts rolling-off, picking-up on Duo's beacon. He arrives in a relatively timely manner, opening a passenger door for the young pilot.
"Hop in."

Shana is still holding on to her healing supplies in one hand as she watches Rick move. "Okay, Mr. Stadler..." Had something just happened? She wasn't really sure. So instead, she set to checking with any of Rick's men to see if she could assist with medical treatments here and there. She too could help out somehow.

Richard Stadler throws a nod to Amelia. "Why don't you get some sleep, Private, until we know what we're dealing with. We'll work off two hour watches. I'll take first. Fleece, get some shut-eye, too, you'll have second. Amelia, you'll have last."
Fleece has already got her pack up anganist a cave wall. Snoring like the dickens.
They're so good, obviously, they can anticipate Rick's orders! <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Alright, i've got people working on the current items on my list, along with normal stuff like med supplies and food. If anyone wants anything else, now's the time to tell me." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Ammo, grenades..." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I'll get the armory to send an assortment of ammo and weapons to me."
Amelia smiles sleepy and nods her head, well, almost to the point where she collapses, but remains awake for a few more moments.
"Yes, Sir....looking forward to it..."
Sitting down and pulling her knees up, the young private closes her eyes and rests her head against them, drifting off to a deep slumber. <Union-IC> Amelia drifts off to a deep slumber. Zzzzzzz.

almost collapses

-- Duo Maxwell looks and nods, "Thanks," he says as he gets into the vehicle.
Stephen Vandal drives Duo back to the assembly area, dropping him off. He looks around at the fatigued and injured personnel.
...This wasn't a secure area, and not many of them seemed very fit to meet the 'sentry' role. Himself, on the other hand... <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Alright, it'll take me about an hour or two to get everything together and ready for transport." <Union-IC> Solid Snake snorrrrre. Snoorrrrrrre. Maya now turns away and is moving to join the others. She's not having a good night is she as she heads towards the others. She's also looking for Sonia, and maybe more loot maybe something that could help. <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal says, "If you folks need a breather, I can set-up watch fer' ya'." Solid Snake, meanwhile, has fallen asleep in Optimus's cab, using a crate of extra Stingers as a headrest. Julian finally arrives in Jehuty, the Orbital Frame looks like it's had better days, still it's functional. <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "I'll stand guard as well...not much chance of me sleeping as I am now"

Shana has been spending her time looking around for any of those who might need medical help, but she soon returned to a spot not far from Optimus and the others...in fact, quite close to Optimus. The ground was hard, but she would have to make do. She laid down, but didn't go to sleep quite yet. She was looking at the large Jehuty right now.

<Union-IC> Sonia Belmont mnhs quietly. "I'll watch with you as well, Julian. At least, for the most part.. everyone's safe right now, given who I can sense."
-- Duo Maxwell gets out and looks, "Thanks," he says she walks over to Prime, "I'm here Optimus," And he looks at Richard and walks over, "Here, this will help." he syas as he gives him some first aid kits and the ration bars. "Here are 6 first aid kits and 10 ration bars," he says as he removes his helmet. <Union-IC> Amelia is snoozing peacefully.. <Union-IC> Shana says, "I think I should go to sleep. But, I left out my healing potions if anyone needs one." <Union-IC> Maya says, "are the worst of our wounded tended to?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "I think so." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I just gave Richard the 10 Ration Bars and 6 first aid kits my Gundam had Maya." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Julian, you want a hand on guard duty?" Stephen Vandal melts into his semi-solid state, encircling the area and hardening into a steel wall around the Unionite gathering. At every possible entry point (already blocked-off by his mass), a cluster of cannons and missile launchers form - quite ready to unleash hell on anything that moves. <Union-IC> Shannon - Sounds of machines working, stuff being moved and people talking in the distance, general rushing kinds of sounds. Loud sound of something falling over and Shannon mutters. Richard Stadler collects the supplies from Duo, and moves over to pack them with the rest of his small band's stockpile. One of the bars he steals, and begins munching on. "Obliged." He says to Dou. <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal randomly wonders... "X-3 was the last X-Men motion picture they were going to make, correct?" <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal says, "MAV!!!"
-- Duo Maxwell looks at Amelia and the others and walks over to Julian and sighs as he sits down. "Now the fun begins," he says.
Amelia, well, sleeping right now, Duo. Sitting down and hugging her knees to her chest, resting her head against her knees.. Announcement: Nefarian shouts, "... Jotaro's a crybaby of manly, epic proportions. He does not wipe his tears with kleenex. Kleenex sacrfice themselves for him." Announcement: Agent Jones shouts, "Manly tears, damn you!"

Shana is still awake, though her eyelids are drooping. Everyone else is going asleep, or some are, and this is making her a bit sleepy as well. She had been through a lot. She looks over at Duo. "This is fun?"

Imagine Amelia counting sleep, with a thought bubble and all.
-- Duo Maxwell looks at Shana, "Yea," he says as he sighs. "At least the room is not sealed and we ar enot cut of from air," he says. "That's not fun, being locke dinto a room, cuffed and having h air shut off to die of sufocation." he says.

Shana gives a violent shudder and pulls her hands in close to her stomach. "Thanks, I think."

Amelia is glad she's asleep.
-- Duo Maxwell looks, "Different time," he says. "Sorry, but no one is going to die tonight or here," he says. "Death is here yes, but he is not lookign at us," he states. "If he ws, he would have already shown himself." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I think I am going to try to sleep." <Union-IC> Shana says, "in a few minutes." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I'll sleep when we are out of here." Maya mages her way towards Jehuty and calls up "Hey you mind some company in there Julian?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "You need rest Duo, that was definetly not the last battle." <Union-IC> Amelia zzzzz Optimus Prime, of course, is still... well. A truck. And is currently working on adjusting his sensors for the magic interference.
Jehuty's head tilts to look down at Maya before dropping to a kneel. "Heh...c'mon in," Julian says over the loudspeaker before the cockpit derezzes to let Maya in, allowing a brief glance of the pilot's current state, eyes aglow and body pulsing with lines of aqua light very much like the ones etched in Jehuty's armor
Presently, Sonia's just milling around quietly, though at the moment, she's not too far from Julian and Maya. Her eyes flicker and glower as she keeps an eye out--literally. @ADESCRIBE Duo Maxwell=think [ansi(hr,-*-)] %N is looking at me. [ansi(hr,-*-)] @set Duo Maxwell/ADESCRIBE=no_command prefixmatch Amelia remains where she is. Zzzzzzz. Optimus Prime hnnnns quietly.
"Only a fifty meter range, and even that's iffy... at this point unless it's invisible I'd probably do better with my optics.' He continues fiddling. Amelia murmurs, "Lina, no fair, I get a taste of that special chicken.." Optimus Prime knows that it's better not to ask questions sometimes. This is one of them. Maya crambsles up in amd she notices this for now well she's going to rest and talk to Julian a bit in private.

Shana blinks a few times and nods at Duo. "You're right. I'm not afraid right now." She looks over at the large truck that is Optimus...and then just breathes out, curling up on the ground. "I feel alone, even with my new friends. I wish Dart was here."

-- Duo Maxwell looks and blinks as he grins. "So," he says to prime. "You only have a 50 meter range?" he asks. "Better then what I had with Deathscythe," he says as he pulls out something and looks, and then replaces it on his person. "I'm going to have to cut my way out of here with my Gundam Optimus." After Maya's inside Jehuty's cockpit canopy reforms, sealing Maya in while Julian dos Terrible Things (tm) to her!
"Ah...Zelgadis-san......." Amelia murmurs again in her sleep. Blushing, too. Oh, my. What could she be dreaming about? "WIth my sensors, yes. There's some kind of heavy magical interference. but even with the magical components in my sensors, I can't punch through it so far." Prime replies. <Union-IC> Solid Snake> Adai says, "Oh, by the way, Ben, Snake said he mailed out your codename info this morning."
-- Duo Maxwell nods and thinks. "When Shannon gets back, I could work on my Gundam and get it up to at least 40%, if not 50% in a copuple of hours, 5 or 6 tops." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko mnhs. "I noticed. Interesting." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko barks a laugh. Optimus Prime's audials pick up Amelia's mutterings.
"...I don't suppose someone knows how to get sleeping humans to stop speaking?..." He sounds concerned, as though he's afraid that Amelia just might reveal something more than she wants. "I'll likely be able to help you with that, Duo." Optimus states. "I don't suppose you have any portable data medium with the specifications of your Gundam with you?"
Sonia just.. glances at Amelia. Says nothing, however, before wandering over to Prime, and Duo. "My senses aren't too badly off here myself." She seemed to be listening fairly well, despite her wanderings, "And.. I could try putting her into a deeper sleep, but it probably won't help, Prime."

-- Duo Maxwell looks and thinks, "Well," he says as he pulls out a datapad, "I have this datapad that I always carry with me," he says as he gets up and walks over to him and stops and looks. "Um..." h esays as he looks at the pad then Prime and then the Pad "... How you goign to view this?"
<Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "Space Pope.." <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko chuckles, again. <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko says, "OOC: Actually, ret."
Amelia lets loose a soft giggle. "Aww......Zelgadis-san....don't be shy.....they're just flowers...." she murmurs sleepily. <Union-IC> Benjamin Sisko OOCly meant to not say that. IGNORE ANY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AS HIM AS BEING THE SPACE POPE. >> << <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal heard nothing. Especially not you acknowledging your title as Space Pope!
-- Duo Maxwell looks and blinks "..." and he chuckles blushing, "Well, we know who she has feelings for," he says to them. "I wonder if Freya and Minerva are ok?" he asks himself. "They will probably worry about us," he says. "although, I worry about my mbuddy more then myself." Prime's dashboard - which, on the driver's side seat, seems to have been retracted with tons of miniature monitors, keypads and scanner readouts to the point of being a miniature command center - whirrs slightly as a probe sticks out. "Stick it in the port, if it's standard."
Pause. "You might try that, Sonia. I suppose it wouldn't hurt, she probably needs it anyway."
"...unless it might get her to speak even /more/..." Optimus Prime's probe thing has a wide variety of plugs, it seems. He's rather used to adapting to a lot of different data formats.

Shana was near Optimus, Sonia, and Duo and was currently curled up on the ground. She listened to Amelia and started to blush a little. She was still looking up at Optimus while on the ground but she just closed her eyes and curled up a bit more, mumbling, "Dart..." Though it might not be audible to anyone other than those she was that close to.

The Stephen-barrier forms a mouth.
"...Somethin's movin' aroun' out in th' tunnels a' this cave. Nearby."
His tone is a bit hushed, and quite dark.
"...Don' mean t' rile anyone up. Jus' though' I should say somethin'."
-- Duo Maxwell looks and blinks as he gets out of Prime and grabs his rifle and readys it. "Great, never fails. Dark, damp area. Madman in control, why not."
Duo Maxwell enters the World of Ruin. Duo Maxwell arrives in: World of Ruin.
Duo - Monday, June 26, 2006, 6:57 PM

Zelgadis enters the World of Ruin. Zelgadis arrives in: World of Ruin.
Seras leaves the World of Ruin. Rick is back on watch, it seems, patrolling the area around him with an eye for deatial. No tellin' who, or what, would jump out at them, or when. Or where. Or why. And, hey, he doesn't know /how/ either. It's a complete set!
He walks over to where Amelia is situated, and speaks in a low tone. "Private. A word in confidence, if ya don't mind."
Shannon is just lieing down on the ground with her eyes closed. She's not sleeping though, just concentrating. Optimus Prime is likely here, and is probably trying to fine tune his sensors more. He's likely been on watch most of the night, his need for rest cycles considerably less than the disgusting meat creatures fate has thrust upon him.

Shana had had enough rest for now and was currently sitting on top of her sleeping bag, nervously double-checking what healing supplies she had left. As soon as she had finished with that, she seemed to calm down quite a lot.

Maya has changed her stats. Richard Stadler flips a coin which comes up heads.
Richard Stadler flips a coin which comes up heads. Maya is leaning on a wall by a rock covered grave. There's a sword inbeded in it and the helmet of some M- Black Arachnia shifted back to her beast mode, so her body can repair itself some more on top of the magical healing we received; she's spent her time exploring the nearby area, never getting too far from the rest of the assault force ...
-- Duo Maxwell is a sleep and is woken up by the alarm and is heard over the radio. <<Huh, ahh I'm awake. I'm awake...>> and he blinks as he looks. <<Hey Optimus,>> he says. <<Thank you for your help and Maya, did um... What's his name finish already?>> Maya is leaning on a wall by a rock covered grave. There's a sword inbeded in it and the helmet of some M-Tek Trooper with his dog tags hanging from it. Maya did yes loot an item or two from his remains but they were pracital items the living could make use of an echo screen and an antidote. "Well he knows we're here." Oh yeh, and for those that missed it... There are two freight containers in the room, containing stuffs like food, med supplies and ammo+weapons.
Unfortunately, the young private is *still* asleep. She must have been on watch for half the night, as one could see tiny black circles beneath her eyes.
As Rick attempts to get her attention, Amelia is situated on the floor, with her knees pulled up and resting her head against them, snoozing peacefully. %FAwww, isn't she cute?
Unfortunately, the young private is *still* asleep. She must have been on watch for half the night, as one could see tiny black circles beneath her eyes.
As Rick attempts to get her attention, Amelia is situated on the floor, with her knees pulled up and resting her head against them, snoozing peacefully.
Awww, isn't she cute? Duo Maxwell changed his armor mode to deathscythe hell.

MewTwo is many things, but a deserter of friends he is not. Despite the massiveness of the Multiverse, he has eventually made his way to the World of Ruin, and located his comrades. Or at least their theatre of operations in this mess. 'This place is a horror I wouldn't wish on anyone.' the pokemone warrior says as he lands, looking around for someone awake to talk to.

Shana stands up and rolls up her sleeping bag neatly, carrying it back to one of the containers. She checks her quiver, pulling out several arrows to check them, then putting them back into the quiver, giving her bowstring a twang. "I'm ready, I think. I hope we can get out of here soon." After all, she now had a very powerful surge of motivation to do so!

MewTwo is many things, but a deserter of friends he is not. Despite the massiveness of the Multiverse, he has eventually made his way to the World of Ruin, and located his comrades, thanks to his nifty ability to teleport. Or at least their theatre of operations in this mess. 'This place is a horror I wouldn't wish on anyone.' the Pokemon Warrior says as he appears, looking around for someone awake to talk to. (fixed)

Well, considering the scarafice he's about to go through in conversation, he's in no mood to coddle the young private out of sleep, even if she did spend half the night on watch. Needs of the Army, and all. She gets a firm but mostly harmless kick to her left thigh, and a clearing of throat.
"AHEM." Winry Rockbell arrived with the containers full of supplies, and has spent her time since arrival working on repairs to the mecha within the contingent. She also seems to be running on a combination of coffee and extreme dedication at the moment ... possibly not up to a lengthy running battle, or whatever else Kefka may have in store for the good guys. (Although if she has to defend herself, she *has* been putting her biggest wrench to work with some of the repairs ...)
"EEP!"
That woke her up.
Amelia is startled as she gets kicked on the thigh and sits up with a start.
"Huh? What?!"
Peering to Rick, the young private blinks, then rubbing her eyes to clear her vision, she looks again, and flushes sheepishly, saluting.
"Ah, Mr. Stadler. Good to see you're well?" Maya own Mecha is almost a write off for her she's afraid, the thing's a real wreck they might have to recover it later. So she's on foot with her gear now and just resting and waiting. She sighs and looks to the others as they start to wake up. She looks over to Mewtwo and waves "Hey Mew."

World of Ruin - <World of Ruin> (Location #0)

The World of Ruin - A dead and dying world, one that you know that you've entered immediately almost as much from the feeling of despair in the air, and the sweet smeal of decay and death... The closer you get to the World of Ruin, the stronger the aura becomes, and the less life there is. Even the grass, the trees and the plants, of this world seem to be infected by the aura, and many of them are dying or dead, there's next to no animal life, and a constant howling dusty wind scours the landscape. In liu of animal life, monsters have taken over almost all of the world, and encounters with large packs of them that prey on humans, monsters and visitors alike are very common here - in fact many times the groups of monsters come howling and tearing across the border to decimate nearby towns, wildlife, and just about anything else that they can claim for food. In the center of the world of ruin is a giant tower made of ruins and debris, the shattered remanants of cities, and the remains of a large continent.

Contents (1 player not shown) Exits Amelia <Military> <A> Arena Black Arachnia <robot> <FT> Fanatic's Tower Duo Maxwell <deathscythe hell> <KT> Kefka's Tower Inuyasha <Normal> Isamu Dyson <YF-19> Julian <jehuty> Kefka <Kefka> Maya <Junker> MewTwo Alpha <Mewtwo> Minerva Optimus Prime <Standard> Richard Stadler <combat> Shana <Normal> Shannon <Casual> Solid Snake <Thebox> Sonia Belmont <VampireKiller> Stephen Vandal <Devil Truck> Winry Rockbell <coveralls> Zelgadis
Inutaisho enters the World of Ruin. Inutaisho arrives in: World of Ruin. Winry Rockbell grimaces a bit as she finishes deciphering the label, and tucks the pillbottle into a pocket of her coveralls. She's not going to mess with someone else's medications, or try them out on herself. Truth be told, she'd rather *not* be on the front lines - leave damaged mecha here, she can keep working on them. And if push comes to shove, she might even be able to take the controls to defend herself/the 'base camp'.
Maybe.
She really wants *not* to find out; her luck in combat has been bad enough that she doesn't want to rely on it. Rachel Grey enters the World of Ruin. Rachel Grey arrives in: World of Ruin. Rick stands in that part of the cave specified, pacing a bit in the small area. When Amelia arrives, he didn't spend time on formalities or courtesy. Who knows how much time they had?
"Private..." A hesitation. "Amelia... I beleive I've made a mistake." As everyone starts to get ready to move out, Jehuty moves back to it's feet. a pair of 'skates' swivelling down into position at the Orbital Frame's feet to help it with balance.
From inside the cockpit, Julian surveys everyone assembled at the camp and lets out a soft sigh to himself before looking down at his hand and frowning.
"This could be it..." he murmurs to himself, "At the rate this is going..." Julian looks to the console, "ADA...if I..."
-I understand,- ADA replies, -Should such a situation arrive I will prevent anything from happening,-
"Thanks..." Kefka heads toward: Kefka's Tower. Shana heads toward: Kefka's Tower. Julian heads toward: Kefka's Tower. Shannon heads toward: Kefka's Tower. World of Ruin - <World of Ruin> (Location #0)

The World of Ruin - A dead and dying world, one that you know that you've entered immediately almost as much from the feeling of despair in the air, and the sweet smeal of decay and death... The closer you get to the World of Ruin, the stronger the aura becomes, and the less life there is. Even the grass, the trees and the plants, of this world seem to be infected by the aura, and many of them are dying or dead, there's next to no animal life, and a constant howling dusty wind scours the landscape. In liu of animal life, monsters have taken over almost all of the world, and encounters with large packs of them that prey on humans, monsters and visitors alike are very common here - in fact many times the groups of monsters come howling and tearing across the border to decimate nearby towns, wildlife, and just about anything else that they can claim for food. In the center of the world of ruin is a giant tower made of ruins and debris, the shattered remanants of cities, and the remains of a large continent.

Contents (5 players not shown) Exits Amelia <Military> <A> Arena Black Arachnia <robot> <FT> Fanatic's Tower Duo Maxwell <deathscythe hell> <KT> Kefka's Tower Inutaisho <Standard> Inuyasha <Normal> Isamu Dyson <YF-19> Maya <Junker> MewTwo Alpha <Mewtwo> Minerva Optimus Prime <Standard> Rachel Grey Richard Stadler <combat> Solid Snake <Thebox> Sonia Belmont <VampireKiller> Stephen Vandal <Devil Truck> Winry Rockbell <coveralls> Zelgadis
Black Arachnia heads toward: Kefka's Tower. Gideon enters the World of Ruin. Gideon arrives in: World of Ruin. Inuyasha heads toward: Kefka's Tower. Amelia heads toward: Kefka's Tower. Kefka's Tower - <World of Ruin> (Location #1)

A giant tower made of rubble, filled with a bajillion monsters, a few traps, and a lot of annoying pathways. ...What?! That's not good enough for you? Fine! Kefka's tower is a giant cylindrical structure made of the ruins and rubble of several large cities, most notably his hometown, Vector, the ruins of the floating continent, and several other things ... which are a bit grisly to mention. The structure stretches hundreds of stories into the air above the World of Ruin, and has no visible openings at the base, but rather has three relatively clear patches at the top of the tower that one could conceivably land by parachute, or have small flying vehicles land on. Inside the tower numerous howls and screams of pain echo from every direction, lost souls? Monsters? Tortured humans? Or just victims of the Mad god? No one can say, other then that they're a constant companion everywhere throughout the gigantic structure. Three long pathways twine their way through the tower, past hundreds of monsters (both living and dead), several giant locked doors, and finally past the (former) Goddesses of War and Magic. At the end of it all is a giant throne room, filled with both a malevolent power and a presence strong enough to make the greatest of warriors drop to their knees from the sheer pressure of the madness and rage in this room.

Welcome to the Throne of Kefka. UWAHA! UWAHAHA! UWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Contents (15 players not shown) Exits Amelia <Military> <WOR> World of Ruin Black Arachnia <robot> Duo Maxwell <deathscythe hell> Inuyasha <Normal> Julian <jehuty> Kefka <Kefka> Shana <Normal> Shannon <Casual>
Isamu Dyson arrives from: World of Ruin. Inutaisho arrives from: World of Ruin. Minerva arrives from: World of Ruin. Richard Stadler arrives from: World of Ruin. Winry Rockbell arrives from: World of Ruin.
A pause. "What do you mean?" Amelia looks to her commander with a blank look, keeping her voice low.
A feeling of dread begins to crawl on her skin. Mistake? Mistake that she was added to his unit? MewTwo Alpha arrives from: World of Ruin. Rachel Grey arrives from: World of Ruin. Niv-Mizzet enters the World of Ruin. Niv-Mizzet arrives in: World of Ruin. Gideon arrives from: World of Ruin. Maya arrives from: World of Ruin. Niv-Mizzet arrives from: World of Ruin.
-- Duo Maxwell sits and waits, since he is stuck in the bottom of the wherever he and the others were. Since his Gundam is too tall for the hallways, and all. "I hope they will be ok," he says to himself. "Cause I am stuck here until they are clear. He then powers up his radio, <<Hey, are you guys moving to the top of this place?>> he asks. <<If you are, let me know when you are halfway and I will start cutting myway out of here.>> He then waits to hear back and he hopes that he was heard, unless his Gundam's radio is down.

Bringing one clawed hand to his chin in a thoughtful pose, and tail twitching, MewTwo ponders a moment or two. 'How important is the unmovable gear? Is it expendable, or is it's presence considered vital?' (repose from earlier)

<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Hey if you guys are moving, let me know when you get half way. That way I can start up and cut myway out of here." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "I'll help keep you posted, Duo ..." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Duo, if it's that much of a problem... Just shut your mech down, walk with the others then when you get to wherever we're going, i'll just teleport Deathscythe there." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Private Luce reporting. I'm approaching the tower now."
Shannon stops moving and just hovers in mid-air, "I believe Optimus and Duo have used up most of the stuff they requested... The rest is just weapons, ammo, food, med supplies and a little survival gear." (repose in response to MewTwo) <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Ok. Sorry buddy, I'll be back for ya. I'm not going to leave or lose ya again alright?"

MewTwo nods. 'Hmmm, the food, med supplies and survival gear are probably the best to move. The weapons are a secondary concern, I think.'

Rick paces a few more steps, then stops, and turns back to Amelia. His face seems to exhibt a conflict of emotions. Of course. Mentioning anything that was a mistake of his was /not/ something a commander does. But it needed to be done.
"I've been treating ya... much like a recruit, with no knowledge beyond a high school education. I've failed t' use ya t' your full potential. From now on, and I want t' make this perfectly clear, those weapons a' yours are last resorts. Sure, I expect ya t' still train with 'em, an' become proficent in their use, but I want you using your magic as you see fit to accomplish your objectives."
He takes a breath. "An' I will try t' familiarize myself with th' spells ya know, an' what they do, so that I can make sure ya aren't underutilized. Clear?"
Is there more? Undoubtably. But it isn't relitive to the conversation, and it isn't coming out of Stalder unless ripped out. <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Duo, Maya, anyone else with that team, I'm beaming in. Sounds like you're going to need some help before all's said and done." Reliant arrives in: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Just be sure you wanna come, once you get in you cant get out until this is finished." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Aint that always the way it is with battles?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "No, normal battles you have the option to retreat." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I'm fine with battles where a retrograde charge is impossible." <Union-IC> Shana says, "A what?" <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Retrograde charge.... manuvering to a more defenseable position... ya know, a retreat. sheesh." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Any supplies I should bring when I beam in?" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "He who fights an' runs away, ya know." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Oh. You could have just said retreat." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Some extra weapons, cause I will need them." Duo Maxwell has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 40 <Union-IC> Shannon says, "We've already got weapons here Duo." Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 10 points, from 100 to 90. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I brought em with me." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "ok. How about some caffine or something." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "That way's more fun to say though. Who says hammer when you can say manually operated impact device?" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Allow me to come with you when you beam in? I need to get there and quickly, and I'm not sure what obstacles lie in my way if I try to get there on foot." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Duo, want me to stay here and keep working on Deathscythe as best I can?" <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I anticipated that Duo. Got a gallon thermos full of hot, black coffee that's coming with me. Sure, let's beam in togeather sir."
Amelia holds her breath, afraid that her commander might tell her some bad news regarding her new recruitment to the team, and watching him pace pace, until he displays a face of conflicting emotions, the young private blinks.
Listen attentively to his words.....oh, good. It wasn't a mistake to have her back to the Union, but a mistake of how she was going to fight on his team.
Letting loose a breath of relief, Amelia smiles, and she nods. Rick finally understands. He had hired a sorceress, not someone who could be easily be molded into the military.
"Very clear, Sir. This should make my training much more easy." Amelia salutes, still smiling. His words gave her morale a very good boost, and it had lifted a huge burden off her shoulders. Duo Maxwell changed his armor mode to normal.
Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 50 points, from 90 to 40. Duo Maxwell changed his armor mode to deathscythe hell. Richard Stadler has set his Max HP from 79 to 100. Richard Stadler has set his Max HP from 100 to 79. Isamu Dyson has lowered his current HP 50 points, from 100 to 50. Maya has lowered her current HP 10 points, from 100 to 90. Maya has lowered her current HP 3 points, from 90 to 87. Maya has lowered her current HP 10 points, from 87 to 77. Maya has lowered her current HP 10 points, from 77 to 67. Neclord enters the World of Ruin. Neclord arrives in: World of Ruin. Minerva beams into the middle of camp, wings out but her armor not on, yet. "Can't BELIEVE Star Trek is real in this place..." she mutters under her breath and looks around. Wow. That mech looks ... cramped, and everyone still looks pretty tired. "I brought the coffee!!!" she announces in a loud voice, holding up 2 gallon sized thermoses and hoping she dosen't get swarmed too badly. Winry Rockbell changed her armor mode to civvie. Neclord arrives from: World of Ruin. Richard Stadler has set his Max HP from 79 to 100. Neclord has set his Max HP from 200 to 100. Shannon changed her armor mode to SR Tactical. You have been healed for 10 points. Winry Rockbell restores Duo Maxwell. Oooo healing sparkles. Shannon has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 65 Shannon has lowered her current HP 10 points, from 100 to 90.

Gideon comes jetting in on the Element. He comes to the teleport location. "I'm coming in now," he says over the comm, and pulls the ship through the teleport. Once inside, the transport opens it's hatch. "Okay, anyone who's hurt, step up, I have the medical program ready," he says, hopping out of the back.

Inutaisho beams in next to Minerva, holding another two 2-gallon thermoses full of coffee. He quirks a brow at the woman with which he teleported, setting the two thermoses down. "Star Trek...?" he asks under his breath--he didn't want to distract from the main situation by asking about that out loud. But he'll be sure to do so later. For now, he moves towards the group of people. "Is everyone alright?" Winry Rockbell restores Optimus Prime. Oooo healing sparkles.
<Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "Union. I'll be arriving shortly. If you need anything -now- is a good time to ask for it." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Something with caffine, and a lot of it please." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Maybe if Dart is awake, he could come too?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "They just arrived with coffee, Duo." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "What, are 8 gallons of coffee not enough, Duo?" <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "Caffiene is bad for the system. Denied."

As if Kefka's words on the broadband channel were some kind of trigger. (Well. Duh.) All of those trapped inside the lower depths of his tower, and simply transported to the top of it. The ruined valley, and half melted mountains far below is now once again visible, the lava from before still not yet cooled ... At least now, the winds outside are not a continous holocaust of destruction.

Mad laughter echos across the tower, along with words that simply state, "You have three minutes." Across the top of the tower, the heros are scattered along the three paths, will they be roads to ruin, or ... pathways to home, and hope... I should think that would be up to you. <Union-IC> Minerva says, "And I thought I brought enough for everyone...." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "What, the base don't have any o' my vigor serum in stock?" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I've only had 45 minutes of sleep in the last 24 hours." <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "I'll rephrase. If you need something -essential- please tell me now. I'm in the process of scrying you all out so I can get there." Solid Snake arrives from: World of Ruin.

As if Kefka's words on the broadband channel were some kind of trigger. (Well. Duh.) All of those trapped inside the lower depths of his tower, and simply transported to the top of it. The ruined valley, and half melted mountains far below is now once again visible, the lava from before still not yet cooled ... At least now, the winds outside are not a continous holocaust of destruction.

Mad laughter echos across the tower, along with words that simply state, "You have three minutes." Across the top of the tower, the heros are scattered along the three paths, will they be roads to ruin, or ... pathways to home, and hope... I should think that would be up to you. (repost for Snakey.) <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Drop by the Spybot Shop 'fore someone teleports in with supplies, I'll give you folks a dose fer each person." Optimus Prime ports in from: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Freya says, "Could you use another healer? I hope I'm not too late.." Sonia Belmont ports in from: World of Ruin. Mario ports in from: World of Ruin. Solid Snake has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 64 Winry Rockbell restores Isamu Dyson. Oooo healing sparkles. Gideon changed his armor mode to transport. <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Stuff'll make you fit as a fiddle, as if you'd gotten a full night's sleep, but you'll be out for about twice as long next time you lay down." Gideon has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 100 <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "Last chance." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "From the looks of it, a few medical supplies might be handy." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I already brought medical supplies last night..." Freya enters the World of Ruin. Freya arrives in: World of Ruin. Maya pulls out a fatecard and looks about at those near her for a moment first off healer heal thy self first. She casts a healing spell upon herself and then one on Mario as well. Maya restores Maya. Oooo healing sparkles. Isamu Dyson has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 64 Isamu Dyson has lowered his current HP 10 points, from 100 to 90. Freya has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 100 Maya restores Mario. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Along with weapons, food, survival gear and parts for a couple of the mechs... We've got pretty much everything." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I am arrived now with the Element, anyone in trouble can heal up right now in it." Maya also then casts one more on her self before she gets a move on. Maya restores Maya. Oooo healing sparkles. Freya changed her armor mode to normal. <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "Understood. I'll be sending a 'beacon', for lack of a better term. This is where the portal will open. Steer clear of it, I'd rather not step on anyone." Freya arrives from: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "All right, folks, it looks like it's time for round two. Everyone ready as they're gonna get?" <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Fine, don't take my surprisin'ly charitable offer." Minerva blinks at the sudden transportation. "Three minutes till ... what exactly?" she hurries over to Duo and hands him one of the things of coffee. "Drink fast." she states firmly. <Union-IC> Shana bow-TWANG. "Ready as I'll ever be." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "ISamu Dyson, YF-19, ready to rock and roll!" <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "...Was that a /bow/?" Rick smiles. "Good, good. Glad of it." A bit of a chuckle. "You'd think I'd learn about dealing with people from other universes when Fleece-"
VOOM. And their they were, on the top of the tower, suddenly. Fleece has a knife out, Rick has his pistol out, and...."Sir!" A group of five haggard looking men is also there, and one of them is saluating. "We thought no one else survived. Our radio wasn't reaching anything, and we were startin' to run out of MREs..."
Rick cuts them off, and simply nods. "Get your guns up. I assume this isn't going to be the fun type of game." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Did we start hirin' redskins?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "Yes. It's my weapon." <Union-IC> Shana says, "...Hiring what?"
-- Duo Maxwell is in his Gundam, a distance away from the rest of the group and is waiting for this to start. "Well buddy," he says. "Looks like we are going to do this now," he states. "You ready?" and he smiles as he nods, "I hear ya. Ok, Lets get ready to cut ourselves out of here." he states as he waves to Minerva, "Hey," he says from his cockpit. "Thanks," he says as he takes the coffee and does look terrible, no slepe does that. <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Injuns! Damn, I can't believe people still /use/ those." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I use a bow as well." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "She's not an Indian, Morg." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Would you rather I use a sword? I'm not good with those." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Yeah, but..." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Morg, ya ever seen a compound bow?" <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Yeah." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Felt one too." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Suckers hurt." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "I'll stick with a Sharps." Winry Rockbell YEEEK!s as the location changes around her, and immediately pulls out her combat wrench. "Duo, if you leave me behind I swear I'll install a remote override in Deathscythe ... Gideon restores Shana. Oooo healing sparkles. Much as Niv had said, shortly after his last radio transmission a small point of light suddenly flares into existance amidst the group. For a moment it remains in place before starting to swirl wide open. The huge portal swirls with red and blue energies before a roar erupts from it. A large scaled paw steps out, followed by another before Niv steps through the portal proper, simply taking a look around before his eyes fall across the amassed union members. ... That's a lot of Union-ites. "Greetings," he rumbles first before a small group of goblins scurry out with a couple crates. Healing supplies. Once delivered they scurry back out and then the portal closes behind him. "Now then, I believe we have a job to do." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "But with all this tech you're still usin' a sword and a bow?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "I don't think I am any good with anything else." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "You never seen a high-tech bow?" <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Some of us haven't learned to use the new tech and are deadlier with what we already know." <Union-IC> Morg McGee /sighs/. "Primitives and their traditions... Whatever, to each his own." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I'm still not the best archer either way." <Union-IC> Solid Snake> Adai says, "Depending on who's using them, swords or bows can be as effective as or more effective than firearms. As I understand it, Shana works with a form of magic."

And suddenly ISamu gets to feel what it's like to Hyper Space Fold outside of the ship thanks to Kefka. Thankfully he was still /on/ the YF-19 when it teleported "Damn...That was like a bad acid trip." "What am I saying, this whole THING is like a bad acid trip." he slides back into the cockpit and closes it up, bringing the YF-19 to full power. "Ready to Rock and Roll!" never mind who's around him, he's likely to go off on his own.

<Union-IC> Shana says, "Yes, that's right. When I'm using my Dragoon powers, I can use magic." Kefka has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 59
Amelia takes this time to heal herself, at least she has enough energy to do so, and feeling more confident now that Richard has a better understanding of her potential.
Until they are suddenly trasnported to another location, on top of the tower!
The young private narrows her eyes and readies her shotgun, clicking and making sure it's locked, and ready to go. Now that she knows she can use her magic, she does not have much to worry about, staying close to her commander's side. Amelia restores Amelia. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Magic's useful. Dangerous though." Maya has finished up with what healing she could do for those with her. She looks to Mewtwo, Mario Black Arachina and Niv. "Niv, Mario, Mewtwo, and Black Arachina, you guys are with me, you got it? We're likely going to have to split up here and we best keep togethere." <Union-IC> Amelia can be heard chuckling. <Union-IC> Shana says, "Yes, it can. And using it too much can even distort nature. I would show you the Valley of Corrupted Gravity if it is out there." <Union-IC> Maya says, "Niv, Mario, Mewtwo, and Black Arachina, you guys are with me." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Just as dangerous as some of the technology out there." Stephen Vandal arrives from: World of Ruin. Gideon restores Amelia. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Freya says, "worse in some cases.." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Uh huh." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "One more change to heal, step up!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Thank you, sir." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Good luck with that." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Inuyasha, are you coming in?" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm afraid I don't recall your name." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Freya, Minavera, Inutaisho and Inuyasha. You guys are with me I guess. We have 3 minutes to find the exit, so lets get going. Keep your eyes open and be ready." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "Acknowledged, Maya." Amongst the group, a solid bright light begins to shimmer in the air, with a slight hum, the image of a hanyou slowly materializes there. A pair of golden eyes open to look at the crowd; some looked better than others. The smell of burning flesh instantly assults his nose, forcing him to take a step back, slightly disoriented. Inuyasha adjusted though. "What the hell happened here."

M*

Ah, healing. Mario could get used to all this foreign healing magic, powers, and what-not. He gives a look back to the person who gets finished with some healing of her own. "Thank you!", he says to Maya with a smile and a nod of acknowledgement before looking around to the others, then forward. "Okey, now. I'm-a ready as ever." His face looks more determined now, ready to face that madman and his creations. Let it also be noted that this is sort of refreshing for Mario to face a new challenge. Bowser was almost becoming a bit predictable.

Black Arachnia nods to Maya, settling into a ready stance. <Union-IC> Freya sounds a bit neverous. "o-okay." There's another soldier in the midst of Rick's group as they're all teleported up to the top of the tower, one that takes a step out of the thick of them and steps up to the edge of the tower. His Sneaking Suit's looking banged up, but the Field Marshal himself looks like he's ready to go, as fit as ever. He looks out over the boiled-away landscape for a moment, then turns back around, to face Stadler directly. "Ensign. Good to see you and at least some of your people didn't get hit too badly. I'm sorry about the rest of your people, but at this point, I don't think we've got time to mourn. Looks like we've got a job to do."

Shana looked towards the portal with Niv-Mizzet, and waved. A real dragon! That was a first for her. Well a talking one anyways. She had taken a hance to boost her strength and stamina, as the WS-Dragoon Spirit had taken care of most of her acual WOUNDS by now. "I think I have some magic to spare, if anyone needs healing."

Lifting off, MewTwo looks at the rest of the members of his group. 'I can transport the lot of us via my psychic powers. For those who want it, at least.'

Niv-Mizzet rumbles rather loudly in reply to Maya, though its not an irritated sound. He simply offers her a nod and moves to take up a position behind the group. Considering his size, its doubtful anyone would be coming up -behind- them. A glancing over is given the other people in his little 'party'. Quite the variance, he figures. Names would have to wait until later though due to Mario's easily recognized voice, he knows who he is already. "Be on your guard.." Minerva (Mina) pages Duo Maxwell, Inutaisho, Inuyasha, and Freya: got it. got my pose typed too, holding and ready. You have been healed for 24 points. Gideon restores Duo Maxwell. Oooo healing sparkles.

Gideon finishes healing those he can. "I think we are about out of time, I am closing up shop." Knowing Maya more than the others, he asks her. "Who should I follow sir?"

Stephen Vandal brings-up the rear, rumbling-in with weapons fully-loaded and poised for action.
They've got a Joker to take outta the deck. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Minerva, Freya, and Inuyasha: Alright. (fah, making sure I get all the people in)

doesn't look suprised. Oh, he is suprised of course, and nervous. Goddamn /brass/ was here. But he couldn't allow that seed of doubt around his men. He brings his rifle up in a rifle saluate, before quickly bringing it back to a combat posture. "Understood, sir. Write the letters later." He says. And that would be the end of-

"You're /SNAKE!/" A chippy female voice says excitedly, as Fleece walks up to the FM, and examines his uniform with bright eyes. "Oh! Oh! Is this a sneaking suit? I've heard of these! I have! Do you have your SOCOM? I've shot a Mark 23, an'-"
"Specalist!"
And Fleece eeps and backs off. "Sorry! Sorry!"

For all of those of you that were confused, Everyone was teleported to the top of Kefka's tower, or arrived however they did. For three minutes there was blissfull silence. A long calm, with only the towers screams and Kefka's malovolence to bother you ... And then all hell breaks loose. Monsters begin pouring out of each of the three paths, towards the forces gathered at the top.

The part has now started.

<Union-IC> Gideon says, "So who should I follow?" <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "Here they come..." Maya nods to the others as they join the party. Maya says "All right who here has some healing abilities? Or am I on healing duty for us?" THe Junker asks "If I am I'll need some cover." Minerva blinks. "Valor Armor Activate!!" her clothing bursts apart as a strong wind unfelt by anyone else tears them off of her, only to be replaced a second later with red armor. Rather feminine looking red armor, designed for speed and agility ...That exuberance. Almost reminds Snake of someone else. He turns to face the specialist and crosses his arms over his chest. "Easy, there. I'm not some kind of superhero, so don't get all excited. I'm just a soldier, and right now, that's all of us. And we've got us a job to do." He points out off the side of the tower, now addressing everyone. "You see all that blasted land out there? There's a lot of good people buried in that. We've got to kick a lunatic's ass for that. We can, and we will." And then come the monsters. And Snake's demeanor hardens all at once, and he produces a FAMAS assault rifle seemingly from nowhere, and slaps a clip in. "All right, people, looks like there's no more time for the mushy stuff. Lock and load, and don't let up!" Group 3 -- Duo Maxwell looks as things change and he sees the people around him. He then blinks at this and looks as the cockpit closes up and seals. "Alright guys," he says. We have three minutes and then more hell. Lets go. Pick a path and head out that way," he says to Minerva, Freya, Inuyasha and Inutaisho. "Lets go," he says as the bat-like wings snap around hie Gundam and lock into place, forming a cloak around the suit.

. o 0 (Lets beat the three minute clock.) he thinks as he looks at the timer in his cockpit and starts to hover walk down a path with the others as he takes a drink from the coffee he got from Mina. He also looks at the tactical layout, . o 0 (Becareful everyone.) he thinks as he looks. "Lets go," he says. "Kefka has a date with his maker," he says as he looks. "Hey guys, we have company coming. And a lot of it," he says of the monsters. "Lets hit them and hit them hard." and he looks as his suit begins to fix itself, "Huh?" he states as he picks up the nanites and blinks, "Thanks whoever put those guys in there," he says over the radio for all union forces to heard.

Neclord has set his Max HP from 100 to 200.
Freya nods to Duo and looks at rest of her group. "I'll heal as best I can.. I can fight if things start to go badly.." Minerva blinks. "Valor Armor Activate!!" her clothing bursts apart as a strong wind unfelt by anyone else tears them off of her, only to be replaced a second later with red armor. Rather feminine looking red armor, designed for speed and agility. eyes shift to silver. A sword appears in her hand. "Now, it's time to party." a hard gleam enters her eyes. "ECHO EFFECT!" ten swords appear around her body, just hovering in the air. Shana has set her Max HP from 100 to 130. Shana has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was 130

3052 shakes off any stun effects!

(ansi[hr,Group 3]) Inutaisho looks around at the sudden change in scenery. He looks around at those nearest him, then turns as a humming sound fills the immediate area. He nods to Inuyasha once Inuyasha has fully formed. "Hello there, son." Not much else can be said, though, before the monsters begin to appear. He immediately draws the Tessaiga from its sheath, a humming sound and a flash of light signalling its transformation as it leaves its sheath. "Alright then... Let's do this."
Oh, wow, it's the Field Marshal Snake himself. The young female private holds her breath, nodding to him out of respect, then following suit with Rick and lifting her own shotgun in a salute, as best as she can, that is, then brings it back to combat position.
Amelia smiles, then she sweatdrops hugely over to Fleece. With a sigh, she shakes her head.
"She reacted in the same manner over my magic, Field Marshal."
Oh, here comes the welcoming committee. Amelia narrows her eyes, and carefully replaces her shotgun, as her commander informed her earlier that she is to use her weapons as a last resort. Magic comes first.
It would look awkward though, seeing the mage casting magic in military attire. Freya has set her Max HP from 100 to 130.

Shannon isn't too bothered by the teleporting to the top of the tower. It's the kind of thing she expected considering how the rest of the group entered the tower in the first place. The monsters weren't much of a surprise either. Shannon drops down to the ground and gets into a combat stance. Both her forearms shift into long, sleek, black blades and she smirks as she looks at the monsters, "Time for some fun."

Winry Rockbell has set her Max HP from 100 to 130.

Shana immediately scrambles into action, grabbing her bow and pulling out an arrow from quiver, setting it in place to fire. She looked over towards Snake and nodded. "I'm ready." And then the monsters were coming, so she had to take action. The bow was pulled back, but no arrow was let fly yet.

Stephen Vandal forms spike-laden bulldozer blade over his grille, spinning around to face the onrush on monstrous creatures. A pair of rocket boosters sprout from his rear.
"Come get it." PAGE doesn't know switch NOEVAL=FREYA. As the monster's charge, on of them in the forefront would get a large knife thrown at him, courtesy of none other than the chippy female gusher with the glasses. And then she's got her AK raised, pointing it toward the monsters. "Mushy stuff? I'm not mushy! I'm the furthest-"
"Specalist!" Rick yells, as he brings his own rifle up, finger on the trigger of the grenade launcher. The rest of his men have their guns up too, and have formed up into a line, interlocking their fields of fire.
"Private! Let's start off with some confusion just behind their front line! Somethin' that'll make 'em stumble!" Maya looks Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Minerva, Freya, and Inuyasha: Indeed.

"rm.

Kenshiro enters the World of Ruin. Kenshiro arrives in: World of Ruin. Kenshiro arrives from: World of Ruin. You aren't carrying anything. You have 999 Credits.
"MS. FLEECE!"
Amelia grits her teeth and leaps forward into the fray, holding her palms together into a spellcasting position.
"YES, SIR!" She responds to her commander's orders.
Creating a bright orb, the young private sends it hurling towards the monsters, and it explodes upon contact, spreading flames everywhere.
"FIREBALL!" A shake of his head is given to Mewtwo. Why? He has his wings and his size to his advantage, "I'm quite alright," he rumbles before glaring out toward the path before them. "Now then.. We have a mob to quell," he rumbles out loudly before starting to draw in a breath. "All of you, take a simple step back," he suggests before a torrent of flame errupts from his muzzle out to the path before them. He's starting this fight with a bang to say the least.

Gideon watches as the monsters start pouring out of the entrances. "I can't heal while I'm fighting all'tha well. But if we have a back line I can fall back and run ambulance. Snake, sir, where should I be goin? Or someone?" He hops back into his ship, and soon it closes the door and it starts sliding parts around smoothly as rounded supports slip away and reconnect. Now instead of a flying ambulance, he is in a tank. Wheels form and tracks wrap around them. Not getting any response on who to follow, he chooses to follow the big boss snake. "Sir, I am in tank form currently, if you like I can change to a higher mobility unit.

And of course, Solid Snake, not one to mess with the dynamics of a group, just opens fire with the rest of Stadler's men. Gideon changed his armor mode to tank. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Minerva, Freya, and Inuyasha: Alright Zelgadis arrives from: World of Ruin. Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: We got the wrench head in our group now? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Duo Maxwell, Inuyasha, and Freya: Yup. For Duo's sake. Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: Ah. Duo needs his girlfriend here. >.> Rachel Grey arrives with the others beaming in. "Easier than traveling with Kurt or TJ," she mutters. As people start breaking up in groups, she moves towards the people she knows best, Maya and MewTwo Alpha. "Okay, what do we do?" she asks, then sees monsters starting to pour out of the tower. "I think I know." She starts to lift off the ground, glowing slightly. Minerva (Mina) pages Inuyasha, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: Something I need to know between you two? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Duo Maxwell, Inuyasha, and Freya: I meant that about his mech, Winry Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: I'm gonna enjoy being in this group already. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Duo Maxwell, Inuyasha, and Freya: Heh. Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: Well, if she isn't Duo's girlfriend...guess i'll have to charm her myself with my half-demon sexiness...er...something. Minerva (Mina) pages Duo Maxwell, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Freya: My duo, you can't have him. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Duo Maxwell, Inuyasha, and Freya: No no, I'll charm her. You've got Crystal. Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: A crystal that never comes online anymore :( Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Duo Maxwell, Inuyasha, and Freya: Your problem, not mine :-P Freya pages Minerva, Duo Maxwell, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: Duo is mine! *hugs* Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, and Winry Rockbell: Yeah, Winry. What's up with that?

Walking along towards the path to Group 3 is something more than the other random monsters that are present. A man who asked if he could join in the fun, and was aloud. Soon he would be in their sight, a great cape flowing in the wind behind him. A smile on his face, his tooths showing. His eyes are glowing red with a bloodlust. It is, of course, Neclord.

Still a short bit from being in range of attacking the party, he can still see them in sight. And likely? They could see him. He speaks aloud, calling forth to them. "Good evening, everyone. I felt like joining in the fun. I hope I will prevent enough of a challange."

He seems quite ready for some 'fun'.

Shannon notices the large amounts of fire that Snake, Stadler and his men are giving out. She decides that stepping into that to get into melee range probably isn't too smart. Her blades shift back into her arms and two sleek looking energy weapons appear in her hands and she raises them to the monsters, "Still just as good..." She pulls the triggers back and starts spraying bolts of black energy towards the enemy.

Group Two

Maya looks to the others and shakes her head at Mew. "Naw that will be fine for now, I'll be on healing duty it looks like so I'm going to need a bit of cover so I can keep you people up when needed. I'm not the best but I'm better than nothing." She now looks to Niv, Mewtwo Alpha, BA and Mario. She checks her rile snd says "Also your welcome Mario." Mario's proven beyond a doubt she thinks he's good Union army. She's going to be certainly talking to Snake about that when its over. She also checks her healing supplies, it's up to her to keep up her allies "We're going to fight our way through the second path trough the tower. Is anyone willing to cover me so I can keep the heals up and us our on our feet?"

Minerva (Mina) pages Duo Maxwell, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Freya: Nahhh, no one has called anyone else 'monster woman' yet. Black Arachnia nods to Maya, "I won't let any of them get closer to you than I can prevent ..." And with that said, she takes a couple of steps forward, staying out of Niv's line of fire, ready to lay the smack down on any monster which gets too close for her comfort. Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, and Neclord: So now we got a neclord in the group too. Okay. Todays subject is Winry's love life. What say you? Kenshiro leaves the World of Ruin. Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: When did we get Isamu? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Isamu Dyson, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Duo Maxwell, and Neclord: Alright. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Isamu Dyson, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Duo Maxwell, and Neclord: Well, my character doesn't have rank but he is a 5000-year-old warlord...

Shana releases her arrow into the mass of monsters, quickly running towards Solid Snake, Rick, and Fleece as soon as she did. She wasn't the best so she'd have to make up with numbers. "Okay, I'm here to help out." Her voice held a strange edge of determination right now. "I don't want to lose /anyone else./ I'll try and keep everyone from getting hurt too bad."

Inuyasha pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Okay. I'm leading myself. >.> Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Isamu Dyson, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Duo Maxwell, and Neclord: Punk. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Isamu Dyson, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Duo Maxwell: anyway. Isamu Dyson (Isamu) pages Duo Maxwell, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Inuyasha: I think Optimus might join this group? Or did I miss him signing up elsewhere? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Isamu Dyson, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Duo Maxwell: Any serious objections to me taking command?

MewTwo floats over to where Maya is. 'Stay behind me. My Psychic shields can keep you protected.' he says, raising one of his classic psychic shields, which glows with sulver energy, and launches a number of highly destructive psychic orbs at various enemy monsters closing in on the group.

M*

Mario watches as the fire comes soaring down their path. He looks up to Niv and gives a nod and a smile. It's always comforting to have a dragon on your side, right? Looking down the way, Mario rolls up his sleeves. "Okey-dokey! Let's-a do this!" He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a Fire Flower. "This-a gonna help." He holds it before him and invokes it...

> Mario's clothing changes colors! His hat and shirt are white and his overalls are red. He has become Firey Mario! () Minerva (Mina) pages Isamu Dyson, Inutaisho, Freya, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Duo Maxwell: No objections. But, check out my pose before any orders are given. Group 3

Minerva's eyes darken. "You're the one... that wanted Shana as a bride, wasn't it? And hid behind hostages?" a wave of her hand, and the ten swords surrounding her are banished, to be replaced by a brightly glowing sword, apparently made out of a single ruby. It just reeks of holy power. Hopefully someone is gearing up a distance attack behind her. She pitches her voice louder. "You're him, right? The vampire known as ... Neclord?" She takes a guard position.

Neclord pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Inutaisho, and Isamu Dyson: Well, if Prime joins I always have my True Rune full blast. Group 3 Inutaisho looks around at the group with him; he turns and spots the character moving towards them. He steps forward, his hand tightening on the Tessaiga's hilt while the blade rests against his shoulder. He eyes the cape for a second, before looking up towards the man's face. It was a look he'd seen many a time in his long life, so it was not one that would phase him like it might phase the others. He replies to the creature. "Good evening to you as well. I hope the same for you. I do so hate a boring fight..." He smirks as he stands there, waiting...

The monsters pause briefly, not due to gunfire, no. Simply because the hallways are jamming them together ... After a few seconds they surge forward in a somewhat ordered mass. It doesn't take but a few moments for them to reach their targets and the opening attacks begin to fly back and forth. Monsters fall ... But there are more to take their place.

The carnage begins.

Kefka missed Solid Snake with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Richard Stadler with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Amelia with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Shannon with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shana with his Healer out front! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Maya with his Healer protected. weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Niv-Mizzet with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed MewTwo Alpha with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Mario with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Rachel Grey with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Inuyasha with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Duo Maxwell with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Freya with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Minerva with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Winry Rockbell with his Let the slaughter begin! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Inutaisho with his Let the carnage... Whatever. moderate attack! (New Mechanic) I can't find who you're trying to page with: &atktype I'm not sure who you want to page with: me Unable to page: &atktype me Group 3:
-- Duo Maxwell GROUP 3:

The YF-19 turned around in battloid mode to face the first 'path' into the tower "Come and get some you ugly mother <This has been censored for good taste and decency>!!" Holding the GU-15 gunpod with both mech's hands, Isamu stops as Neclord makes himself know. His mouth pulls back in a grin "Oh you have been on my shit list for a -very- long time you son of a bitch..."

Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, and Isamu Dyson: So who is left for our group to pose? Freya, Yasha, Duo, and Winry? (New BB message (7/29) posted to 'Daily Spotlight' by Firebert: Well...that's different) <Union-IC> Shana says, "OW!" Group 3:
Inuyasha glanced towards the hoard being led by Neclord and frowned. He raised his hand slightly to grab onto Tessaiga's hilt so it would stop shaking. "I don't care who you are, out of my way or i'll cut through you." He unsheathed Tessaiga but unlike his Dad's it failed to transform immediately. He waited until the rusty blade was pointed towards Neclord before it finally began to transform. The ruste form being enshrouded with golden light as it began to grow to several dozen times its original size. As the light faded, only the large falchion remained, free of rust. Unfortunately before he has a chance to get into action he is blind-sided by a demon. Of course this does nothing more than piss him off, as well as giving him access to a new attack. With a claw-swipe the demon attacking him dissolved, finally he turned his attention back to Neclord. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: btw, I've pre-gained allowance for an Epic attack from me (or Inuyasha, whoever ends up dealing out the attack) later, so at some point I'll be ICly asking the rest of you to distract Neccy for us. <Union-IC> Shana says, "Guys, I'm going to stay a bit back and help with the wounded." Group 3:
-- Duo Maxwell looks as he sees the man. "Neclord," is all he says as he waits. "Ok, looks like we have Neclord guys," he states as he takes aim and then opens fire on Neclord with his Gundam's Vulcan Guns, since he did not use them at all, and for now, he keeps the wings closed on his Gundam. He looks and thinks to himself a few moments and then blinks. "Lets take him out of the picture. And if you have too, work on the monsters around you, additionally, cover our group of healers and be ready for anything. Call out if you need help, and get under my Gundam's cloak for cover. I can protect you guys but not too many." and he keeps firing on Neclord witht he Vulcans as he can use those right now. . o 0 (Lets make it out of here guys) he thinks. . o 0 (Cause if anyone is hurt, I will not hold back and will take all of these monsters to Hell with me.) <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Alright, we'll cover you." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Good to have you with us, Shana." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Thanks!" Announcement: Ragnaros shouts, "We're @booting people 8 hours or more idle since we're almost at login limit." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Excellent. Good t' have a medic." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "We could combine our healing efforts." <Union-IC> Shana says, "If we need to. You can use attack magic, Amelia." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: True. <Union-IC> Amelia seems to smirk. "I am."

group3 Freya turns to look at Neclord. "W-what he doing here?? Not good. Just give me some cover and I'll try and keep you all healed.."

Group 3

Holding his right arm foward, the Blue Moon on Neclord's hand shines. He smiles, looking across the group. Who to choose to attack? Who to choose? But first, his introduction.

"Yes. I am Neclord, the undead lord. I am the one who attacked Shana, and I have no qualms about hostages. Now, I ask you : what do you all intend to do about it?"

The rune shines bright, and two bolts of blue lightning fly from the sky at Minerva and Isamu, both at rapid speeds. Neclord himself stands still, watching his enemies while smiling. He prepares to dodge.

Neclord hit Minerva with his Blue Moon Lightning moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Neclord hit Isamu Dyson with his Blue Moon Lightning moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Neclord is here guys. And he is aiming for us. And by us, I mean Me, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Ismau and Inutaisho." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Why am I not surprised.." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Good luck then." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "thanks." <Union-IC> Shana says, "...oh no, Neclord? Where is he. I don't want to get too close to him again." Group 1:r And Solid Snake is now in the thick of it. There's no more time for tactics or breaking the lines, there's too many of the monsters surrounding them to even think about it. One of the monsters rushes in to attack him, and Snake *leaps*, turning to flip right over it, and point the muzzle of his assault rifle down as he leaps. A three-round burst rains down, and then Snake lands and turns, spraying more fire into other monsters nearby. This is going to get ugly, quickly, at this rate. <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "I'm going to turn him into vampire -jam- and spread him over the floor like it was toast." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: Inuyasha, we'll probably do double-uber instead since double-epic would probably take out 100 hitpoints right there. <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "If you do, take a picture of that."
Group 1:
Shannon smirks as the group of monsters started to attack. She notices that some are trying to close to melee range, which would not be too helpful. She starts to blast the monsters with her energy weapons. Some make it in close though so Shannon shifts a couple of blades attached to her wrist and uses them to slice up the monsters that get close enough. Then she goes back to firing on more with her energy weapons.

Solid Snake hit Kefka with his Better Flipped Over Than Flipped Off moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "We're dealing with Neclord, Shana." <Union-IC> Speaking in a deep, mechanical voice, Stephen Vandal says, "...'M gonna split-up a bit. Don' worry abou' bein' careful with yer' shots if I get in yer' line a' fire. There's gonna be an awful lot a' me t' go 'roun." Shannon missed Kefka with her blast slash blast moderate attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Don't worry. we will take Neclord to Hell and anyone else we run into with us." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: Yeah, he'd prefer that we double-uber it. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: That won't be for a while, though, obviously.
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That is a -lot- of monsters, Niv realizes. And even with all that fire roaring out down the path, as soon as it lets up the torrent of bizzare creatures flood toward him and his group. The result? He finds himself slammed into by into by a fairly large dinosaur of some sort, it clamping onto one of his shoulders. An aggonized wince is his only reply before he tears into the rex in kind reply, only to thrash it off him and to let it sail into the mass of creature on the path. "Cursed beasts," he snarls, holding up one hand, a ball of crackling blue .. fire? Electricity? It looks a bit like both. Once loosed upon the monsters though it shows its nature as lightning jumping from one creature to the next and the next.

<Union-IC> Shannon says, "I dont particularily think you want to go to hell..." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: Let's get an order for our own group though. Me first? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: Since I'm taking charge and whatnot. Niv-Mizzet hit Kefka with his Lightning Blast moderate attack! <Old Mechanic> Group 1

Shana was holding to the rear of the first group, taking what cover she could for now. Nobody was obscenely hurt at the moment, so instead of healing she pulled out another arrow, peeked out from her cover, aimed towards the mess of monsters and let it fly with a quick *FWIP!* "I'm with you all." She was still hanging back, so that attack wasn't nearly as effective as it would be if she was being a serious fighter.

Shana hit Kefka with her not-so-serious-arrow weak attack! <New Mechanic> Group 3 Inutaisho looks towards Inuyasha and nods as the newer Tessaiga is drawn; he smirks as the demon who tried to blindside his son is easily dispatched. He turns towards Neclord just in time to witness the attack being launched, and growls. He notes that he is not the target of the attack... "Bad idea!" He charges forward, lifting his blade from his shoulder. He turns it horizontal and charges forward; about two feet short of Neclord he stops and slashes across, attempting to hit Neclord's chest. Inutaisho missed Neclord with his Hard slash strong attack! (New Mechanic) GROUP 2:

MewTwo continues to hold the shielding on Maya, and continues his assaults on the enemy monsters. 'This is going to get worse before it gets better.' He says, throwing multiple orbs and psyically created explosive weaponry which are also flung at the monsters.

- *M* - [ansi(hy,Group #2)

And here they come! A barrage of badies come their way, and with Mario near the front, it's no surprise that some of the attacks hit the plumber despite his best efforts. He gets knicked and cut a bit, but nothing too terrible to detour this hero. While nothing gets too close to him, Mario begins to lash his arms toward the horde, some in an overhand throwing motion, other times in more of a pushing motion. Every time he does this, fireballs lunge out, bouncing along the ground and looking to hit any monsters which threaten their quest.

Mario missed Kefka with his Goodness Gracious, Great Balls Of Fire moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Group 3

The blast hits Minerva, knocking her back a couple feet before her wings snap out to brace against the air. A single feather floats down, singed. "My... WINGS! How DARE you harm a single feather of my glorious wings!!!" Seems she's a bit proud of those. Playtime's over. "In the name of feminine beauty... Echo Effect Valor STRIKE!!!" her ruby sword leaps forward from her hands, glowing brightly as it speeds towards Neclord.

MewTwo Alpha missed Kefka with his Psycho assault! strong attack! (New Mechanic) %xh%xgGroup 2%xn A stylized golden Phoenix flares around Rachel's left eye as she starts to exert herself. "So, are we just trying to stop them or..." Her voice trails off as Niv-Mizzet breathes fire upon the monsters, crisping more than a few, though there are huge amounts behind. The return attacks stop a few feet from her, bouncing off her psychic barrier. Then lightning gets thrown as well as a T-Rex looking horror. "Okay, that answers my question," she mutters. Flames lick around her as she starts hurling psychic bolts at the front row. <Group 2>

Black Arachnia stays in a defensive position, letting the other members of her group lead the attack, at least for now. She never *did* put absolute trust in anyone else's powers, and she's better at hand-to-hand than long-range combat in this body as it is.

Group Two

Maya nods to Mewtwo and shoulders her rifle for once. oO(Welll Grandma it's time I take after you.)Oo The Junker now keeps back as Mew brings up the shield in time which works very very well as the incomming attacks from the monster is deflected by the shield "Thanks, just keep the shield up Mewtwo and I'll keep you all up." For now Maya doesn't see she's got much healing work yet to do, that's going to change she's certain of and she readies her rifle and takes shot at the monester firing off a flight of seeker missiles into the things that are comming for them. The missiles take flight and seek out the nearest hostiles if they can.

Minerva missed Neclord with her Valor Strike of Justice on behalf of Women!!!! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Maya hit Kefka with her Missiles away This could be my only attack tonight strong attack! <New Mechanic>
ansi(hg,Group 1:)
And then the gunfire begins in ernest, rapid cracking of rifle shots again and again, combined with the occasional *THUNK* of a grenade sailing over monsters heads and into the crowd. And, of course, a knife sailing by to hopefully find a monster's throat. Fleece looks rather angerily at the monsters, those that cause her to waste her /precious/ knives! Men take bites when the creatures get close, but beat them back and keep firing.
And Rick's with them, as well, firing accurate, single shots at vital areas as fast as he can manage. When the things get close, they get a *crack* of butt to skull. And then the firing continues.
Perhaps an endless war. Group 3:
-- Duo Maxwell looks as he sees the man. "Neclord," is all he says as he waits. "Ok, looks like we have Neclord guys," he states as he takes aim and then opens fire on Neclord with his Gundam's Vulcan Guns, since he did not use them at all, and for now, he keeps the wings closed on his Gundam. He looks and thinks to himself a few moments and then blinks. "Lets take him out of the picture. And if you have too, work on the monsters around you, additionally, cover our group of healers and be ready for anything. Call out if you need help, and get under my Gundam's cloak for cover. I can protect you guys but not too many." and he keeps firing on Neclord witht he Vulcans as he can use those right now. . o 0 (Lets make it out of here guys) he thinks. . o 0 (Cause if anyone is hurt, I will not hold back and will take all of these monsters to Hell with me.) He nods, "Not a problem Freya, stay behind me," he states to her. <re at the right time. sorry.> Optimus Prime has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 61 Duo Maxwell missed Neclord with his Vulcan Guns strong attack! (New Mechanic) Richard Stadler hit Neclord with his Covering Fire! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Rachel Grey missed Kefka with her Phoenix Have Fire, Just Like Dragons strong attack! (New Mechanic) Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: I have 10 skill, I should hit him a few times at least. Richard Stadler hit Kefka with his Main Attack! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Group 3>

Winry stays well back, slinging her repair kit's carrying strap over her shoulders and situating the bulk of the bag behind her, then taking her combat wrench in both hands ... and looking over her shoulder to make sure nothing's coming up BEHIND us, before turning her attention back towards Neclord. . o

<Group 3>

Winry stays well back, slinging her repair kit's carrying strap over her shoulders and situating the bulk of the bag behind her, then taking her combat wrench in both hands ... and looking over her shoulder to make sure nothing's coming up BEHIND us, before turning her attention back towards Neclord. . o O ( What is it about the undead and me, anyway? )

ansi(cr, Group) 1:

Gideon pulls up to the front of the line, since hey, he's in a giant tank, and can be used for cover by the infantry. "I'll provide cover for tha infantray," he announces over the comm. He turns the tank turret, aiming for the line of monsters. "Eat this ya crazy...things!" He cries out, pulling the trigger. The massive turret recoils into the vehicle, and a concussive thud is released from the cannon A bomb comes soaring out of the cannon as the whole vehicle rocks, it gleams as it speeds through the ground at supersonic speeds, and plunges toward the mass of monsters.

Minerva (Mina) pages Duo Maxwell, Inutaisho, Freya, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: well whaddaya know, so do I. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: That's good at least

Group3 Freya watches the battle rage against the undead lord, staying the back waiting to heal when nessary, she knows someone going to get hurt fighting Neclord...

GROUP 3:

The YF-19 is hit, but it practically just shrugs the lightening strike off. The mech's advanced SWAG energy reinforcement armor just diverts more power from the internal fusion reactor. "Hey man, thanks for firing first so I can feel REAL good about this!" he pulls the trigger on the control stick and the 6 barrled weapon spins up to fire a spray of tungsten core APDS rounds at the so called Vampire lord.

Neclord has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 197 Isamu Dyson missed Neclord with his Open fire! 35mm Gunpod moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Gideon missed Kefka with his BFG Tank epic attack! (Old Mechanic) Stephen Vandal watches the monsters surround him, quite easily gaining the numerical advantage. And too many friendlies around to just start spraying explosive rounds.
Time for a bit of /division/.
The truck muelts into a puddle of gunmetal grey goop - then splits-off into dozens... dozens of dozens... /HUNDREDS of dozens/... of copies of metallic, average-sized Stephen Vandals.
They surge as a cohesive unit towards the beasts, vaulting over heads, tripping-up legs, smashing-in faces, chopping, bashing and just plain /MUTILATING/ the creatures that they swarm upon, wielding car-crumpling strength and morphing their appendages into a variety of mutilating melee weapons. Reliant enters the World of Ruin. Reliant arrives in: World of Ruin. Reliant arrives from: World of Ruin. Solid Snake types ---> &atktype me=1
Group 1:
And so begins the carnage. No time to ask for orders, Amelia needs to go all-out with her magic.
Her fireball should have succeeded in surprising the monsters, but that is only the beginning
Over the firing coming from Rick's men, Amelia concentrates on her own tactics.
Pulling her hands back into another spellcasting position, she sends a ball of ice hurling towards the enemy, then when it explodes, it should cover the monsters in ice. The ice counterpart of a fireball, and the strongest ice magic spell.
"VICE FREEZE!" Group 3:
Inuyasha didn't wait any longer. He shot like a bullet towards Neclord, tearing through any opposition with his claws on his way there. Tessaiga dragged behind him, carving a ditch in the ground as he ran along. "You made one mistake. It wasn't being on the wrong side. It wasn't trying to kidnap whatshername. It wasn't even coming here; but you had to pick a fight with me!" His free hand shot down to the hilt of his blade, latching onto it and using the extra leverage to bring his sword forward and upwards in a cross slash, leaving a wide arc in the ground where his sword slashed through it like a hot knife through butter. Amelia missed Kefka with her VICE FREEZE strong attack! (New Mechanic) Inuyasha missed Neclord with his ima cut you up boy! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Stephen Vandal missed Kefka with his Kefka Raid: Reloaded moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Stephen Vandal changed his desc to Normal. Gideon missed Kefka with his BFG Tank strong attack! (New Mechanic) Minerva (Mina) pages Inuyasha, Duo Maxwell, Inutaisho, Freya, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: if we don't start hitting this guy we're gonna look like complete idiots... Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: Or me. >< Freya pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Minerva, Isamu Dyson, and Winry Rockbell: there was that battle a while back someone with 10 attack kept missing me! :) Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Optimus Prime: Ooh we got two big'ns now Inuyasha pages Optimus Prime, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: Okay THAT is everyone. Omega arrives from: World of Ruin. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: Ditto. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: This is gonna be fun. XD

Monsters meet mauling force - and mauling force meets the Union yet again, as spells, arrows, rocks, and the occasional smaller monster gets sent flying at the good guys. Flying Wyvers come tearing in from the sides, along with the occasional member of seven dragon lords, Perhaps at the end of it all two of Kefka's generals await. But then again, you can't see them at the moment.

STill. It doesn't change the fact that you're all cheating bastards! I mean in my day, we faced the monsters and saved the world with a party of four! ...I swear. What's happening to the younger generation!

Kefka missed Solid Snake with his Endless (Crab) Battle! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Richard Stadler with his Cute knife ladden girl! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Amelia with his Healer. It's what's for dinner. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Shannon with his Sweet Midnight, Dear phantom beast. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Shana with his Rear ranks are good. moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Maya with his Healer hitting with missiles?! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Niv-Mizzet with his Dragon under glass. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit MewTwo Alpha with his Psykke! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Mario with his Jumped! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Rachel Grey with his Cute! But still attacked! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Inutaisho with his Raugh! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Inuyasha with his Like father like son! strong attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 23 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Stabbing you with porings. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Freya with his Healer protected. weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Minerva with his Cute, but soon to be... strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Winry Rockbell with his Stab'd in the face! strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Group 1 Shana was subjected to more of the generic monster attacks, but thanks to being in the rear she was only subject to the ranged attacks for now unless the front lines were broken. She flinched and even let out a muffled scream, but managed to stifle most of it. This was no time to look weak! "Nggggh!" She grunted, and pulled out one of her several healing potions which she used on herself. "Could someone cover me please?"

Shana restores Shana. Oooo healing sparkles. Kefka has changed his stats. Kefka restores Omega. Oooo healing sparkles. Kefka restores Omega. Oooo healing sparkles. Kefka has changed his stats. Group 1:
We're not cheating! We're just not here to save the world! We're here to beat up a clown! And really, the best way to do that is in a large group, so everybody gets a punch. I mean, seriously. Everyone hates clowns, right?
Snake is moving on pure instinct right now; a monster leaps and he drops to the floor, pulling the trigger and spraying bullets up at its stomach as it goes over. Another leaps right for him, and the Field Marshal just backrolls out of the way, and comes up with another spray of bullets on that one. Then comes a fire spell, and Snake's barely out of the way in time - but when he comes back up from his dodge roll, he counters with a little 'fire spell' of his own.

Group 3

A torrent of attacks, all aimed at Neclord. Now, how would someone such as he handle an assault at nearly all sides? He transforms into a group of bats, flying out of the way of each of the hits. They reform midair, Neclord floating in the sky. With a swing of his arm, a sonic-blast like attack in the shape of a crescent would fly foward. It is aimed towards Inutaisho, Inuyasha, and Minerva: The front line. While just a sonic blast, it almost would feel like a slash when if it hits.

Neclord missed Inuyasha with his Blue Moon Blast strong attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord missed Inutaisho with his Blue Moon Blast strong attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord missed Minerva with his Blue Moon Blast strong attack! (New Mechanic) Group two

Maya's caught by a monster that some how punched through the shield, it could have been a lot worse too as the spell hits her. she's a bit hurt by it but she's far from out of it right now. She now looks at how her allies are faring and Mario's plight gets her attention as she readies a healing spell to toss his way. the Card glows pink for a moment before she lets lose the spell upon Mario, who gets covered in a like Aura about it.

Maya restores Mario. Oooo healing sparkles. Group 3:

Winry lets out a scream as SOMETHING gets past the others and nails her squarely in the face ... that *hurt*! She drops to her knees, holding a hand to where she got nailed (stabbed, whatever) ... flailing around a bit with her wrench if whatever did that actually stayed close to her. (If there's nothing but allies in range, though, she's not wasting energy with wrench-swinging. "Owwwww ... !!"

Group 1:
We're not cheating! We're just not here to save the world! We're here to beat up a clown! And really, the best way to do that is in a large group, so everybody gets a punch. I mean, seriously. Everyone hates clowns, right?
Snake is moving on pure instinct right now; a monster leaps and he drops to the floor, pulling the trigger and spraying bullets up at its stomach as it goes over. Another leaps right for him, and the Field Marshal just backrolls out of the way, and comes up with another spray of bullets on that one. Then comes a fire spell, and Snake's barely out of the way in time - but when he comes back up from his dodge roll, he counters with a little 'fire spell' of his own. Maya also makes sure she's keeping behind Mewtwo and the shield he's generating as this is going to be all that's likely keeping her up now while she keeps the rest of her party up as well. Group 3
And where oh where has Optimus Prime been during all this? Guess he's dead. Again.
Slacker.
But whilest some might rejoice over his rusting carcass, they needn't down their champale quite YET, because something big, red and angry comes down the way the heros came.
ZOMBIMUS! FOR YOUR NEURAL NETS!
No such luck, however - it's the real Optimus, safe and sound. With a very large spider leg protruding from the roof, still twitching, and Sonia Belmont in his cabin, photon blasters hot and ready to fire.
<<Sorry we're late,>> Prime radios. <<We ran into a bug that needed to be squashed.>> He releases a burst of photon plasma fire towards Neclord in order to punctuate his entrance, lest the vampire miss him. Solid Snake hit Kefka with his Snake chants the spell of Fireball! 'Drop pin, throw grenade.' strong attack! <New Mechanic> Group 1:

From behind the Union forces came a black flash. That flash would be seen jumping above their forces and coming down right on top of a spell caster, and as the force of the swing came, a wave of energy was released, traveling through more of those forces. With the flash cleared, Omega was standing there, with both beam sabers in hand. "Auto Repair is as good as it's going to get. Fighting ability is back at 80%. That should be enough to take down these monsters.." he says, and looks toward Snake. "Oh, you're fighting too?"

THe rocks, arrows, and occasional small goblin are no match for modern tactics and body armor. Sure, numbers and luck would be aganist them soon, but for now, the men block, blunt, and throwback the enemies attacks. A flying goblin's even stopped by an empty, thrown AK clip, given along with a. "HEY! HEY! Stay on the ground! Flying's no fair!"

Rick, seeing the condition of his attached mages, whistles, and makes a couple of hand signals. The Unit closes up around Shana and Amelia, and concentrate every bit of fire at the front, beating them back. Hopefully.

Omega hit Kefka with his Wave Slash moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Niv-Mizzet missed Kefka with his Flock of Firebirds strong attack! (Old Mechanic) Group 1:, that was. Optimus Prime hit Neclord with his Honey I'm Home! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Richard Stadler missed Kefka with his Protect the MAGES! strong attack! (New Mechanic)
Group 2:

And here Niv-Mizzet thought that maybe, MAYBE, these monsters had at least a little intelligence. OBVIOUSLY NOT. As he tears the rex off of his shoulder, hurls it out, then electrifies a great number of those monsters, he finds himself under assault from a different direction. Wyverns! A number of fiery blasts manage to strike down against his back, but that doesn't do very much damage at all, its their talons cleaving into his back that does the true damage, as well as their stinger-equiped tails. A pained roar errupts from the large red but he's far from out at this point. For a moment, the crimson's eyes close for a moment, summoning up some mana, the dragon just smirks as a number of small portals around his form open wide. A screeching cry comes out from them as a number of real and true firebirds from Ravnica some surging through, their fiery forms tearing into the wyverns that come for him AND for those that come after his group in general. No more strikes from the air for them! He hopes.

<Union-IC> Shana says, "I'm going to transform myself into a Dragoon." Group 2:

Black Arachnia scowls a bit, glancing at the shield again, then up at Mewtwo. Then directly at Maya. "If you trust this guy's force-field, I think I have some dance partners in need of my personal attention ... gimme a holler if you need me close again, okay?" She takes a few steps forward, not abandoning Maya just yet, still more than ready to intercept any attackers headed for the apparent healer.

Group 2: - *M* -

WHAO! In the midst of fire slinging, Mario gets jumped! "WHAOOO! UMHP!" But, as hurt as that made our chubby Italian plumber, he makes a comeback (or tries to)! Just before Maya's healing sets in, Mario tries to come up from out of those pile of monsters. And he does this with his mighty spin attack! The one so seen in Super Smash Bros.!

Mario missed Kefka with his spinning fists of fury strong attack! (New Mechanic) GROUP 2:

MewTwo's silver psychic shielding continues to hold, protecting Maya. The silver glow of the shield is unmistakable. Meanwhile, MewTwo continues his assault on the enemy hordes!

Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: A warning in case this situation comes up: If I am low on health, (Like 5 or so), and you guys are still mostly good to go? I might use the Blue Moon Rune's special attack. I doubt I will, but this is just a warning. Basically just an epic all, and I'll only do it if you all can survive it well enough. This is with your guy's permission before I do it, of course. Group 3:
Inuyasha takes another hit from a flying monster. Where are they coming from. Tearing through said monster, he prepares his sword, confronting the wave of sound as it comes. His sword was drawn high into the air, swirls of demonic energy wrapping around the sword. "You think you can get away from me?! Kaze no Kizu!" Swinging the sword, a large mass of demonic energy is flung at Neclord, possibly canceling the blast intended to hit him, and maybe even deflecting the parts meant for the other two, however the wave of energy continues on towards Neclord. MewTwo Alpha hit Kefka with his Psycho assault! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Inuyasha hit Neclord with his kaze no kizu strong attack! <New Mechanic> Group 3: -- Duo Maxwell is hit by the blast from the Monsters of Kefka and it slams into the Gundanium armor of his suit's beam cloak and Duo looks at the sensors. "Alright, hit him hard guys. We are going to have additional support," he says to the group with him and he is the biggest target right now, being 54 or so feet tall.

Duo looks and waits as he gets another lock and holds off on firing the Vulcan Guns again, as it seems that Neclord just deflected them away by becoming bats and he looks up as he sees him in the air. "He's in the air guys," he yells over the radio as he finds the aim again and fires on the Vampire. <<No problem Optimus,>> he says to him. <<The party just started. Neclord is in the air, feel free to hit him.>> he says as he looks as the attack from Optimus fly and hit. "Yes." and then he fires on Neclord as he hears Winry and adjusts his Gundam to cover both Freya and Winry. "Inuyasha, Inutaisho, Minerva, lets get him." he says as he fires on the creature.

Duo Maxwell missed Neclord with his Vulcan Guns again strong attack! (New Mechanic) Group 3

Mina sweeps out of the way, with a simple change in elevation. Did I mention she loves having wings? The ruby sword returns to her hands. Her eyes darken. Time for another sweep. Her sword launches forward from her hands, one more time, then halfway between herself and Neclord split apart into ten normal steel swords. Well, as normal as steel swords can be when they're being propelled by the force of a teenage girl's will at high speed towards an evil vampire. "Echo effect ... SPLIT!"

Minerva missed Neclord with her Echo Effect: SPLIT!!!! strong attack! (New Mechanic)

Group3 Freya yelps in pain as a some gernic monster clubs her lightly, she thankful for Duo's protection. She contiues to watch everyone pound on Neclord, she lets a little wow as pepole attacks pound on Neclord. She chats a lets a healing spell towards Iny with cool blue flame effects.

Freya restores Inuyasha. Oooo healing sparkles.
Group 1:
Shannon started to get into the rhythm of the battle. She would concentrate mostly on firing her energy weapons at the monsters and if any got close, she would switch to the blades on her wrists to slice them up a bit. She's able to dodge most of the attacks heading her way and the rest just dont seem to be doing any damage at the moment. One of the bigger monsters jumps at her so she drops to the ground on her back and fires both her pistols into the chest of the monster. She then rolls back and into a kneeling position. She reaches to her belt and pulls off a small black sphere, throwing it a fair way into the group of monsters ahead and shouting, "Fire in the hole!"

Shannon missed Kefka with her That a black tennisball? No, it's a grenade! strong attack! (New Mechanic)
Group 3 Inutaisho looks up as the form of Neclord explodes into a cloud of winged rats. He growls as he stands straight again after the attack; he watches Neclord reform in the air. His ears perk a little as he hears what sounds like a sonic blast; immediately he leaps straight up, looking down as the ground where he just stood is carved up by the attack. He lands again about five feet behind where he stood a moment before, smirking up at Neclord once more. He holds his sword out to the side, both hands on the hilt and his arms stretched to full length. Wind begins to swirl around the blade of the Tessaiga while the blade begins to glow yellow. In the few seconds it takes to power this attack up, he calls out to the rest of the group:
"Alright guys, focus on the bat-demon up there! He's our main focus; the other two groups can take care of Kefka's monsters. Neclord is /our/ main concern!" And when he's done, so is the charging-up of his attack. He slashes a horizontal arc through the air towards Neclord, sending blades of energy tearing through the air towards Neclord. "Kaze no Kizu!" Inutaisho hit Neclord with his Kaze no Kizu strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Group 3--

Sonia just can't help but smirk a little bit. She and Optimus'd taken care of a particularly nasty monster, just as Prime'd mentioned. She sat safely in the cabin herself, also comming as, over the broadcast speaker for not only Neclord, but everyone else, fighting, to hear, "Indeed.. but now that we're here.. I think it's time you ladies and gentlemen got some support out here.." As the truck drove forward, arrayed in a circle of light arose twelve blades of light that eventually focused into steel itself, before a series of them, six, went after Neclord directly, seeming to move independent, as if they were being controlled by ghostly visions of some sort.
The rest? They went to suppor other people in the melee, especially Freya. Infact, three swords seem to interpose themselves genuinely around Freya for her protection, slashing and cutting against the monsters nearby, as within the cab? Sonia's focusing her magic as best as she can, eyes aglow.

Sonia Belmont hit Neclord with her And We Brought Lunch, Too strong attack! <New Mechanic>
Group 2:
Psychic barriers are good against the arrows and thrown monsters, but spells pass through. Rachel wasn't expecting magic, though she should have, so the blasts hit her squarely, knocking her back. She's still in the air, however, flames starting to flare around her. "Do we have any sort of plan?" she yells to the others over the noise of the ravening monsters. When the wyverns begin their dive attacks, she tries something a little different. She reaches out telekinetically and tries to grab a leathery wing and swing the creature into the other on the ground, and get at least one away from Niv's back. Sonia Belmont missed Kefka with her Blade Soul - Protectorate of Steel moderate attack! (New Mechanic)
Rachel Grey hit Kefka with her Cute Beats Ugly strong attack! <New Mechanic>
Group 1:
Amelia lets out a painful scream as she gets hit, and collapses on her knees, wincing and clutching her shoulder. That massive attack took a lot out of her.
No choice, she has to heal herself this round.
As Rick's unit closes around herself and Shana, the young private quickly heals her wound as the battle rages on.
Her hand emitting a soft, white light, she closes her eyes and whispers the incantation.
"RECOVERY!" Amelia restores Amelia. Oooo healing sparkles. GROUP 1
proves himself a DASTARDLY tough many targets to hit, sickles, fangs, talons and magical projectiles either whizzing over ducks or harmlessly through only semi-solid targets.
They(?), on that same token, aren't actually managing to inflct much harm to their foes either. So they kick it up a notch.
Whirring rotor blades, chainsaws, drill bits, point-blank buckshot bursts, small-yield 'stick' grenades and a variety of other monster-flaying tools suddenly become favored bits of their arsenals. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Damnit, Neclord is fast. How are the rest of you guys doing?"
Group 1:

Gideon watches as his plan to defend the troops seems to have failed. He didn't manage to get hit.

%"Bloody hell, I'm a horrid shot today I am!"

He punches the thrusters as the monsters start to swarm, lest he become enveloped. The tanks launches into the air, doing a flip as he over shoots the engine on the port side. The result is that the tank is turned into a bowling ball rolling along the ground side over side to squash monsters along the way. "Let's see how they like a little bowling for baddies, eh mates?"

<Union-IC> Winry Rockbell whimpers in pain ... <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Winry, you ok?" <Union-IC> Amelia is panting hard. <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "Whatever you do, try and keep him at range." <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "Neclord will tear you up if he gets into hand-to-hand." Gideon missed Kefka with his tanks make good bowling balls! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Shouldn't be too hard." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I can't...give up. RECOVERY." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell whimpers, "Something got me ... left cheek ... hurts a lot ... <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Damn, Seras, that's my area of expertise. I can't just keep throwing swords at the guy!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "....Winry, I'm sorry. I would come over there and heal you.." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Winry, get behind us." <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "...Well, if you can fight hand-to-hand with a vampire..." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Ms. Rockbell, did you take those pills I gave you?" <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Do you need me to stop to pick you up?" <Union-IC> Freya says, "I'll heal you as soon as I can Miss Winry..." GROUP 3:

The YF-19 is hit by the massive amounts of monster just pouring through the pathways. "Damnit!" The YF-19 throws one arm t the side, tossing off monsters as it jets up slightly, the wings mounted on the hips point at Neclord, the Converging Electron Beam Cannons powerup and fire! But they' not just energy blasts, they've been tweaked specifically so that when they hit they let of a nice little *KERBLAM*

"Yo, Big Bot. Might want to hit the carwash before Arachnia sees that souvenir."

<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Amelia, do the best you can. Freya, if you can, help Winry. Winry, stay behind me as best as you can." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "If I didn't have to heal myself...." Ferham enters the World of Ruin. Ferham arrives in: World of Ruin. Stephen Vandal missed Kefka with his Mutilated Monkey Meat strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Right, Duo." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "He can try, Seras. He will fail. Winry, you can get back into the cab here." <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Kaze no Kizu!" A large explosion. "Winry. Stay back. Let me handle this guy!" Isamu Dyson hit Neclord with his Beam Cannons! With an Explosive twist. strong attack! <New Mechanic>
<Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Don't play the hero. Just gets you shot, killed, possessed, turned undead, shot more, unified, and smelly." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I'll heal you as soon as I can, Winry." <Union-IC> Morg McGee says, "Not necessarily in that order." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "True, but it also gets you the girls!" <Union-IC> Inutaisho speaks to his group: "Alright guys, focus on the bat-demon up there! He's our main focus; the other two groups can take care of Kefka's monsters. Neclord is /our/ main concern!" There is a pause, and then in synch with Inuyasha: "Kaze no Kizu!", also followed by an explosion. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Winry, if you need to and you are hit any more, let me know and you cna get into the cockpit here and I will cover ya." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Inutaisho, you're in charge of the group that's attacking Neclord, correct?" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Yes, sir." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont faintly amused. "So much affection for our resident lecherous vampire." There's a pulsing, then steel-clashing noise. Hooray for flying swords. <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "Right, Sonia. I'm just a little worried. From what I've seen, Neclord is pretty tough." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Good. Maintain that until the end of the battle unless otherwise indicated, and let me know where I'd do the most good." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Gotcha ... thanks, Optimus ... *ow*." She sucks in a breath, stifling her whimpers. "And no, didn't try the pills, Stadler ..." <Union-IC> Amelia pants. "Like we care?" Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: I bet that hurt, Nec. XD <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Winry, do you want me to pick you up?" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Ya should have. Help you concentrate at a time like this." <Union-IC> Shana says, "...there. Okay. I'm going to transform myself now! Monsters, get ready!" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Winry, ride in Prime. You're too vulnerable in the open right now; get out only if you need to repair something." Ferham arrives from: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Come on, Winry. I don't want you hurt." <Union-IC> Maya says, "Rachael we have to follow the path and cut through them it's the only way!" <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "She can take up the place I was in." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "And don't worry, Miss Victoria." There's a grin obvious in his voice. "This guy doesn't seem so tough..." Ash Williams enters the World of Ruin. Ash Williams arrives in: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I don't fight from a distance all the time, after all." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell grunts quietly, and can be heard getting to her feet. "Getting on board with you, Optimus ... where's my first-aid kit ... Ash Williams arrives from: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "You're a good friend, Winry. I would fight to protect you." Optimus Prime (op) pages Neclord, Inutaisho, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Neclord, mind if I pose again to represent stopping to help Winry in? Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Go ahead Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: YOu mean helping out too hopefully? Optimus Prime screeches to a stop abruptly, tossing up a rubbery scent and more than a few bits of the floor. His doors pop open loudly, swinging out, in front of Winry.
"You rang?" Sonia Belmont (Sonia) pages Optimus Prime, Inutaisho, Neclord, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Inuyasha: Hopping out, I meant, yes. And I AM helping out, too.

And it's a lot more of the same, the floors grow slippery with blood, and the stench of viscera, gore and shattered organs fills the air ... The waves however do not slow down. They do not pause. They do not waver. All of the remember the lesson that was taught on the outside of the tower to those who fail their master, all of them know it's a matter of kill ... or be slaughtered.

The fight proceeds accordingly.

Kefka hit Solid Snake with his ...I cast magic missile at the fireball! Five hundred and thirty eight times! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Richard Stadler with his It's a slew for you! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Amelia with his Someone ought to pose protecting you. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shannon with his What goes boom, prompts return fire. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shana with his Out in the open? Almost! moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Omega with his And it's only the first or second group. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Maya with his Under protection? Sweet. weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Niv-Mizzet with his Y-Hallo thar! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit MewTwo Alpha with his You make us go boom! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Mario with his Hopping mad. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Rachel Grey with his Pheonix strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Inutaisho with his It's enough that you're there... strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Inuyasha with his ...To be a nice target! strong attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 18 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Mechanical love and peace! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Freya with his That protects the ladies! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Minerva with his Well not this one. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Winry Rockbell with his But he did this one! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Isamu Dyson with his You should be doing something for the ladies too! Letch! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Stephen Vandal with his I'm running out of clever stuff. strong attack! (New Mechanic)
<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell grunts, "Damn," he says. "We need to get this guy, I'm losing Gundanium plating at this rate." <Union-IC> Mario says, "Waooo! How we get-a through? I don't-a have-a the power-ups to make us a path." <Union-IC> Mario says, "At least, not-a on me." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Mates, I think I'm gonna switch out, now that we're in the fray, there's not much use in staying in tank form now, it's too slow, I'm going to go for an arial strike." <Union-IC> Rachel Grey says, "Cut through them? Okay. If you want, I can try something, but it's going to take a lot out of me if it works." <Union-IC> Amelia groans painfully. <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Or I could stay in tank form and cut a path, My tank will run over just about anything they got."

Group 1 Shana cried out again as her weak cloth tunic failed to stop the variety of ranged magical and physical attacks that came her way. She managed to get out of the way of some of it, but was caught by it more often than not. She clasped at something near her chest, a bright light shining from there... "This is too much. I'm going to transform! Someone cover me please! HAAAAA!"

Brilliant spears of white light emanate from Shana as she stretches her arms out. There is a sudden flash, and Shana is revealed to be hovering a few feet over the ground in the middle of a large pillar of golden energy with her limbs spread out and her head leaning back. Shana's clothes completely shatter, forming into a storm of feathers, leaving her silhouette still gleaming in the pillar before the feathers gather around her and... FLASH! The White-Silver Dragoon armor materializes on Shana's body, forming into wings, gauntlets, boots, chest plate, skirt, and headband. Her bow transforms as well, becoming much larger. Shana has changed her armor mode to Dragoon <Union-IC> Shana yells, "This is too much. I'm going to transform! Someone cover me please! HAAAAA!" BZEEEEEm-WHOOOSH-FLAP! "Hee-yah!"

Group 3

Neclord is not fast enough to respond to a number of attacks launched at him: As such, he is hitten back a fair bit, and is feeling a decent amount of pain. He attempts to dodge his enemies... His body is torn up... But a smile is on his face. Optimus Prime himself is here. It is time to show off a little.

Neclord proceeds to start moving at a incredibly high speed, about the fastest he can go. With his undead skills, this is quite fast. He dashes foward towards towards his enemy. First, he would attack Inutaisho: He attempts to grab ahold of him, ripping at his skin. And then he would try to toss him at Optimus Prime, at a high speed. He, if successful, would aim towards Optimus' chest. If not, that fails. Regardless, he then flies towards Duo's mech, attempting to rip into it with his bare hands. His eyes are filled with bloodlust, his fangs are open, and he tries to even /bit/ at anything he attacks. Bloodlust.

Neclord missed Inutaisho with his Grab and Toss! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord missed Duo Maxwell with his RIP! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Black Arachnia with his This your face... strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Black Arachnia with his ...This is you face on ... Damn missed! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Group 1:
Solid Snake's pull-pin fireball does its part in the brawl, but then a ton more fireballs come at him, and Snake can't keep dodging forever. He takes a fireball full on the chest and gets knocked clean back - however, when he gets knocked back, he finds himself crouching right next to Amelia. In this fight, being paired up with anyone, let alone a healer, could be the difference between life and death. "Stick close!" he yells, and immediately turns to unload more ammo into a monster charging the duo. His FAMAS finally clicks dry, so the Field Marshal drops a clip, then slams a fresh one home. More ammo is sprayed, and another grenade is hurled into a thick cluster of monsters. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Mages! Fall back t' th' rear, an' provide unconventional support!" Kefka hit Gideon with his Lost in the clutter. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Gideon with his One more time. strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Amelia grunts. "Yes, sir!" <Union-IC> Shana says, "okay!" Solid Snake hit Kefka with his Dramatic Pose! Flowing Hair! Big Explosions! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Group 1:

Omega goes flying back from the strike, being much lighter in this armor, His blades try to hold the blasts off, but not much can be blocked by beam sabers if the attacks are magical. He lands right infront of the dragoon, while he deactivates a blade and sheaves it. "The lady called for some cover. Get behind me and don't get out...I can usually deflect most attacks." he says, cockily, as he changes the free hand into buster form.

A shot was fired, as the buster starts charging. Uh oh.

Omega hit Kefka with his O-Buster shot moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Actually, I have a better idea, I'm gonna use my bombs. They are big and mean, so wait til they go off before you follow. That should cut us a good path."
-- Duo Maxwell grunts as he is hit again, and some of the Gundanium is blown off, landing on a monster and the hits slam into the body. "Damn, We need to get him, or I am going to be introuble." he says over the radio. "Optimus, can we swithc place?" he says as as he turns his Gundam's back towards the attacks and looks. "Come on buddy, no time to give up now," he says to his Gundam. As Neclord approaches, he turns again, and looks as he hopes to wingsmack Neclord as one of the wings fly open to smack him, before closing. However, Duo turns the back of his Gundam anyway, and kneels down, to offer more protection to Freya. "Freya," he says to her. "If I get hit hard, I'm in trouble. Head for Prime ok?" he says to her as he waits for the next attack to hit and it most likely will. <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Amelia! Stick close! I'll cover you!" <Union-IC> Solid Snake rat-a-tat-tat. Boom. <Union-IC> Amelia gasps. "Field Marshal!" Duo Maxwell hit Neclord with his Wing Smack into wall moderate attack! <New Mechanic>
Group 2:

Niv-Mizzet -will- be thanking Miss Phoenix later on. Its due to her flinging that Wyvern into another that he finds himself unscathed as the next wave of monster comes rumbling down the pathways toward him and his fellows. With a rather loud roar he hefts himself up on his hind legs, his paws cupping together near his stomach to get a spark of energy before his right lifts, up beside his muzzle. A swilring ball of red and -blue- fire appears above the hand. A swirling mass of flame and electricity (that looks like flame) erupts into a huge sphere above the hand, easily 20 feet across. "We will endure this night!" he calls before the ball is heaved into the center of the mass, the fire and electricity exploding in all directions against the mass of monsters.

Niv-Mizzet missed Kefka with his Inovking the Firemind strong attack! (New Mechanic) Group 3

Minerva, the Child of Valor, can't believe her swords keep missing. If those wo'nt work... well, she has another trick. She hardly notices the large hit she takes, the one that actually bounces her off the leg of Duo's gundam and leaves not only a large dent in her armor, but a bruise underneith it that reaches her bones, and one of her ribs cracked. She's had worse. She will defeat the enemy! She abscentmindedly runs the monster through with her sword, then rises into the air. "Spirit of Valor..." she begins chanting under her breath. Her wings still, yet she manages to stay hovering a foot above the ground. Her hands raise, cupped in front of her heart. "Lend me the strength to combat this foe." She almost seems to be ... praying? Bright red light begins to stream between her fingers, forming into a ball of energy. "His cause is evil, and begets only Chaos in our beloved Orderly universe." The ball of light the color of blood grows, grows brighter, untill it's about a foot in diameter. Sweat beads on her brow. She had forgotten how hard it was to control this energy... "To protect this world and the ones I love! VALOR BLAST!!!" The energy leaps from her hands, smashing free of her restraints as it charges on towards Neclord.

Minerva missed Neclord with her VALOR BLAST!!!! uber attack! (New Mechanic)
Group 3:
Inuyasha was becoming quite irritated with the monsters attacking him. How does he get out of the way? By leaping in midair. This doesn't save him from being cut through a few times regardless. Raising his sword high up into the air he brings the multi-ton fang down upon Neclord's location, hoping to split the vampire in two. Of course, he does this screaming at the top of his lungs a warcry, all the way down. Inuyasha missed Neclord with his beside yourself, aren't you? strong attack! (New Mechanic) Group 3 Inutaisho smirks as the gun blast, followed by the two Kaze no Kizu attacks, slam into Neclord. Again, he's not phased by the look on Neclord's face. If anything, he understands it. That doesn't stop him from taking this entire fight seriously, and it doesn't mean he's gonna go soft on the vampire. "That's it! Just keep it up, you guys!" He slides to the side, pushing down with his feet and leaping just out of Neclord's reach. "Inuyasha, fall back with me! The rest of you, keep Neclord from attacking either of us! We're not gonna take any chances or waste any time with this guy." He immediately leaps back away from the battle, falling behind the two robotic warriors on his side. GROUP 1
Stephen's been getting as good as he's been giving.
The equivelant of nothing.
His many, many replicas are cleft in twain only to effortlessly re-form, as though nothing had happened to them. Their blades and saws chip and bounce off of monster hides uselessly. It's a bit of an awkward stalemate, but Mr. Vandal simply presses-on with it.
Clinging and swarming tactics are the next up, piles of himself lunging, clambering and grappling at the larger creatures in Kefka's horde - trying to squeeze their throats, drag them down, pull-off their limbs... even venture into their maws, in order to clog passageways and rip-apart their soft insides.

Shana, as soon as she finished transforming, took cover behind Omega, already working on gathering her magical energy. "Okay. Thank you very much!"

Stephen Vandal hit Kefka with his Zerg'd strong attack! <New Mechanic> GROUP 2:

MewTwo continues to keep Maya covered. The last few attacks have been rather hit and miss. He's not ready for his most favored high powerred attack, the Psionic Shockwave yet. But instead, he powers up a pair of energy beams to cut a swath through the enemy. 'Eat THIS, you bastards!'

MewTwo Alpha missed Kefka with his Psychic energy assault! uber attack! (New Mechanic)
Group 2: - \[M\] -

And he does it! Mario manages to break free from the pile for the time being, hopping over a few of them. "This is-a nuts! So many of-a them!", Mario says mainly to himself as he jumps up, then spins with his hands out, shooting fireballs in multiple directions! And any unfortunate monster that ends up under him and doesn't gets a nice twisty stomp. That makes for much hurty.

Mario hit Kefka with his Spin Jump + Fireballs = Must Enemy Discomfort strong attack! <New Mechanic>
Group 1:

Gideon rocks to one side as a monster clubs his tank. "Hey, I just got this thing polished up! He takes off into the air and transforms into his fighter. "Let's see them try chewing on this!" He hits the engines and fires forward, dropping bombs along as he goes and dodging airborne meanies. "These guys would definitely make a mark on the windshield."

"Here's your chance to get that path you guys wanted, look alive!"

Group 2:

Black Arachnia finally charges directly into the fray with a shrill battlecry, beginning to lay into the monsters with claw-slashes and powerful kicks; she's taking *just* enough care not to hit any of her allies, but if they're not a Union member, they'd better be on the premium health-care plan for all the Valkyrie-esque Maximal cares. (... at least, Valkyrie-esque by Transformer standards. She does kind of look the part, though.)

Gideon changed his armor mode to fighter. <Union-IC> Mario says, "This is-a nuts! So many of-a them!" GROUP 3:

The YF-19 was just too big to maunver in these situations "Arrhg! F***! F***!" hit by creatuers large and small, ISamu had no real choice but to pull back to where he can use the mech's mass to cover other people with him, that would especially mean Amelia, but it's not done firing. The FAST packs on the legs open up and release a cloud of micromissiles. Somehow he's counted exactly how many times Neclord has accosted a female member of the Union Elites and shot just as many missiles.

Black Arachnia missed Kefka with her One keg of whoopass, chilled to order! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Shana says, "...time to put the Dragoon power to use!"
Group 1:
Amelia gets hit, and hard, causing her to fall back on her knees, wincing in pain. She alone cannot continue dodging forever, and quickly moves behind the group, until Snake takes a hit and gets crouched down next to the young private.
She lets out a painful gasp. "FIELD MARSHAL!"
Well, at least she is being covered, and stays close to him.
Getting back to her feet, staggering a little, Amelia grits her teeth, then she gets back down, kneeling on one knee.
Holding up an open palm, the mage begins gathering magical energy, then she slams her hand against the ground, causing a small earthquake as well as causing the layers underneath the earth to shift, resulting in numerous large spear stones to rush out, in an attempt to impale the monsters.
"Earth below me, submit to my will! DUG HAUT!" Amelia hit Kefka with her WATCH OUT BELOW CUZ IT'S GONNA HURT! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Isamu Dyson hit Neclord with his Itano Circus Revenge! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Gideon hit Kefka with his crazy psycho uncontrolled bombing nut! uber attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Shana HIIIIIEEEYAH! "Mages!" Rick yells into his radio. "Fall back t' th' rear, an' provide unconventional support!" Rear? /WHAT/ rear? With the next wave of creatures, the small unit is throw back, again, one man going down in a scream of terror, devoured by something awful. But what could they do? No extraction, no arty, no air support...
Just one clip after another.
"All avalible, ready grenades an' recoilesses!" Rick yells again. The squad is desperatly trying to protect the mages, as Omega and Snake are. They'll probably decide the fate of this battle. A new form of combined arms, Rick though?
Perhaps. But the strike after this one would show he wasn't obsolete yet. Richard Stadler hit Kefka with his PROTECT THE MAGES! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Group Two

Maya seeshows the group's been fairing and over all Niv, Mario, BA and Rachel are doing quite well for now. But Maya sees the pouning Mewtwo is taking and moves to ready a healing spell for him. The barrier once again saves Maya's hide as it deflects several incomming attacks. She's unharmed this time thank goodness, now the spell starts to charge the spell and the pink healing energy washes over the pokemon hopefully to heal him a bit.

Group 1:
Shannon is knocked around a bit, a few of the monsters getting some hits in. She quietly growls, noticing that her other team mates are also getting a little roughed up by the mob. She looks left then right then quietly growls again, "Gotta get through this quickly..." Both her guns disappear and she drops down to a knee. A large rifle shifts into existance in her hands and she aims it right through the center of the enemies attacking her group. Black energy flows along her body and collects in the rifle, which she quickly fires. A very thin, concentrated beam of raw shadow energy heads towards the group of monsters. While by itself, it's not really gonna hurt the monsters, once the beam has reached a fair way in, most of the beam (ie the part not near her allies) explodes outwards. Hopefully this will create a path?

Shannon missed Kefka with her Small, but Deadly strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Amelia transmits the earth cracking and crumbling, and it's loud. "Earth below me, submit to my will! DUG HAUT!" Group 3:

Winry stumbles back to her feet, still gripping her wrench and holding her repair kit with that hand, and heads towards Optimus while she has the chance.

A chance which is interrupted by a flying stinger, nailing her in the right shoulder; it slows her down for a moment, but she quickens her pace again, wincing, and uses the hand that was clutching her face to pull herself up into the hopeful safety of the Autobot leader's cab.

"Thanks, Optimus," the mechanic sighs as she takes a seat and buckles herself in. Her face is a fright - it looks like her cheek was cut *open*, bleeding heavily ... it's gonna need stitches when she gets back to the hospital, and she's personally hoping there was nothing infectious or venomous in whatever did that ... it hurts a lot, but she's stifling it. Then she starts digging around for her first-aid kit, wondering if she can at least bandage her cheek while she's in here ...

Maya restores MewTwo Alpha. Oooo healing sparkles.

Group 3-

To which yonder Winry's greeted, of course, by Sonia, who's hopping out quickly enough, to help Winry inside as well, "All board the Prime Express.." she muses, jokingly, even as the attacks come in, she works quickly to get Winry inside. Regardless, her symphony of steel was enough to at least protect Winry from a full assault, as she uncoils her whip from her side. "Don't get too wild driving, Prime." she adds, with a grin on her face. The Belmont's Blade Soul swords retreat from their initial attacks. What can be felt from Sonia, at this moment, or read on sensors, is an uprising of energy. Already she sees people like Freya in trouble, and others still facing the monsters and other beasts that seem to be around every corner, divine and arcane energies seeming to be a fine haze around her, like a smouldering fire as she begins to charge forward.
The first intent of her attacks, however, are focused on the monsters itself. Sonia's fresh, and she's more than ready to go at this point into Kefka's armies. The swords, six of them array themselves behind Sonia like floating wings, nearly, the woman's whip cracking, lashing, and snapping. Of course, that's when she also brings her Magic Soul to full brunt. Each lash and stroke of her whip begin sending out shockwaves of slicing energy that are entirely destructive, and it's strength belies the young woman's frame. "HYAAAAAH!" she screams, a valkyrie-like cry. When she's close enough again? Neclord gets a treat of the six swords of the Blade Soul, being whirled around her, then sent flying towards Neclord, specifically to cover the retreat of the others, like Inutaisho and Inuyasha. Infact, it would seem Sonia's doing just about everything she can. The swords she controls, and maintains, fly in a sortof defensive posture, being held by spectral outlines of their 'wielders', three remaining by Freya, all the while.
<Union-IC> Gideon says, "There ya guys go, a nice pretty path for you to skip down to granmammy's house!" <Union-IC> Many speaking as one, Stephen Vandal says, "...Yeah, Mario. ...Lotsa /me/ too, though. *Sounds of a Behemoth screaming as it is literally torn limb from limb.*" Sonia Belmont hit Neclord with her Blade Soul - Symphony of Steel strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "This is getting insane...." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Welcome to Hell." <Union-IC> Inutaisho belatedly transmits what was already said in the scene: "Inuyasha, fall back with me! The rest of you, keep anything from hitting the two of us! We're not taking any chances or wasting any time with this guy." Sonia Belmont hit Kefka with her Divine Vengence strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Keep firing! We're taking down dozens of them for every one hit they get off us!" Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Well I didn't attack last round, so no need for me to attack <Union-IC> Amelia pants hard as the powerful and effective spell hit. "Yes, Sir!" <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont's end pulses briefly, sounding ethereal. "Allow me." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "OOOAH, sir!" Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Next round, keep attacks lower powered. Because Inutaisho and Inuyasha are planning to whale on me. Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Er. Wail. Optimus Prime slams his door SHUT behind Winry and Sonia, sealing up the defensive systems. "Hold on tight. In me or not this is going to be a bumpy ride."
Backing out with a loud screeching noise, Prime switches into gear before tearing off straight towards the vampire. He seems rather intent on keeping the attention centered on HIM rather than the retreating forces.
"Just get yourself patched up. I have to run interference for everyone else and if I'm incapacitated I want you able to run."
Cranking up his engine he lurches forward, accelerating to smash into the vampire. "From the way you noticed me, you wanted my attention, Neclord?..."5r His gas peddle goes DOWN as he pumps energon into his engines. "Well, you've got it!" Optimus Prime missed Neclord with his Roadkill strong attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: And, should I use my special attack before or after they wail on me? <Union-IC> Minerva sounds horribly cheerful. At odds with her normal voice. "Nah. Not Hell. Hell would be hotter." She laughs, and it sounds a bit too mirthful. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Yeah. Next round nothing higher than 2, please, in case our double-uber hits. Don't want to be unfair to the man. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Yeh, this probably isn't anywhere near hell..." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "Hell wouldn't be this much fun." Inuyasha pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: We're doing that already? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: I would say after, Nec--if it hits, you're pissed that we tried soemthing powerful and hit. If it misses, you're amused that we tried soemthing powerful and missed. Minerva (Mina) pages Optimus Prime, Inutaisho, Neclord, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Inuyasha: I can't hit above a 2 for a couple rounds after that particular attack. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Enough, please. We don't need to keep hearing about hell. It's not very encouraging." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Well I don't want to wait too much longer, since he's already lost almost half his HP. <Union-IC> Gideon says, "And besides, I think this place is awfully colorful for hell."

That was Group 3 up there for Prime's pose. His player is an idiot.

<Union-IC> Minerva says, "AMEN to that! Wheeee! Demons to kill and vamps to wail on!!!!" Inuyasha pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: Alright you wanna start or should I? <Union-IC> Shana says, "Unless it was Rose's Demon Gate. That would be very useful right now." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Don't think ya can take Satan on, Private?" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "..." Group 2:
Seeing Firebirds swirling around the second group makes Rachel smile briefly as the next wave of monsters surge forward. "I'm going to try something, guys. Watch out," she says as the fire around her flares brightly. She gathers energy for a few moments as the others attack, fire and beams and slashes taking their toll of the hordes. "Please, be there. You're part of me, jsut like you were with Mother. It's our heritage and our pain. Phoenix, come to me," she murmurs. The burning nimbus flares into the shape of an enormous Bird of Prey as a raptor's shriek fills the air. "Oh, GOd, it's not right!" she screams, but the flames leap forth, engulfing the path and hopefully destroying everything in its path. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'd rather not, Sir." <Union-IC> Seras Victoria says, "...She sounds weirdly happy about that."
<Union-IC> Seras Victoria hms. "Heh." Freya pages Phoebe, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Inutaisho: hm I'm not sure Freya healing would work on your mech duo.. *ponders ponders* Rachel Grey hit Kefka with her The Phoenix Burns Us Both! epic attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Oh, neither would I. But I got confidence that I could." Rachel Grey has lowered her current HP 20 points, from 79 to 59. <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "We've kicked a dead universe's ass. After that, we can walk up to the devil himself and pull off the horns for all I care!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "So do I!" <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Works for me!" Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: I'll start it off Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Since it starts with a Gokuryuuha <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Sounds good." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Int' th' breach, then!" Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Well to charge up our attack will take 2 rounds Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Starting next round. 3rd round after that, we fire. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Taht's why we need a diversion <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Hooah." Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Hrm. If it takes two rounds, keep the attacks to 1s if possible. Just so I have a /chance/ of surviving. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: So for the next two rounds don't worry about posing after us. 3rd round, though, I request that I be allowed to go before anyone in our group. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Bad. <Union-IC> Rachel Grey says, "God, it burns!" Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Also, some people could possibly focus on attacking Kefka too, if he has the ability to survive it well enough. Isamu Dyson (Isamu) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: What if some of us fire on Kefka? <Union-IC> Maya says, "Rachel, I'll do what I can." Isamu Dyson (Isamu) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: ...my braincell.
<Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "I've got Winry." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Make sure it's alright with him first, since he /is/ dealing with two groups already <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Oh, good...thank the gods." Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: ...I got an interesting idea.

Strike after strike goes home against the monster horde again and again, and again... And their numbers are starting to actually thin out at this point ... Unfortionatly ... The strongest are the ones that are left. Just to demonstrate that point, the seven dragon lords take the scene, Two of them dropping directly in the paths of group 1 and two, the third landing next to Neclord ... All of them open up with an ungodly wave of elemental attacks, Sandstorms, Earthquakes, waves of ice, fire, lightning, water and holy energies, It's all good. OR well. Bad if you're in front of it. Which I suppose you guys are. Oops. Funny how that happens?

Kefka hit Solid Snake with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Richard Stadler with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Amelia with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Shannon with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Shana with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Stephen Vandal with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Omega with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Gideon with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Black Arachnia with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Maya with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Niv-Mizzet with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed MewTwo Alpha with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Mario with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Rachel Grey with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Inutaisho with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Inuyasha with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! (New Mechanic) You suffer 18 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Freya with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Minerva with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Winry Rockbell with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Isamu Dyson with his The world is made of ... Lots of fucking elements! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Minerva (Mina) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: I'm shifting my attention to providing cover for you all. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Do tell, Nec Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Well, Neclord can raise undead. I could spend my next turn raising Kefka's monsters. I pull to a 10 AID for such, then pull back my next turn. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Hrm. Kefka missed Sonia Belmont with his Bell monty! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord has changed his stats. Kefka hit Sonia Belmont with his Bell monty! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Gah. strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Omega's body goes into a blur, as his blades simply deflect the spells thrown at him...sadly, even he had his limits, but he deflected enough of the hurt so that Shana wouldn't be exploded. It's hard to do with only one saber, and now he wished he had both out..oh well. The buster finishes charging, as he shoots a stronger blast...but he is still glowing...is this prelude to something else?

Group 3

With the arrival of the dragon, Neclord backs up a bit. He is planning something, but feels it is best to help Kefka first: Focusing the power of the Blue Moon Rune on the dead monsters, Neclord would attempt to revive a number of them as zombies. He focuses as much power has he can... Hopefully, this will help the diminishing forces.

Neclord restores Kefka. Oooo healing sparkles. GROUP 2:

MewTwo is able to dodge out of the way of the latest attack. Continuing to shield Maya, he slams forward another wave of psychic energy beams, followed by a barrage of psionic energy orbs.

MewTwo Alpha missed Kefka with his Psychic Barrage! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Since I missed you the round before the last too. strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Minerva says, "who says the villans get to have dragons? That ... hurt..." Team 1:

Omega's body goes into a blur, as his blades simply deflect the spells thrown at him...sadly, even he had his limits, but he deflected enough of the hurt so that Shana wouldn't be exploded. It's hard to do with only one saber, and now he wished he had both out..oh well. The buster finishes charging, as he shoots a stronger blast...but he is still glowing...is this prelude to something else?

Omega missed Kefka with his O-Cannon Blast strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...if only Lina were here. She'd use her Dragon Slave." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Dragon Slave would be suicide in here. We'd get caught in it!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...." Minerva (Mina) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Winry Rockbell, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Inuyasha, Inutaisho, and Isamu Dyson: my connection just bounced. did I miss Nec's pose? Group Two

Maya watche as her Team mates get ripped into badly and know she might not be able to keep them all up. But Rachel is the worst off ofthe lost. Maya barely notices the magic that hits her it barely hurts her. Mostly sandand ice nailing her for the record.

The shield glows strong now still shieding her from the worst of teh battle the spell is then charged adn she directs the healing Aura over the ravaged body of Rachel Grey. Lets hope magic and psionics mix here.

Neclord pages Duo Maxwell and Kefka: Sure. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Don't wish for what ya don't have, Private. Me, I want three batteries of atry and A-10's on call. But we make do." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Yes, Sir." <Union-IC> Maya says, "That would kill us all, Amelia." Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: I'll page you it, Mina. Kefka pages Duo Maxwell and Neclord: That's fine. <Union-IC> Amelia sighs. Group 1:And then come the elements. Fire, ice, lightning, every gat-damn element you can think of. Snake now has sand in the holes in his sneaking suit, too, dammit. It's lucky his suit's at least fire-retardant, but he's still there next to Amelia, and seems to have taken a lot of the heat off her - thus, a lot of the damage. The Field Marshal grits his teeth and takes up a stable position, then swaps his assault rifle back into his inventory, in exchange for his Stinger launcher. This time, two grenades are hurled in two different directions, before the Stinger is shouldered... and aimed right at the dragon that's landed before Group 1. Beep beep beep beepbeepbeepbeep BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.
KSHOOM.

Group 1 Shana took a small amount of backlash from the waves of elemental magics and blasts, but her Dragoon Armor, as well as Omega, was taking away the blunt of most of it, she barely reacted beyond grunting this time around. "Thanks a bunch, now, it's my turn to help out!" She said towards Omega, gripping her bow and pulling back the string, a silver magical arrow forming in it. She pulled back and aimed straight up with the arrow, letting it fly towards the sky/ceiling as a magical illusion could be seen where the arrow went. "Mooooon Light!!!" The moon was somehow visible overhead for just a brief moment to those looking in her direction, a beam of light coming down for her to bathe in, but she flared her wings and reflected that energy right at Omega, giving him the benefits of the healing spell.

Shana restores Omega. Oooo healing sparkles. Group 3: -- Duo Maxwell grunts as he is hit and he looks as something pops inside the cockpit of his Gundam and he coughs. "Coughcough...Damn...Coughcough." he says as he looks and flips the button, the wings on his Gundam Opening fully as he pulsl the scythe, the eyes of the suit flareing to bright life as the Beam Scythe comes to life. "OUT OF MY WAY!!!" he says as he stands and swings the scythe around, aiming primarly for the Monsters and will continue to swing his scythe around in an arc to hit Neclord and he prays that he is not hit again. "One more hit and we are out buddy," he says. "Lets not let that happen ok?" he states as his Gundam responds to him and he looks as the swing continues and aims for Neclord after going through the monsters here around him. "Freya, get to cover, One more hit and I am in trouble!" he tells the healer. Maya restores Rachel Grey. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Shana says, "Mooooon Light!!!" Solid Snake missed Kefka with his Hey Look, It's A Bruckheimer Movie Now uber attack! (New Mechanic) Duo Maxwell hit Kefka with his Beam Scythe to the Monsters weak attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "I don't think I even want to know what the hell a 'Dragon Slave' is anyway." Duo Maxwell hit Neclord with his Beam Scythe attack weak attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'll explain later..." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Broad-area explosion spell attack."
Group 2:

And now we have -Dragons- attacking -dragons-. Or Dragon, rather. This quite literally enfuriates the Red that had come along on the side of the Union. "Kinslayers," he all but -snarls- at the ones that have come against him and the group he's with. "I'll -remove- you from this existance!" he roars out, drawing in a ... very... high amount of mana. Anyone sensitive to such a force would likely feel it. Its enough to make a magic-sensitive person go 'oh hell'. As the blast from the dragonlord slams into the Guildmaster, a bright blue disc appears around one of his outstretched arms. THe blast is still striking but its also -charging- the disc. "Die.." is the lone word he speaks as the energy in the disc, taken from the dragon's own blast and -all- the mana Niv just channeled, surges into his hand and then errupts in a bright red pillar of destructive energy, crackling, thundering across the gap between him and the dragon that attacked him. This -will- hurt a little..

Niv-Mizzet missed Kefka with his Parallectric Feedback uber attack! (New Mechanic) Or not.
GROUP 3:

This time the YF-19's near legendary amounts of maneuverability come to the fore as it's jets power up and Isamu is able to skate on blasts of air between the elemental blasts and even has a chance to bring up it's left arm shield with pin point barrier energy to deflect attacks that might have reached other members of group 3. "Too slow!" The GU-15 gunpod comes up again "I have NO TIME for you lizard!" and the 6 barreled weapon fires at the dragonic pest with a little added punch from it's head laser *pew*.

<Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "....Brutal. Sounds similar to my Psionic Shockwave." Isamu Dyson hit Kefka with his 35mm and head laser, anti-dragon attack! strong attack! <New Mechanic>
Men are still tooling up grenades, both 40mm and hand, when the Dragons land, and let out a wide barrage of elemental energy. It brings screams from most of them, a few more falling to scorching heat and blinded cold. But men are still alive, still standing. And most of them are ready.
It's the Dragon's themselves that stir angry in Rick. Everything they are, that he's heard them to be. powerful, shecming monsters... And here he was, prepared to do something about it.
The firing errily stops as Rick yells. "Ready Volley!" The weapons come up. And so does Rick's hand "Aim!"
Then, the hand comes down, swiftly, forcefully, like a old general's saber, readying a charge.
"/FIRE!/" Richard Stadler missed Kefka with his Explosive Volley! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Group 2:

Black Arachnia snarls in pain as the elemental barrage rakes over her ... and then somebody has the gall to raise monsters she was helping to kill off? Way to make a spider feel appreciated, guys. With another snarl, Black Arachnia backhand-clawslashes the head off a just-revived monster, scattering the top half and bottom half of the skull in not-quite-identical directions, kicks the lower body out of the way, and begins carving a path towards those blasted dragons ... she *still* needs to find out how well her cybervenom (in its current formulation) does against organic life-forms.

Black Arachnia hit Kefka with her I have that keg of whoopass in here *somewhere* ... is this it? moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell grunts, "Damn. One more hit and I am in trouble. I might have to bail out of my Gundam and use the guns I have. My buddy is taking a lot of hits.
Group 3

Minerva grins wildly, though a bit tiredly. Neclord is finally taking some damage, even if it isn't from her. She's getting tired of all this. Her strongest attacks keep... missing. She's really contemplating switching to defensive and focusing her attacks on those attacking the party's healer when.. "AAAAAARGH!!!!! SHIT!!!!" fire lances through her body at that dragon attack, bowing her spine from the heat of it before she's able to throw herself clear. Where'd that come fro... dragon? a dragon? "Who said they get to have dragons?" Owchies. She dosen't even wanna check to see if her eyebrows are still there. One more hit like that and she's dead. Best do what she can... her one heal dosen't even work on herself... so, she runs up to the leader, Inutaisho, slicing her hand open on her sword blade as she does so. "HEAL!" she flings her blood at his back, knowing somehow that that will be enough to help heal him. At least SOMEONE will be able to keep fighting.

<Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "get behind me and I'll try to defend you." Minerva restores Inutaisho. Oooo healing sparkles. Sonia Belmont (Sonia) pages Optimus Prime, Inutaisho, Neclord, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Inuyasha: So--weaks on Neclord? Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Yes, though preferably most attacks aimed at Kefka. <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Duo ... do you need me to get back *out* and do some field repairs?"
Group 1:
The young private watches as her earth spell hit successfully. It's powerful and effective enough.
"Mr. Stadler!" She got hit, and hard. Oh, great, now dragons arrive. Too bad Filia isn't here to help.
Amelia rushes over to her commander's side. "Here, I'll heal you. Please, try not to move!"
Placing her hands over his chest, the mage steadily whispers the incantation, and a glow of white light shines from her hands.
"RECOVERY!" Group 3 Once Inuyasha and Inutaisho have fallen far back enough that they have enough room, Inutaisho lets the blade of his Tessaiga rest on the ground, the hilt in his left hand. He reaches up and draws the Sou'unga from its sheath, nodding to Inuyasha. Once he sees Inuyasha is ready, he holds up the Sou'unga. He begins to trace a small circle, a point of pink energy appearing at the center of said circle. He continues to trace the circle as a purple wind follows along the traced circle, and the pink energy grows into a ball. Once it's about the size of a basketball, the winds stretch out and cover the entire circle, a spherical twister forming.
"Here we go!" He slashes the Sou'unga forward, sending the weak Gokuryuuha flying at Inuyasha. "Gokuryuuha!" He then quickly sheaths the Sou'unga and holds Tessaiga ready... Amelia restores Richard Stadler. Oooo healing sparkles.

-Group 3-

Sonia grimaces in pain from some of the attacks, though at this point, she's focusing on covering Inuyasha and Inutaisho, as much as she can, arcane energy being brought to bear as much of a sort of shield 'wall' as one can maintain. For some, the energies are enough to either completely diffuse the attack, like for instance, the attacks that hurtled towards Inuyasha? They completely disintegrated altogether, as did some of the elements that were weakened enough to keep some of the healers from being hurt a lot more than they rightly might've been able to. She's truly at the forefront here of the fight, given her relative freshness.
"S-.. Sorry..! I can't protect everyone!" Sonia yells over the screaming of monsters and the sounds of battle. From her thigh, she's visibly bleeding, two punctures from incoming fangs otherwise, though despite this, she's actually not bleeding as much as she should be. Probably a side-effect of her pushing her magic, including her self-healing magics, to the next level. With the elements being flung like they are? Sonia decides to return the favor to the two beasties that flung all those elements. A return fire of Divine, combined with Fire from the Saint Soul and the Flame Soul. Tendrils of white fire begin racing into the ranks of monsters, heading straight for Kefka's beasts--and especially the ones that Neclord just took his time raising, eventually ending their path with a few leaping at Neclord, just to give him grief.
<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "yea, I'll cover ya the best I cna." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "RECOVERY." Minerva (Mina) pages Sonia Belmont, Optimus Prime, Inutaisho, Neclord, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Inuyasha: so, is healing a good option? Sonia Belmont missed Kefka with her Heaven and Hellfire strong attack! (New Mechanic) Sonia Belmont hit Neclord with her Didn't Forget Me, Did You? weak attack! <New Mechanic>
Group 1:
Shannon shifts her rifle away and goes back to her energy handgun. But rather than two, she has one in her right hand and in her left she creates a large shield big enough to protect herself. She starts going as she just rains black bolts of energy down on the enemy with her pistol. Of course, that's when the dragons show up. She ducks behind her shield for cover and goes over her options, "Not enough time or cover to change shape... Looks like i'll just have to go with something else."
She stands up again, but still covered by her shield thanks to its size. She lets go of her shield and it just floats in front of her. Meanwhile she begins to gather energy for her attack. Any nearby shadows (and there's probably a lot, thanks to all the monsters) sneak across the ground and are absorbed into her. Black energy starts to flow across her body but it's not collecting in any one place for the moment. After a few seconds, she raises her hands towards her shield and the energy collected now flows across her entire body towards her hands. After a little more gather, she releases her energy.
The energy jumps from her hands and impacts her shield. It flows around the shield to the front and then leaves the shield and shoots towards one of the dragons, the black beam as large as the shield. Meanwhile her shield continues to float in front of her

Shannon hit Kefka with her Raise the shields! Charge the beam cannons! strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Group3 Freya watches as everyone pounds on Neclord. She really doesn't like him at all. She ohs a Sonia sends 3 ghoslty proectors her way. She'll will have to make her a cake or something,mabye just a bathch of cookies for everyone. She glad Winry got out of the way and will dom some healing work on her later. She looks up at the Deathscye. "I'm fine Duo! I wish I could do something for him..", she works her healing magics on Mina. "Thank you.."

<Union-IC> Mario says, "Ugh... Mi scusi, Niv! I think I need-a the higher advantage point. You mind I climb-a you back?" Freya restores Minerva. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Nn... Thank you for that heal." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Duo, I'm coming into your position, standby." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Are you all right, Mr. Stadler?" <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Thanks Freya. I was closer to dead than not till you did that." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "I'm fine! All able, return to rifle fire!" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Roger. I will cover Freya and others as best as I can." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Roger that!" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Amelia, continue you're current operations!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Yes, Sir!" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "You've got a shotgun, remember?" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "It's still here." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia growls, "I' Freya pages Phoebe, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, and Inutaisho: I know. Hard to heal you inside a truck! <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I'm doing everything I can to protect Freya. I have three of my Blade Soul defending her." Group 3 5rSCREEEEEEEEEEE! Prime banks sharply after missing Neclord, moving as fast as he can towards Duo. Skidding to a stop, he transforms, letting Winry get out of his cabin. A quick transformation soon reveals the Autobot leader in all his glory. Crouching down to cover both Winry and Duo, he levels his rifle, aiming to try to take down Neclord with a good solid blast of his laser rifle.
(OOC: I'm covering Winry and Duo at close range. Pose accordingly.) <Union-IC> Black Arachnia growls, "I'm gonna see if I can cut my way to those dragons and try my cybervenom on 'em ..." <Union-IC> Inutaisho transmits a wind-rushing sound, then: "Gokuryuuha!" This is followed by the sound of a sword being sheathed. Optimus Prime missed Neclord with his Laser Rifle strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "A shotgun isn't a rifle. Store that away for when we aren't fighting." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Understood!" GROUP 1
It's the ice that gets him.
The fire and shaking earth serve little purpose other than to knock-around and heat-up Stephen's images. But the damn /cold/ stiffens them up - allowing their opponents to start breaking them apart.
While the affected figures try to thaw-out and reform themselves, the rest angrily take to the skies - using miniature rocket-boosters to propel themselves like an army of Klark Kents towards the dragons overhead. They barrel-in fingers clutching and fists swinging, yanking and pounding at sensitive areas (eyes and other sensory come to mind), and swarming-down necks and tails to try and choke-out and pull-down the mighty beasts. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I'm helping ya Sonia. Although, not by much."
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Gideon cheers as he sees the masses devastated by his shots, only to be distracted from the oncoming elementals. "Oh sh-!" His ship takes a rock straight on, and it spins out of control. He pulls hard on the stick and rights himself, coming around and threading the needle between two of the elementals. He had put himself too far into the thick of things, and now he was reaping the consequences. He drops the altitude and changes gears, turning into a drill that drops out of the sky and plunges into the ground. Or not. He strikes the surface and skids, plowing through the masses of monsters and with a little luck squashing those who aren't fast enough to get out of the way. "Crap! That is one hard floor!"

<Union-IC> Amelia says, "Orders, Sir? Continue fighting with my magic?" Stephen Vandal missed Kefka with his Are they birds? Are the planes? uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "At your discretion, Private. Use some initative." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Yes, Sir." Group 3:
Inuyasha skids to a hault, Tessaiga dragging along with him. Suddenly he spies his father doing something with Sou'unga. This causes him to grin slightly, his eyes gleaming as the light of the Gokuryuuha is sent careening towards him, carving a trench into the ground as it proceeds to gain speed. Quickly he thrusts Tessaiga forward, point pointed directly at the center of the demonic energy. "Heh. So you want to do that, eh?" Thrusting his blade into the twister, he shoots the kaze no kizu through the center of demonic energy, stopping the flow dead. Suddenly the energy begins to be redirected, sending the entire mass back towards his dad.
"Bakuryuuha!"
Group 2: - =M= -

Mario lands, looking a bit satisfied as he dusts his hands... that is until he looks over, sees a big, mean dragon and an array of painful element based spells wash upon and passed him. "OOOWOW!!!" It was enough to knock Mario on his behind for a second or two. Just then, Mario gets an idea! He looks over to Niv, and with a nod and a smile, he runs toward him, then jumps wide and long up onto the lower part of his dragon comrad's back! He climns just a bit higher, near where the neck starts, then begins to fire off some more fire from those powered-up hands of his!

Mario hit Kefka with his Firey Barrage Of The Blue Collar Dragon Rider! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Gideon changed his armor mode to burrower. Gideon missed Kefka with his get'm off get'm off! moderate attack! (New Mechanic)
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Winry finishes some hasty first-aid on her wounded cheek, then grabs her repair kit and hops out of Prime's cab, bolting towards the Deathscythe as the Autobot leader transforms to cover her. Mumbling a quick prayer to whatever spirit watches over her, she scrambles up to one of Duo's Gundam's "wounds" and gets to work. Granted, there's not a lot she can do with only a small toolkit ... but she *can*, say, repair some damaged control/power cables, or at least splice them so they'll hold for a little longer. "Duo, check your diagnostics," she says into her radio as she works. "What systems are worst off, maybe I can help nudge them back into operation for a bit ..."

You have been healed for 12 points. Winry Rockbell restores Duo Maxwell. Oooo healing sparkles.
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She tried to call the Phoenix. It didn't work, not as it should, and Rachel burns inside as well as out. "Oh God, did it ever do this to you, Mom? Is this what it felt like when the Dark Phoenix came?" she gasps, trying to keep from being consumed. And the elemental attacks slam into her, sending her spiraling to the floor. Then the healing energies sweep over her and she can breath again. She barely catches herself above the ground, the flames starting to melt the rock. She has to let it go, get rid of the energy before she vanishes into ash herself. Gathering what she can, she sweeps her arms wide, letting it all flare in front of her, towards the dragon lords and the monsters standing up once more, only to be cut down by Black Arachnia and Mario. "STAY DEAD!" she roars before collapsing. <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Duo, check your diagnostics - what systems are worst off? Maybe I can help nudge them back into operation for a bit ..."
-- Duo Maxwell looks and nods, "Thanks Winry. Now get under cover ok." Inuyasha pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: how about I don't even bother attacking if you miss ;) Saves me some trouble thinking Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: ...Shut up. That makes sense. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: >.> <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Mainly the motors and connectors in the wings. I cna drop the wings if I have too. But it is more mainbody. So work ont he legs and maybe I cna get some dodging in." Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: That works. Rachel Grey hit Kefka with her The Star That Burns Twice As Fast Is Twice As Bright epic attack! <New Mechanic> Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Don't make sense! ;.; >.> <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Roger that." Rachel Grey has lowered her current HP 20 points, from 44 to 24.
<Union-IC> Gideon says, "Mates, I may have to take a water break here, she's falling apart, I have to get her stabilized. That landing was none to gentle." <Union-IC> Rachel Grey roars over the sound of an inferno, "STAY DEAD!"

The seven dragon lords aren't named dragon lords for nothing ... and they almost singlehandedly hold their own against the entire Union Assult before they're forced backwards by the sheer weight of attacks ... The return fire once more, in a very hot and heavy manner, with just about every element imaginable. And at last the Generals of the opposing force are at last in sight ... And the three pathways come together in a large room, that easily twenty stories high, and utterly huge. At the farthest end of it are three huge doors... That are currently closed. Of course that doesn't change the fact that Inferno/Striker/Rough and Guardian are in the house with the dragonlords ... A Bioweapon and A giantic Mech.

Kefka hit Solid Snake with his Wave of elmental mayhem. uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Richard Stadler with his Wave of elmental mayhem. uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Amelia with his Wave of elmental mayhem. weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Shannon with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Shana with his Wave of elmental mayhem. weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Stephen Vandal with his Wave of elmental mayhem. uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Omega with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Gideon with his Wave of elmental mayhem. moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Black Arachnia with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Maya with his Wave of elmental mayhem. weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Niv-Mizzet with his Wave of elmental mayhem. uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed MewTwo Alpha with his Wave of elmental mayhem. uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Mario with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Rachel Grey with his Wave of elmental mayhem. uber attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Inutaisho with his Wave of elmental mayhem. moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Inuyasha with his Wave of elmental mayhem. moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Duo Maxwell with his Wave of elmental mayhem. weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Freya with his Wave of elmental mayhem. weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Minerva with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Winry Rockbell with his NYAH! tag attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Isamu Dyson with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Sonia Belmont with his Wave of elmental mayhem. strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Solid Snake grunts. <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Amelia! You got a healing spell left in you?" <Union-IC> Maya says, "Team two, get ready I'm going to attempt something here...." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Field Marshal? Yes!" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Grunts as the shots bounce off and he grins. "Thanks Winry. Hey, it feels like he is getting weaker."" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "New contacts, Bios and at least one heavy mech." <Union-IC> Mario, panting, "Okey-dokey, Maya." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Amelia, get ready." Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Well, Nec? <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Field Marshal?" Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Yeah, just do both individually. Better odds of me living. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "What? Ok, I got dibs on the Mecha. Isamu, which are you going after?" <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "Beast mode!" Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Alright so... Xander Phoenix leaves the World of Ruin. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Inuyasha, How about I fire another Gokuryuuha at you, and you get it between you and Nec and Bakuryuuha it straight at him? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: And then Bakuryuuha this one at him as well?

Neclord stays back somewhat, staying above the dragon within his area. He floats above it, letting it be a bit of a guard... But there is something bigger comming. He is preparing something amazing, something far worse than the Union likely expected. His right arm is held up, skyward.... And a massive amount of power is begining to serge into it as he prepares a fairly special attack. The Rune of the Blue Moon is visible from anywhere not blocked by a wall, and its power could be felt by most people in the area. It feels cold, like death...

<Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "I'm with ya Duo." Inuyasha pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: You're overcomplicating things. There is a chance he could only get scraped by the attack. That would be one of us missing and the other hitting. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: True. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Alright. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Alright. Freya, you goign to be ok?" <Union-IC> Shana magical-sparkle sounds, followed by a ZOOOOISHHHHh! "Moon Light!" GROUP 2:

The assaults of the enemy at least seem to be getting weaker. MewTwo continues to shield Maya, and unleashes another barrage on the various foes.

Solid Snake takes another, much harder blast of elemental energy, and is knocked clean off his feet, sent skidding a good couple of meters before he stops. The fact that in spite of the cuts and burns on his body, Snake just hops right back up like nothing's happened is probably a testament to how damned stubborn he is. The Stinger remains shouldered, and this time, Snake opens fire purely with it, firing one missile into the crowd, then loading and launching another, then loading and launching at one of the dragons. There's still enough here that with all the attacks coming at them, only an explosive attack can really put enemies down fast enough. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Alright, posing MewTwo Alpha missed Kefka with his Psychic Barrage! One more Time! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Group 1: Solid Snake takes another, much harder blast of elemental energy, and is knocked clean off his feet, sent skidding a good couple of meters before he stops. The fact that in spite of the cuts and burns on his body, Snake just hops right back up like nothing's happened is probably a testament to how damned stubborn he is. The Stinger remains shouldered, and this time, Snake opens fire purely with it, firing one missile into the crowd, then loading and launching another, then loading and launching at one of the dragons. There's still enough here that with all the attacks coming at them, only an explosive attack can really put enemies down fast enough. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Yes. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: He just went. Solid Snake missed Kefka with his Das Boomski! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Anyway, I'm posing now. <Union-IC> Freya huffs. "yah I'm doing fine.. Just worry about taking care of ...stuff.. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Field Marshal!" Neclord has changed his stats. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "ok. Isamu, you lead, I'll follow." Group 1:

Omega's blade grows larger...he needed more time to charge up...he just a few more seconds. However, he didn't get the time, as his sword came up to meet the elemental blast. Some of the flames licked over the sword to fly at Shana...he couldn't help that though. However, he stomped his feet firmly, and fought back, determination in his eyes as the beam was suddenly sent back right for the opposing dragon. "Sorry, I am trying to cut down on my diet of magical power, I hear it's BAD for you." he says, with a smirk.

Optimus Prime (op) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Sonia Belmont: So we all wait until the Inus are done, yes? Omega hit Kefka with his Stop hitting yourself! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Yes. And if they /do/ hit, keep it to weaks probably, unless you attack Kefka instead. Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: I'd like to get off my attack, but I realize there is a high chance I won't. So, yeah.

Group 1 Shana waved to Omega signaling she was okay, having used her wings to blunt most of the damage from the incoming attacks that Omega wasn't able to stop. Said wings flared open and Shana rose a foot over the ground, the wings turning into pure light energy instead of something plainly corporeal, though still flapping, seeming to burn with power. They grew much larger for a moment, bathing Amelia with the radiant healing powers, then dying down, returning to normal. A new spell? Or just raw use of the healing power? Hard to say. "Here, Amelia!"

Shana restores Amelia. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Amelia pants. "Thank you, Shana!" I can't find who you're trying to page with: ismau Unable to page: ismau Group Two

Maya watches her allies get battered the shield manages to fully block the elemental attacks this time. It shimmers as it deflects the blasts of powers of the Dragon Lords. Maya's still standing and now turely start to focus her powers from behind the barrier, she reaches to some of her most powerful healing abilities.

Maya has two fate cards in hand and she then casts an portal of energy of the totally oppsite sort Kefka would like apearrs. Heck he might even senses it as an angel covered in body tatoos appears and spreads her wings, her elfin like face looks down on the one who called her to this nightmareish place and it's understood what's wanted, feathers rain down on Rachel, Niv and Mario which should heal them all decently. She'd stay longer but her powers can't manafest for long in a hell hole like this. The angel takes one last look at the Unionites before she vanishes in a flash of light. And so Krya has depated from this dying world....

Maya restores Rachel Grey. Oooo healing sparkles. Maya restores Niv-Mizzet. Oooo healing sparkles. Maya restores Mario. Oooo healing sparkles. Group 2:

Finally, an opening presents itself - and with one more spinning kick, Black Arachnia's path to the dragons is clear. Which dragon, she doesn't care - what matters is that they need to start going down, hard and decisively, and the Union's general assault isn't doing it fast enough. So, time for some creative sabotage. "Beast mode!" Black Arachnia snaps, transforming into her spider form and begining to scurry through the enemy ranks, trying to avoid drawing attention from any monsters, living or undead, that would slow her progress. She almost doesn't make it to the nearest dragon, but once she's *there*, she leaps up, grabs hold of a red-scaled dragon knee, scurries up ... and *chomps* at the point where the leg meets the main body, pumping a dose of cybervenom into what *should* be a major blood vessel ...

Group 3 Inutaisho grins at Inuyasha as his son quickly catches on. He nods at him as the attack is reflected back towards him; he feels something slam into his side, sending him stumbling to the side and out of line. He quickly regains his balance, ignoring the pain shooting through his side as he runs back a few feet and leaps back in front of the reflected attack. He stabs into the heart of the attack mirrors what Inuyasha did, using his own Kaze no Kizu to reflect it back at Inuyasha. It twists and turns, golden and purple energy-winds swirling as it flies towards the hanyou, only to once again be reflected towards the Taiyoukai.
As soon as the Hanyou reflected it, father and son leap towards each other so that the huge golden-purple attack will be between them and Neclord. They lift their Tessaigas together and slash down into the huge twister, both using the energy of their Kaze no Kizus to redirect the huge attack towards Neclord. The two call out in unison: "Goku-Bakuryuuha!" Inutaisho missed Neclord with his Combo Attack uber attack! (New Mechanic) (New BB message (7/30) posted to 'Daily Spotlight' by Nova: Remixes) Black Arachnia missed Kefka with her Try some cybervenom, it's better for our health than yours! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Inuyasha of course, fires his own half of the blast. MUCH better-aimed than Inutaisho. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, Optimus Prime, and Sonia Belmont: Also, could you describe the generic result of it hitting (the nuclear blast like you described last time?) Inuyasha hit Neclord with his combo attack uber attack! <New Mechanic>
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And as the Union seems to be nearing its goal, Niv finds his form utterly devistated by the dragonlords' assault. He staggers as a result, dropping back to all four of his limbs, but to say the least, he's not looking so good. In reply to the powerful attack, the dragon starts to take in another breath, loosing another torrent of flame at the forces of evil before him. Mario is allowed to remain where he is. He wasn't trying to kill him, after all.

Niv-Mizzet missed Kefka with his Fireblast strong attack! (New Mechanic) Group 1::
Well, wasn't this a slightly comical state of affairs? A massive blast of explosives towards the dragon's bounce and reflect off of tough hide, and the elemental wave of energy does nothing but force Rick's men down.
And they're still trying to stand up too, bringing weapons to bear, trying to protect themselves. Rick, however, is already up, and peering through his simple optical scope, at a spot at the upper end of one of the Dragons. How stupid of him. Dragon's were creatures, just like any others. Like humans, zombies, Hunters, Lickers, Giant Spiders... and they all had a weak spot.
The weapon cracks off one shot. /ALL/ of them.
Richard Stadler hit Kefka with his Biologist's Mark uber attack! <New Mechanic> Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: You mean my attack, Taisho? Group 3

Minerva lets out a large sigh of relief as Freya's healing powers wash over her body, healing the worst of her burns and sealing that one cracked rib. Okay. She can fight now. "Thanks Freya. I was closer to dead than not till you did that." And, what does she have to do immediately? Dive out of the way from an ice attack, a quick roll getting her out of the way. Her wings are gone now, vanished in that last fire attack. She darts back to check on Duo, seeing that the two Inus are charging up some kind of attack. "You okay back here?" erm, yeah. Seeing an attack like they're working on makes her wanna take hard cover, and the gundam is awfully convenient. She's valiant, not stupid! "Winry, here, let me see that cheek of yours..." she'll slice open her palm once more, and this time gently lay the bloody hand against Winry's wound. Where her hand touches glows faintly red before fading, taking both the cut on her hand and some of Winry's wounds with it.

<Union-IC> Shana says, "You're welcome, Amelia. I'm trying to conserve my magic for whatever massive creatures are in here..or coming up later." Minerva restores Winry Rockbell. Oooo healing sparkles. Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Ah. GROUP 1
Stephen's attacks are ineffectual. Sure, there's lots of him - but at this scale, he's just not effectual. Time for a change of states.
His many images gather-up together on one of the dragon's backs - 'meshing' into one-another, escalating in size, and shifting form. A massive, four-armed monstrosity is soon crouching on the beast's flank.
It pushes-off with a mighty leap into the air - rearing-back it's boulder-sized fists, and narrowing it's eyes towards the puny adversaries below... <Union-IC> Shana says, "I've got enough to summon the Dragon, but I don't think that would work so well indoors." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I need to heal the Field Marshal now." Stephen Vandal changed his desc to Metal Abomination. <Union-IC> Maya says, "Rachel?! Say something." Stephen Vandal has changed his stats. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: So, yeah. Inuyasha pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Inutaisho, Winry Rockbell, Isamu Dyson, and Neclord: Hey nec, how much that do to you anyway? Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Inuyasha, could you describe the nuclear-blast result like you did last time? (New BB message (7/31) posted to 'Daily Spotlight' by Omega: The Inverse law...) Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: I liked your desc for the resulting explosion <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Bingo!" Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: 33. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Sorry about those pages Nec, I thought it was going to everyone, not just you
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Use some discretion and initiative? On this crazy war-raging battlefield? The young private would, if she had the time to! She's got to keep going all-out with her magic!
When the dragoon arrives and bathes her in warm, radiant light, the mage feels herself being rejuvenated, and she smiles. "Thank you, Shana!"
Getting back on her feet, she rushes over to Snake's side.
"Field Marshal!" She calls out, and holds out her palms. They glow with white light, basking Snake with her own healing spell. GROUP 3:

ISamu Dyson has got his game on now. Jetting, sliding and twisting through the passage, the YF-19 avoids the elemental blasts of the dragon ahead of him "HOOOYAH!" Skimming the floor out into the huge room, Isamu grins. A mech, his kind of opponent, along with that Bioweapon. Best of all... it now has enough room to transform in to fighter mode! With a quick conversion it shoots up fo 17 stories and turns, probably scorching the roof. Another conversion back to Battlroid mode lets the YF-19 point straight down as it opens up fire with an extended spray from the GU-15 gunpod "YEAH!"

Amelia restores Solid Snake. Oooo healing sparkles. Isamu Dyson missed Kefka with his Room to move! GU-15 death from above. strong attack! (New Mechanic) Group 3: -- Duo Maxwell looks as he gets the mech word form ISamu and he grins. "Finally," he says as the Gundam stands and turns, looking at the Mecha. "Isamu, you lead, I'll follow alright?" he says to him as the Gundam Deathscythe jumps and flies for the Mecha. "THE GOD OF DEATH IS BACK FROM HELL!!!!!" he yells as he rockets forward at fulls speed for the Mecha.

As he rushes, the fire-linked Vulcan Guns begin to fire on the thing, as the Beam Scythe is brought back and held at the ready as Duo follows Isamu's lead on this attack as he looks. "AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" he yells as the Beam Scythe is swung at the creature, and Duo is aiming right for the main body, of the Mecha, waist level to hopefully cut it in half right there. "I WILL NOT LET YOU HARM THOSE CLOSE TO ME!!!!!" he says as he moves in closer to the Mecha and will close combat it, while Isamu goes after it or the other thing that is with it.

Duo Maxwell missed Kefka with his Beam Scythe to Mecha moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Sonia: Wait til everyone else is done. If I don't get much lower, go ahead. I think I can survive one more strong hit.
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Shannon hides behind her shield again as she takes cover from the elemental attacks, "Sheesh, they're almost blinding me with those attacks..." She tries to think of her next move then shrugs, "Eh, stuff it." She throws her shield away which disappears after a few seconds. Both her arms shift into long, sleek black blades and she then charges in. She heads for the one of the dragons, using her flight to catch up to it. She tries to attach herself to it's neck and start slicing away.

Shannon hit Kefka with her Flying around like a headless dragon? strong attack! <New Mechanic>

Group3 Freya got lucky Sonia Ghosts fending off that attack. She blinks as attack go off towards Nerolord. She can't really tell if they hit or not. She does her healing this on Winry this time. SHe needs it.. She starting to look tired..

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Winry was back on the ground for safety's sake after her first round of patching to Deathscythe, and holds still for Minerva to heal her. "That feels better," she nods. "Thanks. Now, if you'll excuse me -" She quickly climbs back up Deathscythe's legs, finding a particularly nasty-looking gash in the armor and reaching inside to do some more work, blanching slightly as she sees the damage. "Hold still for a sec, Duo," she advises the black MS's pilot as she works, then addresses someone else via radio. "Optimus, once I finish this, I'm heading back into your cab if you're ready ..."

Freya restores Winry Rockbell. Oooo healing sparkles. You have been healed for 10 points. Winry Rockbell restores Duo Maxwell. Oooo healing sparkles. Ferham heads toward: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Thanks Winry. Now get back to Optimus. This Mecha is going down."
Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Sonia: Go ahead, Sonia. I think everyone else has gone, or at least mostly. <Union-IC> Freya huffs. "I'm going to have to sit in the sunlight all day tommrow after this.. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Yasha? <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I'm gonna have to sit in the repair shop, count yourself lucky." <Union-IC> Solid Snake grunts. "Those dragons are dangerous. Someone's gotta take them out." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Workin on it..." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I can try with my trump card spell, but I can only hit one target." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I will be on it as soon as my girl is back up to speed." <Union-IC> Shana says, "The White-silver Dragon could possibly pulverize them, but I don't have room in here to summon it." Optimus Prime (op) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Sonia Belmont: Alright, I'll admit that I'm a bit confused as to what I'm supposed to do. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "We can't keep being lucky, Private. I need ya t' stay back an' try t' remember glory get ya killed." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Isamu, go left on this Mecha. I'll go right."
Group 2: - =M= -

Again, Mario gets blasted with a flood of harsh elements! He almost got knocked off Niv, but he was able to hang on! And he's starting to not look too great. Panting, he sticks with where he is, even with Niv's maneuvering. He's keep tossing fire wherever and whenever he gets a clear shot. The dragons seem to be more on the forfront, but if he manages to nail a mech or whatnot, he won't complain.

<Union-IC> Amelia says, "..." Mario hit Kefka with his More Fireballs, HOOOOOOOO moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Shana says, "I'm going to unleash my magic!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm not sure what that means, Sir." Huh? (Type "help" for help.) Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Op: You can attack me, or Kefka's dragon thingy. Either would work, though I would likely seem as more of an imediate threat with the power I'm preparing.
<Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Just that I need a healer right now, not another attacker. Unless you can gaurantee you won't miss." Group 2
The elemental fury slams Rachel into the ground hard, then sends her flying backwards. She probably broken inside, judging from the blood bubbling from her mouth and nose. More blood oozes from her ears and eyes as she struggles to try and get her hands and knees under her. She would collapse again except for the healing energies flowing once more over her. She recovers enough to push herself partially upright, swaying heavily. "Gotta... gotta stop them," she mutters as she staggers over towards the others. She raises a hand, attempting to focus what little psychic power she has left. Trouble is, almost nothing comes. She grimaces and tries again, the blood trickling once more from her ears as she finds what little is left and making one last beam. "Go. Down." She sends the beam like a spear at one of the dragon lords, trying to pierce the center of the forehead and make a nice short circuit in the grey matter behind. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "....I understand, Sir." Rachel Grey hit Kefka with her And That's All She Wrote moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Group 2:

This is getting ridiculous. or so MewTwo considers it to be. 'We need to start doing more coordinated attacks!' he says. He's still keeping that shield up around Maya, but that's more out of the need to keep the healer safe in case she's needed to indeed, heal someone. 'Let's see if we can destroy whatever's left of these freaks!' and so he continues to assault the enemy.

Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Oh, and anyone that survives my attack when I do use it? Feel free to start epicing me left and right. MewTwo Alpha hit Kefka with his Psychic orb assault! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Alright. Optimus Prime (op) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Sonia Belmont: Do you want met o hold back and use a medium or a weak?

Gideon unstraps himself from his seat, and heads back into the body of the Element. "C'mon lass, hold tagether, you can do it." He grabs a wrench, and tightens the seals, and puts a hose clamp over a leaking line. "Just a little longer girl, you can do it." He grabs the repair station and sprays nanites into the reinforcements on the armor. "There we go, that's what ya like, isn't it?" As the power starts to come back, he hops back to his seat. "Okay guys, I'm good to go, lemme get turned around!"

Optimus Prime (op) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Sonia Belmont: Actually... Ferham leaves the World of Ruin. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Inuyasha's doing a desc of the attack we just used--desc'ing the impact, that is Gideon restores Gideon. Oooo healing sparkles. Optimus Prime (op) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Sonia Belmont: Nec, can I skip this round, and then do an epic first thing after you unleash it? Kefka has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 31 Kefka has lowered his current HP 353 points, from 400 to 47. Neclord pages Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: Yes. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "It should only be used as a last resort." Optimus Prime (op) pages Inutaisho, Duo Maxwell, Neclord, Freya, Minerva, Inuyasha, Isamu Dyson, and Sonia Belmont: Kickass. Remember to go easy on Winry and Duo, 'specially Winry. Inutaisho (Taisho) pages Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Minerva, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: So, Nec, hold off if you would so you can see how the attack results when it explodes (so you know how to react ICly to the visualization. It's pretty heavy) Minerva (Mina) pages Neclord, Inutaisho, Optimus Prime, Sonia Belmont, Duo Maxwell, Freya, Winry Rockbell, and Isamu Dyson: this is gonna hurt, isn't it? Well, I didn't become a hero to avoid pain. Ready when you are. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "He's bound t' have some tricks up his sleeve, But I'm feelin' it's about time for a mop-up sweep."

-Group 3-

Someone's being a decided pain in the ass for the bringers of elemental mayhem. That happens to be one Sonia Belmont. All around the young woman, in a spreading arc, no, a sphere of nascent energies, the Belmont is throwing everything into what she's doing. She knows she can't cover everyone. But by God, she can most certainly try. The elemental energies clash with the energies of her Magic Soul. Bluish-white energies crackle and thrash in a voluminous war, and while some of the attacks are not quite shredded by the woman's counterspelling efforts, she's also maintaining the Blade Soul--which is protecting people like Freya. If it works, well, it works. The Vampire Huntress renews her charge, at this point. Her whip is just about soaked and caked with the blood of other monsters at this point, as much as she's using it.
Speaking of those soaked in blood, the Belmont gathers up nine of her twelve magically-fashioned blades. The remaining three stay with Freya, however. She leaps up for Neclord, first, given the energy she's sensing the man gather. She can't attack Neclord directly, but she CAN attack him indirectly. Three of the swords seem to 'leap' after Neclord, with the bluish-outlines of ghosts seeming to drive the swords in a triple-attack of steel and divine power being bolstered in from Sonia. The Dragonlords, however, are Sonia's primary target. The dragons may know many elements, and Sonia? Well, she knows only a few; but she knows them very well. She gathers up a maelstrom of fire and arcane energy, and fuses it with her divine powers, merging all three, and channeling them into her whip as she looses another battlecry as she leaps after two of the Dragonlord Generals, intending to lash her whip into them as painfully as possible, and just rip them apart however way she can, fighting them up close, and person. The power radiating off the woman is simply /intense/.
<Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm not down just yet, Sir!" Sonia Belmont hit Neclord with her Blade Soul - Guardian Edge strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Hold off just yet on the heavy hits, folks. I think I can hit one of those dragons with a sneak attack." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "I brought my Stealth Cammo with me." Optimus Prime crouches near Winry and Duo. "Stay behind me. I think he's planning something..."
Deep within his power core, enery begins being channeled through the robot's systems. Thousands of microtubes connect to the laser rifle in his hand. He's going to need time to power this up, time they may not have, but if he doesn't down him in one hit...
Meanwhile he focuses on keeping Winry and Duo safe as best as he can. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Are ya sure th' things can't see heat, sir?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "I wonder if there are any White-Silver Dragons in the Multiverse." Sonia Belmont missed Kefka with her Radiant Will - Resolution of Fate uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Gideon hits something in the background. "Blasted stupid- bloody hell!" There is a sound of a clicking belt. "Aight mates, I'm good. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "There may be, but now isn't the time, Shana." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont OOCly sorries, Snake, I was already charging. XD <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Don't know one way or the other. All I can do is cross my fingers and use the battle for cover." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont looses another battlecry, though her frequency is thrumming with magical interference. Group 3:
The energy blast fired by Inuyasha and Inutaisho is golden, blue and purple. The three colors are intertwined in a pair of twister-shaped blasts. Much like the Bakuryuuha, the two twisters at first diverge, but quickly arc together and follow one another, seeking the other's demonic energy in a corkscrew pattern. The result of which is melted, jagged torn ground in the initial stage of the attack.
Near completion, the attacks merge into a mass of energy, which then explodes in the direction of the intended target, causing what might be a fan-shaped scar in the ground with the apex where the enemy should ideally be. Any targets and landmarks behind the point of impact for a next thousand feet are either damaged or destroyed, depending on where the tendrils of demonic energy spread from the point of explosion. <Union-IC> Amelia , being sensitive, lets out a soft cry. "Ah!" <Union-IC> Rachel Grey gasps, "Now I know... how Mom... felt..."

The dragons are driven back farther and farther ... Then one of them falls to the ground, crumpling under the continued Union attack... However, instead of dying it simply vanishes in a bilous green burst of light. Then another falls vanishing in the same way. The remaining dragonlords, as they see this take heart, redoubling their efforts at dealing with the pesky Unionites in their midst.

Duo's scythe slides off the side of the giant Guardian, and the 'head' of the Mech turns to face duo, before it unloads in his direction with a cluster of lasers. Inferno begins lambasting union side with lightning bolt after lightning bolt, pausing briefly only as another of the dragonlords goes down and vanishes.

Kefka hit Solid Snake with his Go hide under your box! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Richard Stadler with his Fury of the Dragonlords. uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Amelia with his Wave of something! weak attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Shannon with his I'll get you yet! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Shana with his And your little dog toto too! weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Stephen Vandal with his And then you'll be sorry! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Omega with his Sorry that you ever got attacked by! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Gideon with his A rabid chicken named strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Black Arachnia with his George! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Maya with his You should have loved him! weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Niv-Mizzet with his And hugged him! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed MewTwo Alpha with his And petted him! uber attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Mario with his And Stuck him on a spit! moderate attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Rachel Grey with his UWHA! UWAHAHA! UWAHAHAHAHAHA! strong attack! <New Mechanic> Rachel Grey has been knocked out! Kefka hit Inuyasha with his You however are fair game. strong attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 22 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his And then Ate him. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Freya with his Before he! weak attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka missed Minerva with his Could bite you! strong attack! (New Mechanic) Kefka hit Winry Rockbell with his And eat you! tag attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Isamu Dyson with his Okay. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka hit Optimus Prime with his I'm out of shit. strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka missed Sonia Belmont with his to type. uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "You are going down!!!!" <Union-IC> Amelia gasps. "I've been hit!" GROUP 3
Optimus Prime weathers the battering from Kefka, armor flecking off as he's smashed. "Winry, stay behind me. It isn't safe to transform yet. Stay down." He narrows his optics, sparks coming from several injuries on him. He optics Neclord.
Deep within his power core, energy builds as he dumps energon into it. Thousands of microtubes connect his hand to his laser rifle. He draws a bead on Neclord... and waits. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Amelia, stay to the rear, an' heal up, if ya need to. All others, lock an' load! Time for a sweep!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm not hurt too badly. I can still attack." Gideon changed his armor mode to mech. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Then come on, then!" <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Amelia! You're going to have to hold your own until I get back!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...." <Union-IC> Shana says, "We can manage." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "YES, SIR!" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "MotherF***er. Everything is in the red." <Union-IC> Solid Snake tap. Taptap. "...damn it! Stealth cammo's shorted out." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "..." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Stadler!" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Sir!" <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Tell your Specialist not to get distracted!" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "I..." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "I'm about to pull the oldest trick in my book." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "This is getting ABSURD." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Blast, where did she go?" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...oh, gods, MS. FLEECE!" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Red is just fine with me Isamu. Go left and hit it if I miss." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, exicited voice: "OH! OH OH! I know what he's gonna do! I do! I know!

Group 3

Finally, the power is full. Finally, the charge is complete. Neclord ignores the fact that he is hit by attacks while charging: It doesn't matter that he is feeling pain, for he knows that the pain he is about to inflict on the enemies before him. For he has the True Rune of the Blue Moon, and it has the power of one hundred sacrifices. He shouts, yelling the name of the attack.

"CURSE OF THE BLUE MOON."

The power unleashed would likely be felt by all others in area: It is an unrelentless blast of energy, causing immense amounts of pain to all it hits. One can almost hear the screams of all the people Neclord has killed while the attack is occuring. And all through it, Neclord is smiling. He feels... Satisfied. He can not use this often, this mgiht be a bit of a waste of it... But it feels so worth it.

<Union-IC> Integra Hellsing says, "Does it involve a box and several grenades?" <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Forces fighting Neclord, standby to move out of the way. I'm going to let him have it with everything I've got." Neclord hit Inutaisho with his Curse of the Blue Moon epic attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Ms. Fleece! Get back here!" Neclord missed Inuyasha with his Curse of the Blue Moon epic attack! (New Mechanic) Neclord hit Optimus Prime with his Curse of the Blue Moon epic attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Duo? I may be able to do some work on your wings - *if* you're not going anywhere ... I don't want to be anywhere near your thrusters if you're planning to use them." Neclord hit Minerva with his Curse of the Blue Moon epic attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Optimus Prime's armor abruptly makes a horrible CRUNCH noise. <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "STAY DOWN WINRY!" Neclord hit Isamu Dyson with his Curse of the Blue Moon epic attack! <New Mechanic> Isamu Dyson has been knocked out! <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Stay back until I attack this Mecha. I'll fall back to your position Winry." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Specalist, cut yourself over here, and help with th' Sweep." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell yeeeks at the noise, "Optimus! Do you need repairs? Neclord hit Freya with his Curse of the Blue Moon epic attack! <New Mechanic>
<Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, ".... Sorry Duo. *FZZZZZZZZZZT*" You suffer 15 points of damage. Neclord hit Duo Maxwell with his Curse of the Blue Moon Splashover moderate attack! <New Mechanic> Duo Maxwell has been knocked out! <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, exicited voice: "Yes, sir!" And the click of an AK bolt being charged. Neclord hit Winry Rockbell with his Curse of the Blue Moon Splashover moderate attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Optimus Prime pants. "D-d-don't worry about me." He sounds, however, like he's in pretty bad shape. <Union-IC> Freya lets out a scream of pain. <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "-- AAAAAAAAAAAGH ... owww ... *dammit!*" The dragonlords redouble their attacks, and Solid Snake is knocked back, hard. He comes up in a crouch, gritting his teeth, and reaches up to his chest as he yells, "Amelia! You're going to have to hold your own until I get back!" His fingers tap the activation button for his cammo, and... nothing happens. Oh, shit.
"Damn it! Stealth cammo's shorted out." But these dragons have to go down, and soon. They're too damned powerful. Without his cammo, though... And Snake realizes what he's gotta do. A brief radio message is sent, and then Snake rushes off to the side, ducking around, sliding under, and generally weaving his way through the carnage to one of the walls. Once he breaks out of a cluster of monsters, Snake crouches down, and...
Ducks under a nondescript cardboard box.
The box suddenly seems to grow legs, and trots quickly around the edge of the battle, circling as it can to get in position behind the dragon lords. Once Snake gets into place, the box pops up and off, and there's Snake, with his Stinger launcher shouldered.
"Showtime." Solid Snake missed Kefka with his THE BOX strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Amelia says, "WIRNY?!" Announcement: Nefarian shouts, "Snake fails at stealth. Plz drive thru." <Union-IC> Amelia OOC:WINRY >.< Group 2:

This is getting ridiculous. or so MewTwo considers it to be. 'We need to start doing more coordinated attacks!' he says. He's still keeping that shield up around Maya, but that's more out of the need to keep the healer safe in case she's needed to indeed, heal someone. 'Let's see if we can destroy whatever's left of these freaks!' and so he continues to assault the enemy. (there. This time it's set to work.)

<Union-IC> Winry Rockbell hisses, "I'm all right ... MewTwo Alpha missed Kefka with his Psychic orb assault! strong attack! (New Mechanic)
Group 1:
Shannon jumps off and flies away from the dragon she was attacking and begins falling down to the ground again. On the way down she shifts her arms back to normal and forms her rifle in her hands again. She hits the ground and gets down on one knee, lifting her rifle up to aim at Inferno, "Time to bring some darkness to that things life." Once again, shadows creep across the ground and are absorbed into Shannon. The black energy flows across her body and into her rifle where it collects. She gathers much more than any attack she's done so far. There's so much that the rifle is completely hidden by the darkness that has collected. Shannon then fires.
A large black energy beam leaves her rifle and shoots towards Inferno. As it gets close, it splits up into hundreds of smaller beams which then try to pierce through Inferno all over its body.

<Union-IC> Amelia pants hard. Shannon missed Kefka with her Darkness Laser Show uber attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, exicited voice: "I KNEW IT! I knew it! He used the box trick! Everyone knows about the box trick!" Optimus Prime attempts to raises his armos to absorb the worst of the damage. Which doesn't help much ast he blast TEARS Into him, sending armor and innard components everywhere. They splatter against the wall messily as Prime half-staggers where he kneels. He's not giving up just yet, however, leaning forward as he finishes powering up his power core. He draws a bead on Neclord...
And pulls the trigger, the ground shaking from the raw discharge of hypercharged plasma. Optimus Prime hit Neclord with his Laser Rifle Full epic attack! <New Mechanic> Neclord has been knocked out! GROUP 1
The wind screams in Stephen's ear as he goes surging downward like an avalache. He trajectory bring him down right on top of one of the dragons - leading with his shoulder.
His arms snap-around to snag it around in a rear chokehold, and try to secure the small of it's back against his plummeting hip. When they both meet the ground, it'll be with enough force to shake the foundation of Kefka's tower. And shatter the dragon's spine in a b'jillion places, if it happens to be underneath Vandal at the time.
Of course, if it isn't... Group 3 Inutaisho stands, grinning as he watches part of the father-son attack hit Neclord. And finally, something happens that phases even Inutaisho: Neclord completely ignores the damage he just took, instead finishing the charge of his own and firing it. Inutaisho leaps back in an attempt to avoid it, but his shock slowed him down too much. He is sent flying back, and he slams into the ground, rolling along it for a good ways.
Finally he stands up slowly, grunting; he pushes the Tessaiga's blade into the ground and uses the sword as a brace to stand himself up. He looks towards Neclord and lifts his own sword from the ground. He reaches up and grips Sou'unga hilt, but just as he does, he watches Prime's hit slam into Neclord. He slowly lowers his right hand, grinning. "Guess that won't be necessary after all..." Stephen Vandal hit Kefka with his Avalanche Piledriver! ...Hope it don't whiff... epic attack! <New Mechanic>

Group 1:

Omega's blade whirls around, as the charge finally completes. Grinning, Omega's blade catches the last of the latest assault, sending it away and towards the top of the room. Harmlessly missing both him and his charge. Omega's buster points at one of the remaining dragons and just grins wickedly. Energy seems to gather infront of the cannon, as what happened next was a show of pure power from the robot.

Suddenly, a massive blast of plasma fired towards the dragon, aiming not to pierce, but to wipe the dragon from existance in a poof of plasma fire hotter than the sun.

Omega missed Kefka with his By the power of the Jenkins, CHARGED SHOT uber attack! (New Mechanic) Group 2:

She's not sure if her cybervenom did any good, but at least that particular dragon seems to have been eliminated. Of course, considering it collapsed (nearly on top of her) and then *disintegrated* .... she's pretty sure it won't be returning to the battle. But the battle is very much still in progress, and Black Arachnia doesn't plan to abandon the fight until the fight is *over*, either for her or (preferably) for the opposition. And with that in mind, the cyber-spider scurries towards one of the still-standing mecha. And decides, almost on a whim, not to waste time climbing ... *chomp*

Group 1:

Gideon hits triggers the transformation again. "Okay, weapons are online," His seat comes up to a standing position, and he regages his settings, locking on to the dragons. "I hope ya like your missiles in spicy hot, because that's all I got!" He fires, releasing a volley of missiles toward the targets.

Black Arachnia missed Kefka with her Does this thing have an Achilles heel? moderate attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Specialist! Eyes on the battle!" <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont gnh. "Optimus.. I'm going to do everything I can here to try and keep these behemoths and dragons focused on me, to cover. Inuyasha, Inutaisho, can you two see to Freya, Isamu, and the others that were hit by that bastard's rune?" Group 2
Once more Rachel gets slammed back, looking like a Phoenix doll tossed away by a carless child. This time, she doesn't get up. Is she even breathing? Wait, there's slight movement of her chest, so she's not dead yet. Yet. Group 3: -- Duo Maxwell looks as he missed the Mecha and is pelted with the lasers, grunting form the hit. Duo is now mad, and not just pissed, but mad as hell. The cockpit of the Gundam alters in color as it flickers from the normal blue to a reddish color as Duo smiles. He thinks before speaking, "Isamu, go left," he says to him as he angles his suit and takes another swing at the Mecha, only aiming for the legs this time. "YOU ARE GOING DOWN!!!!!!" he says to the Mecha, as the green optics of the Gundam Deathscythe Hell flicker form red and flare to life as the scythe is spun like a staff with the right hane, one handed mind you, and is brought down at an angle, then curves to slice through the legs, and then up at another angle, making a 'U' shape swing. And as this happens, the Scythe is then spun one handed using the left hand, like a staff, and brought across the neck area of the Mecha, aiming from left to right. Duo is now all business as he concentrates on this as he lets the others handle Neclord and is glad Isamu is here helping.

HOWEVER, before any of this can occur, the attack by Neclord slams into the back of the Gundam, and goes right through the bat-like wings. Duo grunts form the hit, as the Gundam is sent flying forward and slams into the ground hard, causing a small tremor of a 1.5 to 2.0 to occur where it hit. The Gundam Deathscythe Hell sparks from the hit and exposed circuits and the red optics flicker and go dark. Inside the cockpit, Duo is sent forward, his head hitting the forward monitor as the seat restraints hold him but not enough enough and he grunts as the cockpit goes dark after flickering, and the smell of burnt wiring is there.

Duo lays there, dazed as he looks up slowly, feeling something on his face, and he can't see, but it is wet. "Deathscythe," he says. "Deathscythe you ok? Comeon buddy?" he says to the suit as he can't see in the dark. "Damnit," he says. "Hang on buddy, don't you leave me." he says to the suit.

And, once again, the Dragonlords miss their mark. Rick smirked. Biologics. Without technology and equipment, any body with a rifle and a good eye could take them down. And Rick had men with all of them.
Especially Fleece, who emerges from a monster hoard with a *sssing Thunk* of a knife digging into a rather big baddie. She's grinning wildly as she brings up her AK! "Yay! A sweep! We're almost done, aren't we? Mop-up! I can start thinking of what my new knives will look like. They'll be a blue one, an' a red one, and..."
As she goes one, Rick's got the rest of his squad in a line, and, with a signal, they start /advancing/ rifles sweeping from left to right in bursts of automatic fire, a grenade or three going off ahead of them. Richard Stadler missed Kefka with his Sweep and clear strong attack! (New Mechanic)
<Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "A-a-affirmative." Gideon hit Kefka with his Missiles! And missiles! And...missiles! strong attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "I'll check on Duo." Group 3

The God of Death is Back from Hell? He won't let the enemy harm those close to him? Mina just stands there a moment, her eyes going all sparkly and a huge romantic sigh escapes her. She's known Duo ... but this other side of him... wow. One can almost see those teenage puppy dog love hearts and rainbows and flowers around her head. Oh, wait, dragons to kill, right. Neclord to defeat. Not that she's been doing a good job of it so far... she's made a better healer than a fighter. Sheesh. She spares a last glance at Duo before turning her attention back to the enemy in front of her, just in time to see Duo get massively attacked. She will not scream. She will not rush over to defend him. She is a warrior, a soldier, as is Duo. They both have their duty. And her world explodes into pain. It's to her credit she dosen't scream as she's flung backwards several feet and lies still for one heartbeat, two. She pushes herself up. "That ... hurt..." she coughs, blood hits the rocks. "can't do that again... maybe I should stay down... nah..."

<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Deathscythe," he says. "Deathscythe you ok? Comeon buddy?" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Inuyasha, you check on the other two."
Group 2:

And this is when Niv-MIzzet gets -mad-. After watching Rachel work, and seeing her help him a few times before, he was really enjoying the fact that there was another firebird out here then his own. Its as she falls that the dragon lunges forward to protect her from any of the vultures lingering above the group. A fairly simple spell makes sure she's fine, and that she's levitated right over to Maya before he snarls straight at the monsters, "I have had -enough- of this!" he roars out before lunging forward right into the melee. Screw Magic, screw Fire breath, screw it -all-. The dragon has quite literally gone Feral, and that's something most people in Ravnica fear. He could destroy the entire -city- in the mood he's in. Suffice it to say, if he can just get his hands on -any- of the dragon lords, he's going to bite, claw, and basically TEAR them apart.... that's only if he can .. you know... get a hold of them.

Niv-Mizzet missed Kefka with his Dragon's Ire unleashed uber attack! (New Mechanic) GROUP 3:

First in... last out, even if it might be a body bag. That Isamu Dyson, and today the YF-19's rush into battle has cost it. The fire from the Mech splashes across it, with no reserve energy left for the SWAG energy armor. Shots rip through it's upper legs and all through it's arms. Out of control, the mech hits the ground and slams into one of the room's wall, unmoving.

-Group 3-

Now that attack from Neclord was downright horrendous. Sonia was a bit too far to cover anyone where she was, fighting back the dragonlords. She flung as much magic as she could towards the Blue Moon Rune's attack, though it is only enough to cover Inuyasha, unfortunately. The young woman can't help but snap a bitter curse off. "Inuyasha! Take care of those who have fallen, or are injured!" She glances back towards towards the mecha, and the bioweapon, and just about everything else that is there. She draws her whip back, and leaps towards one of the dragons, her whip snapping forward in a flurry of whipstrokes, intent on taking at least one down..
<Union-IC> Mario says, "Nuv! I'm-a gonna need to bound off-a you head!" <Union-IC> Mario OOC: Niv <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Keep at it, people, we've almost got them beat!" <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "OOC ?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "C'mon..." Group 3:

Winry bites her lip quietly as Neclord's attack scorches around her ... and then the Deathscythe, despite her on-the-spot jury-rigged repairs, gets blasted but GOOD, practically right over her head. This is why she didn't want to be caught up in the battle ... but there's nothing she can do about it now, really. Nothing, that is, except to try to do some fast repairs on Optimus. She knows Jetfire's systems pretty well, and he's an Autobot too ... this shouldn't be too hard. Right?

... okay, so what Optiumus REALLY needs is a hell of a lot of replaced armor. And Winry doesn't have patch kits - heck, she doesn't even have a welding torch in her kit ... "Optimus," she hisses into her radio, "where are you damaged that I can patch quickly? Group3 Freya watches at Nerlord do some sort of attack, she not sure what but whatever it is, she take the it on full over get thrown the the floor, that hurt alot, she stands up a bit uneven.. She pants. "No one dies while I'm here.. ", she sends a healing spell Minvera's way.

<Union-IC> Minerva 's voice is weak, pretty pain ridden. "Duo? You're okay in there?" <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Optimus, where are you damaged that I can patch quickly?" Freya restores Minerva. Oooo healing sparkles.

Group 1 Shana was thankfully excused from taking too much harm from the blasts this time around by some twitch of fate or something. Hence, she had time to gather up more magical energy, pointing her hands straight up. "Star Children!" The energy exploded outwards, forming into a myriad of falling star-like Light-magic objects that would explode against enemies. This was merely a prelude to the real flare of the spell. Shana held both of her hands out to her side after spinning around in the air, and white beams of light came up from the ground to attempt to impale and burn through the dragons, generals, or anything else that was not good news to the Union and allies.

Shana hit Kefka with her Star Children strong attack! <New Mechanic> Sonia Belmont missed Kefka with her VampireKiller - Furious Strikes strong attack! (New Mechanic)
Group 1:
One down. One more to go.
Amelia got hit, but she isn't hurt too badly. She can still attack!
"LEVITATION!" Ascending half-way into the air, but staying close to her group, the young private extends an arm, holds up an open palm, and shoots out a blast of lightning, sending it hurling towards the dragons.
"Wind, crimson flame. Grant the power of thunder to my hand! DIGU VOLT!" Amelia missed Kefka with her SAY AHHHHH! AND STTTTRRRRIKE! strong attack! (New Mechanic) <Union-IC> Shana says, "Try this! STAR CHILDREN!"
Group 2: - =M= -

And Mario dodges behind Niv in the latest wave of attack! After a second, Mario peeks back forward and whews. Now with comrads starting to fall, it's time to take a whole other approch of attack. He stands, dashes up Niv's neck, onto his head, and bounds off! He soars through the air up and over one of the dragon lords! And just when you think he might crash into it, he pauses in mid air... flips one, and DROPs... hopefully onto that evil dragoin's noggin... BUTT FIRST!

Mario hit Kefka with his Ground Pound (i.e. The Big Butt Attack of DOOM!) strong attack! <New Mechanic> Kefka has been knocked out! Announcement: Agent Jones shouts, "MAMA-MIA!"

CHIRP!* 1-UP

Announcement: Agent Jones shouts, "This game's winner is... MARIO!" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "I'm fine. Get out of here. I got hit and I am locked in my suit. I can get out by blowing the cockpit hatch, but it won't matter. I'm stuck here until My Gundam is on it's back."

Curious about Neclord's state? He is basically smeared across a wall. And not just the closest wall that was available: He ended up being hit through a number of them. At the least, this keeps him from being finished off for good.

<Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "... okay, I didn't see that." <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet ROAR. Totally feral at the moment. <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "SOMEBODY tell me I didn't see that." <Union-IC> Mario's radio transmits a WHAM!!! Group Two

Rachel goes down, there's nothing she can do for her right now. She focuses on the most injured remaining person in the group which is Niv. She'll get to Rachel when this massive mess is over once and for all. Either way the healing spell is let lose even as Mario mario goes at it....

<Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "I can transform and roll it over for you, Duo." Curious about the wall? It closed up instantly after Neclord went traveling through it. Maya restores Niv-Mizzet. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "See what?" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "The advantage of having a huge form means I can lift huge things." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Yyyyyep... He just killed a dragon by jumping on its head..." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "And that was a most interesting method with which to defeat the dragonlord..." <Union-IC> Freya says, "You see something new every day.." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "This chubby little human with hair under his nose leaps WAY up in the air, does a little flip, and lands rump-first on a dragon ... and knocked it right out?" Maes Hughes enters the World of Ruin. Maes Hughes arrives in: World of Ruin. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Shoulda brought my camera. All 378th, sweep and clear." <Union-IC> Amelia says, ".......wow. And I was so close, too." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "Well.....that was embarrassing." You post your note about 'Its-a Mario' in group 7 (Daily Spotlight) as message #32 <Union-IC> Shana says, "Phew." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I must be more hurt than I thought... did he just win by ... sitting ... on Kefka?" <Union-IC> Gideon says, "That really is...weird mate, I dunno what else to say. But is that it? Which one was Kefka?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Nooo, that wasn't Kefka. That was just a normal dragonlord... I think." <Union-IC> Maya says, "He's not shown up in person since he mocked us." Inuyasha shield his eyes at the incoming attack, then suddenly it is stopped and diffused around him, the earth shattering on either side. "Huh?" Naturally it was Sonia. One can almost see little hearts in his eyes as he looks out at her. Then her harsh voice awakens him from a daydream.
He would have to thank her later. In the meantime there was work to be done. He quickly moves over to the YF-19 in an attempt to at very least pry Isamu out of the tin can and get him to first aid. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Don't sweat it, Private. I think we've broken them. Start clearing out any clusters of resistance left." (New BB message (7/33) posted to 'Daily Spotlight' by Rachel Grey: Mario Wins) <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Yes, Sir." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "We still havent won yet, Kefka's still out there." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell gasps, "What ... exactly .... is 'normal' about ANY OF THESE FREAKIN' MONSTERS?!" Followed by a whimper and a *thud*. Either message 33 does not exist, or you were not the original poster. <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Okay, so now would be a good time to repair, right?" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Duo." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "That works." <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Would you like me to roll your Gundam over for you?" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "We can secure this area, at least, use it as a staging area." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont sighs quietly. <Union-IC> Amelia chuckles. "We did it..." Message 32 removed from group #7 (Daily Spotlight). <Union-IC> Solid Snake takes a breath. "All right. All personnel, report in." <Union-IC> Mario oys. "Jesh... That's-a the harder head then I thought-a..." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "That works Inutaisho" <Union-IC> Maya says, "Niv?! Calm your self We have run, Rachel needs your help, get her and bring her to me." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Don't worry, Mario. That was a damn good hit. Unorthodox, but good." And the last of the dragons fall ... As the generals charge forward to join battle... They all vanish in the same burst of bilious green light. Mad laughter echos through the tower, "Well done! UWAHAHA! UWAHAHAHAHAHA! UWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now rest the night." The doors leading up slam shut loudly, with a sense of finality. "...You poor pitiful creatures... Not a one of you would have survived ... If I hadn't have healed you last night. UWAHAHAHA! Should I do it again!? Will you beg?! ...UWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Omega hit Niv-Mizzet with his Brian Peppers attack tag attack! <New Mechanic> Optimus Prime's optics fly to the rest of the battlefield as a decisive blow is struck by the plumber king.
"...thank Primus," Prime says... before he groans and falls over from his kneeling position to all fours. He dematerializes his rifle, panting from internal overheating - the sound of a mech with some seriously nontrivial damage. Solid Snake hit Omega with his BOBONGA tag attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Functioning at 22 percent efficiency." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Mario, thank you." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha audibly facepalms. "We did. But if I ever see someone attack another person and knock them out with their ASS again, I'm retiring and becoming a civilian. <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "Black Arachnia here .... systems at 37 percent, no specific damage ..." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Alive, and nothing premanently broken." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I am fine, Field Marshal." <Union-IC> Freya says, "Alive a bit tired but alive.." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell whimpers quietly. <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Someone telll...that insane clown ...to feg off..." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Shannon reporting, doing rather well considering that mess we went through. I'm just at about half combat efficiency." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "'cept my sense a' tactics. Killing somethin' with th' posterior. Priceless." Neclord has reset his combat status to default. His HP was -8 <Union-IC> Shana says, "We made it through in one piece...phew." Neclord hit Solid Snake with his BOX tag attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Amelia says, "But Winry needs medical attention.." "You do whatever the hell you want, lunatic," Snake replies to the echoing voice, and then moves to lean against a wall, and rest his head against it, breathing hard. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Duo here. Systems on Deathscythe Hell at 5 percent, extensive damage. Deathscythe not responding." Neclord has changed his stats. <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell nnnghs, "Patch me up ... I've got to ... repair Prime ... <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Can we get out of here now?" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Winry, don't strain yourself."

Gideon switches gears into the transport, setting down the ship and opening the hatch.

<Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "All right. Healers, tend to the people hurt the worst first. Someone take care of Winry so she can fix Prime up." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "Are we done here, or not?" <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Everyone else, take a breather." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I hope we're done. I can't take much more..." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Okay. I'm on it." <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "... Beast mode." <Union-IC> Freya says, "I see what I can do for Isamu.." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I am ready to be loaded Snake, The medical station is ready to go." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "I don't think he's letting us out yet, but we've got the night to rest." Group 3 Inutaisho looks around, spotting the fallen Gundam rather quickly--it was, after all, rather large. As such, he moves quickly over towards it; about fifty feet short of it, a flash of light surrounds him and fades away just as quickly; when it fades, a much larger creature stands where the human-looking Inutaisho once stood: A large, silver/white-furred dog. He comes up next to the Gundam and lowers his head; he manages to slide his snout under the shoulder closer to him. He slowly lifts up. When the shoulders are in a vertical line with one another, Inutaisho gives a final nudge with his nose to let it slam back down on its back. With this done, Inutaisho is surrounded by another flash of light as he reverts to his human form. <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Here I come, Winry." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Who is the other one?"

Omega deactivates his sword, looking at the people around him. After his rest last night he was still ready for more...and given his almost restored armor thanks to the Dragoon and his own auto repair, he should be just fine. "Well, shall we take care of the wounded and get ready for tomorrow?" he says, looking towards Shana. "Something tells me you are going to be very busy."

Gideon changed his armor mode to transport. <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "Priorities Winry for treatment." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "OOC: Prioritize" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Is anyone else hurt?" <Union-IC> Shana says, "Rachel is." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Where is she?" <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "OOC: Don't forget. Niv brought like... two crates worth of healing stuffs, make sure to use'm. :)" <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I will handle Rachel." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Then what can I do?" <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "I'm a little banged up, but there's others worse off." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I'll start healing... just as soon as I recover enough to stand..." <Union-IC> Optimus Prime says, "We'll need her to repair the mechs and... *nngh* Myself, and she's in poor condition besides." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "I got a few men with burns. Nothin' that can't wait." <Union-IC> Shana OOC yeah, but they're all the way back there <---- <Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "OOC: Also, Niv levitated her to Maya, so wherever Maya is, Rachel will be." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm available to heal someone." <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Get over here then, Amelia. Don't just stand there and say it." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I needed to know who to go to." Ash Williams leaves the World of Ruin. The surviving member of Rick's unit are in a slow walk now, the excitment of battle drained out of them. They continue to walk the top of the tower, going up to clusters of the dead, and shooting anything that's still twitching. The Specialist does this with her usual amount of cheer. Scary.
Rick, meanwhile, is gathered with the extraneous supplies and a long-range based radio. His Command Post, it seemed. "We're gonna run low on food soon..." He mumbles to himself. <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Come to me. When you see the people lying on the ground bleeding to death I think you know which ones" Stephen Vandal shrinks back to his normal size, becoming fleshy and human once again. He gives a set of keys in his right hand a quick flourish, then pockets them.
He takes a cigar from one of the inside pockets of his jacket, lights it on a neaby burning piece of rubble, and takes a puff.
-- Duo Maxwell blinks as he is lifted and then falls back into his seat, feeling the shock as he hits head. "Ow," he says as he looks and hits the button. *BAM* is heard and something flies off of Deathscythe and lands to one side. Slowly, Duo looks a she covers his eyes and then begins to climb out of the suit. He gets up and looks around, the blood on his face visible as he moves and falls off his Gundam and lands ont he ground, and falls to his knees. Slowly, he stands and leands on his suit as he loks around and sees the blood on his hands. "Great," he says to himself as he looks and slowly starts to walk, staggering a bit. <Union-IC> Black Arachnia says, "... you know ... while I'm in beast mode I *could* secure our position a bit. Web up some barricades ..."

Gideon moves the ship over toward Rachel's unconcious body and sets down. He hops out of the back and goes to retrieve her, putting her in the element on the medical table. The medical arms come up and start analyzing.

Rachel Grey bleeds from ears, eyes, nose and mouth. She's definitely not in good shape.

MewTwo is one of the lucky few with a healing factor. His powers will retore him to full health within short order, as he took among the least damage. Probably the one thing saving his pride as he's feeling like he accomplished virtually nothing. Well, he kept Maya covered, at least. Speaking of which, he drops the shield just in case anyone was wondering

Gideon restores Rachel Grey. Oooo healing sparkles. Sonia Belmont changed her armor mode to priestess. <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Do it." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "Don't just stand there then. Do it. We need as secure a position as we can get" With the other dragons gone, all enemies defeated, and a still rather feral dragon there near those doors, .. Niv just slowly turns... peering at everyone else, eyes narrowed. ... oh dear. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "There's no way out of here... I cant even teleport..." <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell groans, "Don't waste too much power healing me ... <Union-IC> Winry Rockbell says, "Just ... get me back on my feet ..."
Group 2: - =M= -

The last dragon lord poofs from underneath Mario as the plumber stands, rubbing his bottom. "Jeesh... That's-a very hard-a head..." Then, he stops and looks around as the voice of that mania, Kefka, calls to them all. His eyebrows furrow up until shortly after Kefka's 'speach' while he dusts himself off, then walks to where the rest of his comrads are. Passing Niv, he waves and smiles. "Thanks for-a the assist! I could not-a get-a that high if-a you not-a so tall." He chuckles some. "I bet-a not even my brother could-a jump high enough, and he jumps-a little bit higher then me!" That, in and of itself, would be a sight.. Then, to the others, waves. "Oh, Maya! Thanks-a much for the healing. That helps a lot!" And then he looks to Rachel and his face goes solemn for a bit. "I hope-a she'll be okay. Is-a there something I can-a do? Help patch-a her up?" He does have a little medical training, afterall.

<Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "I'll send a fire team after we're done clearin', Spidey."
Finally, it's over. The young private falls to her knees, panting heavily, her bangs matted to her forehead. But she's still awake. "Mr. Stadler....."
Amelia looks to her commander. She is not as beat up as many others here, and gets back to her feet.
"Do you or anyone in your unit need healing? If not, I'm going to go assist the others." <Union-IC> Mario says, "Niv, thanks-a for the assist! Maya, thanks-a for the healing!" Inutaisho has changed his stats. Freya heals herself to start cursing a bit. She should be healing other not herself! Freya restores Freya. Oooo healing sparkles. Inutaisho changed his desc to True Form. <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Okay, Rachel is on board right now, she is stable. Who still needs some first aid?" Inutaisho changed his desc to Standard. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Mr. Stadler? Do you or anyone in the unit need healing?" <Union-IC> Mario says, "I could-a use a little. If-a you got a first-aid-a kit, I can patch-a myself up." Inutaisho looks around the room as he draws the Tensaiga from its sheath, the blade glowing a nice shade of bright blue--almost aqua, actually. He looks around at all the people in the room, then calls out: "Snake and someone else, come over to me and I'll heal you somewhat!" Maya says "Hummm don't bother taunting him back. He's not worth the breath we have other things to do."Maya looks to Mewtwo "Thank you Mew for your help." She then looks as now gets ready to dead. Maya looks to niv and says "NIV! SNAP OUT OF IT! We need your help you can not lose your self to the anger! SAVE IT FOR KEFKA" Maya now is trying to calm the dragon down "Let me tend to your wounds! <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I have you covered Mario, come on over to the Element." <Union-IC> Freya says, "anyone need to be healed?" <Union-IC> Maya says, "Amelia? Go help Rachel, your a better healer than I" The YF-19 doesn't have a real visible cockpit in this mode, Inutaisho might need a mech expert to find it, unless he can recognize the hatch behind the head of the giant robot. <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "Snake and someone else, come to me for healing!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "All right." Inutaisho restores Solid Snake. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Mario says, "Okey-dokey!" Richard Stadler looks at the Private, and shakes his head. "We're all walkin' wounded, Amelia. Nothin' serious. You get t' whatever others are in worse shape, an' then come back t' us at th' end."
He's interrupted by a voice on the radio handset on the table, and he picks it up. "Look, sir, I know, 3rd an' 1st are committed. We had two squads in trainin', right? Send them." Minerva closes her eyes. Okay. Try standing. She uses her sword to help push herself up. Okay, not at the point of death but she's still really torn up. "This hurts." she starts slowly walking, making her way towards Winry. "Here, let me." once again, she slices open her hand and presses it once more against Winry's cheek, activating her healing power once more. "You okay?" <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont pulses once, quietly. "I can heal as well." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "We're all walkin' wounded, Amelia. Nothin' serious." Minerva closes her eyes. Okay. Try standing. She uses her sword to help push herself up. Okay, not at the point of death but she's still really torn up. "This hurts." she starts slowly walking, making her way towards Winry. "Here, let me." once again, she slices open her hand and presses it once more against Winry's cheek, activating her healing power once more. "You okay?" <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "...Damn it, don't waste your healing on me. There'e people that can use it more than I can." Minerva restores Winry Rockbell. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Amelia says, "OK, Sir. I'm going to help Rachel." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...uh, which one is she?"
- =M= -

As per the radio conversation, Mario begins to head over to the Element to help get patched up.

Gideon restores Mario. Oooo healing sparkles. Niv-Mizzet stalks over toward Maya, rumbling rather ominously. Its a ... dangerous sound to say the least. Still, he's right there in front of her, looking just about like he could... snap at her. Its that close that Maya yells up at him and he pauses, blinking once, again, then his head shakes lightly before he just grunts and drops over on his side, panting rather hard. Looks like his adrenalin ran out and he is -no- young dragon either. Winry Rockbell groans a bit, and nods up at Minerva, finally gathering the energy to sit up again. "Thanks ..."

The jet black Pokemon shrugs. 'No problem.' He says. 'Thanks for the heal earlier. My own regeneration powers will restore me to full health in awhile. Most of my heavy wounds were healed earlier by you.'

Well, Snake seems to have been healed some. Not too much, but it takes the edge off. So, for the moment, Snake sits down, leaning up against the wall, and pulls out a ration. Yup. Might as well eat. Duo Maxwell changed his armor mode to normal. You have changed your desc to spacesuit Inuyasha sits down after dragging Isamu out and violently pointing out his bloody half-conscious state to any absent-minded healers who are just running around like a chicken with their head cut off.
Inuyasha himself knows little first aid, and he's done what he can for Isamu. He seems to look generally beat up, as his form is very bloody, however he doesn't seem to care in the least bit.

Group 3

Sonia, after the seeming destruction of the dragonlords, sighs once as she shakes her head, before making her way over to those she was helping to fight with, and defend, running over to see to the others. She began drawing forth her healing magic--specifically, the Ice Soul itself. So many people need care, and back on their as quickly as possible after all. Her bloodstained whip is set on her beltloop as she unclasps her gauntlets, setting them on the ground nearby. Her eyes begin glowing as she gets near Winry and Minerva first, before her ice dragons begin to form out of herself, gliding from her body, and they are focused into the young lady's body as well, two more ice dragons floating lazily near her, circling the young woman otherwise.
Sonia Belmont restores Minerva. Oooo healing sparkles.

Shana hovers up into the middle of the room, gathering up her magical energy. "God, Give me Power!" Rainbow energy shone down from somewhere directly above her. "Gates of Heaven!" Immediately, a bright white pillar of energy shot down from the ceiling from SOMEWHERE, forming into a pair of angel wings that were significantly smaller than the giant ones Shana usually used for this spell. "Here, let me help!"

Shana restores Minerva. Oooo healing sparkles. Shana restores Inutaisho. Oooo healing sparkles. Winry Rockbell restores Optimus Prime. Oooo healing sparkles. Rachel Grey has lowered her current HP 30 points, from 24 to -6. <Union-IC> Mario ahs. "Thank you!" Maya now moves to cast a healing spell on Niv to help his wounds. "Easy Niv, you did very well my friend. Now rest we got more to do...." Maya restores Niv-Mizzet. Oooo healing sparkles.

In the room with the screams, once again Kefka proves that he can be a benevolent god. (Well. Only where his entertainment is concerned.) "UWAHA! UWAHAHAHAHA! UWAHAHAHAHA! You are correct. I will do as I please. ...And you WILL continue to entertain me for as long as I desire! UWAHAHA! UWAHAAHAHAHAHA! UWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Both Isamu's and Duo's mech rise off of the ground, parts flying back into them, not just one at a time, before they're all almost Halfway restored.

As for Rachael, a bilious green light hovers around her body, and she is restored at least partly as well. (You all go back to half ye Koed people.)

Gideon restores Freya. Oooo healing sparkles. <Union-IC> Shana says, "It's getting hard to stay a Dragoon. I'm going to turn back." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Do it. Take a rest." Isamu Dyson is'nt bleeding -too- badly. UN Spacey suits got some nifty ways of not being breached by debris. He is however only semi-concious "Nnnrhg..."
Inutaisho restores Stephen Vandal. Oooo healing sparkles. Duo Maxwell has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 0 Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 50 points, from 100 to 50. Inutaisho has changed his stats. Rachel Grey has reset her combat status to default. Her HP was -6 Rachel Grey has lowered her current HP 50 points, from 100 to 50. Niv-Mizzet grunts a little, then peers up at Maya, looking a bit worried. His eyes start looking around after that, looking for someone? It probably isn't hard to figure out who he's looking for.

Omega growls.

"No, clown, I am tired of your game. Hide in your hole behind your minions...but they will not save you."

Stephen Vandal has lowered his current HP 13 points, from 51 to 38. Minerva nods. "Danke, Shana, Sonia..." she rolls her shoulders. Still a bit sore, but ... she feels like she's ready for round two. Which, is a very good thing, considering the spooky creepy voice that just echoed through the area. "I think he's insane." she says to no one in particular, straightening. "Now. Let's get down to some REAL healing." she walks over to Isamu, and lays a bleeding hand against his exposed skin, which at this point, is his cheek once more. Minerva restores Isamu Dyson. Oooo healing sparkles.

Shannon hovers into the air a little then starts to fly around the room, checking to see if there's any way out. She makes sure she's thorough, eventually stopping once she reaches the roof. She drops back down to ground level and sighs, "We're stuck here." She shields her herself from Shana's spell then sits down on the floor near the others.

-- Duo Maxwell looking, Duo blinks, "You have got to be kidding me," he says as he puts his hand to his head as he sighs and winces fromt he pain. "AH!" he says as he looks around and spots a soldier in Rihard's group. "Hey," he says to him. "Wrap my head."

Shana then floats down to somewhere near the most of group 1, setting down gently with a few flaps of her wings. A shine came from her armor, blinding for just a moment. With a strange *BZEEEEEM-PSSHT* noise...the light died down and the Dragoon Armor had disappeared. Her voice was weak for a moment. "You're...welcome." Then she fell to one knee, breathing in with large, controlled breaths before standing up.

A soft glow flares up around Shana, spears of bright white light lancing out from somewhere near her chest. The light completely envelops her...and a few moments later dies down. The White-Silver Dragoon armor has disappeared completely and reformed into Shana's normal clothing. Shana has changed her armor mode to Normal Sleeping bags, a few tents, and food appears in the middle of the room. Freya stands up, groaning feeling a little better from healing. "Thank you." She makes her way over to a spot standing in the sunlight.. "Hmm...." Inutaisho has changed his stats.
Inutaisho restores Inuyasha. Oooo healing sparkles. Inutaisho has changed his stats.
Kefka's Tower - <World of Ruin> (Location #1)

A giant tower made of rubble, filled with a bajillion monsters, a few traps, and a lot of annoying pathways. ...What?! That's not good enough for you? Fine! Kefka's tower is a giant cylindrical structure made of the ruins and rubble of several large cities, most notably his hometown, Vector, the ruins of the floating continent, and several other things ... which are a bit grisly to mention. The structure stretches hundreds of stories into the air above the World of Ruin, and has no visible openings at the base, but rather has three relatively clear patches at the top of the tower that one could conceivably land by parachute, or have small flying vehicles land on. Inside the tower numerous howls and screams of pain echo from every direction, lost souls? Monsters? Tortured humans? Or just victims of the Mad god? No one can say, other then that they're a constant companion everywhere throughout the gigantic structure. Three long pathways twine their way through the tower, past hundreds of monsters (both living and dead), several giant locked doors, and finally past the (former) Goddesses of War and Magic. At the end of it all is a giant throne room, filled with both a malevolent power and a presence strong enough to make the greatest of warriors drop to their knees from the sheer pressure of the madness and rage in this room.

Welcome to the Throne of Kefka. UWAHA! UWAHAHA! UWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Contents (1 player not shown) Exits Amelia <Military> <WOR> World of Ruin Black Arachnia <spider> Duo Maxwell <spacesuit> Freya <normal> Gideon <transport> Inutaisho <Standard> Inuyasha <Normal> Isamu Dyson <YF-19> Kefka <Kefka> Mario <regular> Maya <Junker> MewTwo Alpha <Mewtwo> Minerva Neclord Niv-Mizzet <Dragon> Omega <Nightmare> Optimus Prime <Standard> Rachel Grey Reliant Rhode Kal'daka <Dark Knight> Richard Stadler <combat> Shana <Normal> Shannon <SR Tactical> Solid Snake <Thebox> Sonia Belmont <priestess> Stephen Vandal <Metal Abomination> Winry Rockbell <coveralls>
Rachel Grey gasps and convulses as the sickly green light engulfs her. She flops onto her side and retches up crimson, then starts to visibly look better. "Wh-what happened?" she asks, looking confused. "Did we win?" Isamu Dyson has reset his combat status to default. His HP was -12 Isamu Dyson has lowered his current HP 50 points, from 100 to 50.
-- Duo Maxwell looks as the soldier wraps his head and he sighs, "Man," he says a she looks. "Ok, who here besides me and Winry can repair Mobile Suits and are Techs?" he asks everyone. Rick is still on his radio, talking to whoevers on the other end with a debating tone, when Kefka blurts out with his meglomanic speech and chatter. Rick waits a bit, then goes back to the radio. "No, sir. That was no one important. Someone we'll be killin' in a day or so. Okay, look, I don't care if they ain't trained t' unit spec, as long as they know tactics an' can fire a goddamn rifle." Gideon changed his armor mode to pedestrian.
No sooner had she left, that the young private is back at her commander's side.
"Eh, Sir, it seems everyone else has the injured covered. Let me take care of your wounds."
Amelia kneels down and covers Rick's injuries with her palms, whispering the incantation and bathing the injuries in healing light. Amelia restores Richard Stadler. Oooo healing sparkles. Minerva walks over to Duo. "So what now? He lets us heal, then we go into round three?" she asks him softly. "Is he actually making a game of this?" just the thought hurts. "I ... don't know how to repair, but..." a determined look crosses her face. "But I can learn now, and be ready for next time. Teach me, so I can help, when repairs are started." Reliant goes home. Reliant leaves the World of Ruin.

looks at the Private with raised eyebrows for a second, as she goes after his various nicks, scratches, and cuts. He gives an approving nod once she's done, and points to the circling unit. "I need ya treatin' them next." He says.

Fleece is in that group. Joy. Isamu Dyson nrrhgs and forces himself up. "I'll...kill that...Insane clown laugh. Tear it out of his throat..." he moves towards the YF-19 again.

Gideon finishes helping Mario and Freya heal up, and he stumbles down and surveys the madness. He walks toward the Gundam. "How's your lass lookin?" he asks Duo. "Mine is a little worse for wear, but I think she'll hold together. Can't take too much more of that fight though."

Niv-Mizzet is simply -exausted- at this point, enough that when he tries to stand that.. he doesn't have very much luck, flopping back down rather roughly. Again his gaze just peers at Maya and over everyone else.. still searching..
"Of course, Sir."
Despite having a few cuts and bruises on her own face, Amelia smiles softly, displaying her usual cheerful self even after all that's happpened.
She moves over to the circling unit, and begins healing them one by one. It's like a brilliant little light show. Maya pauses for a moment ot down the contents of a elixir from her home world and then goes to see who else she can help. But She's pretty drined herself.. Maya restores Maya. Oooo healing sparkles.
Imagine everyone in Rick's unit putting on a pair of sunglasses.
-- Duo Maxwell looks and nods as he touches his head, "Yea," he says. "He did this last night," he states to her. "I need something," he says. "I have a headache." he says as he looks dead tired. "Looks liek I will not be sleeping tonight," he says to her. "Go get some rest Mina," he states. "You need it more then I do," he says. "But first," he says as he walks over and climbs onto his Gundam, and powering it up, looks and the suit stands and then moves and sits dow, and powers down again. Duo exits and sighs, opening a hatch and jumping down, wincing as he lands, his hand on his head. "Yea, no rest tonight," he says to himself as he walks over to Mina and looks, "Well, another night of no sleep," he says. "And this time, without parts," he says to him. "Unless, I grab the parts from that Mecha," he says to him. "And I really need to get this headache taken care of," and the wrap is decent, but it is red, where the cut is in his head. "I'll have ot have it rewrapped," he says to them. Rachel Grey stumbles over to those of her group. "Hey. I think I'm still alive," she says, sounding exhausted. "What do we do now?" MewTwo Alpha grabs the nearest seat he can, tail flicking. 'I've only been here for two hours, and already I hate this Kefka guy.' Freya is looks content standing in the beam of sunlight oddly.. Black Arachnia comments as she weaves her web over the door, "You're in plentiful company ..." Winry Rockbell restores Optimus Prime. Oooo healing sparkles.

Shannon sighs quietly as she flops back and lies on the ground. Her clothes shift around her into something more comfortable and she stares up towards the ceiling, "Well, atleast this place is big..." Shannon changed her armor mode to Casual. Niv-Mizzet grunts a little, but at least manages a smile when he sees Rachel's alright, "I think we can all say that.. Mewtwo.." Maya looks to Rchael for a moment and sighs "We rest and recover then make ready for the battle ahead." She points to the doors "It's not over yet...." She the slumos "If anyone wants some healing just ask"

"Same here," Gideon agrees with Mewtwo, leaning against the DeathScythe. "What is with this lad anyway? It's like he thinks we are in some sort of game. I need a beer."

A glance is tossed briefly towards the end point of the laugh, Sonia electing not to say much of anything, at the moment. She does make her way through the others, as best as she can, not so much healing directly, but she is allowing a restorative aura to those in Richard's unit, to assist as best as she can, ice dragons slipping in, out and around, the woman's eyes glowing a faint, icy tone as she heals what she can, before directing some of her energy inwards.
-- Duo Maxwell yea," he says. "This is a game to him," he says.
"I'm sure all of us have started to dislike him very much since he arrived here." Amelia calls out, while finishing up healing the rest of Rick's unit, then she collaspes on her knees, feeling drained herself now that she's spent a huge chunk of her magical energy. She had ignored the maniacal laugh. Minerva shakes her head. "Duo, hold still a second. I can at least take care of that headache for you." her hand glides across the blade of her sword, draws blood, and she lifts it up to press over the bandage, making sure that her blood at least touches his through the bandage. There's a faint seepage of red light between her fingers, and poof. cut on her hand is gone, and at least the dull ache from his head should have faded. "You kidding? I'm relatively fresh, you're the one who looks exhausted. Now, let's go scavange that mecha." she smiles brightly, the faint edge of madness touching her eyes. But just faintly. "There's a part of me... that thinks of this as home." she admits. "It won't just feel right if I sleep straight through." Rachel Grey shakes her head. "I just want to sleep. Then eat something. Then sleep again," she says, flumping down next to the dragon. She looks down at herself and the bloodied rents in her clothes. "I look like a mess," she mutters, concentrating. After a few minutes, the ends of the tears start to reweave a few millimeters. And she clutched her head. "Gah!" You have been healed for 11 points. Minerva restores Duo Maxwell. Oooo healing sparkles. Sonia Belmont restores Inutaisho. Oooo healing sparkles.
Shannon's eyes look around the large expanse of the room and she smirks, "Well, atleast the flows of magic here are fun to watch... Otherwise I think i'd get so bored i'd destroy myself just to get out of here."
<Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I have done all I can tonight.." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Feeling better, Inutaisho?" And before Amelia can get too comfortable in her posture, she's being dragged up, by Fleece. "Yay! I saw you do /magic/! Real magic! It was sooo cool! Like, like... like Merlin!" First mage that comes to her head. He's attempting to drag Amelia toward Snake. "C'mon, c'mon! This a big chance for us! We get t' ask /Snake/ questions! C'mon, you have questions, don't you? Well, we can ask them!" Niv-Mizzet winces a little at Rachel, peering a bit at her since she had a seat near him, "Rachel... what's wrong?"
For the record, Sonia made her way to Inutaisho, and having seen him, allowed a pair of her ice soul's dragons to glide over, and heal him with the restorative, cooling energies.
Inuyasha got up after being restored somewhat by Inutaisho's cut. He sheaths Tessaiga before simply walking off, waving a bit to his father. His real agenda was Sonia, who was busy healing others. He approached her and stared at her again, this time it wasn't his usual mindless stare. It was one with intensity. Once her attention was gotten he states calmly. "You saved me. Thank you."
Then he goes to walk off somewhere else, probably to go check on the exits. <Union-IC> Shana says, "I feel sick in here." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Not surprising, this place is pretty dark and you're a rather light person..."
"ACK!"
The young private was getting comfortable, until she suddenly finds herself being dragged by a very excited lady, and she nearly chokes.
"Hey!" Amelia gasps and protests, flailing about.
"LET GO!" <Union-IC> Amelia gasps and chokes. "Hey! LET GO!" <Union-IC> Mario says, "I don't like-a this place, either. It's-a more forboading then-a Bowser's castle..." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Smells worse then Yang's room." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "This is getting ridiculous."

Gideon reaches into his jacket and pulls a flask from it. He unscrews the top of the metal container and then takes a swig. "This is my friend that helps get rid of all kinds of ailments here," he claims. He looks around at the mayhem, and passes the flask to Duo. "Care for some?"

<Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, frightened voice: Ahh! Ahh! Sorry! Really sorry! But don'tcha have questions! <Union-IC> Many speaking as one, Stephen Vandal says, "Place is ju' like back home. Bleh." Rachel Grey winces, leaning back against Niv. "I think I pulled something. In here," she says, poking the side of her head. "The Phoenix is... isn't whole. Something's wrong with her, and she tried to consume me. Remake me, maybe. Something. I don't know if I can do that again, at least any time soon. Not without giving myself a massive stroke." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "What questions? I was resting!"" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice: "But, but, but... There's SNAKE! ANd he's /right here/! Isamu Dyson climbs into the YF-19 and practically falls into the seat. You almost think being in there gave him... not just comfort, but some sort of tangible connection to the mech. But the 19 isn't one of those machines with a heart or soul...

...right?

<Union-IC> Gideon says, "I say we blast our way out of this place and get Sisko to nuke it from orbit or something." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "....yes, so? What's your point?" <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "DESTROY." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Well go ahead, try blasting your way out... Probably wont work." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice: "We can ask him QUESTIONS! <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Don't get us killed in the process."
-- Duo Maxwell yea," he says. "This is a game to him," he says as he looks and thinks. "Ok," he says. "Lets get to work on Optimus, then on the YF-19 and then on my Gundam," he says as he looks at Winry. "I am so going on vacation after this," he comments. "If I had a spare suit, I would so use the self destruct," he comments to them. "But then Winry would kill me, and so would most of the others," he says as he stops and looks as he feels the healing and blinks. "Thnak you," he says to her as he nods and thinks. "Yea, lets get to work on that Mecha," an dhe walks. "Oh, if I fall asleep, don't wake me up." he adds as he looks. "Hey Optimus, you want me to work on ya some?" <Union-IC> Inutaisho says, "I would advise against the nuking of this place." <Union-IC> Amelia , impatiently, "Questions about WHAT?!" <Union-IC> Guile says, "...You do realize that Snake talks on this channel fairly frequently, and is rather open?" <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "Wouldn't you prefer to meet me?" <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "KILL." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice: "About stuff! And, yeah, but, but, he's right /here/! Stephen Vandal butts-out his cigar once he's done with it, then stretches-out on the ground - reaching his hands around to the back of his head and using them as a pillow. This causes the red wyrm to ponder lightly, considering. "Mmhmm.. I understand. When you did that I could sense something wasn't quite right about it," he rumbles wearily, curling about some. She was hurt, he didn't see any harm in protecting her for a night. "Then do not risk it," he suggests, "Simply continue to try and learn about the ability you have. Sooner or later you may be able to control it better." <Union-IC> Amelia , darkly, "Ms. Fleece. Let me rest. All right?" You should listen to her. <Union-IC> Rachel Grey says, "Yes, he is. We all are. And we all hurt. Sit down, please, and let us rest." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, sad female voice. "Oh, okay. Fine. I'll ask later. Hupm." <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "I suggest a tranquilizer dart for her." <Union-IC> Amelia mutters. "No more magic for you." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "We tried, once. Didn't work." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Huhn. She can come look at the 19 if she likes." <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "Did you try Dragon Tranquilizer?"

"For those who might be interested, the Element will fit ten. So anyone who wants to have a good bed tonight, it's first come first serve," Gideon informs the group. "I dunno how many other beds we got, but I know I can't fit everyone."

<Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "Note to self: Have Morg invent Dragon Tranquilizer."
Shannon continues to lie on the ground then quietly bahs, "I need something to do..." She sits up and looks over towards Duo, "Hey, do you guys need help with the repairs or anything? I can create any tool you might need... And get into places you cant."
<Union-IC> Niv-Mizzet says, "Already done." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, sad happy voice. "A YF-19? Cool!" Minerva nods, sheathes her sword, and, still wearing her armor, starts to hum a very cheerful tune as she follows Duo over. Weird Al fans would recognise the tune as "Christmas at Ground Zero." Social situations? That's Mina's balliwick. Situations like this.... this ... is Valor's home. A different part of her relaxes as the more civilized parts of her brain curls up in a corner and whimpers. "Let's get to work." Minerva nods, sheathes her sword, and, still wearing her armor, starts to hum a very cheerful tune as she follows Duo over. Weird Al fans would recognise the tune as "Christmas at Ground Zero." Social situations? That's Mina's balliwick. Situations like this.... this ... is Valor's home. A different part of her relaxes as the more civilized parts of her brain curls up in a corner and whimpers. "Let's get to work." <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 says, "I see. Note to self: Have Morg turn plushies into a deadly weapon."

Omega sits down, placing his back against the wall. His eyes clothes, seemingly resting...

<Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Guys, can we calm down. Some of us are running on little to no sleep and are goign to be working through the night to get the vehicles up and running. Any help will be welcomed, but please, less aurging."
Sonia ventured a quiet gaze towards Inuyasha as he came.. and then went. She didn't say anything in response, though a faint smile came to her lips as he wandered away, though after a moment? She did murmur, "You're welcome." though probably not loud enough to be heard by Inuyasha. Yeahright.
Her healing duties finishes, she set down by herself, with a sleeping back and tent, and began to clean herself off, wincing slightly as she undid a boot of hers, self-treating her own wound there. All told, despite how tired she seemed, Sonia wasn't that badly injured. Probably a good things. She STILL did not like being in this place.. it was like Castlevania, but a whole lot worse. Her thoughts, all the same, drifted to a very particular man in her life, whom she rather badly missed right now..
<Union-IC> Inuyasha idly, "If we needed to get out I could tear a hole through this thing without a problem, but if we're not being attacked, I guess here is as good of a place to rest as any. At least until we kill that clown."

Gideon perks up at Shannon's offer. "If you help fix the Element, you get first pick of beds," he offers.

<Union-IC> Minerva says, "some high energy MREs wouldn't go amiss either." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "She's the one who grabbed me without warning. And I'm drained from healing a lot of people." Rachel Grey chuckles tiredly. "Oh, I already know it. I was part of it. So was Mom. The Phoenix almost killed her, and brought her back. And me. It just, it hurt coming over or something. Like a wounded God screaming in my soul when I tried to touch her," she says, curling into the warmth of the dragon. "I don't think there are words than can quite explain it. Sorry." She sighs and shakes her head. "I think I'm too tired to eat." <Union-IC> Guile says, "Is there anyone who can repair on the level of Duo? At the least, maybe we could have two shifts of working through the night, so some people can get some sleep." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I think I shouldn't use too much more magic, but If anyone is still hurt, I have some medical supplies." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I'm all right. I just need to rest." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice. "Sorry! I really am sorry! Here, I can give you my best knife, show you hoe sorry I am!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...."
Shannon looks over at Gideon and smirks, "I don't sleep, so don't need a bed." She then stands up and brushes any dust off her clothes." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "It's a German one!" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice said that. Niv-Mizzet shakes his head, "Its quite alright, Rachel, was it? We're all quite fatigued from what just happened. I'm no young 'buck' myself, after all. I've seen a lot of things in ten thousand years, what you did was something different, something unique. Something I truly enjoy about these new worlds is that. You will live on, i'm sure we all will. We've earned our rest for the night, after all. You can rest right there if you like. <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I can repair, I dunno if better or worse than Duo, but I'll do my part. I don't think I took quite as bad a beatin' as some of us on account I'm Irish." <Union-IC> Amelia freaks out. "GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "The very same. I could use the company too." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice. "AHHH! AHHH! SORRY!" Inuyasha, of course, hears Sonia's murmur, just doesn't respond to it. Those ears aren't just for show, afterall. Maybe a proper 'thank you' later when their lives weren't in some kind of roulette. For now he was busy knocking on the doors, determining just how hard they would be to break down, should the situation worsen. <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female transmits the sound of a knife being thrown into a stone wall. "Ahhh!" <Union-IC> Rachel Grey says, "Let me sleep, and I can try to help repair things. Don't expect me to do wiring or circuit boards, but I can rebuild armor and the like." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Specialist, she doesn't like knives. Just get some shut-eye." Maya is already out but she's not going to be sleeping well the place is starting to get to her. The Blue haried woman is now dozing sotly leaned up against some wreckage. She's pretty darn tired it seems, she might wake up in a bit.... <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Ugh, Mr. Stadler? Can I cast sleep on her? Please? It's strong enough to affect a dragon." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice. "..." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice. "YAY! I GET MAGIC CAST ON ME!" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "...hooo boy." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice. "C'mon, do it! Do it!" <Union-IC> Amelia says, "...." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "That's a yes, Private." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Would you /please/ be quiet?" <Union-IC> Rachel Grey says, "Christ, just zap her. Please." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "With pleasure. SLEEP~" <Union-IC> Richard Stadler -A chippy, female voice Zzzzzzzzzs. <Union-IC> Amelia sighs. "Finally. Quiet." <Union-IC> Shana says, "You need to teach me that one." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Another time, Shana." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Thanks... She can certainly go waaay too far..." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Sorry folks. She's a rather new hire." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "It really worked..." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "I told you. It can affect a dragon." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Could probably use that sleep spell to make sure some of the people here actually get the rest they need, force em into a deep sleep to let their bodies recover while the rest of us take watch."

Gideon checks his watch. It's broken. "Crap," he mumurs. He taps it a few times, and adjusts his pistol on his belt. "Well who wants to take tha first shift repairing?" he sighs, having a feeling that since he is one of the low men on the totem pole, it's going to be him.

<Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Look at her and tell me she isn't more energetic then a dragon..." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Amelia, you an' Fleece got th' last watch. I'll take first with onna th' corporals. Get some sleep." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "....I'll need their consent in order do to that." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Yes, Sir." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Stadler, forget putting them on watch. I don't sleep. I'll take the entire watch." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I am not too tired yet. I will stay up and help for a bit, then go to sleep." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Well, I'd appreciate it when it's time for me to sleep, kay Amelia? This place isn't designed for easy resting."
-- Duo Maxwell looks and grins. "Mina, if you are tired, get into my Gundam and sleep in the cockpit," he says to her. "Deathscythe will keep you safe." he says to her as he looks at the Mecha. "This is going to be fun," he says as he starts to climb up the Mecha and look at it. He then begins to remove armor plating with a tool he has and drops the plating to the floor. "Ok, take off any plating that is in good condition," and he yawns. "Sorry, and then we cna go through and sort everything out and put it on the units. It's a quick fix, but it will work." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I'll keep something of a look out, as much as I can.. there's little activity that I can sense." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "No problem, Minerva." <Union-IC> Shana says, "This place...monsters or not, something about it makes me feel bad." There's a very brief distortion in space near the group before the form of Jehuty phases into view again. The Orbital Frame is looking righteously beat up once again as it hovers over to an open spot and drops down to one knee.
Inside the cockpit Julian is definitely not feeling top notch and is dealing with a handy little coughing fit that's cropped up, not to mention a little blood that's trying to escape along with it. <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I'll help with first watch, so when the watch changes let's do it then. Thanks, Amelia." <Union-IC> Richard Stadler says, "Negative, Shannon. I'll keep my men on watch to supplement." <Union-IC> Amelia says, "Anytime." <Union-IC> Amelia yawns~ <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Ugh...everyone make it through okay?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Alright, you're call... I'm still gonna be awake during the entire watch though." MewTwo Alpha leans against the wall. 'This is one annoying trip.' <Union-IC> Shana says, "Some of us better than others, but we are all okay." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Hey Julian, how're you doing?" <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell says, "Yea, if you say that 45 minutes of sleep over 48 hours is good enough." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Pretty good for getting rushed by zombie hordes, giant monsters and god knows what else." Minerva smiles at Duo. "Not yet I aint." she crawls a little bit up the mecha, and starts examining some of the plating. She can remove armor well. A bit of focused energy in her sword, and the welds holding the leg plating on the Mecha she's looking at falls apart. "You need the sleep more than I do. I'll get the plating off, and YOU hit the sack, mister!"
Shannon floats over to the Deathscythe and looks over it curiously, examining the damage. She smirks at Minerva and nods, "She's right, you need to sleep Duo."
<Union-IC> Amelia yawns and drifts off. "Just wake me up if someone needs the Sleep spell.....zzzzzz."
-- Duo Maxwell looks at her and blinks, "Huh?" he says. "I'm fine," he says. "I can rest after this is over with, and we get out of here and back to New Washington." he says to her as he works. <Union-IC> Maya snores lightly
After putting the annoying and loud specialist to a deep slumber, Amelia slips into her sleeping bag and drifts off to dreamland next.
Zzzzzzzzzzz. <Union-IC> Solid Snake snaps out of some snoring. "Someone call for me...?"

Gideon pushes himself off from the foot, and watches the plate fall to the ground. "I'll see what I have left in way of nanites, but I think I'll need to get some scrap to regenerate them." He heads to the ship and comes back carrying an old brown bag of tools after a moment. He stops at the base of the mecha, and then throws the bag over his shoulder. He crawls up not far from Minerva and examines the workings. He's always had a gift with this sort of thing. "I'm sorry," he says to Minerva, "I don't think I've caught your name yet lass," he says.

<Union-IC> Amelia snoozes peacefully. <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "No sir." <Union-IC> Solid Snake says, "Huh. Coulda sworn I heard someone calling my name a little bit ago." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Sorry Snake, I did ask for someone, but you're not pretty enough to fit the bill" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian gives a pained chuckle <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Must've been your imagination, sir. Don't worry, we've got things covered." Kefka has reset his combat status to default. His HP was -12 Kefka missed Duo Maxwell with his Faint boy Faint! epic attack! (New Mechanic) You suffer 43 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Faint boy Faint! epic attack! <New Mechanic> You suffer 48 points of damage. Kefka hit Duo Maxwell with his Faint boy Faint! epic attack! <New Mechanic> Duo Maxwell has been knocked out! Duo Maxwell has reset his combat status to default. His HP was -30 Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 50 points, from 100 to 50. Minerva shakes her head. "Duo, trust me. I may still be in High School, but it was a medical one. I've read some studies. You are drunk off of lack of sleep, and will not do your gundam or yourself justice in the battle tomorrow." she makes her way up next to Duo, using her sword to carefully slide between the armored plating and the frame, working it loose with a thin stream of energy. "I'm Minerva, the Child of Valor. And," she grins a bit wryly. "The daughter of an army mechanic back in the good ol US of A. He just worked on Bradleys though." she's slowly and carefully moving her sword around under the plating. "So, any plans that would help me knock Duo out and let him get his rest?" Minerva shakes her head. "Duo, trust me. I may still be in High School, but it was a medical one. I've read some studies. You are drunk off of lack of sleep, and will not do your gundam or yourself justice in the battle tomorrow." she makes her way up next to Duo, using her sword to carefully slide between the armored plating and the frame, working it loose with a thin stream of energy. "I'm Minerva, the Child of Valor. And," she grins a bit wryly. "The daughter of an army mechanic back in the good ol US of A. He just worked on Bradleys though." she's slowly and carefully moving her sword around under the plating. "So, any plans that would help me knock Duo out and let him get his rest?" Duo Maxwell has reset his combat status to default. His HP was 50 Duo Maxwell has lowered his current HP 39 points, from 100 to 61. Shannon floats over next to Duo and smirks, while still looking at the mech, "Optimus probably has a medkit with some sedatives." <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 plays a random audioclip, to disguise that it was him. "Snake?" "Yeah, I'm Rachel. Rachel Grey," the young mutant says, trying to stifle a yawn. "And thank you. I haven't had to do something like this since that time in the Hidden Land. I'd say I was getting too old for this, but I'm no longer old. I think." She raises herself up enough to look at the people making repairs. "If you wake me in a few hours, I can help out. Put the armor plates out, along with debris. I can put it back together." She then sort of falls over, almost instantly unconscious. <Union-IC> *Beep!* Spybot 5000 then desynchs. Minerva grins up at Duo. "You know, you were quite stunning out there." she tries to circle around towards where Duo is working. "So..." she asks softly, "What is it going to take to get you to come to bed? Can't have you staying up forever after all..." there's a wicked gleam in her eyes.

Gideon grins, "I gotta get his back on this one, Minerva, I got a baby too, an' she's a high class girl too. Don't think I'll be getting much sleep 'til she's back in order, but I'll do it in the morning. Let people get some use out of her for beds. Gideon O'Byrne, stubborn son of an Irishman and grew up in Belfast til the Unification." He eyes the wiring. "Well this will be simple enough," he says, pulling a socket wrench from the bag and tightening a connection. "Too bad they can't all be that easy."

<Union-IC> Sonia Belmont mnhs quietly. <Union-IC> Amelia zzzzzz. <Union-IC> Mario yawns.
-- Duo Maxwell looks up and blinks, "I guess," he says. "Just doing my job," he adds in reference to Duo being stunning. "I don't know," he says as he thinks and yawns again. "All I know, is that I need to get my buddy fixed, and the others with Winry's help before tomorrow, or we are goign to be in a world of hurt again. I really want to hurt this guy, and for the first time, I am not wanting to even hold back," and he is just in the right position to have whatever Mina is planning to happen. He is tired and is not goign to see it coming. Maya mutters in her sleep. "No... Julian, don't paint Jehuty hot pink...." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson Hnn. Niv-Mizzet chuckles a little at her, simply curling enough to give her a sort of draconic shelter. She needed her rest, he thinks, "Sleep well then.. we have a lot to do tomorrow..."

Gideon stops tightening the socket and looks up. "Hold on you two, it's been a long day, maybe we shouldn't be jumpin' on our relationships too much. That's not what we need, just make all the decisions we gotta make in battle harder. Ya gotta be thinkin' straight," he says in an Irish preachy voice.

<Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Doing better over there, Isamu..?"

Amelia continues to snooze peacefully in her sleeping bag.
Then she suddenly wakes up with a start, pointing straight head. "PREPARE TO DIE, VILLAIN!"
Then she falls back to sleep. <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell yawns, and the sound of armor planting being removed is heard. <Union-IC> Shana eeps, possibly at AMelia. <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Yeah... It's easier to sleep in the '19..." Shannon floats around a little more then sit on Deathscythe, "Besides, this place could be playing havoc with your emotions..." She snickers, "Not that i'm disagreeing." <Union-IC> Shana says, "That was different." <Union-IC> Amelia suddenly wakes up with a start. 'PREPARE TO DIE, VILLAIN!', then falls back asleep.
-- Duo Maxwell looks up and blinks at Gideon, "Relationship?" he says as hejust set himself up for it. MewTwo Alpha ponders whether or not to go to sleep. It's been a frustrating day, to put it simply. And he's not sure what to do now. <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "..." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont sighs, "I'd rather much be home right now.." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Me too." Minerva nods. Is he that clueless? Missing the innuendo? He's a teenage guy, he has to have SOME idea of what she meant... UGH!!!! MEN!!!!! Well, she's going to try anyway. Not something violent. "You try thinking of something that'll get him to go to sleep then without resorting to violence." With that, she'll lunge in and KISS Duo on the lips if he dosen't do anything to evade. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Me too... Definetly..." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Well who wouldn't?.. but it's always been easier to sleep in here for me." <Union-IC> Amelia would agree, if she were awake.. <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Yeah...it's easier to...sleep while in the cockpit when you're away. At least when you're a pilot" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I just wanna go home so i'm not stuck here in this room... It's so... restrictive." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I want to go back home. But, we have things to do first..." Minerva hit Duo Maxwell with her First Kiss of SMOOCHIES!!! tag attack! <New Mechanic> <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "Used to sleeping out and alone, setting camp for what I hunt, but.. hnh." <Union-IC> Shana says, "You would rather be home too, I think?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Well I don't think you'd want to be alone here, Sonia..." Inuyasha is sitting off by himself. He just stares at the love-fest above. "Pff...kids." <Union-IC> Shana says, "Nobody would like being here. It feels wrong."
-- Duo Maxwell blinks as he turns back and is tackled and kissed. His eyes open wide and the armor tool in his hand is dropped and he is.... stunned. He stays that way, and then closes his eyes as he was just kissed, and infront of people too... Oh boy, but he is so tired, that he did hear the innuendo and he is not clueless, just determined to get Deathscythe ready and so he is not thinking straight. Like the other Gundam Pilots, he is in his serious mindset and so he sits there. The next thing that happens, is his arms drop and he falls back and is now out cold as he lays there. <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont mnhs. "No. Hard to really.. rest here. I can't help thinking something.. is going to happen even worse tommorow." <Union-IC> Many speaking as one, Stephen Vandal says, "...Don' feel 'wrong' t' me. 'Familiar's the better word." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson snickers "Nice going Duo..." <Union-IC> Stephen Vandal says, "OOC: Oops! Ignore that previous chantitle." <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "You guys just get some sleep. I'll take first watch. I'm not really all that tired anyway. Tessaiga did all the work." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell is out, he did not even hear that. <Union-IC> Amelia is still asleep, thankfully. <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Whew. The things you have to do to get some people to go to sleep...." <Union-IC> Speaking Telepathically, MewTwo Alpha says, "Fine with me. I need the rest anyway."
Shannon laughs quietly as she watches Duo's reaction to the kiss. She smirks at Minerva, "You're one knockout girl, that's for sure."
Amelia is asleep, thankfully. If she saw that, she'd be a little jealous.. MewTwo snickers. 'Bad joke, miss.' <Union-IC> Shannon says, "I'm gonna be up all night so if people should just get some rest... Pretty much all of you need it."

Gideon sighs and shakes his head, going back to his tightening. "Yeah," he said. "Like that." He's only 19 himself, but he hasn't been in the battle as long as the others have. He shimmies up the Gundam. "I think this whole thing is gonna hurt as bad out of battle as much as in battle by the time we're all done with it.

Shana had been sitting and looking around. Her cheeks flush as she notices what was going on over with Mina and Duo but politely says nothing. However, she then...more or less ugged herself, wrapping her own arms around her torso and sighed. "She is so bold," Shana mumbled, but seemed more surprised than embarrassed.

<Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian transmits the perodic and zen-like *bloop* sounds of a rigorous pong game. Minerva catches Duo before he can hurt himself, passing out on the side of a mecha like that. and cradles him gently as she carries him into the cockpit and arranges him into the pilot's seat. "Sleep well." one more soft kiss is laid on his forhead, and then she closes up the cockpit from the outside and looks at it fondly for a few minutes before going back to pulling off plate armor from the other mecha. Can't sleep yet. She'll get a bit more of this done before she rests... <Union-IC> Shannon snickers, "Well since Snake appears to be sleeping... That must be Julian." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Mm...*bloop* *bloop* Need to do something" <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Pong." *blip* --->" <Union-IC> Minerva murmurs absentmindedly, "My first kiss... and I use it to knock out Duo so he can get some sleep..." the sound of armor plating hitting the floor echoes a litt.e <Union-IC> Shana says, "Um." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "Could be worse. Trust me." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Yeh, atleast Duo's a rather handsome guy." <Union-IC> Shana says, "I don't think that is a bad thing." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian *bloop* <--- <Union-IC> Shana's voice is very warm right now. Thinking good thoughts? "You are very bold though." <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Just go to sleep already. I'm not gonna be saving you guys tomorrow when you're too tired to stand." <Union-IC> Minerva blushes. "You're right, he is. And the way he just charged in on his Gundam, shouting about the God of Death has Returned from Hell.. *romantic sigh* <Union-IC> Shana giggles. <Union-IC> Inuyasha transmits a sigh as well, but it isn't a romantic sigh. Its one of annoyance. <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Eh, what can ya do?"

Gideon grins, overhearing Minerva's comment. "Not what ya expected?" he asks, checking behind another plate and finding a cracked gasket. "Ick, this is gonna be rough. He digs for a sealer in his bag. "I know I got some sealant in here somewhere..."

<Union-IC> Shannon says, "Oh that's right... medkit and sedatives... Hmmm..." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson *ba-bloop* ---> Huh? (Type "help" for help.) No such unique player: siusuke. <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian -*ba-ba-blip!* <--- <Union-IC> Minerva says, "Well, what I'm GOING to do is fight my hardest tomorrow. Prove to him I'm not some helpless damsel in distress. And maybe ... see if he likes me back." <Union-IC> Stephen Vandal says, "...Ain' that sweet... *mutters*" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian hehs, "Well...that's one of the better reasons for fighting I've heard. Just be sure you're lookin' the right way"
Shannon snickers quietly and continues to sit on the Deathscythe, trying to look for a way she can help.
<Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Is there something wrong with you or something?" <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Hmm, yes, getting distracted is not a good thing." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "I think it'd be a bad idea lass to let your emotions runaway with ya too much, ya end up thinkin' yer in love when ya really just under a lot of stress. This whole thing ends, and then you dunno what to do with all yerself." <Union-IC> Shana says, "...You are very different from me." No such unique player: susuke. <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson -*ba-ba-ba-blo-bloop* ---> <Union-IC> Minerva says, "I know. Relationships based off of stress related incidents never last. But they're nice while they are there." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian -*ba-bli-ba-ba-bli-blip!* <--- <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Just get done whatever you're gonna do and go to sleep already." <Union-IC> Shannon says, "Anyway, guys, if you're gonna keep talking along this way... Should probably move it over to the chatter channel." <Union-IC> Kenshiro says, "Maybe love will help Duo become a straight man." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson -*bli-ba-boop-ba-bii-blip* ---> <Union-IC> Kenshiro says, "He needs to work on his back."

Gideon calls down to Shannon. "Hey, um...you. I dunno yer name either. Could you run into my ship and see if I got some sealant? It should be in a yellow tube in the closet closest to the cockpit."

You will now hear messages on channel <O-Union>. <Union-IC> Minerva says, "And, I'll be looking the right way. They just got in a few lucky hits. Tomorrow I'll know what to expect." her voice sounds almost ... anticipatory. "There, got this bit of plating off. Now I'm gonna turn in. Can't do any more with my skill level.""
Shannon looks up at Gideon and smiles, nodding, "Sure." She floats up off the mech and into said ship. She comes back out soon after with the sealant, "This looks like it." She hands it to Gideon, "My name's Shannon, by the way." <Union-IC> Minerva says, "And, I'll be looking the right way. They just got in a few lucky hits. Tomorrow I'll know what to expect." her voice sounds almost ... anticipatory. "There, got this bit of plating off. Now I'm gonna turn in. Can't do any more with my skill level."" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian -*blooo-ba-ba-ba-biii-blooiiip!* <--- <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Gah. What is that annoying ringing in my ears. Is my radio broken?" <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Pong." <Union-IC> Duo Maxwell is asleep, and unlike the others, is not snoring. Although he does say something, "Mina..." he says as he sleeps. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz <Union-IC> Shannon says, "It's a video game." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson -*blii-bop-bi-bi-ba-bip-bip-bip-baaaaalop* ---> <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "Oh you mean like that noise box with the drawings that change by magic. What did Kagome call that...Tel...Telllll..." <Union-IC> Sonia Belmont says, "I think that's a television." MewTwo Alpha goes to sleep because there's nothing better to do

Gideon smiles and takes the sealant. "I'm Gideon," he says in his thick Irish accent. "It's good to make yer aquaintance," He pops open the tube and seals the gasket over. "Wish it could've been in a little more peaceful setting," he adds. "I don't mind sayin' the smell of all these dead things all over is starting to get to me." He touches up the edges. "That should hold it. Duo will need to get a new gasket when he gets back, hopefully that'll hold it for now."

Minerva lets a final peice of armor slide to the floor and sighs, rolling her shoulders. "Goodnight all." She calls out, tiredly crawling up to the Gundam's shoulder. She ends up curled up against the Gundam's head, wings folded tightly around her, just the tips of her toes sticking out from the feathery blanket. Dosen't take long for her to fall asleep, curled up on the shoulder of a machine of death, under the dominion of an insane god. <Union-IC> Inuyasha sighs. "I'm glad I've come to help. One of our soldiers is infatuated with another, and another one is watching the tel-le-vish-un." <Union-IC> Mario yawns. "I think-a I'm-a gonna try and sleep. Good night." <Union-IC> Inuyasha says, "No wonder this isn't going well." <Union-IC> Isamu Dyson says, "G'night plumber dude." <Union-IC> Gideon says, "Night Mario. Nice butt stompin' tonight." <Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "Sleep well Mario"
Shannon floats in the air next to Gideon and smirks, "Yeh, I turned off my sense of smell a while ago... This place doesn't bother me too much though." She looks over at Minerva, "Good night!"
<Union-IC> Mario say with a small chuckle. "Thank you." And then he dozes off. Inuyasha, of course, did not have the pleasure of turning off his nose, therefore the best he could do was breath through his mouth.
Sonia, for the record? Just inside a nice tent herself, for the most part, sitting up as she fixes and tends to herself. She's just.. not much for sleeping at the moment, despite how tired she felt, and mostly ignoring the noises and insanity from the others. Eventually, however, she is seen poking her head out her tent to peer at some of the others. "Be glad you can't sense the souls around this place, as much as they are, that's all Ihave to say here. The dead alone.." She withdraws her head back inside.

<Union-IC> Metalic voiced Julian says, "And back to getting my ass kicked at pong *blip*"

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 |Date of Scene=2006/06/25
 |Location=World of Ruin
-|Cast of Characters=Asteroth, Isamu Dyson, Duo Maxwell, Kefka, Amuro Ray, Julian, Rachel Grey, Xander Phoenix, Kuunvalo, Gideon, Shannon, Ivolt, Atma, Maya, Richard Stadler, Shana, Solid Snake, Stephen Vandal, Thionoxial, Amelia, Omega, Black Arachnia, Superion (Optimus Prime), Winry Rockbell, Minerva, Inutaisho, Neclord, Niv-Mizzet, Freya, MewTwo Alpha, Sonia Belmont
+|Cast of Characters=Asteroth, Isamu Dyson, Duo Maxwell, Kefka, Amuro Ray, Julian, Rachel Grey, Xander Phoenix, Kuunvalo, Gideon, Shannon, Ivolt, Atma, Maya, Richard Stadler, Shana, Solid Snake, Stephen Vandal, Cecilia Demonflame (Thionoxial), Amelia, Omega, Black Arachnia, Superion (Optimus Prime), Winry Rockbell, Minerva, Inutaisho, Neclord, Niv-Mizzet, Freya, MewTwo Alpha, Sonia Belmont, Rhode Kal'daka, Haywire, Shade Man
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-|Poses=Duo - Sunday, June 25, 2006, 8:28 PM – Assault on the World of Ruin
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      In liu of animal life, monsters have taken over almost all of the world, and encounters with large packs of them that prey on humans, monsters and visitors alike are very common here - in fact many times the groups of monsters come howling and tearing across the border to decimate nearby towns, wildlife, and just about anything else that they can claim for food.
      In the center of the world of ruin is a giant tower made of ruins and debris, the shattered remanants of cities, and the remains of a large continent.
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-Contents (1 player not shown)          Exits
-Amelia <Sorceress>                     <A>     Arena
-Amuro Ray <Jegan>                      <FT>    Fanatic's Tower
-Asteroth                               <KT>    Kefka's Tower
-Atma
-Duo Maxwell <deathscythe hell>
-Isamu Dyson <casual>
-Ivolt
-Julian <jehuty>
-Kefka <Kefka>
-Mario <regular>
-Maya <Junker>
-Richard Stadler <combat>
-Shana <Normal>
-Shannon <Casual>
-Solid Snake <Thebox>
-Stephen Vandal <Normal>
-Thionoxial <Cecilia Demonflame>
          Across the World of Ruin, a tension is growing in the air, A hunger, A desire more felt then sensed ... And Undead in their crypts begin to stir, monsters beneath the sea slowly float to the surface, dragons throw themselves to the heavens, and entire armies of monsters begin to march to the tower of the Mad-Pseudo-god.