444/OPERATION: SHUTDOWN

OPERATION: SHUTDOWN
Date of Scene:	18 August 2014
Location:	Namamura
Synopsis:	The Fight for the Valley of Namamura -- Yunomi Stadler comes to take back her home, fighting against the Planet Trade Organization headed by Gohan!
Cast of Characters:	15, 25, 37, 43, 172, 177, Fuki, 238, 272, 334, 359, 530

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Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
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    "This is Ensign Yunomi Stadler... I've spent the last seven years of my life living and serving in the Union, with my allies and my adoptive families. We've come so far together, so much farther than I could have imagined when I washed up in New Washington.Some of those who are listening have been at my side for as long, and have seen me grow into someone who Namamura can be proud of, someone whom you all can be proud of, and who I can be proud of being. You have been with me all this time, and for all your support I thank you.

    "To those who are about to fight at my side, thank you for your aid, and your loyalty. You were all chosen because I kn ow I could trust you to give your all in this venture. We will be deploying in a matter of minutes. I don't know what we'll be facing down there, or who we will be facing. I don't know what the valley will look like. We are dropping into the unknown in order to save the future of my people, and the refugees who call Namamura home. Our goal is to keep the village and caldera as intact as we can. The local Union-band frequency for this mission is 90.1 for tactical use. Be advised: Once I cancel the spell, you will all grow to your natural size within four seconds. There will be water and air displacement. You may feel vertigo as the world around changes..." and without more to add, she shakes her head, and adds a quiet 'Thank you' before handing the headset back to Estano, who switches frequencies and begins to talk to the pilot and copilot.

    "Are you ready, kid?" he asks, turning to Yunomi.

    The guardian gives a nod, and unclipping herself from the seat, she stands, brushes off her armor, and gently lifts O-Togi, keeping the huge sake jug to her shoulder as she walks to the back of the aircraft, reaching up and clipping a tether to the overhead line. The doubt in her chest made her breathe hard as the gate lowered, and wind swept into the craft, and the dying sun of a Namamura evening burned red. The bowl of the sky overhead was darkening, and below the thunderstorm that the Weather Ponies had whipped up was sweeping down the coast -- the ponies retreated safely away, a few waving in departure as they escape to safety.

    She steped out. She felt the wind catching against the long trailing cloth of the tabard. She felt the chill of high altitude against her skin, and Yunomi Stadler looked up to the heavens, above the storm.

    And above, there is a red star shining amongst the whites rising out of the blue-black of the night. Her eyes close.

    "Please," she whispers "... don't let me fail them."

    Yunomi lowers her goggles, and Pidge activates her feed from the little pack at her side. O-Togi, holding her friends inside,

    And the tanuki releases the tether, free-falling into the space between Heaven and Earth, and disappears into a stormcloud as thunder rolls across Namamura, heralding the darkness of night as rain falls in sheets.

    The valley is blanketed in darkness and rain. Yunomi's hair clings to her forehead as she emerges from the stormclouds, falling nearly to the surface of the waves, and as she encroaches to the shoreline, she pops the top of the bottle off, letting out those who were carried within. She can't hear the splashes for the thunder, nor see those she's leaving in the water, but she feels when the bottle is empty, and she dismisses O-Togi back to his home, rising up into the air.

    And she focuses her mana. The gems on her armor light up in brilliant sapphire blues and scarlet reds, illuminating part of the night with the Izzet colors as she roars:
    "GOHAN! I'M HERE TO TAKE BACK WHAT IS MINE!"

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Gohan stands on the deck of his flagship, hair golden, eyes green, brilliant aura surrounding his body. Dressed in his Royal Armor, the 'King' of the Saiyans stands watching, noting the incoming storm with distaste. It's not natural, that much is clear. Not only can he see figures flitting about within it, but the land had not stormed here during his entire occupation. He knows that Yunomi and her forces are approaching. He knows that he will put an end to the Namamura conflict one way or another today. He taps his radio, gives his instructions, then prepares. He allows his aura to flare higher, a beacon in the approaching storm. He wanted to make his presense known. Even hovering high above the earth as he is, his power can be felt shaking the ground far below. There will be no doubt, to anyone, who is producing that energy.

    He leaps off the ship, falling slowly to the ground with his arms crossed across his chest. As he spies Yunomi's arrival, senses her mana and spies the colors of Izzet, he smiles. It is the smile of a warrior.

    "You want it?" he calls, his voice cutting through the storm almost mystically, "Then come and get it. When I send you out of here like a beaten dog once again, you had better never show your face in this world again!"

    He powers up further, his glow growing even brighter. The earth reacts, rocks beginning to rise around him, the earth quaking intensely. "Send your armies! It doesn't matter how many of you there are. This world is Confederate and PTO property, and I will not lose!"

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Yunomi is briefly illuminated by some /awesomely/ placed lightning striking the sea around her. Blue mana traces its way over her hands, coloring her palms and lighting up her face.

    "I don't need an army. I get by with a little help from my friends!" she cries out -- and she cancels the spell that kept her friends so small.

    And then she rushes for Gohan, her ears pinning back, tail standing out at full length and bellows with rage. The tanuki summons her weapon with a brilliant white light illuminating her movements. Her goggles read the output from Gohan in staggering energy spikes.

    She can't lose. She can't lose her valley. Not again!

    Those waiting on the spell to be canceled now grow to their full size and power!

Gohan (334) has posed:
    "Well, you're not the only one with allies. ATTACK!"

    Gohan lowers further, drawing his blade from his back as Yunomi charges at him. The defender against the invader. A battle long repeated in struggles such as these. He places his sword in a defensive position, and then he waits. "Come, Yunomi!" he roars, "You face a Super Saiyan! You face the new ruler of this world!"

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid was waiting for that. The sudden surge of growth. She staggers, gritting her teeth as vertigo tries to wrest control from her, but a sudden surge of blue-white light signals her transformation. "Ventis Secundis. The Hood sails forth on Favorable Winds."

    Her voice carries, and as she steps out of the aircraft, and plummets to the water below, her eyes are locked on Gohan.

All guncrews reporting ready stations Captain.>
Fire Control here. Scanning for targets.>
Loading HE Airburst shells. Main Battery ready to fire.>

    "Lets do this then. Guns up, all crew, prepare bracketing fire, interval of three. Pick your targets, suppression pattern Alpha One Four Nine."

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura is falling through the air.

    She's not particularly worried by this predicament. She's incredibly light, at the moment, and she's wearing rather billowy clothes. A mage robe, in fact, light pink with red trim, and for some reason a pair of cat ears sewn into the hood.

    Tomoyo made it.

    Falling beside her are the silver-haired Yukito Tsukishiro, and the yellow-furred Keroberos. As the shrink spell is dismissed, they each leap into action. Sakura begins to incant: "O Key that hides the power of the Stars..."

    Meanwhile, both Keroberos and Yukito summon up twin magic circles below them - gold for Kero, silver for Yukito. Wings erupt from their backs, wrapping them up in feathery cocoons. "Show your true form before me!" Sakura continues. "I, Sakura Kinomoto, command you under our contract: RELEASE!"

    As her wand grows to full size, the two feathery cocoons erupt, revealing the large, winged lion that is Keroberos' true form, and the robed, silver-haired 'angel' that is Yue. Sakura rights herself in mid air, then lands on Kero's back.

Rainbow Dash (43) has posed:
The fog was thick.

Pea soup didn't even describe it. It was a billowing, misty mass that settled over the entire harbor. Like a large whale made of thick cloud that just decided to sit there, resisting all attempts for the sun to burn it away. And inside of it, obscured by the mist, a group of weather ponies did what they did best:

They made a storm.
5rIt wasn't the first time that Rainbow Dash had asked the daytime weather squad to pull a couple of extra hours with a 'special project'. Okay, more like begged a little. She was the day weather manager, but it wasn't like she was the captain of the whole weather team. So of course, she'll have to pull a couple favors.

This time it cost her an extra shift, morning muffins for the rest of the week for the whole day team, and one of those dancing flower things from off-world.

Under the cover of the fog, the storm rose up and billowed to life.

It was a large black mass of clouds, large enough to spread past the harbor. Lightning crackled within it, clouds bristling with electrical potential. Rain began to fall, thick globs of water pattering across the sea.

When it was finished, the storms makers disappeared under its cover, flying back to wherever they came from.

All but one.

Once all the others had left, a single pegasus stood on the black clouds. She was clad in gold colored armor. A red crystal in the shape of a lightning bolt sat against her chest, glowing brightly. The rest of her seemed blurred somehow, as if by magic.

The Knight of Loyalty grinned, wings flared as the clouds crackled under her. "Aww yeah, show time!"

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    One of those people suddenly ejected to the proper size is Beli, who abruptly appears hovering in the air high above the group, six wings beating to keep her aloft. It's not a pleasant transition; the angel-demon lurches a little, hand flying to her mouth and wings beating erratically. Thankfully, she gets over it quickly, blinking and shaking her head as she regains control. "...right. I hope I do not have to do that again anytime soon."

    In the darkness and rain, a flare of dark red comes from Beli as her demonic powers are focused. It covers her black feathers in a bloody sheen and fills her halos with crimson flames. Shadows swirl around her arms, and as she thrusts her hands to her sides, her segment of this whole plan comes through.

    Chains. The chains of Fraud, emerging from one portal after another in the sky, rushing out and digging their hooks into each others' links to form an elaborate, tangled forest of rusty metal. It spreads out in all directions, filling the air several meters above the water with an erratic 'webbing' that something the size of a human could manage passing through, but anything larger would probably end up crashing and getting caught in the tangled mass.

    Sure, Gohan seems more interested in direct combat, but who's to say some ships might not try to come through and even the odds in his favor? Plus, with that thunderstorm going, that giant web of metal could possibly turn lethal if needed. At least those fighting below shouldn't be impeded.

    Once that intricate display is spread over an area almost as large as the storm itself, Beli takes a moment to breathe, gasping quietly and lifting a hand to her chest. That's not an extent she's ever gone to before, but at least now she doesn't have to pay any more attention to it.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Yunomi comes up quick upon the Saiyan, brilliantly lit up in the night by her gauntlets and Nikkou-You as the holy blade swings, heat waves and sizzling rain left in its wake. She didn't have the appreciation for the Chains, for the Storm, for the presense of others around her. Her eyes, her rage and her pain wer focused to the width of a knive, and she's going for blood immediately. Put the fight out quick.

    Drop Gohan, get him out of here... everyone goes home.

    The blade swings over her shoulders as she for Gohan's legs, to slash across his knees!

Material-L (15) has posed:
    ONBOARD GOHAN'S FLAGSHIP, MOMENTS AGO.

    "What does this one do?" inquires a short blue-haired girl, rapidly darting between the bridge crew and their consoles. She occasionally hits a button, too. "What about this one?! Ooh! It lights up!"

    The flagship now has its turn signals blinking.
    Even as it hovers there doing nothing.

    Eventually Levi is kicked off the bridge for pushing one too many buttons and causing someone's seat to eject them against the ceiling with a loud BANG and angry groans.

    NOW, PLANET-SIDE.

    Material-L has transformed into her Barrier Jacket already, flying out the side of the flagship. Vulnificus idles in its default halberd form, the Device currently silent. The dark magical girl however is anything but.

    "YAAAAY, IT'S STORMING~! I love storms! Nyahaha, storm, storm, let's play!" She twirls Vulnificus a bit, and then points it up.

    Blue lightning crashes onto her and her Device, and the storm starts changing! Not so much Rainbow Dash will lose control-- Levi is not a specialist at weather control, it's kind of a side-skill, and so she'd be hard-pressed to wrestle control of a storm entirely from a specialist, especially with so much backing present.

    The air does grow cold though, rain turns to hail, and the winds are not so friendly to the Union anymore. So it's less that she hijacked the storm and more than she turned a chunk of it against it makers, while the rest continues to be a nuisance to the Confederate forces present.

    "Awww, this storm won't listen! I want it to listen! YIELD YIELD YIELD YIELD, DUMB STORM!" Not that it stops her from trying. More and more electricity is being produced by the little girl, making her a bright, obvious target, as she tries to forcefully overcharge the storm so its discharges are random and violent.

Material-S (177) has posed:
    Seikou was waiting for the go signal, as Gohan had warned her of what was to come. She'd offered her help before, and now here she was! Surprisingly, she isn't coming in with anything flashy, at all, it's jsut that one moment she wasn't there, and the next the dark-clad Material is hovering in midair, hair whipping about in the wind. Luciferion is already in Blast Head mode, and her orange ankle-wings hovering her high in the air.

    Sigh. "Of all the battles I am in, I do hate the territory ones the most." 'Hate' is a strong word, because she's looking forward to some kind of fight that's a challenge.

    Meanwhile, Levi is handling the flashiness for her.

    "Try not to get too distracted. If you win we'll go out for creampuffs."

Gohan (334) has posed:
    CLANG!

    The impact rings out as Gohan moves swiftly, twisting his sword to cleanly block Yunomi's strike. "Haha. I see the fire in your movements, Yunomi. But is fire enough?" He parries the strike, pushing the sword away from him, before he steps in and draws his own weapon back. He narrows his eyes as he channels energy into the blade, then he steps in with all of his force and aims to stab the tanuki straight in the gut.

    "Can you even compete with my strength now? You have allies, a net to prevent my ships from backing me up directly, but do YOU have the strength to wrest this land from me? DO YOU?!" He roars the last line as he stabs. As his allies begin to arrive, he smirks. "I have allies, too. And mine are some of the best I have at my command."

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen, the Imperial Agent known as Cipher Nine, somehow managed to slip onto the planet earlier then the assault force. Most likely thanks to his ship and it's stealth technology. Having taken the time to find a nice, secluded and prime perch for a sniper, he waited for sighting data. Of course, that storm wasn't going to be any help. But the agent was prepared for such. "Fog...Clever." He says. A quick adjustment to his rifle's scope and he had thermal going.
    Today, he was fully equipped for battle. His full kit was with him, from poison darts to an anti-armor rifle. "Let's see what you've got, union."

Fuki has posed:
    Diving from the flagship, Fuki's armor flashes into view. The black ninja armor makes minimal sound and the Shinki's wings flare out, spinning downwards in a black spiral while another shimmer of light produces her acid dripping scythe. Fuki puts the fox mask in front of her face and nods, "This is the Fubuki Model Shinki Fuki heading in." she mentions over the radio, giving a quick scan over the area.

    "Garen, visual sensors opening, please don't get too sick from it. Our target is coming up soon." the Shinki's body aiming towards Elasaid's being "Let's keep any aerial attacks away from the field commander. Our target's this woman. Capabilities unknown, armament unknown, looks ancient from the view. Codename, Rustbucket."

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Actually, Yunomi didn't like fire very much. But she felt its burning inside of her. Desperation as he parries the blow with his weapon, and when he raises his own to strike at her, there's a softer CLANG sound, muffled by leathery overlay. IT's struck against the metal braces of the corset-like waist armor she was wearing, exposing gleaming Mizzium beneath it, beneath the dragon's wing on her chest. She bends to the side, but her gauntlet lights up as she brings her own magic to bare.

    And her palm errupts in a gout of flame!
    "Do /YOU/ have the strength to /stop me/? THIS IS MY HOME!" she cries out, and tears form at the corner of her eyes.

    Please, strength, fail me not.

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
Elasaid stands on the waters surface, arms folded over her chest. Her eyes scan around the fogbank, looking for targets. "Where are they... Lookouts, report."

<Radar picking up a tiny signal approaching rapidly. Could be hostile scout plane.>
<AA battery calibrating. Unable to attain a solution through the fogbank at this range.>
Hostile anti-ship batteries possible on shore. Keep watch for muzzle flash from bearing 0-5-2.>

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura scans the skies, perched atop her Familiar, stood up straight and not even faltering as the wind blows around her. She doesn't have time to act spacey and oblivious, right now - Yunomi is counting on her.

    "Sakura," comes yue's voice. She turns her head, to see where her second Familiar is pointing, then nods her head. "Fly!" she calls, tossing a card into the air. The card seems impervious to the wind as well, as it spins through the air, then comes to rest at the tip of Sakura's outstretched wand. Pink wings erupt from Sakura's back, as she leaps into the air and flies towards the familiar brown-haired Seikou.

    She doesn't make any aggressive moves, however. Instead, she just stops in the air, within speaking distance, and summons her magic circle beneath her feet. "...Seikou-chan. It's been a while." She's actually smiling.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Gohan places his sword on his back after his strike, taking a more natural defensive stance as Yunomi's gauntlet begins to glow. He can feel the heat before it is brought to bear, but in such close proximity he knows he can't avoid the next attack. He can only cross his arms as the flames wash over him. He growls in pain, the cloth of his bodysuit burning away and blistering the skin underneath. His armor is mildly scorched, but it deflects the heat quite well. He lowers his smoking arms, narrowing his eyes.

    "Ha. I have strength to spare. Meanwhile, you're on the verge of tears. Will that turn into power for you, like it did for me all those years ago? Show me!" He flings one hand forward, aiming for Yunomi's chest. A golden sphere flares up, swelling up in the space between the half-Saiyan and the tanuki. It swells even faster, closing the gap between them. Should it connect with Yunomi at all, the energy will destabilize and become a raging storm, directed solely at Namamura's defender.

    "Let's see what you've got!"

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    ...oh boy. The cavalry has arrived, and it's not looking like the pleasant type. Beli sees the Confederates and prepares for one of them to attack her, shaking herself out of her dizziness and entering a more combat-ready stance. The rain falls, but thankfully it steams off the burning heat of her wings, making sure those feathers aren't hindered by the rainstorm.

    ...or is it a hailstorm now? Beli yelps in surprise as hail starts landing on her, pelting her from above and forcing her to raise her hands to at least protect her head. And /boy/ does it hurt her wings. If she weren't tasked with keeping this net up, she'd summon Compassion to protect her, but if she switched to her angelic powers, that web of chains would simply vanish. And /then/ she'd have to do it all over again.

    Thankfully, what seems to be the source of the problem makes herself obvious, and while Beli doesn't know weather very well, she can guess that Levi shooting lightning into the storm probably has something to do with it. The angelic demon frowns in vague annoyance, then lifts her left arm to her side.

    It's a quick attack. Her arm is thrust forward, and from it fly three shards of physical darkness that fly at Levi like throwing knives. They're remarkably sharp, and pretty durable too, though who knows if they'll do much damage?

    According to the shout she sends Levi over the storm, it seems like her intention is less damage and more distraction anyway. "Hey! I will listen to you! Why not try shooting lightning this way?"

Material-S (177) has posed:
    Sigh. Seikou just hovers there, staring at Sakura. "You came to this battle as well? You should go home. It's very dangerous, and you could get hurt," the Material states quietly. Well, relatively quietly, because the wind means she has to speak up. "But I expect you are too loyal to your friend to do that, so..."

    <RUBELLITE,> Luciferion pings loudly... kind of eagerly, really. Fiery binds whip out and wrap around Sakura, attempting to contain her. The actual binds are, despite Seikou's normal magic color, a bright red with an aura of flame, though in this case they don't actually burn.

    "Stay put and keep out of trouble," she orders the girl.

Garen (530) has posed:
    Taking Fuki's scouting data and adjusting his scope to the proper sight, he zones in on their shared target. "Sighting target..." He says into his radio. He lifts the scope higher and higher, until it was resting directly on Elasaid's head. After all, Garen was trained in the 'one shot, one kill' school. He takes in a breath, and squeezes the trigger as he looses the shot.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    It's only the rain. It's only the rain. She's not tearing up, not yet.

    Yunomi can't avoid the attack. It's too close. She lets the Saiyan's words wash over her, but the pain doesn't wash nearly as well as he handles it.

    There's an ugly crackling screech from her. Her body shakes, trembling, ever nerve jerked around in pain before she teleports, upwards and behind Gohan. HEr tail is terribly frizzled now, but she's not through yet. She plants herself squarely behind him, and with one hand holding to her weapon, digging its blade into the hull of the ship, she levels her hand behind him and lets off an explosive surge of magic, trying to knock him out to sea!

Rainbow Dash (43) has posed:
A storm made by pegasi is a little different from natural storms. They lack the sheer chaos of a natural storm, brewed out of nothing to disappear into nothing. They're a sort of balance between the chaos and a strange sort of order. They also tend to be a little bit stubborn, and don't really seem to like doing anything without a good kick. This one doesn't feel like listening to Levi a whole lot. It's big enough that it's already pretty well set in its way; while part of the storm shifts, the rest resists.

The shift in the winds, a different feel to the air around her, draws Rainbow Dash's attention. Ears flick up, and she peers around, eyes narrowed behind the goggles of her armor. "Come on! We just finished you guys!" Her wings come down, and she lifts off in a puff of cloud stuff. Speeding along, her hooves just barely graze along the top of the clouds as, like a shepard, she searches for that errant sheep.

There it is. A few clouds that aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing. She shoves her forehooves into them, shoving and shaping the cloud. The magic in them shifts, trying to shift back to Dash's control as she directly adjusts the big black clouds. But it resists her.

"So that's how it is, huh?" Dash lifts her hooves from the cloud, and rears back. "Fat chance! No miss nice pony today!" Then she drops back to all fours, slamming both forehooves on the cloud. In an instant, it is charged with her weather magic. Electricity builds up within the cloud quickly, then CRACK!

A bolt of bright white lightning splits the sky, coming down straight for Levi!

Fuki has posed:
    Fuki hears the shot ring out and a smile comes to her masked face, the Shinki diving in further to confirm a hit. Scythe at ready, the green liquid dripping from its tip sizzles as it hits the ground, the Fubuki lowers herself more, "TOugh stuff, isn't she..." she mutters. "No matter, this should help."

    Thrusters burn upon her back, the black wings flare out once more and the Shinki moves in, running in to the Fleet Maiden's range and moving in to a close range, swinging her scythe to throw out an arc of acid towards one of those arms carrying a turret and with wingbeat and thruster flare, she tries moving past the turrets.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Gohan smirks as Yunomi is blasted by his attack. He crosses his arms, smug in his attack. However, he senses and hears far too late that she is behind him, channeling an attack that rivals his own. He feels it slam into his back. His cape stands no chance. His shoulder pauldrons are rent apart, but his armor still survives. He's blasted away, and for a moment it seems as though he might juust hurtle into the sea and be lost. However, the smoking figure of Gohan vanishes in a puff of smoke. Yunomi would no doubt see him flickering along the sky. Though he does not possess Instant Transmission, he does possess a great deal of speed. However, seeing him and stopping him are two separate things. He flickers in and out of sight, before appearing just in front of Yunomi. His right foot is raised, and he kicks it out with all of his might. Straight for the tanuki's face.

    If there was any mercy to be found in Gohan, it wasn't visible in that moment. Just hard, Saiyan ferocity.

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura reacts as though the whole world has slowed down apart from her. Her left hand crosses over her body, reaching into a pocket in her robe on the right side of her waist. A card within seems to jump out to meet her hand halfway, and gets tossed forward for its trouble.

    "ERASE!" she calls out, bringing her wand up in an upward cross-slash while striking the card. A wave of pale blue emanates from the card, causing the magic holding the fiery bonds together to simply vanish. The spell doesn't even reach Sakura.

    "I've become stronger since last time, Seikou-chan," Sakura practically whispers. Even as the Erase card is fluttering back down, she calls forth her magic circle again. "Guardians of the Sun and Moon!" Magic circles appear under her Familiars. Their forms begin to get fuzzy. "Grant your powers to this Key!" Anyone who's seen her do this before will note this isn't the same incantation as last time. Apparently the words don't need to be that precise. "Grant me your strength! RELEASE!" Her two Familiars 'melt' and flow into the wand, which grows once more, to around six feet in length. Actually longer than Sakura is tall, now, and large enough she has to hold it with both hands.

    "I appreciate your concern, though! CLOUD!" Another card! This one releases a small, toddler-sized humanoid dressed like some sort of clown... although it's coloured a pale blue all over. There's a brief pause, before it suddenly soars up into the sky, gathering clouds and thickening the fog cover around Seikou and Sakura. Sakura can see just fine - it's her magic. Seikou might have some trouble. Not to mention, it's hard to actually move through...

Material-L (15) has posed:
    "Uh? OH! YAAAAY, SOMEONE WHO'LL LISTEN!"

    Beli has Levi's UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.

    Right up until the black, throwing knife-like projectiles suddenly all pierce right through her chest. Well, not all the way through; the Barrier Jacket, for all it looks like magical girl clothes, is pretty durable! It does draw blood, though, or at least some sort of simulated fascimile. It's never really clear with the Materials. Sometimes they feel like bleeding, sometimes not. It must depend on the occasion and their mood.

    "That was mean! But I like mean~! It means you can play rough and take it! I don't like it when my toys break too fast, it's--" Whatever it is is lost.

    Levi is struck by lightning. It actually scorches her clothes pretty badly, but the electricity dances about her in an odd way, before Vulnificus intones:
    <LIGHTNING LOOP.>

    "Nyahaha! WAIT! WAIT! OHMYGOD PONY!"
    Squee. Levi just squees a lot.
    "It's so cool! And colorful! Aww I almost feel bad for shooting lightning now. Vulnificus, cancel the speeeell!"
    <NO.>
    "Aww, fine. PEW PEW!"
    <UNRECOGNIZED COMMAND PHRASE. REPLACE 'SHOOT' BY 'PEW PEW'?>
    "YES! PEW PEW!"
    <LIGHTNING LOOP. PEW PEW.>

    White and blue lightning gushes out of Vulnificus, arcing in two different directions; one bolt flies towards Beli, another towards Rainbow Dash, and then from them, they try to close the loop by striking the other target again.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Yunomi was prepared as Gohan came down, and she's just a split second too late. She retains her face, thankfully -- the Siayan's bood lays his boot to her chest. HEr breath is knocked out of her violently -- and she chokes a moment, though she raises her hands, and a new trick errupts. Her arms swirl with green magic, and the green arhes, wrapps, and then the teeth come out.

    Two large blossoms open wide, maws full of sharp tooth-like thorns glistening maliciously as Dragonsnaps try to latch onto the Saiyan, trying to break through the armor of his boot withone bloom.

    The other looking to bite higher up on his thigh and hold him in place!

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid jerks her head to the side as the flash of Garen's shot shows in the storm. The bolt or bullet, or whatever, slams into her Barrier Armour, causing the blue field to flare brightly, and cracks to show in a spider-web from the point of impa<span class=" bold_fg_x bg_n ++ t.

chx"><Shore battery has opened fire. Glancing blow to conning tower. Minor damage.></span>
<Main Battery rotating to position. Elevation set. FIRE!> Eight shells lash out in a tumult of blasts, echoing out across the ocean as plumes of black smoke fill the air.

<Hostile aircraft incoming. Dive pattern!>
<AA battery firing! Direct hit on X. Rotation bearings damaged, turret is locked!>

The smaller guns lining Hood's armour swivel to track Fuki as she dives in, and even though that acid slash punches through the weaker top-facing barrier, the smaller weapons return fire with a cloud of flak and streams of pulse laser fire.

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen grimmaces and took off once he heard the thunder of the main battery echo out. The explosions push him back, but he rolls and is back on his feet. "Right..." He says. He quickly pulls the scope off his main rifle and holsters it to his back. He then swaps over to his anti-armor rifle, borrowed from a confederate armoury, and sighs his target again. "Down you go." He says, squeezing off another shot.

Material-S (177) has posed:
    Seikou frowns. "I see. You have grown stronger... but you realize this makes you a target, right?" She shakes her head. "Fine. I suppose I can't hold back, except... Luciferion?"

    The fog that rolls around and obscures the two combatants flashes orange for a moment, and the Device announces, <STUN MODE ENGAGED. PYRO BULLET.>

    It's not like the Divine Bullet. That spell is something unique to the new Nanoha, unfortunately, and Seikou hasn't tapped her Linker Core. It is a fascimile though... a high-density burst of flame that shoots out and darts to one side, then the other. A homing projectile, seeking the fog for Sakura, a projectile that will, if it hits, explode into a hot burning yet stunning attack.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Gohan roars as Yunomi sends her magic Dragonsnaps at him, his aura becoming as a flame. He feels the cloth at his thigh tear, and can feel a sharp scratch, but otherwise keeps the attack at bay and falls back. He brings both of his hands out, spreading his arms wide as his aura begins to hum menacingly. It grows louder as energy pools in both of his palms. Then he begins flickering around Yunomi rapidly, several after-images lingering in the same pose as he attempts to mask his true location. When he feels he has enough energy, he stops just in front of Yunomi again, bringing his hands forward toward her chest.

    And then the world is golden as Gohan launches a point blank beam straight at the the tanuki. There's a sound like a bomb as he launches the attack, drowning out the rest of the world.

Fuki has posed:
    Aircraft she is not, but that flak ammunition and laser battery shreds up her armors and punctures her body, sending the Shinki barreling like a downed aircraft, smoke trailing her thrusters and armor falling off her body. Her foot is missing too. "Nnngh. If that's how you wish to be, let's take out your anti-air capabilities..." Fuki's thrusters pop... and pop again before firing once more, barreling into a recovery dive, shooting back up into the air.

    Fuki's scythe flashes and a pair of shuriken come into view. Tiny disks of metal materialize into her palms and are soon loosed from them, replaced with another flash and another pair of those disks. She jets out and throws out each set of shuriken from different angles, hoping the mass amount of metal flying from her can confuse that woman's anti air guns.

Rainbow Dash (43) has posed:
For a second, Rainbow Dash grins cockily. Then there's a buzzing sound, and the pegasus looks confused until-

K-ZZOOOOOTT!

Lightning pours right back up through the cloud, and right up her hooves. She clenches her jaws as lightning arcs across her entire body for a few seconds, before discharging. Armor is blackened on her hooves, while her mane and tail smoke slightly. She blinks blearily a few times, but the glass of her goggles slightly singed.

"Maaybe that wasn't the cloud," She says giving her head a shake to clear it. Wings spread out and she dives down straight through it. She poofs out the other side, a bright spot against the dark clouds. Rain patters against her back, but it doesn't seem to touch her wings. "HEY, these are MY clouds!"

With a flap of her wings, Dash soars back up. She dips her hooves in one of the clouds Levi turned to hail clouds, and pulls out a few baseball sized hail stones. Then one after the other, she shows off her pitching arm (leg?) by flinging them at Levi.

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    The problem with grabbing the attention of someone much stronger than you is that...it hurts. A lot.

    There's not much she can do before Levi shoots her. She tries to put her arms up to block, but without Compassion to aid her, that's pretty much not happening. Lightning strikes her, drawing out an extremely pained cry before it arcs up to Dash. The rephaite falls from the sky, steaming from the attack, but manages to right herself again with a few determined beats of her wings.

    Her right hand is lifted to press against her temple, pushing away the throbbing of her head. She's really going to need a break after this. "...okay. Let us try that again."

    With Dash currently pelting Levi with hail, the name of the game seems to have shifted to harrassment. Beli's not going to complain, of course, since she could use a minute to stop the buzzing in her head. So, instead, she creates another sort of buzzing, lifting her left hand toward Levi and creating a dark portal around her arm.

    Voracity. A dense swarm of black, hellish flies rushes from her arm, swirling through the air at Levi. A few are taken out by hail, and some find it hard to fly due to the rain, but there are just so many that they end up powering through. And when they reach Levi, they immediately begin swarming her, biting with sharp mandibles and spewing little bursts of acidic mucus and stabbing with stingers wherever they can find purchase.

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    "...A homing spell? Good choice!" Sakura calls out, good-naturedly - even if there is a yelp as the pyrotechnic bullet explodes in her face, sending her flinching backwards from the heat as much as it throws her back from the force of detonation. She grits her teeth, pulling out a card and throwing it into the air before her. "I'll meet your fire with ice! FREEZE!" she calls, striking the card with the head of her staff-length wand.

    The moisture in the air around Seikou grows colder, very quickly. Ice crystals begin to form around her. Sharp ice crystals. "WINDY!" comes Sakura's second spell - and the wind suddenly whips into a frenzy around Seikou, pelting her with frozen shards of cloud.

    "...My magic doesn't really have a 'stun' setting! But Barrier Jackets are tough, right?"

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid grunts softly. Her Barrier coalesces into a bright, shining wall of force as that second shot from Garen rings out. The Active Barrier absorbs much of the impact, but as the shield returns to Passive, it remains visible, blue-white lines like spider webs pulsing across the entire dome.

<Shore Battery has swapped to HVAP shells. Main battery reloading/, HE Impact shells. X is unable to refactor target. A/, B and Y/, resetting bearing, elevation set. FIRE!> the satisfying CLU-CHANK of the large guns reloading resounds, followed by six blasts as the remaining functional weapons open up again on the sniper, raining explosive blasts all around his lo<span class=" bold_bg_x fg_n ++ ation.

chx"><Hostile Aircraft is going down!></span>
Negative/, incoming fire. AA batteries, fire for effect.>

It seems the scattered fire only causes the secondary and AA batteries to begin filling the area with more fire, suppressing the area.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    The beam strikes true. This wasn't at all as she had imagined. She had thought they were taking them unwares. She had thought they wouldn't have such backup.

    Yunomi is deafened by the roar of the beam. Her ears pin back, and she flies backwards from the attack. HEr armor smoulders. Part of the shoulder crumbles away, falling to the ground behind Yunomi as she strikes the side of the Daimyo's residence, with just barely enough time to bring up a Prismatic Shield. HEr eyes go wide from the pain. The walls break, cracking from impact of the shield and the plaster on the outside falls to the ground.

    Yunomi coughs up something pink and phlegmy.

    BUt she goes back to the fight. Her eyes are narrowed, her hair still blastered to her forehead and her neck as she brings herself to a stand, and resummons her naginata.

    Her body rights itself, and she brings the magical weapon to bare. There's a short whisper -- something of a prayer before she unleashes a volley of brilliantly shining energy at the Saiyan King! The night is lit up by the sound of bells and superheated air as it heads for GOhan!

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen grits his teeth and takes off again as the shells rain down around him, kicking shrapnel into his face and cutting up his coat, and his skin. He turns and drops to a knee, sighting his target once more. But this time he changes target. Instead of going for Elasaid herself, he makes a point to spot, and fire for the anti-air batteries. "Your not shooting her down. Just like your not escaping my sight." He says.

Material-L (15) has posed:
    "Yours? NYEEEEEH! I DON'T SEE YOUR NAMES IN THE CLOUDS!" Levi insists, gesturing wildly towards the aforementioned stormclouds, which being clouds, do not have names on them! She is thus totally right, and wins this argument.

    Until a baseball-sized chunk of hail slams into her stomach and knocks the air out of her lungs momentarily. She screams with all the wrath and anger of a scorned nine year old girl. "RUDE! RUUUUDE! AAH, BEES! WHY BEES!"

    BEES happen. It is a very unfortunate event.

    Repeatedly stung and inconveniently, Material-L is suddenly enveloped in bright blue lightning, attempting to fry the bees before they cause any more harm. Whether or not that's successful, she then points Vulnificus forward.

    "VULNIFICUS, LET'S TAG THE CLOUDS!"
    <SLICER FORM. LIGHT WING SLASH.>

    The tip of the halberd rotates ninety degrees, and suddenly splits open, producing a large, wicked blue scythe blade of mana. Levi swings the scythe over her shoulder, and then through the air in front of herself, launching the blade towards Beli Klum like a big, concussive, cutting boomerang of mana! The spinning crescent will even guide its way towards Rainbow Dash with the limited juice it'll have left after Beli, and then-- into the clouds!

    It cuts, and tears.

    It spells 'LIVI' in one of the clouds.

    "CLOSE ENOOUUUUUGH!"

Fuki has posed:
    The flak goes back to firing after she recovers, the shuriken just bouncing off that energy barrier.. "Nnngh, some kind of mage with that barrier?" The flak hits and her wings and more armor are torn up into shreds from the sharp shrapnel, one of the flak peices embeds itself into her chest just under where her CMS is. "Maybe this was a bad idea.. going against something unknown.
    Fuki's thrusters fire up once more, the flash of her slipway emits her scythe once more and up close she attempts to get. The black streak dives down and into some brush until suddenly, she doesn't appear on radars. "Stealth systems activated. This should work well for me... let's see." Fuki's eyes spew out lines of code and flight paths before the Shinki bursts out of the small bush and right towards Elasaid's legs, bringing scythe to bear, she makes two quick slashes, one to send an arc of acid at one leg and another to dig into the other!

Material-S (177) has posed:
    No sign of a barrier appears when the ice storm hits... nothing to give away Seikou's position. Of course Sakura can see through the fog, but it is also night... so that might make it harder to see Seikou coming when she tries to home in on the voi<span style="color:e.

    corange"><AIR DASH,></span> Luciferion pings, and Seikou blurs. An instant later, she's where she thinks Sakura is, giving a brief view of the Barrier Jacket torn and shredded, several shallow cuts all across the Material's body seeping through. Looks like she can bleed, tonight. She didn't in the WMAT, though.

    "Yes," is all she says in her typical stoic fashion.

    <BLAST IMPACT.> Luciferion pings gleefully, as the explosive burst of mana comes with the thrust of the staff's butt end toward Sakura.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Gohan crosses his arms again as Yunomi is sent flying by his attack. He notes her position, keeps his eyes locked in the area just in case. It's a good thing he does, because when the brilliant light show flies up at him, he has plenty of time to move.

    But he doesn't. He stares into the attack. The purification energy shouldn't affect him, right? But as he stares at the attack, the bells change to a voice. The light transforms into a figure, charging at him with fury in his eyes.

    It's Goku. His voice calls out, berating Gohan for his choices. Telling him not to lose his true self. Gohan grips his head, feels the impact, and scream with all of his rage. He isn't displaced at all, but his armor is vaporized. He can feel his torso blistering, but it's a long moment before his screaming subsides.

    When it does, he narrows his eyes, locks on Yunomi's position, and raises his hands to his forehead. "I don't know what that was..." he starts, his voice ringing out true. "BUT NEVER USE IT AGAINST ME AGAIN! MASENKO HA!" He throws his hands above his head, then forward as a MASSIVE golden beam rushes down for the tanuki, seeming to pulse with the erratic heartbeat of its owner. 'Why... Dad?' he thinks, tears streaming down his face as he pours more energy into the attack.

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid takes one step back as her Barrier is struck again. This time, the bolt slams straight through, leaving a hole in the magic field. It then smashes one of her Secondary High Angles clean off its mooring, and tears out the surrounding MG nests.

<Port side battery offline! Fire in the number two magazine. Control teams on station.>
<Firing Solution acquired on shore battery.> Once more, the staggered fire of six large cannons roars across the bay, this time, the shells are more focussed on Garen's lo<span class=" bold_bg_x fg_n ++ ation.

chx"><Hostile Aircraft has dropped off radar. Attempting to reacquire.></span>
<There! Incoming at the waterline! TORPEDO RUN!> Elasaid attempts to move out of the way, dancing to one side... but the acid burns through her barrier, melting the magic and leaving a hole large enough for the Shinki to get through and slash down her other leg.
    <Direct hit to main drive shaft! Starboard engine is offline!> Blood seeps from the wound, staining the blue water a sickly brownish <span class=" bold_bg_x fg_n ++ rimson.

chx"><Target locked! Flak curtain firing!></span> The remaining AA guns track Fuki now she's visible again, and fill the area around her, and her flight path with more exploding death.

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura loses track of Seikou, just as Seikou manages to track her down. Sakura is left looking in exactly the wrong direction as Seikou blurs into visibility behind her, and explodes her in the back. Sakura is flung through the air, wings crooked for a moment before straightening themselves.

    "Tch," Sakura exhales, blowing a strand of hair out of her face. Her robe has a hole in the back of it, now, causing the t-shirt she's wearing underneath to get soaked. Not to mention scorched. "Power!" she calls out, as she activates another card. Pink mana gathers around Sakura's form! THen... "DASH!"

    It's Sakura's time to blur out of sight and reappear right in front of Seikou. She doesn't say anything to her - instead, she lets her meet her open palm, which aims to slam right into Seikou's stomach with enough force to crush an elephant.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Yunomi was oncoming in the wake of the attack, and she draws herself upwards. THe beam grazes along her arm, brushing her leg. LEathery bits fall away, but she's still coming.

    She heard the screaming. SHe felt it echo inside of her chest. She still forces herself to breathe deeply, psuhing aside the broken feeling i nside of her.

    ANd as she comes in, low and face, she brings both her feet upwards, 'bracing herself in the air as she brings her naginata around again. The holy energy lights up around her, brilliant even in the pulse of lightning as she goes to swipe upwards along the saiyan's chest, trying to disengage some of that armor and cut into his belly! There's no call backs, no jibes. He wanted to make fun of her, yell at her -- call her coward. That's fine.

    She won't do the same. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction!

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    The sight of the energized blade suddenly whipping toward her makes Beli's eyes widen. She is, unfortunately, not very good at dodging, either. Sure, she can make a few quick movements, but with how big of a target she is, it's doubtful she can avoid /anything/ that large and fast.

    But she tries. She really does. She flaps her wings powerfully to avoid it, but the blade still rips across her torso, cleaving through the fabric of her jacket and jolting her with the concussive agony of Levi's mana. The rephaite shouts in pain, cutting off the sound with clenched teeth as her right hand presses to the place where a troublesomely deep wound probably should be. She wants to use her seraphic fire to at least numb the pain, but...no, that really isn't a good idea right now.

    Besides, with Levi's choice in powers, maybe that net could be put to good use soon.

    Gritting her teeth against the pain, Beli lifts her head again to look toward Levi. She holds an almost uncharacteristic grimace of anger, clear even through the rain plastering her hair to her face. She /is/ a demon of wrath, though. And what better weapon to use now than the soul of the demon lord of wrath?

    Beli lets her arms fall, and over them form a pair of long claws of muscle and bone, curling viciously where her hands were a moment ago. Her left fingers spread wide, joints fusing into place as webbing stretches between them and solidifies, forming a broad shield that extends all the way to her elbow. The right fingers twist, shrink, and stretch in turn, curling into something like a scimitar with the webbing between them growing to a sharp blade between each claw.

    A powerful beat of her wings sends her rushing toward Levi, and the nearly enraged shout that follows leads into a slash of her sword arm across the mage's chest.

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen's location is shelled once more, this time with him in it. It definately hurt alot, reminding him of one of the life fire exersizes from his academy days. "One gun down, two to go." He says. He sights up once again, aiming for the big guns this time. "Time to shut down that big gun of yours." He mutters, letting fly a trio of shots, each one aimed to where he imagined the shells to be.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Gohan silences himself. As Yunomi storms in, he stands his ground (air... whatever) and waits. When she shows her hand, he still does not move. As the naginata closes in, no movement. She would feel her blade hit him, gash through his flesh and opening a sizable wound in his torso. However, he doesn't so much as utter a cry. He stares at her, his eyes blank, before his raises his hands above his head, blood pouring from his wound freely as he clasps his hands together.

    Still no sound. Still just an empty gaze. He brings his arms down hard, energy pulsing through his hands as they rocket toward the tanuki's skull. It's only when he does this that his eyes seem to return to life. He grits his teeth, bites back a scream, but channels all of his strength into his attack.

Rainbow Dash (43) has posed:
"Oh yeah!?" Rainbow Dash shouts back at Levi, "Who's got a cloud on their flanks!?" Well, okay, the magic of the armor is obscuring even her QT-mark, but the point still stands! ... No one's going to win this argument.

Dash's eyes widen as the spinning scythe arcs up towards her. Wings twist, and she tries to turn in mid air to dodge. But the scythe grazes across the armor on her belly, leaving a long gouge in the metal. Only Dash's attention is on the cloud. "Ugh, seriously? That's like the lamest argument in the book! It's still not yours!"

But it looks like her fight partner is in trouble. Dash dives, speeding straight at the two fighters. And then straight over her heads. Once past them, she spins around. She flares her wings out, and wind gathered from her rapid descent ripples around them, almost appearing somewhat visible. Wings pull back, then flap down several times in several strong beats. An intense pulse of wind ripples out from them, soaring right at Levi's back. It might be wind, but if it hits, it'd hit like an anvil.

Fuki has posed:
    The pain Fuki's in is fortunately silenced by muting her voice from radios. The flak continues to rip into her, legs blasted from her robot body and arms riddled with the flak shrapnel. Fuki makes another dive bomb into the hole she made in that barrier, shooting up to land on one of the anti aircraft batteries. "You know, you can't fire on me close range now!" she takes her scythe to the battery and tries to bury some of herself into it to try and at least fire the flak at the other anti-air batteries on the ship lady.

    At least until the request comes into her radio. She darts around, hoping that she did take one of those out and tries to run her scythe around the main body of Elasaid, letting the acid dripping scythe try and cut deeper in as she searches for the main gun. "Try firing on me now!"

Material-S (177) has posed:
    It's not a /bad/ tactic, really. Against Seikou, though... maybe not such a good one. Luciferion chimes, <ROUND SHIELD.> But no huge barrier of orange appears... just a tiny flare of orange, right in the palm of Seikou's hand, meeting Sakura's dead on... and stopping it.

    The impact with Power does cause the barrier to shatter, and cracks crawl up Seikou's armored gauntlet. But the actual impact seems to have been nulled enough that she doesn't budge, and instead she starts giving pointers. "In straight hand to hand, you lack the experience needed to defeat me, and in mid-range combat I also have the advantage. You lack sufficient long-range capability and speed to be a threat."

    She levels a stare at Sakura. "The fog was a good idea, though. You should think creatively if you want to defeat me. Now try again."

    A whip of Luciferion's staff form, along with a burst of mana, seeks to smack Sakura aside and away. "Now, I know you can do better than this. I felt your power earlier. Show me."

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Yunomi brings her hand up, and a brilliang swath of color errupts from her hands. The blow is -- somewhat -- blocked, though the energy from the blow reberates around her body, the shockwave traveling from her arms downwards in a shuddering motion.

    She exhales, and a half heartbeat passes before she brings the naginata back up and fires off another round of holy energy at close range!

    "YOU stole my home! I will use /ANY/ attack, fight as /hard as I can/ to get it back!"

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid unfolds her arms, eyes narrowing as her Barrier coalesces again, absorbing the bolt entirely, though some of the barrier sheds away in blue-white motes as the shield returns to normal. Her left arm raises, and something happens... two ports open up, but nothing visible can be seen coming out.

<Fire one. Fire two!> Garen might think he's safe... but there's a pair of very high explosive Torpedoes are silently making their way to him.

<Enemy aircraft inside AA deadzone. Number seven Flak has gone dark!>

Elasaid grimaces, as she's torn into. Like a giant being harrassed by an ant. She doesn't shoot, no, her eyes track the little shinki, even as smoke and pain rise from that acid-laced slash across her midsection... her Right arm whips out, trying to bring that heavy gauntlet into the damaged Shinki.

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura is flung away. Her serious demeanor pretty much evaporates as she flails in the air, spinning and tumbling through three full revolutions before she manages to stop. She takes a deep breath, then fixes Seikou with her gaze. "...Fight," she intones, activating yet another spell. Her body is surrounded by a bright blue aura, which promptly mingles with the pink that's already there.

Material-L (15) has posed:
    Beli has a sword! And is coming in hot.
    She's also not talking anymore, which is very boring and sad for Levi. Epic pout and frown incoming, and then another fit of rage most likely.

    Rather than allow herself to be slashed open, Levi uses Vulnificus to block the blade, the scythe's shaft rather sturdy; it cracks, a tiny bit, under the pressure of the blow, though it's not hard for Beli to let the sword continue sliding and cut Levi's forearm or shoulder depending on direction. This time there won't be blood, just a sort of holographic disruption in Levi's appearance where the blade cuts.

    The Material is then forced to concede a point. "I don't wanna cloud tattoo on my butt! Tattoos are gross! And needly! I hate needles! HAAAATE NEEDLES!" And doctors.
    Except herself. She is a Doktor. And it's fine.

    The wind is pretty annoying through; her cape catches in it, and it takes the dark magical girl some effort to fly against it, trying not to lose ground to the weather pegasus. A few cuts and bruises from the wind and hail, too, add to her cheeks and face.

    "Fine! If you won't recognize my ownership of the cloud, LET'S HAVE A SNOWBALL FIGHT! WINNER CLAIMS THE STORM AND GETS TO NAME IT! I CALL DIBS ON LORD FLUFFYKINS THE ELECTRIC, THAT'S GONNA BE ITS NAME!"

    <FROZEN LANCER.>
    "PEW PEW~!"

    Half a dozen balls of bright blue mana appear, suddenly freezing solid. The majority of them are launched towards Beli, in a merciless hail of fist-sized ice balls. Rainbow Dash gets a few too, but her speed is going to make it much easier not to get nailed by more than one.

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen's struck and sent flying back, crashing into a wall or other solid structure nearby. He shakes it off and grabs that rifle again. "Guess I'll take that offline as well!" He roars back, starting to lose his cool. But when he got mad, he got deadly. He lines up, and lets fly yet another round.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    Goku's voice again as the attack hits him, sending him sprawling through the air. As he rights himself, his hands are cupped at his side. Anyone familiar with Gohan's father would immediately recognize the technique beginning to form. Even before his intonations, it is quite clear. "You will lose!" he states, his voice a growl. Then it is suddenly clear.

    "KAAAAA.... MEEEE.... HAAAAA..... MMMMEEEEEEE!"

    The energy is palpable, a massive sphere of blue growing between his cupped hands. He grips it, forcing it to condense and allow for more energy. His forehead begins to sweat under the effort, but he does not release for a long moment.

    Then...

    "HAAAAAAAAAA!"

    The energy roars out, sounding like a nuclear blast unleashed upon the world. It bears down on Yunomi with all the force and mercy of a fully-loaded freight train.

Fuki has posed:
    Fuki grins under that mask, feeling purchase of scythe into flesh until gauntlet into Shinki is felt, sending the Shinki flying outside her scythe's capabilities and back into the dreaded anti-air zone of Elasaid. The scythe flashes and dissapears only for another flash to replace it, her laser rifle coming into view. The tiny thing is hefted as she wobbles in mid air, her thrusters failing. What wing structure she has left attempts to keep her aloft.

    Fuki levels the rifle, taking aim at the arms leading from Elasaid's back. Her finger rests on the side of the trigger guard, the thrusters firing up once more, moving her slowly around in the air, losing altitude. "Let's see... if I can fire right... there.. Lock on..." trigger is pulled three times, sending three laser bursts each towards the joints of the flak cannons. "Stop... firing... flak at me! I'm not an aircraft!

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    Ice. So much ice. The first ball cracks right into Beli's head at that range, and that one is no doubt the worst, for she's both knocked back and briefly stunned as the world is consumed in ringing and fuzziness. She certainly /feels/ the next ones that strike her, though, cracking against her chest and wings, all working together to knock her out of her flight and send her tumbling down through the air.

    It takes her a dangerously long time to snap out of that. Just before she hits the storm-tossed ocean, she feels her senses coming back to her enough to gauge her situation. Wings are beaten powerfully, fighting through the ache in the wing that was struck and the pounding in her head. She comes dangerously close to the water, but manages to right herself, flapping to remain aloft. That alone is a struggle, but she's managing. The thick, black blood trickling down from her forehead is a sign of how difficult that is at the moment.

    The situation is only getting worse. Even if she wins here, Yunomi is struggling. They were clearly far stronger than anticipated.

    If anything, that thought only bolsters Beli to push harder. The anger that thought inspires pushes aside any lingering pain and fuels her to fly higher, back to Levi. Both hands of Hatred twist and warp again, their fingers extending and tapering into a pair of lances. Her speed builds and builds, and she holds up both lances as she comes closer to Levi.

    Hopefully, she will end up skewering the mage with both. If she has to, she'll take all the attention she can away from her allies.

Material-S (177) has posed:
    So Sakura is using the Fight, huh? Seikou sighs, shaking her head. "Or you can attempt that," she murmurs, lowering Luciferion. "I doubt that this will give you the edge you think... raw power, you have, but your inexperience is in tactical thinking. But perhaps you know what you are doing this once. I will humor you."

    A shimmer flows over the injured Material, and though her cuts don't heal and her bracers still show cracks, the tears are gone. Her outfit is subtly lighter, the skirt a little shorter and with long slits in the sides.

    <MELEE MODE.>

Rainbow Dash (43) has posed:
Rainbow Dash stares at Levi. Wings beat slower, more steadily. "Uh, hello!" She points a forehoof up at the clouds, "I MADE those clouds! They're already-" WHOMF! Freezing snow smacks her in the face! "OW!"

Wings flick back, and Dash dips to one side. A couple more hail balls smack right into her armor, leaving large dents in the magic metal. It winds her, and her wings briefly stop beating.

Dash topples out of the sky, wheezing as she tries to catch her breath. But she's quickly back on her hooves, and her wings come down powerful strokes. She soars quickly upwards, and grabs one of the low hanging clouds from underneath the storm.

"You want a snowball fight!?" The lightning crystal on Dash's chest glows, and the cloud's consistancy changes, turning more gray-ish than black. It starts to look a bit less like the violent summer rain storm, and more like a sleet gray winter snow cloud. The temperature nearby drops, Dash's breath coming out in clouds of frost. "YOU GOT ONE!"

Dash gives the now winter cloud a hearty kick. It shatters, breaking apart into large chunks of what look to be hardened snow instead of just disipating into cloud stuff. She then beats her wings hard, and another wind picks up. But this one? It brings down a hail storm of hardened snowballs towards Levi.

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid spins in place, that bolt slamming into her leg bracer. The metal warps, some of it spalling off and melting into motes of light. "Hostile force is stronger than anticipa---" That's when the previously disabled X turret simply explodes, sending the large turret spinning off and into the water with a large splash. Fuki's peppering causes her Barrier Armour to shatter like glass, and raising smoke from her armour.

<Heavy damage to armour belt. Hull breach below the waterline. Main battery at half strength. Port torpedo rack destroyed.>

The damage report echos in her mind, and the chatter over the radio steels her resolve.

    "All hands. Prepare for glory. This shall be our finest hour." The two remaining main cannons focus on Garen's location, and her right arm lifts, opening ports and unleashing two more torpedoes, while the remaining four cannons roar in defiance.

Fuki doesn't escape. Elasaid sweeps what's left of her left bracer around, as a large anchor appears, firing off with a gunshot at the Shinki.

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura produces a card, while dodging to the side. "SILENT!"

    The battlefield suddenly goes silent. Seikou can't hear anything - as if she were suddenly plunged into a soundproof, perfectly clear sphere. She can see Sakura producing more cards, but unless she can read lips from this distance, she won't hear Sakura calling any of their names. "MIRROR!" Sakura calls out, just as she ducks into a thick patch of that concealing fog. Then, "ARROW!", as a hail of arrows suddenly shoots forth, accompanied by Sakura! The girl is aiming a punch right for Seikou - but the Mage will have to deal with the shower of arrows first.

    "CREATE!"

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen looks up just in time to see the shells and torpedo's put him through said structure from before, and leave him fairly messed up. He somehow manages to get back to his feet though. Those agents are built of stern stuff. He pulls up the rifle once more, and takes aim. He was patient, calm, focused on his breathing. He was searching for something, like a hawk searches for prey.
    Moments pass, and he finally thinks he's got a vital spot. "Time to send you back to the dry dock, rustbucket." He says, letting fly a charged shot, meant to bore through armor.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    This wasn't right. She was going to lose everything. She was going to lose Namamura. She was going to lose her guadianship.

    She might lose everything.

    The pain hit her. She couldn't see anything. She was engulfed by energy, her prismatic shield up as much as she can muster. Her body curls behind the rapidly depleting colors before the Kamehameha fades away, leaving her deafened for a brief moment.

    Please, Niv, don't let me fail them. Give me strength.

    Yunomi takes a deep breath. Pidge beeps to her side.

    "Pidge... go to the grotto. Warn Kaeru-hime. Warn them all. Get them out of the valley through the hills and the caves. Alert the Izzet." she breathes.

    And the little orb goes dark -- and flies off into the stormy night. Yunomi feels the rain pelting her body as she drops her shield.

    She lowers her hands. She feels the power of this place, her home. She remembers running through the grass, barefoot as a child. Her father Sakiaro waving goodbye. The fire at the Shrine which took Oya's life

    And she summons up everything she has.
    "This river has been my cradle, my nursery, my classroom; Nama echoes the flow of my life and the ebbs and tide of my heart. The valley is my home, guided by Kaeru-Hime. I am the Guardian of this land, and I shall preserve this place against the evils that would threaten all who call this place home... or I shall perish in the attempt." she whispers to herself. The leather leaves her hands as she slides off her gauntlets. She feels the rain over her wounded, burnt hands, kissing at every bruise and singe from the past week, soothing the heat within and cooling her forehead. The rain joins in little rivulets down her back, snaking down her back.

    Gripping her hands together, Yunomi focuses herself, centering. The feeling of grass between her toes.

    Mana rises from her, curling around her like a coiled snake, and Yunomi exhales. She opens her eyes, a ring of sunlight gold around the dark brown of her iris, and when she releases the energy, the whole of the burst screams.

    Echoing Yunomi's own voice as she cries out, feeling the power leaving her body, making the space around her fingernails sizzle in burning.

Material-S (177) has posed:
    In the silence, the chiming voice of Luciferion can't be heard either. Thus, there's no warning when the barrier springs up, an orange shield that splinters the created arrows against it easily. Still, Seikou looks surprised, so perhaps Sakura made a good impression with the attempt.

    Speaking of impressions, Sakura's FIST goes right through the barrier, smacking Seikou - er, silently - and sending her hurtling away. That's going to leave a mark.

    The trio of orange globes that burst out and streak toward Sakura are silenced too, but it's a pretty good bet that they burn like fire as well.

Material-L (15) has posed:
    "That's not snowballs! That's weapons! CHEATER! YOU'RE A CHEATER LADY!" Levi exclaims as Beli comes rushing in, with her twisted and dark weapons. No, let's not let that put holes in me, she thinks. That would be awful and painful and so much hurt, owie owie.

    "IDDQD!"
    <DEFENSER PLUS.>

    Massive, bright cyan circles of runes and magic appear all around Levi, and that's what Beli ends up slamming into. As they crack and start flickering, the barriers obviously unable to hold her back for very long, the girl inside suddenly twirls her cape dramati<span style="color:ally!

    "KABOOM!"
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    The cape EXPLODES, shattering the shields. The explosion is powerful and large enough to catch Beli into it, given she was pretty much hugging Levi's protective spells.

    With her cape gone, though, she's at Rainbow Dash's mercy when a bigger, badder hailstorm rolls into town. The pegasus is winning the snowball fight so far! Repeated impacts ragdoll the blue-haired girl pretty hard in the sky, although she manages not to crash down towards the ground too hard. With a few more bruises, and sections of her clothes torn and shredded off by the hail, she seems to no longer be having fun.

    "MUUUUUUH! My turn! RAIJIN!"

    She swings the scythe back-- and then cleaves the air in front of herself. There's a bright blue flash, and electricity cuts forward in a straight line, headed straight for Rainbow Dash!

    "ISSEN!"
    <THUNDER GOD FLASH.>

Fuki has posed:
    Escape? What's this escape? The anchor and gunshot ring out through the Shinki's body sending her flying out and into the water. Water, the last place the Shinki wanted to be. At least... the water shimmers lightly, another flash from it. That acidic scythe again. Green trails appear on top of the water as the Shinki 'swims' under the water's surface, going torpedo like towards Elasaid. Her face breaches the water, the fox like mask parting the water, the mask flying off from the speed.

    Fuki's face scowls, eyes glowing and one more shimmer comes to bear, a second scythe, not dripping acid, comes into view. Blades and arms out, the Shinki's thrusters pull her over the water into a whirling top of spinning scything. "I'm going to take you down rustbucket, and make you sleep where those turrets rust and are no more! This is Gohan's world now and you're tresspassing!" the Shinki screams loudly as she's continually lifted out of the water, trying to bury scythes and self into the Fleet Maiden's stomach.

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura's yelp is silenced, as she brings her arms up to cover her face. Her costume has seen better days - it's got holes right through it in several places, and Sakura is pretty beat up as well. But she's still moving!

    She waves her left hand, and sound suddenly returns to the battlefield. Sakura shouts "WINDY!", wind swirling around the two mages, clearing the fog banks... and revealing...

    Sakura. Standing on a rock floating in the air. Writing in a book. What? This Sakura doesn't have wings, or any of the magical auras surroundnig the Sakura in front of Seikou.

    "I don't really have as much of a problem with long ranged attacks as you think I do. Not at night, anyway," Sakura says.

    Off in the middle distance, a humanoid figure appears. Wearing robes similar to the ones Sakura is wearing, holding a wand with a little star at the tip. Then another appears. And another. Dozens of them materialise, in a delta formation, wands pointed in Seikou's direction.

    Every one of them has swirling spirals where they should have eyes. And every one of them promptly launches a bolt of magic at Seikou.

    The bolts... aren't very strong. But there's a LOT of golem-mages all of a sudden. And they don't stop attacking, as Sakura shouts out "SHOT!" and fires her own magical lazor.

Gohan (334) has posed:
    As Gohan feels the energy leave, he can feel a new strength flowing through his body. Greater than adrenaline, but a similar effect. He staunches his bleeding wound with his hand for a moment, then shakes his head. Yunomi is waiting, possibly channeling for a final stand sort of attack. He braces himself in the air, staring down at her with interest. No doubt she would want to order an evacuation of non-com personnel. He knows they are both wounded, but he barely feels the burning wounds he has acquired. He knew he would have to pay for his actions later. Many hours in a meditank for sure. He pants, waiting for the attack while pondering why he had seen and heard Goku in Yunomi's attacks. He closes his eyes. He can't let that break him now. Later, when he was finished with the fight, he would dwell on the meaning.

    The air is ablaze, and Gohan screams out in pain and rage. The heat blisters and blackens his skin, and when the attack clears, it's clear he's not in good shape. But he's still up. And his hands are cupping next to his side again. Golden energy, however, is the light of this attack.

    "KAAAAAA.... MAAAAAAAAA.... SEEEEEEEEN.... KOOOOOOO!"

    Kamasenko? What was that? As the name implies, a combination of two grand techniques. The sphere roars and engulfs Gohan's hands, growing massive in a heartbeat. High above her, Yunomi might see that it seems like he is controlling a miniature sun. "HAAAAA!"

    He flings the attack down, and the beam defies any laws of size he had previously fired. It would no doubt engulf the entire area around Yunomi, but it also seems slightly slower. Strange.

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    Complete miss. Beli still grits her teeth and pushes, trying to get her lances to pierce through the barriers if she can manage it. She shouts with the effort, pushing and pushing...but it just doesn't work. The shield explode and send Beli hurtling back, tumbling through the air as she is again forced to right herself before she crashes into the ocean. Her wings flap, though their beat is erratic; she slumps slightly where she hovers, gasping for breath as the rain beats down on her. She looks exhausted by this point, but she knows she has to fight /past/ that point. She has to push herself harder.

    And so she does. Again she rushes at Levi, wings beating as hard as she can make them. Darkness and agonizing hellfire swirl around her lances, increasing their magical power as she hurtles at her opponent. One last good shot. That's all she needs.

    She tries, once again, to impale Levi, practically roaring at the top of her lungs with determination and no small amount of rage. This time, however, she tries pushing the mage into the web of nets she made in the air when all this started. If she /can/, she attempts to slam Levi into one of the chains, and at that same moment, she pulls out one lance and hurls a stream of Lethargy's sap at the mage to form a stone covering to glue her onto the chain.

    Even if she manages that, however, she's probably not going to get away before she calls for Dash's help. Making sure Levi takes the full brunt of their attacks is the most important thing right now.

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid pants, legs weak and her stance unstable. She stumbles back as that armour piercing shot slams into one of ther remaining turrets, causing it to detonate and nearly sending her toppling over. The acid dripping scythe slashing up along her already weakened armour. "This. Is. YUNOMI'S. HOME!" she spits back at Fuki, reaching to grab what's left of the Shinki and crush her with her bare hands. Garen doesn't get off though, the remaining gun fires two shells, before it simply falls from the anchor arm... acid eaten through the mooring.

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen takes the impacts, getting even further messed up by the many guns of Elasaid. He makes it seem like he was done and gone, but in reality was sneaking up to get the ultimate shot. He managed to get fairly close, and lined up his rifle again, aiming at Elasaid's head again, and squeezing off a shot. Wether he hit or not, he was going in to get Fuki and extract with her.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    The little orb makes it to an ancient grotto in record time. Inside, hundreds of frightened people -- and terrifying yokai -- were hiding, warned by an oncoming storm, hiding from the PTO and the ravages of battle. An old man, huge from his career in wrestling accepts the orb into his palm, just as it begins to light up with red and blue warning lights. Sakiaro Odanuki, father to Yunomi Stadler, knows what it means.

    "... everyone. The caves go deep and come out to the warpgate. We don't have much time." he mutters, and he lets the orb flit back to the air as it bolts outwards. He himself lifts a lantern, who lights itself, a very concerned face showing.

    "But what about--"

    "We can't do anything for her now. Move, Chiisai, Takai. /We/ have to pick up where she left off and get the others out of here as quickly as we can. The infirm and feble to horses, everyone who can walk, walks."

    Yunomi had made it her last ditch effort to try and kill Gohan. She was exhausted, bleeding from her fingertips, but when she saw him still standing... the power ebbing like a wave around him, she knew she had lost.

    She held her side, and tried to move out of the way, flying out to sea. Flying out to where Striker had waited to cover a retreat... but even then, she couldn't muster enough speed. Her strength was failing. The thunder wasn't making any sound -- all she could hear was the sound of the ocean beneath her.

    And when the energy hit her, she went down, dropping into the water, skidding along the surface like a skipped stone before an angry wave overtook her.

Material-S (177) has posed:
    <PANZERHINDERNIS KOMPLETT,> Luciferion pings, the silence at last fallen. That's the first reaction to the storm, and the bolts thunder against the sudden prism of polygonal orange barriers that Seikou has surrounded herself with, causing her to vanish into a cloud of magical light.

    When it fades, parts of the barrier are still up... but parts are crumbling, the magic disintegrating, and the small Material's Barrier Jacket is showing numerous burns and holes from the impacts. Still, she is still there... and peering down.

    "That was a better idea," she admits, breathing in a little heavier.

    <HUNDRED NEEDLES,> Luciferion pings, sending out a MASSIVE wave of orange beams all around. They're mostly for the golems, though, so minimal damage to Sakura herself.

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid grunts, as that bolt skims past her head. She grits her teeth, lifting a hand to her hat, and tossing it away. The hat vanishes in motes of blue-white light, while her other hand whips around, hurling Fuki's remains at Garen. Copper hair flies in the wind, whipping about her dramatically.

    "Ye want 'er? HAVE 'ER!"

Garen (530) has posed:
    Garen catches Fuki, albeit after she's made a missile. He holstered his rifle and had his pistol levelled right at Elasaid's head. He knew he could risk another shot, but figured that he had done enough in the battle. So he carefully made his way back towards his ship.

Fuki has posed:
    Fuki didn't quite plan out this enough. She expected that her ramming and scythes would finish off her target, however that wasn't the case. When she's grabbed, she listens to the words said, a smile upon her face. "Even so..." she comments, "We..." the squeezing pressure snaps the Shinki's body and soon she powers down and tossed like a projectile. Kourin's going to be mad that another Fubuki model body will need to be ordered, but she did her job, she did her job well...

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid glares at Garen, then when he starts backing away, she turns herself, moving to where Yunomi landed. "Hang on Yunomi. I'm comin'!"

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura is struck by Seikou's Cactaur Attack, taking 100 damag- oh, wait, no.

    Still. She's blasted with laser fire! As are her golems, all of which pop from a single hit. Durable they ain't. Sakura is starting to flag now, panting a bit. "Ghh... You know, I'm starting to think I might not be able to win this," she admits. Who is she talking to?

    She grimaces at the news over the radio. "...I guess we might need to cut this short, though."

Rainbow Dash (43) has posed:
"That's what you get for picking a snowball fight with a weather pony!" Rainbow Dash raises a forehoof to her nose, and pushes up on it in a mocking face. "You're gonna get burried!" At least Dash played fair! Well, sort of. She still won.

But while the pegasus is mocking, Levi is winding up another attack. "Whoops!" Dash's wings flare, and she swoops upwards. But lightning arcs straight towards her, like she were a lightning rod. It breaks across her back, and arcs across her frame. "Yeeeoww!" Sparks flicker across her wings, threatening to make them seize up. But she doesn't let them!

Dash keeps flying upwards, disappearing, briefly, amongst the clouds. For a moment, everything is chaos. Lightning crackles around her, dark clouds mill about, churning and rolling. Then it breaks into sheer silence, and Rainbow Dash is soaring straight up, away from the clouds and the fight below. Higher and higher still, she rises up above them, a golden speck in the sky.

Then for a moment, Dash stops. She hovers, looking down at the rolling clouds below. She takes a quiet breath, one hoof readjusting her goggles.

Then, she drops. Dash dives like a rock, both forehooves outstretched in front of her. She's a speeding bolt of blue and rainbow, flying straight at the storm clouds. When her hooves strike, the clouds seem to explode. The entire storm flares with bright electricity. The entire cloud seems to defy physics by streeetching downwards where Dash hits. Then, as it seems like she might break through it, the lightning pours out from the clouds all at once in one massive bolt of lightning, aimed right at Beli's cage.

KRACK-THOOOOM!

... But instead of Dash flying right through with it, there is a TWWAAANNGG-like sound, and then the whole cloud bank snaps back like a rubber band. And Rainbow Dash goes flying, backwards, in the other direction out of the city. "WAAAAAAHHHH!!"

The clouds, however, have all turned white and puffy, and already beginning to fade into nothing.

Material-S (177) has posed:
    "I would welcome a rematch, once you have refined your tactics," Seikou offers. "You have plentiful power and have improved greatly. There is no shame in retreating now." She actually smiles for a moment. "You could defeat me, with proper care. But not today, I think."

Striker Eureka (25) has posed:
     Striker has been standing in the water just off the coast for much of the fight. The impatience and simmering fury radiates off the Jaeger, coming straight from the minds of its pilots - Herc and Chuck Hansen. Fists clenched, hunched slightly, Striker Eureka looks like its about to break into a run and charge the Confederate lines.

     Maybe it'd work.

     Of course, then the retreat order is given. The Jaeger stomps around, securing its footing, and thrusts its elbows back in a powerful shove. The chest of the Jaeger opens up, plating folding out of the way of a sextet of six huge barrels. Missile launchers, packed with warheads that are designed to kill Kaiju. Sure, their explosive firepower isn't as great as it might appear, but the sheer shock of their concussive detonations should be enough to let the Union fighters get away.

     With a terrific shout, Chuck and Herc fire off their missiles, the launches staggered ever so slightly, blanketting as much of the Confederate lines as they can to buy some time for the Union withdrawal.

Yunomi Stadler (272) has posed:
    Yunomi sunk below the waves. It's surprisingly calm, between the deep and the storm above. The river's waters muddy and fan out nearby, and Yunomi feels her lungs fill with saltwater, tasting it on her tongue... before she's fished out of the water. Ocean and blood drip from her nose, and she's retrieved by the formerly shrinking Hood.

Material-L (15) has posed:
    In comes Beli with a plan.

    Slamming Levi into the web of nets isn't particularily hard. It's painful, it hurts-- the raw impact would break bones, if she were human. Then she's stuck in place by the hardening sap, and struggles a bit to get free.

    No go.

    "HEY! HEY DON'T JUST LEAVE ME HEEEERE! MEAN LADY!"

    Struggle struggle struggle. Whine.
    The stone cracks a bit, but it's not letting go of her yet.

    The storm growls.

    And Rainbow Dash gives Levi a taste of lightning, as the weather discharges most of its energy into the chain net, and thus into the Material too. She screams in pain, and her forms distorts, like a damaged hologram. The pain is sufficient that she manages to breaks free of her bonds. She clutches Vulnificus tightly; she looks absolutely pissed.

    And missing half of her Barrier Ja<span style="color:ket.

    "VULNIFICUS!!!!"
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    The scythe head rises and slams back down, twice. A hiss of steam and a surge of magic indicates cartridges have been loaded. Then the scythe blade vanishes, and the head points upward on the weapon. It turns into a spear, and bright wings of blue light deploy along the length of the weapon from the tip to the base.

    The incoming artillery in the distance just makes her angrier. Especially as she sees Seikou caught into one of the blasts. That is a berserk button right there.

    "CHEATERS! DUMB CHEATERS! DUMB CHEATERS ALWAYS LOSE! LOSE LOSE LOSE LOSE!" The Device is pointed at Beli-- Rainbow Dash already gone, she'll be the sole one at the receiving end of the little girl's tantrum.

    "LOSE!"
    <PHOTON LANCER: GENOCIDE SHIFT.>

    Dozens and dozens, probably more a hundred and counting, orbs of bright blue light and electricity form in the air around Levi and Beli, covering most of the area the storm used to when it was still active.

    "FIRE!"

    From every possible angle they lance at Beli.
    They burn, they cut, they pierce, they crush.

Elasaid Hood (359) has posed:
    Elasaid finds where Yunomi went, and fires an Anchor Chain down to fish the Tanuki out of the water. Cradling the Tanuki, she strides rapidly away from the battlefield. "This isnae over yet, Yunomi." she says, holding her friend close. "SK-119. SK-119. This is MH-51. Requesting emergency retrieval and medevac."

Material-S (177) has posed:
    Seikou is just standing there. Or floating. When... <PROTECTION!>

    The spherical barrier surrounds her, but it isn't very strong. the missile SHE didn't see coming, but her Device did, still manages to shatter the orange field and blast her from the sky, sending her tumbling with a smoking barrier jacket...

    But she stops in midfall, glaring toward the ocean before rocketing upward, streaking toward Levi instead. "LEVI! Enough! This is a waste of mana."

Sakura Kinomoto (172) has posed:
    Sakura is forced to retreat so -she- doesn't get exploded at too. She grabs Oka's hand as she goes, and just kinda flees at high speed.

Serori (37) has posed:
    Someone had to have the inglorious job of pushing around the rank and file, right? Serori drew the short straw, this time. Any personal contributions she's made to the battle have gone virtually unnoticed; instead, she's been the one conveying Gohan's orders to the troops beneath her station. As part of her role, she now organizes these troops into a hasty recovery effort. Sure, most of these guys would rather just blast the civilians away into nothing, but this time, they're made to assist anyone attempting to evacuate. Serori's glare is enough to keep them convinced that obeying Gohan is a Very Good Idea.

Beli Klum (238) has posed:
    Beli manages to pull away just when that explosion of lightning and thunder strikes down, filling her net with wave after wave of coursing electricity. Mercifully, she gets out just before that manages to consume her, letting her take a moment to breathe and help organize evacuation of Union forces as she turns to regard the rest of the battle.

    ...unfortunately, turning away was probably a mistake. The rephaite whirls around just in time to hear Levi shouting in anger, just in time to see Vulnificus pointed at her. Her eyes go wide and she opens her mouth as if to say something, but all that follows is a scream of overwhelming pain as every single bolt of magic and lightning cascades on her in a tremendous storm.

    It's remarkable that she isn't completely knocked out from that.

    The rephaite still can't keep herself airborn very well after such a painful tantrum. Her body steams and hisses, trailing a stream down as she falls. The crimson sheen on her wings and the flame in her halos fade away. Hatred and the giant net of chains fade away, and it's only through a last-minute extension and flapping of her wings that she doesn't strike the water. She flaps erratically, barely conscious but just strong enough to push herself through the air to evacuate.

    Whatever friendly vehicle she finds first will be the one she collapses on, gasping for breath and struggling for consciousness.

Material-L (15) has posed:
    Huff.

    Levi lowers Vulnificus, breathing heavily a few times and then just kind of... wobbling in the air, from all the injuries and bruises. Seikou calls out, and she hovers towards her instead, whining. "B-But Seikou! They shot artillery at you! That's not faaaaaair!"

    Whine whine.

    She looks too beat and injured to really carry on any further threats towards the source of unfairness though. Instead she just looks at Material-S with pleading eyes. "... creampuffs?"