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Tamamo no Mae     It's evening out in this area... those that Tamamo gathered to help her with this daunting task of clearing out the land to take for the Millenium Capital and herself dropped right in the middle of a building infested square... gates of energy to the north and the east... and in the sky... a strange square artifact, those with magical sense would see that it is of smiliar makeup to Tamamo herself. Tamamo looks at everyone gathered, her ring hand extended and she smiles.

    "Allies, friends..." a look towards Nozomi and Taiga, "Husband and mechanical cat... we're gathered here to take over these hostile lands in the name of the Millenium Capital. As my trusted vassals and husband we'll split up and take over the areas with the largest amount of fragments..." the smile gets bigger as she waves her hand, various things popping up... Nozomi would recognize them as the attack programs that summoned her to Tamamo. There's a few big ones there too, guarding a floating key.

    "Simple how to do this... just kill everything in your way! Once it's clear of the guardians, those big things you see behind your Queen, the area /should/ release the key or keys to you... and up to the Moon Cell above us! Simple, yes?" she turns towards Nozomi and Taiga, "You two are with me." and with a kiss of her ring, in Nozomi goes. "You'll be a good attack cat for us, right Taiga?"

    "If everything's understood... let's go have fun. JUst be wary of traps."
Haguro It has been quite some time since Haguro's last excursion into... Well, anywhere. She's been training hard, to be sure, but practicing techniques at home and using them in real combat are two different things. Thus, there's little for her to do but to assist her allies in the Concord, especially when it involves small unit combat rather than the larger ships and emplacements she's used to firing on.

     "E... Everything? That seems simple enough. Do we have a plan like staying together, dividing into groups, spreading out to cover as much space as possible...?" She still sounds about as meek as ever, though, although her stretching and checking of her turrets indicates someone far more ready to fight than she sounds. "What kind of opposition are we expected to face?"
Argast Wyrdseeker     Amongst those gathered, they might feel it. A source of purely dark magic encased in almost living armor. Argast Wyrdseeker and his warband of Chaos Undivided all nod at they hear the order to lay waste to everything. "Then may the Blood God watch over us and grant us his blessing..." He says. Those who might know Argast would spot the whisps of chaotic energy from his back taking the form of Raven wings. "I have been waiting for this..."
Nozomi Houken     Some of the people here are scary. Some of them are very scary. Like the man with the chaos-magic wings. That's kind of worrying.

    So even before she dives into Tamamo's ring, Nozomi Houken is sort of hiding behind the fox spirit, sticking close where she feels safe. And her large black mechatiger is right by her side, sitting casually but nevertheless quite on alert. When spoken to by Tamamo, he cants his head slightly and says, "Of course. This battle qualifies as both protecting Nozomi Houken and providing aid to a Concord ally. I am within right to engage in full, unrestricted combat." Streeeetch.

    "Ah, just... just one thing," Nozomi murmurs. "If... if things get to tough, I want... I want to be able to step out of the ring, and combine with Taiga. We're a lot stronger together than he is alone." She lets herself be pulled in, though, settling into the weird quasi-merged existence it provides her.
Miari An opportunity to see one of the Multiverse's more unusual locales? Miari will not let this one go to waste. The young woman who claims to be a physician doesn't look too out of place here either, sporting both a hime-cut of emerald hair and a well-kept ornamental silken kimono of matching color with golden trim.

    She's armed with a metal fan (to use the term loosely, perhaps?) and, beyond that, a sharp eye on the surroundings. Sharp and AWED for that matter - the Moon Cell is not exactly a typical locale and its strange sights and fantastically jagged landscaping has her a bit unsure how to proceed.

    "This will be a good exercise! Though the manner of benefits these lands confer escapes me. This world is unlike anything I've ever seen or felt!"
Kushiko Not that Kushiko know anything at all about territory claiming and the like, or dealing with legions of troopers with the occasional stronger one (or stronger still) and holding it. Nope, the Tenno knows nothing like that.

Yeah, that's a lie.

That said, it is kind of a fascinating thing to be out here in Moon Cell, due to her own experiences with datascapes and the like. Nonetheless, she's listening, and presently occupying a gleaming predator of a Warframe, the berserker known as Valkyr. Void energy remains restrained, though there's a ghost of it whenever she speaks. Something that may come off as twistedly familiar yet not towards Argast. If only just, given the inherent nature of the Void.

He'd defintely be able to pick up with a little focus on the fact that something /beyond/ was maintaining a spiritual--no, spiritual wasn't quite right?--but a link all the same to the feminine frame.

<"Would anything actually keep it from happening normally? That is, when those holding the area are slain, nothing should keep it from falling under our control, right?">
Tamamo no Mae     Tamamo smiles as Nozomi lets herself be pulled in... the warmth inside the ring evenlops Nozomi and it feels like the two are closer than ever... "It's easier to split up... fifteen keys /should/ bring us the portal for victory." she nods, summoning her Mirror into play. "And of course, my wonderful husband." she gives a slight sigh and she looks towards Kushiko curiously, "Nothing /should/ keep us from taking them, but.. it's possible for the enemy Guardians to destroy /ours/ and we'll lose them."

    A look towards the other 'Caster' "Please, have fun... I will enjoy seeing you work~" then she turns to Haguro, "Attack programs and guardians mainly. They should be easily dispatched but they are /numerous/! Feel free to main and destroy to your hearts content!" and with Miari, Tamamo looks at the fan and kimono, "I approve of your style... and they really have benefits towards us Servants... with my Master I can actually be outside of the Moon Cell and SERAPH."
Argast Wyrdseeker     Argast grins under his helmet. A quick glance towards the Valkyr frame causes the dark mage to tilt his head curiously. "Hmmm.....we may have much to discuss..." he says towards Kushiko. But he quickly makes his way towards one of the key locations, and immidiately begins bombarding the area with a hellish rain of fireballs while his warband runs in, screaming out their devotions to their gods.
Haguro Haguro's looking a little bit more confident as more Elites arrive as reinforcements, taking deep breaths and adjusting her turrets while listening to the fox-eared Caster. There's a blank stare of confusion on her face whe she fawns over Nozomi, and she looks even more confused when she disappears into Tamamo's ring, but it soon dissipates!

     It's easier not to try and think about all these details just before a big battle, after all. Instead, she nods at the talk of destroying to her heart's content, although it does draw a bit of an awkward cough from the shipgirl. "R... Right. If they're not alive, then... This will be good practice." She cocks her wrist turret for emphasis, and then the guns lower.

     Shouldn't they be aimed upwards, though? "I'm ready whenever the rest of you are. Just.. Everyone, please be careful. I'll try not to let you down!"
Nozomi Houken     Even without a physical body (for the moment), Nozomi is still Nozomi. She instinctively settles her existence as close to Tamamo as possible; not just out of a nervousness, but also the faintest hint of protectiveness.

    Taiga, on the other hand, streeeetches again, then stands up properly. His shoulder cannons twitch this way and that, a soft hum issuing forth as they power up, and his claws dig into the ground briefly. "I am not as suited to engaging large numbers of enemies on my own as I would be were I merged with Nozomi, but my capabilities should be sufficient for weaker enemies. I believe I will be suitable backup, or an acceptable scout. We should begin moving before the enemy notices our presence, if such a thing is possible."
Kushiko Well, that much is good to know. She's seen the kind when running Interception missions for the Lotus. Enemies would potentially retake and she'd have to go clear the field of them. Well then, this seemed pretty straightforward.

Nonetheless, the faceless Valkyr seems to cant her head slightly, that odd little voice-without-presence seeming to pulsate once more. <"Perhaps. Perhaps not. We recall someone who may well have hailed about from your part of the Multiverse and they did not like us. The opposite may not be as appealing."> It's said with a wry tone, all the while. Jest, perhaps?

<"In either event, let us be off then. We are ready. We will supplement those of you here once we encounter the enemy."> They did have a nice support buff through their Warcry, but she didn't like doing it without someone to murderously slice into.
Miari Detecting the comment, Miari flashes a war smile Tamamo's way. "Shogunate fashion is among the best kinds!" She's quiet about the benefits though, as her mind wanders. Others are preparing and she has plenty to take in from their rummagings.

    "I really need to assemble a standing force that can handle such things for me." She murmurs... all the while bringing both hands together - and with them, gathering the winds. Gale-winds briefly whoosh about and compress in her hands... and she thrusts the power forth! It blossoms upon striking the ground, and a great horse-sized wolf composed of wind rises with a howl!

    Of course, it proves solid enough that Miari can just mount it...
Tamamo no Mae     "Well, it seems that Caster Wyrdseeker's already starting! So just rush past him and go attack!" though she looks towards Taiga, giving a slight nod. "If you need to, Master can eject from the ring at her whim." she nods before going in the /other/ direction than Wyrdseeker! Assuming he went north, she's going to the east! Now, while oone would assume normal buildings, these are wholly unoccupied and randomly scattered around with various metal shipping containers you'd see on trains or ships!

    Argast's room, however, is nice and open... there's a symbol in the middle of the room with no clear pattern to it... and three Guardian class enemies. What he /also/ sees is the bane of Tamamo's capturing existance. A Plant that spews out black spiritrons... spitting out the stuff to who knows where in this land. Though as soon as he enters with his own army... the Attack Programs and Guardians immediatly lock onto him! Many, however, fall to the warband and those fireballs, but there's still those giant guardians too!

    Meanwhile, to the east of the starting room, there's a rain of black spiritrons from /somewhere/ as the whole room fills up with attack programs and guardians! The same symbol-void monument is in the center of this room, but the guardian's look different... towering hulks of things... perfect targets to just rip and tear into! "Oh, there's a Plant!" she calls out, moving forward to start smashing things with fire and ice laden magic swipes. "You all can continue here or move onto other rooms! Splitting up may help!"
Argast Wyrdseeker     Argast shifts as he see's the Plants and guardians, grinning. "More kindling for the flames of chaos! BURN!!" He howls out, shifting from a rain of fireballs to a more focused attack. Swirling, flaming vortexes emerge from seemingly nowhere and move to dance into the forces sent against the hordes of chaos undivided, all to the mad laughing of the Sorceror-Lord.
Kushiko Well truth be told there /is/ something to be done before they actually split up: and that is for her to unleash a Warcry: echoing, resounding force that augments those nearby. If they're still close enough. Armor in the form of shimmering light starts to overlay those Elites here. Those who might take to close combat will find their attack speed is greatly enhanced.

All the same, Valkyr is not even remotely the sort to do large scale bombardment--she is a weapon, but not that kind of weapon as she simply hurtles forward at a quick sprint, sending herself spiralling through the air towards one of the larger throngs of enemies nearby that Tamamo points out. <"No need to worry, this is our kind of fight, Haguro!"> she calls back after the fact.

And it really is. There's a practiced brutality and elegance woven all into one: sweeping claw strokes that catch multiple enemies, swinging into uppercuts as she catches one impaled to throw it into another before whirling dervish into the group to send them flying away. And she just seems to be getting faster--howling out a Warcry to empower any who may have chosen the same melee route as her, armoring and increasing attack speeds as once.

She practically dances as she weaves her way through. A hurricane wreathed in lavender and black, and one that occasionally just pounces onto the shoulders of one of the taller guardians and just *rips and tears*.
Nozomi Houken     When Tamamo begins to move, Taiga's right there alongside her. He moves with the swiftness and grace of a real tiger - moreso, in fact, with his physical parameters so far beyond an ordinary creature. Before they even reach the newly-appearing hordes of attack programs, his shoulder cannons have shifted their aim and begun opening fire. One after another, shot after shot of softball-sized yellow energy, globes of brightly-glowing power mixing both magical and mundane; they pack a nice little punch, more than enough to soften up the front lines before he reaches them.

    And for all his talk, he's pretty effective in melee. Claws lashing out left and right, a black mechafeline spinning, lunging and leaping, always leaping, always diving out of a horde whenever he gets surrounded, and then coming at it again from a side. Never letting himself be flanked, always doing the flanking. And never straying too far from Tamamo.
Miari "Then I'll leave that... Plant... to you!" Miari's mount slows as it senses her uncertainty. The simple program defenders fall like so many dominos where the wolf treads. It scatters them with forceful roars and howls that literally bowl them right off their feet, and savage lunges with tooth and claw!

    But Miari decides to head onwards to an unclaimed room in this mess...

    "For a simulated realm that can take any form one wishes... this place is rather ornery!" With the lesser programs now ganging up and dogpiling her beast, Miari waves a hand--

    And lightning bolts splash down with no ceremony to simply break their formations to bits!

    Onwards!
Haguro "I suppose it is, isn't it? Still..." As Haguro replies to Valkyr, she starts breaking into more of a run, trailing after the Frame and... Not firing a single shot from her turrets. No explosions are coming from the cruiser, and even her revolver is going unused at her side. Instead of using any of her armaments, she's instead running right for a crowd of programs!

     Maybe it's willpower brought on from watching her allies fight, maybe it's a confidence boost from feeling that burst of power, or maybe she's just trying to do something different for once. Whatever the case is, Haguro's opting for a more physical approach as she runs right past her allies, indeed taking the call to split up to try out something really really stupid!

     Haguro finally spots her target (a Guardian), and then she starts darting forward and weaving between enemies to get closer to that one. Once she's close enough, she finally turns her turret backward to fire behind her, launching herself forward to try and catch it with a stiff shoulder charge without stopping for whatever might be behind it!
Tamamo no Mae     Argast:
    Burninating the ... cityside? Argast the Burninator! The magical barrage is proving quite effective here, a couple guardians falling from that along with a lot of the attack programs but the Plant, however, does something interesting... it floats up... and moves as it still spews its bullshit everywhere, it's a tough little bugger and it's having a hard time going down, out of reach from the melee minions... unless they know how to jump!
    Miari:
    With Miari heading off to another room, something seems slightly off... upon entrance a magical trap triggered... and soon, flames fill the entire room, trying to set the intruder on fire! Fortunately, the trap won't reset but still, there's that to contend with! Lightning bolts, however, crash down and break up the lesser programs while the guardians move to fight Miari, swinging big arms to try and clobber the Exalted!

    Kushiko and Haguro:
    The warcry encompasses the current room's group, increasing the armor and attack speed, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of retaliation for the buff for now! Haguro's own physical approach with the Guardian, really knocks some sense into it... and by sense we mean it's really damaged from the sheer force of it, but it's still up and it swings back towards the shipgirl! Kushiko's own little dervish dance chews through some of the lesser programs and soon, is ripping and tearing a guardian apart, dismantling it from there and then... it seems to get easier, but a pile of those attack programs start swarming Kushiko, heedless of the danger!

    Tamamo and Taiga: Claws and Spell from the duo Fox and MechaCat rip through the horde.. There's a certain smile upon the fox's face as she lets a massive ice shard crash from above to scatter the programs for Taiga to clean up... and with one more guardian on the way for this area... Tamamo leaps in to try and smash it with her mirror, lightning enhanced to try and shock it into oblivion!
Argast Wyrdseeker     "Going to make this difficult are you?" Argast asks with a sneer. He changes stance again, letting the vortexes spin off in random directions. He draws more magic into himself. Taking in so much magic meant he was over-casting, a risky endeavor. But it pays off as he calls forth a large flaming skull to burn around the Plant and reduce it to cinders. Meanwhile, warriors clad in red seem to do the most of the combat, many foaming at the mouth, or having that foam fall from their helmets as they were lost within the Berserker rage, screaming out "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!!!"
Nozomi Houken     A big, powerful enemy like that - even if Taiga is far stronger than an ordinary human (or tiger), something like that isn't a foe he can handle directly. It's times like this that a cat needs to get creative, to fight smartly. As the huge, lumbering Aggressor falls under assault from Tamamo, the TIGER unloads its dual cannons in the thing's face - but only as a distraction. Both to make sure that Tamamo gets her shot, and so that he can lunge in underneath its legs. They may only bear the vaguest resemblance to anything terrestrial, but he can still lash out at them with his claws, still weaken the ponderous program's ability to support all that weight. And if it's off balance, it will be easier for Caster to finish off.
Kushiko For a few fleeting moments, she /does/ get the notion that these are not unlike Infested to some small degree, or some of the less intelligent Grineer groups who like to swarm.

On the other hand, a swarm is not necessarily a good thing, and that's what prompts her to quickly leap into the air, spinning around once before /driving/ back into the ground, claws spinning and creating a modest shockwave of force even after she's torn into those attack programs!

<"Now we see why trying to keep these places secure can be a trouble,"> she muses, momentarily looking at her own map of the rooms and areas before focusing herself into a mix of being that spinning dervish, and supplementing such attacks with blasts her sidearm, mostly to distract Guardians to support Haguro and other big targets before making herself in a flying, clawing projectile. After all, given the sheer degree of enemies, she's adapting enough to just /never stop moving/ and really never stop attacking!

And given her attacks are moving faster than the eye can see, well...
Miari FLAMES EVERYWEHRE! Strangely, Miari doesn't sweat, but the intense heat does have her scowling and sweltering. One of the guardians manages to sneak up as she staggers... and its swings brutalize the Hound of the Five Winds, ripping it to shreds. The conjured creature gives a final howl and dissolves into a gale. Miari flips around in midair and lands daintily on the ground meanwhile...

    "Alright, so they aren't ALL harmless." She smoothly and calmly raises a hand... and exerts a tremendous, unseen force.

    Which HURLS ONE GUARDIAN straight into the other at freakish speeds!
Haguro A personal best! Haguro's still standing, albeit with a bit of soreness from the impact, and the Guardian looks more damaged than herself. Still, it's not quite enough damage to go down yet, and Haguro is quickly realizing she's charged into a mass of enemies without a close-range weapon to back herself up with while the Guardian's swinging back at her.

     Luckily, Kushiko's around to back her up! "Indeed... We'll just have to clear them out thoroughly, then!" Following the Warframe's lead, she too charges into the fray once more, blocking the Guardian's swing with an armored forearm and getting a sizable chunk broken off for her trouble. Still, getting in close is what she wanted to do in the first place, and the shipgirl shifts around to try and grab the Guardian's swinging arm with one arm before twisting sideways violently in an attempt to throw it facedown and get an opening to start stomping on it like a madwoman!
Tamamo no Mae     Argast:
    Of course they are making it difficult! It's their JOB! The risky maneuver /does/ pay off, however, with the flaming skull burning the Plant and indeed reducing it to cinders, but as the fighting ebbs in this room... the entire room flashes a BLUE, the symbol in the middle showing Tamamo's emblem and... three keys flying up towards the Moon Cell! Great job, you can move on to the next sta... area now!

    Miari:
    With one of the Aggressors (formerly known as Guardians) being ripped to shreds, it quickly becomes a fiht in Miari's favor as the other Aggressor is thrown RIGHT into the other, a loud clang is heard and soon, the enemy programs dissapear, the emblem in this room turning towards Tamamo's symbol and three more keys fly up into the Moon Cell!

    Haguro and Kushiko: The combination between Ship Girl and Warframe prove to be an effective combination as Aggressor upon Aggressor seems to be taking damage! Though with the projectiles from Kushiko and Haguro's CQC, the entire room flashes blue as the last Aggressor explodes, clearing the room and showing Tamamo's symbol in ther center! Two more keys show up and float up towards the Moon Cell... almost done though!

    Tamamo and Taiga: Both seem to get their own hits in, distraction shots from Taiga while Tamamo goes in for the main brunt of the attack, tripping up the Aggressors in the meanwhile and soon, with them off balance from Taiga's attacks, Tamamo moves in for the kill with flame bursts everywhere! It's not long until the symbol in the room turns towards Tamamo's emblem and the room lights up... making the enemy programs finally dissapear.

    All:
    Everyone will see keys flying overhead, soon wrapping around the Moon Cell in which, all them rotate over it... and dig into the Moon Cell, unlocking something as a beam of light crashes down into a room.. in that room is a pedistal.. a teleportation pedistal. Where it leads? Go find out!
Nozomi Houken     The sector is theirs - several are now, in fact. Taiga skids to a stop as the last Aggressor in their sector falls, his ears quirking, nose lifting. "...confirming. Presence of enemy programs has greatly diminished." His tail lashes once, and then he turns his head to look Caster's way. "Please bring Nozomi. We should be able to lay claim to all the sectors in this region. I will begin scouting ahead." And that's what he does, darting on ahead to ride the paths between sectors until he can reach that pedestal.
Argast Wyrdseeker     Argast grims evilly as he watches the keys emerge and dart off. "Let's move on, minions." He says coldly. Much in contrast to all the fire he was throwin around. He makes his way over the the pedistal, looking over the others. "Things went well, I take it."
Kushiko <"Well done!"> Kushiko calls out to Haguro, sending about a dozen Aggressors even as the zone's keys begin to fall under their relative control, and joining the others above. <"Let's get moving towards that pedestal that's shown up."> she remarks before starting to bullet jump her way towards the connecting pathways. Can't let her Warcry buff fall off dangit. +_+
Haguro Haguro pants heavily as she finishes off her own Aggressor, tensing up briefly as the room flashes and she's beset by... Nothing threatening finally! She holds her breath while looking over at Valkyr, only relaxing once the keys appears and nothing else accosts them.

     "I'll.. Um. I'll fight again properly once we regroup with the others." She looks oddly bashful about that, her attention eventually shifting to her hands as she clenches and unclenches them a few times. "That was... Hmm. I still need lots of practice..." The shipgirl takes another breath, then breaks into a jog to regroup with the rest of the crew. "Ah.. R-right! We can finish our work here, and then..."

     She's not sure what comes after that. She'll find out soon enough!
Miari With the programs going down THAT easily, Miari sulky-faces at the heavens for only a few moments. Give her a BIT more of a challenge maybe? Maybe that's what that means?

    The frustration vanishes quickly enough, because she's observing the proceedings with her Essence sight and studying the effects on the local equivalents to dragon lines and other mystical energies...

    Which, being the Moon Cell, are quite odd indeed.

    This means her trek to the portal is pretty slow...
Tamamo no Mae     As everyone comes to the room with the Pedistal in it, the room is /strangely/ clear. Nothing... no symbol, no attack programs, no Plants, no Aggressors... just everyone who came along for the ride, "Well... this... this seems a bit simple, but maybe we beat a Servant to it." Tamamo ponders as she approaches, releasing her Master from the Regalia as she walks up the steps of the pedistal. "Hmm, nothing?" she questions before stepping on the top. The Regalia lights up and shoots a beam towards the Moon Cell... and the entire area soon gets reshaped... to resemble the Millenium Capital.

    "Well, thanks to everyone's help... this land is now part of the Millenium Capital. I bid everyone to rest here... and I will call upon everyone to take over more lands, perhaps... we may run into something more... challenging along the way!"
Nozomi Houken     With nothing immediately present, Nozomi soon steps out of the ring again in a ball of light; she does hang back cautiously, waiting until the pedestal has been taken and now forms the newest region of her Servant's domain. That's the surest confirmation that they're safe.

    At which point, she promptly sits herself down on Taiga's back and lets out a relieved sigh. Taiga does not seem to mind this.