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Nobunaga     Today's battlefield is right in the middle of the island, the territory normally known to be neutral and unclaimed. A grassy meadow sloping gently down to the sandy beach, broken up by copses of shady trees and large black basalt boulders worn smooth by the wind and rain.

    Atop one of these bounders stands a woman, petit of build, in a normal contemporary outfit of red T-shirt, windbreaker, and green-striped skirt. Upon her head is a peaked military cap sporting a large sunburst insignia. However, the mysterious stranger's face is obscured by a detailed red ogre mask twisted into a mocking grin.

    Summer Demon Mask..!

    Raising one hand, she clenches her fingers around the neck of a guitar, appearing in a burst of flames, "Minions of the Demonic Summer Heat, come forth and attack!" Twirling the guitar around into a traditional hold, she slides her fingers across the strings, unleashing a heavy metal squeal. Twisting that screech into the thrumming of hard rock, the actual guitar riff begins. Nobbu soldiers start appearing around her in bursts of flame.

    Her appearance is such that she threatens multiple territories, but just who will respond to this mysterious and noisy invader?
Cordelay Levail Cordelay strides onto the battlefield with an air of confidence, her usual garb replaced by a scarlet two-piece swimsuit, a towel tied around her waist as a skirt and the MAD team jacket over it all. She draws her twin swords and points one at each of her opponents with a grin.

"This summer sun will be a perfect witness to our battle. Let us display our full might on this field today!"

Her warrior's spirit is nearly palpable, the air seeming to almost quiver from her intensity.
Hesinca On reports that there's a disturbance, a glowing floor tile pops into existence in Team HASOP's territory, followed by Hesinca herself popping into existence.

... Unfortunately, it pops in at the far end of the territory, away from the action. "WHAT? I've gotta walk?"

Some time later...

"Hey, you're..."

Hesinca rubs her chin as she observes Summer Demon Mask.

"That one... um..."

"She's one of the neutral targets, dood," says Reminder Prinny, from beside her.

"Yes, I knew that," lies Hesinca. "CHARGE!"

The prinny squad charges!
Nobunaga     "Hooh~?" Summer Demon Mask shifts her stance upon her stone as her army continues to materialize. The tone of her musical piece changes from one of inspiration to one of menace, slowing to a low series of notes, changing pitch sparingly as the mocking mask swings from Hesinca's prinny squadron to Cordelay, "You're both approaching me?"

    She swings the guitar's neck down even more, the notes growing darker still, "I suppose you think that'll make it easier to kick my butt, hmm? But behold my own army!"

    Summer Demon Mask's guitar swings back up, transitioning with a squeal from that menacing song into a series of chords that could only be described as 'violent'. The mask-wearing mystery woman laughs quite madly as her troops disperse from around her. They form lines, one behind the other. In equal measures, the first line divides its fire; one half targetting Hesinca's prinny squadron, while the other half targets Cordelay's... Cordelay, since she seems to not need troops.

    Behind and above the rifleNobbu lines, Summer Demon Mask draws her guitar nearly vertical, "If you choose to face me, then come from far and wide! Take up your blades--" Leaning back, she draws a metallic squeal out of her guitar, "AND *TRY* TO DESTROY ME!"
Cordelay Levail The barrage of fire comes quicker than Cordelay anticipated, leaving her with little time to dodge. Gritting her teeth as she endures the pain of the shots, she raises one of her swords to catch the light... and her own Nobbu soldiers strike at Summer Demon Mask's from their flank! With her army's maneuver underway she launches herself forward in an attempt to kick off Summer Demon Mask's head, using her as a stepping stone to gain a position high enough to swing her swords down by their chains and catch Hesinca between the arcing blades.
Hesinca "DOOD!"

The rifle fire blasts out across the prinny lines, and there's a wave of secondary explosions from some of those hit.

"I really hate this no-consequences combat, dood, I've died like five times on this battlefield AND I'm already dead for real!" complains a front-lines prinny before taking a rifle hit and exploding.

"STAND YOUR GROUND!" yells Hesinca. "Er, wait, I mean don't stand, CHARGE MORE! KEEP CHARGING!"

"... Gah, useless-" And then Hesinca takes a chained-sword to the side. It gets stuck.

"HEY! THAT HURT!"

The demon centaur twists her upper torso around, trying to grab onto the chain with both hands and swing Cordelay around - trying to use Cordelay herself like a flail to beat up Summer Demon Mask with!
Nobunaga     The Summer Demon rifle force is beset upon by a flanking attack. Little homunculi in swimsuits scatter, waving stubby arms. Riflenobbu are at a disadvantage in a melee, after all. One stands its ground, in a white and green coat and matching white hat. No rifle is produced, but rather, a sword, which is tapped against the ground while still in its scabbard.

    Half a dozen similar Nobbu scatter out of the original. Thus reinforced, the Nobbusengumi engage the flanking force! The second rifle line facing the Prinny force cycles, with the back row opening fire while the front row reloads.

    Summer Demon Mask has her own problems though, with a swordswoman flying at her face. She flips her guitar around, swatting the incoming leg with a discordant noise, redirecting it from her head to her side. The impact staggers her and stops the music, at least, while Cordelay is yanked away by her chains. A split second to consider her options.

    When Cordelay's swung back into her, the mocking grin of the ogre mask seems to widen, and she throws her hands out to either side. The impact this time knocks her right off her stone perch and into the horde of dueling Nobbu. Promptly, the soldiers scatter around Summer Demon Mask, surging out of the chaos...riding on her guitar. The main soundbox emits jets of flame, spinning line a wheel, with the warrior herself balanced on the neck, "Now we're heating up! Keep the beat going! Feel the rhythm! Feel the burn!"

    Summer Demon Mask travels in a wide, but fast arc, in a solid attempt to just roll over both swordswoman and centaur demon, laughing like a maniac the entire time.
Cordelay Levail Cordelay's grin grows a bit wider as she watches her sword lodge in Hesinca's side, but quickly has to focus on maintaining her composure as she's turned into a human flail to strike at Summer Demon Mask. She braces for impact as they collide, her sword pulling free in the process, and as she rolls to her feet she's promptly slammed by the guitar-riding Mask herself.

"You're both very strong." She says with the tone of one exulting in consequence-free combat. "I cannot afford to let up!"

Taking a page out of Hesinca's book, she slings her chains at Summer Demon Mask, intending to bind her with them and swing her with all her considerable might at Hesinca's head!
Hesinca "Wait! We've had way too much Summer War, dood - can we give Summer Peace a chance?"

*BOOM*

Hesinca, ignoring the plight of her troops, doubles down on her own attacks. "Yeah, I'll keep the beat going and feel the burn - BY BEATING UP YOUR FACE UP WITH A BURNING TIRE IRON!"

The Summer Demon gets swung in, and the Regular Demon takes her head-on.

That is, literally - she turns and charges to head-butts her, trying to pinball her back into Cordelay!
Nobunaga     Halfway to Hesinca, Summer Demon Mask is caught up in chains. Her guitar rolls off on its own rampage while she's hoisted up and swung into the demon directly, "WAIT HOLD ON--"

    Demon Skull striking Demon Mask results in a very satisfying *THUD* that sends the warrior sailing, limbs limp as a ragdoll, until she collides with Cordelay. A few meters past that, she tumbles to a stop, flat on her back.

    "Nobu?" one of her passing troops asks. In response, Summer Demon Mask raises a hand, one finger raised.

    "I'm...gonna need a minute."

    "No-bu!"

    While the little homunculis cheerfully(?) returns to the fight amongst minions, Summer Demon Mask hauls herself to her feet. There's a dent in the mask, a crack running down one side, but her identity remains stubbornly concealed-- and the mask's wide, insulting grin is as inflappable as ever. She holds out a hand, and her guitar reacts by veering towards her, burning across the meadow until it's once more returned to its master. Her other hand raises, tugging her hat down by its brim, "Heh heh heh...! I didn't expect that to happen, not at all! Think I can try?!"

    Twirling the guitar, Summer Demon Mask strikes a chord, the instrument screeching to life. A pillar of flame erupts behind her, from which emerges a massive, charred black skull and skeletal torso, arms emerging last.

As Summer Demon Mask begins to sing, the skeletal figure rears back, then sweeps one arm up in an effort to knock Cordelay into the air. Fully intent on punching her directly into Hesinca with its own followup.
Cordelay Levail Cordelay finds herself flying through the air again as Summer Demon Mask joins the 'throw your enemies at each other' club, her summoned construct... thing punching the swordswoman into Hesinca. The wind is knocked out of her with a huff upon impact, but she uses her new position to her advantage - swinging up behind the demon centaur's head and wrapping the chains of her swords around Hesinca's neck, attempting to use them as a makeshift garrote.

Meanwhile, Cordelay's Nobbu forces make a valiant effort to break through Summer Demon Mask's lines, hoping to catch her off-guard as she watches the result of her grand attack!
Hesinca PREVIOUSLY ON THE SUMMER WAR CHANNEL:

Hesinca engages in a drawn-out grudge match that lasts for hours.

TODAY ON THE SUMMER WAR CHANNEL:

It's almost over within minutes.

Hesinca gets hit - first with Cordelay, getting pinballed in hard by the Summer Demon's strike, and then again as Cordelay deftly lands on her and starts garroting her, garroting her and choking her with the chains of her swords!

"Grk- hey-"

Hesinca struggles, reaching up, trying to grab hold of the chains or of Cordelay, trying to get hold of *something* and pull her off...

As she flails about with her upper body, so too does her lower one, moving randomly and erratically in trying to buck off the unwanted passenger!

And with each move, the heavy armored centaur's hooves stamp into the ground - and with each stamp, the ground shakes.

And shakes, and shakes and quakes.

"RUN AWAY FROM THE HILLS, DOOD!" calls a prinny who's seen this before.

STOMP, STOMP, STOMP

"Wait, don't you mean run *for* the hills, dood?" asks a prinny who hasn't.

STOMP, STOMP, STOMP, STOMP

"I KNOW WHAT I SAID, DOOD!"

With each stomp, the terrain moves more and more energetically, violently, chaotically, and-

- just as Hesinca is about to pass out from lack of air-

- it all comes to a tip. That is, the tip of an entire mountain that emerges in the middle of the terrain tile that the fighting is taking place in, *erupting* up at speeds that should be frankly illegal for any sort of normal tectonic activity!
Cordelay Levail Try as she might, the combination of Hescina's wild bucking and the unnatural tectonic activity is too much for Cordelay. Her chains slacken just enough to let the demon centaur shake her loose, sending her plummeting down... directly onto the mountaintop that's just burst from the earth. The sound she makes on impact is unpleasant to say the least.

Despite her literal and figurative falls, Cordelay smiles to herself as she waits for the match to end and her wounds to be healed. Her voice is strained as she calls out with satisfaction evident in her voice.

"An excellent fight..."
Nobunaga     Summer Demon Mask shifts her stance, but does not interrupt her playing. She sweeps her guitar around, shredding into the strings as Hesinca's powers run wild. The ground shakes in tune to heavy metal licks, or perhaps the hard rock is played to the tune of hard rocks rumbling about below. Behind her, the great flaming, charred skeleton raises its bony arms in a defensive posture.

    Her expression remains unknown. Hidden forever behind the wide mocking grin of the samurai mask she wears. She steadies herself, but even Summer Demon Mask can't keep the rock rolling when a mountain erupts on the battlefield. It knocks her off her feet, rolling back through the flames of her skeletal familiar amidst displaced basaltic boulders. The skeleton relocates, shoving stones aside to unbury the woman so she can stand back up.

    Pushing her cap back, Summer Demon Mask stares up at the mountain that's emerged, letting out a whistle.

    "A-Plus on the territory creation! Gotta give that props! But this Demon isn't done yet--!" The skeletal familiar behind her disappears as Summer Demon Mask changes her stance, one hand raising to point, "Charge and conquer, my Summer Demon Army!"

    A unit of Nobbu break off pursuit of Cordelay's retreating forces, redirected into Hesinca and her Prinnies. The one in front tucks its rifle away, then hoists an ornate Japanese tea kettle out of its uniform. Tucking this under one arm, the leading Nobbu charges right into the centaur demon's remaining forces, exploding violently with a "Nobu--!"
Hesinca Hesinca finally can relax. Her enemies are defeated, her windpipe is mostly uncrushed, her hearts are still beating, and her tax return is in the mail.

"This is a pretty good day," she declares to herself, standing on the side of the mountain.

And then she hears the whistle.

"Eh?"

She turns her head - just in time to see the leading nobbu charge into her holding a tea kettle. "What the-"

*BOOM*

"What the heck, dood!" declares one of the surviving prinnies. "Expendable minions that explode, dood! We can't have that, dood!"

"Yeah, dood! You're muscling in on our territory, dood!"
"You're jacking our gimmick, dood!"
"Empoleon."
"You're harshing our marketability, dood!"
"You're diluting our hashtag, #dood!"
"Nobody's gonna want to app into Margin of the Soul now, dood!"
"What's next, dood, you're gonna say dood, dood, over and over again, dood?"
"Let's go on strike, dood!"

This last outburst seems to pick up traction. "Yeah, strike, dood!" "Strike, dood!"

The prinnies pull pre-written picket signs from out of nowhere, and congregate together. "Strike! Strike! Strike! DOOD!"

One prinny gets up in front of the rest, grabbing a rolled-newspaper megaphone (that somehow sounds like he's talking through a powered electric megaphone). "What do we want, doods?!"

"A UNIQUE AND LEGALLY DISTINCT GIMMICK THAT CARVES US A NICHE IN THE EVER-CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF POP CULTURE, DOOD!"

"And when do we want it?"

There's sudden silence and stillness.

"I said, when do we want it, dood-" repeats the megaphone prinny, but gets interrupted.

"You didn't say dood, dood."
"Yeah, you gotta say dood, dood."

The lead prinny sweatdrops and takes a step back. "Wait- wait doods, it was just a slip of the tongue-"

"HE BROKE PRINNY RULE NUMBER ONE, DOOD!"
"PRINNY RULE NUMBER ONE IS YOU GOTTA SAY DOOD, DOOD!"
"EVERY LINE, DOOD!"
"IT'S THE RULE!"

Megaphone Prinny drops his megaphone and turns and runs - simultaneously to the rest of the prinnies all breaking into a run after him, screaming for his blood at the top of their lungs while trying to club him with their signs. "HE BROKE PRINNY RULE ONE, DOOD!" "TEAR HIM TO PIECES, DOODS!"

The mob of bloodthirsty prinnies just swarms over everything, trampling whatever gets in their path!
Nobunaga     Summer Demon Mask's point loses some of its enthusiasm when the explosion prompts prinny rage. As it escalates to a protest and then a strike, she retracts her point slightly, "Uh."

    Things keep escalating. Summer Demon Mask's hand retreats to rest on the chin of her mask, "...Huh."

    She doesn't even respond when the protest turns violent, sweeping up into her own force of Nobbu. Everything descends into chaos pretty quick. Eventually, Summer Demon Mask sweeps her arms out to either side in a shrug. The rout is pretty clear, after all. And so the mysterious stranger of Summer turns in place and wanders to the far side of the battlefield. A lonely, forlorn tune plays out from her guitar, bringing to mind the images of a drifter whom the world has forsaken, travelling down a desolate highway.
Cordelay Levail As the battle ends and Cordelay's wounds heal, she rises to her feet and clasps her fist to her chest in a salute to Hesinca with a grin on her face.

"This marks the second time you've gotten the better of me. Facing you in battle is always a pleasure, Lady Hesinca. I do hope this Summer War will bring us more opportunities to do so."
Hesinca And the battle is over.

Hesinca breathes a sigh of relief as her wounds close up. "Kinda glad nothing really sticks here."

She waves to Cordelay. "Yeah, good fight! Alright, afterparty at my spa again, and-"

"Oh! Dood! I'm still alive!" says Megaphone Prinny, who sits up. "I mean I'm literally dead already, dood, but like-"

"HE BROKE PRINNY RULE ONE, DOOD!"
"TEAR HIM TO PIECES, DOOD!"

The mob descends on Megaphone Prinny, and enact indescribable violence upon him.

And then the battle is over.

"I- oh, I'm alive, dood," says Megaphone Prinny, sitting back up. "That's a relief, I-"

"HE BROKE PRINNY RULE ONE, DOOD!"
"BURN HIM TO ASHES, DOOD!"

The mob descends on Megaphone Prinny, and lights him on fire.

And then the battle is over.

"Um, this is not looking good for me, dood-" says Megaphone Prinny as he sits up.

"HE BROKE PRINNY RULE ONE, DOOD!"
"TWIST HIM LIKE A PRETZEL, DOOD!"

The mob descends on Megaphone Prinny.

"... Bless it, they're stuck in a god-unforsaken loop. Let's just get out of here," says Hesinca.