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Karlan Nobles A stand-off has begun at the top of Mr. X's tower. On one side, the Elites and two vigilantes of Wood Oak City. On the other side, Mr. X and his children. Axel's and Mr. and Ms. Y's revelation that time fuckery is afoot lingers with the tension in the room, wind blowing through the office thanks to the efforts of many to make the term 'open concept' considerably more literal.

Further below at ground level, another battle rages on with the three officers of the Virtua City Police department, an Elite related to one up in the tower, and four more local vigilantes against Mr. X's cronies. Their battle is only briefly interrupted by a robot hitting the ground after a massive drop and exploding on impact

"I'm feeling pretty generous today, so I'll talk out loud a little." Mr. X speaks in a rasping tone, still brimming with confidence and vigor despite looking and sounding like he's in his forties. "What unites people more than anything else?" He doesn't actually wait for an answer. "A disaster. One that needs a strong leader to bring people together, to lead them through the tough times and into the good times. I'm not saying that's myself or that I have anything to do with any of those baseless accusations, but..."

He flicks his cigar into the air and grips his Thompson submachine gun with both hands. "You're smart people. You can figure it out."
OST: https://youtu.be/ZbfyS-rbXeA


The cigar hits the ground, and the final battle begins. Mr. X opens fire with his tommy gun, joined by Mr. Y's Uzi to saturate the room with bullets aimed roughly at center mass to try and catch as many of the Elites as they can. As they do this, Ms. Y sprints in at a ludicrously low angle, rapier trailing behind her until she gets in close enough to stab rapidly at people's ankles, electricity trailing behind each swing.

Pramanix raises an ice wall in front of her to fend off some of the bullet spray, and Axel and Blaze wait until there's a lull in the gunfire before stepping out to engage Ms. Y in what they do best: Punching, kicking, and street brawling.
Yang Xiao Long     Thanks to Warfarin's patching, Yang's Aura re-establishes itself and the brawler gets back to her feet, just in time for bullets to start spraying her way. "Whoah shit!" She dives aside, getting raked by a few bullets, and managing to avoid Ms. Y's ankle biting. "Can't a girl take a nap in peace!?" she demands, shifting to engage Ms. Y and stop her from harrassing the others. "Your little minion boy got a lucky shot, that's all, but now I'm pissed!"

    She aims a flurry of blows at the rapier-wielding woman, firing kinetic blasts with each punch.
X The rapier having repelled the hand of X's Ride Armor, he narrows his eyes with the realization that it had carved a gash deep into the metal .. not a good sign.

It meant that unlike most of the thugs and robots that they'd fought so far, and similar to the man who'd charged at them previously, Mr. X, and Mr. and Ms. Y all meant business.

"Unity through disaster? Something like that can't last for long!"

The maverick hunter grits his teeth, "Thinking otherwise is just raw ego!"

The fighting breaks out promptly, with wavers of gunfire impacting the frame of the Ride Armor, already dented and damaged from previous skirmishes. It crackles and smokes as its integrity begins failing, the rapid sword thrusts of Ms. Y doing well to unbalance it, much to X's dismay.

Manipulating its hand to flatten out, he swipes out at her in a karate chop motion to try and smack her into the floor on her next pass, before using the Ride Armor's thrusters to launch a shoulder check at Mr. Y, as well.
Hibiki Tachibana     The final showdown. Hibiki's rush of anger hadn't gone away even when the Y twins halted her from stepping any further forward, but it /was/ totally brought to a stop by the revelation that was dropped on them. "...Hah?" Her sheer confusion comes in a quiet sound over the sound of whistling wind. There is some severe time fuckery going on here, and she needs a second to process it.

    Okay, second up. Bullets go flying from Mr. X and Mr. Y, forcing her to turn and start strafing the room to keep out of the line of fire, but due to the sheer amount of shots going out, that's not really possible. Hibiki minimizes as much damage as she can using her Symphogear's limb armor to intercept and knock aside shots, but a few manage to slip past and punch through her side. Nothing serious, but that hurts. "Gh...! You're just causing trouble to set yourself up as some kind of savior! You won't get away with that!

    She avoids Ms. Y's fatal blade by turning her momentum into a sprint up the wall (a part of it that's left, anyway) when she reaches it, leaping off to avoid any further shots and go for an aerial approach towards the two gunmen.

    "Unfortunately for you--it's my job to take care of disasters!"

    The Gungnir girl goes for Mr. X himself to start, flipping to come down on him with a flying axe kick straight to the head to try and send him to the ground. She can't take it easy with this guy at all. He's serious now.
Warfarin     Warfarin frowns, knowing first hand he's partially right. "You have some.. basis of truth there." she states, reminded of Rhodes Island and the Catastrophies that Originium has made. "But... is a manmade catastrophe something that warrants this... warrants a 'leader' like this? Profiting off people. You have some nerve calling yourself a leader." She stands up, boldly in the face of those bullets. They pierce her, blood spatter behind her and she just grins.

    "Is that the best you can do?" she whispers, the blood-wings behind her flare out and more blood bats from earlier start to coalesce behind her, "You need to be put in place." she points the IV Holder towards X himself, the large blood bats shoot off like a rocket towards him, feeling corrosive should they land!

    "A catastrophe should bring people together... and you're right. It's bringing us together to take care of this manmade one!"
Karlan Nobles Ms. Y takes the brunt of the attacks from Yang and X at the start of the battle, finding that being in close range against several people at once necessitates actually maneuvering around them instead of going straight at them. She can't stay close for particularly long, trying to evade Yang's blows with some deft flips that only result in getting knocked aside, skidding a bit along the ground right into position for X's Ride Armor'd chop. She manages to duck underneath the initial swing, but it puts her right in position for him to send her flying back with that shoulder check follow up.

Mr. X, meanwhile, has to contend with Hibiki and Warfarin turning their efforts against him. He meets the flying axe kick with his tommy gun raised eye, apparently intent on blocking against the strike with what should just be a gun made of relatively easily breakable parts! Somehow, though, the gun holds together against that strike, although the big man loses his grip on the weapon enough that the kick comes through and strikes him across the chest anyway. Staggering back, he shakes his head as he raises his gun towards Hibiki at point blank range, but Warfarin's wave of bats wash over him as they boil through his suit and into his skin with a sickening sizzling noise.

Mr. Y: "You beat us once before, but that was in the past. But now-"
Blaze: "We don't know you!"
Mr. Y: "Not YOU you! The you in the...! Ugh. Do you people take everything so literally?!"
Axel: "Pretty rude lumping all of us together with her."
Mr. Y: "Wh... No, THAT was spec... Oh, screw you!"
Blaze: "Are you taking his side?!"
Axel: "This is why they told you to take those classes."

Finding themselves grouped up with their own particular set of partners, the X and Y family goes right back on the offensive. Mr. X, despite the massive kick and the corroding bats eating away at him, continues to fight with all the strength he can muster, charging at Hibiki with startling agility as he tries to slip around her side, hook his tommy gun around her arm, then fling her whole-body into Warfarin before unloading another more focused volley of shots against the Symphogear and the operator.

OST: https://youtu.be/oNjEKdDg-OU

Ms. Y, meanwhile, swell (figuratively) with energy as electricity churns around her. She leaps into the air deftly between X and Yang, but doesn't slash at them. Instead, she stabs her rapier into the ground with both hands as the electricity around her disappears for a moment, then explodes upwards from beneath the maverick hunter and the huntress.

Axel: "That's new... Not bad. Maybe I should try learning something like that."
Blaze: "Don't get any stupid ideas!"

That leaves Mr. Y to fight Axel, Blaze, and Pramanix. He seems to be taking a more evasive approach to the fight, leaping overhead with inhuman agility and leg strength to keep peppering them and the Elites with bullets in between dodging leaping kicks, energy bursts, and icicles raining down from the sky.
Yang Xiao Long     Yang braces for a slash, but then sees the rapier stabbed into the ground. It takes a vital second for the significance to register. By then it's too late, and electricity arcs over her body, sparking off her Aura and leaving some nasty burns along her arms and legs.

    The charge dissipates, and Yang droops a little but remains standing, she's breathing hard, but when she looks back up, puffing a smoking bang out of her face, she's grinning. "That all you got?" she snarls, letting out a roar, and breaking into a bullrush to tackle Ms. Y to the ground, pinning her down before laying in with both fists. "C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON! MAKE ME WORK FOR IT!" Each punch gets progressively more intense as she absorbs the recoil of her own attacks.
Hibiki Tachibana     Hibiki looks ready to square off against Mr. X up close by stancing herself back up and readying her fists, confident in her chances with Warfarin backing her up. But his shocking speed at his size and his unexpected maneuver catches her off her guard. "Wha--" That's all she gets to say before her arm is hooked and she's spent spinning through the air on a collision course with the vampire.

    Which she's not really going to be able to do anything about in time other than crash right into her and probably bowl them both over. "Damnit, he's fast...! Sorry!" She's at least quick to recover and get herself back up, offering a hand to Warfarin to yoink her up to a position that she can defend herself in, since Mr. X isn't giving them a moment. Despite the other girl taking those shots to the metaphorical chin, Hibiki is still quick to position herself in front of her and do her best to hold her ground, blocking and meeting as many shots as possible so there's less she has to deal with herself.

    She sure doesn't get all of them against a tommy gun, but it's the thought that counts. "I'm countin' on that healing of yours...!" She gets out through grit teeth, then stomps her boot hard into the ground hard enough to embed it inside of it - then swings her leg up, taking a pretty hefty chunk of it along for the ride to hold in front of her and act like a shield.

    Which she then pulls her foot out of, only to kick towards Mr. X to block more of his bullets on its way to hit him. Hit him like quality flooring turned into a high speed projectile.
X X, prepared for more melee combat, readies the Weapon Arm -- now cooled enough to engage its Saber Mode -- only to find himself taken off guard. "The ground ... ?! Wait!"

Given that most of his foes from his own world fought with similarly apoplectic tactics, he realizes all too late that her electrical abilities could be magnified in an explosive manner. Kicking off, the blue bomber shoots out of the cockpit at record pace as the lightning surges inside, causing a chain reaction of sparks running along its frame before it begins to detonate, each limb going up in a massive plume.

The Ride Armor is, unfortunately, down for the count.

But X himself is more than ready to take up the slack, firing off a volley of yellow energy bullets in her direction as he dashes forward with the intention of slugging her before she can recover her weapon, the red crystal on his forehead flashing as ..

His body shifts in tone, the blue armor plating shifting to a bluish-black, while his body suit changes into a dull grey, with cream colored trimmings. It was a mimicry of her own outfit's composition, a thick needle protruding from the edge of his Buster as he points it in her direction.

    WEAPON GET
    VOLT NEEDLER

Firing out like a missile to pin her to the ground by her shirt, propelled the same way a railgun might be, it releases a tazing shock in an attempt to incapacitate her!
Warfarin     Warfarin's getting ready to throw another set of blood bats towards Mr. X, at least... she was until a Hibiki Bullet comes her way... with no real time to react to that, X was /fast/, she tries catching her, rolling with the impact to at least cushion Hibiki's own fall... "Ow ow ow.... Ah, man, he's fast."

    She reaches for the hand to get picked up, a brief nod, "Thanks, it's fine. Go in, I'll back you up!" as blood flows from the iv bags and straight towards Hibiki... and everyone else, at least patching up some smaller wounds so they don't become big problems later. "I'll see if I can't debilitate him, cover me." and with that, she dives down into her bag... and pulls out some red filled syringes.

    And then there's the bullets, back towards the spray... some connect but at least she's still up! As she gets up, she spins right around and launches a few red filled syringes, both at X and the Y twins, this should at least... slow them down.. or at least make it not hurt as bad...
Karlan Nobles Ms. Y doesn't have much time to enjoy the fruits of her labor. Even with the Ride Armor disabled, she doesn't have enough time to even let out a satisfied huff before X's ~~lemons~~ buster shots come flying in, staggering her and forcing her to scramble a bit to get back to her weapon. She only barely manages to get her sword out of the ground before being brought to the ground by Yang's charge and pinned down by both her and the taser-like needle fired following X's transformation. The electrocution, despite being Ms. Y's thing, still shocks her to her core with a anguished scream, and she takes a few solid blows to the chin in the process. Eventually, though, she gets her bearings together to start stabbing her rapier at Yang's side, apparently intent on breaking through her Aura by trading blows.

Ms. Y: "This is the moment we've been training for... After our last battle, we've suffered countless indignities just so history wouldn't repeat itself!"
Blaze: "I still don't know you!"
Ms. Y: "... Anyway. You might have noticed already, but we've picked up some new techniques of our own. We won't fall so easily this time!"
Pramanix: "Aw. She didn't take the bait..."
Blaze: "Bait?"
Mr. Y: "Oh, just shut up and die already!"
Mr. X: "Tempers, tempers."

Mr. X, meanwhile, laughs the entire time he keeps firing those bullets at Warfarin and Hibiki. "It's not too late to take the deal, you know. I didn't get where I am by passing up on good talent like yours! You wouldn't have a worry in the world if you were working with us!" As he gloats, he spots Warfarin taking aim with her syringes, and he starts blasting away at those syringes with his tommy gun to defend himself and his children from whatever's inside those things. Being so wary of whatever poison might be in them, however, leaves him wide open to Hibiki kicking that chunk of extra-heavy marble into him, however, knocking the big boss flat on his back for some precarious moments.

OST: https://youtu.be/xdKGaWg-ag4

Unfortunately, Mr. Y is on top of his game as well, picking up his father's slack by hurling grenades at Warfarin and Hibiki while launching a rocket at Axel, Blaze, and Pramanix that knocks them off their feet with the following explosion. His main target, however, is X as he sees his opportunity to strike. Rather than staying at range, he moves right in to start barraging the Reploid with a series of stiff, deliberate strikes with his fists and feet, weaving in close-range shots from his Uzi and ending the whole series of attacks with a forceful double-palm strike to the midsection.
Yang Xiao Long     Yang grunts as that rapier finds purchace through her Aura, a crack appearing after a couple of stabs and letting the blade pierce through into her flesh. This seems to only make the brawler even angrier. She grasps Ms.Y by the collar, and hauls her up while bringing her own head down to slam a headbutt against her, then punches the ground to launch herself up onto her feet with a grunt and a grasp at her side."We. Don't. Know. You. So just shut up and DIE ALREADY!" she snarls, exploding with rage, and her Semblence as she goes back in for more haymaker punches.
X X defends himself as best he can, weaving between Mr. Y's strikes and using the Volt Needler to fend off what he can't dodge. His feet press against cracked, ripped up floor as they shuffle back and forth, X's color and weaponry shifting to mimic Hibiki's as he brings up his newly minted armored fist, shuffling back and forth with the man as they exchange blows.

Unfortunately, while X's weaponry is based off of Hibiki's, and he is certainly a skilled fighter, he is not a martial artist. Fighting someone as talented and practiced in the field as Mr. Y is a losing proposition, as several dents are beaten into his body even as he falls back, defending himself from the Uzi shots using his plated Supra Arm which he points outwards at the man.

    "Hn..!"

In an effort to force him back, the Supra Arm launches its fist like a missile, aimed to smash straight into Mr. Y and really clean his clock. Grabbing the fist as it returns, X's body shifts into its original color scheme, with the Buster returning back to the usual arm-cannon appearance as it begins charging.

A green bolt flies out, ready to explode in a flash on contact to keep him on the floor. "Take that!"
Hibiki Tachibana     Mr. X's words draw out more of Hibiki's ire while they have their back-and-forth, and she raises her voice back to shout across the room back at the syndicate mastermind. "Not a chance! I have everything I need already! And someone waiting for me back home...!" She's ready to charge in during the moment he's toppled and vulnerable, but Mr. Y catches her off her guard. Without really thinking about it, Hibiki twists on her heel and leaps to intercept before they can reach her and Warfarin's position. "--Watch out!"

    Hibiki uses Her Body As A Shield and crosses her arms up, taking the bulk but not quite all of the chain explosions to the chin as her Symphogear and body are assaulted by heat and shrapnel. It's a good thing that being transformed makes her a lot sturdier all around, even in the parts of her body that are seemingly exposed, but she's still several sorts of singed and visibly damaged in the aftermath, with a few flecks of her mechanical armor falling off to the ground. Despite that, her head turns back in Mr. X's direction with no less energy than before.

    "Gh...they're fighting for you, too. I don't have to take you away from them..."

    After a momentary glance a nod back towards Warfarin, Hibiki's leg pistons shift and shoot out a full meter out of her armor, then slam back in and release a shockwave to launch her off in the Boss Man's direction much faster than an ordinary jump. He might've recovered by now, but she's still going in anyway - rearing back a fist as the pilebunker-like piston also pulls back. It'll punch back in when she goes to punch not Mr. X but the ground right in front of him, to cause an eruption of raw energy meant to bowl him over and send him flying backwards, to keep him on the defensive.

    "...But I can still stop you!"
Warfarin     And there goes that idea...

    Warfarin frowns at the loss of her syringes, even as blood continues to flow from the bags to heal her party. Her head rummages through some ideas on what to do... at least, until the grenade goes off near her and Hibiki. "Hibiki!" and her healing focus goes right towards her back up, strings of blood latching onto wounds, trying to keep the damage contained. She gives a nod right back towards Hibiki, even though the vampire looks a bit worse for wear, she still looks okay.

    "I owe you one." she smiles, moving to concot something right there. "Okay, a bit of this... a bit of that...."

    She pulls out another vial, puts a stopper in it, shaking it up and hmms, looking at the swirling rainbow color, that turns black.

    "Hibiki, don't breathe this in. You don't want this /at all./" as she lobs her /own/ toxic grenade right towards Mr. X.
Nanoha Takamachi     Nanoha has kept her distance during the fight, primarily providing fire support to the others. The battle has taken its toll on her though, several holes in her dress showing where close calls from bullets had ripped through her defenses. Some scorch marks from the latest batch of explosives, buffered by the last second barrier she had put up to protect herself.

    But as Nanoha catches her breath, she responds to Mr. X, "You're crazy if you think we're just going to turn over to your side at this point! Or that you think you're going to have much of a future that doesn't involve a prison!"

    Nanoha plants her feet against the ground, leveling her staff to point towards Mr. X as a spell circle forms beneath her, "Raising Heart!"

    The staff chimes, <All right, Strike Flame.> Wings of pink light flash out from the staff's head, a shining red energy blade forming out of the tip.

    "ACS Driver!"
    <Charge.>

    A blast of flames being rush out of the bottom of the staff, Nanoha struggling to maintain her grip and footing as the thrust threatens to pull her forward. Finally Nanoha cries, "Gooooooo!" She pushes forward off her feet.

    Nanoha accelerates quickly, rocketing forward towards Mr. X. An aura of pink surrounds her as she rushes straight towards him, blasting away anything that tries to get close whether it's bullets, rockets, grenades. All to give Nanoha the opportunity to close in and pierce that glowing blade of red through the man responsible for threatening so many lives.
Karlan Nobles Axel: "They definitely didn't have these kinds of moves before... Heh. That just makes things more interesting!"
Blaze: "Can you keep it in your pants for five minutes?!"
Pramanix: "Keep wh...? O-oh my."

Despite the fight going not quite as well as they were hoping, the vigilantes and the Elites still have Mr. X and his children on the back foot. Although Ms. Y is the most skilled close range combatant of the three, trading blows is most certainly not her specialty. Even as she keeps slicing and stabbing, the physical beatdown ends up in Yang's favor, that headbutt knocking Ms. Y into an unsteady state, and a sudden gust of wind from Pramanix blows her right back into Yang's flurry of punches that take her right to the ground.

Even Mr. Y, with the surprise attack to try and catch X off guard, is still human at the end of the day, and contending with a solid goddamn robot man is not going to work in his favor over the longer battle. It also doesn't work quite as well as he had hoped in the shorter battle, either, as X's rocket fist catches Mr. Y right in the jaw, taking him down to a knee. He raises his Uzi for a last ditch attempt to try and blast the Reploid, but X is faster on the draw, and the green blast is joined by a light blue blast from Blaze that take him out of commission as well.

Mr. X, still trying to fight off both Hibiki and Warfarin, acts as both the most sturdy of the three while also the worst equipped to deal with so many moving targets. Gritting his teeth as he pulls himself back up with that exquisite armchair, he tries hurling it at her even as she charges in. His reflexes are a hair too slow, however, and the explosion of energy knocks him right over where the chair was, landing far back enough that Warfarin's toxic grenade comes in before he can even think about catching Hibiki in the blast radius.

"Still got one more trick up my sleeve... A business man never lets...!" He doesn't even get to finish that boast as, upon hearing Warfarin's warning, he holds his breath to try and wait out the toxins while bringing his Thompson back up to bear. Before he can fire, however, he hears a familiar chime that he had heard from earlier reports and even from the roof being removed.

Mr. X sighs, and he awaits the inevitable with an almost serene look on his immently punchable face. He does still pull the trigger, of course, but the gun only fires a few bullets before Nanoha's energy blade punches right into him from one side while Axel's flaming fist collides with him from the other, drawing an hoarse cry from the giant as he crumples to the ground. He gasps for air, but finds only toxins coming in. Thankfully, he's not conscious long enough to feel what havoc it's wreaking inside his body for long.

The battle is over, and an uneasy silence lingers in the destroyed office as a dramatic wind blows through the incredibly open rooftop.

Blaze: "Is everyone...? Did we do it?"
Axel: "That's... That's it, yeah. Good work, everyone. We got him. Them."
Pramanix: "Amazing... Ah. If only we could have won without bloodshedah, forget it."

They are so tired right now. They're going to need a bit to catch their breaths first, but the floor is open for everyone to survey the damage, ask questions, or even try and catch their breaths first.
Yang Xiao Long     Yang's fury ebbs as Ms. Y falters and falls. The blonde steps in to catch the woman before she faceplants, guiding her to the ground instead. "I'm still kickin'." she calls, kneeling beside her opponent and holding the open gash in her side, which is still seeping blood but far less than a wound that size should be. "Hey, Doc. I could use a patch up, the bitch pierced my Aura."

    She turns her attention to Axel next. "You gonna fill us in on what the everloving Brothers these guys were talking about? Or do I hafta add another body to the pile?"
Hibiki Tachibana     Hibiki would, in fact, have been wide open to the ensuing bullets. She needed a moment to recover from her own attack--but through the combined efforts of Warfarin, Nanoha, and Axel, she doesn't get lit up with great impunity. She returns to her feet as the momentary silence of victory settles in...then lets out her breath in a sigh.

    A big one at that, with the tension going out of her body after being on edge for so long that she nearly falls over on the spot. It's a good thing they've had a medic on board to help keep her going, or she might've hit the ground a while ago. "It's over..." She lets out an exhausted chuckle, taking a moment to brace herself against something and look around the room, to make sure everyone is okay at a glance.

    "Not a chance of that ever happening," she remarks towards Pramanix, glancing back towards Mr. X. "He's a real special criminal...and I can't think of many who have people looking out for him like..." She trails off, turning her attention to the fallen forms of Mr. and Ms. Y. Well...time travel isn't the weirdest thing she's ever heard of existing.

    She casts a question in general towards the snow pope and Blaze, since Axel will probably have his rugged hands full answering that whale of a question. "What's going to happen to Mr. X now? And...the others."
Nanoha Takamachi     The aura around Nanoha fades as the battle comes to its end. She takes a few steps back, waiting for the toxic fog to fade before she breathes in once more. Her staff similarly breathes, in a way, exhaust jets popping out to release a cloud of cooling gasses which quickly blow away in the wind this high up.

    Looking over the damage to the office, Nanoha hopes that the damage expenses aren't too high!

    Returning her attention to the downed Mr. X, Nanoha brings her staff around to point towards his hands, "Ring Bind." Rings of pink appear around his wrists, before shrinking down to hold them in place. That should hopefully keep him restrained until the authorities arrive to take him in. Just in case.

    Turning back to the others, Nanoha slowly walks over to join them. She nods along with Yang's question, looking at Axel and the other vigilantes, "Their words suggest that they're from a future timeline." Although she's never done it herself, the idea is of course a staple of fiction. And only a short hop away from dimensional travel. But the point is, "It didn't seem like this world was capable of that yet, or any time soon." It certainly resembled a more modern, if slightly older, version of Earth. Technologically, anyway.

    Well. Apart from the robots. They were a little more impressive.
Warfarin     Warfarin's venom grenade helps, but in her head, she's going through refinements... "Is it over?" she listens to the silence... and then Yang asking for help. She moves to pick herself up, stretches, then heads over towards Yang, bag in tow. Blood lines from her IV bags snake out towards Yang, patching up whatever it can. "Alright, it's only a field patching. You'll want to get this looked at by your primary, if you can."

    The blood lines move to snake over towards others as well: Hibiki, X and Nanoha, along with Pramanix and her crew. The smaller wounds patching themselves to keep them all out of any sort of danger... at least, until she turns to Pramanix.

    "Fancy meeting the Saintess of Karlan here."
Karlan Nobles OST: https://youtu.be/3uVLOZ8Bzhw

With the sun shining down on the heroes of the day, Axel takes his headband off to finally let his forehead breathe after the long and arduous battle. Blaze, meanwhile, gets to work handcuffing the three X family members, only letting herself relax once the last pair is slapped around Mr. X's wrists along with that Ring Bind spell just to be doubly sure.

"That really was it, wasn't it?" Pramanix glances around, then lets out a great sigh of relief as she hunches over with her hands on her knees. Her coat (the blue one, not her official one) is a mess of blood and stains, and she's got a number of stray bruises, but it's not different from how Axel and Blaze look right about now. "It's over, indeed. Ah... Don't worry, Lady Warfarin. I'm not here on official business or anything. But thank you for the healing regardless."

"Yeah. That... Yeah. Could've gone a lot worse without all of you guys around, though." Axel chuckles as he turns to face the group of Elites, furrowing his brow for just a moment. "... I mean. Guy in the singular because X is the... You know. Not-"

"Yeah, now who's the grammar nerd?" Blaze actually laughs for possibly the first time since this whole ordeal, drawing a mildly frightened look from the arctic pope leopard.

Axel just sighs again at Blaze's laughter, but eventually chuckles again himself. Turning to Yang, he rubs his neck while nodding once. "Right... Figure I owe all of you an explanation at the very least."

"Me, Adam, and those two-" He points at Mr. and Ms. Y "-are from the future. Kind of. When our world unified, it looks like we unified from different timelines. Even Blaze here's from... What year is it right now?" He glances over at Blaze, who answers with a tired "Ninety two." "Right. We didn't meet Zan until ninety... Four? And these two, not until two thousand four. So when we heard Mr. X was mayor... Well."

Axel gestures around the room, nodding at Hibiki after a moment. "Right. You get all this. I guess those two must've used the opportunity to try and save Crime Dad from another beatdown." He runs a hand through his beard. It's filthy. "... Although I don't remember her being able to do that weird energy thing, or him being any good with his hands."

"Whatever. We just need to keep them behind bars for good after all this, right?" Blaze grunts, punching a fist into an open palm. "Maybe bruise them up a little more to make sure they can't escape even if they-"

"Blaze, come on. This is why they're going to tell you to take those classes later." Axel sighs again, drawing a brief incredulous look from the cop and a laugh from the snow pope.

"Fine, fine. We'll just keep them locked up and under close watch, then. We better get a raise for all this."
Yang Xiao Long     "So, short story: Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey. Got it." Remarks Yang with a sassy chuckle, that turns into a pained hiss as she strains her patched wound. "Right, Doc. Got it. I'll swing by the infirmary once I'm back home... Aura should cover most of it, but better safe than sorry, yeah?"

    Yang stands and cracks her neck. "Well, gonna say, that was a hell of a workout... but, if you guys ever need a hand again with anything, gimme a shout. I'm always up for beating some goons sensible... never figured out if I could hit'em that hard without causing permanent damage though."
Nanoha Takamachi     "That makes sense." Nanoha hadn't really considered that they might be from alternate versions of the same world. Weird.

    Anyway, Nanoha glances over in the direction of the captives before looking back at the vigilantes, "I assume you've got somewhere to keep them? The Paladins could take them off your hands if necessary, but I think it's better if it's handled locally."
X X, whose arm was now a regular robot arm instead of a Buster Cannon, nods with a glance to the perps in question. "I'm just glad everything's been resolved as well as it could be. I appreciate the hand, earlier." he says, giving blaze a thumbs up.

"Everyone else did well, too. Casualty rates are sure to be low with how we were able to handle things ... and maybe, they'll reconsider the consequences of crime, after today."

Not likely, but one could always hope.

"Although ... it does bother me that those two siblings were able to gain such powerful abilities. Is that really just the result of mingling out in the Unity?"

    "X, can you hear me?"

X places his forefinger onto one of his ear nodes, "This is X, you're coming in clear."
Alia sighs, "Good .. we lost the Ride Armor signal, though ... is it -- ?"
"Ah, yeah ... sorry to say, but it's given up the ghost."
"Signas won't like that ... " she notes with a chiding tone. "You're getting as bad about losing these machines as Zero!"

X rubs the back of his neck.
Hibiki Tachibana     This form of healing is kind of weird to get used to, but Hibiki appreciates it nonetheless. If so much blood hadn't (nonlethally!!) flied today already, it'd probably make her kind of sick, but she's not sure she even has the energy to be sick. She definitely does to chuckle in time with Blaze with a look around at their party composition here, which is only just hitting her for the first time.

    "Some saintess, getting yourself into scraps like this..." She mutters pretty cheekily under her breath, listening to Axel intently after while folding her arms. "So it's from the merger? ...Good enough for me." Hibiki nods, vaguely glad that her own world hasn't undergone some real weird stuff like this. As far as she knows, anyway. Gungnir Girl tilts her head off towards the fallen Y&Y duo. "Sounds like they used the chance to get some extra training in. At least, I hope that's all it is..." She frowns a little. Nah, it'll be fine with them keeping an eye on things. And if not, another call will probably go out.

    She cracks a small smile at that, though it mostly comes through in the softer look of her eyes what with her scarf in the way. "I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fine leaving it to you guys, then." She looks between both Axel and Blaze. "...If I ever end up in the neighborhood, I'll stop by again someday and check up, now that the city won't have him messing the whole place up."
Warfarin     Warfarin shakes her head at Pramanix, "It's what I'm here for, you can thank Exusuai for getting me here. At least it's good to see you in good health, Pramanix... I'll be at Rhodes Island if you need a checkup." she smiles that fanged grin at the snow leopard saintess, "At least, things seem to be solved here?"

    A nod is given towards Yang, "Mmhmm, I'm not sure what Aura is, but... I may have to come by and run some experiments if you don't mind, it's quite nice to know about new superhuman abilities." There's a glint in Warfarin's eyes, it's that glint where someone's mad scientist got unlocked...

    Warfarin does make her rounds once more, making sure everyone is nice and patched up for the way home before picking up a small cell phone... "Yes, Logistics. Yea, I need to be picked up. Operation success. I'll remit payment soon."
Karlan Nobles "Likewise. We're still cops at the end of the day, so protecting the peace is our job, even if it's not in our own backyards." Blaze replies to Yang and Hibiki, then nods at Nanoha. "Maximum security. Even if they've got bullshit magic powers or whatever that was, the people of VC are tough, too." Blaze affirms, cracking her own neck in turn. Axel does the same, and then Pramanix follows shortly afterwards.

They're all going to get arthritis when they're older.

"It definitely looks like it. Just in time, too. I think my brother is waiting somewhere at the bototm, too." Pramanix replies to Warfarin, sounding just a little more tired at that last part. "Maybe I can sneak out with you on the way back..."

Blaze squints at Axel. "So being from the future... Or the 'kind of' future. Is that how you knew about defusing the bombs, too?" Axel nods. "And the robot you?" He nods again. "... What the hell is wrong with the future?"

"Would you feel better if it's not all future?" Blaze shakes her head, and Axel laughs. "Right. At least with things calmed down here, I might be able to take a look around. Maybe see if those swordfighting brothers are around... Hm. Now that you mention it..."

He turns to X and Hibiki, nodding after a moment. "It's not that much of a stretch. Fighting outside of this city's how I learned how to deal with a lot of things. Bombs, too."
Blaze: "By... punching them."
Axel: "Yeah. Isn't that how you normally disarm bombs?"

Neither Blaze nor Pramanix look particular reassured by that statement.

Axel stretches his arms out from side to side, then turns back to the Elites.

"It's been a while since my last big team up, but you did great out there. There's always going to be bad people plotting bad things no matter where you go. But... By the same token, there's also good people working to stop them. People like us. All we can do when we find problems like this is-"

He punches forward in the air with an enthusiastic. "Go Straight!"

Blaze and Pramanix exchange slow glances at each other, then turn away and start snickering, only shaking more when Axel gives them both a distressed look. "Wh... Hey! I spent a while workshopping that one! Come on, X, back me up here! You and Zero thought it was cool the first time, didn't you?!"
X     X stares at Axel, cocking his head.

"It's alright, but, you know Zero? I don't think we've met before this case ... "

Unless, X realized, he had worked with another version of himself and his partner, at some other point in time. X's confusion turns to thoughtful, narrowed eyes. "For what it's worth, we have another friend who'd probably have liked it."

Actually, Axel really reminded him of .... Axl.

X's eyes squint, " . . . . . . "
Karlan Nobles Upon hearing X's question, Axel nods slowly while silently thanking him for that distraction from the dreadful snickering. "Oh, right. We'll... Who knows? Maybe you'll see the younger me sometime. Bring that friend of yours if that ever happens." Taking his coat off finally, Axel heads for the elevator while draping it over his houlder and raising his hand in a backwards cool-guy wave.

"Don't be strangers, everyone. I'll see you later. Maybe out in... Kamurocho? I wonder if any of those other places unified yet..."

MEANWHILE

As the three officers bearing the VCPD's insignia call in backup from the WOPD to start getting countless numbers of people handcuffed and brought in for booking, SilverAsh swipes his sword once to the side to sling blood off the blade before sheathing it. In his other hand, he scrolls through his phone contacts, then holds the phone up to his ear while holding his free arm up for a hawk to come diving down to rest on it.

"Hello? Yes, it's SilverAsh... Yes, everything went well enough, considering the circumstances. There was substantial damage to... Everything, but nothing that can't be fixed in time. Thank you again for warning me of this threat, especially in light of my sister's involvement.... Yes, the battle was quite exhilarating. I hope you'll understand if I don't stick around for the aftermath, but rest assured that the situation has been handled... Hm? Yes, that's correct. Understood."

"... Indeed. I look forward to our continued partnership in the future, Mister Howard."