Scene #8513: Ultraman B: Episode 2: Gomora Nasai

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Ishirou	The Rebuilt Tokyo has stretched out into the land as well as the sea. It has swallowed older cities, integrated them into itself, and has continued the slow crawl toward consumption of everything around it. From above, it might even look like cancer. Slowly festering in the planet from above, while the rest of the land around it suffers. However, today, the earth would cry out again in pain. Responding to it, almost by chance, was the ancient dinosaur-like monster. Deep in the earth, sleeping for millions of years, the ancient creature only named through ancient texts and old legends would awaken. And today, Ultraman Belial will respond to the threat against this Earth! Drilling along this section of Neo Tokyo has fractured much of the earth, causing disturbances and small earthquakes that have slowly grown over time. Most people ignore these though, Japan has always had earthquakes. Nothing new would happen, they would rebuild as they had before, better than either. Progress could not be stopped! The city needed its metal, its resources. Until it burrowed too deep. Until the mining team dug into the ancient and forgotten burrow of an old dinosaur. Five minutes later... The massive creature, tears itself out of the mining site, tearing through drilling equipment and crashing through new subdivisions being made to house more people. It roars in pain and anguish, once more awakened. Though odd... why was it here of all places? How did such a creature keep alive for so long, only to be accidentally awakened /now/? Perhaps answers can be found later, but the monstrous Gomora is the immediate threat now. It is trashing the outskirts of the massive megacity, but oddly... not heading farther into the city. Instead seemingly tearing up anything (and everything) around the (rather large) area it surfaced from. Landing nearby is the Ultraman Belial. It's slowly pacing around the monster, getting ready to engage it in a luchador-like brawl. This seems to have given you the first move in how to engage with the dangerous monster!
Remee Halcyon	Neo Tokyo! A good place to buy minerals. The mining teams here know how to dig nice and deep. Remee's finalizing a mineral purchasing contract when the monster emerges. "Oh is that... a common occurrence here?" Suffice to say she doesn't sign. Giant monsters! Why not. It's a worthy if a bit too obvious quarry for a hunt, plus saving the city is nice. Getting up onto a building where she can perch and take aim is a problem, but one she hopefully won't have to solve more than once. And from there... it's a matter of just taking careful aim. Hopefully her rifle will have enough stopping power, she left the really heavy ballistics at home, and they'll take a while to get here.
Bowser	AT THE NARUTO BRANDED RAMEN SHOP. One of the many multiverse Naruto finally fulfilled his life long goal to open a popular noodle shop and learn not to be a weird asshole. Bowser, several boos, a couple of goombas, a handful of koopas, a pirahna plant, and Kammy, all sit at the table top. "Finally. It's been a long day practicing golf at the post apocalyptic golf course." Bowser is dressed well, if you consider cosplaying Guy Fieri But As The Lead Singer Of Motorhead well dressed. Which it is. "I punched THREE rich old men AND beat that snotty little kid in a putting contest." Kammy fills her little clay mug with warm sake, "You did great, sire. That little boy was crying his eyes out." "Now, I'm going to have this delicious... sumputuous ninja crafted treat." NOT TOO FAR AWAY, the mighty dinosaur monster rips through the landscape, sending a large mining drill into the sky. Bowser dips his chopsticks in, bliss on his face, about to pick up the noodles. KAAACRACK! The mining drill slams through the ceiling like a bolt of lightning. The bar sunders as it pierces down through the bowl of noodles, sending a wave of pork bun and egg and perfect savory soup in all directions. Bowser looks down at his golf shirt, now completely covered in a soup, noodles, green onions, a gun, and egg. The minions and everyone else in the room who has not fled, does so now, as Bowser's eyes turn red. FIVE SECONDS LATER. The Klown Kopter flies over the monster, a line of minions hanging from the bottom of it. Kammy calmly holds onto her bottle of sake. "You! HEY YOU! NERD! HEY YOU, YOU BIG STUPID NERD!" Bowser roars as the klown faced aerovehicle flies in. "I'M TIRED OF YOU PUNKS RUINING MY LUNCH! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!" He reaches within the Kopter and pulls out.... A GIANT IRON BALL. Like a 10 foot cannon ball. "YOU LOSERS GET OUT OF HERE!"
Dysnomia	Dysnomia rushed, slipping over the buildings like a dart, her wings extended and beating hard, carrying her through the air. She couldn't help the giddy smile on her face, or the way her scales had crept up her neck, or the claws that had already slipped from her fingers. Her wings carried her above Gamora, circling it from above, admiring it. It was simply magnificent. She felt her Self itching beneath her skin, not satisified with what little she'd allowed to push to the surface. Begging for release. She reached out with her thoughts. To find out why it had awakened...? Sure, maybe that was part of it. But she wanted to know what the world was through its eyes. She wanted to know what it was like to be that kind of monster. To understand something a little more like her.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	"What's on the agenda today, Mash? Are we going anywhere fun this time?" "For once! We'll be visiting that overpopulated Tokyo again, but this time things should be a little quieter. Er. Relatively. There should be time for sight-seeing once we're finished getting a read on..." "Sounds dull. Do you really do this every day?" Luckily for the three newest employees of (what's left of) Chaldea, things get exciting sooner rather than later! While Ritsuka and Mash are busy strolling through the busy streets with some kind of ambient air scanner disguised as a cell phone and selfie stick, and while Jeanne is scoping out places to commit arson and other crimes against humanity for clout, they hear the roar of a fearsome dinosaur from the outskirts of the megacity. With little reason to dawdle in the city for long, they hurry on over to the site of the impending brawl between Ultraman Belial and the great Gomora. As they draw closer, Ritsuka starts to bolster Mash's and Jeanne's offensive capabilities while the latter two (in their combat-ready outfits) start chucking all manner of projectiles at the great beast. In Mash's case, she's flinging her shield at Gomora repeatedly like a boomerang. In Jeanne's case, she's picking up chunks of destroyed construction vehicles, setting them on fire, and hurling them at the giant.
Hibiki Tachibana	On the plus side, Hibiki isn't ditching school to come help with an emergency situation this time! She was taking off from it already for a rest day. The injury she took to her arm and shoulder isn't that serious, but it'd be nice for it to heal up sooner rather than later. On the other hand, it /was/ supposed to be a rest day. But worrying about aggravating the wound was the last thing on her mind, as soon as she heard another kaiju was assailing Neo Tokyo. She's somewhat concerned Miku might find out and worry, but... "...--Gungnir tron!" There's a flash of light as soon as she's through the warpgate, Symphogear flashing into existence and replacing her casualwear right down to the bandages looped around her left side - meaning she can immediately make a strength-assisted jump straight up, ascending beyond buildings and into the air of the city skyline. 5tWhich is plenty enough height to see the sight of a towering monster and an Ultraman preparing to face off against each other, off towards the mining site. "There...!" A blast of Gungnir's thrusters carries her to the upper half of a skyscraper, which she sprints several rapid steps across the windows of before launching off in a second massive, distance-closing leap. It doesn't take too many more of those to make it the whole way, a slightly odd glance towards Dysnomia happening as they pass each other while wind blasts past them both. And it also means when she reaches the battle area, Hibiki is coming from high enough that she can join in on dropping down on Gamora from above. Specifically, with her metal boot angled down in a descending kick aimed at the top of the kaiju's head. Predictably, it's probably going to hurt a decent amount! At least enough to be noticed. With her still-injured left arm being pretty annoying to use for any fighting right now, she'll be relying on her legs a little more than normal.
Ru Li Cheng	Well. That's. Something. Ru Li Cheng, ninth of the nine Ru Cheng Gods of Yinghua, was not prepared for an ancient dinosaur the size of a skyscraper to be his first solo outing as a Paladins operative. Oh, sure, he's aware already of other Elites on the scene - it's basically impossible not to hear Bowser shouting, or notice the heavy rifle shot from atop a building - but none of them are Paladins operatives. None of them are people he can trust, for certain, to have his back. None of them are people he can trust not to stab him in the back, either; he's heard the way Elites talk to each other on the radio more than enough over the last few weeks of his presence. Even the most benign and friendly conversation can turn to knives at the drop of a hat. It's sort of... ...exciting. The Ru Cheng god rolls his shoulder and exhales a soft breath as he lets free his senses. He's been restraining everything for some time now as practice - looking straight ahead like a human (debilitating), tasting only what's in his mouth like a human (arguably preferable but the taste of ink and paper is a familiar pleasure and indulging in it while practicing restraint makes him look like a lunatic), and touching only what his body touches (awful, diminishing, and dizzying). As his senses expand back to their normal vastness, the world fills in, as if a great painting was being completed around him. The sky behind him becomes clear to him again as he breaks into a rapid run towards the disaster site. The salt of human sweat and fear mingles with the dry plaster dust and rubber poison of asphalt as he passes by the monster. Ru Li gags and skids to a halt, doubling over to cover his mouth and retch somewhere near Mash and Jeanne's sudden attacks. Still, he doesn't take a tumble. It's better than with the train. When he straightens, he merely coughs, as if trying to regain some dignity. He takes a deep breath. His first priority must be the mortals in the path of the chaos. That means organizing rescue operations. That means knowing where the mortals are. That means... Well, it's distasteful, but this, too, is the work of a god. Ru Li shuts down everything but his sense of taste. Pinpoint precision of spots of sweat and fear are expanded upon to a sense of touch. Therein, the heartbeat, the pulse, the skin. From there, he can do his work. He radios rescue crews with precise acumen. He pushes aside what rubble he can to make their work easier, but cannot linger. Too much chaos. Too much destruction. Too many people in danger. That's his job. He cannot rely on the other Elites to save people, so he will do it himself.
Angela	"Well ain't this a pickle," Nonon says scratching her head with Gold Rush (strangely, she seems to have the same EGO Gear that Angela took for herself). "If that thing gets one good hit on us, we're toast. Not sure what the Manager expects us to do with this fucker." Nonon, for those who haven't met her, is a rather tall and muscular woman nearing 7 feet tall and with a cheerful disposition. "Probably just sent us out to clear out space for new Agents." Carol, a significantly shorter blue haired girl of about sixteen mutters. "Even if Wristcutter does White Damage, it's a splinter compared to that thing." "I..." Rose, Newbie Magical Girl of Courage, mumbles. "Can swing a hammer at it?" There is a long moment where they walk, clearly taking their time, to reach the giant monster in the distance. "I've an idea." Nonon says. "If we combine our heights, it'll be a fairer fighter." They continue walking. "That plan's dumb..." Carol says. "We'd still be much shorter..." "You got a better plan?" They walk in silence for a little moment until... Rose watches Hibiki blasting by... MOMENTS LATER Nonon carrying Carol carrying Rose right on top of each other run right for the giant monster, wordlessly BUT DRAMATICALLY screaming as Rose rears back with her large acid spewing club and swings it right at the giant monster's shins!
Touta Konoe	"Another Neo Tokyo, huh? And monsters popping out from the ground...Think they got underground caverns too?" With another Neo Tokyo like his own, it's a little hard for him /not/ to make comparisons since he got here. Surely he'll be taking some kind of brochure or something before he leaves this place but for now... "These ones seem...Larger than the ones back home." "For real, man, imagine if one of those things tried eating you, that thing's stomach's gotta be the size of a lake or something..." "So, are you planning to use that to deal with it then? Seems like it'd be around the proper size to deal with them..." "Naw, not yet...I think with everyone coming in it'll be alright. If it gets dicey we'll figure it out but for now..." As the other Elites come onto the stage Touta finds himself finishing a brief conversation with his blade before joining those that have decided to run up against the walls, the use of Shundo making his footwork super-human in the way that he finds himself running in such a manner that defies gravity. Though it becomes quickly apparent... "Looks like I'm not the only one trying to take the high road, huh?" A call out is given to both Dysnomia and Hibiki both as he finds the two leaping through the air, a small smirk on his face before he starts to notice something else. "Oi, Hibiki your--" Before he can even ask, it seems the other two lap him as they start landing their attacks in tandem. So as the two give their overhead strikes, Touta provides an overhead attack of his own using his gravity blade, a strike that despite being from a tiny sword...Would feel like this Kaiju was being clawed at with the weight of another Kaiju's.
Ishirou	The person at the desk Remee leaves behind just sighs, taking the contract and ripping it up slowly. Once she leaves he sighs, wondering aloud when he'll stop being able to eat cabbage. Tossing the remains of the contract he walks out to start evacuating, but is mostly dejected at not making quota in sales /again/. A line from heavy ballistics shoots across Ultraman Belial and smashes the Kaiju across the chest. It is enough to stagger it and cause it to roar loudly, which stops the standoff almost immediately. The first thing it does is charges the Ultraman, who is forced to try and grab it by the horns and try and lead it away from directly stepping on people. What happens instead is a large number of rocks flying at Remee from the nearby massive steps. Bowser comes flying in the Kopter, angry at yet /another/ ruined lunch. The ball it fires aims to try and smash into the Kaiju, but accidentally hits one of its heavy plate armor, and while it looks damaged, it seems the point of that armor there is ablative. Belial, however, sympathetic to Bowser's plight speaks up, "Lord Bowser, seems like you are having bad luck with lunches these days. My apologies, if we work together we can handle this quickly for at least a good dinner." Of course, the tail of Goroma swipes up, aiming to try and bat the kopter out of the air. Dysnomia tries a different tactic, trying to get into its mind. Well, it /does/ have a mind. It's primal and vicious... but there is something else there. Something intelligent and malevolent. The primal and vicious mind is fearful and scared, lashing out at everything, while the second intelligence seems to encourage the first on. That is until... It. Notices. You. 'Hello, you are an interesting subject... tell me, do you want to be strong? No no... don't answer, we will have to /test/ you first," it says, seemingly full of malevolent glee. A painful shock will come through the link, trying to mentally crush Dysnomia. Despite everything, it seems more of a test than a real assault. It is still very painful. On the other hand, Ritsuka and her gal-pals are set up to try and engage the monster again. Thrown objects are tossed and hit... appreciably hard given their size.
Ishirou	Of course, its response to them is to try and run over them with its dinosaur legs because it's very much still in a grapple with Belial! Hibiki leaps off the tower, diving for Goroma, her HIBIKI KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK shining the way across the sky to try and land something terrible on the massive beast... which she does! Staggering, and with Ultraman Belial manage to throw the beast to the ground. Oddly, though, it has amazing dexterity, as it springs back up and throws a huge rock at Hibiki, roaring at her in challenge. It senses /something/ in her that makes it /aggressive/. Ru Li, puts action into words and starts guiding the various defense corps, evacuation routes, and everything else that is needed in rescue ops. Because of this, the creature is less aware of its activities. Sadly, that does not save him from being a person near a kaiju fight. Debris and ground shaking are things you have to watch out for, but fortunately... he's not directly in anyone's path! Three girls combined create a... well very tall human. However, it does provide leverage for them to SMACK the foot of the massive creature. Enough to break through its scales and for it to feel it. It bounces back, in pain, and because of that... Well, it steps around in a large circle, more accidentally trying to step on them than intentionally. This combined with Touta's strikes raining down in tandem with Hibiki's cause it to stagger backward. It /sees/ Touta, and attempts to swing at him with its massive claws. After that, releasing another gigantic roar. Belial at this time attempts to ram it, trying to force it backward and focus on him.
Dysnomia	"Hello, you are an interesting subject... tell me, do you want to be strong? No no... don't answer, we will have to /test/ you first..." Dysnomia doesn't have time to call for help, but she has time to start...And the brief, psychic scream that cut through the minds of all the defenders rang clear as day, as Mia began to fall out of the air... ...But she stabilized fast, her ragged panting carrying through the telepathic link. "Stars, there's...There's something else in there. Pushing it. DRIVING it. And it's TALKING..." Dysnomia shoved back along the link, as best she could. An overpowering flare of draconic power, down the link she'd forged, trying to push BACK.
Remee Halcyon	Rocks fall. Remee doesn't die. She really doesn't move much - if she gets hit, she gets hit, and her regeneration can see her through whatever damage she can do. She really needs to find something that's better suited for huge targets. And space. Those two seem to be her pain points, recently, between the fight against Hiromi and how many of her Watch allies have problems happening in space. Also her high power gear still hasn't arrived yet. Her aim shifts - not down at the monster directly, but down near its feet. Where Ru Li Cheng is operating, running the disaster response. <J-IC-Scene> Remee Halcyon says, "Alright, new guy! I've got a perch, I'll let you know if I spot anything that needs some ground attention." She zooms in, and starts calling things out to him - incoming damage, high priority targets, anything else she can think of. He seems to have his shit together, at least.
Hibiki Tachibana	Oh, she /really/ hopes that Rose, Carol, and Nonon will be okay down there. Hibiki is also morbidly curious about how in the world they got Carol in particular to agree to something like that, but that's for later. Touta also gets her attention, briefly, before all the attacks go through. He didn't get to finish, but she can guess, and responds while rebounding from her kick. "I'm fine! It'll take more than this to slow me down!" It looks to be a pretty nasty stab wound around her shoulder area, but a few days old and on the way to healing. She can't use her left arm very well, but she has three other limbs still a-ok. Although Gomora is going to be doing its best to change that, via big rock coming her way. That's a palpable sense of aggression directed her way. "Ngh...!" Her good arm swings forward in a hasty, forceful punch towards the boulder as a counterattack, fist impacting into it, cracking it, and splitting it into a shower of stones. It was hasty enough that it still hurt to do, but the magical girl pushes through it and blasts ahead using her Symphogear's thrusters. With Belial keeping the kaiju secured in place, Hibiki makes to descend right on Gomora's shoulder...! Being so much smaller than the monster means she's in the perfect position to land and have solid footing-- --to deliver a heavy fist up towards Gomora's chin from below! Most colossus-climbers don't pack enough strength to make giant skyscraper-tier monsters feel it.
Ru Li Cheng	Yes, that would be a problem. Ru Li Cheng is not large. Moreover, he's navigating by high-precision taste and touch, and the touch only to confirm pulses before moving on, and the taste primarily focused on filtering out rubble to rapidly find humans. That makes it very difficult to, say, notice when the world starts shaking around you furiously - and when a lump of rubble, previously precariously perched, comes crashing down almost directly on top of you. The lump of building crushes Ru Li almost directly into the ground. His eyes fly open. His ears fill with the sound of his own clockwork and muscle straining against the impact, with the sound of snapping bone and twisting metal. Asphalt dust rushes in to replace air in lungs. All the restraint in the world can't stop him from vomiting on the ground in a mix of agony and gag reflex, a glowing silver liquid that greatly resembles his blood pooling on the ground in front of his lips, along with a second, golden liquid. Mercury lingers on his tongue. Ah, it is blood. Internal damage. He strains. Metal strains against building material. Divine flesh tightens to crack mortal ruin. Wires and muscles under skin tense. With great effort he manages to push the chunk off himself and roll over, staring up at the monster. Remee's callouts run through his radio as he gasps. Some of his own blood/internal fluid is soaking his hair. No time. Ru Li stands, wobbling. There's internal damage but no external. Internal is less of an immediate problem. He can focus through it. Again, a gag, as he stumbles backwards, away from the monster in the immediate, and reaches out to the radio. "I want," Ru Li says, his voice woozy, "Fire response teams to direct suppression foam towards the beast. En masse. As...as much as possible. Immediately. The...the coldest substances you have on hand." "Aim at...singular spots. Knees first - right, then...then left."
Ritsuka Fujimaru	"Let's just knock this thing over and tear it apart!" "M-Miss Jeanne, didn't you hear Mister Ru Li's warning? There's people that need to evacuate!" "Kicking someone when they're down looks pretty weak, too! It'll be a lot more impressive if you take it out while it's standing." "... Tch. Fine, we'll do it your way!" Thankfully, their initial volley doesn't seem to do much to the rampaging kaiju. If anything, making themselves a target just seems to make it rush right at them, but that's well within what they're prepared to handle. None of the three are particularly slow, after all, and Jeanne's more than ready to grab Ritsuka and just fling her out of the path of danger while Mash tries to slow the creature down by continuing to pelt it with her shield. Feeling that scream inside their heads, though, the trio briefly look over at Dysnomia when she delivers that strange bit of information. "Are you saying that monster's being... Piloted?" That just means we can tear them out, if that's the case! Jeanne shouts with utmost confidence as she starts running at Gomora again, much to Mash's generalized concern. She tries to leap/run up the creature's leg, bouncing off of it and Ultraman Belial to keep her momentum going, all in an effort to get to... <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia says, "Not...'controlled.' Encouraged. /Pushed./" Feeling just a bit of the bluster leaving her, Jeanne nonetheless torpedoes herself at Gomora's face, her flag materializing in hand and already bursting into flames as she tries to ram it straight in to see just what is inside there, if not necessarily a pilot. While Jeanne goes in for the front... <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "Hold it...hold it where it is, please..." <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "As best...as best you can." With Jeanne and several others attacking it from the front, Mash and Ritsuka turn their attention to the rear. They start sprinting to try and get behind Gomora, both to reposition themselves and to buy some time to figure out how to actually do that. Spotting some convenient debris and other busted up stuff, Mash leaps onto a nearby construction vehicle while Ritsuka prepares a curse. The Shielder bounds off the vehicle with her shield in front of herself, aiming to ram herself directly into Gomora's center mass, and her Master fires off a magic bullet near the same spot, both aiming to neutralize any backwards momentum it might have from getting attacked on the other side!
Angela	Three girls combine...! But they're still prettty vulnerable to being squished. Or they would be if Nonon didn't have superpowered gloves powered by a WAW Abnormality and a suit to match. She forms the base of the tower though so she can't exactly catch the foot affter it murdered two of her buddies! No sir! So instead, she twists her body back, dipping Rose and Carol off it ("Aaaahh" "I shouldn't have agreed to thud")] before bracing up with her hands to uppercut the fist before it crushes her. Tiphereth, on a pad strapped to Carol's arm, runs her hand down her face. "Let's try to approach this more tactically. Just keep moving and don't linger in its range too often." Nonon throws a thumbsup at the screen before picking up Rose and throwing her up into the sky before driving her fists for the creature's toes, hoping to buy time for Carol to recover, get up, and find a position to strike with Wristcutter. "Hahaha! If we get through this we'll be legends when we get back!" Nonon grins. "Why did you throw meeeeeeeeeee" "Yeah I'm alive." Carol adds, stepping back as she readies Wristcutter, looking for an opening while ideally dodging getting STOMPED or CHOMPED.
Bowser	The Klown Kopter is a MARVEL OF ENGINEERING! It also has NO STABILIZER SYSTEM! The tail arcs across the air and with a mighty WHAM, slams into the Kopter. It careens off course, sending the various minions in the air. Boos, luckily, are able to catch the other minions and keep THEM out of serious danger. Kammy, also, can just fly on her broom, so that's not a big deal. The concrete ripples with an explosive CRACK as the Kopter hits it, making Bowser tumble out along with his vast collection of wind up toys, bombs, Princess Peach posters, and golf equipment. Bowser's head swims, stuffy and dizzy before he can get himself up to his feet. "KAMMY! USE YOUR MAGIC TO MAKE IT SMALL OR SOMETHING!" "I CAN'T DO THAT!" "WHY THE DING DONG NOT!" "IT'S NOT AN EXPLICIT USE OF MY ABILITIES!" Bowser mutters, grabbing at his golf bag. He YANKS on the Kopter, which makes a mighty twenty foot tall CHAIN CHOMP pop out. "ARF ARF!" Bowser shoves the back towards him, which the Chain Chomp gingerly takes in its teeth. "DRIVER!" An exchange happens off screen since the animator can't think of how it would actually happen, and Bowser holds an extra large driver. "TEE ME UP!" The Chain Chomp delicately places a tee into the ground, then puts a Bowser Branded Golfball on it. "I'll show you who is the boss around here," Bowser mutters. With everything going on around him, Remee soul-cannon Fugaing, Dysnomia sticking her brain in strange places, Bowser only hums, waggling his hips slowly, shifting his driver carefully. "Dum dum.... tainted love..." He reels back the driver, finally and [\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|] POWER SHOT! The golf ball bursts into flames as it drives like a missile at the Kaiju!
Touta Konoe	When it comes to hitting things really hard, Touta does tend to have the right equipment for the job. Overly excessive force being something that despite his small stature is not something that he's lacking in and it shows as his and Hibiki's combined strike causing that stagger. It's at that moment that he hears a voice still in the air calling to him. "I'm fine! It'll take more than this to slow me down!" While Touta's not one to sustain injuries for long, he can definitely tell that's one hell of a doozy of an injury she's got and she's still going for it. "Alright, but if you tell me later you're not gonna be coming to the party later this week, I'm gonna bust your chops so much!" It's probably a tad weird to be 'scolded' about missing a party, but the tone of his voice says it all. He wants her to be vigilant all the same. Speaking of vigilant...Oh there's a claw right towards... Either Touta had been swatted so hard that he was knocked out of the air in the blink of an eye, or it honestly could have seemed like he had just exploded into guts in the instance. For an instant it seems like the blood on Gomora's claws does seem like it hints to one of the two being the case and yet...In the next moment, Touta can be seen starting to run along the creature's arm. Even though he'd just been swatted moments ago, it honestly just seems like he teleported or something! Still running up to the opposite shoulder as Hibiki perches on the first. "Hibiki, You just focus on using that good arm and I'll match ya!" It seemed at the very least even if Hibiki said she was going to be fine as she is, he...Was gonna be acting as her follow up arm for the day, and so...When she slams into the kaiju's jaw, Gomora would find a second fist joining in unison. Which oddly enough, even without sympho powers...Touta's bare fist definitely packed enough of a punch on its own to feel in a very literal sense.../Monstrous/.
Bowser	A goomba mutters sadly, "It looks like he hit the tree, Jim."
Ishirou	The presence inside fights with Mia, but it /feels/ as if it is not trying very hard. It /feels/ like a test, like it is /interested/ in what Mia is, rather than actually trying to harm her. Pushing her right to her breaking points, and then backing off. It defends by diverting her psychic attacks at the creature, which causes it a /load/ of damage. It roars and thrashes at that, swinging around wildly. In return, the presence tries a new tactic... it attempts to reach inside of her, reaching for her darkest memory... her most vulnerable. Trying to encourage her... to remind her of that moment. 'Tell me what you are made of, interesting creature... show me you are worthy of my genes. Why fight for those creatures around you... they don't want your help, they want to do to you what they are doing to his beautiful creature right now...' Remee helps coordinate with Ru Li, Remee trying to shoot and encourage it back, while Belial tries to hold it in place. Combined they manage to hold it long enough for the fire response teams to get into place. They fire various fire suppressions at it. Foam, water, anything, and everything they have on hand to try and follow the guidance. It /works/.
Ishirou	It /hurts/ the beast, it causes it to roar in pain and agony between their combined efforts. It rears back, before channeling its own pain into a psychic roar of its own, aiming to pelt both Remee and Ru Li, as well as their civilian forces with the sonic blast. Hibiki comes up and under Belial. She uppercuts it across the chin, sending it backward from the punch. The force of her blows is easily able to get its attention, even if the scales seem to absorb most of that kinetic force. It rumbles, before staring at her. Sensing /something/ in her that puts it on edge. Then it bites at her, attempting to simply chomp her into bits. Jeanne struck its head, followed by the center of mass from a one-two punch from Ritsuka and Mash forcing it backward, probably removing Hibiki from its mouth. Energy gathers across its horns, aiming a beam of energy from them directly into all three, attempting to blast them (and everything else) in a line away. Carol and Nonon get Rose out of direct danger, and then DOUBLE hit the creature. It roars, as its toes are crushed by the blast, causing so much pain that it nearly falls. It roars pitifully, looking down toward the source of its now broken toes. Its mouth starts to glow, brightly glowing... And then breathes liquid fire down on the two agents. However, before too much fire can be released, Bowser's shot hits it in the nose, forcing its mouth close mid-breath and causing it to choke. Shaking its head it snaps up towards Bowser. It attempts to bite him and his kopter in half, aiming to try and make HIM the lunch that he stole from Bowser. Once more, his meal is ruined by Touta this time, smacking his jaw just short of more than significant damage. Tired of its jaw being hit, it lowers its head at Touta and attempts to head-butt him... with the horns on its head. Which are really long and very sharp.
Ru Li Cheng	"Scramble!" Ru Li is not fast enough to take his own advice. As the civilian forces scramble, the Ru Cheng god is sent tumbling under the force of the sonic scream. He screams, too, as quicksilver blood begins to pour out his ears - hyperaccurate hearing does not combine well with audial attacks. Ru Li falls to his knees and presses his head against the ground as he tries to shut off his hearing. That only helps with one part of the attack, though, since the hammering sonic waves also press against his sense of touch, a rapid one-two strike. It's...it's not a great day for him. When it's finally interrupted he takes a sharp gasp and pushes back to his feet, worse for wear but not yet crippled. If it had continued for long it might have done a great deal worse. His hand goes to his head as he gropes about for his radio. "All...all forces. Reorient. Retarget. Aim for the mouth." "Internal...internal combustion needs to be smothered. Fan out. Focus fire." He stumbles. He's on his last legs, and he knows it. He's lost too much blood. Internal damage is mounting. Still... He continues to direct operations. And, as he does so, he moves away, stumbling, towards the next collapsed building. As many as he can help before he's forced to retreat. As many as possible. He is a god. This is his duty. ...and... It's...a little bit thrilling, too.
Bowser	Rather than GO RIGHT INTO THE KAIJU AND STRAIGHT THROUGH, just like it would countless times before, it at least blocks the throat briefly. "THAT COUNTS! CADDY! Put that down as a hole in one!" "ARF ARF" The chain chomp leans over with a tiny pencil and a card, scribbling. Bowser meanwhile flexes, "Yea! I AM THE GREATEST!" For a brief second, he revels in the glory, Bowser's tiny tiny brain has forgotten why he is angry. Fortunately, reality catches up quickly. Teeth suddenly chomp down around him. Powerful spikes and shell make Bowser an inhospitable snack, but it drags him away from his kopter and his golf bag, and his caddy!!! The teeth start to squeeze into the few tender places on Bowser when Touta distracts the Kaiju. Long enough, at least, for Bowser to get his hands up into the creature's jaws. "YOU WANT TO DO THIS?! HUH?! ALRIGHT, LET'S DO THIS!" Bowser leaps down the Kaiju's jaws and into his throat. It is, mind you, exactly like eating a pineapple, green side first.
Remee Halcyon	Ughhhhhhhhh, sonic attacks. Remee shifts back to human form as quickly as she can, and covers her ears. She's so focused on protecting her hearing that she almost misses her shipment finally coming in. A large crate gets airdropped on the roof of the building, amidst the chaos. It's a terribly expensive way to get something delivered, but Remee's not the sort of person who has to worry about costs. "Alright..." The crate is smashed open, and Remee starts quickly assembling the contents. Even in that large of a crate, it's had to be partially disassembled to fit. The resulting contraption is, basically, an entire crossbow turret that's impractical to carry pretty much anywhere, and very impractical for anyone except an entire team of people (or one werewolf) to wind up and hold steady. Remee winds it up, and picks out her ammunition. It's not strictly a giant crossbow bolt, it's more like... a giant syringe. (Also very expensive to get, especially on short notice.) She aims... ... And then she fires, aiming at the area(s) Ru Li pointed out. If the syringe hits and sticks, it's got literally gallons of tranquilizer that it starts pumping into the giant beast.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	With Gomora seemingly trying to remove everyone from existence with its slew of biting attacks, horn rams, beams, and flame-spewing, it quickly becomes clear to Mash and Ritsuka that ramping up the defenses might be necessary sooner rather than later. Jeanne doesn't care, of course, because she's just having fun stabbing away at something so many times bigger than her without a care in the world. When it opens its mouth and energy starts to build in its horns, however, even Jeanne has to take cover behind Mash's shield once the three realize that its beam could fry everything in a massive swath behind them. "This could be bad if we don't keep all this firepower contained... Mash, you know what to do!" "R-right! Deploying Noble Phantasm!" Raising her shield, Mash starts pouring a massive amount of mana through her shield, creating a great magical barrier that rises from the shield as she turns to face Gomora and its massive death beam and pouring fire. As she does that, Ritsuka forces her own mana into both Mash and Jeanne, turning to the latter and giving her a knowing nod. Jeanne, meanwhile, just stares at Ritsuka like she's grown a second head. She reaches over, turn Ritsuka's head towards focusing on Mash and Gomora as the beam crashes into the barrier, forcing the Shielder to dig her heels in and the Master to brace Mash with her own weight to keep them both from getting blasted away from the impact. That gives the Avenger time to bail, but not completely. Instead, she spots Dysnomia, the one she had sensed something strange from earlier. She's not sure what that feeling was moments ago, but it's enough to pique her interest that she leaps over to where Dysnomia is (floating?) long enough to get a better look at her. "You there. What are you?" She might have to leap a few times, but the movement gives her time to speak and build up her own magic for some kind of massive impending attack. "You were at that mine the other time, weren't you? Why are you here, too?" There's a mild curiosity in her tone, but her attention shifts to Gomora as her mana build up culminates in a whole slew of spears floating in the air around Jeanne, each one covered in dark flames. "Well. We can figure it out later. First, shall we kill this thing spectacularly?" It's a rhetorical question, but still posed as a question anyway as Jeanne's flaming spears rain down on Gomora, each one exploding on impact whether its against the giant's body, the ground around it, or even exploding when they pass near the kaiju to ensure that there isn't some kind of explosion or three going off every other second.
Hibiki Tachibana	You just focus on using that good arm and I'll match ya! "You're a weird guy, Touta...!" But as far as Hibiki is concerned, it's in a good way - and man, does he have a punching arm. It seems like they've got Gomora on the backfoot, but that's no excuse to get sloppy, as evidenced by the vicious jaws descending down onto her. She can't get out of the way fast enough. So Hibiki does the logical thing, and throws her singular arm up to grab between the massive kaiju's teeth as it tries to bite down, while her boots do the same beneath her. On nothing but raw strength and desperation alone, she pushes back and stops it from entirely crunching her down to size. She can't manage for very long though. Not with one arm, at least. "Ngh...! Does whatever's inside of you--have some kind of problem with me...!? Or--is it you...!?" Hibiki forces out, one eye shut tight in strain and pain--before the efforts of the Ritsuka trio give her a chance to leap out. Dysnomia's reveal of something /encouraging/ the beast is...well, it definitely changes things. Was it the same thing with the pair from before, and they just didn't know...? Would Belial know anything about this, if they asked? Whatever the case, they still need to stop Gomora before anything else. Taking in a sharp breath, Hibiki falls away from the kaiju and begins losing altitude, just to blast her thrusters to stop in a hover in front of its chest - and begin laying into it, blow after blow. A hook, an elbow, a flurry of kicks, a spinning heel drop, a booster-flaring roundhouse; the magical girl rapidly kicks up into a barrage of heavy strikes all beating across different parts of Gomora's chest, intent on keeping it pressured enough that it won't be able to avoid the rest of the attacks aiming for more precise points. At the same time, amid the storm of attacks--she can't help but want to know what's driving Gomora's actions, and the presence pushing it on from within. Every time fist or boot makes contact, some of those feelings transmit through - and she opens herself back up in turn, intentionally or unintentionally, to what the both of them are feeling too. In other words, something not so different with Dysnomia, just with raw emotion instead of thoughts.
Dysnomia	"Tell me what you are made of, interesting creature... show me you are worthy of my genes. Why fight for those creatures around you... they don't want your help, they want to do to you what they are doing to his beautiful creature right now..." And suddenly, Dysnomia wasn't in Neo-Tokyo at all. A fractal infinity laid out around her, a thousand thousand thousand lines of potentials of maybes and might bes and could bes. She saw herself, looked down on from above, a broken expression staring up at herself, blood pouring dripping from her chest. --Saw herself standing over the body of ember-eyed girl that made her heart scream, her claws painted red. A man's hand reached up and touched her head and-- --Her hair was cut ragged-- "--ow hat's best for yo--" Her focus bleda nd she wanted to scream but there was too much, and it all poured in all the little differences and all the little nuances and the quirks and the horrible tragedies and ends and down every winding road she knew, like a fish knows how to swim, like a mammal knows how to breathe... ...She knew that he would never change. Her cheek still stung, when he pulled her into an embrace. His tone was warm, kindly, as he said, "I wish you wouldn't make me do this. I do everything for our future. For our legacy. Can't you see that?" And she knew he meant it and she knew he would hit her again and she loved him and she couldn't stand him and she couldn't take it, couldn't live like this-- --And her claws grew long, and her teeth grew sharp, and she tasted the taste of iro-- "ENOUGH! She roared, cutting off the telepathy before it could burrow any deeper. "I am not anyone's pet, ANYONE'S WEAPON!" Her body flowed outward, her suit retreating completely, revealing scales and claws, and Dysnomia was finally as she should be. She would stand three meters tallOn four legs. And from tail to snout, she was longer than a bus. Her body was covered in shimmy scales, dark blue, almost black, except where her wings and tail formed a gradient between her dark body and a silver-blue mist at the tips, and where a violet light pulsed at her chest with the steady rhythm of a heartbeat. Her eyes burned like stars, her teeth obsidian razors, her claws long and deadly sharp. She seemed half-real, like you might blink and feel her slide back into the place in the heart that children dream their monsters. And with a deep, roar, she carpeted the buildings behind Gomora in plasma, catching them alight in violet flame. Terrifying...! Unless someone remembered Ru Li's instructions.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	Noticing Ru Li's struggle, however, Mash and Ritsuka seem to come to a consensus immediately without even saying anything about it. They start circling around Gomora as Mash keeps her defensive barrier going, positioning themselves squarely between Ru Li to lend him some defensive girth!
Angela	Rose is flying through the air! Nonon keeps pummeling at the foot with her GOld Rush gloves and tries to PUNCH the liquid fire because this is the one thing she has going for her only for it to burn her hands. "NGgyhaaah!" Carol, being a little smarter, does run back a bit but not fast enough. Molten fire spills on her arms and she collapses to her knees in pain before she can even get a proper strike in with wristcutter. Tears well up in her eyes as she thinks--this is it. They're going to die here. If the fire doesn't finish the job, the monster will. The Outside WOrld is too strong. They're too weak. Even EGO gear can't fight a creature this massive. She can't even get in there with her own. At least, she thinks, she won't be a survivor. She can see the ones the Queen killed, the ones that Bloodbath killed, finally... Finally... Unfortunately for Carol, she forgot about Rose. Rose has made it high enough into the air (Nonon is very strong and has Gold Rush supporting her). She hangs in the air for a moment as she looks towards Hibiki and gives her a small nod before she sees Carol there--suffering. Her eyebrow twitches and she twists the hammer so it becomes a doubleheaded acid spewing mace as she aims to come down towards the creature's mouth, trying to slam it back shut with a series of swirling clubbing blows. Green tears start to drip from Rose's reddened eyes as green orbs start to push out of her skin. The Ego is starting to corrode so she can't kepe this up much longer even if, for now, she's still herself.
Touta Konoe	Even if it hadn't been intended for him...Having been right near the creature's jaw does make it pretty easy to get up in a hypersonic scream. Given the size of the beast, it's just lucky that the voice hadn't been aimed directly at him else he'd imagine the force alone would have sent him flying back down the ground below. His eardrums feel like they definitely would have been shattered but well...Immortality's just a hell of a drug ain't it? At least enough that even after such a giant roar he can still hear the sound of the fight ongoing. At the very least though he was able to grin to himself a bit as he watched his follow up fist jam into the beast enough to cause him to release the...Turtle...Dragon...What was this guy supposed to be now. Wait, what was he..."Oi, hold on, we're trying to keep him from doing that!!!" He calls out to Bowser hoping to deter the King Koopa, but well...Koopa gonna do what Koopa's gonna do? Though when it comes to protecting others, it becomes apparent that Jeanne's new Master and Servant combo appear to take the lead. The shield forming that huge mass of mana that's meant to aid Ru Li and the civilians. It leaves a smirk on his face as he remembers just how crazy Servants are...Speaking of crazy though... "You're a weird guy, Touta...!" "Pfft, coming from you I'll take the compliment!" He's definitely been called weird or similar just a tad too many times now! Though it's obvious that Hibiki means it in a nicer way. He can see why people want to get close to her, and...Again as he thinks of people getting close, Gomora who'd just had his meal starts coming at Touta has him starting to speak up in a panic as he starts going into a free fall after his own attack. "Hey, hey, hey, I am not an after meal snac--Auuugh!!!" The good news is that Touta is in fact not going to be eaten apparently. The bad news is that he's get impaled on that horn as if he was going to be skewered regardless and well, the horn goes in one way and comes out the other as the boy finds himself impaled. It's hard to say if anyone can focus on who's hurt and who isn't, let alone a single falling lad as he goes several stories downwards before slamming into pavement. He craters the ground and there's a low groan for a moment as he holds to the hole in his abdomen...And yet...Just as quickly as he'd been maimed there's already steam coming off his body as he finds himself put back together. "Okay, Sidestick, think if things get any crazier this thing's going to be a problem so..." Touta's hand adjusts on his blade and suddenly the ground around him is crumbling more and more. "One-thousand...Two-thousand...Five-thousand...Ten-thousand...One-hundred...Thousand...Five-hundred Thousand...Got it...! Everyone watch out for the flying sword!" With a brief warning Touta lobs his blade into the air, past the clouds. For a tiny blade it probably wouldn't have seemed that big of a deal given the strength he's exhibited up to this point, and yet...As it'd descend back to earth...It's blade pointed down atop the creature's head, it was going to become apparent that this sword had the mass as if someone just tried slamming one of those skyscrapers right into its skull with all the force focused on one singular, bladed point... Gomora gave Touta the horn, it was time to return the courtesy.
Ishirou	The first responders move to the Celestial advice given to them by a literal god of what they are a part of. This time, however, it isn't quite as effective. Throwing a lot of cooling agents on something already cooled off is less effective. Not to say it /isn't/ effective at all, but it roars in response to this. Before it can respond, a needle hits it, injecting it with a tranquilizer and stunning it. Shaking its head, it feels sleepy, especially given that its body was already pumping blood a mile a minute. The tranquilizer will get to where it needs to get. Bowser dives into its mouth like a madman, and instead of chewing, its sleepy state swallows the Koopa leader whole, causing all sorts of problems down its softer organs. Hibiki swings in again, but this time with every ounce of her feelings at once. For a moment, she can't see anything besides... fear, anger, more fear. It's afraid. It's hurt... something is stroking those fears. It was sleeping, it's now awake after being hurt. The punch drives it backward, cracking armor and staggering and causing the beast to fall to its knees thanks to Remee's shot. Then she senses it. The other presence. Malicious, powerful... and staring right at you too, Hibiki. It senses a similar power to Dysnomia that you have. Anger that burns in you. A monster waiting to be let out. Through that bond of emotions it climes through it. Through it into Hibiki's thoughts. Trying to overwhelm her with despair. With anger. With hatred. 'Unleash your true self.' This connects them with Mia for a short time, as it chuckles. "I don't want a pet or a weapon. I want to see you evolve. To advance... to become the ultimate life form. My genes are a path to that... but if you want my power..." "Only one of you can survive. Kill each other. Who wins will get the ultimate power." Just like before, it tries to flood Mia's thoughts again, trying to convince her that Hibiki was her enemy, and also to Hibiki, that Mia was a threat to all life. A threat to her path to acceptance. After all, how could she protect those she loved without power? Mia, how could you live free without the strength to? The flaming spears come down, crashing into the head of the very stunned creature. Its roars are weakening, its strength waning as its armor is slowly beaten through. Its sounds are pitiful... its limits were pushed. This is compounded by the Hammer from Rose. It's already beaten and the stunned body collapses to the ground. Not dead or defeated, but floored from the pure force of the blow.
Ishirou	The blade from Touta shatters the heavens and shines down in a soaring blow. The dazed creature looks like it's going to take it without a fight. Until something happens. Deep inside it, the desire to live burns... something inside it wakes up, and the entire body is covered in red. Glowing bright red as its eyes snap open. Hibiki and Mia can figure out that this is the power presented to this creature by the entity. Its horns move up, parrying the blade at the last moment, before exploding with bright Kirby crackling power. Its horns charge plasma-like energy before it starts breathing fire again. Everyone that isn't Mia or Hibiki is not spared. The massive beam and fire are released, aiming to burn everything around it to ash. This also includes Bowser, who is inside of it. What remains is a city in flames, buildings crumbling and falling, and vehicles on fire... And any first responders that were there are now gone. Even Belial is overwhelmed by this, on the ground with his chest light blinking red very fast. He struggles to rise, injured vastly from that blast. The creature, however, is far from dead. Ready to fight in a new berserk state.
Bowser	Everyone knows that if you open your mouth to fire a beam, the beam starts to blast back into the throat. This is a VERY COMMON biology issue. And as one can see this, one can see the light flaring up, a weakened and swaying Bowser inside. But he is still at the top of that throat. Bowser puts one hand in the other, then snaps his knuckles. KA-CRACK. "This... is MY DAY. You think you can do this to me on MY DAY? You can ruin MY LUNCH?!" Bowser lurches slowly to his feet. With one mighty sweep, Bowser grabs his golf cap... and turns it backwards. Somewhere, a royalty free version of Eye of the Tiger plays. Both fists clench. 2020, Tokyo. Everyone is watch from the stands as Bowser stands in the ring. Sonic moves at incredible speeds. But he jabs like a coughing baby. Four years of practice. Speed bags, sand bags, all the master... the mightiest punch. It's a single blow first for the uvula, the dangly bit at the back of the throat. A rolling training piece, a rapid whirl of the fists to get it moving. An artful juggle of his knuckles against it. Then a right hook. Then a left hook. Time slows down as Bowser brings his mighty fist back. "I'M! THE KING!" Bowser's roundhouse swings with enough force to make it sound like a gun shot.
Dysnomia	Power... The strong eviserate the weak. The weak bow before the strong. It became so clear to her, the shape of things, the only way out, the only truth. And she'd just have...Just have to...Just... "...I..." ...And she remembered her father's smile, and her father's promises, all the worthless futures she'd witnessed. Another voice, a fierce, weak, feeble little voice screamed. "...I want..." And at last, teetering on the edge of precipice, she recongized that little voice as her own. Crying, 'how dare you.' Crying, 'don't you dare give up.' Crying, 'don't let him tell you who you are! "...I want...I want YOU out of my head!" She flapped her wings, taking off high, veering around and down toward gomora. Her mouth opened, and she poured plasma in a great fountain down onto its head, into its eyes.
Remee Halcyon	The wave goes out. Remee looks up from loading another round into her oversized crossbow turret. "No-" And then heat. And then silence. The building Remee was on is a pile of rubble. There's a pile of burnt wood and metal that could be the remains of the crossbow. There's no sign of Remee Halcyon. If there's anything left, it's buried under the pile of rubble. If the destructive wave didn't get her, then the crushing building absolutely did. There's definitely, definitively, no way she could have survived. And yet, the rubble shifts. What shoulders its way out of the pile is barely recognizable as the werewolf girl that showed up earlier. At some point, she'd shifted reflexively to the monstrous form that had more mass and more muscle - which did not save her in the slightest, but it's letting her push her way clear now. She's torn up, and broken down. Light from the burning city shines through the numerous holes in her body. Most of one arm is missing, with the remainder being held in place by bone and sinew. Her face is just... not really there, with her half-exposed jawbone stuck in a deathly grin. The monstrous werewolf runs forward - operating mostly on scent and sound, and operating entirely on instinct. She goes alternatingly over or through the rubble, closing in on the kaiju, and if she reaches it she grabs on and just starts climbing up its foot and leg, going for its chest. She's seeking only one thing right now, literally only one thought bouncing around the echoes of dying neurons in her head. She's going to sink her claws into its heart. Remee Halcyon is dead. But she's not done fighting yet.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	The Gomora is still alive. Getting smacked around terribly, but alive. The pair of Servants along with their Master are still alive, too, with Jeanne is still shouting and cackling madly at Dysnomia's enraged state while Mash and Ritsuka hold that shield up long enough to get a quick read on the situation. A lot of things are on fire. Too many things, even, and Ritsuka's normally cheery demeanor cracks. It reminds her too much of what she had seen far too many times already at home, what she had seen in another timeline, things she had been too weak to stop before. She remains stokc still as she stares at the burning buildings, the overturned vehicles, the ruins and the dead laid out before her. Sensing her distress, Mash stabs her shield into the ground before pulling the Master over to start shaking her lightly. "Master? Snap out of it! This isn't... This is a different place! A different time! We still have to fight!" Seeing that Ritsuka's still out of it, Mash looks between her and the Gomora several times before looking over at- "Miss Jeanne! Finish it off!" "... Eh? What the hell? Who are you to order me around?!" Jeanne snaps at Mash as she finally pulls her attention away from Dysnomia, glaring at the Shielder and then noticing that odd state that Ritsuka's in. "Tch... Really? It's not like she hasn't seen this before. I've done much worse around her, and..." Grunting in annoyance now, Jeanne starts approaching the Gomora at a lnaguid pace. "Whatever... You! If you're really that great of a monster, then let's see how much you can survive of this!" Drawing her sword (black and purple, of course), flames surround it and the Dragon Witch as her mana builds up rapidly the closer she gets to the kaiju and Ritsuka. The flames surrounding Jeanne expand rapidly, surging towards the Gomora in a wave of their own. As the flames reach Gomora, numerous geysers of flame erupt from the earth beneath it followed by (flaming) spears aiming to impale the kaiju from below not unlike a witch-burning pyre. The spears and flames build more and more until, after several seconds of this, they all explode on it at once!
Hibiki Tachibana	"Rose...!" Seeing those tears and those orbs begin to force their way out isn't good. Is she getting overwhelmed by the E.G.O. gear...? She can barely see Carol on the ground, on the edge of her peripheral vision. Damnit, she actually did get hurt, fighting that close...! That has to be why-- And Dysnomia too--it's a /lot/ harder to miss the visceral transformation she undergoes. From the alien but still 'human enough' appearance she was still getting used to, to...there's no doubt that's a dragon. But nothing like any dragon she's ever seen before. "M-Mia, since when could you--!?" Always...? Is that how she really is...? That's the exact moment that the everything hits her, from the fear to what lies deeper. And staring right at her. It's so unexpected and strikes down deeply enough, that despite already experiencing something similar tugging at her only a few days ago--her thrusters abruptly cut out mid-air, and she goes plummeting down like a rock. It's a terrible, terrible nightmare. I'm sealed away in the darkness, and there's nobody else around. I'm suffering, and yet no one comes to help me. Nobody to laugh with, nobody to take my hand. That...my true self...? That's not...it... Ultimate power...enough to protect... It's not human. But enough to...protect...-- ...Don't joke around with me. The only thing that power can ever do...is destroy! Get...out! Halfway through her fall, Hibiki's eyes go wide, and she gasps out loud as if splashed with cold water--just in time to catch herself, flip backwards through the air, and rear back the fist of her good arm. "I'm not going to let you take advantage of us--turn us against each other, or these kaiju for whatever the hell you're trying to do! You--!" Her gauntlet shifts, transforms, and enlarges. Internal piston replaced with a whirling turbine, flaring rocket boosters pushing out behind it... And they ignite doubly as strong to shift her momentum into a charge forward like a spear thrown at terminal velocity, slamming a fist into the berserk Gomora's torso at full strength. An impact that could crack the air, as the internal mechanism in her gauntlet whirls and roars more intensely by the second. Bolts of electricity arc off, flooding the area around her--until all the force it's building up is pounded forward all at once. In a massive enough eruption of force that even something as large as Gomora is at risk of getting smashed onto its back and floored, Hibiki pushing forward with her blow the entire time to hammer it down.
Touta Konoe	A bladed assault from the sky is up-ended in a way that even Touta wouldn't have anticipated. It was one thing for it to stop the attack, but choosing to do so as if instinctually it had known that such a strike might have put its life in danger and because of it, a burning desire for life turns literal. "What the...?" It's very body turns into blood crimson as it unleashes a hell-fire with such force that even Touta tries to shout out for all those nearby to find cover... It's too late. It seemed even with Mash's shield, there's simply not enough to go around as the cancer of the ever-growing city Neo-Tokyo is lasered away into oblivion. Touta was no exception as his body was all but incinerated in that instant and yet...Unlike the others that likely catch themselves in that hell-scape, he can open his eyes afterwards. He can see as bodies turn to ash imprinted on walls and floors. It's only as he realizes what's happened to the city does he start mumbling to himself. "No...No, no, no, no, no...Shit! Ru Li...There was an evacuation sent out in the city, right?!" Even if there was, he knows that what has just transpired was going to have collateral, fatalities...But he still needs some sort of hope here. Ru Li was a Paladin, they were always so efficient at handling these kinds of affairs. Surely it wasn't impossible to have created an effective evacuation order perhaps? Though, he can't even muster the ability to check on Ru Li himself...Last he recalled Mash and Ritsuka were protecting him and now... "Master? Snap out of it! This isn't... This is a different place! A different time! We still have to fight!" Oh, it had become that bad huh? Even the Elites were struggling now, huh...? There's a long exhale as Touta flexes his fingers. "...Just enough to try one hit? Tch, I really haven't gotten much better have I?" In a silent moment, he laments to himself. Though just for a moment. They still had to fight and Mash wasn't the only one aware of this. If this monster was going to go into a crimson berserker-state. Touta would join it. Suddenly, black miasma would start to form around the boy's arms. The arms appear more like gauntlets as Touta stares down the beast. Like Hibiki, he charges in unison with the girl in one last attack. Her arm in the heat of the moment was changing into some giant mass. A knuckle buster of epic proportions and in the same wind...One of the gauntlets around Touta's arm was beginning to conjure up even more miasma in kind. The limb expanded in size to the point it seemed to be larger than Touta's own body. In fact, it's a fist that honestly looks like it could be larger than the claw of the Kaiju and yet he's still carrying that obscenely large fist as he joins Hibiki in one final follow-up. It slams in unison with the Symphogear's, though clearly not having the same type of terminal velocity that the girl had accumulated for this final assault. Even still, it's a punch from one monster to another that attempts to drive into the beast's torso. If it was only a risk that Gomora was going to find itself on its back and on the floor, then that risk was going to escalate to nearly assured as the conjoined fists would be driving all the force the two could muster. A cry echo'ing from Touta's lungs just as violently as the breath of flames Gomora had only expelled moments ago.
Angela	Carol feels the fear already but when a second 'monster' (Mia) appears, the fear kinda hits an apex and she just flops onto the ground, waiting for her arms to melt away so she can die. Rose hits the floor after her strikes dropping down near Carol and Nonon, the latter of whom is shaking off their hands. Rose picks up Carol with one hand and tosses her Nonon's way, who awkwardly catches her as the creature bears down with a powerful beam, swinging it around in a path that will hit all three of them. Nonon throws herself and Carol to the ground but Rose, not QUITE Berserk--=but getting there, swings her hammer against the beam, the splash of fire and blast erupting around her before the explosive power moves on. Rose lets out a wordless scream, an eye opening up across her chest. If this doesn't end soon she might start turning on her friends. Rose isn't exactly running the body right now as much as she'd like--but she is just barely holding on. "AAAACK!!" She shouts as she dives in again, swinging violently and thrashingly.
Ru Li Cheng	The moment the horns go up, Ru Li is already moving. It's a stumbled movement, an unsteady movement - but he's moving much faster than any human possibly could. It takes him merely a few rapid, stumbling steps to fall across the hood of a car. A few more rapid, stumbling steps to grab the car with both hands and simply lift it above him. A swerve as the creature gathers power. Then he simply plants the car down next to one of the fire engines. Another stumbling step. The creature's almost ready to fire. He grabs an ambulance by the fender and drags it behind the fire truck. His foot whirls around to smash open the hydrant. Not enough. Not enough. He charges out front of the fire truck. Fire from the mouth. Not fast enough. Faster. One, hard strike, directly downwards, to where he can feel the pressure of the water, where he can hear the running flow, where he can taste the cool liquid. One, hard strike with his square blade. The water erupts upwards in a hiss of steam. It's not going to put out the fire - merely dull the blast, so the fire truck, the ambulance, and the car absorb the brunt of the heat, and the first responders sheltering behind it - what few he's managed to get clustered up - can survive. Ru Li himself, however, is torched, with only the water to protect him. He falls into the shining fountain of the water main and the steam, bouncing atop the spray like a limp doll.
Ishirou	Bowser flies into the mouth, despite the burning heat and plasma energy burning all around him. He punches the Uvula of the giant monster like a punching bag. Every single blow was like a machine gun punch, leading up until the last, and most devastating blow. So hard it slaps the monster so that the force of it will send Bowser clear out of his mouth because it's knocked back several feet. The Werewolf girl is unleashed, no longer working on reason, but on pure instinct. The presence is interested in this too but has no connection to dip into, unlike Hibiki or Mia. She shreds, she tears, flesh and bone are torn as she climbs up the creature, inch by bloody inch. Jean's flames, the ever-present reminder of her fate seek to spread onto the Kaiju. Burning it with fire that even it is unable to resist, it roars in pain, followed by speaks raining down on it. Shot after shot hits it, spearing it more and more as it struggles to keep going. Its desire to stay alive had pushed it farther beyond... but the sheer amount of firepower being leveled at it was simply too much. Hibiki and Touta move like a duet, repeatedly slamming it, spearing it, and driving through as much as they can together. Each blow was enough to stagger the beast, each blow taking it closer to its inevitable defeat. During this, Belial sees the two working together, and it's time for him to be ready. Energy surges across his body, seemingly painful as he slowly draws it deep into himself. Mia and Rose struck from two different directions but in unison. Plasma burns into its eyes, while the hammer swings into its legs. The last of its armor shattered, its eyes blinded by the plasma. Burning and shattered, it falls to the ground, but claws to its hands and knees. Right before the massive beam fired by the Ultraman aims to use the opening that everyone had provided it. The beam hits, causing an explosion. What happens next is. An ultra capsule is held up by Belial, like before the remaining particles of the beast fly to it, and seem to 'enter' it. The capsule produces a picture, of the normal form of Goroma. This causes the Ultraman to fall to a knee and look utterly exhausted. Hibiki and Mia, on the other hand, see the presence still. Without a body, but not without form. Its head is similar to that of a stag beetle, with two glowing red eyes that stare down. It seems to be made out of spiritual energy, with black and red energy swirling in and through it. It stares down, seemingly amused. 'How long until they turn on you? Mmm?' It says to Mia. 'They've seen your true form now, they know what you are... What I want is to create the strongest being, nothing more... they do not respect or appreciate power.." To Hibiki, 'You see them, don't you? The monsters you consider allies. They reveal their true selves. How long until they kill again? How long until another person dies in your arms because you refuse to gain strength? How long will you continue to be a bystander? What do you have to lose to accept that you need power, mmm? All that you love..? One that is the most important? Or will you abandon it all to protect them..? With my power, you won't have to abandon anything ever again.' It vanishes. But it does leave a presence of a name. Alien Reiblood.
Angela	Rose pants for breath. "Ba...Laance...." She slowly turns towards the wounded Nonon and Carol, the latter who has at this point passed out from the pain (she's only in TETH gear). She grips the hammer tightly. <J-IC-Scene> Hibiki Tachibana says, "Ugh...hah...hah--...Rose, get it together...!" Rose slows. Some part of her knows she has to listen to her, to resist--or she'll be swallowed up by the very power that she has employed but... How? <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia panted, then... "Haaa...Remember your shape, Rose. Believe in it. Remember what you treasure. Remember what is /you./" Rose thinks. She thinks back to her first awkward day in Training. Carol, Nicki, and Taylor under Hod together as they prepare for their new roles in Central. Taylor brings them in together for a group hug as they notice the three girls are being awkward around one another. Nicki enthusiastic but fumbling over her words, Carol quiet and shy, Rose anxious and standoffish. Slowly together they learn the ins and outs of employment there. For a moment, Rose starts to think that they are actually going to be happy, that despite all the warnings--just a little bit of caution and reason will get her through this and she'll have a proper life by the end of it. They just need to meet the quotas. The first week goes well. But... Taylor... ...They're gone because of that Queen of Hatred. Rose grimaces in reality. What did she vow then? She tears at her body like she's trying to rip the Corrosion off her. Remember what she treasures. Remember her SHAPE. And this isn't it. First she tears off those green robs, then the eyes, and finally wipes those green tears from her eyes with her sleeve. She sinks to her knees, panting for breath. "Fuck... That was close." Rose says, before she passes out too. Nonon, last Lobotomy Corp agent standing, hufts Rose up into her other arm. "Well...Haha! Grats on pulling through, kiddos! We can put you up in medical together, how 'bout that?"
Ritsuka Fujimaru	The Gomora is absorbed by Belial, and the battle is over! Jeanne's panting lightly after blowing so much mana on those rapid-fire attacks, but she's still laughing while surrounded by all that fire and chaos. She's certainly looking more interested in whatever happened to Dysnomia, too, although she does eventually quiet down to see how she and Hibiki are doing after whatever all that was. She doesn't have all the details, but things do seem to be grabbing her interest rather quickly with how they're going right now. On the other side of things, it takes about as long for Mash to finally snap Ritsuka out of her daze. Ritsuka still looks paler than she usually does with all that fire around in the distance, but she does manage to get her shit together enough to check on Ru Li. She tries to get some basic healing magic going while Mash tries to help him out of that water. "Mister Ru Li, are you alright?" "Y-yeah, come on. You did fine, guy. Take five, but don't drown in there!" Afterwards, Ritsuka looks over at Nonon while she offers medical treatment, and she exchanges a quick glance with Mash before turning to Nonon again with synchronized nods. "That sounds great! We'll need it after tonight."
Dysnomia	Dysnomia descended back to ground level, her wings beating, kicking up debris as she touched down. She held her head high, looking over the group, the battered, the beaten. The human. Reiblood was right, wasn't he? They would turn on her. She... She snorted, plasma, warning the air in front of her, deciding it didn't matter if he was right. His power would make her the centerpiece of HIS future, not hers. Even if everything he said was true, if she couldn't find her own answer, what was even the point...? Her body flowed, almost, but not quite liquid. There was a sense of something folding up, of sliding back, and then Dysnomia was human again, walking toward Remee's corpse. She hefted up the wolf's body over her shoulder like a sack. "Alien Reiblood." She said, to the others, projecting her message psychically to all the defenders she could reach, including Ultraman. "That's its name. The force driving this. It wants to make...The ultimate monster. The strongest being." "Be careful, if you look into their minds." She said. "He'll look back." She walked over by Ru Li, waiting for the others to heal him up.
Bowser	Bowser staggers out of the Kaiju before it is sucked up. His golf outfit is blasted, as is his mane. He wobbles slowly over to his Klown Kopter, flopping onto the top of it. "Sure...showed you..."
Hibiki Tachibana	Alongside Touta, Gomora goes down--and Hibiki has to snap back to reality and out of her own head enough to realize that Belial's finisher is coming, and throw herself off from the kaiju and get out of the way. Away at an angle, propelling herself back towards the scorched ground, and only just barely catching herself in something resembling a proper landing at the last moment. "Hah...hah...hah..." Her breathing is heavier and more rapid than it should be, even for how much physical effort she put in...but she kept it together. She can't lose it. Not when Rose is like that now--what would that say...? She managed it with Lance. She can manage it here, too... Breathing out hard enough to make her body shiver, she glances up--just to see...that form. She figures, instinctively, that has to be what was manipulating Gomora. ...Tried to do the same to them. Her voice catches in her throat, unable to stop herself from listening--they all cut right back to the time where she had thought power would be enough to fix all of her problems. ...The part that still can't deny that, if it really came down to it, she knows there's no way she'd ever have enough of it to actually... "The only thing your kind of power...that kind of power can do--is destroy everything..." Hibiki murmurs, forcing herself back to a stand, not able to tell if she's repeating what she said before to the vanishing alien or to herself. Her good arm comes to clutch at some of the wounds she took, although it's more like a self-hug than anything else. ...Ru Li will be okay. She's glad for that, after all the effort he put in with the civilians and rescue teams. And Rose is okay. Nonon has her, and those are good hands. She made it through that, thanks to... Her head slowly turns to follow Dysnomia, now back to her human shape. For a little while there, they were... ...She'll have to ask about it, soon. But not right this second.
Ishirou	<J-IC-Scene> Hibiki Tachibana takes a slightly shaky breath. "To inherit his power...that sounds--" Pause. "Please--tell us everything...that you know about him. ...Although maybe right here, right now, isn't the best place to do that..." <J-IC-Scene> Ishirou \|Ultraman Belial says, "No it is not, and I am unable to recover my energy like this... I need a place to stay." <J-IC-Scene> Nonon says, "Yeah, might be easier to have a talk later about it. Looks like it's gonna be a busy year!" <J-IC-Scene> Nonon says, "Hmm... A place to stay..." <J-IC-Scene> Touta Konoe can be heard clicking his teeth. "Crap...If that's the case...Yeah, I wanna hear about this more to. I don't know much about this Alien guy, but if what I think your saying is true...I wanna hear how you went about dealing with him the first time...And why it might not have worked..." <J-IC-Scene> Hibiki Tachibana says, "A place to stay...? Uh, well...I don't think any of us wanna leave you like that..." <J-IC-Scene> Nonon says, "Oh sure oh sure uh--just you know L Corp isn't the best place to...stay. You got another open dorm at your school, Bikki?" <J-IC-Scene> Hibiki Tachibana a little awkwardly, "Not one that big, I think..." <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng nnn. "...if...you need to restore yourself, then..." <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "I am...injured, but it is easy to repair. And I am...a god. I do not sleep. I gain energy...very quickly." <J-IC-Scene> Ishirou \| Ultraman Belial says, "...No insult to the bravery of those who were here tonight... but this man did risk a lot... more than most." Ultraman Belial glows brightly, slowly condensing into a small ball of light, before jumping into Ru Li himself. Strangely, the only difference is that Ru Li can feel that there is another presence, but he does not seem to do anything other than recover and share energy with the man.