Scene #8555: Ultraman B: Episode 4: King (Joe) of the Hill

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Ishirou	Ultraman B - Episode 4! Alien Reiblood, is a mysterious creature who currently seems to want creatures and people to fight to carry on it's successor. With recent fighting in Neo-Tokyo, this had drawn the attention of other people wanting to try and challenge the Reibloods. What originally drew people to Neo Tokyo this time is another attack from a monster. A very young Gamora, perhaps one of the ones who was being nested before their parents were awakened. Near the waterfront district, the fighting was intense between local forces and the Kaiju. They had gotten more used to responding to attacks, and with support from the factions, they had learned to be more self-sufficient, and also good at search and rescue. This is about the time you'd arrive, getting ready to put your own plans into motion before... A black robot descends from space. It fires a barrage of explosives that are /incredibly powerful/. Worse, its ability to care about collateral damage appears to be non-existent. Local forces, buildings, and lots of property damage were destroyed in the first assault. The second assault blasts the Kaiju again, utterly annihilating it. The robot lands, rifle in hand as it seems to scan the area... it does not immediately fire, but it doesn't appear to not be hostile either. In fact, when SOME people start joining, it immediately becomes hostile again, firing more shots from its gun at people. It does appear to be receiving radio signals, it just doesn't respond. Ultraman Belial, inside Ru Li will speak up... "That is.. a King Joe... but not one I've seen before. They're robots developed and deployed by Alien Pedan's... who are aggressive and warlike. Strange that it's attacked that monster, but less that it's deciding to be aggressive towards us. It might have seen that Kaiju is a threat to its own plans on Earth..." Belial isn't lying, he just seems confused by its actions, given that they are known for cunning, as well as high-tech weaponry. Though their normal operation is causing the civilization to set themselves back first, before invading a weakened world already ravaged through war. This is simply far too brazen. To Dysnomia and Hibiki... Reiblood speaks. 'Reinomic hunters. They're going to destroy everything on the planet with my blood...' he pauses thinking. 'I suppose that means you two... but enough life on this planet that it will likely never recover. They're genocidal to anyone who isn't something that they can control... and those of my blood often are very hard to control.' It's likely Belial isn't aware that there are Reinomic hunters amongst the Alien Pedan's. It also means that there is a reasonable being in that cockpit, even if his actions are anything but.
Ru Li Cheng	A King Joe. A massive machine, alien in make. Vast and destructive, made for one purpose - destruction. Aggressive, warlike, and utterly uncompromising. It obliterates the Gamora without thought or mercy - a singular existence that declares that its target must be obliterated. Admirable. Ru Li Cheng, ninth of the nine Ru Cheng gods, cannot help but feel that such an existence is in its own way admirable. It's not really that different from the war gods of his own Empire, is it? Made for violence, uncompromising in its existence. And the war gods are themselves reflections of heroism - uncompromising in the word they give and the beliefs they hold. Isn't that something, in its own way, that's admirable? But the thought is cut short by the incoming attack. The explosives come falling from the sky. Ru Li is faster than bombs, but not by much. He dives sideways under cover and rolls to a stop against a wall, the edge of his coat burned, a bit of his hair trailing flame, dust all over his face. He coughs, lightly, as he recenters himself. "You know a lot, don't you," Ru Li says aloud, conversational, cheery, and lacking in any sort of accusation - just genuine admiration for Ultraman Belial. He straightens and draws the black-and-red Belial Riser from his sleeve. "Then you know its weapons better than anyone, I hope, and what its firing arcs look like?" He pauses as he pulls out the capsule. "That is the term, yes? Firing arc?" "I believe?" Ru Li shakes his head. "No matter. You understand what I mean. Heroes know what to do." He slams the capsule into the device. ULTRAMAN BELIAL The device lights up as Ru Li raises it over his chest. "Rising slash!" He swings the device sideways, trailing energy in the device's wake like a scar in the world, and walks through. "ULTRAMAN BELIAL!"
Bowser	It is never easy understanding Bowser. A potent mix of ego swirls in the head of the Demon Turtle King. Three things have been stolen from Bowser. First, his lunch. Secondly, his dinner. Thirdly, his new kick ass minions. For some people, for normal people, perhaps, they might give up. Those people are WEAK and COWARDS. Kammy's wrinkled face breaks out in a yawn as she stand on top of a MIGHTY AIRSHIP. The tremendous wooden artifice flies on numerous black iron propellers with a loud THWOP THWOP THWOP THWOP THWOP. The great Bowser face of the maidenhead stares angrily over everything it surveys. Koopas and Goombas and Drybones stand on the deck as it moves towards the King Joe. "Kammy, MAGIC." "Sigh, yes sire." She holds up her wand. Bowser grabs her by the robe and pulls her up until the wand is level with his face. "THIS AREA IS NOW PART OF THE KOOPA KINGDOM!" The maidenhead sends out a wave as the deep rumbling voice is amplified. "ANY OF YOU FREAKS WHO KEEP COMING HERE TO RUIN MY DAY IS GONNA GET A FIST SHOVED UP YOUR NOSE!!!" The explosive ripple against the airship, but Bowser builds everything TOUGH. Extremely TOUGH. There are explosions that throw goombas off, but they don't deter the huge ship. Bowser grabs a lever by his side, "Eat this, then, you overgrown TEE VEE!" A mighty yank and a KACHUNK of gears. The massive Bowser Maidenhead roars with flames before shooting out a single large fireball at the King Joe.
Dysnomia	A silver-violet cloud swirled overhead as the missles crashed into the city, and when they crashed through the fog into a residential district...They didn't. They detonated in the air, fire and sharpnel scattered about them, as a small winged figure soared out from it, still trailing shimmering smoke from the tips of her wings. <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia says, "It doesn't seem like it cares what else around gets hit, does it..." <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "No. It's uncompromising. It was built for a purpose, and it will do its purpose." <J-IC-Scene> Mash Kyrielight says, "Should we disable it quickly, then?" <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "That would be wise, I think. I'm going to transform." <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "Belial will attempt to draw its fire as best he's able. Because we can't control the collateral damage, we'd best ensure that the military forces are also evacuated." <J-IC-Scene> Ru Li Cheng says, "There's no purpose in spending lives against a superior military element if those lives can't make a difference." <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia says, "Fine, fine. I'll chase the government dogs away." She soars over the waterfront. Her wings beat in the air, their shadows longer than they should be. She uncoiled her mind, reaching out not toward the King Joe but to the forces on the ground. "To fight is to die." She proclaimed. "But Belial is here to fight for you. Take your wounded and retreat inland." Absently, she scanned the battlefield, assessing the fallen debris. She saw specks of something, thermal readings that the explosions couldn't account for... It would be irritating if Ru Li told them off for not helping, Mia told herself, as she landed, ripping away fallen masonry to reveal the bodies trapped beneath. Some were even still breathing.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	The alarms don't have to go off for long before a van drops Ritsuka, Mash, and Jeanne out the back. They've seen enough fighting between kaiju and the local not-kaiju going on to have... Not quite a sixth sense for the attacks, but to be ready to move into action at a moments notice through all the different warpgates that would lead to Neo-Tokyo. This time, though, things still end up getting an unexpected wrinkle in the form of a big robot rather than a big monster! Ru Li recommends aiding the evacuation of the military personnel here, and both Ritsuka and Mash are quick to work in trying to shoo them off and protect them, respectively. Mash's shield and general mobility means she's hurling herself around like some kind of outfielder, trying to act as mobile cover for stray attacks coming off of the impending clash between Ultraman Belial and King Joe. "Come on, come on! Get out of here, folks! The sooner the area's clear, the sooner the big guns can really go big!" Ritsuka, meanwhile, is projecting her voice fairly effectively as she tries to grab the attention of the local forces in an effort to get them to leave instead of sticking around. "They won't be able to go too hard if they've got to worry about collateral damage!" Jeanne, meanwhile, looks indifferent at first. She's already in her armor, she has her flag billowing overhead, but she's looking between King Joe and the local forces instead of just going right the offensive. As she glances between the groups, she notices Dysnomia addressing the latter, and she sighs before raising her dark edgy-looking blade. She swings it downwards, and massive plumes of fire erupt from behind Ritsuka. "If you can't withstand a little heat like this, then make yourselves useful and get the rest of the injured weaklings out!" Jalter shouts, eventually putting on a more malicious grin as she keeps staring right at the local military. "Or... Do you want to risk sticking around? I can't promise I won't catch any of you in the crossfire if you do."
Angela	YOUR FRIENDS TODAY ARE NONON AND ROSE! Nonon is approaching the battlefield, Rose is following on behind. When the King Joe fires its rifle, Nonon slides forward to cover Rose's body and punch the bullets out of the air with her own EGO. hy, "Heey...") Nonon says. "We just got here and you're already firing? Rude!" Despite saying this, Nonon is smiling so broadly that she must be quite happy to be shot. Rose opens her mouth and-- Nonon interrupts whatever she is going to say by darting forward and throwing her golden glove-adorned fists to plow both straight into the King Joe! "I'm your opponent this time, big guy!!" Rose hangs back for now, glancing around to see who is responding to this. She seems to be anticipating someone.
Hibiki Tachibana	Another Kaiju attack. Hibiki, grown accustomed enough to these warnings being sent out, isn't so far gone in a hazy-headed fugue that she'll openly ignore it when it's sent out. I never want to hear that you've sat by and done nothing. Never, ever again, Tachibana. If anything, the alert spurring her into action is something that helps focus it all into one point, like a knife slicing straight through fog. So, even with the heavy bags under them, her eyes are sharp and focused as she lays them on the sight of the young Gamora's rampage. And that much more, along with shock that only looks more muted on her face than she actually feels, when the alien machine descends down from on high to lay waste to the monster and the surrounding area with gross, almost horrendous amounts of impunity. In one go, technically two, there might have been more destruction - and death - than the Kaiju itself was ever going to do on its own. "Who the hell--" She starts, just for the intense barrage to rain down on her own area. The glow of gold and the sound of an echoing chant is drowned out by the noise of explosions and heavy smoke, but a radiant barrier bursts into existence a moment before everything goes to hell around her. Giving Reiblood the time to offer some genuinely helpful advice for once, that replaces any surprise she's still showing with a furrowed brow while her Symphogear's transformation barrier rides out the attack. "...It looks like your influence just makes problems everywhere it shows up. Even if we beat this one, more 'hunters' are probably going to come, aren't they?" It's a serious question, delivered bluntly and maybe even a little coldly, although she doesn't wait for the answer to it. "If they're not going to care who they hurt--then we need to stop them before it gets worse." And so Hibiki launches forward out of the debris, clad in Gungnir, throwing herself up into a leap as King Joe levels its rifle to fire as some of the others begin evacuating. It won't get the chance to release another of those devastating explosives at the civilians, at least not before Hibiki /physically/ puts herself up in the firing path of it. She's a lot slower to move or react than normal, and it's obvious just looking at her - but not so much that she can't grip onto the projectile mid-flight, and redirect its momentum by whirling around once, twice, thrice--and let it go to send it flying right on back towards the mech just as fast as it came in. Two birds with one stone, a return to sender that'll help give a little more time for evacuations to get done.
Touta Konoe	"You heard the Elites! Come on now, put some hussle into it! Follow the black smoke path out! Or get burned into black smoke!" Touta's been around the city enough where it seems like he's been able to right where the action is just as things escalate. Whether that's from sheer luck or someone that's just been keeping more of an eye on this than he cares to admit. Regardless of the truth of it all, he seems to be trying to help Mash,Ritsuka, and Jeanne as they call out to the civilians, trying to help get the people moving on their own, and even providing a small 'smoke' trail to try and help organize a path away from both King Joe and the Kaiju from a more relatively safe path. Once that's been addressed though, rather than addressing the Kaiju this time around it becomes apparent of a more...Focused enemy, in the black robot. A clicking of teeth follows as the very ground itself shakes as all the explosions ensue. "Alright, guess between you and the Kaiju you're apparently the bigger problem. Congrats." Like Hibiki, Touta begins a charge through the debris as he rushes King Joe. His aim rather apparent as he leaps into the fray as well. His intent to try and slash and cleave his blade through one of the arms that holds the gun, trying to disarm the machine in the most literal sense as Touta attempts to up the weight of his blade to the degree that it feels like it has the kind of weight that a blade that Joe could wield was attempting to cleave into it.
Ishirou	Ru Li slashes, stepping into the hole he placed into the world, and the tear closes behind him. Swallowed by light, he is in a mental world shared by both Belial and Ru Li. It is here that Ru Li can also feel Belial's appreciation of King Joe. It represents a type of strength, the strength of building a weapon and refining it to completion. Even if the aliens who pilot it are warlike, it is hard to not be impressed with their creation. Belial comes out swinging, driving his shoulder into the King Joe and pushing it back, trying to gain it's attention. There is a loud ULTRA SOUND from Belial, staring down the King Joe. This causes King Joe to be more cautious, he knows how strong Ultra is. It doesn't get any time to analyze Belial, as Bowser joins in on the assault. The giant 'maidenhead' Bowser fires a blast of fire across the chest of King Joe, staggering it as it snaps up towards the ridiculous machine that just fired on it. During this, Dysnomia continues rescue operations, and with them are local first responders who do not flee, though many of them are injured from the unexpected assault, even more turning into those who need first responder help, caught in the explosions. Despite what Dysnomia might think about humans, and how humans might think about her, they are happy to help. Many move to try and cover Mia, others going into the rubble with her, while others carry emergency braces to help keep the deprives secure so rescue efforts will be safer. Ritsuka, Mash, and Jeanne don't have to tell the military personnel twice. Those who aren't injured are carrying out the injured, or helping clear debris for civilians to help them. They know better than to get involved in this because right now it's far above their pay grade. Jalter giving a little fire under their asses to get going faster. A golden glove smacks into the feet of King Joe, shattering armor and staggering the Super Robot, causing Toku sparks to fly out everywhere. It's little arms swing around, balancing itself and it looks down to see what it sees... Is a normal human with a large glove. Nonon seems to understand she is being scanned for a moment, followed by King Joe being confused, then followed by King Joe starting to aim its weapons at Nonon. The redirected attack smashes into King Joe, and it's revealed that its armor is actually really tough, slowly it turns towards Hibiki and seems to take the motions of 'squinting' at her for a moment. This is followed up by Touta, but his weighted blade hits MASSIVE resistance the moment it hits the armor.
Ishirou	What follows next is King Joe grabs Touta, or attempts to, and tosses him at Hibiki. The weapon raises up, firing a shot at the both of them. Now freed of engagement, it swings the weapon in its hand like a hammer, aiming to smash both Belial and his host across the face, across the chest, and then aiming a shot directly into both faces. Missiles fly out of its back, aiming to pepper the area. While they are AIMED at Nonon, the explosive range of these attacks will make Ritsuka, Mash, Jalter, and Dysnomia's lives incredibly more difficult. In fact, Mia is, at this moment reaching a small child trapped under the rocks. The explosions will threaten to trap both her and the child under it... she could survive it, but would the child? Bowser gets SPECIAL attention. The main cannon rises up, and energy charges. A large beam of energy is fired and drives through the city hit or miss. There is a powerful shockwave, and an entire area of the city will suffer significant damage. More and more people are going to be put in danger at this rate. 'I can give you the power to save her, Dysnomia. I don't even want anything in return... just ask.' Says Reiblood. 'They are seeking to destroy my bloodline, I feel involved.' Hibiki hears a response from Reiblood, 'And what am I supposed to do, not exist? Not encourage others to thrive? But... I digress. I do not wish to see these men succeed either..' a pause, 'If you ask for my help, I will provide i-' The shockwave rushes through at this time. 'Or will your pride destroy everything?'
Ru Li Cheng	The rifle smashes into Belial and Ru Li, but Ru Li is the one who feels it far more. The crack hits him in the mental world as he forcibly takes the pain from Belial, as he forcibly draws on his own durability to make the hit that much easier for Belial to shoulder. He, ultimately, is a cog in this machine, as he is in his own world, but for the moment, Ru Li Cheng's purpose is one of enabling a far more powerful existence. The bruises are nothing compared to the exhilarating feeling of standing in support of a hero. But, that's what he always does, isn't it? At the end of the day, is he just, again, a bit part in someone else's story? Hesitation, though it's only momentary, as his hand goes to his cheek. He grabs the Belial Riser in hand. "We need to keep as much of its attention as we can." "Use your strongest attack, right now, Belial." "The most powerful weapon at your disposal, whatever it is - we need it to believe that the biggest threat is us." With that, Ru Li slots the Belial capsule into the Riser again, raises it above his head, and pulls the trigger. ULTRAMAN BELIAL
Bowser	"SIR! ATTACK COMING!" "Good. FULL PROPELLER AHEAD!" The koopas at the wheel gulp, but they know better to question the order. Bowser begins a charge towards the front of the ship, face set in a snarling grin, "You don't know who you aliens are messing with! I'm the KING!" As Bowser reaches the bow, he spins on a heel and shows his back to the beam. The street wide beam CRASHES into his shell and breaks around it, spreading the beam out and around the ship. The bow shatters downward, boards crushing in as the force of the gun pushes him down, gouging a furrow in the boat. Dry Bones and Goombas leap out of the way as Bowser is pushed to the mast, slamming his face up against it. But when it clears, the shell is steaming, spikes glowing red hot. But Bowser stands. Minions scramble back to their stations. Kammy scrambles under the deck. "FULL STOP. Prepare to fire!" The front of the airship slowly parts, wooden front shifting to either side to reveal... a cannon. A cannon the size of a house. It is not a long cannon, it is a chode of a cannon, in fact. Goombas and Koopas pull at ropes to aim it properly at the King Joe. "FIRE THE KING BILL!" A deep bassy BA BOOM claps out through the air as the cannon 'fires'. A chode of a bullet spins out of the cannon, it's face split in a wide dimply grin. It's eyes focused on the King Joe. The King Bill moves slowly, menacingly, like an oncoming meteorite, it's unwavering, unblinking gaze locked on it.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	The locals are moving, and that's probably the best the trio can hope for! Ritsuka and Mash certainly look pleased, as they're able to shift their focus to the battle proper rather than just hovering over the locals, but the continued missile launches keep them straying too far from where the personnel are working just yet. Even Jalter seems almost pleased at how they react, but she doesn't show it beyond a self-satisfied smirk. "Stay with these people, Mash. Me and Jeanne are gonna help bring that big guy down!" "Are you sure? Ah... Understood. Keep her safe, Miss Jeanne!" "You say this every time. Do you really think I'd-" Not bothering to finish that sentence, Jeanne can feel both Ritsuka and Mash staring at her briefly before she and the Master start to advance on Belial while the Shielder remains on defense with the evacuees and Dysnomia. Mash leaps directly into the path of the missiles and deflects a few off course before stabbing her shield into the ground to withstand another, letting the shock disperse mostly through the shield without getting blown back by the shockwave. Drawing on Ritsuka's power as a mana battery, Jeanne starts bringing more spears together in midair, eventually pulling them into a formation resembling lance, but on fire! "King Joe, was it? You in there! Don't you have anything better to do than come to this shithole like all the others?" Jeanne's already starting to throw words at it even as she hurls her flaming lance-esque volley of spears at King Joe, both scowling and grinning madly as she continues taunting the giant robot. "Or... Is someone controlling this, because you're too much of a coward to come down here yourself?" Ritsuka purses her lips. Should she stop Jeanne from taunting it so much? Maybe, but she seems pretty happy to do this. Maybe she's got something in mind, so there's no sense blowing up her spot right away.
Dysnomia	The humans scurried around her, rallied, given something to do, something to fight for, work toward. Dysnomia found herself with a child in her arms. Her little breaths shallow, her face and expression illuminated in colors no human could see. 'I can give you the power to save her, Dysnomia. I don't even want anything in return... just ask...They are seeking to destroy my bloodline, I feel involved.' Snarling, she pulled away, a great wing spreading from her back, acting as a shileld and pressing the child against her body as she hung low. The fire rushed over her, and in the end it left slag and fire. ...Except for the place where Dysnomia had been standing. She stood, her wings curling back, as she set the child down. Because I need you to do it? Because I can't be strong without you? Because I'm your 'successor?' She snarled, without waiting for an answer. So I can carry your damn legacy?! She braced, then took off, flying directly toward the King Joe, plasma arcing from her throat over its face...As she banked off to the side, putting herself between the King Joe and the ocean behind her, putting the Neo Tokyo and its whiny, distracting humans out of the line of fire.
Angela	Rose looks up and over to Hibiki. Let's talk later, she thinks, her breath catching in the back of her throat. She doesn't seem ... broken? Maybe it actually went well--but she really doubts it. She makes a decision but the trick will be to meet with the person she needs to meet. She draws out her Hammers of Wrath and makes her way to catch up with Nonon. Nonon's gloves are pretty clearly not normal gloves, nor is her golden colored uniform. She is in a powered suit as surely as anyone. She backpedals a bit before the missiles are unleashed. The explosion hits Nonon dead on and sends her flying back because she can't protect herself entirely from that kind of force. She flies back and hits the ground on her back, breathing smoke out of her mouth. Rose slides ahead, swinging at the King Joe with her hammers, the acid trying to dissolve through the armoring. "Always flying in off the handle, Nonon..." Rose sighs. She glances over to Dysnomia for a long moment as she snarls but not for long. She can't afford to dwell on others right now. Just her pardner.
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki probably should have expected Rose to be here--Touta too, actually. This isn't the time to talk, though, and she's not going to distract herself with all the different things she might have to say to them. That can come later. If she slips up now, there's a lot more people than just her who'll pay for it. Speaking of Touta, he's trying to be used as a human projectile, and there's another of those shots coming this way regardless. She's not on the ball enough to do the same thing with this one as she did the last, and so to minimize how much damage the surroundings take, she holds her ground and crosses both gauntlet-clad arms up in front of herself. Any Touta-impacts, as well as that of the potent detonation of King Joe's rifle round, are partially absorbed by her braced-up stance. The rest of the force painfully rocks and vibrates through her body, making her grit her teeth even if she refuses to be blown off her feet. It'd be too much to hope that the shockwave of the attack would be enough to keep Reiblood quiet, and so while recovering from the aftermath, she finds it in her to reply in a low and slightly uneven tone. "...You've been taking advantage of the Kaiju's situation to rile them up into fighting and destroying. You used to be a danger to the entire universe. And you took the first chance you could get to worm your way into me the second I opened myself up to try and save something. The one and only thing you care about is your own bloodline." "Since you're showing so much favoritism to me, have some faith I can get by. If I need your help, I'll ask for it. ...Until then, I'll do my part to clean up your mess and make sure they don't get their way. So stay out of my head and stay out of my heart." And then, Hibiki dashes forward into another sudden sprint and burst of speed--her and Dysnomia are indeed on the same page, and she also had noticed that 'squint' she was given earlier. So she, too, is on her way to circle around King Joe to get behind the towering mech - that puts both her and the dragon behind it, facing the open sea where any firepower sent their way should be considerably less harmful. And if the pilot of King Joe needs any more incentive, Hibiki provides it by leaping upwards and bringing her body into a spinning kick towards the back of one of the massive mecha's knees--intending to ruin its balance and potentially even topple it with strike after strike to the same point.
Touta Konoe	Its armor does apparently seem tough, even if he's bashing it with the kind of weight of a similar weapon, it's sturdy enough that apparently cutting through doesn't appear to be that easy. Surprisingly, Touta is the same in that rather than just taking a hit for once, opts to move out of the way before being turned into a projectile to be used against Hibiki! Even the follow up shot doesn't seem to make its mark. It just seemed to be Touta's day in that regard. This level of leeway does allow him to take notice of the charging of that main canon. It may be giving special attention to Bowser, but the fact of the matter is that even as it charges up, he can feel just how much energy this thing was building. It was clear that things were escalating. What's more... <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia says, "Hibiki. It's going to be aiming for us." <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia says, "And someone...Get this stupid kid...!" Touta's attention diverts to Dysnomia, she's the one that helped with the kid kaiju before right? And now it seemed it was her who was asking for help? It's not even an ask... "I can handle that! Just focus on getting out of there!" He watches Mia as she clutches the child snug. unsure for a moment if she was going to be given the chance to even do so. Though he can watch in the time she goes about defending the kid in that moment, looking as though she wasn't even worried about whether he was to aid or not. It's only when she finally releases the child and spreads her wings does he realize that's his que. That's close enough...I can reach it...! Touta bolts towards the kid drop off zone where Mia takes the kid, only for him to take an arm to wrap around the child and hoist them up. "Hang tight, I've got you..." Most of the civilians should be evacuated from this side. If that's the case I can... A black shroud begins to envelope the two. In fact, it's enveloping a good portion of the street where the two had been moments before as it fills out between the alleyways. Within the darkness of the black mist, it's difficult for one to see within, difficult for one to see outside of it. Yet, the child can feel as someone continues to hold them tight as they traverse that mist. Even in the darkness of it all, the sounds of missiles and explosions get farther and farther away. Even with the force of the shockwave that comes, within this darkness...There's a level of calm. A voice speaks from the one caring the child through the fog into safety. "I know it's dark in here, but trust me...We're almost out of the way...Just leave it to them..." A few moments time as that's happening. A figure can be seen jumping out from the mist once more in the visage of Touta. In the moment his leap gives an arc that looks like he's all but ready to lob his fist right into the creature. Though if it's anything like his previous attack, there's no expectation to push past it, let alone knock it back. "Mammoth...Rage!" As he calls out, not all but some of that black mist begins to slowly rise up from the streets. Still plenty that was able to veil the streets after the fact. At first it just casually swirls around Touta's reeled fist. But it begins to get larger and larger. The spiral turns into what looks to be a vortex until all that 'air' condenses into...Into a fist. Its not just a fist that has the kind of weight behind it of a creature of King Joe's size. It's a fist that /was/ that size, disproportionate to the rest of Touta's body yet still throwing a punch no issue whatsoever at the robot with a crushing level of force behind it, intending to crush and pummel that cannon before it could ever get the chance to try and fire off again.
Ishirou	Ultraman Belial sounds taken aback for a moment but realizes the plan as Ru Li says it. Right... they have to train the attacks away from the city proper before this becomes a blood bath! Belial takes a breath... His hands raise up above his head, as black and red energy builds up in his arms. Slowly he pulls the energy DOWN through his body. He channels this power through his entire being, before channeling it through his hands again... A massive beam fires out, striking King Joe across the chest and throwing it away from buildings. This is followed by Bowser's reckless charge, firing a massive bullet. While the armor manages to resist the brunt of the giant bill, it still is a /devastating/ attack. The explosion resolves and leaves King Joe smoking and releasing Toku sparks It's motivated now. Flaming spears strike across the back of King Joe, and it turns towards Jeanne who is taunting it. It starts to move toward the pair before Rose and Nonon are slamming their weapons into it, trying to weaken that armor, breaking through its/very tough/ defenses. Surprisingly, it's much like punching a massive armor with physical weapons! Huh! Dysnomia flies towards King Joe, the massive plasma arc sears it's body and staggers it. Toku sparks flying as it's driven away just a little more. However, its senses seem to pick up on something, as its eyes turn red. Hibiki swings in right at this time, but its arms come up to block the attack. The two strike each other, causing some damage to the creature, but mostly taking the edge out of Hibiki's attack. It's focus seems to be on Dysnomia and Hibiki now. Touta's fist strikes King Joe's open fist, much like it did with Hibiki. Like with Hibiki, a chunk of the force is taken straight out of his might, but damage still builds up along the arms. There is no response from the pilot of King Joe for anyone, they seem focused on their job. However, Reiblood has things to say... To Mia, 'If you were weak, I would not have even considered you, your /strength/ is what drew me to you in the first place. I do not know what trauma you have suffered to be so suspicious of genuine offers... but this is a scout. It will bring others. This is the weakest of its kind... and even these were enough to overcome me.' To Hibiki, 'Like you have been taking advantage of those around you to justify your actions? It's easier to react than to act, isn't it? If you act, then if it does not turn out well, then you are evil. If you react then nobody can judge you, right?' It rumbles, 'Like it or not, you opened yourself to me, and I responded to a hole in your heart.'
Ru Li Cheng	"Not enough!" Ru Li grabs the Belial Riser with both hands. The gears inside him turn, grind, heat. Metal pushes against metal. Flesh and bone grind together. Everything he can take for Belial he does, all the damage, all the pain, all the force of King Joe's brutal retaliation. This was his plan. It was his responsibility. He is the one who stamped the paper - he is the one who allocated the resources. He. No one else. Not Dysnomia. Not Touta. Not Ritsuka, or Jeanne, or Mash. Not Hibiki. Certainly not Bowser or the Lobotomy Corporation agents. Not Belial. The feedback is tremendous. But he holds. He holds, because he is a cog in the machine- -because it's his responsibility- Because... ...why does he hold? Didn't he leave Yinghua because he wanted to be something other than he was? Didn't he shirk his own responsibility to millions to come out and play hero? How are these people more important than his own? How is this more important than the job only he can do? Why does he hold? And when his concentration breaks, in his private thoughts, in the moment of doubt, his determination wavers, and the feedback goes straight through him. He falls. He falls out of Belial, out of the extradimensional space, and plummets to the ground with a thud, smoke and steam hissing out of his body, bleeding holy quicksilver into the crater around him.
Dysnomia	Too weak for this...? Then what makes you think you'll be anything near enough to stop this? To stop what comes next? The laser burned through Mia's body. She shouted, plummeting, for a moment, as it left a smoking gap in her midsection. Quickly, it bubbled itself back outward, like smoke spreading to fill a glass cylinder, and her wings caught the air, carrying her up again, her body half-translucent, but still holding strong. For now. A great line of plasma formed in her hands, like a spear, but too long, gleaming violet. She ascended and, with a wordless battle cry, dove downward, a spear of burning plasma five times as long as she was tall in her hand. She burned like falling star, plummetting down toward King Joe, trying to pierce right through its neck, and release all the power of a minature fusion reaction through its great metal body.
Angela	While Nonon is thrilled and would fight the robot forever, Rose is distracted by a falling Ru Li Cheng. In that moment, THE LASER FIRES and Nonon steps out in front, taking the full bront of the beam to her chest. "Nrggghhh!" Nonon shouts, "GO ON CHECK ON HIM IF YOU WANT!" Rose nods once and runs towards Ru Li Cheng, intending to crouch down and check out his injuries before trying to pull him out of the battlezone. She doesn't have access to those oh so fancy Healing Bullets on her. But Nonon is smoking, her upper body is covered in burns and even her EGO Suit is charred though thankfully--quite resilient to Red damage. Nonon's bloodied lips grin widely as she laughs like a maniac. "THIS IS FUN! ARE YOU HAVIN' FUN YET?!" Nonon shouts as her gloves crackle with power as her strikes come in faster, and faster, and hotter. "Hahahaha!! More! MORE! Don't give up yet!! I can keep going!!"
Bowser	Bowser's greatest siege weapon. A bullet as big as a house. The lack of a dead on hit keeps it from plowing entirely through the King Joe. Bowser stares over the bow at the King Joe, simply still standing. "GET ANOTHER ONE!" "There's only one, sir!" Bowser turns his head around with a whipcrack, glaring around, looking for the new target of his ire. The plasma beam rips through the airship, a steady wave of energy forcing the wood apart. The ship buckles outward, not burning up, but exploding out as the beam cuts through it. Kammy makes a bubble around herself. Minions left and right evaporate in the beam. Bowser lifts his arms up, burns appearing over his body as the ship finally buckles completely. KRAK. Bowser lands on the sidewalk with a groan. He steps up slowly to his feet. Anyone else might feel tired. The king surveys his fallen army. He reaches down to grasp the head of a Drybones. THEN HURL IT AT THE KING JOE. "HEY YOU TWO TON TITANIC TWERP! WHY DON'T YOU COME DOWN HERE AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN! ARE YOU A COWARD! A SISSY ROBOT?!"
Hibiki Tachibana	It probably says something that, unlike their last chat where Hibiki had been stumbling over herself at Reiblood's provocations, there's no volatile flare-ups this time. It might be that she's still suffering too much emotional burnout to manage it, or maybe her viewpoint has just changed enough to also change her reactions. Maybe both. Although in the heat of the moment, she can't respond vocally as she has been. It's all in the privacy of her own head, in between exchanged blows with the far larger King Joe, and her muscles straining to keep up. I'm not going to able to just keep reacting forever. I already know that. I'm not interested in justifying it either. You did respond, so I'll have to live with it. ...I'll take any judgements I get for it, too. Hibiki rebounds off of King Joe with another impact, just for the laser attack to be charged up and prepared--she looks up towards its head with widened eyes and then grit teeth, clenching her fist. And she launches forward in a flare of her Symphogear's thrusters, at the same time it fires. She skids and skims along the side of the fearsomely strong blast, only for it to shift enough to wash over her completely and take her entirely out of view within the stream of light. ...And emerge out at full speed right as it finally ends, several mechanical portions of Gungnir exposed and sparking wildly as flecks break off and stream behind her, and with burn marks on skin having made it through its barrier coating. As long as King Joe is focused on them and nothing else, this much isn't anything. "...You're wide open!" Or as wide open as it'll get - as while King Joe is recovering from its own attack, Hibiki zips all the way up to its head, and twists her body into a full-force hook to crash into it with enough force to send vibrations rattling down the rest of its frame.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	Jeanne's smirk widens as King Joe faces her. The timing works out fairly well, too, as Ru Li falls out of Belial, and she can tell at a glance that something's terribly wrong. Ritsuka only has enough time to turn to Jeanne with a brief gesture at the split pair before the Avenger leaps onto a piece of rubble to stand a little higher, and she points her flaming flag at King Joe. "That's more like it. Enough wasting your time with the giant. Your real challenger is right here!" She boasts with a powerful shout and burst of flames around herself just as King Joe starts firing those massive lasers all over the place. She leaps off the debris just as the laser blast obliterates it beneath her feet, narrowly avoiding the explosions in the process while launching herself straight at the giant robot with the flag in one hand and her sword in the other. The flames burn brighter despite turning darker and more purple, pulsating ominously as she drives both weapons at the machine's chest with searing heat and supernatural strength. "Now give me everything you've got for real this time, so-called king!" Ritsuka isn't faring nearly as well even with Jeanne trying to grab the robot's attention, shrieking as she scrambles all over the place. It's a lot of effort trying not to get blown up by all those near misses, hurling herself over wrecks and tumbling across what's left of a hood before shielding herself with that same hood from incoming debris. "Haaah... This is way too close! Ah, hey, back on your feet, Ru Li!" She shouts while scurrying out from beneath another thing that's exploding, sliding over to where Rose and Ru Li are to provide some light healing for the pair.
Touta Konoe	Both Hibiki and Touta find that their strikes are taken in kind. Though it's focus seems to be at first on the taunts of Jeanne's lances, followed by its attention being pulled by that of Hibiki and Mia alike. That's fine, that would simply mean-- "Crap!!!" King Joe wasn't playing around as it fired its laser out. Touta's fist being caught doesn't provide much aid to his escape before it along with the rest of his body fade away in the light of that beam. It's as if his entire body disappeared being caught up in the direct line of fire and for a good while he fades. It's only in due time can be seen rising from that black mist that coats the ground as if he'd fallen into it. "Ugh...That was..." There's no getting to finish his words though as he sees just how devastating those beams are being. Knocking Ru Li out of Belial, Mia's body burned through, and Ritsuka doing all she can do avoid every blast without the protection of Mash by her side. "Ritsuka! I'll give you two cover!!! Drag them out of here!!!" The black mist acting as a veiled wall between her and the robot. And through that veil Touta's voice can be heard calling out as if he was right there. "Ritsuka, regroup with Mash! We'll handle it from here somehow..." How was that going to work exactly? Hard to say now that they lost Belial. But no one seemed deterred from this fight yet, and Touta wasn't keen on being the first. The robot was receiving attacks from all sides. From above, opposing sides from Jalter and Hibiki. If that was the case... "Guess I get to try that out..." Rather than going the path of fistacuffs as per usual, a different approach is taken as Touta's hands wave in an odd motion. The black mist slowly expands as it goes through the streets, all to the point that it envelopes the ground beneath the black robot till the point the mist surrounds its frame up to its knees as it swirls around the machine ominously. Touta's eyes stay shut for a moment as he tries to focus. Despite having magic, using it for straight attacks like this wasn't something that's his focus. But this attack would hopefully make up for it with sheer force alone. "Blood Magic - Black Geyser!!!" The swirling mist around the machine would condense, turning from a gaseous form into a more black tar-like substance. At first, it likely just feels like a disruption to trudge its feet through, though in no time at all it becomes more as it erupts from the ground in a literal geyser like fashion. Erupting with pressured force as if attempting to penetrate through the machine's defenses, whittling down every crack it had till the last until it tore apart.
Ishirou	Ru Li falls out of Belial, separating them fundamentally. Belial falls to a knee, his power drained and his body sagging. The light on his chest flashed red. He can't give up here, there are too many in the way of this monster. Belial stands up, forcing himself to his feet and charging forward. Ru Li couldn't keep his focus, Ru Li couldn't bond with him... Just like before, it always seems like he is not compatible with others... but never because of the weakness in the heart of a mortal. It just reminded him of home, of the Ultra's who cared more about other worlds, than their own home. Nobody cared about their home, only what they could do for others. He wouldn't let his home die...! Even if Ru Li was too weak to hold him... he wouldn't let his friend die...! Mia's spear of plasma fires. It's like a burning star, and so bright that it obscures vision from everything for a moment. When it finally ends... it's revealed that King Joe had split itself into four separate parts, minimizing the damage that she could do to the entire thing. However... Reiblood speaks to Mia, 'I think you're mistaking something... it isn't about my powers over yours, or yours over mine... it's about combining. I would /give/ you my power, all of it. You will mix your overwhelming strength with my own... and combined you will reach a level beyond either of us could be seperately. /THAT/ is what I want... that is what life wants. To grow.' Split apart, it's far weaker than combined. This gives Nonon an opportunity. Each section is struck, throwing them all to the ground and dealing a significant amount of damage. Enough that it quickly reforms itself, smoking and covered in toku sparks as it forces itself once more to its feet. Then a drybones smashes into the side of the robot. It doesn't even turn to acknowledge Bowser. It /completely/ ignores him, because there are Reibloods here! Or perhaps he is insulting Bowser. Hibiki refuses to give in to Reiblood's provocation... odd, that in that moment... something leaves her. 'Pathetic.' However, her fist slams into the head of the Robot. The entire thing reverberates, sparks flying as she cracks armor. The entire thing staggers backward, showering Hibiki in Sparks. It's eyes flickering for a moment, trying to get a good look at Hibiki. Fire, flames, and sword cut through the distracted King Joe, its attention focused on Hibiki for too long, and Jeanne makes it pay for that. Armor slopping off from the melted parts, the entire thing forced to its knees, as it realizes what attacked it. For a moment, Hibiki can see a figure inside the head, trying to keep control of King Joe. King Joe is cracked and damaged, and the hyper anime blood move does get into some of those cracks, tearing them wider, but not exploding the entire robot like he expected. Despite everything, King Joe slowly rises again... and senses blood in the water.
Ishirou	The Host was knocked out of the Ultra. Once more, it charges that beam... but instead fires it down toward the vulnerable Ru Li. Belial, without a second thought, dives down to protect his host, even if his thoughts about him are not very 'heroic' at this moment. A flash of light... Belial takes the entire attack, staggering from the blow and thrown straight up into the sky. The force of the blow is enough that within minutes he lands face down on the moon. Slowly, his life force draining at the Ultra Gem on his chest flashes faster and faster... The explosion is enough to catch some people those closest to Ru Li and Belial. However, it is still focused on its targets. Mia gets its attention first, the laser aimed at it again, as it launches the beam in an attempt to vaporize her. It's hate of the Reinomic's it senses in her drives it forward. It's hand also reaches up to catch Hibiki, attempting to grip her in it's arms... and squeeze. Drained, but not down, it turns to Nonon... Its gun points down towards her. A focused shot aimed to try and stop the Agent before it gets too injured.
Ritsuka Fujimaru	The black mist appears between Ritsuka and King Joe, and she's confused for a moment until she hears a familiar voice along with some suggested directions for herself and Rose. "Eh? Sure, we got him!" She gives Rose an affirming nod, as if expecting her to go along with the impromptu plan in dragging him away from the battlefield. The explosion coming from King Joe aimed right at Ru Li and eaten by Belial, though, forces Ritsuka to brace herself over/against Ru Li and Rose, both in a vain attempt to shield them as well as maintain her own footing. Thankfully, Mash shows up moments later, providing another layer of shielding between King Joe and Ritsuka/Rose as she starts preparing her own gathering of magic. She's been helping with evacuations until now, but she's still relevant in this scene! Sort of. "Geez... Really?! He's already down, jackass!" Letting her own temper flare up a bit, Ritsuka clenches her fist as she throws out a dark, nearly black and red stone-like bullet of concentrated magic and blasts it right at one of the King Joes to try and... It's more of a temper and defiance thing than something that should do any truly lasting damage. The real damage would be coming from Jeanne, anyway, as she's simply taking the transformation/splitting in stride and building up her reserves of mana underfoot. "How rude... I present all this wondrous flame for you to have a real fight inside, and you toss it aside because you want to... What? Get a defiant last strike against someone that's not even standing?" Jeanne's face distorts into a far fouler scowl than she's shown all day. "Pathetic. A petty bastard like you doesn't even deserve a proper burial." Raising her flag briefly, Jeanne stabs it back into the ground as the various explosions and swings glance against her armor, rippling against her while she holds her ground. Said ground also seems to be turning darker as small spikes start to appear on top of it, then rapidly erupt from the ground towards the King Joe. Which one? Ones? She's not too worried. Jeanne just wants to make an example of the robots as the spears keep shooting upwards, trying to impale the machine(s) and exploding into massive pyres in the process.
Dysnomia	A backwards flip through the air and a dive, and from behind her, a bright flash, as the laser passed through the very air that she had just flown through. She was barraged by waves of hot air and ambient radiation, washing over her like a tide. Mia felt a little more of her substance boiling away. The laser carved through the air behind her landing into the ocean, with an uproaring hiss of steam. Somehow, she'd slipped through. Her eyes locked onto the King Joe's arms, to the instruments it used to charge its laser, and she began to think. Her throat burned violet, and she exhaled, a bright, controlled stream, as she circled and circled the King Joe, trying to boil the very metal of the its mechanisms into uselessness.
Touta Konoe	King Joe is cracked and damaged, and the hyper anime blood move does get into some of those cracks, tearing them wider, but not exploding the entire robot like he expected. Despite everything, King Joe slowly rises again... and senses blood in the water. <J-IC-Scene> Dysnomia says, "This thing uses its arms, somehow, to charge its laser. Let's cripple it." <J-IC-Scene> Touta Konoe says, "Go for it, I got something else in mind..." Not once did he think that he was going to explode the armor with an attack like that. No, that wasn't his intent in the slightest. His goal had already been achieved the moment that those cracks had exposed the interior of this machine. His goal was something much less predictable than one might have expected for someone who was considered more, 'battle-oriented'. Supposedly this thing was being piloted by someone within a cockpit. Meaning, someone was actually in this thing, causing all the havoc. If they could handle that person, they could stop all this chaos without even having to wreck this thing any further. So in a sense, he's taking Bowser's approach. Only...Rather than trying to get the pilot to come out inorder to challenge him. Touta was planning on making his way in. From the cracks that were torn within, Touta's black sludge seeps in before turning back into that black mist. From the outside, it honestly just looks like smoke's fuming out from its damaged areas, but at the moment it was much more than that... That mist was going to be attempting to expand throughout the interior of the machine once it made its way inside. Doing all it can to penetrate within it till it finds the cockpit within. At which point if there were any vulnerabilities, vents, crevices, the smallest crack...The pilot would find as its cockpit was beginning to be filled with the black mist in question. Its monitors (if any) being hindered, controls only able to be felt without a sense of sight before Touta's form would slowly appear from the fog. A fist genuinely, and excitedly prepared to properly greet this pilot with a punch sturdy enough to knock him out. If there was no such opening however, well...He'd make one in that moment. For within the interior of the machine, Another geyser would follow suit as it'd attempt to pierce into the cockpit till the moment it opened, at which point...Well, it'd be basically the same as the first idea but with extra steps.
Hibiki Tachibana	...And stay out. If you come crawling back later, I'm not going to let you live it down. Hibiki lets out a slightly strained grunt as sparks shower onto her, and she can look past those eyes focused on her--at what she can only imagine at the pilot within. What are they thinking right now? Just how much do they hate the inheritors of Reiblood's power? Are they set on fighting to the end right now? Apparently so, given what happens next--as her momentary pause and her slowed reaction times leave her unable to prevent herself from getting caught in that crushing grip, where she's immediately subject to the bone-creaking squeezing bearing down on her from all directions. Eyes tightly shut, and her mouth opens up in a soundless scream from the lack of air in her lungs. It'd really be pathetic of her to get taken down by this after she just told Reiblood off. It'd be just as pathetic to go down at all, first thing after going through what she did. And after several ineffectual struggles, she braces her palms against King Joe's own from inside the grip, and she pushes. She pushes, and pushes, and pushes, and pushes further, muscles aching in effort and stress as they fight raw power with raw power. When she's loosened up the hold enough to draw breath again, she hisses in sharply. "I'm not gonna let you...hurt people--whose only crime was getting that bastard's attention...!" Both of her gauntlets double up in size, shift and morph, trading out simple pistons for flywheel-driven pilebunkers. She doesn't need to rear back a punch to have the machinery whirl to life and rear back with pneumatic roars--and then pummel right back into their moorings, the bursts of kinetic force being driven right into King Joe's hands and running down the entire length of the machine's arms. Depending on how reinforced they are against an internal attack, both limbs might just blow apart from the inside.
Angela	Nonon is shot in the chest, blood sprays out of her wound and she stumbles back, foot sliding back. She's tougher than the average Agent for sure. Nonon laughs, eyes wide like a madwoman as she draws out a needle filled with green fluid and stabs it into her neck. Her wounds rapidly start to heal themselves back up and shes pits out a deluge of blood, that pulls back into her before it can get too far from her body. "Come on! COME ON! Rose asked me to help Bikki with this bullshit and that's all you got?! I want to have some fun!! Hit me again! Hit me harder!! You're just a machine but I've been on the sea!! I've served on the Great Lake!" She slides a foot forward, dust kicking up as she twists her body around before snapping back forward, twisting into the punch as dirt and rocks kick up off the ground as her fist closes in. Rose, meanwhile, continues looking after Ru Li!! Because she's worried about the guy! He seemed nice!
Bowser	Someone is ignoring Bowser. Someone won't even respond to Bowser's taunts?! "HEY! HEY YOU BIG PALOOKA! HEY!" Bowser roars up into the sky, nothing. A stray piece of debris bounces off his head, tumbling away. "Run, run, now is the time for running." As the rest of the Airship slowly clatters to the ground behind Bowser, Kammy starts ushering the other minions away from the scene, pushing them away. As Bowser begins to get steamed. Literally. Whatever horrific biology runs Bowser burns hot, steam pouring out from his nostrils, from where his ears might be in great cartoony clouds. "THAT'S IT! I'm tired of you COMING IN HERE. Doing WHATEVER! BLOWING UP MY SPOT! And then IGNORING ME! I'm the KING!" The fact that they aren't even focused on him. He's the big CHEESE. The MAIN DEAL! HE'S THE BIG MAN! "YOU SHOULD HAVE BEGGED ME FOR PERMISSION!" The huge turtle is stomping back and forth now, LITERALLY throwing a tantrum, casting his head back and forth. Until he finds an armored military carrier. And with one mighty arm, twists, hoisting it up over his head with one hand. "THIS IS KOOPA TOWN! AND YOU GO BACK TO TELL THEM WHO RUNS KOOPA TOWN!" Then, a mighty olympic gold medal spin and a HURL.
Ishirou	There is nothing King Joe can do about this onslaught. Flames licked at his armor, melting more of it away. A berserk agent, tearing more and more of it's armor off. Damaged so much that it's legs finally fall off. Hibiki sent her large double fists into the back of the King Joe, tearing off the lower section. Dysnomia's laser burns into its chest, melting away more critical systems, before Bowser sends a military vehicle into it, causing it to fall. Leaving only it's head left. Touta jumps at it, cracking through the glass, and inside is an Alien. However, it's injured, this was a robot after all, and the two tussling had not left the cockpit unmolested. The punch manages to catch him off guard, smashing the pilot through the back and across the ground... King Joe remains still. However, the city around you burns, and sirens can be heard in the distance. People are going to need your help. Lots of people. On the Moon Belial lays there, weak and unable to move. Rejected, he feels, by everyone he's ever tried to bind to. Every connection has turned to ash in his mouth, losing his friend at home... making choices needed to protect his home... He couldn't even bond with a human. Was it him...? Was he broken in some way? 'No, you are strong, too strong...' the Voice of Alien Reiblood speaks. 'Look at you, discarded and thrown away, rejected by every bond... but you don't need them. You need power.'
Dysnomia	Mia stared on the carnage of the King Joe, her eyes narrow as it succumbed to the onslaught. She left it to the others. She'd done plenty, hadn't she? Spreading her wings wide, she took off upward, and upward, and upward, leaving a silver-blue trail behind her, ascending into a point in the sky. And then no more. ... It wasn't her original intention, to chase down Belial. At least, not intentionally. But as she flew up and up, she couldn't help but notice trails of his passing. The fading radiation burns of the laser he was struck with, carried upward in an arc that she rapidly began to realize was extraterrestrial. She followed the arc of it through and out of the upper atmsophere with a deftness that made navigating orbital mechanics into a fine art, like the thoughtless calculations of a human taking a step, or throwing a ball through the air. She chased it through vaccum, her body distending into a long, serpentine silvery-violet cloud, with glowing eyes. Until, eventually, she found a crater on the moon.
Ishirou	Mia was drawn to the energy signs, it wasn't her intention to come here. After all, who is Ultraman Belial? He lay there, face down... but she could see something behind him. She also could feel something LEAVE her. A red orb floats to the figure, as it gains more definition. She could recognize it now, it was Reiblood. Alien Reiblood floats there, hovering over the nearly dead Belial. In fact... at that moment, Belial's crystal stops flashing altogether. 'You rejected me, Dysnomia. Hibiki rejected me... and the rest of the planet's creatures are too weak...' it says, 'But this man... this Ultra has the potential. He wants power, he has a desire... and he will do anything to achieve it.' 'Did you know the capsules were stolen from his home? He sought power on his planet and would do anything for it. He sought strength... it doesn't matter why. For seeking it... he was chased from his home. For seeking a comrade, he was abandoned. For choosing anything other than his own strength, he lies dying...' 'Funny, that only you came. You didn't even come to aid him. But that's fine...' he thinks before the voice finally falls silent. It slips into the near-dead Belial. Reiblood has found it's successor. There is a crackling, as Belial is drawn up to his feet like a puppet. There is a crackle of red energy. The colors of the Ultra invert. Red becomes dominant, but black fills in the missing silver. His eyes... change. They become long and sinister. His hands turn into claws. The crystal on his chest changes... instead of being blue (and sometimes flashing red when he was low on energy) it turns purple. A palpable aura of darkness surrounds him. Greed, anger, jealousy, and desire are palpable around him. His now orange eyes stare at Mia for a moment. She can feel the moment Reiblood tries to take over, but there is a problem. An Ultra is a being of will. He fed a dying Ultra, fed into it's worst instincts... Instead of taking over, it reaches into its own chest... drawing something out of it. "Die," it says to the small piece of Reiblood that remained. The last bit of consciousness it had. His claws smash down on it, crushing the very soul of Alien Reiblood. From its destroyed soul, a large polearm is formed, with what looks like bludgeoning ends on each side. "You are freed from his influence, Dysnomia. It is good that you preserved in your fight against it because then I would have to take it from you," he says, with a calm tone... sinister, but calm.
Dysnomia	"So, that's your choice." Mia kept her distance, witnesses the conflict's rapid beginning and end with her own senses. A being of will...Perhaps they weren't so different after all. "You've claimed it for yourself. Not even a trace of him remains." Nevertheless the aura of malice, of hate, rolled off of the Ultra in ways that Dysnomia could not ignore. "But, I wonder..." The beads of light that served as her eyes met his gaze. "Will you let it change you?" She stared for a moment longer. Then, ascended into the starry expanse.