[IC Board] All the World's a Game - Season II

[Kristia]

Washington D.C - City Streets


Midna actually grinned at the monster coming towards her "Come on baby dragon, I got something for you" she charged her fist with magic and made a powerful jab towards Gaibon. At first nothing happened, but then a circle of black energy surrounded by orange electricity and another hand appeared, but this one looked more intricate than the others as it had more twili symbols and moved with more freedom. The hand then sped towards Gaibon forming a fist doing the same movement as Midna´s.

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C - City Streets

As Gaibon was diving through the smoke and flames towards Midna, Midna had retaliated with her own flashy, yet powerful attack aimed at the flying demon. Unfortunately for the demon, Gaibon had gotten struck by Midna's attack. Of which the result was sending the demon flying into the sky. Seeing that Julius stopped in his tracks as he readied his whip as Gaibon began to fall to the ground. Julius was ready to strike Gaibon once again. Meanwhile Pit was finally recovering from Gaibon's attack as evidenced by him readying Palutena's bow...

[Kristia]

Washington D.C - City Streets


Midna released a sigh as the fist disappeared "See..? that is how you deal with a nuisance" she said between breaths, she then crouched as a skeleton tried to attack her "Oh for the goddesses sake, give me a break" she punched the skeleton´s cranium making a nice crunch. The twili opened her hand and the halberd reappeared ready to be used again. "Now how do I deal with you?" she asked leaning on the weapon as another one of the creatures tried to attack her, she let gravity do its job and sliced it with the bladed part of the halberd.

"You guys can take care of the flying dino? I can cover you from this guys" the former princess yelled as she was back on her second breath and started attacking the skeletons again.

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C - City Streets

Julius and Pit nodded at each other as thanks to there being one more minute left on Palutena's gift of flight, Pit took off flying into the air as Julius cracked his whip up towards Gaibon, with the whip striking Gaibon painfully, the power of the Vampire Killer dealt far more damage to him than any ordinary whip. Getting struck by the whip's power had caused Gaibon to fly higher into the air as Pit readied his bow and fired a few shots from Palutena's bow at Gaibon. As the arrows pierced Gaibon's body, the demon came hurdling down towards the ground.

Upon impacting the ground Pit fired one more arrow down as it pierced Gaibon's body... seemingly killing it...

[Kristia]

Washington D.C - City Streets


Midna was slashing her way through the skeletons and making twilight hands to crush the small groups to keep them away from the others. She was using a great quantity of magic, but her reserves wer higher than the average magician. The former princess let a group get close to her, but they were stopped as they got into a circle of magic, the twili´s hair formed a hand and pointed at eachof them until particles appeared and stormed the unfortunate targets of the magician.

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C - City Streets

As the group continued to fight back, the skeleton army began to slowly retreat and disappear into thin air as they were beginning to become clearly outmatched. However as the Skeleton army slowly vanished another surge of evil energy could be felt in the immediate area as what appears to be a large scythe forms in the air above Gaibon's current dead body, followed by something spoken in some ancient dialect from some unseen force. At that moment a surge of dark energy emerged from the sife, and into the dead body of the flying demon. Seeing this Julius quickly reacted by step back as Gaibon began to stand back up, with it's skin color changing to a blood red.


Once the demon came to a stand once more, a startled Pit quickly took aim with his bow again as the beast flew up in an angle towards the angel. Thankfully and unfortunately the time limit on Palutena's Gift of Flight had been used up and his wings stopped glowing, thus sending him falling to the ground just fast enough to avoid getting struck by the beast. "Oh crap!" Pit cried out as he fell. Though the angel did fire one last shot from Palutena's bow at the beast, of which did some relatively minor damage.

"Oh crap!!!" Pit cried out once more as he noticed how little damage his arrow did as he struck the ground.

Meanwhile Julius looked up, watching the beast take flight but also taking notice of the scythe that was still floating in the air above where Gaibon's dead body once was.

[Kristia]

Washington D.C - City Streets


Midna managed to deal quite a good cover for the other two as the skeletons finally ran away, but then the scythe of immense dark energy appeared giving the monster even more power ("Seriously? where is logic in here?") she thought and then noticed that Pit´s arrow did almost minimal damage "Great, now what? do we focus on the scythe?" she asked both herself and the others while running towards Pit "There must be a weak point and surely it is the scythe, Julius!" she spoke towards the vampire hunter

"Looks like you know about this guy, what do you suggest we do?" she asked while picking up the angel boy.

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C - City Streets

As Pit landed he was quickly helped back to his feet thanks to Midna and readied his bow as Gaibon was now focused on the young angel. Pit simply nodded thanks to Midna before taking off running, occasionally strafing to avoid getting struck by Gaibon. Thankfully due to Pit's speed on the ground he managed to run circles around Gaibon, both figuritively and literally while taking pot shots at the demon with his bow. All the while Julius just stood in place as he seemed focused on the scythe... obviously recognizing that as well. Julius practically scowled upon realizing who the scythe belonged to.

"Death's Scythe... he must surely be behind this... I can now feel it in my gut..." Julius said to himself as he quickly shifted his attention to Midna who was asking about the scythe. "That scythe belongs to Death himself! He must be watching over this location and is supplying that beast with power. Death himself might be immortal, but his scythe isn't. So your hunch is correct. Destroy the scythe and his power will fade over this region." Julius replied as he sighed, obviously getting already exhausted from the battle so far despite not having done that much.

[Kristia]

Washington D.C - City Streets


"Then let´s bend that blade and see if it breaks" Midna spoke making spears from the same particles of twilight, but some of them had holes and collapsed showing the exhaustion of their creator. ("Just focus on preparing the trap, you got a good window of oportunity") she thought aiming to the scythe and with the movement of her arms, she launched the six spears that did stood firm towards Gaibon, as the flew, you could see thin black lines.

"I don´t know how long they will hold, but if he can´t move, then you got a chance to break that scythe" the twili said as the spears flew towards Gaibon´s sides to both pierce him to a wall and keep him on it if the spears did get to their target.

[SUSTIC]

Washington D.C - City Streets

As the spears landed in hit their marks, the beast Gaibon found himself bound to a wall as Julius called out. "That's quite smart of you! Pin down the beast to keep him distracted while we deal with the source of its power." Called out the Vampire Hunter as he noticed Pit readying another arrow for Gaibon. Seeing this Julius yelled out to Pit. "Pit don't focus on the demon! Focus on the scythe! It's the current scource of the beasts power!"

Upon hearing that Pit stopped aiming at Gaibon and turned towards the scythe. Seeing the scythe floating in the air Pit took aim and quickly fired a few light arrows that began to speed up faster and faster before striking the scythe. With each strike of the scythe, Gaibon let out a loud roar of pain.



Chris and Claire's Living Quarters - Prometheus Labs - London

As Six turned his head just enough to see Chris, he could make out that Chris had a rather angered and shocked expression after finally registering what Claire had announced. Chris was also twitching slightly as he stood up, taking a few steps towards Six.

"Six... I know you're a Spartan and all... but I suggest you run... like now." Claire said obviously aware of what Chris was wanting to do... and judging by the look on Chris's face, it was easy to tell. It looked like Chris was ready to lunge and beat the ever loving shit out of Six.



Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London | 1:00 PM

"Yeah... Hey you want to do something else and see if things die down a bit?" Chung replied as he began thinking of possible things to do....

[Kristia]

Washington D.C - City Streets


The beast was already angry before feeling the pain of the scythe being damaged, which made things difficult for the twili´s trap to stay. Now it was pissed and mad struggling with the bindings. "Oh now you are angry, let´s see if you like this" muttered Midna forcing the spears to get deeper into the wall, thus strengthening the black ropes on Gaibon. The former princess was sweating as her magic reserves were getting thinner and thinner, but there was a smile of excitement coming from the sorceress. She was enjoying the battle.

[WriggleRid3r]

Lu and Ciel's Apartment | Barcelona, Spain

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"I uh-" Kongou stuttered at how rude the girl reacted towards her, then got her act together. In her fleet, the girls obeyed their admiral very faithfully, one way or another. Respect and love forms a healthy master-servant relationship that can be taken to a further level, thought Kongou. "You know, 提督 (Teitoku) would not have hit me and break my back for what he did! You're a really bad master!"

"And just to answer your question!" Kongou stood straight proudly after proclaiming her "Teitoku"'s love. "Born in England and raised in Japan, the name ship of the super dreadnoughts Kongou-class is I, KONGOU!"

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Sana's Studio | Manhattan, NY

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"Great. I'll prepare a room for you." Thankfully the mechanic by the name of Gaige accepted my request. I won't be alone now.

"That sounds lovely, lass. I dun't even have a place to stay, ya see. Thenk for the offer." Demoman grinned contently before he realized that his best friend was nowhere to be seen. He was following the crowd the last time he checked... where the bloody hell is he?

[Kristia]

Sana's Studio | Manhattan, NY


"There is always good in having some company" Gaige spoke with a smile, she was already thinking on how to deal with her job "Maybe I could make it to the shop way faster now too" she said to herself "Or I could make Deathtrap take me there while flying" she pictured herself and her robot leaping through one of the Studio´s windows "Quite dramatic, but getting the job done in both effectiveness and awesomeness"

[S121]

(@Kristia: Just a heads up, Mara told the plan to John before, but this still fits, due to Mara still giving him more new information.)
Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan

"Right. Then we should go now.", John said to Mara, remembering the plan that Mara had explained to him earlier.

Even though John didn't have all the details of the plan, he mostly understood what Renamon and Nera had planned, and although he was still a little surprised that they knew about Yukari's madness already and had already formulated a plan, he greatly appreciated their help. After speaking, John was already passing through the Corridor of Darkness, although with some caution, due to their last encounter with The Organization.



Firestorm Citadel

"Right. Let's go.", Takoizu said as she looked over to the Higher Power.



Santa Cruz

Isaac landed feet first on the ground with a soft thud after he deactivated his thrusters. After that, Isaac quickly ran over to Malthael until he was about 20 feet away, suddenly stopping when he remembered what happened back on The Devourer's ship four months ago. Simply being near Malthael was extremely dangerous, due to his aura being capable of draining the life from mortals. With that in mind, Isaac decided to use his Kinesis Module instead. Without waiting to see if Koishi and Shadow had caught up, Isaac raised his left hand towards Malthael, gravitationally tethered onto a portion of his armor, and attempted to shake him awake, all while calling out to him.

"Hey! Wake up!", Isaac shouted at Malthael, hoping to wake the Angel of Death up.



Chris and Claire's Living Quarters - Prometheus Labs - London

Six's small smile disappeared as he realized that his joke had a hint of truth to it. From what he could see, Chris's face was ever-so-slightly red with a look of dumbfounded rage on it, and even worse, Chris really was walking towards Six. Just as Claire had said, Six could run, but with his destroyed armor he would not get far. Six straightened his posture in a mere 38 milliseconds in anticipation for a fight, but he also realized that with Claire in the room, there was a risk of her getting caught in the crossfire. Just then, an idea came to Six's mind that would allow Chris time to cool off, all while preventing any damage to The Labs.

"Let's resolve this in the 'Sim Room'. You can chase me around and shoot at me all you want in there.", Six suddenly said to Chris, hoping to temporarily quell his anger.



Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London | 1:00 PM

"Sure.", Dr. Neuman said as he looked over to Chung and very lightly shrugged.



Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location)

Upon hearing Vala's explanation, the red SPARTAN's confusion was quickly dispelled. To him, Vala's reasoning was understandable. After all, this woman probably had no idea who's side The Labs was on, and if anything, she was possibly a Character to boot, meaning that she would know to fear organizations similar to ONI. With that in mind, the red SPARTAN had one more question to ask, especially now that he had a chance to get a good look at her. From what he could see, this woman was rather tall to be a SPARTAN from The Labs, and not only that, her armor looked like rather old tech, albeit with a few modifications.

"You don't seem to be from 'The Labs', and your armor looks like one of the older models... Are you a Character?", the SPARTAN asked.



Lima Tuberculosis Hospital - Lima, Ohio

From what Reaper could tell from speaking to this man for a mere ten seconds, he already knew that this was going to be a... rocky partnership. If Reaper didn't know it, it was almost as if Hazama was trying to annoy him, based on what he said about his behavior and about how Hazama would carry out orders. To be honest, Reaper cared little about how Hazama thought about him, especially since disrespect was relatively normal in his line of work, but what he did not like was Hazama's methodology on carrying out orders. Sure, perhaps Hazama used a similar approach to Reaper when it came to carrying out orders, but he knew that such behavior could prove to be problematic in the future, so he decided to impart one piece of advice to Hazama.

"As long as you don't compromise the mission or my plans, I don't care how you get the job done.", Reaper said in a rather nonchalant, yet cold tone. He then paused for a moment before looking at the fallen hero's corpse and turning his gaze back over to Hazama.

"First order? We take his body back to base for processing.", Reaper said as he pointed at the body. After that, Reaper contacted all members of his team and told them to regroup in the center of the courtyard for extraction.

[Kristia]

Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan


Mara was mentally surprised by the acceptance of the spartan, she expected him to say something about finishing his current task or saving another world level situation ("At least he got the common sense of knowing the people too") she thought with ease on her mind while following. The froslass then sighed "Let´s hope we don´t find any.. nuisances on the ride, we are like magnets to them, but I guess it would be good since the the furred ones are still dealing with your daughter´s problematic friend, but they will surely get back soon to Yukari´s home."

Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location)


"Hm.. that is a good question that I can´t answer that easily, what do you think Melissa?" Vala asked her AI about it. The electronic woman took some moments to think about how to answer the question, since it was quite hard to say the exact thing "It is complicated, when the Nassau was teleported by the forerunner artifact, it was sent back in time to Earth, and there is next to nothing in videogame lore about it, just that the colony was sent back in time." she explained

"But you can imagine how humanity is, no matter if there was just a line of text, we develop our souls and grow, thus why things like rampancy can be solved or how a 13 year old person can perform the spartan II augmentation" Melissa spoke naturally earning a widening of eyes of the blonde "I didn´t know we could be so open about our answers, you know?"

The AI simply shrugged saying "We already got enough stuff for martial court, I don´t think spilling some truth would cause more problems, even more, you should be glad to be on the shadows for so long, the ONI would have already traced you, thus also answering why there could be no ONI agents around."