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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 17:10:01 GMT
Bacchus backed up, as a inky cloud sprouted from his back and slid behind Pegasus, a second Bacchus jumped up from it, bringing his scythe up and planting it in Pegasus's head from behind while he was focused on attacking the real Bacchus.
"..Thanks." Erinye said, looking around and spotting Toros. Perhaps just to be a distraction, she opened fire on his back while Theseus landed roughly with his head against the wall
Theseus raised his arm up again, firing a lazer at Toros' chest. The Behemoth was now being attacked from both behind and in front.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 17:22:02 GMT
Pegasus collapsed on his knees as Izanami pulled her sword out of the Behemoth's stomach as the father and daughter were having a bonding session by tackling the mutant Neonyte as she chopped the cyborg Neonyte's torso off to finish the job before he vanished into smoke.
The laser plus the bullets from Erinye caused the giant to land on his back, din't help that he had one arm left as Dietz pulled out a grenade and tossed it into Toros's mouth.
Toros then exploded into pink energy dust when the grenade went off and as the smoke cleared, the old Royal Guard was now out of their way.
"...Talk about facing the ghosts of your own past." Hercule muttered, holding onto his sword.
The musical noise continued as the bay door opened and Izanami got first on the platform, with Diana probably already on that platform by deciding to skip the battle.
"Let's get a move on!" Izanami declared.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 18:01:35 GMT
Everyone who wasn't Diana or Erinye made their way onto the platform.
Erinye reloaded her gun, staring at it.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Theseus asked her.
"I said I was fine." Was Erinye's somewhat snappy response.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 18:19:05 GMT
"Can we save the father and daughter talk till after we make sure the orb doesn't get taken, please?" Dietz asked.
The platform went down and arrived at the first floor.
The Royal Guard got out immediately and went to the right towards the hangar bay where the music was coming from.
As Hercule tried approaching the metal bay door, it did not open.
Dietz placed his hand on a scanner next to the door but the door din't budge.
"Ah, what the hell, did she somehow lock us from our own ship!?" Dietz asked.
"I'll get us inside." Hercule said, as he clenched his fists.
He swinged his fist backwards and slammed it against the door, it collapsed in two like a house of matches as he ran inside, followed up by everyone else.
They found Nakiri, standing there playing her flute with one foot placed on the orb before she stopped and opened her harsh blue eyes at the group.
"...Took you long enough. Your defense system sucks, should probably get a new one." Nakiri snarked.
"Oh, how very funny, you sneak into our ship like a rat and now you have the gal to make jokes!?" Hercule asked, his sword pointed at Nakiri's head.
"...Yes." Nakiri said truthfully.
She then turned her attention to her old friend, Izanami.
"...Well, isn't this just grand, seeing each other in a place like this, never thought I'd see you again...ever since you left and din't bother to even look back." Nakiri said.
"...Nakiri." Izanami said, her voice sounding nervous despite the tough look she had as she looked her former teammate in the eyes.
"Oh, so you haven't forgotten my name. I feel so fucking flattered." Nakiri said, the anger in her voice was clear as day.
She placed her other foot forward, stomping the floor.
"Well, aren't you gonna get me properly introduced to your new friends? We've both known each other since we were young, after all, or did you decide to bury the entire past behind you including me in the process?" Nakiri asked, clenching her hand into a fist.
Izanami shook her head.
"No, that is not-"
"Like I give any damn about you two being childhood friends or lovers or whatever the fuck you two had in the past, get away from that orb and get out of our ship before I will make so many holes in your body, toss your ass through the airlock and let your psycho buddies pick up your reanimated carcass cause that's what you bastards would deserve!" Dietz yelled, pointing his laser gun at Nakiri with his hands shaking in rage.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 18:43:32 GMT
Diana looked at Dietz with a blatantly concerned expression.
"I can confirm, we really don't care about that." Theseus said, also pointing his weapon at Nakiri. "But if it makes you feel better, she has said a lot about you. Now, I recommend you leave that Orb alone and go somewhere else before something happens that you're going to regret."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 19:08:44 GMT
Nakiri's eyes narrowed at Theseus.
"You said the same thing on that scarab planet and you think it's gonna work now? You think your threats scare me? You think I'm gonna run away because you are big, strong and scary and that I'm a fragile little girl who is gonna turn and run on her heels like always when she get's put up against monsters? No thank you, I'm done that shit. I'm taking this stupid orb and we're gonna get the rest so we can kill this Azrael monster and any other things in this Multiverse that are waiting to come out of hiding and I will see to it that we deal with Aku too." Nakiri said.
"...I thought you and Aku are part of the same group and had the same objective." Nephthys said.
"We may be in the same team, but doesn't mean I trust him, he is the son of the bitch who crushed a entire land with a shooting star before I was born and then the Omnipotent of Imagination had to recreate it into a giant mountain, all that guy monologues about is death and his mother and is clearly planning something, I saw him on Plague when you guys dealt with that monster worm. I, don't, like him." Nakiri said.
"Well, we can agree on that, but we want to take care of him and Azrael too, maybe we could help each other regarding Aku." Hercule suggested.
"You think I'm dumb to trust you guys when you are the ones after us and trying to lock us up or kill us? No dice, 'man'. You guys are deluding yourselves if you think every Universe will start loving you guys by taking down a small part of a fallen group, no one even knew that we existed or cared about us till we made it to the headlines after what happened to F11, you would likely get medals from your queen for that shit but that's not gonna change the ways of millions of Neonytes out there who may still think like the Cromwells and I've seen enough of your pirates to know that Neonytes will never stop their shit and no handshakes between your queen and some universe leaders will change that, you guys aren't the norms of your race, you are the minority at best." Nakiri said.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 19:23:48 GMT
"Well, those neonytes were all outcasted from regular neonyte society for a reason." Bacchus frowned. "For very good reasons. If you're going to make a judgement about us at least use the large amount of neonytes that actually have jobs or are in the military instead of a group of nutjobs we're hunting down as well."
"Besides, you think every change in every culture came out at once with a majority? It always starts with a minority!" Diana said, "Everything's going to turn itself around eventually, and if you don't want to believe that then that's your decision."
Erinye simply stood there with her hands at her side. "...Apparently, you're the one who wants us gone the most. Is there any reason for that?"
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 19:55:01 GMT
"...You want to know why? Then let me show you." Nakiri said.
Nakiri took her feet off the orb as she threw herself in the air, playing the flute very fast as it was glowing with pink energy and the area around the Royal Guard started to distort again and the scenery was changing according to Nakiri's own imagination.
"Christ, not again!" Dietz yelled, placing his hands on his ears.
The group...was now suddenly standing on solid ground made out of rock, they appeared to be on a large mountain that was big enough for a entire village of people to fit here, it was night outside. There were other mountains around but this was one bigger than the rest.
"...Sugoi Yama." Izanami said.
And suddenly, a burning house appeared right behind the Royal Guard as they turned around to see it, Nakiri's voice was heard but it was unclear from which direction it was coming from.
"I was a little girl when this happened, one of those beasts lost control and began setting everything on fire, I woke up in the middle of the night and got out of the house before I could of died and saw the thing with my own eyes, my parents saved me but paid with their own lives, from that moment, I was alone and had to fend for myself, that beast is the reason why I am here." Nakiri said.
And something very large appeared above them, the beast that Nakiri was talking about. A blue armored rhinoceros beetle, with six of its seven tails resembling green insect wings, along with an actual seventh tail, all growing from the end of its abdomen, orange wings, it's eyes seem to be covered by a helmet-like skull, from inside of which, an orange glow can be seen. It also has spike protrusions on its shoulders and a row of slits on each shoulder, and six legs, three on each side.
"The seventh tailed monster with wings. That thing ruined my life and had to face all sorts of ordeals and creatures to survive, I hate beasts of all kinds, the guardians took it upon themselves to tame these beasts like they are a bunch of puppies! Everyone loves to give them excuses that they are mindless, do not have control over themselves or that they don't know the difference between right and wrong, like that even matters. I want to use the orbs to make these things go away, the dead can sleep, I'm not so gung-ho about waking them up like the rest of my crew is, as long as all beasts die, that's what will make me happy." Nakiri said.
"But what does that have to do with us?" Hercule asked, backing away from the beetle monster.
"Some of your people and other aliens represent different kinds of beasts. Beasts who can think, beasts who have identities and goals, who can lie and justify themselves, who can use logic against others, those beasts are even more terrifying and dangerous than normal simple-minded beasts who all care about is eating and sleeping. Beasts like Salazar and his father, Morishima, the Kheogs, Morphers, that Mordiggian thing, your pirates and whatever this Azrael thing is, they are monsters who have the power over the weak ones who can't defend themselves and can only run and fight for another day." Nakiri said.
"...Some humans are monsters too, Nakiri. The people from F are proof of that." Izanami frowned.
"You're right and I hate those guys for treating me like I was a toy attached to strings and make me dance to their own will, even that bitch who made us think that we had a purpose to the organization. But humans can't rip souls out of people's bodies, suck energy out of people or alter reality to their own liking, now do they? You guys can call me a hypocrite and you may be right, but I don't care, I've trained all my life to kill anything that threatens my life and I won't stand aside and let you jerks take away the only family I have left now, I won't be alone again!" Nakiri yelled.
And then, the winged beast opened it's mouth and shot a wave of fire at the Royal Guard.
Izanami used her shield to block the fire while Hercule rolled out of the fire's way.
Nephthys shot two grey beams that cut through two of the beetle's tails while Dietz shot laser beams at the beast's armored chest.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 20:03:41 GMT
Erinye didn't make any movements. "...Is that how you view life?" She asked, as Theseus opened up both of his hands, ignoring the winged beast and firing at Nakiri. "As something that can harm you? Do you want to remove Omnipotents as well? Or are they different because they physically resemble you?"
"Less Monolouging, more helping!" Diana called out, as she and Bacchus both jumped out of the way of the beetle creature, Diana focused her aura of death, and it pushed itself directly into the beetle, while several Bacchus's appeared, throwing themselves into the air and hacking away at the beetle's wings in a attempt to limit mobility.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 20:28:30 GMT
Nakiri was nowhere in sight so Theseus just shot at the sky. Strangely enough, his lasers made cracks on the sky, presumably because this area is not real, just a fabrication of Nakiri's imagination of how she views the place.
"Omnipotents are neccessary in every Universe, without them, Epilogue wouldn't of been made and we wouldn't even be here right now, I know there are bad Omnis out there, Morgue and that Kacaj dumbass are proof of that, I would wish for the bad Omnis to disappear, not all of them, Izanami's own sister is a Omnipotent and I'm not gonna wish her dead. You don't get to judge me for how I live my own life, when you don't have the spine to talk to your dad about him throwing his life away to kill that rich self-spoiled prick wearing those stupid rags, worry about your own problems than me." Nakiri said.
The tailed beast used it's remaining tails to stab through the Bacchus' who were attacking it as it's wings got shredded slightly and a few pieces of it's armor started falling from Diana's aura.
Nephthys continued shooting beams to cut through the tails as Hercule jumped up till he reached the beast's head and brought his large sword down, cutting the beast in half, splitting it in two.
The two halves of the beetle remained there...and suddenly, one half split into less larger beetle beasts and so did the other half, now there were four beetle beasts, except not as large as the first one was.
"You gotta be shitting me!" Hercule said.
The beetles started to multiply into dozens as two of them suddenly started to change into two of the pirates, the ones that Bacchus and Theseus hated the most, Dionysus and Cupid, the person Nakiri described just now who landed from the air and the two split into four of themselves each as they tackled Bacchus and Theseus.
The rest of the now smaller beetle beasts began spreading to the rest of the Royal while one beetle beast fell to pieces and turned into the black widows that poisoned Dietz as they landed on the ground and started marching towards him, who immediately set his gun on rapid fire and shot through them.
"FUCK THESE THINGS, FUCK THESE THINGS, FUCK THEM TO HELL!" Dietz yelled, getting as far away from those spiders as he could.
Some beetles started wrapping their tails around Diana's limbs and Nephthys's staff, trying to pull it out of her grasp.
Izanami slashed some of them in half and more beetles were breathing fire on Hercule who was swinging his sword in the air and swatted one beetle in the air as it got into his face.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 20:39:27 GMT
"Low blow." Erinye commented, "Are you trying to make us angry?"
As she asked that, Theseus quirked his single brow, looking up at the cracks he made in the sky. He Blasted one of the Cupids and rocketed himself up into the air, literally, firing laser after laser at the 'sky' above them.
Bacchus sliced one of the Dionysus's in half, pressing a button on the scythe and blasting the other one, as well as the remaining Cupid, with a beam of solid light.
When the beetles tails wrapped themselves around Diana, they rotted off instantly. With a agitated expression she brought her foot up and down, stepping on them and then stabbing a couple with her lance.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 20:55:39 GMT
More cracks appeared on the sky as Theseus kept blasting it but nothing else happened as more Cupid's spawned and grabbed him by his legs and tried to pull him down.
Even more Dionysus's started to spawn and began to swarm Bacchus.
Nephthys took her staff back and blasted the beetles away before bubbling herself into a sphere as the beetles breathed fire on her.
Hercule cut more beetles but that din't do much good as they kept spawning but looked at the cracked sky and raised an eyebrow as he tried something and stabbed the ground itself, cracking it.
"...When we attack the environment, it keeps cracking." Hercule noted.
"This area is not real, it's Nakiri's imagination at play here, killing these things won't break us out, we need to destroy the whole place and break Nakiri's concentration!" Izanami said, as she sliced three beetles with her sword.
Hercule nodded as he was raised his fists that started to glow red, about to deliver some damage.
And rotting hands that burst out of the ground in a typical zombie like fashion grabbed Hercule's legs as Tapio, Genesis and Pegasus's heads poked out of the ground, growling at Hercule as they looked like zombies too.
Hercule gasped as he dropped his sword and tried to use his strength to pry them off himself.
As Dietz blasted through more spiders, a zombie Atlas rised from the ground and wrapped his arms around Dietz who began panicking as he was about to bite him in the neck.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 21:05:29 GMT
Theseus's leg rockets only intensified, burning up the many Cupid's that attempted to hold him as he kept firing at the sky above them. Creating more and more cracks at the top.
Bacchus, having heard Izanami, sliced away at the Dionysus's swarming him, a ink cloud sprouted from behind him; with many Scythe's flying out of it, spinning in circular motions as they cut up the ground beneath them. Actively avoiding any actual or imaginary creatures and just attacking the landscape.
Diana turned around and fired a blast from her Lance, shooting the zombified Atlas through the side of his head before he could bite Dietz.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2020 21:29:53 GMT
Atlas collapsed on Dietz who tossed the corpse off him and cringed before looking to Diana.
"Thanks!" Dietz said.
Hercule punched zombie Tapio's head as the zombies began crawling on him till Izanami came up to him and chopped them to pieces with her sword.
He picked up his sword and nodded at her as he brought down his fist and punched the ground so hard it cracked.
Nephthys blasted away every creature before shooting at the sky, helping Theseus crack the sky even more.
Hercule raised his sword and stabbed the ground as it broke into glass shards.
With everyone focusing their attacks on the landscape, it could barely maintain any control as the place gave in and everything shattered into none-existent glass and the Royal Guard was back in the hangar bay, looking the way as it was before they were brought into the place.
Hercule looked around for Nakiri before he turned his back as she lunged at him, holding the pink glowing knife enchanted with Imagination and the flute in her other hand.
He reacted quickly as he blocked the knife and send it flying out of her hand and slashed at her flute before Nakiri kicked him in the stomach and distanced herself from the group, holding her flute with her two hands...before it broke into two as she looked down to give it a annoyed look.
"Enough with the music and the mambo jambo, now fight us like your life depends on it!" Hercule said, challenging the assassin.
Nakiri looked at Hercule.
"...You said it, not me." Nakiri said, placing her hand on her knife that was glowing grey.
She vanished from their eyes and appeared in front of Hercule, uppercutting him in the chin and disappeared.
Nakiri appeared in front of Bacchus and Nephthys, slapping both of them in their faces and teleported again.
In front of Dietz she appeared next, grabbing him by his shoulders and kneed him in the baby maker before she disappeared again.
"S-SHIT! Oh, when I catch that bitch, I'll rip her long hair out and make her choke on it by shoving it into her mouth!" Dietz yelled, his voice sounding slightly high-pitched as he covered his sensitive spot while gritting his teeth.
Nakiri appeared in the air, spinning wildly as she threw knives with bomb tags attached to them, landing on a few spots close to the Neonytes, the knives exploded immediately, knocking them on the ground with smoke coming out of their backs or got sent flying into the wall when the knives exploded in front of their faces.
Nephthys and Izanami got knocked back by the explosions and collapsed on their backs.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2020 21:48:12 GMT
Erinye got smacked against a wall, while Diana and Theseus rolled along the floor and Bacchus simply fell onto his back.
Theseus got up instantly; firing lasers at Nakiri, while Diana stayed down; concentrating her aura, and sending a big burst of it Nakiri's way, several strands of her hair came loose as some skin fell off, a couple of her knives began to rust as well.
Bacchus sank into a cloud of ink that appeared beneath him, turning completely invisible, while Erinye simply pulled out her gun and waited for a good shot.
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