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Post by raptorman on Feb 7, 2010 21:13:15 GMT -5
Power Core
The High Inquisitor's both jerked as the blades dug into their backs. Though the wounds were mortal, founder and human anatomy was not identical, that did mean something. It gave time, even if only half a second for the High Inquisitor to launch a final attack.
For Star and quicksilver had forgotten something, that the primary weapon of the founders was not the body but the mind. As the Inquisitor felt his life slipping away he pushed with a massive effort and a surge of psionic power flowed from him into all the three star's present.
This was not like Aloraster's pulse that had disabled star before. It was less powerful but it was designed to shred the brain rather than shut it down. Then the Inquisitor collapsed dead and the white blood that leaked from his wounds stopped flowing.
Cluster Linkage 1
Omnius had not stopped firing however and the resulting torrent of rapid fire plasma blasts would slam into master zero as he emerged from the cloud of dust. Omnius too was capable of planning and a concept began to form in it's mind. Omnius began to while still hammer Master Zero with enough fire to cause serious damage began to walk steadily back towards the far wall.
Cluster Linkage 2
"I can escape this vessel friend. My advice to you is to do the same when you are finished. This vessel won't long outlive it's master if he falls." The Massive abomination touched a rotted tentacle to his couch controls and it began to quickly power it's way away from the linkage center. It was heading in the direction of the escape pods. Though how it would fit in would be a different story.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 7, 2010 22:17:36 GMT -5
Power Core
But Star was prepared for such an outburst, and immediately, both clones vanished from his blades as Star retreated from the room entirely, exiting into the vastness of space until she sensed the energy dissipate before teleporting back in.
She went over to the High Inquisitor and crouched down next to his corpse. "Fool me once, shame on you," she told him. "Fool me twice, shame on me." She stood and motioned to Quicksilver. "Come on, let's blow this place to pieces and catch up with the others."
Cluster Linkage 1
But Master Zero wasn't running blind, either. He was swerving back and forth to evade the incoming blasts and swatting away with his sword the ones he couldn't, and Omnius moving backwards wouldn't buy him much time, given that even if it were capable of high-speed movement, backwards movement was inevitably significantly slower than forward movement.
Cluster Linkage 2
Karasawa smirked at the warning as the being left. Of course, the alien's new body would by necessity have to be human in form, at least for the duration of its employment with SigmaCorp. After all, it would need to blend in with the rest so it wouldn't freak anyone out. For now, all that was left was to destroy the cluster ...
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Post by raptorman on Feb 7, 2010 22:40:39 GMT -5
Cluster Linkage 1
"Another day purifier. I look forward to the next encounter. Come visit synchrony some time. It would be interesting. Bring your friends too." As Omnius was speaking it was continuing to back away from master zero. Then it reached the wall of the chamber. Omnius then stopped it's retreat and a spindly antenna rose from the central core.
"Farewell, Tell your maker that I did survive that battle. If he is still alive, time never seemed to take a toll." Then a massive data-pulse erupted from Omnius as the sword came down and sliced through it's shell. The Data Sped down towards earth. What would come from it was unknown.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 7, 2010 23:01:31 GMT -5
Cluster Linkage 1
"Don't run away from me, you coward!" Master Zero shouted, but his cleave came down a moment too late, splitting the shell and the wall behind it in the process. He scowled, but turned away with a scoff. "Yeah, another day. And I'll kick your ass then, too." He then turned his attention to his own control cluster ...
Outside Main Room
Karasawa turned away from the door ahead of him to see the other three approaching. "Ah, there you all are. It's good to see everyone got through without any trouble. Shall we knock first?"
"Oooh, oooh, me, me!" Star shot her hand up into the air and bolted to the front of the door. "This is my favorite part!" she practically squealed before drawing her fist back. She took a deep breath, then shouted, "KNOCK KNOCK!" as she brought her fist around and smashed the alien door clear out of its sockets.
Inside, power would be failing all over the grid as systems crashed and controls were already unresponsive. The rumbling of the engines were already a poor sputtering as the mothership came to a halt.
Right before Master Zero followed the rest in, he turned to the side and glanced out the viewport and smirked. A massive ship of incredible length had just dropped out of warpspace and already countless swarms of ships were coming out of it like a metallic haze as all weapons opened fire on the Founder fleet. He turned back to the others and followed them on in.
The ship had lost control, lost power and lost her elite guard. The mere four that were responsible were now standing before her master, and outside, the flagship of Eden was getting the drop on the fleet that moments before had believed they held the advantage.
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Post by raptorman on Feb 7, 2010 23:22:15 GMT -5
Aloraster's Chamber
The Room that the group had walked into was vast and nearly completely bare. In fact it seemed impossible to believe anything lived in it. There was nothing to show that anything did live there in fact. In the center of the cavernous chamber though there was a circle or something that appeared to be one. A single circle of silver etched into the surface.
As the Group entered it seemed that the room was dead for a minute before a presence began to truly stir. A faint silver haze appeared in the center of the room and within that haze an unearthly form slowly began to to take shape. The Haze of light blocked a true view of what was forming within but the process occurred rather rapidly and so there was not much time to see what was going on.
The Mist then faded suddenly and in it's place stood a figure. It looked sort of like a man but only in that it had two arms and two legs. It was a figure made from shining silver and it glowed with a strange light that seemed to sap at the energy of those who had entered the room. Wings of crackling silver energy spread from it's back and it's face was impossible to see behind the glow. There was a hint of something far more terrible lying behind this form that it had assumed but what that might be was uncertain. Though the voice that spoke was the same as it had been before it seemed to be more full and yet a slight tint of something else came through as well, perhaps unease.
"I SEE YOU!"
"SO YOU HAVE COME, I SAW YOU COMING. I MUST SAY THAT THIS IS NOT AS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO. YOU DID SOMETHING UNEXPECTED. IN RETURN YOU WILL STILL DIE."
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 7, 2010 23:32:40 GMT -5
Several members of the group chuckled and Master Zero reached over and nudged Karasawa. "You hear that in his voice?" he asked.
Quicksilver was grinning like a lark. "The boy's scared shitless!"
As they strode on in closer, Star tilted her head to the side. "Don't suppose you're smart enough yet to surrender?" she asked as she slipped the plug to the device into her ear.
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Post by raptorman on Feb 7, 2010 23:50:34 GMT -5
Aloraster raised a radiantly glowing hand and before it thousands of shards of some sort appeared. There was not following gesture, nor even a hint that an attack was coming. One second the shards simply were there. The next they were flying towards those near the door with a speed that would be nearly impossible for even them to dodge.
Aloraster's form rose from the ground to hover several feet above it even as the shards sped towards the group. No details could be seen of him as his aura of silver made his features indistinct. "YOU THINK THAT YOU HAVE WON PLANETBOUND? YOU ARE A FOOL. I AM ALORASTER DREADLORD OF THE VOID, CONSUMER OF THE WORLDS, LORD OF THE FOUNDERS. LOOK UPON ME OH YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 10, 2010 12:06:42 GMT -5
Star and Quicksilver threw their arms wide. Dodging was one thing, but blocking was quite another. Their barriers sprung into existence to intercept the shards.
"Introduction time, huh?" Star asked. "Alright, I'll go first! Star Peacefire, Third-Degree Black Belt and Chosen One of Heaven!"
"Quicksilver," her Edenite counterpart provided smoothly. "Class S Purifier Unit of Eden and the fastest, most beautiful woman in the universe."
"Master Zero," her partner went next as he drew his saber. "Class S Purifier Unit of Eden and swordsman without superior."
Not to be outdone, Karasawa pulled his coat off and tossed it aside with abandon. "Dante Karasawa, CEO of SigmaCorp Enterprises and the most powerful criminal kingpin on the planet."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 10, 2010 12:25:52 GMT -5
"YOU," There was more malice in Aloraster's grand voice now. His hand came up to point towards Star and then slowly moved to indicate towards the others as well "YOU HAVE CHALLENGED MY POWER, FOR THAT THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS, NOW OR FOREVER."
Aloraster had not existed for millions of years without intelligence and he was not a fool despite some opinions to the contrary. His voice echoed out again and the room was engulfed in a wave of silver light. "YOU WHO COME BEFORE ME, NOW. YOU WHO CHALLENGE ME, AS YOU SAY HERE, BRING IT ON."
Aloraster simply crossed his glowing arms and his glowing wings spread wide behind him as he hovered 10 feet above the floor and waited. Or at least seemed to be waiting. For there was more to him than what could be seen.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 10, 2010 14:16:33 GMT -5
The pink-haired girl drew back as she tilted her head and raised one eyebrow. "Dude," she told him flatly, "that was just corny."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 10, 2010 14:33:10 GMT -5
WAS IT? OR ARE YOU AFRAID CHOSEN OF HEAVEN? AFRAID THAT YOU ARE NOT SO HIGH AND MIGHTY, AFRAID THAT IN YOUR HEART YOU ARE NOTHING BUT DUST ON THE WIND. FOR YOU SHALL BECOME DUST WHEN I AM FINISHED WITH YOU, DUST AND ASHES.
The Glowing being retorted as it hovered above them, arms still crossed in a posture of arrogance.
"IF YOU ARE SO MIGHTY 'CHOSEN ONE'" Aloraster spoke the last part with scorn. "THEN PROVE IT AND FIGHT"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 10, 2010 14:41:31 GMT -5
"Oh, sure, I'll fight," Star agreed coolly. "But you plainly want me to charge head-on, so why would I? The longer you have to hold on in preparation, the less you can do otherwise. Besides, there's four of us here, three of which you can't even track besides visually, and I can mask my energy, as well. So really, you won't know when we've actually moved. Heck, maybe we already have."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 10, 2010 14:49:56 GMT -5
"THERE ARE WAYS OF KNOWING, THINGS YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. FOR YOU ARE NOT ME."
Aloraster didn't even move but suddenly every member of the four would find themselves lifted up into the air by an almost unimaginably powerful psionic force. Aloraster chuckled. Or at least as much as a figure of silver energy could really chuckle. Then the grips began to tighten squeezing the life out of those he was gripping.
"I OFFERED YOU THE CHANCE OF THE FIRST MOVE TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE AND MAKE THIS FUN. YOU ARE MAKING THIS LESS FUN THAT I HAD ANTICIPATED. DO YOU KNOW HOW PATHETIC YOU ALL ARE?"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 11, 2010 17:17:26 GMT -5
"If we're pathetic," Star offered, "then what the heck does that make you, sucker?" She blew a sudden raspberry as she stuck out her tongue. In that same instant, while he was so distracted with them, a volley of energy blasts peppered down on his back from behind. The girl had projected her energy into another clone and manifested it back behind him.
Meanwhile, Karasawa pushed something and a repulsor wave erupted around them, pushing away the force just long enough for them all to drop free. Immediately upon hitting the ground, Quicksilver and Master Zero rushed forward to engage as Star teleported somewhere else, her energy signature immediately masked as the clone vanished, as well.
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Post by raptorman on Feb 11, 2010 17:44:57 GMT -5
A tint of annoyance manifested in the room. Though when the energy blasts should have hit Aloraster they seemed to simply cause him to distort for a moment. The blasts dissipated as they would have if they had hit him. Aloraster did not even dignify Star's comment with a response and the silver glow if anything seemed to have gotten brighter after the attack.
As Master Zero and Quicksilver dashed forward they suddenly would be struck by something much like an invisible wall. A wall moving against them with enough force to fling even them back into the wall of the chamber. At the same time thousands of shards of power suddenly rocketed out in all directions from Aloraster.
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