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Post by Ninmast on Feb 14, 2010 14:18:43 GMT -5
Unfortunately, a wall moving that fast and with that much force, no matter how invisible, shows up as a distortion of air around it, and a wall of energy, psychokinetic or otherwise, shows up on Edenite sensors. With grace and speed, Quicksilver easily sprung over the top, twirling in midair before landing on the other side. Meanwhile, Master Zero brought his Zeta Saber up and smashed it down in a cleave of the wall, causing the force to relay around him harmlessly.
As the shards came down, Quicksilver never stopped moving, easily keeping up with the shower as she swerved and maneuvered out of their way, while Master Zero spun his blade around and knocked those that came at him away. Karasawa, still not taking any steps to enter the battle proper, simply raised his arm before his face as the shards pattered against his body.
"LAME!" Quicksilver shouted as she jumped up, spinning about to send half a dozen plasma kunai flying at the figure's face.
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Post by raptorman on Feb 14, 2010 14:37:10 GMT -5
The unexpected did not seem to be so potent of a weapon against the constructs as it might have been against others but Aloraster was by no means anywhere near out of tricks. He had barely begun to fight. Before master zero appeared several swords of energy. They began to attack him from the front and it would seem they were wielded in a skilled fashion.
As the plasma kunai flew through the air towards Aloraster, they suddenly stopped and spun around flying back towards quicksilver at a highly accelerated pace. There was a distinct laughing noise emitting from where Aloraster's glowing figure hovered. "NOT SO FAST PLANET BOUND"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 14, 2010 15:35:43 GMT -5
There was a force that ripped through the room. It shattered the swords that assaulted Master Zero and disintegrated the kunai that were flying at Quicksilver. And in its wake entered a tremendous life energy. Its source was Star, who had finally re-entered the room, her energy fully released and accessible. So much life energy surged in and around her that the very air burned a pale red around her. It gave off a physical force by its very presence in the room, pushing back anything near it as if to make way for it.
"This guy's a joke," Star told them without looking toward her allies, her body so overcharged that her vocal chords reverberated and gave her voice an echo. "Let me take care of him."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 14, 2010 16:08:15 GMT -5
The Silvered form shimmered in the air as Star and her energy arrived. It turned in the air to face towards her and the glowing being simply hovered there for a moment. It's aura of energy flared brighter itself and seemed to steadily grow stronger. It was uncertain why Aloraster simply hovered there, at least until he spoke.
"YOU ARE A POWERFUL ONE PLANETBOUND. SUCH ENERGY WILL FEED ME FOR YEARS, PERHAPS YOU WILL BE SPARED FOR ETERNAL FOOD"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 14, 2010 16:12:56 GMT -5
"I'm honored," the girl responded calmly, then set her feet in a firm stance, the simple motion packing such force that her feet crushed into the alien alloys beneath them. "Now wipe your mouth off. You're drooling."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 14, 2010 16:22:29 GMT -5
"I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT OF DROOLING. YOU WILL DIE REGARDLESS OF YOUR POWER PLANETBOUND." A blurred rise and fall of one of Aloraster's hands, and suddenly a ball of energy was hurled towards star. As it moved it split into many smaller balls that all homed in on her.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 14, 2010 16:25:50 GMT -5
The girl stared at the incoming blasts as if daring them to hit her, but at the last moment, she vanished before they connected, reappearing back behind him. "You're far too slow," she told him as she clenched her fist and poured energy into a blast of her own. "My turn."
She fired it off straight at his face, and considering that he had absorbed them previously, he'd very likely stand there expecting to do the same. This time, however, he was in for a rude awakening. Before contact, the blast erupted, self-detonating with enough force to level a city block to nothing but a crater in an instant.
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Post by raptorman on Feb 14, 2010 16:41:22 GMT -5
Star's assumption that Aloraster would expect to absorb them was correct. However star's knowledge of the aura that surrounded Aloraster was not so extensive. As the blasts exploded the area in which Aloraster stood was engulfed in the explosion and nothing could be seen within it. There was no sign of Aloraster and so to the others it might have seemed that he had been defeated.
It was then though that another hail of the spikes flew out of the cloud the explosion had left. And immediately behind the spikes raced another of the almost invisible walls of force. As the dust cleared it was obvious that Star's attack had failed. The aura that surrounded him flickered once and then returned in full.
"YOU HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN THAT "
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 14, 2010 22:07:10 GMT -5
With a shout, she waved her hand, causing a wake of energy in its path that disrupted the air between them and caused the spikes to scatter away from her, then teleported just past the barrier that came rushing at her. At his bragging, however, Star just grinned as she prepared another orb. "Honey, that was just a test run."
She vanished again, but a moment later, blasts came down at him from all directions in a countless barrage, each one predetonating like the first experimental one. Even if he tried to move, he'd have nowhere to go because the blasts would be there to intercept him.
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Post by raptorman on Feb 14, 2010 22:32:20 GMT -5
Aloraster's glow vanished in the massive storm of attacks that struck him. The whole room filled with dust and the temperature rose significantly from constant bombardment. Aloraster simply remained hovering in the center of the maelstrom. The flickering of the silver light began to after several minutes grow weaker and then gradually it ceased all together. Then suddenly all the energy blasts stopped as Aloraster extended his arms. Still facing Star he began to move his hands and the balls of energy instead of moving towards him moved towards star again. The Silver aura however had not yet reappeared.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 15, 2010 8:08:13 GMT -5
Star showed as little fear of her own blasts as Aloraster did, but before they reached her, something struck him in the back with the force of a thousand trains.
The kingpin had apparently finally decided it was an opportune time to enter the conflict, even though a moment before, he had been flipping a coin. As if to break the sudden stunned silence, that coin now reached the peak of its last flip, then plummeted back down to clatter to the ground with its owner no longer there to catch it.
The Edenites were apparently equally surprised by this development. Master Zero quietly spoke aside to Quicksilver. "What just happened?"
His significantly faster partner shaped her surprised expression into an amused smirk. "Something interesting, Zee. Something very interesting. These Carbons are really good at that, apparently."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 15, 2010 10:13:31 GMT -5
For a moment everything in the room seemed to freeze. Despite the massive impact Aloraster hadn't moved from the center of the room. Or at least most of him hadn't. The Impact from Karasawa's punch attack had driven right through Aloraster's form and come out the other side. The Silvered form shimmered for a moment and then agonizingly slowly began to fade. The process accelerated and Aloraster's whole form vanished suddenly after about half had dissolved.
Yet again all was still in the room. There was no movement, and then something changed. Aloraster's voice echoed through the room and it was clear from what he said that the fight wasn't over yet. "A GOOD SHOW PLANETBOUND. I SUPPOSE I ASKED FOR A DEFEAT OF SOMEKIND, AFTER ALL ADOPTING THIS PATHETIC FORM WAS LIKELY A MISTAKE. YOU FACE MY TRUE POWER NOW FOOLS."
A massive presence filled the room. Dwarfing all the power yet displayed there by a massive margin. The entire room was plunged into an inky blackness deeper and more enveloping than any darkness of this universe. As suddenly as the darkness had appeared it vanished in a burst of the silver light. Though this time the wrongness was clearly evident. A wave of the power spread through the room and then dissipated. As the light faded a figure again stood in the center of the room. This form made the last form look like a mockery, a feeble shadow before it's greatness.
The figure stood easily 12 feet tall and where the wings had been in the previous incarnation there were now thousand of tendrils stretching out from it's back. Each of the tendril glowed with the silver light as well. The body itself was humanoid though covered in a strange silver armor that seemed to flow over the surface of its body. The face was cold and despite appearing to have no age gave an impression of nearly ageless existence. A tangible hunger swept out from the figure and in one of it's hands appeared a sword that glowed with that same silver light, but from it's core pulsed the alien darkness as well.
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Post by Ninmast on Mar 1, 2010 11:57:29 GMT -5
Star's face seemed starved for such a challenge. She grinned, seeming pale in the silver light that permeated the room. "Finally," she answered him, her own voice still holding that echoing duality from the sheer power thrumming through her body. "It's about time you take us seriously! Now that the cat's out of the bag, we can stop playing around, beat you soundly and send you on your way!"
The Chosen One shot forward like a rocket, moving at speeds that almost rivaled that of her Edenite counterpart as she drew her fist back, aiming for a head-long attack to smash him quick and hard.
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Post by raptorman on Mar 1, 2010 15:33:17 GMT -5
As the chosen one shot forward and waves of displaced air howled the Dreadlord simply stood watching. A hand drifted up and as Star closed the distance and was about to strike him Aloraster smiled. His hand which he had held open before him suddenly snapped shut. A force stronger than one could believe possible suddenly smashed star into place. Gripping her so tightly that even her molecules could not escape in teleportation.
Then Aloraster flicked the hand that had immobilized the Chosen one of heaven, silver fire raced along her immobilized body, scorching and burning her very flesh. Another gesture sent her to fly back into the wall of the room in a blackened heap. To all the assembled foes what occurred would seem to have happened in an instant.
The waves of silver fire erupted from aloraster. They formed into shapes not unlike snakes of fire and lunged towards Star and the others, particularly Karasawa, who had struck the earlier blow.
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Post by Ninmast on Mar 9, 2010 21:39:15 GMT -5
Star screamed as the fire raced over her body and when she collapsed against the wall, she didn't move. As the snakes launched out, Master Zero was far enough back that he sliced through his and Karasawa brought his arms up around him, but as the snakes crashed against them, the white fire was conducted down over him and discharged harmlessly into the ground.
And Quicksilver's ... hit nothing. She was no longer there. Instead, she was before Star, her hands wide as a barrier was projected before them to prevent the ones charging Star from impacting the helpless human. "Zee!" she shouted back across the room. "Buy us time!"
Master Zero nodded, then glanced to Karasawa. "If you have more tricks, I suggest you ready them." He planted his feet as that dark, anti-life energy began to swirl around him. "ALORASTER!!!" he shouted at the top of his proverbial lungs as it ripped out into the area. He curled his limbs in before throwing them out again, the energy erupting out from him as he transformed. "I SEE YOU!!!"
Karasawa chuckled as he stood sideways, seemingly uncaring about the waves of anti-life rolling off of the transformed Edenite. Having already discarded his coat, he needed no additional preparation aside from pulling his top off and tossing it aside, revealing a very chiseled body beneath it. "Tricks, I have those a-plenty. Full power to combat systems." The second part was apparently some sort of verbal command, and immediately, his body form shifted. His frame expanded as plates folded out, producing greater room for increased hydraulic systems. Several points, including the ends of his forearms, his chest and his shoulders folded about to reassemble into visible weapons, such as sonic busters, what may have possibly been a large pulse cannon and shoulder-mounted artillery respectively. Like the wings of some mechanical angel, radial rods lifted up from his back and flared, the bottoms glowing blue-white while the upper portion seemed to radiate energy, their purpose both thrusters and defensive screen projectors.
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