(Battle Theme) ♫ Kirby's Return to Dreamland/Kirby's Adventure Wii - Steel Hometown ♫
Husk floats. Prong pointed at Mezzo.
You. . ... .. . . . .
...
Husk lowers hisRAISES IT AND
...he took you.
He took you. He didn't take me. He didn't take me.
THAT BASTARD TOOK HIM WITH YOU !
What's a b-
LUNGES AT MEZZO WITH IT HIS WHOLE BODY SPARKING

Mezzo is safe. He used a wall of Magnet Beam. to make Husk stuck.
I WON'T LET HIS LITTLE TOYS GET AWAY WHE

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...Mezzo?

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N HE TOOK OUR GREATEST FRIEND FOR HIMSELF!!!
Husk has a hand. No. Has a claw. Rips Magnet Beam. wall. Grabs tube of green glow. To throw.
Tube broken.
Mezzo not broken.
Mezzo is slipping on water. But he has Magnet Beam. that he decides to use.
Magnet Beam. to hit with.

I can't think of a creative way of saying Sodoma's using Balance Ray again

Smiling, Sodoma takes the chance to raise another Cyclone Shield, this time around herself.

(@Malware : Well, that's fair. Thing is - at least under roleplay Beta Shadow has run - it's officially been called the Omniverse.)

(@Malware : First off, I'd suggest doing a quick search of quantum mechanics, because it's certainly complicated, but I'm unsure if things like a "quantumverse" are involved. Second, the only thing really stopping any series from showing up is whether or not something from that series has showed up. All it takes for Doom to be part of the thread is someone using something from Doom.)

Sodoma tries another Balance Ray...

Sodoma fires a Balance Ray at Beta Satan!

(Area Theme) ♫ Piglet's Big Game - Owl's Dream (Paper Area Ambience)/Tigger's Dream (Fence Area Ambience) ♫
Climb dowCan't climb anymore. Stairs gone.
Mezzo doesn't see anywhere to go but the door. Not a door. Was a door.
Mezzo walks through the not a door.
The room is very very broken. Cracking. Burning.
A thing stands in front of

iT's...NOt...hiM...

Mezzo turns.

Friendly woman not there.
Something there.
Like a suit. Metal suit. TalkiAN EMPTY, MECHANICAL SHELL OF A ROBOT, ONE ARM WITH A SPIKED SHOULDER, THE OTHER ENDING IN A SHARP PRONG
ipanundo
i wanna make an avatar too
i l ke s ark m n a d p k
dea p ol good voice

why did i make this design
i don't want it t t t t t t t T T T T T

YOU'RE NOT HIM, WHERE IS HE?!?!

AIMS PRONG AT all broken and on the floorTURNS TO MEZZO
WHERE?! WHERE DID YOU PUT MINE?!

(Area Theme) ♫ Piglet's Big Game - Eeyore's Dream (Eeyore Area/Red Room Ambience) ♫
The climb is down the stairs. Going down.
Friendly woman worries. She is looking in a door. Next to stairs down.
She knows the door has a window. She can see through the window. Not with eyes. But still see.
Through the each doors is rooms. Same as where Mezzo entered through entry door made of plasticine.
But things are different from the same. Things have small broken parts.
Small broken parts are bigger when stairs go more down.
Friendly woman looks down at Mezzo. Still holding hands. Walking close.
...
...Mezzo, if something happened, do you think you could handle it?
Mezzo looks up at friendly woman.
Hm?
Oh, like if someone mean tried to hurt us?
Well, I have you now. We can help each other...
...
...Mezzo, I'll never try to leave you. I promise that.
...but...let's say something happened to me. That I didn't mean to happen.
Would you still feel like you could handle it?
Mezzo slows down. Friendly woman slows down to his speed, so they stay close. Walking close.
Well...
...I do have something to protect me. I've had it for a long time.
...I've had to use it to keep mean things away...
...I think I can do it.
And...if something happens, and I can't find you...I'll try to find you again.
...
More walking down. down. .Down dOWN.

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Sodoma slowly pushes herself up from the ground, a faint whirlwind circling her as her wings bring her back to the air.
...I will not die. And neither will those who strive for your end as I do.
The power of her old comrade Barbariccia surging through her, Sodoma surrounds Admiral Brickell in a Cyclone Shield!

Schmitt lands right on his makeshift surfboard, turning to Re-Class as the pale walking weapon sets herself upright, still moving and floating above the water as if she was standing on it.
gh...This ain't over! I'll be back, and you'll be sorry!
Re-Class "jumps" up, then dives straight down, vanishing deep in the darkness of the water.

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While most of the Mechas have long since fallen back to avoid crossfire from either Re-Class or Schmitt, the Bombomb commander has stayed at the cockpit. With the dust settling, they let out a sigh before relaying one final message to Schmitt.
...As much as your vigilantism should be reported to other authorities, I won't act like you were detrimental to diverting the threat.
Neither we nor you shall speak of this. Only if you relay anything specific to our actions will we alert authorities.

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You're welcome.
The warship and associated troops depart...





...Schmitt, however, doesn't. Instead, he enters one of the uninhabited caves, thinking to himself.
(Y'know what, I don't get these moments. One of us finds some freak, they get in our hair for 5 minutes, we kick them to the curb, and then everyone just goes on with their day.)
(With the kind of frenzy she went on, yeah, she's definitely gonna be back. So why should I be surprised when she does? Heck, why just forget she ever happened until round 2?)
(Not this time. I've had my history with patrol, and the Crew can wait. I ain't moving until I see that twerp again.)

Sodoma is barely able to feel the full pain of the volatile inferno before she blacks out, being launched diagonally down to the ground, where she lands face-down and her limp body skids back several square meters (nobody knows what the background looks like but a flat color is boring so let's say she landed on concrete).

Her speed no longer helping her with Balance Rays (I'll admit I gave her that mixing it up with Fire Chaser and thus thinking it'd deal more damage if someone was faster than her), Sodoma switches to a Prosper Burst.
(Also, shouldn't Bloomy Flower have hit the past two turns?)

Sodoma. Balance Ray. @ Beta Satan.

Sodoma pays no attention to Agony Jake's arguments. As non-villainous Agony Jake may be in practice, Sodoma's...biased about certain matters, so to speak.

Shut your mouth, rotten fiend.
Killed, crushed...I could face both millions of billions of trillions of times, and still say you are WRONG.
Nothing of reason could come from a foul concept like you.
Sodoma gestures to Ghost of Stache and Agony Jake (neither of whom she could care less about the nuances of backstory-wise).
I may be forced to fight along wretches who themselves have fallen so far they deserve something not unlike this oblivion you fail to drill into my mind.
But as much as I hate to justify their being, they once could have been heroes.
You, on the other hand, Beta Satan, were born to be evil. Malice. Villainy. All while flailing around this destruction you mislabel as the lie of nothingness.
If I were not under the limits of Crystal Tower and those above them, I'd have aborted your birth whenever you were conceived.
But in this world, where all gods limited to the Multi-Omniverse are gone...I see no reason not to help take away this life you never should have had.
As much as she preaches, Sodoma realizes her attack power is of no worth against the main monster, and aims a Balance Ray at Anti-Omni Remnant El!

(Area Theme) ♫ Piglet's Big Game - Pooh's Dream (Cake House Ambience) ♫
Mezzo is entered. The plush door is closed.
Mezzo is looking. Looking.
Looking at walls. Might be firm. Maybe not squares. Is surely concrete.
Looking in green room. Glowing a bit. Green from glow? Or green from own?
Floor is walls, but ground. Wet puddles. Can see the room in puddle lights, but upside-down. Reflection.
Nobody can forget tubes. Tubes must be on the sides of the wall facing down, the ceiling not sideways. The tubes can glow. The tubes do what they can.
H-hello? Is anyone here?
Oh. Hello there.

Mezzo looks behind his backward. Front.
Tall. Not tall as walls, but tall. Tall but shaped like Mezzo.
Mezzo but leaves on arm elbows. Mezzo but shirt is long, begin at neck and end flowing under kness, over feet. Mezzo but no sclerae. Mezzo but head hair has long length. Mezzo but more green.
A tall woman. A Friendly tall woman.
Are you lost?
...
...maybe? But...I don't have a place I need to be found, so maybe not.
...I suppose that makes sense. My apologies.
No, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make that sound bad.
Mezzo walks up to the wall X axis -25 feet, the wall behind friendly woman. It is a wall. The wall doesn't break. Not even when he pushes it.
Mezzo stops and realizes he wasn't supposed to push walls to find where to go.
Well, I don't know where to go here. Or out there.
Maybe down there?
...perhaps.
Though as long as we know each other, and don't fear each other, we may as well see together.
Friendly woman gives hand. Hand can hold. Hand given to hold.
Mezzo thinks for a moment. He realizes the friendly woman is not hiding any malice. She truly is a friendly woman.
Mezzo holds the friendly woman's hand. They walk down stairs. Stairs in hall.
Narrow hall. Not too narrow for them together.
Walking down stairs.

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can find that she is friendly
can find that she does not hurt
why can't i find her memories to display
downrange same wash
aether mainframe snow

Hah, ya kiddin' me? The Marvelous Queen's a beaut, she can take this on no problem!
Using his tail, Fang hops to his feet, ready to follow Cut.

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As Schmitt's makeshift surfboard approaches Re-Class, he leaps up, interrupting an attempt at firing a projectile with an Energy Slice S-Rank!
Gagh!
Re-Class lowers her tail, revealing her arm cannon again and preparing some smaller hits...Schmitt landing a Fervent Strike on her before she can fire!
Rrgh...!
Frantically searching for Schmitt, Re-Class looks down to find him facing up, aiming both halves of a Magna-Slash at her, knocking her back!!
AAUGH!
Re-Class falls to the water surface, slamming hard and lying limp as if it were solid ground...

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As Mack and Yuugen-V enter the dark cavern, a strange echo creaks to them...
Turn back...
Mack completely ignores the message, Yuugen-V hesitating for only a split-second longer before following along.
You are making a grave mistake...
While the duo still pays no mind to the voice, they are stopped in their tracks by the sudden appearance of a monstrous tangle of fleshy mycelium!
The eerie mess then wraps around itself, shrinking as it unravels into a more solid shape: a slightly rotting humanoid with wet, grayed hair, a ragged dress dragging along the ground, eyes of only soulless sclerae, and small strands of the mycelium-esque substance emerging from her arms.
Loud as it is, the perpetual groan of her voice is clearly the same that was calling out seconds ago.
ARE YOU FOOLS NOT HEEDING MY WARNINGS?!

No. Get out of our way, we're trying to stop some idiots who wanna steal some-
Among those Seekers of Strength, I am one.
And if you shall neither cower nor tremble...
A fungal wall emerges where the entrance is, blocking it off.
...you have left yourselves no option but to rot into the earth like all who reside here.
Rottentest sinks into the ground, a passageway clear for Mack and Yuugen-V to continue through.
Kind of surprised you didn't lunge for her like you've been doing.
She probably would've just dodged and kept rambling. I'll beat her up when she actually thinks she's gonna kill us.

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New Energy Slice variant: S-Rank (Power Level 4)
Fervent Strike: (Flame/Cutter) The user dashes in any direction with an arm outstretched, said arm surrounded in a sharp flame. Can pass through opponents even if it doesn't defeat them (though it isn't guaranteed to actually break through their body, just phase through it).

Vital RECAP: An Artifical Element. Represents attacks that make special use of the user or target's basic internal systems (circuits, veins, etc.). Exceptions include muscles when it comes to physical attacks (most often suited for Impact) and the brain (usually suited for the Mind Artifical Type).
Assembly: An Artificial Element. Represents the ability to re-form oneself (such as from particles; think what Yellow Devil does) or create/alter complex machines with skill beyond learned engineering.
(No worries, Rotom.)

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*Reference: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team

Sodoma summons another Bloomy Flower!

Sodoma fires another Balance Ray!