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Post by xoDeathy on Jul 10, 2017 21:25:39 GMT -8
Rosary paid little attention to the events that unfolded following to Nightshade attempting to guilt trip her, to which she simply responded:
"I follow my own path. Whether you choose to stand against it or you end up in the way of it is not my fault."
She stood still as she continued to massively charge Holy Data into her fists, only increasing the flames surrounding her hands. Rosary saw that Kajira was building energy and quickly crossed her arms to put up a defensive bubble, alas to no avail. The barrier stopped a few of the shots, but the rest pierced through. Rosary couldn't risk losing the massive power she stored up, so she braced through the few shots that landed scattered throughout her right leg. She coughed up a bit of blood and was now trembling, but forced herself to stand and keep her eyes locked onto Kajira.
"NeONB... Prison..? I cant.. I have a.. date with Ruin.."
Her words faded to a whisper but still able to be made out. Her pupils faded to white as her stance seemed to become more relaxed yet still charging, as if she had met a ghost, or something else was taking over.
Rosary's clones retreated back into Rosary's aura, recombining with the tower of rage and further boosting her power. Finally, two rapidly growing spears of pure Holy Data appeared in her hands.
"Ruin is mine. So lets all go to prison together."
She spoke lifelessy as she dashed with incredibly speed towards Kajira; if she wanted to do anything, she at least wanted to pain Kajira. Didn't matter to Rosary if she was deleted or not, but at the same time, her movements didn't look like her own. In front of Kajira and Nightshade, she slammed together her two palms of the pure data. The collision sparked a full powered reaction of disruption energy that grew rapidly and unexpectedly, blanketing the area and then some within seconds, at about half the height of your average Navi, unintendingly trying to shread everything apart. In Rosary's, Nightshade's, and Kajira's immediate position, the collision erupted into a giant ray of data firing into the sky, trying to suck them in and keep them in the hazardous cyclone of pain. Once the ray appeared, Rosary was sucked in herself, being unable to move.
After the raging storm of energy cleared moments later, a large crater now replaced the area Rosary, Kajira, and Nightshade once stood. At the bottom lay Rosary, unmoving, with clear signs of disruption damage to her systems coursing over her with streaks of lighting.
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Post by Nightshade on Jul 11, 2017 0:51:53 GMT -8
Nightshade was barely able to take a breather that he would soon see Rosary trying to kill Kajira and vice versa. As much as he liked the lady, he couldn't allow his only true ally to get hurt before the fight with Ruin began. He needed to think of something fast. "I need something to move around as fast as possible." He asked his operator while charging Rosary at full speed to intercept both the spears and deflect them.
He would then hop at Kajira's side once again, with full intent on protecting her. "Shane locked the area down. No one gets in or out but us. Detention logout routines are also operational. Seems like me buying time was a good idea."
He snapped back at Rosary when she saw her kamikaze attack both of them. "SHANE!" He cried out for help again.
"Hang on Nighty, I got it. Battlechip, Area Grab, Slot in!"
Nightshade quickly used the chip on Kajira, warping her clear for the blast. "...kick him in the face for me."
He trierd to resist the pull of the rampaging attact but eventually his weak leg gave out an he was sucked in. The cat navi would yell in pain as his whole body would be badly shredded. He would land motionless beside Rosary at the bottom of the crater, with his NetOp trying to figure a way to keep him alive. If it weren't for that undershirt, he could have been completely taken apart.
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Post by Phen on Jul 11, 2017 13:17:16 GMT -8
Ruin smiled as Rosary and Kajira went into the thick of it, but it wasn't his battle anymore as much as he disliked it. He would just have to walk out when they were distracted and that would be it. Incredible how simple manipulation could get you so far, he would have to do stuff like this more often. Turning his head to look to the barrier, he caught a glimpse of its natural state for a mere moment, before a missile flew in from out of his vision to the wall, encasing it in frozen plasma. Quickly turning back the way the explosive came from, Ruin managed to see the weapon fired on him as well, splitting into separate charges to blanket the area around him.
"Well that's less than good..."
Ruin finally let his arms fall to the side as he eyed the explosives flying at him. Guess it was finally time for him to start fighting... Finally indeed. The weapons moved slowly for him as he mentally prepared for combat. It had been some time since he saw a real threat, six full months of no meaningful combat, just Darksoul training to try to control that power of Chaos that found him and contemplation. Bringing up a single hand, Ruin could see one of the pieces of the weapon flying directly at him. He'd obviously still get hit by the residual blasts, but stopping the direct hit would soften the damage quite a bit.
As the dust and smoke from the fragmented missile cleared, Ruin stood, eyes glaring at the navi transforming before him. His hand held onto one of the explosives that was fired at him, craters scattered around him. Smoke was trailing off of Ruin's hand, which coursed with writhing darkness and the red-orange chaos energy that came with his Darksoul. Though it was only a partial transformation, a trick he had learned while trying to control the seed of chaos. "Rude" Ruin noted before throwing the explosive back at the navi in full force. The rest of the explosions showed their worth however on the rest of Ruin's armor, pieces on his arms and legs torn away by flying debris revealing pale scarred skin beneath.
"If you wanna fight you gotta get in line bro. Or we can do this some other time, frankly I'd love to just be on my way but it doesn't look like you're on the same plan. So what's your deal? Just show up and blast me out of nowhere... You the ONB's new toy or something?"
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Post by Zane on Jul 11, 2017 14:25:56 GMT -8
His head had started to survey the area after his assault, stopping on Spartan. That was someone he didn't recognize. He had ignored Jin for the time being, as he was mostly just collateral damage in the grand scheme of things. Still, he supposed he should finish what he started. If you shot someone, you should shoot them until they were dust, as his associate would say. Still, he was glad he dropped by. Ruin came out less harmed than he initially expected from such an attack. And as the explosive was sent back at him, it exploded as well, but before it reached him. As if it had hit something unseen around him, a crackle of some sort of electricity could be seen around him. It had caused a dent in whatever barrier it was, but hadn't dispersed it entirely.
"Introductions first, then. I was given the designation of Trishula, however I doubt any of you have any knowledge about such an outdated name. I was passing through and figured I should gather some intel on my way through, but I didn't know the self-proclaimed 'Avatar of Destruction' took rain-checks like a coward. So this has been an informing experience indeed. Just break through that ice and you'll be free to go."
It was a deep and echoing voice that responded in kind. The wall had visible cracks after what just happened with Rosary as it were, the energy inside of it simply humming for a release. That didn't exactly answer what his affiliation was, but he did take the time to aim one of his arms at Jin again while ignoring the other nearby happenings. And then he fired at Jin, three lasers shooting out and homing in on him with the goal of running through his neck, chest, and stomach were he too slow to at least adjust to their trajectory. Almost thoughtlessly at that, as he was looking over to the border then. He probably had a few more minutes to spare here, so might as well use them.
And what went from blatantly ignoring at first turned into flat out aggression, aiming his other arm at the downed Rosary and firing the same shots he had at Jin at her as well. With enough accuracy to miss the nearby Nightshade that was near her as well. A nice enough gesture, given the first assault he did toward him on arrival. Judging from his targets, one could say that Ruin's assumption was likely correct.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 15:29:02 GMT -8
"Well, it's been fun."
After saying this, Jin was pierced by the arrows. However, he had just enough time before his deletion to use a dark chip, letting a drill shaped object fly along the wall of ice before he disappeared.
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Post by Phen on Jul 11, 2017 22:57:06 GMT -8
The taunt stung, more than any wound could. Ruin was anything but a coward, and a challenge like this rarely came upon him. However, the stakes were far too high, not even he could risk a loss and end up in NeONB prison. If he was being given a real pass to leave, unfortuantely, he had to take it. No doubt however that he'd later get his rematch. This one was a navi unlike he had seen before, surely he'd see him again if he stuck in Electopia. Plus he was here to meet up with Xion anyway so they could get things underway with Creamland.
So as unfortunately perfect the situation was, Ruin had to take the offer of Trishula. He knew the ice barrier would surely explode if he was to break through it, the trap was too obvious to be called that. However, the plan to break through might be easier than he thought. Nabbing the Dark drill just as Jin fired it, it spun in his hand then to a stop. Affixing it to his gauntlet, Ruin looked to Trishula. "Well sometimes you gotta stay out of the rain to avoid the prison. I'll take my leave then."
Turning quickly around Ruin began to spin up the dark drill, his own darksoul covering the weapon as it spun ever faster. With a powerful kick off the ground Ruin rocketed toward the frozen border wall, right into the cracks caused by Rosary's vortex. As he neared it he pulled back the drill a little further, orange-red chaos energy sparking around the spinning drill as it began to scratch the very net around it. His body knew what was coming, his Darksoul engulfed him just before impact with the wall. Thrusting the drill into the frozen plasma wall, Ruin's stored energy since his arrival was released, channeled through the drill Jin had so graciously provided, with cracks appearing in the net around the point of impact with the wall. He'd either be through it quickly, or it would show some resistance, either way, he'd get through, certainly not one to be blown back by a mere wall, plasma charged or not.
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Post by xoDeathy on Jul 12, 2017 6:25:50 GMT -8
Rosary panted heavily at the bottom of the crater, but began to sat up as electricity coursed her body. With a lethal attack flying her way, she exuded an even more forceful barrier for just a second, to deflect the attacks into the wall of the crater before the barrier fell. Rosary limped slowly up to the edge of the crater, the impact of her own attack and Kajira's being greater than expected. She examined the rocket man that had landed a while ago but didn't notice.
Wait.. he is unscathed? So is Ruin-poo.. did the attack not reach them? Sure it wasn't meant for them, but it should have spread across the entire area...
Rosary took a deep breath and stood up. Throwing her fists at her side, she regained Holy Data to her fists, but only Chaos Data returned to her feet. She was unable to obtain latent power quickly anymore. She turned to Ruin to speak.
"Honey, where do you think you're going?"
Rosary stood and walked over to him, before standing close to him but turning to face all other participants, making her intentions clear. She stood in such a stance where her awareness is at its peak on all sides--though her right leg was injured already--and four clones of her appeared, two on her left and two on her right, creating a defensive bubble made of Rosarys around Ruin.
"Fight or no fight, you still owe me a date... Well, eventually is the leeway I will give you."
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Post by Kman on Jul 13, 2017 20:45:11 GMT -8
Kajira nodded a single time at Nightshade's words. Good. Blake didn't have the access to lock down the area, and so hearing that Nighthade's NetOP did was a welcome relief. Those who were deleted here would get that imprisonment. If he had also managed to lock down the area, then Ruin would be the one that could break through. According to Iria's reports, the rampant destruction that Ruin had caused before was something that no one had been yet able to match. He was able to 'break' the very fabric of the Net itself to transfer his data from one place to another. Even if the area was locked down, Ruin was still able to traverse.
However, she didn't get much of a chance to tell Nightshade this as Rosary decided to choose this time to unleash her own power at a point-blank attack on the both of them. But before Kajira could respond, having been about ready to simply return the raw power in kind, Nightshade had managed to clear her mostly from the blast. Its residual force still struck her, and she could feel her own hold on staying online starting to waver a little. The electricity that touched her was tinged black for a moment, but just for a moment, before she managed to right it, the woman frowning as she saw her left side being completely damaged to a point of being virtually useless. "Damnit, Rosary," she hissed, before she glanced up, finally seeming to notice the other.
The man was...dangerous. She didn't recognize him, but at the same time, she felt a certain sense of familiarity. This was just like Bayside all over again. An unknown Navi of incredible strength just showing up out of the blue. "Tch," she grunted, trying to get her left arm to move. Or to do anything, but it simply just lay at her side, unmoving. This was going to make things more difficult. Her leg was at least partially functional. "Blake. Any recovery?" she spoke, as the man and Ruin both spoke to one another. She just needed some more time.
BL4K3: Working on it. You don't usually get hit. I don't plan on them.
"Fair." The word left her mouth as she saw the Dark Drill being handed off to Ruin, the man just looking to drill into the frozen plasma as if it were just another wall. She gave a small hiss of irritation, even as she heard Rosary beginning to almost try and reason with Ruin, but there wasn't anything with that. The explosion set off by his collision was broken upon the shields of energy that were flaring around her. "Scratch that. There's no time. Gun Del Sol. Now." Her words were cold as she limped forward toward Ruin.
BL4K3: Crap, okay okay. I've got that on-hand...go, it's in.
Kajira's left hand changed from the normal demure woman's hand into an amalgamation of flesh and digital machinery as she hefted the gun, aimed at the darkloid's back, and fired. "Again."
The small gauge on the side indicating its power went from empty back to full, and Kajira took aim again with the Darksoul-piercing weapon, and fired another powerful round, the woman's body weak and the electrical bolts surrounding her still flickering to black for a moment before returning to their normal pale yellow.
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Post by Zane on Jul 13, 2017 21:54:45 GMT -8
"Time to get to work then."
He ordinarily would take his leave, however... he had a bit more to do here now. Allowing Ruin passage meant he had a different job now. His original mission could be held off for just a bit longer as Ruin's drill, gifted by Jin, struck the wall. And it punched a hole clean through it... but also confirmed Ruin's suspicions, some that Rosary missed as she moved to stand beside him. Her back to the wall, and Ruin's increased impact, caused the ice to shatter and the plasma that was there to be released.
And what was let loose was a terrifying amount of force. Combined with the cracks to the net Ruin already caused, the explosive power of the plasma was unleashed in a flare that outright destroyed the areas that were cracked and blasted outward. Kajira's blast would come through to strike Ruin's back, but Rosary and Ruin were at ground zero. Ruin's approach would allow him to handle it better than the others here would, as the blast engulfed even Nightshade and went for Kajira as well.
It was here that Trishula's thrusters kicked in, boosting off at incredible speeds toward someone who hadn't been given any notice: Spartan. The odd-looking navi was out of range until now, but the charge was swift enough and sudden enough that it might catch him unaware as he aimed both arms, firing several lasers off at him before bolting straight up to him to grab him by the head and toss him toward the released blast that Ruin caused in his bid to escape.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 12:10:10 GMT -8
As Serix exited the border wall, she arced skyward. Her blazing wings held her aloft as she surveyed the area.
"Looks like things are not exactly sunshine and rainbows over here either."
Noting the weakened state that Kajira was in, Serix tossed a packet of recovery data towards her.
"Wow, you look like hell."
After a moment, however, she zeroed in on the goal of her mission.
"Ruin.EXE, The ONB, NIA, and several other agencies including my own Mercentile business, demand that you cease and desist. Any further action, hostile or indifferent, will be dealt with swiftly."
Saying so, Serix gave Kajira a slight nod.
"We understand that you are not interested in cooperating with the law. That is why we have set up a challenge for you. If you can beat Myself, Kajira, and Genesis at the same time, then we will let you go. If, however, you are unable to best us, then you yourself will be arrested, and placed in the SuperMax wing of New Life."
Serix wasn't sure as to how Ruin would react to this challenge, and already expected Kajira to shout at her for not consulting her first. However, that bridge would be crossed when she got to it.
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Post by Phen on Jul 14, 2017 13:19:42 GMT -8
The explosion was about as powerful as he expected it, in that it was devestatingly so. Ruin had some run-ins with other beings not unlike this Trishula that hold massive power and can often show up out of nowhere. The Bug Beast Gospel being one of those, and he managed to survive that despite it tearing apart his Darksoul in the process. He was pretty beaten after that fight, and while he had gathered a greater control of his darksoul, this situation was not much different. As he was about to connect with the wall however, his blind spot was hit by two of Kajira's Gun del Sol bullets. They struck right through his darksoul's protection causing him to wince and allow them to bury into his body, he couldn't let up his protection even if it had been broken temporarily.
As the smoke and debris cleared from the blast zone, Ruin stood in a deep stance with his right foot forward, hunched over with his Dark Drill from Jin chipped and broken. Unsurprising the Darkchip wouldn't be able to maintain itself after getting that much power in it and blasted back at it. His whole body letting off smoke from the blast itself, as well as two shining bullets buried into his back. Though covered by the Darksoul, the shots still shone through, their light only barely showing as glowing spots on Ruin's dark covering about his body. Dropping the broken darkchip to the ground, the navi of destruction slowly stood up, now on the other side of the massive barrier. His darksoul still held onto his form, and blood dripped from his mouth. Ruin was in poor shape, but he seemed to have broken through the barrier, the ice and plasma, as well as the ONB's area lock and redirect and made it through despite all the resistance. Though it was but a small hole in the walls, it held far more weight as a testament to both his power and the ONB's weakness to be unable to contain him.
As Serix entered the network, flying through the main connection into the Electopian border and attempted to challenge Ruin, he smiled, though did not turn to face the fire navi. The challenge in question was a laughable one, sure he'd heard of Genesis, but Kajira was beaten down already, her last efforts went to the two thorns in his back that continued to burn through his Darksoul's ability to force him to stay alive. Instead of even responding to her, he simply began to walk off toward the main Electopian network. Finally free of the border's restraint, the whole of Elecopia was free for him to move about, and he would quickly make use of that fact. As he walked away, he made a point to kick the air in front of him, the force of which bringing to reality that which Kajira had feared. His primary method of transportation that allowed him to shatter the barriers between networks and simply walk through them, though they quickly repaired themselves.
Stepping into the shattered doorway blaring white and black strings of code from within, Ruin had solidified his escape. As the final bits of the broken network were repairing itself, only Ruin's head could be seen, turned back so a single eye glowing a bright orange-red could be seen. The glance shot right past Serix, directly gazing at Trishula. The network then quickly overtook the image of Ruin's stare before returning to its original state, The darkloid now having completely vanished.
Ruin.EXE Has left the Electopia Border and entered Electopia proper
Serix also got her answer in the form of a mail, coming to her just after Ruin's break in the network had fully repaired itself. This time the source was encrypted unlike the one before, so though she couldn't track where it was from, its sender was pretty clear.
<MESSAGE> Sender: Unknown Recipient: Serix.PYR Subject: (None) Body:
Next time you're going to challenge someone, maybe try to back up your threats instead of just being all talk. A hard concept for you I'm aware. Hopefully next time we meet you're not groveling at someone's feet just for a little revenge.
<END MESSAGE>
As soon as the message was closed as well, it seemed to have cleared all of Serix's messages. An overkill of a failsafe but effective regardless. Rosary's mail also pinged as Ruin left, once again, the sender obvious despite not saying.
<MESSAGE> Sender: Unknown Recipient: Rosary.AXA Subject: (None) Body:
I'll have to take a rain check on that date as well. Don't worry, we'll get to play some other time. <END MESSAGE>
Unlike the last mail. This one had no aftereffects associated with it. Just a simple mail between two navis, though the encryption did make it tough to tell where it was sent from.
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Post by xoDeathy on Jul 14, 2017 13:41:16 GMT -8
A powerful blast indeed, but Rosary was ready for anything to happen. She braced for impact by quickly reabsorbing her clones, using their data to create a wall of Holy Data to shield just herself from the blast. An easy task, but a taxing one. The force of the blast was much stronger than she expected, causing all of her Holy Data to drain out. Only Chaos Data remained flaring from her feet now.
Uh oh. Looks like I overdid it a bit. Heheh..
Though, she smiled as she looked back to see Ruin crossing through. After reading a message from who she knew it must be, she was beyond giddy and couldn't hold back a girlish squeal. She would call today a success as she turned her back to the wall again to face the others. Man what a mess. It was as if no one knew how to clean up after themselves. She simply stared at Kajira as she secretly braced herself for what would come next.
"So, now what are we gonna do?" asking as she pulls out a new lollipop, this time a grape flavored one.
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Post by Nightshade on Jul 14, 2017 14:16:46 GMT -8
Nightshade crawled out of the hole he was in, gritting his teeth. He didn't say a thing but punched the ground instead, cracking it.
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Post by Kman on Jul 19, 2017 14:28:57 GMT -8
Kajira watched as Ruin managed to make it beyond the border, raw irritation filling her, now. They'd failed. They had only a small force to bring with them, consisting solely of herself and Nightshade. The remainder of the agents had been...little more than fodder, especially for someone the likes of Ruin.
She had been about to move after him, when she heard a familiar voice and glanced up to see Serix floating above on the fiery wings. "Piss off. But thanks," the woman said at the recovery data, testing the movement of her arm and leg. It wasn't nearly 100%...but it was better. She was at least able to move, now. She was angry and hoped that Serix wouldn't take her angry words to heart. They weren't directed at her so much as they were at Ruin and Rosary.
Her gaze slid back, ignoring the fact that, for the moment, that the newcomer had gone after Spartan. She knew little about the galaxial-looking navi, but he had power in himn, that much could be certain. She'd need to go and investigate that in a moment. Or rather...
She paused then, at Rosary's words. "Serix. I'll pay your usual fee if you can take out, or at least arrest, Rosary. She's attacked an agent acting as an ONB officer and collaborated with a known felon," she spoke, before she turned her eyes upward. "I have something more to deal with," she hissed, turning into an arcing bolt of lightning as she streaked across the sky, landing not too far from where Spartan had been attacked.
"Trishula. Might I ask why you're here...and attacking Navi unrelated to the current situation?" She would have tried to stop him if she wasn't so tired.
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Post by Nightshade on Jul 19, 2017 16:53:01 GMT -8
The ground began to shake and crumble as if an earthquake would be ravaging the land. The wind picked up speed, the temperature suffering a sudden 10 degree drop. The chitchat would be silenced by a blast of deep purple energy on Nightshade's location. The shockwaveenough to lift dust around the whole area. The figure that walked through the brownish clowd was both familiar and foreign.
Standing 6'2 feet tall and donned in shiny black armor, the figure was proceeding towards Rosary with a slow walk and a death stare. The ground beneath him would crack under the pressure of the power seeping off of him, while the general vicinity would freeze over. The beings tail twitched from time to time, but remained mostly low to the ground grazing it. Under the black mask he was wearing, two rubies were staring at Nightshade's target, not blinking. Red highlights showed through a nebula purple body, almost translucent. The energy type it was giving off could rival a DarkSoul.
Nightshade ignored everything but where he was headed. He walked past serix, past Kajira, past everything else not him or his target. His hands, now shaped into razor sharp claws, were clenched tightly into fists. Silent, without a word, he just focused on what he wanted to do. And what it wanted to do wasn't going to be Negotiation. One thing was clear though. Nightshade was done.
Nightshade was pissed.
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