Day Four ULTIMATUM Logs - [Active / Open]
Characters: ANYONE on board the U.S.S. Ultimatum
Content: The final battle between Tagruato and those aboard the Ultimatum
Location: U.S.S Ultimatum
Time of day: All Day
Warnings: Assume violence and swearing
Notes: Treat this thread as party-style, with new subthreads for new events or encounters.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO READ THE RULES AND GUIDELINES!
Content: The final battle between Tagruato and those aboard the Ultimatum
Location: U.S.S Ultimatum
Time of day: All Day
Warnings: Assume violence and swearing
Notes: Treat this thread as party-style, with new subthreads for new events or encounters.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO READ THE RULES AND GUIDELINES!
In passing Riku saw the power of Rosette’s weapon. Now THAT’S a gun. Negi’s attacks were a perfect balance between magic and physical fighting. It was a brilliant way of making sure he didn’t exhaust either of his skills. Donald and Goofy were in rare form. And the fact that Donald was not only conscious, but making short work of their enemies made even Riku smile.
Though Xemnas being around made it a guarded smile. Even if they fought together, he still kept an eye on him. It would be easy to destroy all his enemies when this battle was done. The Nobody was as fast as ever and still ever as powerful.
Riku passed Sora again when they resummoned their Keyblades. Seeing Sora use darkness the way he did, yet remain untempted to pursue it was both intriguing and comforting to Riku. He feigned thinking Sora was all-talk. Humming a short laugh, Riku replied, “Yeah, right. I’ll take ‘em!”
And then came Kang’s spell. Riku was already light on his feet, but it felt as if he could fly. The teen felt almost weightless by comparison. Such effortless speed and control was a rush. “Thanks!” His comment was somewhat hushed, but still audible.
Placing their strength into their Keyblade’s power, their blades quadrupled in length and glowed brightly. Their reach was profound as they moved around each other. When one moved his blade to the other, he stood behind his friend. In this way he continued to pour power into his own Keyblade, regardless of whether they held it at the time. Both boys easily proved their skills in dual-wielding.
The two thrust their hands up in the air and summoned swords of light that surrounded them. The attack quickly mowed down surrounding guards sliced through the defenses of the next wave. With gestures of their Keyblades they hurled the ethereal blades wide, and they passed harmlessly through everything that wasn’t an enemy.
But many of the guards had little idea how much pain they were about to feel. As the boys passed each other again they hurled Ultima Weapon and Testament into the air. There was vehemence in Riku’s voice.
“Prepare to lose it all!”
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The second was that Mr. Stark took apart a few tasers and fixed them into the armor as a new weapons system allowing her to electrocute things by touch. Which was a simple and safe way to deal with the guards. She didn't have to use her dagger and worry about uneeded killing! Totally safe!
"Please stop shooting at me, someone could get hurt when the bullets ricochet," considering how nice this warning was you might wonder if she realized what was going on. However with all the shooting she felt it best to keep moving. No point in letting them keep firing. However she noticed she felt faster, so she moved faster. Even with the armor she felt like she was as light and fast as in normal clothes. So she zipped through the guards with her simple and casual movements, electrocuting them one after another.
She did occasionally say sorry to them, but she did warn them about firing guns. Someone could get hurt!
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Sora grabbed back Ultimaweapon as Riku took back Way to the Dawn, and bumped fists with him in a gesture of triumph. Man, did it feel good to be fighting like this again!
As if all that wasn't enough, the moment they finished the attack (one that usually forced Sora to pause for air for a second), Kang came by them and cast a haste spell over their entire group. While Sora himself never used haste spells, he could instantly recognize it...he felt lighter, faster, as if his feet barely needed to touch the ground for him to get anywhere. "Thanks!" he called back to the draconian, a wide grin on his face.
Everyone was throwing in their strongest attacks! Rosette's gun was doing incredible damage (he'd never seen a gun that powerful before!), Pixie was using her electricity to incapacitate anyone she touched, Goofy's tornado and Donald's magic was cutting through ranks everywhere they went, and Negi had taken on an excellent vantage point for magic. Between all of their efforts, a good chunk of the guards had been completely taken out of the picture. They were so close to taking control of the room!
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He almost felt sorry for these guards, but they'd surely known what they'd been getting themselves into. But even if they didn't, they'd attacked, and that didn't go unnoticed, just as it wouldn't go unpunished. They had initiated a war, and that's what they'd gotten. They'd overestimated their ability to keep their "subjects" in line, and they were going to pay for it.
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Negi touched down on the ground again and noticed Kang casting a spell as well. Suddenly, he felt a lot faster. It was then that he remembered that he could probably use his shindou now. Focusing his magic into his feet, Negi concentrated on the space he wanted to move to and in a split second he was there. It had worked, and with haste he was moving as fast as Kaede would have.
Negi switched back to his martial arts moves and took out some of the guards that were lining up in the walkways above the floor. He knew it'd be bad if they took them from above. So much was going on down below, it was almost baffling.
They had to be winning right?
The mage noticed more guards heading Sora's way and jumped/teleported back to his location. It wasn't actually teleporting, but he was moving so fast it looked like it. "Hey, Sora, care to lend me a hand?"
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Of course, even despite the fact that their joint effort seemed to be having a great effect he was not letting such an excellent display go to waste. Why should he, when people were so freely showing off that which they could do. He might never use the information he was gathering here, but that was no reason not to do so.
Nor was it a reason to leave the fighting to those who had joined him in this endeavor. He would not let them see him as a coward. Not when there were yet enemies that had not been taken care of. He had only begun to fight.
"Bind!"
It was the only warning the guards would have before a tangle of vines that seemed to be made out of darkness itself shot directly into their midst. Vines that seemed to not be inclined to stop coming any time soon. But that was only the distraction; a second copy of him (or was the one with the vines the copy?) swooping in from behind the guards, blades flashing down relentlessly. There could be no mercy.
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It looked like he wasn't the only one who wanted to fight alongside Sora. When Negi called over, he gave them both a quick nod and ran off in his own direction. Riku had something he'd been curious to try now that he had his powers back.
Regardless, however, Riku found himself nearly running into the path of twilit thorns. Using his own Keyblade to change his momentum, he swung hard and pushed off from the ground to move around it. Reversal had never been so easy.
Riku ran up alongside Rosette and held out his hand to oncoming guards. "Miss me?" he asked her. Though he couldn't fire off his Dark Firaga with the same impressive speed as Rosette's gun, at least he too could attack from a distance. Besides, he wasn't getting anywhere near her line of fire. So what better place than right next to her?
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He moved, too quickly for the bare eye to notice, and grabbed the heads of the two guards that were sneaking up behind Riku and the girl. The guards started to scream as horrible images began to float in their minds, and they slumped to the floor, trembling with utter horror.
"Keyblade Master of Darkness," Zexion called out, already summoning his lexicon with one hand. "I would advise you to watch your back more carefully." With that, he threw the summoned book at a nearby guard's head, not even wincing as he heard the sickening crack of the guard's now broken skull.
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She couldn't help but grin as Riku joined her. "How could I? You were tough to miss, showoff." It wasn't really the situation for jokes, but there was no reason not to-
She jumped and whipped around as the screams sounded behind her, just in time to see two guards collapse to the ground. "Wh-" Who the hell was this guy and how did he know Riku?
...and why was he fighting with a book?
No time for those thoughts - Rosette caught a flash of movement behind the newest arrival and fired, catching a guard in the shoulder and knocking him off balance. The second shot finished him. They needed to figure out how these guards were getting behind them and end it. But before turning her attention to that new problem, she looked the book-tossing arrival straight in the eye - the one she could see, at any rate.
"Take your own advice."
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But they still had their fair share of firepower left. Speaking of, it seemed like a lot of the guards were being hit by tiny, localized explosions...not a magic that Sora recognized, but he wasn't going to argue it.
Xemnas was back in the fray, too. Sora almost instinctually used Reversal against Xemnas's darkness thorns, turning on his foot and dodging the black spiked vine, even though it wasn't aimed at him. He was going to stay out of the way for now, since he didn't want to get too caught up in what attacks Xemnas was throwing out.
He heard a voice from above, and spotted Negi above the fray. "Sure thing!" Sora called back with a smile, and prepared to fight with him again.
Negi cast a wind spell on a group of eight guards, and they lifted off the ground. Unable to get their footing or aim, they were easy targets for Sora, who bashed everyone that was within reach of Ultimaweapon. A series of cuts and bruises later, they tumbled back to the ground with a series of harsh THUMPS.
And whatever was in the magic had an added effect, too...all of the guards' pants suddenly burst into an explosion of flower petals, rendering the group essentially pants-less. Had Sora the time, he would've stopped to laugh his head off at the unexpected effect. But still caught up in the urgency of battle, he only had time to snicker as he closed in again on the battered and confused guards.
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Trying not to get caught up in the moment, Negi hopped back on his staff. He grabbed Sora's hand and together they took to the air. He didn't fly as high up has he had before but just enough to get out of reach. That wasn't his only reason though. They could do a lot of damage from this height. Negi nodded at Sora and Sora acknowledge the nod. Both boys let go and Sora dropped to the ground, the point of impact knocking back most of the guards as Sora swept them back with the Ultimaweapon. That wasn't all though, Negi had timed his own magic to hit the ground at the exact same time as Sora. Just as Sora slashed at the guards, lightning rained down from the heavens and struck the guards with a loud thunder clap of power.
Negi couldn't believe how well that had worked. Those guards wouldn't be bothering them again.
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"Fine. I'll cover your backs for now." With that, he stood with their back to them, poised with the book open in his hand.
Let's see how they like this! He placed another hand on the book, feeling the dark energy pouring out of it. Concentrating on the guards in front of him, he directed the dark energy towards their feet, and watched, smirking, as they fell, being swallowed by the voracious darkness.
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"Gwarsh, there sure are a lot of 'em, huh Donald," Goofy replied, peering over his shield that the men who had rallied against them.
Donald scoffed at the odds, glancing back at Goofy. "Aw phooey, we can take 'em! Let's show everyone how it's really done!"
Normally when Donald got like this Goofy started to feel nervous, since it usually meant the Duck was going to change in and get them both in trouble, but this time he found he agreed with his buddy completely. All the senseless violence had to stop now, and if these men weren't willing to listen to reason (And Goofy had been trying to talk to them since this whole thing started, which resulted in them shooting at him) then he'd just need to stop them.
A strange sort of calm fell over the two of them, and suddenly their movements, usually awkward and comical, became more fluid, as if each knew what the other would do before he did it. Had either been prone to much self reflection they likely would have realized that it was the same feeling that they sometimes had when fighting with Sora, usually right before they pulled a complex attack as if they had choreographed it. In both cases, however, they simply accepted it as another sign of the strength of their friendship.
Without speaking Goofy held out his shield toward Donald and the duck banged his wand against it, his magic flowing into the metal and surrounding the oddly shaped weapon with flames all along the edges. The guard's, realizing this was serious, snapped up their weapons to attack. Unfortunately Goofy was quicker and with a cry of "Hyaa!" hurled the flaming discus at them. Save the King flashed through the air in a burning arch, leaving a burning contrail in its wake as it smacked through the guards, knocking them off their feet and setting their clothes on fire for a few seconds before the magic went out.
The entire attack took seconds, and none of the guards were able to recover from it when suddenly the shield was back in Goofy's hand and he offered it to Donald, who sheathed it in lightning this time. Then the discus flashed out again, shocking the second line of guards as it flew through them, bolts of electricity zapping any who were too close. Again the shield returned to Goofy's hands, and this time it was ice that covered it before it was again in the air, the Knight and Wizard moving in unison. Trailing snowflakes the shield struck the guards who were beginning to recover, freezing their weapons and covering their visors in frost.
Finally the shield returned to Goofy's hand for the last time, and the beleaguered soldiers braced themselves for the last attack. This time, however, Goofy did not offer his shield to Donald. Instead the Wizard lifted his wand up over his head and a cushion of air appeared under Goofy's feet, lifting him off the ground for several feet. Acting as if this sort of thing happened every day the Goofy leaned forward until his body was stretched out parallel to the ground, shield pointed at the poor men and women who could just stare in utter bafflement at what they were seeing. With a squawk Donald jumped up and landed on his friend's back, and both of them shared a wink before turning to the guards.
"FOR THE KING!" sounded from muzzle and beak, and suddenly twin flames burst from Goofy's feet like jet engines, hurling him towards the massed soldiers as Donald cackled wildly on his back, raining magical doom upon any who escaped the Knight-Rocket.
The soldiers suddenly discovered there were in fact somethings they just were not being paid enough to deal with, and two Disney characters flying at them like some sort of aerial torpedo of death was one of them. Turning almost as one they threw away their weapons and fled screaming, Chased from the room by a jet propelled dog and a psychotic lightning spewing duck.
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However, there was a clump of guards still active, and protecting someone. He looked important. And if they are important and protected you should just take over control of them and figure out why later, right? Just no killing them yet, or knocking them out... yet. Wait till after you talk to them. The whole shoot first questions second thing does not work in practice.
They were too distracted yelling at the guys running in terror from Donald and Goofy to really look up. So Pixie just dropped into the middle of them. It took her about half a minute to fight down the group of guards. It really helped that she was defended from them, and only needed the slightest contact to shock them out of usefulness.
She looked at the senior tech and smiled, while said smile was unseen you could hear how chipper she was, "Hi! Can you tell us what we need about the machines now, or after I ask Mr. Kang to come talk to you?" She pointed a thumb to the large scaly fellow, "I think you'd rather talk to me, right?"
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“You do that.” Riku called over his shoulder to the schemer. “And it’s Twilight, not just Darkness. I can use both,” he smiled proudly.
And then Riku spotted the pants of several guards give way to flowers, something only Marluxia could appreciate. As they fell they revealed an intriguing assortment of underwear styles. As mature as Riku was for his age, not even he could keep a straight face.
Donald and Goofy’s joint limit attack was surprisingly awe-inspiring. It was the first Riku had seen them do that, and the guards’ reactions, although reasonable, were rather memorable. Definitely for the king.
Riku smirked when he saw she’d made a friend. “Good, looks like we have an instruction manual.”
In the meantime, he turned away from Rosette so they could fight back-to-back, reminiscent of how he teamed up with the King for Inverse Burst. He narrowed his eyes. I’m not letting them get behind us. Over his shoulder, he barked at Rosette and Zexion, “GET DOWN!”
Riku clutched at his heart and he felt darkness crawl across his skin. His body began to rise and glow with raw energy, and he took his Keyblade in both hands. As he felt his body fill with power, he raised his weapon high. Just as it felt as if is chest might burst, he drew back and launched himself through the air. His Keyblade passed easily though the armor of the guards as he flew in and out of normal space.
Finally he appeared one last time and plunged his Keyblade into the floor. Light and Darkness blasted up from the floor in bolts, sending the few uninjured guards in the immediate area into the air.
Riku pulled his weapon from the ground when the ribs of darkness crawled back underneath his clothing again. The scent of ozone was strong.
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